Index 



its Derivatives. 214; the Structure of Carbonium Salts, 

 2S7 

 Baker (Dr. H. B., F.R.S.), the Scholarship System, 506 

 Baker (Julian), the Causes of the Quality Strength in 



Wheaten Flour, 484 

 Baker tW- M-). ^ First Geometry, 31 

 Balcells (M.). Solar Activity and Terrestrial Phenomena, 



555 

 Balfour (Mr.), the Extinction of Typhus in Edinburgh, 668 

 Ball (R. S.), Governing of Hydraulic Turbines, 487 

 Ballistics : Variation of the Pressure developed during the 

 Explosion of Cordite in Closed Vessels, Prof. C. H. 

 Lees, F.R.S., and J. E. Pctavel, 142 ; Anniversary of 

 the Birth of Benjamin Robins, F.R.S., 335 

 Ballooning : Ballooning as a Sport, Major B. Baden- 

 Powell, 125 ; the heating of a Balloon Wire by Light- 

 ning, E. Gold, 413 

 Baly (E. C. C), Relation between Absorption Spectra and 

 Chemical Constitution, part vii.. Pyridine and some of 

 its Derivatives, 214; the Relation between .Absorption 

 Spectra and Chemical Constitution, part viii., the 

 Phenylhydrazones and Osazones of a-Diketones, 2S7 

 Baracchi (P.), the Melbourne Observatory, 229 

 Barber (C. A.), Parasitic Trees of Southern India, 310 

 Barbier (Ph.), Synthesis of an Aldehyde possessing the 



Odour of Violets, <yc/o-Lemonylidene-propenol, 239 

 Barcroft (J.), Physiology at the British Association, 533 ; 



tile Value of Perfusions, 534 

 Barker (Ernest), Introduction h. I'Histoire romaine, Basile 



Modestov, 121 

 Barker (J. P.), Tidal Observations and Levelling Oper- 

 ations, 594 

 Barker (T. V.), Faceted Beads of Zinc, 215 

 Barkla (Dr. Charles G.), the Nature of X-rays, 661 

 Barlow (W.), Relation between the Crystalline Form and 

 the Chemical Constitution of Simple Inorganic Sub- 

 stances, 142 

 Barlow (\V. M.), on Valency, 482 



Barnard (Prof.), a Nebulous Background in Taurus, 65 ; 

 the White Spot on Jupiter's Third Satellite, 65 ; Nova T 

 Corona of i866, 185 ; Possible Changes in the " Owl " 

 Nebula (M. 97), 389 ; a Suspected Large Proper Motion, 

 451 ; the Proper Motions of Stars in the Cluster 

 Messier 92, 625 

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

 Barnes (Prof. H. T.), the Ice Problem in Engineering 



Work in Canada, 487 

 Barratt (Dr. J. O. Wakelin), on Mitosis in Proliferating 



Epithelium, 214 

 Barrowcliff (M.), Constituents of the Essrntial Oil of 



American Pennyroyal, 47 

 Barus (Prof. Carl), the Condensation of Vapour as induced 



by Nuclei and Ions, 335 

 Bashore (Dr. H. B.), Outlines of Practical Sanitation, 125 

 Bastian (Dr. H. Charlton, F.R.S.), the Evolution of Life, 



'. 54 

 Bateman (H.), on Essentially Double Integrals and the 

 Part which they Play in the Theory of Integral Equa- 

 tions, 458 

 Baubigny (H.), Detection of Calcium, 216 

 Baud (E.), Ortho- and Pyro-arsenic .Acids. 376 

 Baudouin (Dr.), Orientation of Megaliths in Brittany, 649 

 Bauerman (Prof. H.), the Erzberg of Eisenerz, 581 

 Baumgartel (Dr. Phil. B.), Oberharzer Gangbildcr, 444 

 Bauschinger (Prof.), Recentlv Discovered Minor Planets, 



648 

 Baxandall (F. E.), September Meteors, f;8o 

 Bayard (F. C), Weather and Crops, 1891-1906, 263 

 Bayley (R. Child), Use of the Word "Telephotography," 



