XXXVI 
Lndex 
Nature, 
October 24, 1912 
Reviews and Our Bookshelf (continued) : 
Stier (Dr. Ewald), Untersuchungen iiber Linkshandigkeit 
und die funktionellen Differenzen der Hirnhalften, 
Prof. G. Elliot Smith, F.R.S., 108 
Wellcome Tropical Research Laboratories at Khartoum: 
Report : A, Medical, 10 
Whetham (W. C. D., F-.R.S.) and Catherine D. 
Whetham, Heredity and Society, 263; an Introduction 
to Eugenics, 263 
Woodcock (H. de C.), the Doctor and the People, 575 
Technology : 
Arndt (Prof. Kurt), die Bedeutung der Kolloide fiir die 
Technik, 28 
Brearley (Harry), the Heat Treatment of Tool Steel, 
F. W. Harbord, 501 
Browne (Edith A.), Peeps at Industries: Sugar, 5; 
Rubber, 554 
Darling (C. R.), Pyrometry: a Practical Treatise on the 
Measurement of High Temperatures, 29 
Garrett (A. E.), the Advance of Photography, 187 
Harbord (F. W.) and J. W. Hall, the Metallurgy of 
Steel, Prof. J. O. Arnold, F.R.S., 315 
Hirschwald (Prof. J.), Handbuch der bautechnischen 
Gesteinspriifung, 344 
MacDonald (G. W.), 
Explosives, 372 
Ridley (H. N., C.M.G., F.R.S.), Spices, 374 
Sindall and Bacon, the Testing of Wood Pulp: a Prac- 
tical Handbook for the Pulp and Paper Trades, 658 
Smith (Dr. G. F. Herbert), Gem-stones and their Dis- 
tinctive Characters, 294 
Thompson (Prof. M. de Kay), Applied Electrochemistry, 
J. Swinburne, 136 
Miscellaneous : 
Abderhalden (Prof. E., Editor), Fortschritte der natur- 
wissenschaftlichen Forschung, 373 
Bedrock: a new Quarterly Review of Scientific Thought, 
Historical Papers on Modern 
144 
Board of Education, Annual Volume of Statistics of 
Public Education in England and Wales, 675 
Boutroux (Prof. E:.), J. Nield, the Beyond that is Within, 
and Other Addresses, 630 
Brown (G. E.) and A. Mackie, Photographic Copyright, 
631 
Gerland (Georg), der Mythus von der Sintflut, 605 
Keltie (Dr. Scott, Editor), the Statesman’s Year Book, 
1912 
Lay (Ed. J. S.), the Teachers’ Book of Constructive 
Work for Elementary Schools, 528 
McDougall (Wm.), Body and Mind: a History and a 
Defence of Animism, 396 
Myers (Dr. C. S.), a Text-book of Experimental 
Psychology, 316 
New Zealand Institute: Transactions and Proceedings, 
44 . 
Poulton (Prof. E. B., F.R.S.), John Viriamu Jones, and 
other Oxford Memories, 419 
Rimington (Prof. A. Wallace), Colour-Music, 166 
Rowell (Percy E.), Introduction to General Science, with 
Experiments, 165 
Scott (Prof. W. D.), Increasing Human Efficiency in 
Business, 629 
Stromeyer (C. E.), Unity in Nature: an Analogy between 
Music and Life, 86 
Wellcome Tropical Research Laboratories at Khartoum: 
Fourth Report: B, General Science, 10 
Road, the: Past, Present, and Future: Royal Institution 
Discourse, Right Hon. Sir John H. A. Macdonald, 
K.C.B., F.R.S., 127 
Réntgen Rays: Distribution of the Scattered Roéntgen 
Radiation, J. A. Crowther, 104; Passage of Homo- 
geneous Roéntgen Rays through Gases, E. A, Owen, 
104; Attempt to Refract Réntgen Radiation, J. C. 
Chapman, 313 
Rotating Films, Experiments, C. V. Boys, 493 
Rotatory Power of Camphor dissolved in Carbon Tetra- 
chloride, and the Concentration, A. Faucon, 79 
Rothamsted, 649; Resignation of Director, 142 
Rotifera, New, since 1889, C. F. Rousselet, 7 
Royal Academy and Nature-study, Dr. W. J. S. Lockyer, 
244 
“NI 
Royal Geographical Society: Anniversary Dinner, 300; 
New Headquarters at Lowther Lodge, 562 
Royal Institution Discourses: the Gyrostatic Compass 
and Practical Applications of Gyrostats, G. K. B. 
