Index 



t-Uatvrt, 

 December iz, 1907 



To Deduce the Polar from the Intrinsic Equation, A. B. 

 rorter, 039 ; G. H. B., 639 ; the Theory of Functions of a 

 Keal \'ariable and the Theory of Fourier's Series, Ox. 

 E. \V. Hobson, F.R.S., 657; see also British Associ- 

 ation. 



Mathews (R. H.), Ethnological Notes on the Aboriginal 

 Tribes of New South Wales and \'ictoria, 31 ; the Kurnu 

 Tribe of New South Wales, 334 



Matignon (Camille), Preparation of Aluminium Carbide, 

 679 



Matthews (W.), Water Softening and \\ ater Hardening, 

 209 



Mauretania. the, W. B. Hardy, F.R.S., 663 



Maxwell (the Right Hon. Sir Herbert, Bart., F.R.S.), 

 Memories of the Months, 7 



Maxwell (W. H.), Ventilation, Heating and Lighting, 268 



Maxwell-Lefroy (R.), the More Important Insects Injurious 

 to Indian .Agriculture, 588 



May or Gorscdd Year in English and Welsh Fairs, the, 

 Rev. John Griffith, 477 



May Meteors, W. F. Denning, 14 



Maya Manuscript, Commentary on the, in the Royal 

 Public Library of Dresden, Dr. Ernst Forstemann, 45 



Meade (Richard K.), Portland Cement : its Composition, 

 Raw Materials, Manufacture, Testing, and Analysis, 123 



Measuring Machine, Colonel R. E. Crompton, 58 



Mechanics : Mechanics Problems for Engineering Students, 

 Frank B. Sanborn, 50 ; Text-book of Mechanics, Louis 

 A. Martin, jun., 50; Theoretical and Practical Mechanics 

 and Physics, A. H. Mackenzie, 50 ; an Elementary 

 Treatise on Theoretical Mechanics, J. H. Jeans, F.R.S., 

 .•?77 ; Death and Obituary Notice of Prof. Gustav Adolf 

 Zeuner, 667 



Mediaval Stained Glass, Production and Decay of, Noel 

 Heaton at Society of Arts, 19 



Medicine : Principia Therapeutica, Dr. Harrington Sains- 

 bury, 4 ; Physical Chemistry in the Service of Medicine, 

 Dr. Wolfgang Pauli, 76 ; Vorlesungen iiber anorganische 

 Chemie fiir Studierende der Mcdizin, Dr. Ernst Cohen 

 and Dr. P. van Romburgh, 76 ; Death of Sir Joseph 

 Fayrer, Bart., K.C.S.I., F.R.S., 85 ; Obituary Notice 

 of. Sir Lauder Brunton, F.R.S., 130; Malta Fever, 104; 

 Action of Waters Containing Sulphur Compounds in the 

 Mercurial Treatment, A Desmouli^res and A. Chatin, 

 144 ; Medical Treatment by Health Resorts, 145 ; 

 some Instances of Unscientific .Administration, Prof. 

 Ronald Ross, C.B., F.R.S., 153; M. D. Hill, 173; 

 the Solubility of .Air in Fats and its Relation to Caisson 

 Disease, Dr. H. M. Vernon, 214; Death and Obituary 

 Notice of Sir William T. Gairdner, K.C.B., F.R.S., 226; 

 Death of Sir William H. Broadbent, Bart., F.R.S., 254; 

 Obituary Notice of, 277 ; the .Annual Meeting of the 

 British Medical .Association, 375 ; Early Diagnosis of 

 Tuberculosis by the Ophthalmo-reaction with Tuberculin, 

 A. Calmette, 376 ; Death and Obituary Notice of Dr. 

 W'illiam Thomson, 41S; Suggested Remedy for Sleeping 

 Sickness, James Brand, 474; Some Scientific Centres, X., 

 the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, Prof. Ronald 

 Ross, F.R.S., 519; Medical Education and some of its 

 Problems, 592 ; the Chemical Investigation of Gastric 

 and Intestinal Diseases by the Aid of Test Meals, Dr. 

 Vaughan Harlcy and Dr. Francis W. Goodbody, 634 ; 

 Fleas and Plague, Sir Lauder Brunton, F.R.S., at 

 London School of Tropical Medicine, 648 ; the Extinction 

 of Typhus in Edinburgh, Mr. Balfour, 668; Sodium 

 .Anilarsenite (.Atoxyl) in Syphilis, Paul Salmon, 680 



Mees (Dr. C. E. Kenneth), Investigations on the Theory 

 of the Photographic Process, 468 



Melbourne Observatory, the, P. Baracchi, 229 



Meldola (Prof. Raphael, F.R.S.), the Position and Pros- 

 pects of Chemical Research in Great Britain, Address at 

 Chemical Society, 231 ; Fecundity of the Leopard Moth, 

 382 



Mellish (Mr.), a New Comet, 624 



Mellish, Comet 1907&, Dr. Stromgren, 17 ; Prof. Berberich, 

 65 



Mellish 's Comet 1907^, Prof. E. Hartwig, 647, 671 ; Miss 

 Lamson. 647 ; Prof. Becker, 671 ; J. Guillaume, 679 



Melotte (Mr.), Daniel's Comet igoyd, 503 ; Photographs 

 of Phoebe, 555 



Memorials, Preservation of, in America, 522 



Memories of the Months, the Right Hon. Sir Herbert Max- 

 well, Bart., F.R.S., 7 



Mendelian Phenomena, Interpretation of. Dr. G. Arch- 

 dall Reid, 566, 662 ; R. II. Lock, 616 



Mendelism, R. C. Punnett, 73 



Mcndelism and Biometry, G. Udny Yule, 152 ; the Rc- 

 vievi/er, 152 



Mendenhall (Prof. C. E.), Melting Points of Rhodium and 

 Iridium, 475 



Mcnschen, Handatlas der Entwicklungsgeschichte des, Prof. 

