INDEX. 



ABEii (Prof. C), Progress of Science as Illustrated by the 

 Development of Meteorology, 372 



Abegg (Prof. R.), the Electrolytic Dissociation Theory, 

 3I50 ; on the Nature of lonisation, 460; on Valency, 4S2 



Aberdeen : Proceedings of the Anatomical and Anthropo- 

 logical Society of the University of Aberdeen, 112; Uni- 

 versity of Aberdeen, Studies in Pathology, 112 



Aboriginal Tribes of New South Wales and Victoria, 

 Ethnological Notes on the, R. H. Mathews, 31 ; North- 

 cote W. Thomas, 32 



Abraham (Henri), the Acoustic Efficiency of the Telephone, 

 47; the Absolute Sensibility of the Ear, 119; Apparatus 

 for the Study of Telephonic Currents, 167 



Abraham (Dr. M.), Theorie der Elektrizitat, 377 



Abraxas grossiilariata, Inheritance and Sex in, I^. Don- 

 caster, 248 



Academies, International Association of, 105, 177 



Acoustics : the Acoustic Efficiency of the Telephone, Henri 

 Abraham, 47 ; the Absolute Sensibility of the Ear, Henri 

 -Abraham, 119 



Adams (Prof. Frant: D., F.R.S.), Effect of Pressure on 

 the Radiation from Radium, 269 



Adriatic, the Shores of the, the Italian Side, F. Hamilton 

 Jackson, Prof G. H. Bryan, F.R.S., Supp. to October 

 10, viii 



Adulteration. Food Inspection and, Sir James Crichton 

 Browne, C. Simmonds, 547 



Advancement of Science, the. Dr. VV. N. Shaw, F.R.S., 

 613 



Adventures in Great Forests, H. W. G. Hyrst, 635 



Aeronautics : Aeroplanes, W. R. Turnbull, 16 ; Pocket- 

 book of Aeronautics, Hermann W. L. Moedebeck and 

 O. Chanute, 100 ; International Investigation of the 

 Upper Air, Charles J. B. Cave, 101 ; Aerial Loco- 

 motion. 102 ; the Wellman .Arctic Expedition, 107 ; Re- 

 turn of the Wellman Expedition, 523 ; Ballooning as a 

 Sport, Major B. Baden-Powell. 121; ; Flying Machines, 

 Past, Present, and Future, Alfred W. Marshall and 

 Henry Greenly, 125 ; Account of Captive Balloon Struck 

 by Lightning at Farnborough on April 11, Colonel J. E. 

 Capper. 142 ; Proposed Scientific Kites and other .Aero- 

 nautical Experimints on July i. 203 ; the Spontaneous 

 Combustion of Balloons at Ordinary Atmospheric Pres- 

 sure, W. de Fonvielle. 288 ; Results of the Observations 

 made in Unmanned Balloons in Bavaria, 300 ; Balloon 

 and Kite Ascents, 372 ; Trials of British Military .Air- 

 ship. 400 : the British Military Airship, 50^ : Inter- 

 national Balloon Race, ,i;23 : the International Balloon 

 Race of -September 15. 551 ; New Flying .Apparatus, the 

 Gyroplane, Louis Breguet. Jacques Breguet, and Charles 

 Richet. 560 ; L'pper .Air Research in Egypt, B. F. E. 

 Keeling. 637 ; the Winner of the International Balloon 

 Race. Herr Erbsloh. fi6S 



^ther : the Structure of the ^ther. Prof- O. W- Richard- 

 son. 78; Sir Oliver Lodge. F-R.S.. 126; Dr. C. V. 

 Burton. 150; E. Cunningham. 222; the ^ther and 

 Absolute Motion, Prof. J. Larmor, F.R-S., 269; Dr. 

 C. V. Burton, 270; the Sun's Motion with Respect to 

 the ^ther. Dr. C. V. Burton. 340 : a Theory of the 

 Nature of ^ther and of its Place in the Universe, Dr. 

