Index 



r Nat. 



Austrian Side, tlic, thie Shores of the Adriatic, F. Hamil- 

 ton Jacljson, 274 



Avasia (D. N.), Lac Cultivation in India, 436 



Avery (Messrs. W. and T., Ltd.), New 300-ton Universal 

 Testing Machine, 408 



Aviation : Aerodonetics, F. W. Lanchester, Prof. G. H. 

 Bryan, F.R.S., 221 ; Artificial and Natural Flight, Sir 

 Hiram S. Maxim, Prof. G. H. Bryan, F.R.S., 221 



Awano (S.), Power of Plants to Absorb Moisture through 

 the Leaf Surface, 436 



Azambuja (L. d'), Examination of the Upper Layers of 

 Calcium and Hydrogen in the Solar Atmosphere and of 

 the same Black Filaments in the Two Layers, 269 ; 

 Critical Examination of the Monochromatic Images of 

 the Sun with the Hydrogen Lines, 389 



Bacot (A.), Cross-breeding of Two Races of the Moth 

 Acidalia virgularia, 58 



Bacteriology : Determination of a Coefficient by which 

 the Rate of Diffusion of Stain and other Substances into 

 Livings Cells can be Measured and by which Bacteria 

 and Other Cells may be Differentiated, H. C. Ross, 27 ; 

 Influence of Glucosides on Growth of Acid-fast Bacilli, 

 F. W. Twort, 58 ; Physico-chemical Method of Sterilis- 

 ing in the Cold and at a Distance, A. Billon-Daguerre, 

 59; So-called "Sexual" Method of Forming Spores 

 in Bacteria, C. C. Dobell, 88 ; Evacuation of Tubercle 

 Bacilli by the Bile in the Intestine in Animals affected 

 with Latent Lesions, A. Calmette and C. Gu^rin, 89 ; 

 Micro-organisms Present in Sewer Air, Dr. Andrewes, 

 203 ; Bacterial Contamination of Milk, Dr. Savage, 203 ; 

 the Bacteriology of Diphtheria, 243 ; Invisible Patho- 

 genic Micro-organisms and the Physical Proofs of their 

 Existence, A. Chauveau, 299 ; Effects of Nitrogen-fixing 

 Bacteria on the Growth of Non-leguminous Plants, Prof. 

 W. B. Bottomley, 327 ; Spore-formation in the Disporic 

 Bacteria, C. Clifford Dobell, 435 ; Can Opsonins be 

 Obtained directly from Bacteria and Yeast, Dr. R. Greig- 

 Smith, 479 ; the Coagulation of Condensed Milk, Dr. R. 

 Greig-Smith, 479 



Bailey (E. B.), the Cauldron Subsidence of Glen Coe and 

 the associated Igneous Phenomena, 448 



Bailey (L. H.), First Course in Biology, 34 



Baillehache (le Comte de). Unites Electriques, 488 



Bairstow (L.), Elastic Limits of Iron and Steel under 

 Cyclical Variations of Stress, 359 



Baker (C), Microscope Objectives of a New Formula, 320 



Baker (Dr. H. Brereton, F.R.S.), the Influence of Mois- 

 ture on Chemical Change, Wilde Lecture at Manchester 

 Literary and Philosophical Society, 175 



Baker (R. H.), Orbits of Spectroscopic Binaries, 229 



Baldet (F.), Spectrum of the Comet 1908c (Morehouse), 149 



'Balfour (Andrew), Third Report of the Wellcome Research 

 Laboratories at the Gordon Memorial College, 495 



Ball (Dr.), American Insect Pests, 138 



Ball (Sir Robert, F.R.S.), a Treatise on Spherical 

 Astronomy, 123 



Ballistics : Flight of a Rifled Projectile in Air, Dr. J. B. 

