Index 



ot Variable Stars, Miss I.eavitt, 15S: S. D. Townley, 



159; Discovery of Algol Variables, Mrs. Fleming, 210; 



Observations of Long-period Variables, Prof. .A. .\. 



Xijland, 595 ; Observations ot Variable Stars, K. S, 



Haynes, 619 

 N'ariation : Races of Domestic Poultry, Edward Hrown, 



W. B. Tcgetmeier, 13 

 \'aschide (M.), Relations between Emotional Slates and 



Infection, 167 

 Vascular Plants from Surinam, an Enumeration (if the, 



Dr. \. Pulle, 170 

 Vaughton (T. .\.), Effect of the Electric Spark on the 



Actinity of Metals, 2O2 

 Vectors, &c., at the British .Association, Dr. C. G. Knott, 



585 ; Writer of the Report, 586 

 Vegetable Histology, .Methods in .Microscopical Research, 



Abraham Flatters, Prof. R. T. Hewlett, 29 

 Veitch (James H.), Hortus Witchii, a History of the Rise 



and Progress of the Nurs;Tifs of Messrs. James Veitch 



and Sons, together with an .\ccount of the Botanical 



Collectors and Hybridists employed by them, and a List 



of the more Remarkable of their Introductions, 537 

 Venable (W. M.), Garbage Crematories in America, 630 

 Venus, Occultation of a Star by, Dr. Downing, 575 

 Vererbung, Gedanken iJber, Dr. .Alexander Petrunkewitsch, 



244 

 Vertebrate Zoology, a Course in. Dr. H. S. Pratt, Supp. 



to October 11, viii 

 \'ertebrates, the Respiratory System of, 145 

 Nesuvian Mineral, a New, Dr. H. J. Johnston-Lavis, 103, 



174 

 \ esuvius, the Eruption of, Dr. Hj. Sjogren, 7 

 Victoria, Ethnological Notes on the .Aboriginal Tribes of 



New South Wales and, R. H. Mathews, 100 

 Vie, les Probl^mes de la. Prof. Ermanno Giglio-Tos, 292 

 Vignon (L^o), Chemical Functions of Textiles, 651 

 Vigouroux (Em.), Pure . Ferro-molybdenums, 23 ; Pure 



Ferro-tungstens, 167 ; .Action of Silicon Chloride on 



Nickel, 192 

 Villamil (Colonel R. de). Fluid Resistance, 215 

 \'illigcr (Dr. Emil), Gehirn und Riickenmark, Leitfaden 



fiir das Studium der Morphologic und des Faserverlaufs, 



442 

 Vines (Prof. S. H., F.R.S.), Obituary Notice of Prof. 



H. Marshall Ward, F.R.S., 493 

 Vio (Dr. G.), Selenium and Tellurium Elements Iso- 



morphous, 574 

 Viticulture: the Grape Curculio, F. E. Brooks, 11 1 

 \'ogel (Prof.), Reflecting Telescopes of Short Focus, 306 

 X'oigtlander (Dr. F.), Lehrbuch dcr gerichtlichen Chemie, 



\ oit (Dr. F. W.), the Gneisses of the Limpopo Flats, 

 647 



\ olcanoes : the Eruption of Vesuvius, Dr. Hi. Sjogren, 7 ; 

 Chemical Composition of .Ash of the Vesuvius Eruption, 

 Prof. Zinno, 17 ; .Another New Vesuvian Mineral, Dr. 

 H. J. Johnston-Lavis. 103, 174; Eruption of Vesuvius 

 in .April, 1906, Prof. Giuseppe de Lorenzo, 141 ; Lantern- 

 slide A'iews Illustrating the late Eruption of Vesuvius, 

 Prof. H. J. Johnston-Lavis, 165 ; Possible Connection 

 between the Recent Disturbances at Vesuvius and San 

 Francisco, Rev. H. V. Gill, 166; the .Alteration in 

 \"csuvius by the late Eruption, 305 ; Stromboli in Erup- 

 tion, 37 : the Tarawera Volcanic Rift, New Zealand, 

 James Mackintosh Bell, 88 ; Possible Relationship 

 between Volcanic Action and Radio-activity, Major C. E. 

 Dutton, 184 : Volcanoes and Radio-activity, Dr. T. J. J. 

 See, 444 ; the Physical Geography of Volcanoes, Dr. 

