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Bingham (Lieut. -Colonel Charles Thomas], Death and 



Obituary Notice of, 641 

 Biology ; Development et Progres de la Fabrication du 

 Malt pendant les quarante dernieres Annies, Ed. Ecken- 

 stein, s ; Mutations, Variations, and Relationships of the 

 CEnotheras, D. T. MacDougal, A. M. Vail, and G. H. 

 ShuU, 10 ; Death and Obituary Notice of Pierre Jacques 

 Antoine B^champ, 13 ; Death of Prof. Leslie Alexander 

 Lee, 107; der Bedeutung der Reinkultur, Dr. Oswald 

 Richter, 12b ; Biologia Centrali-Americana, Pisces, C. 

 Tate Regan, 145; I'A^robisation des Microbes Ana^robies, 

 Georges Rosenthal, Prof. R. T. Hewlett, 150 ; 

 Anleitung zur Kultur der Mikroorganismen, Dr. Ernst 

 Kiister, Prof. R. T. Hewlett, 150 ; the Darwin-Wallace 

 Jubilee Celebration at the Linnean Society, 221; 

 Cytological Structure of Coelenterates, H. B. Bigelow, 

 230 ; the Theory of Ions : a Consideration of its Place 

 in Biology and 7~herapeutics, Dr. W. Tibbies, 244 ; the 

 Biology of House-flies, C. Gordon Hewitt, 309; Death 

 and Obituary Notice of Prof. Alfred Giard, 373 ; Giant 

 Nerve Cells and Fibres of Halla partheitopeia, Dr. J. H. 

 Ashworth, 655 ; Marine Biology : Spore Formation in 

 the Genus Chsetoceros, Nellie Snape, 262 ; Rate of 

 Growth of Reef-building Corals, F. Vi'ood Jones, 433 ; 

 New Fresh-water Bryozoans (Slephatiella hina) from 

 Japan, Dr. A. Oka, 515 ; Variation in an Indian Species 

 of the Marine Crustacean Genus Squilla, Captain R. E. 

 Lloyd, 547 ; a Monograph of the Silurian and Devonian 

 Corals of New South Wales, R. Etheridge, 569 ; 

 Peculiarity in the Development of Window-pane Oysters 

 (Placuna placenta), A. Willey, 609 ; Death and Obituary 

 Notice of W. Saville-Kent, 641 ; Marking Experiments 

 with Iceland Plaice and Cod, Dr. Schmidt, 672 ; Nomen- 

 clature of Crinoids, A. H. Clark, 609; Corr., Dr. F. A. 

 Bather, 675 



Birds : Exhibition of South American Birds' Nests, 15 ; 

 Birds of the Loch and Mountain, Seton P. Gordon, 

 57; From Range to Sea, a Bird-lover's Ways, C. 

 Barrett, 57 ; Sketches of South African Bird-life, A. 

 Haagner and R. H. Ivy, 57 ; Elimination of Self-coloured 

 Birds, Prof. Chas. B. Davenport, loi ; the Coloration 

 of Birds' Eggs, R. L. Leslie, 31; A. R. Horwood, 126; 

 a Bird Collector's Medley, E. C. Arnold, 339 ; Birds of 

 Britain, J. Lewis Bonhote, 339; a Book of Birds, W. P. 

 Pycraft, 339 



Birkenstock (M. C), Bolides observed during May, 330 



Bishop (F. L.), Heats of Dilution of Certain Aqueous Solu- 

 tions, 38 



Blackman (F. F.. M.A., D.Sc, F.R.S.), Opening Address 

 in Section K nt the Meeting of the British Association 

 at Dublin, the Manifestations of the Principles of 

 Chemical Mechanics in the Living Plant, i;56 



Blackwell (E. W,), Plants of New Zealand,' 149 



Blaikie (F. !\L B. and A. H.), the Farm shown to the 

 Children by, 270 



Blair (R.), Progress made in the Organisation of Education 

 in the Area under the London County Council, 618 



Blaise (E. E.), the aa-DiaIkyl-/3-ketonic Alcohols and their 

 Transposition by Dehydration, 216; Researches on the 

 Ketodiacids, 312 



Blanc (A.), Researches on Ionised Gases, 263 



Bles (Edward J.), the Work of John Samuel Budgett, 

 Balfour Student of the University of Cambridge, 313 



Blindenanstalt, Geschichte der, zu lUzach-Miilhausen i E. 

 Wahrend der ersten fiinfzig Jahrc ihrer Tatigkeit, 

 ■ferner deutsche, franzosische, und italienische Kongress 

 vortrage imd Abhandlungen uber das Blindenwesen, 

 Prof. M. Kunz, Prof. Join G. McKendrick, F.R.S., 275 



Bloch (Eugfene), the lonisation of Air by Ultra-violet 

 Light, 23 



Bloch (L.), Differences of Contact Potential between Metals 

 and Liquids, 95 



Bloch (Dr. Lion), la Philosophie de Newton, 99 



Blochmann (F.), the Taxonomy and Geographical Distribu- 

 tion of Brachiopods, 27S 



Blochmann (Dr. R.1, Luft, Wasser, Licht und Warme, 

 316 



Blood Pressure, Studies in, Physiological and Clinical, Dr. 

