Index 



t Nature, 



Dccetnber 13, igo6 



Darwin (Dr. Francis), Periodicity, 161 



Darwin (Sir G. H., K.C.B., F.R.S.), thie Bicentenary 



Celebration of the Birtti of Benjamin Franlclin, 36 ; 



Report of the Directors of the IVIeteorological Office 



upon an Inquiry into the Relation between the Estimates 



of Wind-force According to Admiral Beaufort's Scale and 

 the Velocities Recorded by Anemometers belonging to 

 the Office, 106 ; the Figure and Stability of a Liquid 

 Satellite, 115; the South African Medal of the British 



Association, 225 ; on Radio-activity and the Internal 

 Structure of the Earth, 454 

 Darwinism and the Problems of Life, a Study of Familiar 



Animal Life, Prof. Conrad Guenther, 268 

 Date, the Day of Week for any, W. E. Johnson, 271 

 Date of Easter, the, Alexander D. Ross, 175 ; Chas. Leigh, 

 17s ; Dr. J. L. E. Dreyer, 199 ; Rev. C. S. Taylor, 200 

 Davenport (C. B.), Inheritance in Poultry, 583 

 David (Prof. Edgeworth), on the Problems connected with 



the Palaeozoic Glaciation of Australia, India, and South 



Africa, 549 

 Davies (J. H.), Physical Constants of Ammonia, 261 

 Davies (S. H.), on the Removal of Dust and Smoke from 



Chimney Gases, 500 ; on the Chemistry of Gums, 526 

 Davis (Harvey N.), the Longitudinal Vibrations of a 



Rubbed String, 473 

 Davis (W. A.), the Basic Carbonates of Magnesium, 574 

 Davison (Dr. Charles), the Earthquake in South Wales, 



225 

 Dawson (Dr. W. Bell), Solar and Lunar Cycles implied 



in the Prophetic Numbers in the Book of Daniel, 154 

 Day (Arthur L.), Small Plates of Quartz Glass Suitable 



for Optical Apparatus, 87 ; Lime-silica Series of Minerals, 



644 

 Day of Week for any Date, the, W. E. Johnson, 271 

 Dead, Letters from the Dead to the, Oliver Lector, 102 

 Dead Heart of Australia, the, a Journey Round Lake Eyre 



in the Summer of 1901-2, with some .Account of the 



Lake Eyre Basin and the Flowing Wells of Central 



Australia, Prof. J. W. Gregory, F.R.S., 296 

 Dead-water, on, the Norwegian North Polar E.\pedition, 



1893-6, vol. v., V. Walfrid Ekman, Sir W. H. White, 



Iv.C.B., F.R.S., 48s 

 Deafness in Man, Hereditary, E. Schuster, 63, 108 

 Defects in Ostrich Feathers in South Africa, Prof. J. E. 



Duerden, 55 

 Deinhardt (Kurt), the Deinhardt-Schlomann Series of 



Technical Dictionaries in Si.x Languages, English, 



German, French, Italian, Spanish, Russian, 6 

 D^l^arde (.\.'), Intestinal Origin of Tuberculous Tracheo- 

 bronchial .Adenopathy, 143 

 Demoussy (E.), Acid Properties of Starch, 24 

 Dendy (Prof.), Spicule Formation in Sponges, 551 ; Pineal 



Eye of Geotria and Sphenodon, 553 

 Denmark, the Development of Agriculture in, R. J. 



Thompson, 193 

 Denning (W. F.), Observations of Jupiter in 1903 and 



1905-6, 210; Early Meteors of the Perseid Shower, 246; 



Planets and Planetary Observations, 282, 386 ; a Large 



Meteor, 351 ; the Planet Mercury, 499 ; Observations of 



Jupiter, 525 ; Rotation Period of Jupiter's Equatorial 



Region, 549 

 Dennstedt (Dr. M.), Lehrbuch der gerichtlichen Chemie, 



440 

 Dentistry : Lecture Notes on Chemistry for Dental 



Students, Dr. H. Carlton Smith, 315 

 Deslandres (Dr.), Luminous Particles in the Chromo- 

 sphere, iS ; Proposed Daily Photographs of Chromo- 



spheric Radiations, 135 ; a New Form of Photometer, 



644 

 Destruction of Animals in Australia, T. Steel at Linnean 



Society, New South Wales, 188 

 Destructors : the Disposal of Municipal Refuse, H. de B. 



Parsons, 630 ; Garbage Crematories in America, W. M. 



Venable, 630 

 Deszendenztheorie, Vorlesungen uber, mit besonderer 



Berijcksichtigung der Botanischen Seite der Frage 



gehalten an der Reichsuniversitat zu Leiden, Dr. J. P. 