 Tempest Anderson, 527 ; L'.Age des derniers Volcans de 

 la France, Marcellin Boule. Prof. T. G. Bonney, F.R.S., 

 G07 : Eruption of Mont Pel^e, 615 



Voss (Dr. Adolf), Death of, 382 



Vries (Prof. H. de), Luther Burbank's Work as a Plant- 

 breeder, 546 



Waddell (L. .A., C.B.). Lhasa and its Mysteries, with 



Record of the Expedition of 1903-4, 518 

 Wade (Dr. John), Sulphur Dioxide as a Disinfectant, 209 

 Wager (H.), the Nature of Fertilisation, 551 



Waggett (Rev. P. N.), the Scienlilic Temper in Religi.m 



and other .Addresses, 217 

 Wales, the Earthcjuake in South, Dr. Charles Davison, 



225 

 Walker (C. E.), Origin of the Sertoli or I-'ool-cells of the 



Testis, 260 

 Walker (Claude Frederic), Outline;, of Inorganic Chem- 

 istry, 5 

 Walker (Dr.), .Abnormal Features of the Weather of the 



Past Half-Year, 369 

 Walker (James), .Methylated Amino-acids, 407; Method for 



determining Velocities of Saponification, 483 

 Walker-Tisdale (C. W.), Butter-making on the Farm and 



at the Creamery, 6 

 Wallach (.Messrs.), Oxygen Rescue .Apparatus, 60 

 Wallas (T. I.), the Poisonous Principle of the Zami.i 



Palm, 580 

 Waller (Dr. Augustus D., F.R.S.), the Electrical Signs of 



Life and their .Abolition by Chloroform, 447 

 Walter (Prof. B.), the Ultra-violet Portion of the Spr(- 



trum of a High-tension .Arc in .Air, 87 

 Walter (H. E.). the American Pond-snail, 497 

 Walter (L. H.), .Method of obtaining Continuous Currents 



from a .Magnetic Detector of the Self-restoring Type, 214 

 Wanklyn (J. .A.), Death of, 302 



Ward (Prof. H. .A.), Death and Obituarv Notice of, 250 

 Ward (Prof. H. Marshall, F.R.S.), Death of, 448; Obituarv 



Notice of. Prof. S. H. Vines, F.R.S., 493 

 Ward (Lester F.). Status of the Mesozoic Floras of ihe 



United States, 81 

 Warmestrahlung, Vorlesungen iiber die Theorie der. Dr. 



Max Planck, Prof. G. H. Bryan, F.R.S., Supp. •:. 



October 11, iii 

 Wartenberg (H. von). New Determination of the Melting 



Points of Platinum and Palladium, 40 

 Wasser- und Sumpfgewjichse, Biologische und Morpho- 



logische Untersuchungen iiber. Prof. Hugo Gliick, 411 

 Water Softening and Treatment, W. H. Booth, 464 

 Waterways, Our, a History of Inland Navigation cnn- 



sidered as a Branch of Water Conservancy, Urquhart .\. 



Forbes and W. H. R. .Ashford, 169 

 Watson (.Arnold T.), Habits of Tube-building Worms. 552 

 Watson (E. R.), Silver Dioxide and Silver Peroxynitrate, 



96 ; Chemical Examination of the Milk and Butter-fat 



of the Indian Buffalo, 344 

 Watson (Rosamund Marriott), the Heart of a Garden, 20 

 Watteville (C. de). New Arrangement for the Spectroscopy 



of Phosphorescent Substances, 119 

 Watts (Dr. W. Marshall), Binocular Spectroscope, 60 

 Watts (Prof.), Geological Survey of the Country between 



Derby, Ashby-de-la-Zouch, and Loughborough. 307 

 Waves, a Practical Manual of Tides and, W. H. Wheeler, 



218 

 Weather, some Facts about the, William Marriott, 295 

 Webb (Wilfred .Mark), the British Woodlice, being a 



Monograph of the Terrestrial Isopod Crustacea occur- 

 ring in the British Islands, 99 

 Weber (Frau .A.), Ein Jahr an Bord I. M.S. Siboga. 19(1 

 Wechselstromkurven, Aufnahme und Analyse von. Dr. 



Ernst Orlich. Dr. J. .A. Harker, 268 

 Wedderburn (E. M.), Temperature of Fresh-water Lochs 



of Scotland, with Special Reference to Loch Ness, 101 

 Wedge Photometer, a New Form of, H. Rosenberg, 575 

 W'cevils, Aquatic-dwelling. E. E. Lowe, 541 

 Wegener, Balloon Journev by the Brothers, 302 

 Weights and Measures, the Metric System of, in the 



Colonies, 614 

 Weiss (Prof. E.), Observations of Minor Planets and 



Comets, 306 

 \\"eiss (Prof.), on a New Stigmaria, 576 ; on the Form- 

 ation of the well-known Calcareous Nodules found in 



the Coal Seams of the Lower Coal-measures, 576 

 Welsh (Prof. D. A.), the Main Source of " Precipitable " 



Substance, and on the RSle of the Homologous Proteid 



in Precipitin Reactions, i;3i 

 Wentzki (O.). Method of Purifying Hydrogen which Con- 

 tains Arsenic, 471 

 Westermarck (Dr. Edward), the Origin and Develop.nent 



of the Moral Ideas, 377 

 Western (G. T.). the Specificity of the Opsonic 'Sub- 

 stances in the Blood Serum, 118 