Elphinstone, 74; the Road, Sir J. H. A. Macdonald, 
K.C.B., F.R.S., 127; Total Eclipse of the Sun, April, 
1911, at Tonga Islands, Dr. W. J. S. Lockyer, 151; the 
Origin of Radium, F. Solly, F.R.S., 203; Electricity 
Supply, A. A. C. Swinton, 281; Very High Tempera- 
tures, Dr. J. A. Harker, F.R.S., 514; the North Sea, 
Prof. D’Arcy W. Thompson, C.B., 593; Sir William 
Herschel, Sir G. H. Darwin, K.C.B., F.R.S., 620, 645; 
the Use of Pedigrees, W. C. Dampier Whetham, F.R.S., 
310; the Gaumont Speaking Kinematograph Films, Prof. 
Wm. Stirling, 333 
Royal Meteorological Society, Southport Meeting, 302 
Royal Sanitary Institute Congress at York, 483 
Royal Society: the 250th Anniversary, 195, 505, 5333 
Conversazione, 271; Memorial Volume of Celebration, 
66 
Rinker Rubber and Gutta-percha: Reports of Imperial 
Institute, 41; Production of Synthetic Rubber, Prof. 
W. H. Perkin, 402; West Indian Rubber, 484; Peeps 
at Industries: Rubber, Edith A. Browne, 554 
Rubies, Manufactured, Dr. G. F. H. Smith, 247 
St. Elmo’s Fire, J. McV. M., E. Gold, 7 
Salmon and Trout, Age and Growth of, in Norway, as 
shown by their Scales, Knut Dahl, Ian Baillie, 523 
Sandal Tree, Host-plants of the, Rama Rao, 174 
Sanitation: Congress of the Royal Sanitary Institute at 
York: Instrument for Testing Variation in Condition of 
Public Water Supplies, Dr. M. Coplans; Purification of 
Water, Dr. M. Coplans; Air Pollution by Coal Smoke, 
A. G. Ruston; Effects of Sewage Contamination of Sea- 
water, J. E. Purvis and G. Walker, 590 
Sardines, 194; Sardines in Science and Commerce, 271 
Saturn, Observations of, Dr. H, E. Lau, 199 
Savoy: Costumes, Traditions, and Songs of, 
Canziani, 289 
Science, General: Fourth Report of the Wellcome Tropical 
Research Laboratories, 10; Promotion of Research by 
the Carnegie Institution, 126; Introduction to General 
Science with Experiments, Percy E. Rowell, 165; the 
Grammar of Science, Prof. Karl Pearson, F.R.S., 188; 
Fortschritte der naturwissenschaftlichen Forschung, Prof. 
E. Abderhalden and others, 373; South, Kensington 
Science Museum, New Director, 380; les Sciences de la 
Nature en France au XVIIIe Siécle, Prof. D. Mornet, 
476; Handworterbuch der Naturwissenschaften, 502 ; 
— and Reservations, H. Conwentz and others, A. E 
Crawley, 665 
Scientific Worthies: Dr. Alfred Russel Wallace, D.C.L., 
O.M., F.R.S., Prof. H. Fairfield Osborn, 367 
Sea: Sea Oscillations on Coast of Sicily, Dr. G. Platania, 
68; New System for Preventing Collisions at Sea, Sir H. 
Maxim, 542; Board of Trade Committee to advise 
respecting Safety of Life at Sea, 584 
Sea-sickness, Physiology of the Semicircular Canals and 
their Relation to, Dr. J. Byrne, 575 
Seal, Alaskan Fur-, Dr. F. A. Lucas, 249 
Search-lights for the Mercantile Marine, Dr. Henry Wilde, 
Pak Se sso 
Seiches : Temperature Observations in Loch Earn, E. M. 
Wedderburn, 131; Sea-Seiches, Dr. W. B. Dawson, 
Kétaré Honda, 174 
Seismograph applied to Measure Vibrations of Railway 
Carriages, Prof. Omori, 174; Choice of a Seismograph, 
Prof. H. F. Reid, 405 
Seismology : the Upper Rhine, W. Salomon, 14; Dispersion 
of Seismic Waves due to Friction of Displaced Material, 
Prince Galitzin, 119; Earthquakes recorded in Italy in 
1908, 120; Earthquake in South Africa on February 20, 
174; Earthquake recorded on May 6, 248; Earthquake of 
May 23, F. E. Norris, 377; Messina Earthquake Notices, 
383; Periods of Briickner and Earthquakes, F. D. de 
Ballore, 625; see also Earthquakes and Volcanoes 
Selective Media, C. Revis, 586 
Selsey Bill: Historic and Prehistoric, Ed. Heron-Allen, 
Estella 
