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NATURE 



[May 29, 1913 



BOOKS RECEIVED. 



Fortschritte der naturwissenschaftlichen Forschung. 

 Edited by Prof. E. Abderhalden. Achter Band. Pp. 

 308. (Berlin and Vienna : Urban and Schwarzenberg.) 

 15- marks. 



Behaviour Monographs. Vol. ii., No. 1, Serial 

 No. 6. The Delayed Reaction in Animals and 

 Children. By W. S. Hunter. Pp. 86. (Cambridge, 

 Mass. : H. Holt and Co.) 



Cape of Good Hope. Department of Mines. Six- 

 teenth Annual Report of the Geological Commission. 

 1911. Pp. 136 + v. (Cape Town : Cape Times, Ltd.) 



A Naturalist in Cannibal Land. By A. S. Meek. 

 Edited by F. Fox. Pp. xviii + 238 + plates. (London : 

 T. Fisher L'nwin.) 10s. 6d. net. 



The Living Plant. By Prof. \Y. F. Ganong. Pp. 

 xii + 478 + plates. (New York: H. Holt and Co.) 

 3.50 dollars net. 



The Child : its Care, Diet, and Common Ills. By 

 Dr. E. M. Sill. Pp. viii + 207. (New York: H. Holt 

 and Co.) 1 dollar net. 



The Fringe of the East. By H. C. Lukach. Pp. 

 xiii + 273. (London: Macmillan and Co., Ltd.) 12s. 

 net. 



Trans-Himalaya. By Sven Hedin. Vol. iii. Pp. 

 xv + 426 + plates + maps. (London: Macmillan and 

 Co., Ltd.) 155. net. 



A Dictionary of Applied Chemistry. By Sir E. 

 Thorpe, assisted by eminent contributors. Revised 

 and enlarged edition in five vols. Vol. iv. Pp. viii + 

 727. (London : Longmans and Co.) 455. net. 



Ueber kausale und konditionale Weltanschauung 

 und deren Stellung zur Entwicklungsmechanik. By 

 W. Roux. Pp. 66. (Leipzig: W. Engelmann.) 1.50 

 marks. 



Handbuch der vergleichenden Physiologie. Edited 

 by H. YVinterstein. Lief. 34. (Jena : G. Fischer.) 

 5 marks. 



DIARY OF SOCIETIES. 



THURSDAY, May 29. 



Royal Society, at 4.30.— Aciiuta tuberosa; a Study on the Action 

 of Surface Tension in Determining the Distribution of Salts in Living 

 Matter : Prof. A. B. Macallum.— Morphology of Various Strains of 

 the Trypanosome causing Disease in Man in Nyasaland. IV. The 

 Mzimba Strain: Surg. -General Sir David Bruce, Major D. Harvey, 

 Major A. E. Hamerton, and Lady Bruce.— Notes on Toxoplasma gondii: 

 Helen L. M. Pixell . — An Investigation by Pedigree Breedine into the 

 Polymorphism of Papilio polytes, Linn. : f. C. F. Fryer.— The Action 

 of Radium Rays upon the Cells of Jensen's Rat Sarcoma: Dr. S. Russ 

 and Dr. Helen Chambers. 



Royal Institution, at 3.— Recent Chemical Advances. II. Chemistry in 

 Space : Prof. W. J. Pope. 



Royal Society of Akts, at 4 30. — Indian Section.— Irrigation Works in 

 India: Sir John Eenton. K.C.I.E. 



Society of Dyers and Colourists. at S.— The Action of Ozone on Some 

 Textile Fibres : Dr. C. Doree.— Some Defects in Silk Dyeing : Dr. L, L. 

 Lloyd. 



FRIDAY, May 30. 



Institution of Electrical Engineers, at 8. — Annual General Meeting. 

 At 8.30.— Practical Application of Telephone Transmission Calculations : 

 A. J. Aldridge 



Physical Societv, at 5 —The Origin of New Stars : Prof. A. W. Bickerton. 

 —Electro-thermal Phenomena at the Contract of Two Conductors with a 

 Theory of a Class of Radio-telegraph Detectors: Dr. W. H. Eccles. — 

 The Evaluation of Certain Combinations of the Eer, Bei, and Allied 

 Functions: S. Butterworth.— The Extraordinary Ray Resulting from the 

 Internal Reflection of an Extraordinary Ray at the Surface of an Uniaxal 

 Crjstal: J. Walker. 



SATURDAY, May 31. 



Royal Institution, at 3.— Radioactivity. 1 1. The Origin of the Beta and 



Gamma Rays and the Connection between them : Prof. E. Rutherford. 



MONDA Y, June 2. 



Royal Institution, at 3. — The Heredity of Sex and Some Cognate 

 Problems : Prof. W. Bateson. 



