Index 



t Nature, 

 March 24, 1910 



versaries, Prof. E. B. Poulton, F.R.S., Prof. R. Meldola, 

 F.R.S., 91 



Ornithology : the Tooth-billed Bower Bird {Sceiiopacslcs 

 dciitirostris), S. W. Jackson, 5b; Habits of the Black- 

 cock in Scandinavia and England, Edmund Selous, 136; 

 Coloration of Birds' Eggs, R. L. Leslie, 157; A. R. Hor- 

 wood, 247 ; Nest of \ erreau.x's Eagle (.4tjMi7a VL^rreauxi), 

 L. B. Taylor, 163 ; a Hand-list of the Genera and Species of 

 Birds, R. Bowdler Sharpe, 183 ; the Kea, a New Zealand 

 Problem, G. R. iMarriner, 186; Plumages in Birds, 198; 

 Birds mentioned in Early Scottish Literature, Rev. D. VV. 

 Wilson, 198; Long Nesting-period of the More Typical 

 Members of the Crow-tribe, J. C. Adam, 198; Death and 

 Obituary Notice of Dr. R. Bowdler Sharpe, 253 ; Sir 

 Henry Bovnton's Collection of Birds, 289; Cross-bills, 

 Dr. C. B. Ticehurst, 345 



Osborn (T. G. B.), Stiiminal Mcchanisin of Passifiora 

 coerulca, 119: the Lateral Roots of Amyeloti radians, 345 



Osborne (Dr. Thomas B.), the Vegetable Proteins, 214 



Osborne (Prof. W. A.), the Elements of Animal Physiology, 

 97 



Oscillations of a New Type, the Maintenance of Forced, 

 C. V. Raman, 156, 428 



Osgood (W. H.), Mammal and Bird Fauna of Alaska and 

 Yukon Territory, 204 



Ostwald (Prof. \V.), the Fundamental Principles of 

 Chemistry, 303 



Oxford Geographies, the, the Practical Geography, J. F. 

 Unstead, the Elementary Geography, F. D. Herbertson, 

 a First Physiography, Europe, excluding the British Isles, 

 125; the Elementary Geography, F. D. Herbertson, 

 vol. ii.. In and About Our Islands, vol. iv., Asia, 

 vol. vii., the British Isles, 188 



Oxford Museum, a History of the, Dr. H. M. Vernon and 

 K. Dorothea Vernon, 432 



Page-May (Dr. \V.), Death of, 373 



Pala;obotanv : Studies in Fossil iiotanv. Dr. Dukinfield H. 

 Scott, F.k.S., Prof. A. C. Seward,' F.R.S., 151 ; Struc- 

 ture and Affinities of Zygoptrris Ixomcri, \V. T. Gordon, 

 358; the Fossil Osmundacese, Prof. Gvvynne Vaughan 

 and Dr. R. Kidston, I'-.R.S., 358 ; Miocene Trees, Prof. 

 T. D. A. Cockerell, 405 



Palseolithics : the Stone Ages in North Britain and Ireland, 

 Rev. Frederick Smith, 32 ; Age of Stone (Palaeolithic) in 

 the Drakenstein Valley, L. Peringuey, 150 ; the Discovery 

 of a Skeleton of Palaeolithic Man, Dr. Capitan and M. 

 Peyrony, 492 



Palaontology : Restoration of the Skeleton of Eurhino- 

 dclphis cochctciixi. Prof. O. Abel, 16; the Life of a Fossil 

 Hunter, Charles H. Sternberg, 36 ; New Generic Type 

 (Opisthias ranis) of Rhynchocephalian Reptile from the 

 Jurassic of Wyoming, C. W. Gilmore, 74; New Forms 

 of Fossils, Edestus, Prof. O. P. Hay, 104 ; Geological 

 .'\ge of Homo heidelhergeitsis, Dr. Emil Werth, 105 ; 

 Two New Genera of Upper Liassic Plesiosaurs, D. M. S. 

 Watson, 119; the Recent and F'ossil Foraminifera of the 

 Shore Sands of Selsey Bill (Sussex), E. Heron-Allen and 

 .\. Earland, 148; Specimens of South African Fossil 

 Reptiles in the British Museum, Dr. R. Broom, 149 ; 

 Problem of .'\mmonite-phylogeny. Prof. G. Steinmann, 

 2S9 ; New Carboniferous .■\rachnid from the Tyne Valley, 

 E. L. Gill, 290 ; Three Skeletons of Sauropod Dinosaurs 

 discovered in the Jurassic Strata of Utah, 373 ; Discovery 

 of a New Pleistocene Bone-bed near Ipswich, 405 ; a 

 Tertiary Leaf-cutting Bee, Prof. T. D. A. Cockerell, 

 429 ; German East Africa Dinosaurian Remains, 436 ; 

 Distribution of Dinosaurian Reptiles, Dr. R. S. Lull, 

 437 ; Skull of Megalosaurus from the Great Oolite of 

 Minchinhampton, Dr. A. S. Woodward, 478 ; Vertebrate 

 Fauna found in the Cave-earth at Dog Holes, Warton 

 Crag (Lancashire), J. W. Jackson, 478 



Palaeozoic Stratigraphy, 181 



Palaeozoology : Lehrbuch der Palaozoologie, Prof. E. 

