Index 



Bickerton (Prof. A. W.), the Birth of Worlds, 380 



Billon-Daguerre (A.), Physico-chemical Method of Sterilis- 

 ing in the Cold and at a Distance, 59 



Binaries, Spectroscopic, Prof. Campbell, 321 ; Dr. Heber D. 

 Curtis, 321; Prof. W. H. Wright, 321; Orbits of, R. H. 

 Baker, 229 ; F. C. Jordan, 229 



Biochemistry : Biochemie, ein Lehrbuch fiir Mediziner, 

 Zoologen und Botaniker, Dr. F. Rohmann, 6 ; the 

 General Characters of the Proteins, Dr. S. B. Schryver, 



307 

 Biology : First Course in Biology, L. H. Bailey and W. M. 

 Coleman, 34 ; Parallel Paths : a Study in Biology, Ethics, 

 and .'\rt, T. W. Rolleston, 35 ; Biology and its Makers, 

 with Portraits and other Illustrations, Prof. W. A. Locy, 

 95 ; the Cell as the Unit of Life, and other Lectures 

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

 Introduction to Biology, Allan Macfadyen, 123; Ernst 

 Haeckel, Prof. Walther May, 126; Lieut. Shackleton's 

 Antarctic Expedition, Biological Results, 130; Biologia 

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

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

 Count de Bormans, \'ol. ii., .^cridiidse, Prof. Lawrence 

 Brunner, Tettiginse, .-Mbert P. Morse, and Phasmidas, 

 Robert Shelford, 241 ; the Problem of Age, Growth, and 

 Death, a Study of Cytomorphosis, Prof. Charles S. 

 Minot, 335 ; zur Biologie des Chlorophylls, Laubfarbe 

 und Himmelslicht, Vergilbung und Etiolement, Ernst 

 Stahl, 393 ; the Method and Scope of Genetics, Prof. W. 

 Bateson, F.R.S., 396; Capacity for Regeneration of One 

 of the Brittle-stars, S. Morgulis, 465 ; the Germ-layer 

 Theory, Ric. Assheton, 492 ; Meaning of Sexuality in 

 Relation to the Formation of Gametes, Dr. Max Hart- 

 mann, 500; " Chemical " Embryos, 507; Marine Biology: 

 Relations of Marine Organisms to Light, Prof. B. Moore, 

 16; Sex in Sea-urchins obtained by Experimental 

 Parthenogenesis, 29 ; Migration of the Thread-cells of 

 Moerisia, C. L. Boulenger, 88 ; Specimen of Pelagothuria 

 from the Seychelles, J. C. Simpson, 88; some Marine 

 and Fresh-water Organisms, 174 ; Muller's Ostracod 

 Crustacean Gigantocypris agassizi, L. Luders, 174 ; 

 Fresh-water Species of Cyclops of Long Island, Dr. 

 Esther Brynes, 174 ; Gigantocypris and the Challenger, 

 Dr. W. T. Caiman, 24S ; Amphipoda Hyperiidea of the 

 Sealark Expedition to the Indian Ocean, A. O. Walker, 

 269 ; Marine MoUusca of the Sealark Expedition, Dr. J 

 Cosmo Melvill, 269 ; Pecten, W. J. Dakin, 273 ; Photo- 

 phores in Decapoda, S. W. Kemp, 328 ; a Problematical 

 Organism thrown up during a Storm in Bass Strait, 

 Prof. Baldwin Spencer, 350 ; Apical Pigment-spots in 

 the Pluteus of Echinus miliaris, F. H. Gravely, 359 ; 

 Marine Biology in the Tortugas, 382 ; Annual Breeding 

 Swarm of the Atlantic Palolo, Dr. A. G. Mayer, 382 ; 

 Experiments on the Scyphomedusan Cassiopea xatna- 

 chana. Dr. Mayer, 382 ; Origin of the Lung of Ampul- 

 laria. Prof. W. K. Brookes and B. McGlone, 382 ; 