 Hugh Woods, 410 



Africa : Fertility of Colonial Soils as influenced by the 

 Geological Conditions. C. F. Juritz, 95 ; South African 

 Philosophical Society. 95 ; the Stone Implements of 



South -Africa, J. P. Johnsoji, 99; a New Trypanosome, 

 T. soudaiicnsL', A. Lavcran, 37(1 ; Grasses of British 

 Somaliland, Dr. O. Stapf, 3S9 ; a Reflected Mirage, 

 Dr. C. G. Knott, 407; the South African -Association, 

 424 ; New Rubber Plant Discovered in Portuguese West 

 -Africa, 449 ; Origin of the Gold in the Witwatersrand 

 Banket, Prof- J. W. Gregory, 501 ; Eleventh Annual 

 Report of the Geological Commission of the Colony of 

 the Cape of Good Hope, 1906, Dr- F- H- Hatch, 664; 

 Geological -Map of the Colony of the Cape of Good 

 Hope, Dr- F- H. Hatch, 064 ; Transactions of the Geo- 

 logical Society of South -Africa, Dr- F. H. Hatch, 664 

 .Agassiz (Louis), Reminiscences of, C. W. Eliot, 387 

 -Agriculture ; Fungi infesting Tea Bushes, T. Petch, 39 ; 

 Fertility of Colonial Soils as influenced by the Geological 

 Conditions, C. F. Juritz, 95 ; Analysis of the Principal 

 Indian Oil Seeds, Dr. J. W. Leather, 159; Sugar-cane 

 Experiments in the Leeward Islands, Dr. F- Watts, 159 ; 

 the Cultivation of New Seedling Sugar Canes, 22S ; 

 Fungus Maladies of the Sugar Cane, N. A- Cobb, 

 Fred. V. Theobald, 230 ; the Rind Disease of the Sugar 

 Cane caused by the Fungus Melanconium sacchari, 

 L. Lewton-Brain, 256 ; Practical Agricultural Chemistry, 

 F. D. S. Robertson, 240; le Transformisme appliqu^ k 

 r.Agriculture, Prof. J. Constantin, 266; American Goose- 

 berry Mildew, E. S. Salmon, 278; Cyclopedia of 

 American Agriculture, 315 ; Field Operations of the 

 Bureau of Soils, 1904, 34K ; the Transvaal Department 

 of Agriculture, 425 ; Action of Nitric Acid in Neutral- 

 ising -Alkaline Soil, R. S. Symmonds, 512 ; the More 

 Important Insects Injurious to Indian -Agriculture, R. 

 Maxwell-Lefroy, 588; Death of Prof. W. O. Atwater, 

 .^qs ; the \'irgin Soils of the New North-west .America. 

 F. T. Shutt. 597; the " Red Rust" of Tea, Dr. H. H- 

 Mann and C. M. Hutchinson, 623 ; Death and Obituary 

 , Notice of W. R. Buttenshaw, 644 ; Economic Biology 

 and Agriculture, 650 ; Insect Pests, F. V. Theobald, 

 650 ; Justus von Liebig und Emil Louis Ferdinand 

 Giissefeld, Briefwechsel, 1862-1866, 658 ; Lese- und 

 Lehrbuch fiir landlich-gewerbliche Fortbildungsschulen, 

 H. Gehrig, Dr. -A. Helmkampf, Dr. Th. Krausbauer, 

 and Fr. Stillcke, 660 ; Winter Rot of Potatoes, Nectria 

 solaiii, 669 ; Black Rot of Cabbage, Pseudomonas 

 cainpcslris, 669 ; Farm Live Stock of Great Britain, 

 Robert Wallace, Supp. to October 10, ix 

 Air, Absorption of the, for Light of Short Wave-lengths, 



Prof. Theodore Lyman. 222 

 Air Currents and the Laws of Ventilation, Dr. W. N- 



Shaw, F.R.S., 442 

 Aitken (Prof.). .Another New Comet, i()oyd, 185 

 d'Albe (E. E. Fournier), Two New Worlds, 633 

 Albrecht (Prof. Th.l, the Variation of the Pole, 337 

 -Alcohol, Denatured or Industrial, Rufus Frost Herrick, 



Supp. to October 10, iii 

 Alcoholism : the Psychology of -Alcoholism, George B. 

 Cuttcn, 97; the Drink Problem in its Medico-Sociological 

 Aspects, 97 

 .Al'-yonarinns, an .Account of the, collected by the Royal 

 Indian Marine Survey Ship Ii!vesti,^ator in the Indian 

 Ocean, J. .Arthur Thomson and W. D. Henderson, 3 

 Aldrovandi Celebrations at Bologna, the, 282 

 Allen (A. H-), Commercial Organic Analysis, 467 

 Allen (P-), Pvrmont Bridge, Svdnev, New South Wales. 

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