Society of Chemical Industry, at 8.— Precipitation in Aqueous and 

 Colloidal Systems : W. P. Dreaper.— Some Experiments on the Theory 

 of Electro Tanning : E. K. Rideal and U. R. Evans. -An Illustration of 

 the Partial Pyrite Process: W. R. Schoeller. -The Estimation of Alcohol 

 in Beer by Means of Malligand's Ebullioscope : J. C Cain.— The Joint 

 Action of Catalysing Agents. Dehydration of Ethyl Alcohol and Ethyl 

 Ether : General W. Spaliew. 



Institute of Actuaries, at 5. 



TUESDAY, June 3. 



Royal Institution, at 3. — Recent Advances in the Production and 

 Utilisation of Wheat in England: Prof. T. B. Wo d. 



NO. 2274, VOL. 91] 



Zoological Society, at 8. 30. —Notes on Turacin and Turacin-bearers : 

 Sir A. H. Church.— Observations on the Anatomy of the Shoe-bill 

 (Balatnicepi >rr): Dr. P. Cbalme'S Mitchell. -Some Miocene Cirripedes 

 of the Genera Hexelasma and Scalpellum from New Zealand : T. H. 

 Withers. — The Classili.ation and Fhylogenv of the Calcareous Sponges, 

 with a Reference List of all the Described Species, systematically 

 arranged: Prof. A. Deridy and R. W. H. Row. — Contributions to the 

 Anatomy of the Ophidia Surg. J. C. Thompson.— Observations on 

 Osteoma'acia in t lie Zoological Collections of Manchester and Cleveland : 

 Prof. T. Wingate Todd. 



Rontge-s Societv, at 8.15. — Reflection of X-rays : Prof. C. G. Barkla.— 

 Experiments on the Reflection of X-rays : Dr. R. W. A. Salmond. 



WEDNESDAY, June 4. 



Society of Pculic Analysts, at 8. — An Elecnochemical Indicator for 

 Oxidiser? : E. K. Rideal and U. R. Evans.— The Estimation of Tannin 

 in Tea' H. L. Smith.— The Detection and Estimation of Nickel by 

 means of ^-Benzildioxime : F. W. Atack.— The Analysis of Various East 

 Indian Tanned Hides : M. C. Lamb. — Note on the Sterilisation of Rag 

 Flock Samples : L. Reed. -A General Method for the Detection of 

 Caramel : P. F. Thompson. 



Royal Institution at 3. — The Heredity of Sex and Some Cognate 

 Problems. II.: Prof. W. Bateson. 



THURSDAY, June ,. 

 Royal Society, at 4. w.-Croonian Lecture: The Origin of Mammals : 



Dr R. Broom. 

 Royal Institution, at 3. — Recent Chemical Advances. III. The Structure 



of Crystals : Prof. W. J. Pope. 



FRIDAY, June 6. 

 Royal Institution, at 9.— Reflection and Refraction of Light as Con- 

 cealing and Revealing Factors in Sub-aquatic Life : F. Ward. 



SATURDAY. June 7. 

 Royal Institution, at 3.— Radio-activity. III. The Radio-active State 

 of the Earth and Atmosphere: Prof. E. Rutherford. (The Tyndall 

 Lectures.) 



CONTENTS. page 



Old Herbals 3^ 



The Belief in Immortality. By A. E. Crawley . . 316 



Recent Psychology and Logic 316 



Anatomy, Normal and Morbid 317 



Our Bookshelf 318 



Letters to the Editor:— 



Artificial Hiss.— Lord Rayleigh, O.M., F.R.S. . . 319 

 An Application of Mathematics to Law. — Prof. 



G. H. Bryan, F.R.S 319 



Overheated Water.— Chas. R. Darling 319 



"Coal, and the Prevention of Explosions and Fires 



in Mines. " — Dr. John Harger ; The Reviewer . 319 

 Error in the Smithsonian Physical Tables. — C. T. 



Wbitmell . 320 



Anthropology in West Afiica. [Illustrated.) .... 320 

 The International Association of Academies. By 



Prof Arthur Schuster, F.R.S 322 



Prof. James Gordon MacGregor, F.R.S. By Dr. 



C. G. Knott 323 



Notes 324 



Our Astronomical Column : — 



Astronomical Occurrences for June 3 2 9 



Comet 1913a (Schaumasse) 3 2 9 



Effective Temperatures of Stars 3 2 9 



The Work of Sir William Hugcins 33° 



The Scott Expedition to the Antarctic 330 



The British Science Guild 331 



Recent Work in Economic Entomology 332 



Forests and Climate 333 



Systems of Long-Dtstance Wireless Telegraphy . 333 

 Some Further Applications of the Method of Positive 

 Rays. (Illustrated.) By Sir J. J. Thomson, O.M., 



F.R.S 333 



University and Educational Intelligence 337 



Societies and Academies ... 338 



Books Received 340 



Diary of Societies 340 



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