Index 



Ferris (M.), Comparison of Chronometers or Clocks at a 

 Distance by Means of Radio-telegraphic Signals, 479 



Fertilising influence of Sunlight, the, A. Howard and 

 G. L. C'. Howard, 456 



Festa (Dr. E.), Nel Darien e nell' Ecuador, 452 



Fewkes {Dr. Jesse Walter), Antiquities of the iMesa Verde 

 National Park, Spruce-tree House, 130 



Ficker (Dr. H. v.), Klimatographie von Osterreich, 455 



Field (S.), Conditions which Determine the Composition of 

 Electro-deposited .Alloys, 419 



Fine (H. B.), Coordinate Geometry, 275 



Finlayson {\. M.), Metallogeny of the British Isles, 32S ; 

 Problems of Ore-deposition in the Lead and Zinc Veins 

 of Great Britain, 47S 



Finnish Ethnological Expedition to British Papua, a, Dr. 

 Gunar Landtman, 442 



Fireball, a Brilliant, Mr. Denning, 320 



Fischer (Prof. Emil), Introduction to the Preparation of 

 Organic Compounds, 486 



Fisher (A. K.), Economic Value of Predaceous Birds and 

 Mammals, 291 



Fisher (Prof. W. R.), Sylviculture, .Albert Fron, 153 



Fisheries: Fisheries and Fish of East Suffolk, .\. H. Patter- 

 son, 16 ; Plaice-marking Experiments on the East Coast 

 of Ireland in 1905 and 1906, G. P. Farran, 41 ; Report on 

 the Sea and Inland Fisheries of Ireland for 1906, 145 ; 

 Bulletin statistique des Peches maritime des Pays du 

 Nord de I'Europe, pour I'.Ann^e 1906, 54; Rapports et 

 Procfes-verbaux des R^'unions, Juillet, 1907-Juillet, 1908, 

 54 ; Rapport sur les Travau.x de la Commission dans la 

 P^riode 1902-7, 54; Twenty-seventh Annual Report of 

 the Fishery Board for Scotland for the Year 190S, 54 ; 

 New Method of Estimating the Number of Fish which 

 Escape through the Meshes of the Trawl, Prof. d'A. W. 

 Thompson, 59; Scientific Investigations of the Northum- 

 berland Sea-fisheries, 74 ; Proposed International Confer- 

 ence for the Formulation of an International Marine 

 Game Law, 135 ; Death of Dr. T. Nishikawa, 162 ; 

 Review of Norwegian Fishery and Marine Investigations, 

 1900-8, 249 ; Hydrographical Investigations, Dr. B. 

 Helland-Hansen, 249 ; Plankton Investigations, Dr. 

 Damas, 249 ; Distribution of the Eggs and Young Stages 

 of the Gadoids, Dr. Damas, 249 



Fishes, Cyclostomes and, a Treatise on Zoology, Part ix., 

 \"ertebrata Craniata, E. .S. Goodrich, F.R.S., 152 



Fitzwilliams (Dr. D. C. L.), Short Muscles of the Hand of 

 the Agile Ciibbon {Hylobates agilis), 230 



" Flash " Spectrum without an Eclipse, the, Messrs. Hale 

 and Adams, 47 



Fleming (Prof. J. A., F.R.S.), Researches in Radio- 

 telegraphy, Discourse at Royal Institution, 141, i68 



Fletcher (F.), Botany and Origin of American Upland 

 Cotton, 406 



Floods, the Paris, 405, 434 



Flora of Cornwall, F. H. Davcy, 97 



Flora of the Dutch West Indies, the, J. Boldingh, 307 



Flow of Sand, the, A. S. E. Ackermann, 487 ; Charles E. S. 

 Phillips, 487 



Flowers, Beautiful, and How to Grow Them, Horace J. 

 Wright and Walter P. Wright, 123 



Fluorescence .Absorption, on, J. Butler Burke, 279 



Flying-fish, Large, C. Howard Tripp, 98 



Folklore : the Irish Fairv Book, .Alfred Perceval Graves, 

 Rev. John Griffith, 486" 