 George Oliver, 77 



Bloxam (W. Popplewell), Report to the Government of 

 India containing an Account of the Research Work on 



Indigo performed in the University of Leeds, 1905-7, 



296 

 BIythswood (Lord, F.R.S.), Death of, 251 ; Obituary Notice 



of. Prof. A. Gray, F.R.S., 301 

 Boaz (Dr. Franz), the Evolution of Decorative Design, 487 

 Bucher (Maxime), Introduction to Higher Algebra, 315 

 Bohannan (William J. H.), Nephilim, 53 

 Boistel (.-\lphonse). Death of, 576 

 Bokorny (Dr. Th.), Lehrbuch der Botanik fiir Oberreal- 



schulen und Realschulen, 567 

 Bolide with a Persistent Tail, a, M. Qu^nisset, 612 

 Bolides, Bright, W. Moss, 580; Mrs. E. Gilford, 5S0 

 Bolides observed during May, M. C. Birkenstock, 330 

 Bomford (R.), Electricity in Agriculture, 331 

 j Bone (W. A.), Thermal Decomposition of Hydrocarbons, 



238; Use of Steam in Gas-producer Practice, 581 

 Bonhote (J. Lewis), Birds of Britain, 339 

 Bonifacy (Commandant), Antiquity of the Use of Iron in 



China, 375 

 Bonn (Dr. Moritz), Statistics Relative to Irish .'\griculture, 



653 



Bonney (Prof. T. G., F.R.S.), les Variations piriodiques 

 des Glaciers, F. A. Forel, 574 ; les Variations piriodiques 

 des Glaciers des Alpes Suisses, F. A. Forel, E. Muret, 

 P. L. Mercanton, and E. Argand, 574 



Bonyssy (M.), Origin of Atmospheric Ozone, 72 



Books of Science, Forthcoming, 620 



Booth (William H.), Superheat, Superheating, and their 

 Control, 567 



Bordas (F.), Detection of Helium in Minerals containing 

 Uranium, 23 ; Radioscopy in Forensic Medicine, 143 ; 

 Analysis of the Non-Iiquefiable Gases in Liquid Air, 626 



Bordoni-Uffreduzi (Prof.), Antitoxin Treatment and 

 Diphtheria in Milan, 485 



Borrelly (M.), Comet Morehouse, 19081', 517 



Bort (L. Teisserenc de). Rare Gases in the Atmosphere at 

 Various Heights, 312 ; the Isothermal Layer of the 

 .Atmosphere, 550 



Bossert (M.), Ephemeris for Comet Tempelj-Swift 1908^, 

 67S 



Botany : the Pollination of the Olive, Prof. T. D. A. 

 Cockerell, 31 ; Plants that Conform to Mendelian Prin- 

 ciples, G. H. Shull, 36 ; Plant Distribution in North-east 

 Latimer County, Colorado, F. Ramaley, 86 ; Linnean 

 Society, 94, 191, 261 ; the Red-rot of the Sugar-cane 

 Stem, 109; Vegetationsbilder, 124; Vegetationsbilder, 

 Samoa, Karl Rechinger, New Guinea Archipelago, Karl 

 Rechinger, North-eastern Brazil, E. UTe, the Algerian 

 Sahara, H. Brockmann Jerosch and A. Heim, Alpine 

 Vegetation, H. Schenck, 603 ; the Basidiomycetous Fungus 

 Polystictiis versicolor. Miss J. S. Bayliss, 156; Origin of 

 the Adaxially Curved Leaf Trace in the Filicales, D. T. 

 Gwynne Vaughan and Dr. R. Kidston, 167 ; the London 

 Catalogue of British Plants, F. J. Hanbury, 174; Bamboo, 

 Arimdinaria Narahira, and the Parasitic Fungus, Miyoshia 

 fusipora, S. Kawamura, iSo ; a Living Representative of 

 the Most Primitive Ancestors of the Plant Kingdom, 

 Chlamydomonas, Dr. G. T. Moore, 188 ; Genera Siphono- 

 gamarum ad .Systema Englerianum conscripta. Dr. K. W. 

 von Dalla Torre and Dr. H. Harms, Dr. Otto Stapf, 

 195 : die Vegetation der Erde, Grundzuge der Pflanzen- 

 verbreitung in Chile, Dr. Karl Reiche, 197 ; Plants of 

 New Zealand, R. M. Laing and E. W. Blackwell, 149 ; 

 New Primulas from Western China, Mr. Forrest, 204 ; 

 New Rubber Plant, Raphionacinc utilis. Dr. O. Stapf, 

 204; on the Plantation, Cultivation and Curing of Par4 

 India-rubber (Hevca hrasilietisis), with an Account of its 

 Introduction from the West to the Eastern Tropics, H. A. 

 Wickham, 38S ; New South Wales Linnean Society, 216, 

 240, 264. 360, 596 ; the Native Flora of New South Wales, 

 R. H. Cambage, 216; the Fucacc:e, K. Yendo, 230; 

 Handbook of Flower Pollination, based upon Herman 

 Miiller's Work, "The Fertilisation of Flowers by 

 Insects," Dr. P. Knuth, 244; Anatomical Features of 

 Extranuptial Nectaries of Certain Plants, K. Ono, 253 ; 

 Gardenia thtmbcrgia and its Allies, Dr. Stapf and J. 

 Hutchinson, 261 ; Wissenschaftliche Ergebnisse der 

 deutschen Tiefsee-Expedition auf dem Dampfer VahUvia, 

 7898-1899, Beitrage zur Kenntniss der Vegetation der 

 Canarischen Inseln, H. Schenck, das Indische Phyto- 

 plankton, G. Karsten, 267 ; Death of Arthur Lister, 277 ; 



