Index 



Nansen (Dr. Fridtjof, G.C.V.O.), North Polar Prob- 

 lems, Lecture at the Royal Geographical Society, is 



Natal Observatory, the, iii 



National Physical Laboratory Report for the Year igob, 

 the, 200 



National Poultry Conference at Reading, 283 



Natural History : Memories of the Months, the Right Hoii. 

 Sir Herbert Maxwell, Bart., F.R.S., 7; Douglas English 

 Nature Books, No. i, One Hundred Photographs trom 

 Life of the Shrew-mouse, the Dormouse, the House- 

 mouse, the Field-mouse, the Meadow-mouse, and the 

 Harvest-mouse, Douglas English, 7; No. 2, One Hun- 

 dred Photographs of Bird Lilc, K. B. Lodge, 7 ; Winter 

 Habits of Cave-haunting Bats, T. A. Coward, 22 ; 

 Fauna of Certain Brackish Pools in the Delta of the 

 Ganges, Dr. N. Annandale, 24; Practical Wildfowling, 

 \V. J. Fallon, O. V. Aplin, 30; Big Game Preservation, 

 Sir H. H. Johnstone, G.C.M.G., 33 ; Linnean Society, 

 71, n8, 237, 287; .Anniversary Meeting of the Linnean 

 Society, iii; Morale de la Nature, M. Deshumbert, 77; 

 an Italian Monument to Linnaeus at the end ot the 

 Eighteenth Century, Prof. Italo Giglioli, 82 ; Evolution 

 of the Colour-pattern on the Shells of South African 

 I-and Tortoises, Dr. J. E. Duerden, 108; .Annual Report 

 of the Indian Museum for 1905-6, 134; the Wit of the 

 Wild, E. Ingersoll, 172 ; Mounted Skin of a Male Okapi, 

 182 ; Model of the Complete Skeleton of the Marsupial 

 Diprotodon, E. C. Stirling, 1S2 ; Obituary Notice of 

 .Marshall Field, 227 ; Transactions of the Natural History 

 Society of Northumberland, Durham, and Newcastle- 

 upon-Tyne, 211 ; New South Wales Linnean Society, 239, 

 264, 408, 536, 608 ; the Guiana Wilderness, Prof. A. 

 Heilprin, 255 ; the .Mdrovandi Celebrations at Bologna, 

 282 ; " Mephistopheles," the Autobiography and Adven- 

 tures of a Tabby Cat, Charles Yates Stephenson, 292 ; 

 an Outline of the Natural History of our Shores, J. 

 Sinel, 347 ; the Dog's Sense of Direction of Sound, F. C. 

 Constable, 349 ; Reminiscences of Louis Agassiz, C. W. 

 Eliot, 387 ; Recent Hunting Trips in British North 

 America, F. C. Selous, 415 ; Game and Game Coverts, 

 John Simpson, 415 ; How to Fish : a Treatise on Trout 

 and Trout-fishing, W. E. Hodgson, 415 ; European 

 Animals, their Geological History and Geographical Dis- 

 tribution, R. F. Scharff, 441 ; Newly-born Hippopotamus 

 fed by Goats, E. L. Trouessart, 488 ; the Garden 

 Anthology, 492 ; the Voice of the Sea, 492 ; the Wayfarer, 

 492 ; Pictures from Nature's Garden, Stories from Life 

 in Wood and Field, H. W. Shepheard Walwyn, 517; 

 Sensibility of Ants to Changes of Temperature and to the 

 Ultra-violet Rays, O. C. Silverlock, 524 ; the North 

 American Short-tailed Shrew-mouse, A. F. Shull, 524 ; 

 Memory in Convolula roscoffensis, Louis Martin, 584 ; 

 the Wild Sports and Natural History of the Highlands, 

 Charles St. John, 585 ; Apiis cancriformis in Great 

 Britain, Robert Gurney, 589 ; Why Lizards and Snakes 

 Inflate the Head, &c., Dr. H. L. Bruner, 596; Wild Life 

 in .Australia, W. H. D. le Souef, 635 ; the Life-story of 

 a Squirrel, T. C. Bridges, 635 ; Adventures in the Great 

 Forests, H. W. G. Hyrst, 635 ; Heroes of Pioneering, 

 E. Sanderson, 635 ; the Woodlandcrs and Field Folk : 

 Sketches of Wild Life in Britain, John Watson and 

 Blanche Winder, supp. to October 10, v 



Nature, the Study and .Appreciation of, Lord .Avebury, 15 ; 