 Julius Kollmann, 49 



.Mcntone, When the Reindeer Lived at, William Wright, 

 590 



.Mercalli (G.), I \ ulcani Attivi della Terra, Morfologia— 

 Dinamismo — Prodotti Distribuzione Geografica-Cause, 291 



Mercury, the Transit of, W. T. Lynn, 671 



Mercury, Transit of, across the Sun's Disc, November 

 13-14, 1907, Dr. A. M. W. Downing, F.R.S., 661 



Merlin (E.), les Observatoircs astronomiques et les 

 Astronomes, 660 



-Merrill (E. D.), Centrolepis in the Philippines, 646 



.Merrill (Mr.), the Meteorite from Rich Mountain, North 

 Carolina, 65 



Mesozoic .Age, the Flowering Plants of the, in the Light 

 of Recent Discoveries, Dr. D. H. Scott, F.R.S., at Royal 

 Microscopical Society, 113 



Messier 92, the Proper Motions of Stars in the Cluster, 

 Dr. K. Bohlin, 625 ; Prof. Barnard, 625 



Metallurgy : Die Eisenindustrie, Oskar Simmersbeck, 6 : 

 the McMurtry-Rogers Process for Desulphurising Copper 

 Ores and Matte, T. C. Cloud, 47; Institution of Mining 

 and Metallurgy, 47, 143 ; the Distribution of Sulphur 

 in Metal Ingot Moulds, J. Henderson, 66; on Sentinel 

 Pyrometers and their .Application to the .Annealing. 

 Hardening, and General Heat Treatment of Tool Steel, 

 H. Brearley and F. C. Moorwood, 66; Cast Iron, W. H. 

 Hatfield, 66 ; Steels made by different Processes, F. W. 

 Harbord, 06 ; the -Ageing- of Mild Steel, C. E. Stromeyer, 

 bb ; Non-metallic Impurities in Steel, E. F. Law, 67 ; 

 Use of Zinc in Assaying Copper Matte, Donald M. Levy. 

 143 ; Smelting of Canadian Ores in a Specially Designed 

 Electric Furnace, Dr. P. H^roult, 184 ; Death and 

 Obituary Notice of Thomas Andrews, F.R.S., 203 ; 

 Changes in Structure in Iron and Steel, Dr. William 

 Campbell, 279 ; Tantalum Steels, L^on Guillet, 376 ; 

 Boron Steels, Dr. L. Guillet, 388 ; General Foundry 

 Practice, A. McWilliam and P. Longmuir, 411 ; the 

 Hard and Soft States in Ductile Metals, G. T. Beilby, 

 F.R.S., at Royal Society, 572, Progress made in Austrian 

 Iron. Industry, W. Kestranck, 581; Steel and Meteoric 

 Iron, Prof. F. Berwerth, 5S1 ; Case-hardening, G. Shaw 

 Scott, 581 ; Hardened Steels, Percy Longmuir, 582 ; a 

 New Blue-black Paint as a Protective Covering for Iron, 

 F. J. R. Carulla, 582 ; Special Iron Castings, L^on 

 Guillet, 584 ; the Annealing of Copper, with Special 

 Reference to Dilatation, Prof. T. Turner and D. M 

 Levy, 631 



Metcalf (Joel), the Variability of Asteroids, 207; a Quickly 

 Changing Variable Star, 337 



Meteorology : Climatology of the United States, A. J. 

 Henry, 11; Royal Meteorological Society, 22, 142, 263; 

 Phenomenal Rainfall in Suva, Fiji, August 8, 1906, 

 R. L. Holmes, 22 ; Temperature around the British 

 Islands in Relation to the Gulf Stream, R. Strachan, 22 ; 

 Gesammelte Abhandlungen aus den Gebietcn der Meteor- 

 ologie und des Erdmagnetismus, Wilhelm von Bezold, 

 Dr. Charles Chree, F.R.S., 28; Death of Dr. Alexander 

 Buchan, F.R.S., 61 ; Obituarv Notice of. Dr. W. N. 

 Shaw, F.R.S., 83 ; Danish Meteorological Institute's 

 Year-book, the Winter 1905-6, 64 ; the Coats Observ- 

 atory, Paisley. Rev. A. Henderson, 68 ; the Cold Weather 

 of May, 85 ;'lonisation of the Air at the Santis Observ- 

 atorv, Switzerland, Dr. V. Conrad, 86 ; the Inversion 

 of Temperature at the Height of 8-13 Kilometres, Dr. 

 A. de Quervain, 87; Storm Warnings from Zi-ka-wei, 

 near Shanghai, 87; Dr. Hann's Summary of Twenty 

 Years' Results at the Sonnblick Observatory. 109 ; Report 

 of the Committee on the Hong Kong Typhoon of Sep- 

 tember iS. 1906, 109; Opening of International Labor- 

 atory for Alpine Investigations at the Col d'Olen, Monte 

 Rosa, 132 ; the Standard Rain Gauge, Dr. Mill, 142 ; 



