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ways, John A. F. Aspinall at Institution of Mechanical 

 Engineers, 260 ; Properties of Doubly-charged Ions, Drs. 

 J. Franck and W. Westphal, 2S7 ; Tantalum and its 

 Industrial Applications, Alex. Siemens at the Royal In- 

 stitution, 290 ; Phenomenon connected with the Discharge 

 of Electricity from Pointed Conductors, with a Note by 

 John Zeleny, H. T. Barnes and A. N. Shaw, 297 ; 

 Theory of the Alternate-current Generator, Prof. Lyle, 

 328 ; Electrons and the Absorption of Light, R. A. 

 Houston, 338 ; Counting of o Particles (Electrically 

 charged Helium Atoms) by Prof. E. Rutherford's Method, 

 T. H. Laby, 348; Electric Splashes on Photographic 

 Plates, A. W. Porter, 348 ; I'ransformers for Single and 

 Multiphase Currents, Prof. Gisbert Kapp, 365 ; Electrical 

 Engineer's Pocket Book, Horatio A. Foster, 365 ; Selec- 

 tive Wireless Telegraphy, Sir Oliver Lodge, F.R.S., 381 ; 

 the Charge of a Negative Ion of a Flame, Georges Moreau, 

 389 ; Measurements of the Brownian Movements in Gases 

 and the Charge of Particles in Suspension, M. de Broglie, 

 389 ; Heavy Electrical Engineering, H. M. Hobart, Prof. 

 Gisbert Kapp, 391 ; Electrical Conductivity of Pure 

 Hexane, G. Jaffe, 409 ; a Bitilar Vibration Galvanometer, 

 W. Duddell, 419 ; the Charges of Chemical Fumes, MM. 

 do Broglie and Brizard, 449 ; New Electrode for Electro- 

 lytic Determination of Metals, J. W. Turrentine, 470; 

 Experiments on the Action of the Silent Electric Dis- 

 charge on Ethylene and Acetylene, Dr. M. Z. Jovitchitch, 

 471 ; the Treatment of N^vus by Electrolysis and Radium 

 Combined, Fouveau de Courmelles, 480; Unites Elec- 

 triques, le Comte de Baillehache, Dr. J. A. Harker, 488; 

 the Theory of Electric Cables and Networks, Dr. Alex- 

 ander Russell, 490 ; Inductance and Resistance in Tele- 

 phone and Other Circuits, Dr. J. W. Nicholson, 509 ; 

 New Wave Detector for Wireless Telegraphy and Tele- 

 phony, G. E. Petit, 509 ; Method of Making Condensers 

 with Pure Paraffin Wax, C. L. B. Shuddemagen, 502 ; 

 the Arthur Wright Electrical Device for Evaluating 

 FormuljE and Solving Equations, Dr. Russell and Arthur 

 Wright, 509 

 Elenkin (A. A.), Algae and Lichens of Lake Selguer, 



501 



Elgie (J. H.), the Recent Lunar Eclipse, June 3, 503 



Ellis (G. W.), Cholesterol in the Animal Organism, Part iv., 

 28 



Elsden (J. V.), Geology of the Neighbourhood of Seaford, 

 419 



Enibrvogeny : Experimental Zoology, Dr. Hans Przibram, 

 Dr. Francis H. A. Marshall, 2 



Embryology : the Development of the Chick, F. R. 

 LiUie, 271 ; Growth of Nerve Fibres, Ross Harri- 

 son, 325 ; Experimental Embryology, J. W. Jenkinson, 

 451 ; " Chemical " Embryos, 507 



Engelmann (Prof. Wilh.), Death of, 375 



Engineering : Mechanical Irrigation Plants, Nile Irrigation 

 .Station at Wadi Kom-Ombo, J. B. van Brussel, 18; 

 Lathe Design for High- and Low-speed Steels, Prof. John 

 r. Nicholson and Dempster Smith, 33 ; Mechanics of 

 Engineering, Prof. Irving P. Church, 33 ; Motor-car 

 Mechanism and Management, W. Poynter Adams, 3? ; 

 Steam Plant Trials at the Greenvale Mill, Littleborough, 

 G. B. Storie, 50 ; Recent Grain-handling and Storing 

 .Appliances at the MilUvaU Docks, Magnus Movvat, 50 ; 

 the Theory and Design of Structures, Ewart S. Andrews, 

 64 ; the Strength of Materials, Prof. Arthur Morley, 64 ; 

 Death and Obituary Notice of Prof. W. C. Kernot, 75 ; 

 Railway Tunnel under River Detroit, 76 ; Foundations 

 of Lofty Buildings in American Practice, Frank W. 

 Skinner, 78 ; the Internal-combustion Engine, H. E. 

 Wimperis, Prof. E. G. Coker, 124; Internal-combustion 

 Engines, their Theory, Construction, and Operation, R, C. 

