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tober 24, 1912 
Biology (continued) : 
Biology, Prof. A. Dendy, F.R.S., 393; Lebensweise ! 
und Organisation : eine Einfiihrung in die Biologie der 
wirbellosen Tiere, Prof. P. Deegener, 393; Einftthrung 
in die Biologie, Prof. O. Maas and Dr. ‘O. Renner, 
393; the Life of the Plant, Prof. C. A. Timiriazeff, 
Miss Anna Chéréméteff, 393 . 
Particular: Biology of the Danube Delta and Inundation 
Area, .Dr. G. Antipa, 40; Acquired Characters and 
Stimuli, Sir E. Ray Lankester, K.C.B., F.R.S., 61, 
167, Dr, A. G. Reid, 112; Fresh-water Rhizopoda from 
the States of New York, &c., G. H. Wailes, 286; a 
Dodder parasitic on Willows, Dr. K. Spisar, 307; 
Symbiotic Union of an Alga with the Raots of Cycas 
revoluta, J. Horejsi, 307; Polyzoa and Echinodermata : 
Clare Island Survey, A. R. Nichols, 313; Caradocian 
Cystidea from Girvan, Dr. F. A. Bather, 364; Distri- 
bution and Origin of Life in America, R. F. Scharff, 
523; Biological Aspects of Human Problems, C. A. 
Herter, 576; Biology of Panama Canal Zone: Smith- 
sonian Expedition, 674 
Marine: Scottish Antarctic Expedition: Entomostraca, 
Dr. Thomas Scott; Cephalopoda, Dr. W. E. Hoyle; 
Tunicata, Prof. W. A. Herdman, all 78; Campagne 
Arctique de 1907: Duc d’Orléans, J. A. Grieg, P. 
Dautzenberg and H. Fischer, F. Richters, Prof. A. 
Meunier, Prof. Herdman, F.R.S., 107; Alcyonaria from 
Singapore and Classification of Nephthyide, E. W. 
Shann, 130; Port Erin Biological Station, 150; Report 
of St. Diego Station, W. E. Ritter, 173; New Free 
Crinoids found in the Indo-Malay Archipelago by the 
Siboga, 197; Life-history of some Marine Diatoms 
from Bournemouth, 234; Free-living Marine Nema- 
todes, Gilbert E. Johnson, 320; Marine Alge of 
Australia, A. H. S. Lucas, 391; the British Tunicata, 
J. Alder and A. Hancock, J. Hopkinson, 523; see also 
Tow-nets 
Biometrika, 144 
Bird Notes, 231, 439 ; 
Birds: Aleutian Islands: Smithsonian Expedition, 675; 
America, Catalogue of Birds of N. and Middle, R. 
Ridgway, 91; Australian Bird Book: a Pocket-book for 
Field Use, J. A. Leach, 85; British: the Birds of the 
British Islands, C. Stonham, C.M.G., Lilian M. Med- 
land, 637; Terek Sandpiper in Britain, 641; Bull-finch, 
Damage to Fruit by, W. E. Collinge, 484; Clare Island 
Survey, R. J. Ussher, 313; Colorado, a History of the 
Birds of, W. L. Sclater, 523; the Grouse in Health and 
Disease, Committee’s Report, 658; Hawaiian Collection 
for California University, Miss A. M. Alexander, 562; 
Italy: Appeal for more stringent Legal Protection in, 
Prof. G. Martorelli, 588; Laughing Jackass, Taste or 
Smell in the, R. I. Pocock, F.R.S., 425; T. Muffett 
(d. 1604), Writings of, W. H. Mullens, 67; Owl, Little, 
and Game-poaching, Mr. Meade-Waldo, 510; Penguin, 
Adélie, L. Gain, 483; Redshank, Courtship of the, Julian 
S. Huxley, 259; Titmice Nests in Metropolitan Gas Co.’s 
Lamp, 616; Wild Birds, How to Attract and Protect, 
M. Hiesemann, Emma S. Buchheim, 190 
Birds’ Egg Diary, 405 
Birth Registration Systems, 668 
Bleaching Powder, Action of Dilute Acids on, R. L. Taylor 
and C. Bostock, 7 
Blood, Normal Manganese in the, G. Bertrand and F. 
Medigreceanu, 183; Electric Charge of Red Corpuscles, 
P. Girard, 599 
Boats and Davits Committee: Notice to Inventors, 613; 
Boats on Ships, 661 
Boiler Draught, H. Keay Pratt, 215 
Bones: der Aufbau der Skeletteile in den freien Glied- 
massen der Wirbeltiere: Untersuchungen in urodelen 
Amphibien, Prof. H. von Eggeling, Prof. G. Elliot Smith, 
F.R.S., 59; Osteo-arthritis in the Polished Stone Age, 
M. Baudouin, 339; 
Books: Forthcoming Books of Science, 46; New Editions, 
384; Cheap Books on Science, 407 
Boron as a Constituent of Animal Tissues, G. Bertrand and 
H. Agulhon, 574 
Botanic Gardens, Peradeniya, 90; Missouri, 90 
Botany : 
General: Practical Botany, Dr. F. Cavers, 5; das 
Pflanzenreich: Aracez-Lasioidee, A. Engler: Moni- 
miaceee, J. Perkins: Orchidacee, Fr. Kranzlin, 31; 
Links with the Past in the Plant World, Prof. A. C. 
