Nature, l 

 July 22, 1509J 



Index 



Brussel (J. B. Van), Mechanical Irrigation Plants, Nile 

 Irrigation Station at Wadi Kom-Ombo, iS 



Bruvlanls (P-), Derivative of Trimethylene, 22S 



Bryan (Prof. G. H., F.R.S.), Aerodonetics, F. W. Lan- 

 chester, 221 ; Artificial and Natural Flight, Sir Hiram 

 Maxim, 221 ; Recent Progress in Aeronautics, Major 

 George O. Squier, 223 ; the Stabilisation of Aeroplanes, 

 Ktienne Maigre, 223 ; Wave Motion and Bessel's Func- 

 tions, 309 ; the Government and Aeronautical Research, 

 3'3 



Buisson (H.), Comparison of the Lines of the Spectrum of 

 the Electric Arc and of the Sun, Pressure of the Re- 

 versing Layer in the Solar Atmosphere, 149 ; Pressure 

 in the Sun's Atmosphere, 229; Unsynimetrical Enlarge- 

 ment of the Lines of the Arc Spectrum and their Com- 

 parison with those of the Solar Spectrum, 389 



Buller (Prof. A. H. Reginald), the Rate of Fall of Fungus 

 Spores in Air, 186 



Burbank's (Luther) Work, the Scientific Aspects of, 

 D. S. Jordan and V. L. Kellogg, 337 



Burgess (G. H.), Melting Point of Platinum, 329 



Burnham (Prof.), Double-star Measures, 19 



Burtt-Davy (J.), Plants Poisonous to Stock, 225 ; Cata- 

 logue of Native Trees of the Transvaal, 31S 



Butterflies. British, and Other Insects, 67 



Byrnes (Dr. Esther), Fresli-water Species of Cyclops of 

 Long Island, 174 



Calcium Lines in Furnace Spectra, Chromospheric, Dr. 



A. S. King, 260 

 Calculation of Cometary Orbits, the. Prof. Kobold, 2S8 

 Calcutta : Asiatic Society of Bengal, 8g, 150 

 California Earthquake of .^pril 18, 1906, Andrew C. 



Lawson, 10 

 Caiman (Dr. W. T.), Gigantocypris and the Challenger, 

 248; a Treatise on Zoology, Part vii.. Third Fascicle, 

 Crustacea, 361 

 Calmette (A.), Evacuation of Tubercle Bacilli by the Bile 

 in the Intestine in Animals affected with Latent Lesions, 

 89 

 Cambridge : Reports of the Cambridge Anthropologiral 

 Expedition to Torres Straits, Vol. vi.. Sociology, Magic, 

 and Religion of the Eastern Islanders, g ; Cambridge 

 Philosophical Society, 88, 328, 419 ; Reform at Cam- 

 bridge, 345 ; the Darwin Commemoration at Cambridge, 

 496 

 Cambridge County Geographies : Essex, Kent, Surrey, 



Sussex, G. F. Bosworth, 305 

 Camera Objectives for Spectrographs, Mr. Plaskett, 440 

 Canimidge (P. J.), the Urine in Diseases of the Pancreas, 



386 

 Camp-fires on Desert and Lava, W. T. Hornaday, 279 

 Campbell (A.), Method of Testing Photographic Shutters, 



419 

 Campbell (Prof.), the Intra-Mercurial Planet Problem, 



320; Spectroscopic Binaries, 321 

 Campbell (Norman R.), an Electromagnetic Problem, 39 

 Canada, Partial Eclipse of the Sun in. Dr. Downing, 320 

 Canadian Waterways, American and, 461 

 Canals of the Martian Doubles, the "Original," Prof. 



Lowell. 260 

 Canals, Development of Martian, Prof. Lowell, 2S8 

 Cancer, Incidence of, in Mice of known Age, Dr. E. F. 



Bashford and Dr. J. A. Murray, 387 

 Cany (M.), Penetration of Pulverised Liquids into the 



Respiratory Tracts, 150 

 Cape Observatory, the, 79 



Cape Town : Royal Society of South Africa, 360 

 Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, 



the. Prof. John Edgar. 300 

 Carnegie Institution of W'nshington, the, 142 

 Carnegie Trust, Scientific Research and the, 20 

 Caro (Dr. N.), Fixation of .Atmosnheric Nitfogen, 412 

 Caro (Prof.), Process for the Manufacture of Calcium 



Cyanamide bv. 472 

 Carpenter (Prof.), Melting Point of Iron. 140 

 Carpenter (Prof. G. H.); a Student's Text-book of Zoo- 

 logy, Prof. Adam Sedgwick. F.R.S., \'ol. iii.. the 

 Introduction to .'\rthropoda, the Crustacea, and Xipho- 



sura, J. J. Lister, F.R.S., the Insecta and Arachnids 

 Dr. A. E. Shipley, F.R.S., 361 ; a Treatise on Zoology. 

