Index 



xli 



ihe Factors which Induce Sleep, 298 ; Grandeur et 

 Decadence des Rayons-N, 579 



I'iette (Edouard), D^placement des Glaces polaires et 

 grandes Extensions des Glaciers, 627 



7 Piscium, Showers from near ;8 and, \V. F. Denning, 

 639 



ritt-Kivers (Lieut. -General A. Lane-Fox), the Evolution of 

 Culture and other Essays, 169 



I'lague : Plague Prevention in India, Prof. Ronald Ross, 

 F.R.S., 518; Studies in the Bacteriology and Etiology 

 of Oriental Plague, Dr. E. Klein, F.R.S., Prof. R. T. 

 Hewlett, 609 ; Fleas and Plague, Sir Lauder Brunton, 

 F.R.S., at London School of Tropical Medicine, 648 



Planets : Positions of Phcebe, 1898-1904, 17 ; Photographs 

 of Phoebe, Mr. Melotte, 555 ; the Ring of Minor Planets, 

 Dr. P. Stroobant, 17; New Elements of Jupiter's Seventh 

 Satellite, Dr. F. E. Ross, 8g ; a Third Asteroid near 

 Jupiter's Orbit, Vladimir Heinrich, 161 ; Observa- 

 tions of Jupiter, 1906-7, Rev. T. E. R. Phillips, 390; 

 the Simultaneous Invisibility of Jupiter's Satellites, M. 

 Flammarion, 451 ; the Red Spot on Jupiter, Stanley 

 Williams, 625; Mars, iii ; Prof. Lowell, 161, 422; Mr. 

 Slipher, 374 ; Prof. Newcomb, 374 ; Mars in 1907, Prof. 

 Percival Lowell, 446 ; Mars, the Duplication of the Solis 

 Lacus, Prof. Lowell, 258; Further Observations of 

 Mars, M. Jarry-Desloges and G. Fournier, 451 ; la 

 Question des petites Plan^tes, M. J. Mascart, 105; 

 Minor Planets discovered during 1906, Prof. Berberich, 

 162 ; Recently discovered Minor Planets, Prof. Bausch- 

 inger, 648; the Spectrum of Saturn, V. M. Slipher, 162; 

 the Planet Saturn, W. F. Denning, 187 ; Transits of 

 Saturn's Satellite Titan and Shadow, Hermann Struve, 

 258 ; Observations of Planets, MM. Hansky and 

 .Steftinik, 229 : Atmospheric Currents in Celestial Bodies, 

 Jos^ Comas Sola, 229 ; Transit of Mercury across the 

 Sun's Disc, November 13-14, 1907, Dr. A. M. W. 

 Downing, F.R.S., 661 ; the Transit of Mercury, W. T. 

 Lynn, 671 ; see also Astronomy 



Plant Physiology : die Reizleitungsvorgange bei den 

 Pflanzen, Dr. H. Fitting, 221 ; Parasitism of Botrytis, 

 F. T. Brooks, 311 ; Physiology of Plants in the Tropics, 

 A. M. Smith, 311 



Plant Roots, Excretion from. Dr. J. Walter Leather, 589 



Plants : the Flowering Plants of the Mesozoic Age in the 

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

 at Royal Microscopical Society, 113; Flowers and Plants 

 for Designers and Schools, Henry Irving and E. F. 

 ■ Strange, Walter Crane, 194 ; le Transformisme appliqu^ 

 k I'Agriculture, Prof. J. Constantin, 266 



Plaskett (J. S.), the Orbit of a Draconis, 41 ; the Orbit of 

 « Orionis, 281 



Playfair (G. L.), New or Little-known Desmids found in 

 New South Wales, 240 



Pleochroic Halos, Prof. J. Joly, F.R.S., 71, 589 



Plimmer (H. G.), Experimental Treatment of Trypano- 

 somiasis in Rats, 607 



Plimmer (R. H. Aders), Practical Physiological Chemistry, 

 123 



Pocock (R. I.), Monkeys of the Genus Cercopithecus, 286; 