Seward, F.R.S., 189; Plant Life: a Text-book, Prof. 
Eug. Warming, Metta M. Rehling and Elizabeth M. 
Thomas, 213; Wild Flowers as they Grow: Photo- 
graphed in Colours Direct from Nature, H. Essenhigh 
Corke, G. C. Nuttall, Dr. F. Cavers, 213, 497; Plant 
Life and Evolution, Prof. D. H. Campbell, 213; an 
Intermediate Text-book of Botany, Ernest Evans, 213; 
Vortrage iiber botanische Stammesgeschichte, J. P. 
Lotsy, 342; Elementary Plant Biology, J. E. Peabody 
and A. E. Hunt; Manual of Structural Botany, Prof. 
H. H. Rusby; Microskopisches Praktikum fir 
systematische Botanik, Prof. M. Mébius; Lebensfragen 
aus der heimischen Pflanzenwelt, Dr. G. Worgitzky; 
Anleitung zur mikroskopischen Untersuchung von 
Pflanzenfasern, Dr. G. Tobler-Wolff and Prof. F. 
Tobler, all Dr. F. Cavers, 497; Plant-breeding, 
Prof. J. M. Coulter, 510; a Text-book of Botany 
for Colleges and Universities, Drs. J. M. Coulter, 
C. R. Barnes, and H. C. Cowles, 654; Sub-alpine 
Plants, H. Stuart Thompson, 654; Botany, G. S. 
Boulger, 654; Allgemeine Botanik, Prof. A. Nathan- 
sohn, 654; see also Ecology 
Special: Angiospermic Plants, Endosperm of, Prof. 
Coulter, 145; Angiosperms, Prof. M. Mobius, Dr. F. 
Cavers, 497; Australia, Additions to Flora of W. and 
N.W., Dr. Karel Domin, 286; Breeding of Plants, 
Prof. J. M. Coulter, 510; Britain: Prodromus Flore 
Britannice, F. N. Williams, 405; a Flower Sanctuary, 
F. H. Perrycoste, 548, 607; Right Hon. Sir H. 
Maxwell, Bart., F.R.S., 581; Right Hon. Sir Ed. Fry, 
G.C.B., F.R.S., 661; Brasilien, Flora der Umgebung 
der Stadt Sao Paulo in, Prof. A. Usteri, Dr. O. Stapf, 
F.R.S., 420; Calamites, Internodes of, Prof. P. 
Groom, 77; China: Flora of Kwangtung, E. T. Dunn 
and W. J. Tutcher, 275; Clare Island Survey: Fresh- 
water Algew, W. West, 260; Marine Alge, A. D. 
Cotton, 521; Desmidiaceae, a Monograph of the 
British, W. West and Prof. G. S. West, 523; Dischidia 
vafflesiana and D. nummularia and the Ants harboured 
by them, Dr. A. F. G. Kerr, 157; Koreana, Flora, T. 
Nakai, 564; La Mortola Garden Plants, A. Berger, 
510; Ophioglossaceae, Branching in the, Prof. W. H. 
Lang, F.R.S., 78; Ophioglossacez, Interpretation of 
the Vascular Anatomy of, Prof. W. H. Lang, 260; 
Orchid Gastrodia and Fungus Armillaria, Prof. 
Kusano, 484; Photosynthesis and Stomatal Aperture, 
W. L. Balls, 555; Pistia stratiotes, Re-discovery in 
Nile Delta of, Prof. G. Schweinfurth, 67; Polypodium 
from Panama, New, R. Mason, 14; Sterile Media, 
Method for Culture of the Higher Plants in, R. 
Combes, 157; Transformation of Flower into Leaf-like 
Organs due to Fungus, 92; Water-lily, N. American, 
Messrs. Miller and Standley, 587 
Boulder Clay in Essex, Rev. Dr. A. Irving, 632 
Bread, Prof. T. B. Wood, 568 
British Association Dundee Meeting, Prof. D’Arcy W. 
Thompson, C.B., 349, 480; Erratum, 511; Popular Lec- 
tures, 508; Geography, Section E, 508; List of Foreign 
Guests, 612; Handbook and Guide to Dundee and 
District, 658; Note, 665 
British Columbia, How to Make an Orchard in, J. T. 
Bealby, Dr. F. Cavers, 497 
British Medical Association, 567 
British Museum Reading-room Handbook, 643 
British Science Guild, 295 
Brownian Motion, Range of the Particles in the, S. 
Lifchitz, 313 
Building : Messrs. Whiteley’s New Premises, 432; Building 
Stones: Handbuch der bautechnischen Gesteinspriifung, 
Prof. J. Hirschwald, 344 
Bull-finch, Damage to Fruit, W. E. Collinge, 484 
Bushmen, Namaqualand, Miss L. Currlé, 677 
Butterflies: the Distastefulness of Anosta plexippus, A. M. 
Banta, R. I. Pocock, F.R.S., 243, Prof. E. B. Poulton, 
F.R.S., 375; Butterfly-hunting in Many Lands, Dr. 
G. B. Longstaff, 291; Scent-organs of Butterflies and 
_ Moths, F. Miiller, 291; Butterfly Migration in Relation 
to Mimicry, J. Evershed, 659 
Cacti as Stock Food, 332 
