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Index 



Royal Meteorological Society, 33 



Royal Microscopical Society, 67 



Royal Society, 65, 237 



Royal Society of Edinburgh, 67, 203, 237 



Royal Society of South Africa, 136, 170, 272, 508 



Royal Society of Victoria, 272 



Sociology : Mecanique Sociale, Prof. Sp. C. Haret, 244 



Soda-water, Action upon Lead, Tin, and Antimony, A. 

 Barille, 238 



Soil, Lessons on, Dr. E. J. Russell, 414 



Sound : Experiments on Curing Echoes in an Auditorium, 

 Prof. F. R. Watson, 501 ; Pitch in Alloys and its Varia- 

 tion with Temperature, F. Robin, 576 



South African Journal of Science, 456 



South African Proteacea;, Works and Publications dealing 

 with, E. P. Phillips, 170 



Sponge, Remarkable, Mcrlia nortnani, R. Kirkpatrick, 54. 



Sprue (a Tropical Disease), projected Investigation, 456 



Stammering Children, Educational Treatment, Dr. J. T. 

 McHattie, 54 



Starling's Deception, Basil T. Rowswell, 550 



Statesman's Year-book, the, 76 



Statistics, Introduction to the Theory of, G. Udny Yule, 345 



Steel : a " Stock " Oil-fired Converter, go 



Stereoautograph for Plotting from Survey Photographs, 

 Lieut, von Orel, 199 



Stomatograph, the, W. Lawrence Balls, 180 



Storks, Marabou, Attitudes during Flight, Sir H. H. 

 Johnston, G.C.M.G., K.C.B., 536 



Suez Canal Shipping Returns, 192 



Sugar : a Text-book on the Agriculture and Manufacture of 

 Cane Sugar, Noel Deerr, 73 ; Effect of High Tempera- 

 tures on Sugar in Solution, Noel Deerr, 153 ; Sugar 

 Industry of Mauritius : a Study in Correlation : Including 

 a Scheme of Insurance against Cyclones, A. Walter, 

 344 ; Gum Disease of Sugar Cane, Mr. Brooks, 535 



Sugar-beet Industry in Norfolk, W. E. Sawyer, 259 



Sunshine and Fleas, Prof. D'Arcy W 7 . Thompson, 77 



Surveying : Photography in Surveying, 199 ; a New Method 

 of Coast-surveying, Dr. J. Ball, 394; Imperial Survey- 

 ing : Report of a Conference on the Question of 

 Reciprocity throughout the Empire, 453 



Spectra : Spectrum of Glaunum and its Bands in different 

 Sources of Light, L. de Boisbaudran, A. de Gramont, 

 238 ; Spectrum of Neon, Series in the, H. E. Watson, 55 ; 

 Spectrum of the Negative Pole of Oxygen, F. Croze, 

 575 ; Spectra of the Ruby, Artificial Ruby, Emerald, and 

 other Gem Stones, J. Moir, 170 



Spectra, Infra-red : Arc Spectra of Metals in the Infra-rod 

 (w.l. 7600 to 10,000), Major E. H. Hills, 501 



Spectroscopy : Anomalous Dispersion and Solar Pheno- 

 mena : Apparent Reversals, Prof. P. V. Bevan, 502 ; 

 Atomic Weight, Dependence of the Spectrum of an 

 Element on its, Prof. W. M. Hicks, 501 ; FeYy Refracto- 

 meter, 127 ; British Association Papers : Origin of 

 General and Specific Absorption, Dr. Lowry ; Ultra-violet 

 Absorption Spectra of Vapours, Solutions, and Films of 

 Organic Substances, J. E. Purvis; Absorption and 

 Dispersion in Metallic Vapours, Dr. P. V. Bevan, 436 



Tank, Opening of the National Experimental, 57 



Tarantism in the Troad, 389 



Tarring of Roads, Influence on the Growth of Trees, C. L. 

 Gatin, E. Perrier, 135 



Teachers' Salaries : the Salary of an Assistant Lecturer, 

 W. H. Hodgson, 315; Underpayment of Teachers, E. R. 

 Marie, 349 



Technical Institutions, Cambridge Meeting of the Associa- 

 tion of, 58 



Technical Museum in Vienna, 224 



Telegraph Lines : a Means of Suppressing Troubles on 

 Telegraph Lines caused by Energy-carrying Cables, M. 

