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notes on 160 species, mostly from East Australia, arc 

 presented, to which are added illustrations of thirtv 

 hitherto unfigured species. Numerous corrections of 

 nomenclature are offered, both in restoring prior 

 nanus, and in re-erecting species wrongly sunk in 

 synonymy. — E. W. Ferguson : Revision of the 

 Amvcterides. Part ii., Talaurinus continued. In 

 continuation of last year's paper, the species com- 

 prised in Sections B and C and groups vii.-xx., in- 

 clusive, are now dealt with. The types of all the 

 species described by Macleay have been examined, as 

 well as specimens compared with most of Pascoe's 

 types. — T. G. Sloane : Descriptions of two new species 

 of Cicindela from Western Australia. One of the 

 two new species proposed is allied to C. saetigera, 

 Horn, and is represented by specimens from Lake 

 Austin, near (Tie. The type's of the other, which is 

 allied to C. tetragramma, Chaud., were collected ioo 

 niil.s north of Kalgoorlie. 



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Meteorology in Mysore for 1911. Nineteenth 

 Annual Report. By N. V. Iyengar. Pp. xiv + 56-f 

 charts. (Bangalore : Government Press.) 



Forty-second Annual Report of the Local Govern- 

 ment Board, 1912-13. Supplement in Continuation of 

 the Report of the Medical Officer of the Board for 

 1912-13, containing- a Second Report on Infant and 

 Child Mortality, by the Medical Officer of the Board. 

 Pp. vi + 411. (London: H.M.S.O. ; Wvman and Sons, 

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The Face and How to Read It. Bv A. I. Oppen- 

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The Child and How to Train It. By A. I. Oppen- 

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Die Griindung und erste Entwicklung des deutschen 

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Practical Management of Pure Yeast: the Applica- 

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Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. 

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Twenty-eighth Annual Report of the Bureau of 

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Transactions and Proceedings of the Botanical 

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(Cambridge University Press.) 6s. net. 



Proceedings of the Fifth International Congress of 

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The State Provision of Sanatoriums. By Dr. S. Y. 

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Rafia Work. By H. C. Walker. Pp. 99. (Lon- 

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CONTENTS. page 



Manihot Rubber. By H. W 577 



Comparative Anatomy. By G. E. S 577 



Resuscitation 57S 



Mathematical Text-books. By G. B. M. .... 579 



Our Bookshelf 5S0 



Letters to the Editor: — 



Energy in Planetary Motions. — Piof. A. Gray, 



F.R.S 5S1 



"Phosphorescence'' of Pennatulida.— Prof. W. A. 



Herdman, F.R.S 5S2 



A Red-water Phenomenon due to Euglena. — Prof. 



Aithur Derdy, F.R.S 5S2 



The Terrestrial I istribution of the Radio-elements. — 



Arthur Holmes . 5S2 



Area of Earih's Surface Visible at any Altitude. — 



W. Moss 5S3 



Submerged Valleys and Ban ier Reefs. — Cyril Cross- 

 land • ... 5S3 



Photographs of the Aurora. {Illustrated.) 5S4 



The International Medical Congress 585 



The Rivers of ihe Scottish Lowlands. {Illustrated.) 585 



The Improvement of Indian Wheat. By E. F. A. 5S0 



Prof. John Milne, H.R.S. Bv (. W. 1 587 



Notes {Illustrated.) ...'.'...' 5SS 



Our Astronomical Column : — 



August Meteors ... 592 



Displacement of Spectrum Lines of Metals due to 



Impurities 592 



Circulation in the Solar Atmosphere 592 



The Brighton Meeting of the British Medical 



Association ..... . . 593 



Hydiographic and Plankton Obseivations in the 



North sea 593 



A New Method of Cooling Gas-Engines ... 594 

 Recent Papers on Vertebrate Palaeontology. By 



R. L ....'. 595 



An Algebra for Physicists. By G. B. M 595 



United States Meteorological Publications, Bv 



J. S. D 596 



Reflection as a Concealing and Revealing Factor 

 in Aquatic and Subaquatic Life. {/Illustrated.) 



By Dr. Francis Ward 596 



Technical Education for Indian Students .... 599, 



University and Educational Intelligence 600 



Societies and Academies 601 



Books Kcceived 602 



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