 Henderson, 57 



Ballon, Astronomische Ortsbestimmung im. Prof. Adolf 

 Marcuse, Dr. William J. S. Lorkyer, 244 



Ballou (H. A.), " Millions " and Mosquitoes, 16 



Bannister (C. O.), Cupellation Experiments: the Thermal 

 Properties of Cupels, 388 



Baracchi (Mr.), the Melbourne Observatory, 51 



Barbier (Ph.), Transformation of Pinonic Acid into 

 I : 3-Dimethyl-4-phenylacetic Acid, 89 



Barkla (Dr. C. G.), the Absorption of X-rays, 37; lonisa- 

 tion by Rontgen Rays, 187 ; Phenomena of X-ray Trans- 

 mission, 419 



Barnard (Prof. E. E.), Observations of Comet Temple,- 

 Swift, 19; Coloured Stars in the Globular Cluster M 13, 

 169; Theory to Account for Changes in the Tail of 

 Comet c 1908, 444 



Barnes (H. T.), Phenomenon connected with the Discharge 

 of Electricity from Pointed Conductors, with a Note by 

 John Zelenv, 2Q7 



Barnes (Prof. James), a Simple Fabry and Perot Inter- 

 ferometer, 187 



Barometric Oscillation, W. H. Dines, F.R.S., 8 



Barratt (Dr. J. O. W.), MetHod of Estimating the Total 



Volume of Blood contained in the Living Body, 387 

 Barre (M.), Double Sulphates of Calcium, 510 

 Barrett (J. W.), Seal-rocks at Westernport, Bass Strait, 



Barrett (Prof. W. F., F.R.S.), New Form of Optometer, 

 34S ; Methods of Determining the Amount of Light ir- 

 regularly reflected from Rough Surfaces, 388 ; New 

 Polarimeter for the Measurement of the Indices of Refrac- 

 tion of Opaque Bodies, 38S 

 Baruch (Dr. M. P.), Flora von PaderBorn, 105 

 Bashford (Dr. E. F.), Incidence of Cancer in Mice of 



Known Age, 387 

 Basic Steel, the Manufacture of, 135 



Basidiomycetes, Synopsis of the British, a Descriptive 

 Catalogue of the Drawings and Specimens in the De- 

 partment of Botany, British Museum, Worthington G. 

 Smith, 184 

 Baskets used in Repelling Demons, Kumagusu Minakata, 



369 

 Baterden (J. R.), Timber, 94 

 Bateson (Prof. W., F.R.S.), the Method and Scope of 



Genetics, 396 

 Bau und Geschichte der Erde, O. Abel, 367 

 Bauer (Edmond), Radiation and Temperature of the Flame 

 of a Bunsen Burner, 209 ; the Nature of Flame Spectra, 

 408 ; Preparation of the Three Oxy- and the f-dimethyl- 

 amido and Diethylamidobenzylidenecamphors and the 

 p- and «i-tolylidenecamphors, 479 

 Bauer (Dr. L. A.), Solar Activity and Terrestrial Magnetic 

 Disturbances, 444 ; Department of Commerce and 

 Labour, Coast and Geodetic Survey, United States Mag- 

 netic Tables and Magnetic Charts for 1905, 293 

 Bauer (O.), Solubility of Steel in Sulphuric Acid, 384 

 Bayard (P.), a New Isomeride of Indigo, 149 

 Bayliss (Dr. W. M.), Osmotic Pressure of Congo Red, 320 

 Baz-Nama-yi-Nasiri, the, a Persian Treatise on Falconry, 



371 

 Becquerel (Jean), New Type of Magnetic Decomposition 



of the Absorption Bands of Crystals, 209 

 Becquerel (Paul), the Suspension of Life in certain Seeds, 



270 

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

 Beilby (Dr. George T., F.R.S.), the Functions of Technical 

 Colleges, Address at Association of Technical Institutions, 

 22 

 Bell (Miss), Colours and Magnitudes of Stars, 288 

 Bell-Marley (H. W.), Hunting the Hump-backed Whale in 



Natal Waters, 16 

 Bemmelen (Dr. W. van). Magnetic Survey of the Dutch 



East Indies, 1903-7, 293 

 Bemporad (A.), Photometric Observations at Catania, 288 

 Benham (Charles E.), Fluorescence of Lignum Nephrilicum, 



159 ; an Optical Phenomenon, 458 

 Benson (Dr. Margaret), Structure and Relations of the 



Reproductive Organs of Heteranginni Grievii, 239 

 Bentley (Wilson J.), Studies of Frost and Ice Crystals, 492 

 Berger (A.), das Pflanzenrcich, Liliaceaj-Aloinea;, 424 

 Berger (E.), New Method of Preparation of the /3-halogen 



Derivatives of Naphthaline, 149 

 Berget (A.), Lemons de Physique g^n^rale, 6 

 Bergstrand (Oesten), Photographic Determination of the 



Colours of the Stars, 299 

 Berkeley (Earl of). Osmotic Pressures of Weak Solutions 



of Calcium Ferrocyanide, 28 

 Bernard (A.), Observations made at Meudon Observatory 



on Morehouse's Comet, 179 

 Bernthsen (Hofrath Prof.), Fi.xation of Atmospheric 



Nitrogen, 412 

 Berson (A.), the Royal Prussian Aeronautical Observatory's 



Aerological Expedition to Tropical East Africa, 171 

 Bertrand (Gabriel), Action of the Bulgarian Ferment 



Yoghotirl on Various Sugars, 390 

 Bessel's Functions, Wave Motion and, Prof. G. H. Bryan, 



F.R.S., 309 

 Besson (A.), Action of Gaseous Hydrochloric Acid on 

 Amorphous Silicon, 59 ; New Silicon Chlorides of the 

 Silicomethane Series, 180 ; Action of Oxidising Agents 

 upon .Silico-chloroform, 329 

 Bezenov (B. W.), Calendar of Algal Growth in the Bay 

 of Sebastopol, 167 