Nature-drawing Charts, Blackie's, loo 



Nature's Craftsmen, Popular Studies of Ants and Other 

 Insects, Henry Christopher McCook, 516 



Naval Architecture, the Mauretania, AV. B. Hardy, F.R.S., 

 663 



Navigation, Improved Liquid Compass, Commander Chet- 

 wynd, 58 ; the Lusitania' s Maiden Voyage, 523 ; the 

 Lusitania, 620 



Naville (Dr.), on the Beginnings of Egyptian Civilisation, 

 462 



Naville (Prof. Edouard), on the Beginnings of Iron, 462 



Nebula Region, a Rich, Prof. Max Wolf, 672 



Nebulous Background in Taurus, a. Prof. Barnard, 65 



Ncinia, Denkversuche, O. K. Kremer, 172 



Neisser (Dr. Karl), Ptolemaus oder Kopernikus? Eine 

 Studie uber die Bewegung der Erde und iiber der Begriff 

 der Bewegung, 381 



Nelson (E. M.), Eye-pieces for the Microscope, 263 



Neptune, Report on the Dominion Government E.tpedition 

 to Hudson Bay and the Arctic Islands on board the 

 D.G.S., 1903-1904, A. P. Low, 211 



Nepveu (A.), Reaction of the Tissue of the Iris to Light, 

 120 



Nervous System, the Integrative .Action of the. Dr. C. S. 

 Sherrington, F.R.S., 122 



New South Wales Linnean Society, 239, 264, 40S, 536, 

 60S 



New South Wales Royal Society, 312, 512; Presidential 

 Address at, Prof. T. P. Anderson Stuart, 312 



New South Wales and \'ictoria. Ethnological Notes on 

 the Aboriginal Tribes of, R. H. Mathews, 31 ; North- 

 cote W'. Thomas, 32 



New Zealand, Geological Survey of, 137 ; the Rocks of 

 Cape Colville Peninsula, Auckland, Prof. Sollas, F.R.S., 

 303 ; Australia and New Zealand, Stanford's Compen- 

 dium of Geography and Travel, Prof. J. W. Gregory, 

 F.R.S., Sir John A. Cockburn, K.C.M.G., 441; New 

 Zealand Birds, Jas. Drummond, 638 



Newall (Mr.), Titanium Flutings in the Spectrum of a 

 Orionis, 185 



Newbery (Mr.), Door-step .Art of the West of Scotland, 



463 



Newcomb (Prof.), Mars, 374 



Newton (Prof. Alfred, F.R.S.), Death of, 157; Obituary 

 Notice of, 179 



Newton's Rings in Polarised Light, C. V. Raman, 637; 

 Edwin Edser, 637 



Nicholas (G.), Respiration of the Vegetative Aerial Organs 

 of Vascular Plants, 120 



Nijland (Prof.), the Mira Maximum of 1906-7, 259 



Nodon (Dr. -Albert), Electrical Action of the Sun, 477; 

 Electrical -Action of the Sun and Moon, 560, 580 



Nomenclature of Radio-activitv, the, Norman R. Camp- 

 bell, 638 



Non-polarisation of the Light of Prominences, M. Salet, 

 185 



Nordmayer (P.), Determinations of the Specific Heat of 

 a Large Number of Substances between the Temperatures 

 -185° C. and 4-20 C, 257 



North Polar Problems, Dr'. Fridtjof Nansen, G.C.V.O., 

 at the Royal Geographical Society, 18 



North Sea, ' the Temperature of the, Prof. D'Arcy W. 

 Thompsonj 43 



Northrup (E. F.), Forces exerted by Parts of a Non-Elec- 

 trolytic Liquid carrying an Electric Current on each 

 Other, 579 



Northumberland, Durham, and Newcastle-up-Tyne, Trans- 

 actions of the Natural History Society of, 211 



Novitzkv (.A.), New Silicide of Platinum, 344 



Nunn (Dr. T. Percy), the .Aim and Achievements of 

 Scientific Method, an Epistemological Essay, 443 



Nussac (Louis de), les D(5buts d'un Savant Naturaliste, Le 

 Prince de I'Entomologie, Pierre-.Andri5 Latrielle & Brive 

 de 1762 k 1798, S3 



Obrrharzer Gangbilder, Dr. Phil. B. Baumgiirtel, 444 

 Observatories : the Harvard College Observatory, Prof. 

 E. C. Pickering, 17: the Coats Observatory, Paisley, 

 Rev. A. Henderson, 68; -Astrographic Catalogue Work 

 at the Perth Observatory (W.A.), W. Ernest Cooke, 

 89, 374; the Natal Observatory, 111; Oxford University 

 Observatory, 162 ; the Roval Observatory, Greenwich, 

 163 ; the 'Melbourne Observatory, P. Baracchi, 229 ; 

 the " Annuario " of the Rio de Janeiro Observatory, 

 374 ; the Paris Observatory, Prof. Loewy, 503 ; the 

 Juvi'sy Observatory, 556; the Dominion Observatory, 

 Ottawa 625 ; les Observatoires Astronomiques et les 

 Astrono'mes, P. Stroobant, J. Delvosal, H. Philippot, 

 E. Delporte, and E. Merlin, 660 

 Oceanography : Handbuch der Ozeanographie, Dr. Otto 



Krummel ;'supp. to October 10, x 

 October Meteors, W. F. Denning, 574 

 Odontology, Death of Dr. W. D. Miller. 385 

 Oil Testing, the Laboratory Book of Mineral, James A. 

 i Hicks, 198 . , „, 



Okada (Dr. T.), Occurrence of Fohn WinH= at Wonsan, 

 279 