546 

 Bean (W. J.), the Flowering of Bamboos, 449; the Cricket- 

 bat Willow, 578 

 Beaulard (F.), the Dielectric Constant of Ice and of Water 



in the Neichbourhood of 0° C, 47 

 Beaumont (Worby). Origin and Production of Corrugation 



of Tramway Rails. 486 

 Beavan (Arthur H.), Birds I have Known. Supp. to 



October 10, vi 

 Beck (Messrs. R. and J.). New Diffraction Wave-length 



Spectroscope, 1:9 

 Becker (Prof.), Comet Arcllish 1907c 671 



Becquerel (Jean), Displacement of the Absorption Bands 

 of Crystals under the Action of Variations of Tempera- 

 ture, 215; Influence of Temperature on the Absorption of 

 Solids, 671 



Bedford (the Duke of, K.G.), Sixth Report of the Woburn 

 Experimental Fruit Farm, 231 



Bedson (Prof. Phillips), Apparatus for Studying the In- 

 flammability of Mixtures of Coal Dust and Air 483 



Beebe (C. William), the Bird, its Forms and Functions 489 



Bees' Stings and Rheumatism. Dr. E. W. Ainley Walker, 

 56S 



Behn (Ulrich), the Flame Tube, a Simple Apparatus Cap- 

 able of indicating very small Changes of Air-pressure so 



Beilby (G. T., F.R.S.), the Hard and Soft States in Duitile 

 Metals, Paper Read at Royal Society, 572 



Belfast, New Laboratories at Queen's College, 550 



Bell (Gertrude Lowthian), thc~Desert and the Sown, 272 



Benjamin (Prof. Charles H.), Machine Design, 564 



Bennett (F. J.), Ightham, the Story of a Kentish Village 

 and its Surroundings, 171 



Benoit (R.), New Determination of the Metre in Terms ol 

 Lengths of Luminous Waves, 119 



Benson (Dr. M.), Miadesmia memhranacea, Bertrand, a 

 New PalcEozoic Lycopod with a Seed-like Structure, 342 



Bentley (B. H.), Cell-division in Merismopedia, 558 



Bentley (R.), Weather in War Time, 160 



Berberich (Prof.), Comet 1907;) (Mellish), 65 ; Minor 

 Planets discovered during 1906, 162 



Berg (L.), Loaches and Sticklebats of Eastern Asia, 227 



Bergen (J. M.), Principles of Botany, 124 



Bergonid (J.), High-frequency Currents without Action on 

 .Arterial Pressure, 560 



Bernard (A.), Spectrum of the Comet 1907^, 488; Daniel's 

 Comet iqoyd, 503 



Bernard (H. M.), Catalogue of the Madreporarian Corals 

 in the British Museum (Natural History), 146 



Bernese Oberland, the, H. Diibi, 246 



Bernoulli (.A. L.), Determinations of the Specific Heat of a 

 Large Number of Substances between the Temperatures 

 — 185° C. and 4-20° C, 257 



Bernthsen (A.), a Text-book of Organic Chemistry, 98 



Berry (Prof. R. J. A.), Photograph of an .Aged Half-caste 

 Tasmanian Woman, 622 



Berthelot (Daniel), the Atomic Weight of Hydrogen, 264; 

 Scale of Molecular Weights of (jases, 312 ; Compressi- 

 bility of Gases in the Neighbourhood of Atmospheric 

 Pressure, 376 



Berthelot (M.), Traits pratique de I'Analyse des Gaz, 490 



Bertrand (Gabriel), Existence of a Tyrosinase in Wheaten 

 Bran, 192 



Berwerth (Prof. F.). Steel and Meteoric Iron, 581 



Betham (G. K.), Silting up of Karachi Harbour, 134 



Bezold (Wilhelm von), Gesammelte Abhandlungen aus den 

 Gebieten der Meteorologie und des Erdmagnetismus, 28 



Bicentenary of Linnseus, Celebration of the, 162 



Bidwell (Dr. Shelford, F.R.S.), Practical Telephotography, 

 444; Use of the Word "Telephotography," ^46 



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



Biesbroeck (Herr van). Comet 1907^ (Daniel), 280 



Big Game Preservation, Sir H. H. Johnstone, G.C.M.G., 

 33 



Bigourdan (G.), Earthquakes of April 15, 18, and 19, 1907, 

 Recorded at Paris, 23 



Biles (Prof. J. H.), the Steam Turbine as applied to Marine 

 Purposes, ^3 



Binet (.Alfred), the International Scientific Series, the Mind 

 and the Brain, 195 



Bingham (Lieut. -Colonel C. T.), the Fauna of British 

 India, including Ceylon and Burma, Butterflies, 57 



Biology : the Evolution of Life, Dr. H. Charlton Bastian, 

 F.R.S., I. 54; the Nature and Origin of Life in the 

 Light of New Knowledge, Prof. Felix Le Dantec, 1 : 

 Significance of Symbiotic Corpuscles in the Lower 

 Animals, Dr. F. W. Gamble and Dr. F. Keeble. 22 ; 

 the so-called Heterochromosomes in Insects, Dr. N. AL 

 Stevens. 13; ; an Investigation of Evolution in Chryso- 

 melid Beetles of the Genus Leptinotarsa. William 

 Lawrence Tower, 139 : Fluorine in the Shells of Non- 

 Marine Molluscs. P. Carles, 167 : Nuclear Changes in 

 the Development of the Embrvo-sac of Pepcromia 

 hispidula. Prof. D. S. Johnson, i.S4 : the Hypertensive 