 Stromer von Reichenbach, Dr. Ivor Thomas, 242 



Palisa (Dr.), a Daylight Meteor, 107 



Palmer (T. S.), Progress of Game-protection in the United 

 States, 198 



Papua, a Finnish Ethnological Expedition to British, Dr. 

 Gunar Landtman, 442 



Parallax of the Double Star 2 239S, the, Dr. Bohlin, 78; 



Prof. Schlesinger, 78 

 Parasitology : die Schwarotzer der Menschen und Tiere, 

 Dr. O. von Linstow, 34 ; the Parasites of the Grouse, 

 Dr. A. E. Shipley, F.R.S., 235; Progress made by 

 British Men of Science in, Prof. R. Blanchard, 315 

 Paris Academy of Sciences, 29, 59, 89, 119, 149, 178, 200. 

 239. 299, 329, 359, 389, 448, 478, 509 ; Prize .'Awards of 

 the, 293; Prizes Proposed by the, for 1911, 322 

 Paris Floods, the, 434 

 Parkhurst (Mr.), Halley's Comet, 348 

 Parsons (F. G.), the Rothwell Crania, 147 

 Parsons (Hon. R. Clere), Improvements in Resilient Wheels 



for Vehicles, Address at Royal Society of Arts, 469 

 Patents and Designs Act, 1907, George Schuster, 292 

 Pathology : the Principles of Pathology, Prof. J. George 

 .Adami, F.R..S., 94; Presence of Ha;m-agglutinins, H»m- 

 opsonins, and Hjemolysins in Blood obtained from In- 

 fectious and Non-infectious Diseases in .Man, J. S. 

 Dudgeon and H. A. F. Wilson, 236; Death of Dr. L. 

 Malassez, 256 

 Patterson {A. H.), Fisheries and Fish of East Suffolk, 16 

 Patterson (Lieut. -Col. J. H., D.S.O.), in the Grip of the 



Nyika, Further Adventures in British East .Africa, 283 

 Pearl (Prof. Raymond), Selection Index Numbers and their 

 use in Breeding, 44 ; Partially Hermaphrodite Plymouth 

 Rock Fowl, 104 

 Pearson (Hugh), the Diamond Fields of Brazil, 291 

 Pearson (Prof. H. H. W.), Types of the Vegetation of 

 Bushmanland, Namaqualand, Damaraland, and South 

 Angola, 118 

 Pearson (Dr. J.), Holothurioidea from the Kerimba .Archi- 

 pelago, Portuguese East .Africa, 478 

 Pearson (P.rof. Karl), on a Practical Theory of Elliptic and 

 Pseudo-ellipcic Arches, with .Special Reference to the Ideal 

 Masonry Arch, 268 

 Peary (ComiTiander), National Geographic Society awards 

 Gold Medal to, 42 ; Royal Geographical Society's Gold 

 Medal awarded to, 373 ; Proposed United States South 

 Polar Expedition, 435 

 Pellat (H.), a Compound Pendulum of very Simple Con- 

 struction giving immediately the Length of the Syn- 

 chronous Pendulum, 8q 

 Pellat (Prof. J. S. H.), Death and Obituary Notice of, 287 

 Pelliot (M. Paul), Return of Central Asia Expedition, 197 

 Pentastomida, the Cambridge Natural History, A. E. Ship- 

 ley, 211 

 Peringuey (I^.), Zoological and Botanical Collections from 

 the Group of Islands of Tristan d'Acunha, 150; Age of 

 Stone (Palaeolithic) in the Drakenstein Valley, 150 

 Perkin (Dr. F. Mollwo), Electro-deposition of Metals, 420 

 Perkin (Prof.), Optical Activity with no Asymmetric .Atom, 



266 

 Perkins (Prof.), Spirit from Raisins, 318 

 Perot (.A.), Means of Protecting the Silvering of Mirrors, 59 

 Perrin (Jean), Measurements of the Brownian Movements 



in Emulsions of Gamboge and of Mastic, 376 

 Perrine (Dr.), Winnecke's Comet, 378 

 Perrine's Comet, 19096, Dr. Kobold, 78 ; Prof. Wolf, 140 ; 



Ephemerides for. Dr. Ebell, 202 

 Perrot (Em.), Adenitim Hongkel, the Ordeal Poison of the 



French Soudan, 299 

 Perseid Meteors in 1909, the, Mr. Oliver, 107 

 Peters (Dr. J.), a New Series of Calculating Tables, 45 

 Petit (A.), Electricity agricole, 334 



Petrology : Alkali-syenites in Ayrshire, G. W. Tyrrell, 18S 

 Pevronv (M.), the Discovery of a Skeleton of PaUtolithic 



Man, 492 

 Philip (Dr. J. C), the Romance of Modern Chemistry, 



4SS 



Philippine Islands, Ethnography in the, 166 



Phillips (Charles E. S.), the Fbw of Sand, 4S7 



Phillips (D. P.), Re-combination of Ions at Different Tem- 

 peratures, 507 



Phillips (E. J.) Zoological and Botanical Collections from 

 the Group of Islands of Tristan d'Acunha, 150 



Phillips (Rev. T. E. R.), Halley's Comet, 1909c 140, 348; 

 Mars, 202 



Philology : Language of the Nawar or Zutt, R. .A. Stewart 

 Macalister, 346 



Philosophy : Unsterblichkeit : eine Kritik der Beziehungen 

 zwischen Naturgeschehen und menschlicher Vorstell- 