 some .African Species of Felis, 286 ; the Origin of the 

 Domestic Striped Tabby Cat, 414 



Poetry, Science and, C. L. Barnes, 191 



Pole, 'the Variation of the. Prof. Th. Albrecht, 337 



Pollok (Dr. James H.), the Quantitative Spectra of 

 Barium, Strontium, Calcium, Magnesium, Potassium, 

 and Sodium, 71 



Pope (Prof.), on Valency, 482 



Pope (W. J.), Trimethylplatinimethyl Hydroxide and its 

 Salts, 22 ; Relation between the Crystalline Form and 

 the Chemical Constitution of Simple Inorganic Sub- 

 stances, 142 



Population and Progress, Montague Crackanthorpe, 491 



Porter (A. B.), to Deduce the Polar from the Intrinsic 

 Equation, 639 



Porter (Prof. ' Alfred W.), Decomposition of Radium 

 Bromide, 151 ; Osmotic Pressure of Compressible Solu- 

 tions of anv Decree of Concentration, 487 



Porter (Dr. ' T. C). Report of Private Expedition to 

 Philippevillc, Algeria, to view the Total Eclipse of the 

 Sun on August 30, 1905, 213 



Portland Cement, its Composition, Raw Materials, Manu- 

 facture, Testing, and Analysis, Richard K. Meade, 123 



Potts (F. A.), Sex in Crustacea and the Nature of 

 Hermaphroditism, 532 



Poulton (Prof. E. B., F.R.S.), the Female Forms of the 

 .African Papilio dardanus, 60 



Poultry Conference at Reading, National, 283 



Power (F. B.), Homo-eriodictyol, 71 



Pozzi-Escot (Em.), the Toxins and Venoms and their Anti- 

 bodies, 292 ; Method for the Qualitative Detection of 

 Nickel, 464 



Prague, Astronomical Observations in, igoo-1904, 81 



Preece (Sir William), on the Pupin Mode of working 

 Trunk Telephone Lines, 486 ; Developments in Electric 

 Incandescent Lamps, 486 



" Prehistoric " Congress of France, the Third, 649 



Preservation of Memorials in America, 522 



Pressure, Effect of, on the Radiation from Radium, Prof. 

 Arthur Schuster, F.R.S., 269; Prof. A. S. Eve and 

 Prof. Frank D. Adams, F.R.S., 269 



Price (David T.), a Ready Aid to distinguish the 

 Commoner Wild Birds of Great Britain, Supp. to 

 October 10, vi 



Probability, the Foundation of Eugenics, Francis Galton, 



■58 

 Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society, 195 

 Process, the Half-tone, Julius Verfasser, 587 

 Progress, Population and, Montague Crackanthorpe, 491 

 Progress of Science in the Century, Prof. J. Arthur Thom- 

 son, Prof. G. H. Bryan, F.R.S., Td 

 Prominence Observations, Italian, 1877-1883, 17 

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



185 



Protheroe (Ernest), the Dominion' of Man, 219 



Psychology: Hypnotism and Suggestion, Edwin Ash, 30; 

 the Psychology of Alcoholism, George B. Cutten, 97 ; 

 the Drink Problem in its Medico-sociological Aspects, 

 97; Essay on the Creative Imagination, Th. Ribot, 125, 

 195 ; the' International Scientific Series, the Mind and 

 the Brain, Alfred Binet, 195 ; Structure and Growth of 

 the Mind, W. Mitchell, 195 ; Psychology— General Intro- 

 duction, Dr. C. H. Judd, 540; the Major Symptoms of 

 Hysteria, Dr. Pierre Janet, 540 



Ptolemaus oder Kopernikus? Eine Studie iiber die Bewe- 

 gung der Erde und Uber den Begriff der Bewegung, 

 Dr. Karl Neisser, 381 



Puiseux (M.), the Question of the Origin of the Lunar 

 Seas, 215 



Pulkowa Eclipse Expedition to Turkestan, the, January, 

 1907, 598 



Pulsation of the Earth, the Eruption of Krakatoa and the. 

 Prof. H. Nagaoka, 89 



Punnett (R. C), Mendelism, 73 ; Genetics, 493 ; the 

 Physical Basis of Inheritance, 531; the Experimental 

 Stiidv of Heredity, 531 , . 



Purvis'(J. E.), Influence of a Strong Magnetic Field on the 

 Spark Spectra of Lead, Tin, Antimony, Bismuth, and 

 Gold, 166 ,. , 



Pycraft (W. P.), Osteology of the Oligomyodian and 

 'Diacromyodian Passeres, 21 ; Colouring of the Interior 

 of the Mouths of Nestling Perching-birds, 622 



Pyman (F. L.), Calmatambin, a New Glucoside, 237 



Ouadratic Forms and their Classification by Means of 

 " Invariant Factors, Prof. T. J. I'A. Bromwich, F.R.S., 



" Quaternary " Period, the. Dr. John W. Evans, 639, 663 ; 



Dr. William Wright, 639 

 Ouenisset (M.), Daniel's Comet, i907<J. 422. 5^6 

 Quervain (Dr. A. de), the Inversion of Temperature at 



the Height of 8-13 Kilometres, 87 



Radial Velocities of e and C Cvfini, Prof. Kustner, 161 

 Radiant Point of the Bielids, the. Dr. Karl Bohlin, 65 

 Radiation of Meteors. W. F. Denning, 469 

 Radiography: Effect of High Temperatures on Radium 