Lotsy, W. Bateson, F.R.S., 146 

 Determinants, the Theory of, in the Historical Order of 



Development, Dr. T. Muir, F.R.S., 462 

 Dewar (Sir James, F.R.S.), Metallic Jacketed Vacuum 



Vessels, 60 ; New Charcoal Calorimeter and Thermo- 

 scope, 203 ; the Matteucci Medal awarded to, 477 

 Diamonds, the Action of " a " Radiation on, C. W. R., 



271 

 Dickinson and Shields's (Messrs.) Soap Bubble Fountain, 



III 

 Dictionaries, the Deinhardt-Schlomann Series of Technical, 

 in Six Languages, English German, French, Italian, 

 Spanish, Russian, Kurt Deinhardt and Alfred Schlo- 

 mann, 6 

 Dieseldorff (E. P.), Mexican and Central American 



Antiquities, Calendar Systems, and History, 30 

 Diet : Study of the Dietaries of Students' Residences in 

 Edinburgh, Dr. Isabella Cameron, 263 ; Diet and 

 Dietetics, Prof. A. Gautier, 380 

 Diffloth (Paul), Agriculture G^n^rale, le Sol et les 



Labours, 4 

 Diffusion. Thermodynamics of. Prof. G. H. Bryan, F.R.S.. 



246 

 Dines (W. H., F.R.S.), Balloons and Kites in the Servic. 

 of Meteorology, 35 ; Report of the Directors of the 

 Meteorological Office upon an Inquiry into the Relation 

 between the Estimates of Wind-force according to 

 .Admiral Beaufort's Scale and the Velocities recorded bv 

 Anemometers belonging to the Office, 106 ; Typical Squall 

 at Oxshott, May 25, 1906, 215 

 Diptera, Durham, a Preliminary List of, with .'\nalytica! 



Tables, Rev. W. J. Wingate, 512 

 Dirichlet's (G. Lejeune), Vorlesungen iiber die Lehre von 

 den einfachen und mehrfachen bestimmten Integralen, 

 G. Arendt, 265 

 Discovery of Logarithms, the, Cecil Seymour-Browne, 174: 



the Reviewer, 175 

 Discovery of Magnetic Declination, the. Prof. G. Hellmann. 



.137 

 Disease: Preventable Disease and Military Strength, 154; 

 Family Diseases and Temperaments, Prof. Karl Pearson, 

 F.R.S., 245 : Bacteria in Relation to Plant Diseases, 

 Erwin F. Smith, Prof. R. T. Hewlett, 294 ; the 

 Management of a Nerve Patient, Dr. K. T. Schofield, 

 440; Diseases of Sheep, Prof. R. T. Hewlett, 623 

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

 Distant (W. L.), a Synonymic Catalogue of Homoptera, 

 part i., Cicadidae, 107; the Fauna of British India, in- 

 cluding Ceylon and Burma, Rhynchota, vol. iii., Hetero- 

 ptera-Homoptera, 220 

 Distillation : Hindu Method of manufacturing .Spirit from 



Rice, J. C. Ray, 96 

 Distribution of the Stars, Prof. Kapteyn, 112 

 Disturbance of Greenwich Observations, 200 

 Diurnal Variation of lonisation in Closed Vessels, George 



C. Simpson, 8 ; Dr. O. W. Richardson, 55 

 Dixcy (Dr. F. .'\.). Papers on Lepidoptera, 552 

 Dixon (Prof. A. C), on Expansions in Products of Oscil- 

 latory Functions, 456 

 Dodgson (.Aquila), Discovery of Seven Thousand Roman 



Coins, 20 

 Doelter (Dr. C), Petrogenesis, 242 



Doflein (Dr. F.), Termite Truffles, 137 ; Ostasienfahrt. 

 Erlebnisse und Beobachtungen eines Naturforschers in 

 China. Japan, und Ceylon, 510 

 Dog-feeding, the .Secrets of, 149 

 Dollo (L.), Zoologie-Poissons, 29S 

 Doncaster (L.), the Nature of Fertilisation, 551 ; Papers 



on Lepidoptera, 553 

 Doolittle (Prof.), Measures of Double and Multiple Stars, 



88 

 Dorsey (G. .\.), the Ponca Sun Dance, 645 

 Double Stars : New Catalogue of Double Stars, Prof. R. G. 

 Aitken, 18; New Double Stars, Rev. T. E. Espin, 211; 

 Measures of Double and Multiple Stars, Prof. Doolittle, 

 88; Double-star Measures, Dr. G. van Biesbroeck, 371; 

 Colours and Magnitudes of Double Stars, Mr. Lewis, 



Dow (J. S.), Colour Phenomena in Photometry, 166 

 Downing (Dr.). the Total Solar Eclipse of January, 1908, 



18 ; Occultation of a Star by Venus, ^y:' 

 a. Draconis, Radial ^"elocity of, H. Ludendorff, 785 

 Dreaper (W. P.), .^bsorption of Gallic -Acid by Organic 



Colloids, 94 

 Dredge (James), Death of, 414 