 Carpenter and H. Diederichs, Prof. E. G. Coker, 124; 

 Construction and Wear of Roads, H. A. R. Mallock, 

 F.R.S., 141 ; Law-s of Heat and Transmission Deduced 

 from Experiment, Prof. J. T. Nicholson at Junior Institu- 

 tion of Engineers, 144 ; New Calcium-carbide Factory at 

 Odda, Norway, 168 ; the Panama Canal, 197 ; Producer 

 Gas for Engines, J. fimerson Dowson, 200,' 232 ; Laboratory 

 Notes on Industrial Water Analysis, a Survey Course for 

 Engineers, Ellen H. Richards, 215; the Plant Necessary 

 in Warship Construction, 227; Oil Motors, G. Lieckfeld, 

 246; the Microscope in Engineering, Walter Roscnhain, 



250 ; Automatic Recorder of Carbon Dioxide, Mr. Rosen- 

 hain, 259 ; Problems Connected with the Construction of 

 Ne-m York Times Building, C. T. Purdy, 259 ; the Elec- 

 trification of Railways, John A. F. Aspinall at Institu- 

 tion of Mechanical Engineers, 260 ; Death and Obituary 

 Notice of Dr. Bindon Blood Stoney, F.R.S., 315; Road 

 Motors and Problems Connected with Them, " James 

 Forrest " Lecture at Institution of Civil Engineers, Colonel 

 H. C. L. Holden, F.R.S., 323 ; Reinforced Concrete as a 

 Suitable Material for Buildings likely to be Subjected to 

 Earthquakes, 353 ; Elastic Limits of Iron and Steel under 

 Cyclical Variations of Stress, L. Bairstow, 359 ; Trans- 

 formers for Single and Multiphase Currents, Prof. Gis- 

 bert Kapp, 365 ; Electrical Engineer's Pocket Book, 

 Horatio A. Foster, 365 ; Comparison Tests between New 

 F'^ry Spiral Pyrometer and a Standardised Thermoelectric 

 F^ry Radiation Pyrometer, G. C. Pearson, 379 ; Heavy 

 Electrical Engineering, H. M. Hobart, Prof. Gisbert 

 Kapp, 391; Death of Eugene Grenet, 404; New 300-ton 

 Universal Testing Machine, Messrs. W. and T. Avery, 

 Ltd., 40S ; Briquette-making, Prof. W. Galloway, 409 ; 

 Easement Curves, Prof. R. H. Smith, 467 ; Death of Dr. 

 G. F. Deacon, 499 ; F'irst Report of the British Associa- 

 tion Committee appointed for the Investigation of Gaseous 

 Explosions, with Special Reference to Temperature, Prof. 

 E. G. Coker, 505 



England : Secondary Education in England, 42 ; the Supply 

 of Secondary Education in England and Elsewhere, A. J. 

 Pressland, 473 ; Earthwork of England, Prehistoric, 

 Roman, Saxon, Danish, Norman, and Mediaeval, 

 A. Hadrian .Allcroft, Rev. John Griffith, 69 



Engler (A.), das Pflanzenreich, Araceae-Monsteroideas and 

 CalloidesB, 424 



Enteropneusta, Morphology of the, Dr. Arthur VVilley, 

 F.R.S., 218 



Entomology : Cross-breeding of Two Races of the Moth 

 Acidalia virgularia, Louis B. Prout and A. Bacot, 58; 

 British Butterflies and other Insects, 67; Papers and 

 Reports on Insects, 81 ; Nests of the Argentine Spider 

 Mastophora exttaordinaria, J. Brethes, 137; American 

 Insect Pests, Dr. Ball, 138 ; Dr. Chittenden, 138 ; W. D. 

 Hunter, 138; die Metamorphose der Insekten, Dr. F. 

 Deegencr, 156; Death of Dr. W. H. Edwards, 164, 224; 

 Parasites of the Cotton-worm, Mr. Jemmett, 197 ; Biologia 

 Centrali-.Americana, Orthoptera, Vol. i.. Dr. Henri de 

 Saussure, Dr. Leo Zehntner, and A. Pictet, Forficulidae, 

 Count de Bormans, Vol. ii., Acridiidoe, Prof. Lawrence 

 Brunner, TettiginK, Albert P. Morse, and Phasmidae, 

 Robert Shelford, 241 ; die Termiten oder weissen Ameisen, 

 K. Escherich, 245 ; Biological Studies of Three Species 

 of Aphididoe, J. J. Davis, 257; .-Angolan Oil-beetles 

 (Meloidje), Dr. F. Creighton Wellman, 263 ; \'ariability 

 of the Six Castes of South African White Ants or Ter- 

 mites, Dr. Ernest Warren, 264 ; Catalogue of the 

 Lepidoptera Phala^nae in the British Museum, Sir 

 George F. Hampson, Bart., 338 ; the Tent-building Habits 

 of the Ant Lasius nigcr, Linn., Dr. Marie Stopes and 

 C. G. Hewitt, 388; Two New Parasites of the Black- 

 currant Mite, Miss A. M. Taylor, 447; Economic Loss 

 to United States through Disease-carrying Insects, Dr. 

 L. O. Howard, 44S ; New Observation on the Moth of the 

 Olive, Th. Dumont, 449 ; Injurious Insects observed in 

 Ireland during 1908, Prof. G. H. Carpenter, 479 



Erdmann (Prof. H.), Alaska, ein Beitrag zur Geschichte 

 nordischcr Kolonisation, 121 



Eredia (Dr. F.), Discussion of the Temperature at Rome, 

 1855-1904, 106 



Erlangen, Festschrift der Physikalisch-medizinischen Societat 

 zu, zur Feier ihres 100 jahrigen Bestehens am 27 Juni, 

 1908, 411 



Erlangen, Sitzungsberichte der Physikalisch-medizinischen 

 Societat in, 411 



Ernst (Dr. A.), Flora of Volcanic Region of Java and 

 Sumatra, 105 ; the New Flora of the Volcanic Island of 

 Krakatau, 279 



Eros, Solar Parallax from Observations of, Prof. Perrine, 

 468 



Escherich (K.), die Termiten oder weissen Ameisen, 245 



Essays and .Addresses, J. H. Bridges, 217 



Estiva (G.), Condensation of the Mesoxalic Esters with 

 Aromatic Hydrocarbons, 59 



