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INDEX. 



AiiAcus in Ancient India, the Use of, E. K. Kayc, 264 



Abclous (J. E.), Urohypertensine, 312 



Aberdeen Stone Circles? Who Built the, J. Gray, 54 



Abctti (Giorgio), the Parallax of 61 Cygni, 435 ; Comet 



Morehouse, 1908c, 517, 579 

 Absorption Spectra of Solutions, Prof. H. C. Jones, iSS 

 Achard (M.), Application to Man of an Anti-tuberculous 



Serum, 656 

 Acid-resisting Alloys, Ad. Jouvc, 403 



Acoustics : Acoustic Oscillographs, Mr. Bowron, 69 ; the 



Perception of the Direction of Sound, Prof. C. S. Myers 



and Prof. H. A. Wilson, F.R.S., 116; Photography of 



Speech, M. Devaux-Charbonnel, 192 



.■\cquirod Chnraclers, the Supposed Inheritance of, Prof. 



T. D. A. Cockerell, 665 

 Adam, Before, Jack London, 366 

 Adams (Rev. W. A.), Ancient Stone Implement Sites m 



South Africa, 683 

 Adams (Prof. W. S.), the Solar Rotation determmed from 



Hvdrogen Phenomena, 18 

 A^robisation des Microbes Anac^robies, 1', Georges Rosen- 

 thal, Prof. R. T. Hewlett, 150 

 Aerodynamics : Constituting the First Volume of a Complete 



\\d\k on Aerial Flight, ¥. W. Lanchester, 337 

 Aiironaulics : Turning of Aeroplanes, Paul Renard, 95 ; M. 

 Delagrange's Experiments with his Aeroplane, 108: 

 Ascent of Meteorological Balloons and the Temperature of 

 the Upper Air, A. Mallock, F.R.S., 141 ; the Armengaud 

 Prize for Aeroplanes won by Mr. Farman, 22S ; Count 

 Zeppelin's Successful Flight in his new Airship, 228; 

 Count Zeppelin's Ascent, 325 ; W. Wright's Aeroplane 

 Flight, 347; Count Zeppelin's Voyage on August 4, 347; 

 the Fcrm of a Dirigible Balloon, A. Mallock, F.R.S., 

 367 ; New Aeroplane of Henry Farman, 432 ; Balloon and 

 Aeroplane Flights in France, 467 ; Orville Wright's Aero- 

 plane Flights" in America, 483 ; Accident to Orville 

 Wright's Aeroplane, 513; Aeroplane Flight, Wilbur 

 Wright. 5H ; Wilbur Wright's Aeroplane, S45 ; \\'ilbur 

 Wright's" Flight on October 6, 576; on October 10, 608; 

 Notre Flotte a^rienne, Wilfrid de Fonvielle and Georges 

 Besan^on, 661 ; Progress in Aviation, Prof. G. H. Bryan. 

 F.R.S., 668 

 Africa : Deterioration of the Veld in Cape Colony, 64 ; 

 Geology and Mineralogy of Albany, Prof. Young, 216; 

 African Nature Notes and Reminiscences, F. C. Selous, 

 Sir H. H. Johnston, G.C.M.G., K.C.B., 217; Brak 

 (Alkali) in Cape Colony Soils, Dr. C. F. Juritz, 312 ; 

 Distribution and Hosts of the New Transvaal Tick, 

 Ixodes pilosus ho-j.'ardi, C. W. Howard, 312; Genus 

 Spha;roplea in South Africa, W. T. Saxton, 312 ; the 

 South African Association for the Advancement of Science, 

 Prof. J. E. Duerden, 395 ; Presidential Address, Sir 

 Walter Helv-Hutchinson, 396; Fly Fever in Africa, Sir 

 David Bruce, F.R.S., 413"; African Games, Captain R. 

