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NA TURE 



[June 14, 1906 



from a geological point of view on account of the variety 

 of igneous rocks to be found within its borders. The 

 author shows that the low-lying district east of the Blackall 

 and D'Aguilar Ranges, which is composed essentially of 

 Trias-Jura sandstones belonging to the Ipswich Coal- 

 ■measures and Tertiary alluvials, has been subject to oscil- 

 latory movements of elevation and depression in late 

 Tertiary times. At present elevation is going on, as 

 ■evidenced by raised beaches at Point Arkwright and else- 

 where along the coast. The D'Aguilar Range north of 

 Woodford is made up of Trias-Jura sandstone, but to the 

 south of this point it consists of highly interesting plutonic 

 and metamorphic rocks belonging in part to the Gympie beds, 

 in part to much older formations. The country to the west 

 of the D'Aguilar Range forms a peneplain with an average 

 elevation of 500 feet. The Blackall Range is shown to 

 consist of basalt capping rhyolites and rhyolitic tuffs, and 

 Trias-Jura sandstones. The Maroochy district was a centre 

 of great volcanic activity, rhyolites, andesites, dacites and 

 basalts, as well as extensive areas of tuff and breccia, 

 being here found.— The botany of Howell (Bora Creek), 

 N.S.W. : a tin-granite flora : J. H. Maiden. Howell is 

 •situated nineteen miles to the south-east of Inverell. The 

 tin-granite area under consideration extends in a two- or 

 three-mile radius from the township. It lies on the 

 -western New England slope, at an elevation of about 

 2500 feet, and is included in E.q, New England County, of 

 the botanical map to be found in the societv's Proceedings 

 for iqoi_(p. 766). A list of the plants found so far, about 

 150 species referable to forty-two natural orders, is given. 

 The locality is especially rich in Acacias, .4. ncriifolia 

 perhaps being most abundant. 



DIARY OF SOCIETIES. 



THURSDA y, June 14. 



ROVAL Society, at 4.30.— The Experimental Analysis of the Growth of 

 Cancer : Dr. E. F. Bashforri, J. A. Murray, and W. H. Bowen.— On the 

 Electrical and Photographic Phenomena manifested by certain Substances 

 that are commonly supposed to be ^tiologically Associated with Carci- 

 noma : Dr. W. S. Lazarus-Barlow.— The Bone Marrow ; a Cytological 

 Study fo-ming an Introduction to the Normal and Pathological Histology 

 of the Tissue: Dr. W. E. Carnegie Dickson.— On the Relation of the 

 Liver Cells to the Blood Vessels and Lymphatics: Dr. P. T Herring 

 and Dr. S. Simpson.— Studies on Enzyme Action, Lipase, U. : Prof. 

 H. E. Armstrong, F.R.S., and Dr. E. Ormerod.— Studies of the Pro- 

 cesses operative in Solutions, I., The Sucroclastic Action of Acids as 

 Influenced by Salts and Non-electrolytes: R. J. Caldwell.— The Origin 

 of Osmotic Effects : Prof. H. E. Armstrong, F.R.S. 



Mathematical Society, at 5.30.— Exhibit-on of Models of Space-filling 

 Solids : W. Bailey.— The Algebra of Apolar Linear Complexes ; Dr. 

 H. F. Baker.— Supplementary Note on the Representation of Certain 

 Asymptotic Series as Convergent Continued Fractions: Prof. L. J. 

 Rogers.— On Certain Special Types of Convertible Matrices : I. Brill. 



Institution of Mi.ving Engineers, at 11 a.m — .•\ddress by the Pre- 

 sident.— The Commercial Possibilities of Electric Winding for Main 

 Shafts and Auxiliary Work: W. C. Mountain— Electrically-driven Air- 

 compressors, combined with the working of the Ingersoll-Sergeant 

 Heading-machines, and the subsequent working of the Busty Seam : 

 A. Thompson.— Praciical Problems of Machine-mining: Sam Mavor.— 

 The Strength of Brazed Joints in Steel Wires : Prof. Henry Louis.— 

 Eye. product Coke and the Huessener Bye. product Coke Ovens : J. A. 

 Roelofsen, — Considerations on Deep Mining : George Farmer. 



Society OF Public Analysts, at 8.— An Examination of the Method of 

 Milk Analysis used at the Government Laboratory in connection with 

 Samples referred under the Sale of Food and Drugs Acts: H. D. 

 Richmond an<) E. H. Miller.-On the Examination of Linseed, Olive 

 and other Oils: R. T. Thomson and H. Dunlop.— On the Composition 

 and Valuation of Oils used for Gas.making Purposes : R. Ross and J. P. 

 Leather. — Note on Fractional Distillation by Steam Vapour : H. Hardy 

 and B. Richens — A New Method for the Estimation of Tartaric Acid ; 

 A. C. Chapman and P. Whitteridge. 



FRIDAY, June 15. 



Institution of Mining Engineers, at 10.30 a.m.— Rescue Apparatus 

 and the Experience made therewith at the Courrieres Collieries by the 

 German Rescue Party: G. A. Meyer.— A New Apparatus for Rescue, 

 work in Mines : W. E. Garforth.- A Rateau Exhaust-steam-driven 

 Three-phase Haulage Plant : William 'Maurice.- Development of Placer 

 'Gold-mining in the Klondike District, Canada: J. B. Tyrrell. — Mining 

 Education: Prof. J. W. Gregory.— The Capacity-current and its Effect 

 on Leakage Indications on Three-phase Electrical Power-service : Sydney 

 F. Walker.— Petroleum Occurrences in the Orange River Colony : A. R 

 Sawyer. 