Food : International Congress on Pure Foods and Ali- 

 mentary Substances. Loudon M. Douglas, 25 ; Use of 

 Milk as Food, Mr. Milner, 75 ; Sources of Human Food- 

 supply, Prof. .A. Woeilcof, 497 



Forbes (Prof. G., F.R.S.), History of Astronomy, 245 



Forbes (Dr. Henry O.), the Identity of Certain Large Birds 

 on Egyptian Vases, 38 



Forcrand (M. de), Bicarbonates of Rubidium and Caesium, 

 59 ; Hydrates of Rubidium and Caesium, 299 



Ford (William E.), Second Appendix to the Sixth Edition 

 of Dana's System of Mineralogy, 5 



Forel (Dr. .A.), Ants obtained onKrakatau and in Java, 374 



Forensic Chemistry, a Manual of, dealing especially with 

 Chemical Evidence, its Preparation and Adduction, 

 William Jago, C. Simmonds, 242 



Forestry ; Sylviculture, Albert Fron. Prof. W. R. Fisher, 

 153 ; Working of Teak Forests, J. F. Troup, 163 ; Indi.in 



Woods and their Uses, R. S. Troup, 305 ; Indian Timbers, 

 R. S. Troup, 345 ; die .Arve in der Schweiz, Dr. M. Rikli, 

 399 ; Consequences of Cattle Grazing in Indian Forests, 

 J. W. Best, 437 ; Proposal to Re-afforest Large Areas in 

 Scotland, W. Barclay, 437 

 Foslie (Prof. Mikal Heggelund), Death of, 257 

 Fossil Botanv, Studies in. Dr. Dukinfield H. Scott, F.R.S., 



Prof. A. C. Seward, F.R.S., 151 

 Fossil Hunter, the Life of a, Charles H. Sternberg, 36 

 Foster (Mr.), the Lesser Apple-worm, 108 

 P'ottinger (Dr.), Marine Steam Turbines, 77 

 Fournier (L.), New Chloride of Phosphorus, 339 

 Fowler (Prof. .A.), the Spectra of Comets' Tails, 349 

 Foxcroft (C), an Elementary Course in Practical Science, 35 

 Francis (.A. G.), .Atomic Weight of Strontium, 507 

 French (.A. T.), .Analyses of Copper Blast-furnace Slags and 



Determination of their Melting Points, 448 

 French .Antarctic Expedition, the, 460 

 Fron (.Albert), Svlviculture, 153 

 Frost (Mr.), Hal'ley's Comet, 348 

 Fulweiler (W. H.), Development of Modern Road Surfaces, 



46 

 Function of Reissner's Fibre and the Ependymal Groove, 

 the. Prof. -Arthur Dendy, F.R.S., 217; Geo. E. Nicholls, 



Gallardo (.Angel), Zoologia, 34 



Gallop of the Horse and the Dog, the. Sir E. Ray 



Lankester, K.C.B., F.R.S., 7 

 Galls : Plant Galls of Great Britain, Edward T. Connold, 



66 ; les Zooc^cidies des Plantes d'Europe et du Bassin de 



la M^diterran^e, Dr. C. Houard, 333 

 Gallon (.Sir Francis, F.R.S.), Essays in Eugenics, 251 

 Gamble (Prof. E. .A. McC), Memorising Various Materials 



by a New Method, 407 

 Game Birds, the Natural History of British, J. G. Millais, 



392 

 Game-protection in the United States, Progress of, T. S. 



Palmer, 198 

 Gametogenesis of the Sawfly Xciuatus ribcsii, a Correction, 



Leonard Doncaster, 127 

 Gardening, Practical School,* P. Elford and Samuel Heaton, 



Dr. E. J. Russell, 243 

 Gardiner (C. I.), Igneous and .Associated Sedimentary 



Rocks of the Glensaul District (County Galway), 387 

 Gardner (J. A.), Supposed Presence of Carbon Monoxide 



in Normal Blood and in the Blood of Animals Anaes- 

 thetised with Cliloroform, 89; Origin and Destiny of 



Cholesterol in the Animal Organisms, 89 

 Garver (M. M.), Kinetic Interpretation of Osmotic Pressure, 



377 

 Gas, Petrol, and Oil Engine, the, Dugald Clerk, F.R.S., 31 

 Gases : High-pressure Spark Gap in an Inert Gas, Rev. 



F. J. Jervis-Smith, F.R.S., 9 

 Gasser (Dr. Max), Maps for Use on Balloons and Flying 



Machines, 164 

 Gates (R. R.), Study of Nuclear Changes and Qualities in 



the Mutants and Hybrids of CEnothera, 226 ; the Genus 



Oenothera, 437 

 Gatty (Rev. R. A.), Pit-dwellings at Holderness, 177 

 Gaubert (Paul), New Highly F'luorescent Substance derived 



from Physostigmine, 119 

 Gaupp (Prof. E.), the Asymmetry of the Human Body, 16 

 Gautrelet (Emile), Partial Transformation of Fatty Food 



Materials by Pepsic and Pancreatic Digestion in vitro, 240 

 Geddes (Dr. Campbell), Individual Vari.Ttion in the Degree 



of Development of the Muscular Impressions, Crests, or 



Tubercles of the Appendicular Skeleton of the Human 



Subject, 43 

 Gehrcke (Dr. E.), Con\*erting a Celluloid Copy of a Diffrac- 

 tion Grating into a Reflecting Grating, 18 * 

 Geiger (Dr. H.), Scattering of the a-Particles by Matter, 



507 ; the lonisation produced by nn a-Particle, 50S 

 Geikie (Sir Archibald), Presidential Address at Anniversary 



Meeting of the Royal Society, 132 ; the Natural History 



Museum, 196 

 Geil (Dr. William Edgar), the Great Wall of China, 220 

 Gems : Synthetic Reproduction of the Sapphire by the 



iSIethod of Fusion, .A. Verneuil, 3S9 ; Artificial Rubies, 

 404; Weight of the Cullinan Diamond, L. J. Spencer, 

 477 