 Part vii., Third Fascicle, Crustacea, Dr. W. T. Caiman, 

 361 ; Injurious Insects observed' in Ireland, during 1908, 

 479 



Carpenter (R. C), Internal Combustion Engines, their 

 Theory, Construction, and Operation, 124 



Carpentier (M.), Remarks on a Set of Standards of Length 

 presented by M. Johansson, 209 



Carr^ (P.), Magnesium Derivatives of the Xylyl Bromides, 

 300 



Carus-Wilson (C), the Pitting of Flint-surfaces, 448 



Casanowicz (1. M.), United States National Museum 

 Collection of Rosaries, 502 



Cassell's Elementary Geometry, W. A. Knight, 305 



Catania, Photometric Observations at, A. Bemporad, 288 



Cattle : Breeding for Milk, 77 



Caucasus : la C6te d'.Azur Russe (Riviera du Caucase), 

 E. A. Martel, Prof. Grenville A. J. Cole, 40 



Cave (Charles J. P.), the Temperature of the Upper Atmo- 

 sphere, 456 



" Cave-nebula " in Cepheus, a New, Prof. Wolf, ig 



Cell as the Unit of Life, the, and Other Lectures delivered 

 at the Royal Institution, London, 1899-1902, an Intro- 

 duction to Biology, Allan Macfadycn, 123 



('epheus, a New " Cave-nebula " in. Prof. Wolf, 19 



Ceramics : Transactions of the English Ceramic Society, 

 385 ; Gas-firing, Dr. Seligman, 38:; : Mr. SchmatoUe, 

 385 ; Adsorption and Dissolution of Gases by Silicates, 

 Messrs. Moore and Mellor, 3S5 



Chadwick Lectures, the, University of London, Session 

 1907-8, W. D. Scott-Moncrieff, 397 



Challenger Society, 328 



Chamberlain (Prof. C. F.), Spermatogenesis in Dioon 

 cdtile, 378 



Chapman (A. C), Estimation of Creatinine, 470 



Chapman (F. M.), Manner in which Young Flamingoes 

 Feed, 4g9 



Chappuis (].), Leijons de Physique g^n^rale, 6 



Charcot (Dr. J. B.), the French Antarctic Expedition, 

 Communication from, 285 



Charpy (Georges), Action of Carbon Monoxide upon 

 Chromium, Nickel, Manganese, their Oxides and Alloys, 

 59 ; Formation of Graphitic O.xide and the Definition 

 of Graphite, 210 



Chattaway (Dr. F. D., F.R.S.), Ammonium Perhalides, 

 349 



Chauveau (A.), Invisible Pathogenic Micro-organisms and 

 the Physical Proofs of their Existence, 299 



Chauvenet (Ed.), .\nhydrous Combinations of Thorium 

 Chloride with the Alkaline Chlorides, 389 



Chemistry : Biochcmie, ein Lehrbuch fiir Mediziner 

 Zoologen und Botaniker, Dr. F. Rbhmann, 6 ; Radio- 

 thorium, Frederick Soddy, 12 ; Evolution of Heat by 

 Radium, Drs. E. von Schweidler and V. F. Hess, 18 ; 

 Decomposition of Water by Radium Salts, A. Debierne, 

 149 ; Chemical .Xction of the Penetrating Rays of Radium 

 on Water, Miroslaw Kernbaum, 149 ; Production of 

 Radium from Uranium, Frederick Soddy, 308 ; Liquid 

 Radium Emanation, Sir William Ramsay, K.C.B., 

 F.R.S., 347; Radium and Uranium contained in Radio- 

 active Minerals, Ellen Gleditsch, 440 : Variation of Re- 

 fractive Indices of Mixtures of Liquids with their Com- 

 position, Dr. V. F. Hess, 18 ; Osmotic Pressures of 

 Weak Solutions of Calcium Ferrocyanide, Earl of 

 Berkeley, E. G. J. Hartley and J. Stephenson, 28: 

 Spontaneous Crystallisation of Monochloracetic .'\cid and 

 its Mixtures with Naphthalene, Dr. H. A. Miers and 

 Miss F. Isaac, 28 ; .Atomic Weight of Potassium, G. D. 

 Hinrichs, 29 ; Syntheses by Means of the Mixed Zinc 

 Organo-mctallic Derivatives. E. Blaise and A. Koehler, 

 2q ; Colloidal Properties of Starch with Respect to its 

 Chemical Constitution, Eugene Fouard, 29 ; Handbuch 

 der anorganischen Chemie, 32 ; Death and Obituary 

 Notice of Prof. Julius Thomson, M. M. Pattison Muir, 

 d6 ; Supposed Effect of Crystallisation for modifying the 

 Properties of the Solution of a Body resulting from the 

 Direct Union of Two Solutions, D. Gernez. i;g ; Mole- 

 cular Volumes, Densities, and Atomic Weights. A. 

 Leduc, i;g ; Equilibria between the Liquid and Solid 

 Phases in the Mixture NaCI + H„0, Camille Matignon, 