 Girousse, 102 



Telephony : Apparatus for Telephonic Reception of Sub- 

 marine Signals, J. Gardner, 34; Propagation of Electric 

 Currents in Telephone and Telegraph Conductors : a 

 Course of Post-graduate Lectures, Prof. J. A. Fleming, 

 F.R.S., Prof. Gisbert Kapp, 446; the Automatic Tele- 

 phone Exchange (illustrated), Arthur Crotch, 486 



Texas Fever (Bovine Piroplasmosis), Trvpan Blue as 

 Remedy, 337 



Thames Ooze and Nematodes, Rev. Hilderic Friend, 381, 



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 Thermo-magnetic Effect in Graphite, Hall's Phenomenon 



and the Transversal, E. van Aubel, 238, 442 

 Tibet : Adventure, Sport, and Travel on the Tibetan 



Steppes, W. N. Fergusson, 145 

 Tidal Load, the Deformation of Rocks under, Prof. John 



Milne, F.R.S., 44; Dr. C. Chree, F.R.^., 71, 

 Tidal Survey of Canada, Dr. W. Bell Dawson, 19 

 Tides, Antarctic : Forecast of Unsuspected Bay in the 



Antarctic : Bewegung der Hydrosphare, &c, Sir G. H. 



Darwin, K.C.B., F.R.S., 478 

 Time, Local, at Canterbury, 253 

 Time, Standard, in Portuguese Territories, Yice-Admiral 



Campos Rodrigues, 144 ; in New Zealand, G. Hogben, 



Topometrographe for adapting Photography to Large-scale 

 Surveying, J. Gaultier, 199 



Toxicity of Urohypotensine, Influence of Oxidisation on, 

 J. E. Abelous, E. Bardier, 101 



Travel : la Haute-Loire et le Haut-Vivarais : Guide du 

 Touriste, du Naturaliste, et de l'Archeologue, Marcellin 

 Boule, 245 



Trees : Pruning of Trees in Towns, Prof. Bayley Balfour, 

 F.R.S., 262 ; Insects feeding on " Slime Flux " of Trees, 

 Joseph A. Gillett, W. J. B., 516 



Tuberculosis : the Royal Commission on Tuberculosis, Si ; 

 National Association for the Prevention of Consumption, 

 Conference on Tuberculosis, 115; Tuberculosis and the 

 Milk Supply, 219; Tuberculosis in Cattle, Sir J. McFad- 

 yean, 259 ; Trial of Tuberculin Treatment for Consump- 

 tives at Sheffield, 369 



Turbines : Turbines, H. Zoelly, Prof. F. Prasil, 161 ; the 

 Evolution of the Parsons Steam Turbine, Alex. Richard- 

 son, 307 



Typewriters : les Machines a Ecrire, J. Rousset, 277 



Typhus, Nature and Seat of the Pathogenic Agent in 

 Exanthematic, C. Nicolle, A. Conor, E. Conseil, 442 



Ultra-violet Rays : Photolysis of Alcohols, Acid Anhy- 

 drides, Ether Oxides, and Esters by Ultra-violet Rays, 

 D. Berthelot, H. Gaudechon, 271 ; Ultra-violet Radiation 

 of Quartz Mercury Vapour Lamps. V. Henri, 169; 

 Influence of Various Physical Conditions on the Ultra- 

 violet Radiation of Quartz Mercury Vapour Lamps, V. 

 Henri, 272 

 United States Navy : Efficiency, W. B. Tardy, 193 

 Universal Races Congress, Scientific Aspects, 158 

 Uranium and Actinium, a Possible Relation between, Dr. 

 J. W. Nicholson, 515 



Ventilation in Confined Ouarters, especially in Ships, Dr. 

 Leonard Hill, F.R.S., Prof. N. Zuntz, D'r. C. J. Martin, 

 F.R.S., Fleet-Surgeon Whitelegg, 533 



Vine Culture in S. Brazil, 303 



Vivisection : Parliamentary Return for 1910, 335 



Vulcanology : Proposed International Vulcanological Insti- 

 tute, I. Friedlander, 490 ; die vulkanischen Erscheinungen 

 der Erde, Dr. K. Schneider, Prof. J. Milne, F.R.S., 410; 

 Anhydrous Volcanoes, Prof. Ernest H. L. Schwarz, 45 



Vortex Rings, Quantitative Experimental Study, E. F. 

 Northrup, 458 



Wales, University Development in, 91 



Waves of the Sea and other Water Waves, Dr. Vaughan 

 Cornish, 113 



Weaving, the Mechanism of, T. W. Fox, 9 



Weights and Measures, the International Committee of : 

 Suitability of Vitreous Quartz for Standards of Length, 

 Sir David Gill, Dr. Kaye ; Tantalum for Weight 

 Standards; Yellow Radiation of Neon as a Unit for 

 Interferential Measures, Dr. Stratton ; Importance of 

 End Measures of Length, Dr. Foerster ; Experiments 

 with Invar Measuring Wires, Drs. Benoit and 

 Guillaume ; a Comparator, Dr. Guillaume, 251 



Whales, School of. stranded in Mount's Bay, 17 



Wheat, Method of determining the Baking Strength of 

 Single Ears of, Prof. Wood, Mr. Harvey, 535 



Whisky, Analysis of 87 Specimens, 20 



Who's Who in Science, 20 