 Significance of the Conspicuousness of the Coral-reef 

 Fishes of the Tortugas, Prof. Reighard, 382 



Bircham (F. R. S.), .Applications of the Internal-combustion 

 Engine to Marine Propulsion, 173 



Birds : Moral Superiority among Birds, A. R. Horwood, 

 40 ; the Birds of Tierra del Fuego, Richard Crawshay, 

 155 ; Bird Notes, 295 ; Kunst und Vogelgesang in ihren 

 wechselseitigen Beziehungen von naturwissenschaftlich- 

 musikalischen Standpunkte beleuchtet, Dr. B. Hoffmann, 



Birkeland (Kr.), the Norwegian Aurora Polaris Expedition, 



1902-3, Vol. i., on the Cause of Magnetic Storms and 



the Origin of Terrestrial Magnetism, 410 

 Birkeland (Prof.!, Fixation of .Atmospheric Nitrogen, 412 

 Birth of Worlds, the. Prof. A. W. Bickerton, 380 

 Bishop (Rev. Dr. Sereno E.), Death and Obituary Notice 



of, 164 

 Bisiker (W.), the British Empire (and Japan), 213 

 Bjerknes (Prof.), Theoretical Applications • of Upper-air 



Observations, 355 

 Blaise (E.), Syntheses by Means of the Mixed Zinc Organo- 



metallic Derivatives, 29 

 Blennerhassett (Sir Rowland), Death and Obituary Notice 



of, io\ 

 Bl^riot (Louis), Award of the Osiris Prize to, 499 



Bloch (Eugfene), Part played by Impurities in the Photo- 

 electric Effect with Liquids, 89 

 Bloch (L.), Phosphorescence and Combustion Flames of 



Sulphur, 149 

 " Blowing " Wells, Sydney H. Long, 339; Dr. A. Strahan, 



F.R.S., 370 ; Beeby Thompson, 429 

 Bliitenpflanzen Afrikas, die, Franz Thonner, Dr. Otto 



Stapf, F.R.S., 333 

 Boas (Dr. J. E. V.), Lehrbuch der Zoologie fiir Studierende, 



214 

 Body at Work, the, Dr. Alex. Hill, 366 

 Bonibay, the Flora of the Presidency of. Dr. Theodore 



Cooke, 362 

 Bonacina (L. C. W.), the " Daylight Saving " Bill, 69 

 Bone (Prof. W. A., F.R.S.), Explosive Combustion, with 



Special Reference to that of Hydrocarbons, Discourse 



at Royal Institution, 81 

 Bonnier (Gaston), the " Sense of Direction " in Bees, 269 

 Book of Nature-study, the, 344 

 Books of Science, Forthcoming, 53 



Books of Science, Supplementary List of Forthcoming, 85 

 I Bobtis, the Orbit of, Prof. Doberck, 3S0 

 Bordas (F.), the Diastases of Milk, 270 

 Borgen (Prof. Carl N. I.), Death of, 464 

 Bormans (Count de), Biologia Centrali-.Americana, 



Orthoptera, Vol. i., Forficulidae, 241 

 Borrelly (M.), Discovery of a New Comet, 1909a, 502 ; the 



Recent Lunar Eclipse, June 3, 502 

 (Borrelly-Daniel) Discovery of a Comet, 1909a, Mr. Daniel, 



502 ; M. Javelle, 502 ; Prof. Kobold, 502 ; M. Borrelly, 



502 

 Bort (L. Teisserenc de). General Results of the Meteoro- 

 logical Cruises of the Otaria on the Atlantic in 1905, 



1906, and 1907, 219; Results of Theodolite Observations 



on Ballons sondes at Trappes, 355 

 Bosler (J.), Observations made at Meudon Observatory on 



Morehouse's Comet, 179 

 Bosworth (G. F.), Cambridge County Geographies : Essex, 



Kent, Surrey, Sussex, 305 

 Botallek Circles, the, Sir Norman Lockyer, K.C.B., F.R.S., 



97 

 Botany: a Mould in Tanning with Oil, Andr^ Piedallu, 

 30 ; Variety of Organic Iron in Plants, P. J. Tarbouriech 

 and P. Saget, 30 ; Death of J. Barbosa Rodriguez, 47 ; 

 Obituary Notice of, 104 ; Phylogeny of the Bryophytes 

 and Ferns, Dr. H. Schenck, 49 ; Einleitung in die experi- 

 mentelle Morphologic der Pfianzen, Dr. K. Goebel, 61 ; 

 Parthenogenesis und Apogamie im Pflanzenreiche, Dr. 

 Hans Winkler, 61 ; Sense-organs in Leaves, Prof. G. 

 Haberlandt, 76; Plant Distribution on "Mesas" near 

 Boulder, Colorado, W. W. Robbins and G. S. Dodds, 

 76-7 ; Alternation of Generations in Plants, Dr. W. H. 

 Lang, 87 ; the Montane Flora of Fiji, Miss L. S. Gibbs, 

 87 ; Linnean Societv, 87, 148, 269, 3,^9, 448, 478 ; Quan- 

 tity of the Alkaloid Taxine in Yew, Richard J. Moss, 88 ; 

 the Heredity of Acquired Characters in Plants, Rev. Prof. 

 George Henslow, 93 ; Flora von Paderborn, Dr. M. P. 

 Baruch, 105 ; Flora of Volcanic Region of Java and 

 Sumatra, Dr. A. Ernst, 105 ; Ferments and Latent Life 

 of Resting Seeds, Jean White, 118; Fresh-water Algae 

 from Burma, including a few from Bengal and Madras, 

 W. West and G. S. West, 125 ; Davidia involucrata. 

 Baill., X. S. Home, 148; Index Kewensis Plantarum 

 Phanerogamarum, 156 ; Fluorescence of Lignum 

 Nephriticum. Charles E. Benham, iw: Dr. O. Stapf, 

 F.R.S., 218; John H. Shaxby, 248; Plants with Magic 

 Qualities, Dr. H. Marzell, 166; Calendar of Algal Growth 

 Tn the Bav of Sebastopol, B. W. Beenov, 167; Prickly 

 Pear as Cattle-food, 167 ; Black Scab or Potato-wart, 

 Prof. T. Johnson, 179 ; the Powdery Scab of the Potato, 

 Spongospora sublerranea, Prof. T. Johnson, 389 ; the 

 Rate of Fall of Fungus Spores in Air, Prof. A. H. 

 Reginald BuUer, 186; Death of Prof. F. E. Hulme, 197; 

 Obituary Notice of, 224 ; Influence of Radium Rays on 

 Plants, Prof. C. S. Gager, 198; Sand-binding Plants, 

 V. Subramania Iver, 19S; Oil-palm Kernels, a Variety 

 w^ith Soft Shells, iqS ; Lalang Grass, Material for Paper 

 Pulp, J. M. HiUier, 198 ; Limitation of the Genus 

 Athyrium, Dr. E. B. Copeland, 226; Structure and Rela- 

 tions of the Reproductive Organs of Heterangium Grievii, 