National Association for the Promotion of Technical and 

 Secondary Education, at 3. — -Annual General Meeting. 



MONDAY, June 18. 



8.30. — A Fifth Journey in Persia : Major 



loYAL Geographical Society 

 P. Molesworth Sykes, C.M.G. 



NO. 191 I, VOL. 74] 



TUESDAY. June 19. 



Zoological Society, at 8.50.— The Nudibrancbs of South India and 

 Ceylon : Sir Charles Eliot, K.C.M.G.— Description of a New Species of 

 Zebra: The Hon. Walter Rothschild.- On the Enlomostracan Fauna 

 of the New Zealand Lakes : Dr. G. .Stewardson Brady, F. R.S.— Note on 

 some Crustacea from the Freshwater Lakes of New Zealand : Dr. Charles 

 Chilton.- A Cla.ssification of the Selachian Fishes: C. Tate Regan. 



RovAL Statistical Society, at s. — ''he Geneialised Law of Error, or 

 Law of Great Numbers : Piof. F. Y. Edgeworth. 



WEDNESDAY, June 20. 



Royal Microscopical Society, at 8.— On the Structure of some 

 Carboniferous Ferns: Dr. D. H. Scott, F.R.S. 



Royal Meteorological Society, at 4.30. — The Development and Pro- 

 gress of the Thunder Squall of February 8, 1906 : R. G. K. Lempfert.— 

 The Mean Pievalence . f Thunderstorms in Various Parts of the British 

 Islands during twenty-five Years, 1861-1905 : F. J. Brodie.— Note on a 

 Typical Squall at Oxshitl, May 25, 1906 : W. H. Dines, F.R.S. 



THURSDAY, June 21. 



Royal Society, at 4.30.— /VoM/A- Papers: The Transition from the 

 Liquid to the Solid State and the Foam.structure of Matter : Prof. G. 

 Quincke, For.Mem.R.S.— Experimental Evidence of Ionic Migration in 

 the Natural Diffusion of Acids and Salts : R. G. Durrant. — Ionic Veloci- 

 ties in Gases at Different Temperatures: P. Phillips.— The Action of 

 Radium and Certain Other Salts on Gelatin : W. A. Douglas Rudge.— 

 On the Electric Inductive Capacities of Dry Paper and of Solid Cellulose : 

 A. Campbell. 



Chemical Society, at 8.30.— The Cleve Memorial Lecti 

 Thorpe —The Constituents of the Essential Oil Iron 

 PMospm-iim un.iiilatuiii : F. B. Power and F. Tuti 

 Substltuents in Derivaiives of ^-Naphthol : J. T. He 

 Mitchell. 



Linnean Society, at 8.— On the Fotany of Southern Rhodesia: Miss 

 L. S. Gibb.s.-On the Authentic Portraits of Linnajus (lantern slides): 

 W. Carruthers, F.R.S.— Plants: nova: Daweanse in Uganda leclK : Dr. 

 Otto Stapf.— On the Genitalia of Dipter? : W. Wesche. 



FRIDAY. June 22. 



Physical Society, at 5.— The Effect of Radium in Facilitating the Visible 

 Electric Discharge in z'actio : A. A. Campbell Swinton. — A Comparison 

 between the Peltier Effect and other Reversible Heat Effects: A. O. 

 Allen.— The Effect of the Electric Spark on the Actinity of Metals: 

 T. A. Vaughton.— Dielectric Strength of Thin Liquid Films : Dr. P. E. 

 Shaw.— The Effect of Electrical Oscillations on Iron in a Magnetic Field : 

 Dr. W. H. Eccles. 



: Prof. T. E. 

 he Fruit of 

 -Mobility of 

 1 and H. V. 



CONTENTS. PAGE 



The Respiratory System of Vertebrates. By A. K. 145 



A Text-book of Genetics. By W. Bateson, F.R.S. 146 



Text-books of Physics 147 



Reduction of Geodetic Measures. By W. E. P. 14S 

 Our Book Shelf: — 



Horner: " Modern Milling Machines." — N. J. L. . 149 



Strong: " Lectures on the .Method of Science " . . . 149 

 "Great Dane": "The Secrets of Dog-Feeding." — 



R. L 149 



" In My Garden " 149 



Letters to the Editor: — 



Inheritance of an Abnormality. {Illustrated. ) — Prof. 



Herbert McLeod, F.R.S 150 



Therinometet Scales. — R, T. A. Innes 150 



.Solar and Lunar Ilalos. — Rowland A. Earp . . 150 

 The Royal Society of Edinburgh and the Govern- 

 ment 150 



Archaeology in the Isle of Man. (Illustrated.) . . . 152 



MoUuscan Morphology. (Illustrated.) By (B V)- . 153 



Cycles in Chronology. By W. T. L 154 



Preventable Disease and Military Strength .... 154 



Notes, (llhistialcd.) 155 



Our Astronomical Column : — 



Photographing the Corona without a Total Eclipse . 158 



Observations of Nova Geminorum 158 



Personal Equation in Photometric Observations ... 158 



Comet 1906A (Koplf) 158 



Observations of Variable Stars 158 



Visit of Representatives of French University 



Education 159 



Economic Entomology. (Illustrated.) By Fred. V. 



Theobald 160 



The South-Eastern Union of Scientific Societies . 161 



The Surface Trajectories of Moving Air. ByW. M. 162 



New Arctic Expeditions 163 



A Catalogue of Fossil Invertebrates. By I. T. . . 163 



University and Educational Intelligence 164 



Societies and Academies 164 



Diary of Societies 16S 