 Avelot, 469 ; the Lake-dwellers of Lower Dahomey, 

 Major-Surgeon Gaillard, 469 ; Ruthless Extermination, 

 Ralph de Tunstall Sneyd, 508 ; Chromite Deposits along 

 Southern and Eastern Margins of the Bushveld Plutonic 

 h Complex, A. L. Hall and W. A. Humphrey, 516 



Agriculture : Conditions Necessary for growing Lucerne, 16 ; 

 Lucerne increases Fertility of Soil, 676 ; the Case for the 



Goat, 54 ; Deterioration of the Veld in Cape Colony, 64 ; 

 Destruction of Charlock in Corn Crops by Copper Sul- 

 phaie Spraving, C. F. Strawson, 64 ; Year-book of the 

 Khedivial Agricultural Society, Cairo, 1906, 68; Egyptian 

 Cotton-bug, Mr. Willcocks, 68 ; Heredity in Cotton, 

 Lawrence Balls, 68 ; British Cotton Cultivation, Reports 

 on the Oualily of Cottons grown in British Possessions, 

 Prof. Wvndham Dunstan, F.R.S., 154; Egyptian and 

 Soudan Soils, Mr. Hughes, 68; Soils: their Nature and 

 Management, Primrose McConnell, 150; Brak (Alkali) in 

 Cape Colony Soils, Dr. C. F. Juritz, 312; Fertility of 

 Soils as affected by Manures, Frank D. Gardiner, 402 : 

 Crop Rotation and Soil Exhaustion, F. Fletcher, ^ 402 ; 

 Excessive Cattle Grazing Injurious to the Fertility of 

 the Soil, 643 ; Dairy Laboratory Guide, Prof. C. W. 

 Melick, 77; Nut-weevils, 85; the Grape-vine Root-borer, 

 85 ; the Red-rot of the " Sugar-cane Stem, 109 ; the 

 Journal of the Roval Agricultural Society of England, 188; 

 Bulletins i lo 8 of the Midland Agricultural and Dairy 

 College (Field Trials in 1907), 188 ; Results of Experi- 

 ments at the College Farm, 1907, University College, 

 Reading, 188 ; Field Experiments in Staffordshire and 

 Shropshire for 1907, 18S ; Effects of Periodical Grass 

 Fires in Africa, Dr. W. Busse, 230 ; An American 

 Fable, the Question of the Exhaustion of the National 

 Resources, Gifford Pinchot, 230; the Farm shown to 

 the Children, by F. M. B. and A. H. Blaikie, 270: 

 the Agricultural Journal of India, Dr. E. J. Russell, 322 ; 

 Memoirs of the Department of Agriculture in India, the 

 Loss of Water from Soil during Dry Weather, J. W. 

 Leather, Dr. E. J. Russell, 322; the Transvaal Agricul- 

 tural Journal, April, 1908, Dr. E. J. Russell, 322 ; the 

 Journal of the Department of Agriculture of South 

 Australia, Dr. E. J. Russell, 322 ; Electricity in Agri- 

 culture, J. E. Newman and R. Bomford, Sir Oliver 

 Lodge,' F.R.S., 331; Fungi as Pests in Different Coun- 

 tries, T. Fetch, 349; U.S. Department of Agriculture, 

 Appropriations for the Ensuing Year, 398 ; Cyclopedia of 

 .American Agriculture, vol iii.. Animals, Prof. James 

 Wilson, 657; Note on a Toxic Substance excreted by 

 the Roots of Plants, F. Fletcher, 402 ; an Alleged Excre- 

 tion of Toxic Substances by Plant Roots, Howard S. 

 Reed, 541 ; the Improvement of Agricultural Plants, M. 

 Schribaux, 438 ; Bleeding Disease of the Cocoa-nut Trees 

 in Ceylon, T. Fetch, 468 ; Insect Pests in Ireland during 

 1907, ' Prof. Carpenter, 484 ; Influence of Forests on 

 Rainfall and the Probable Effect of " Deboisement " on 

 Agriculture in Mauritius, A. Walter, 610; the Fungus 

 Diseases of Cacao, F. A. Stockdale, bio; Fibres for 

 Paper-making, 630 ; Cultural Bud Mutations in Solanum 

 Maglia, Edouard Heckel, 656; Mice, Voles, and Shrews 

 from the Economic Standpoint, 676 ; see also British 

 Association 

 Ahrens (Dr. K. B.), Lebensfragen ; die Vorgange des Stoff- 



wechsel, 76 

 Air, the Discovery of the Weight of the, 219; A. N. 



Meldrum. 29J 

 Aitken (Prof. R. G.), One Hundred New Double Stars, 



Alaska: Return of Captain Mikkelsen from Alaska, 107; 

 Mammoth-hunting in .Alaska, 346 



