Nature, "I 



Ntweml-er 26, iqoSJ 



Index 



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A Picture Book of Evolution, Dennis Hird, 3 



Darwinism To-day, Prof. V. L. Kellogg, 3 



Graphics, applied to Aritlimetic, Mensuration, and Statics, 

 G. C. Turner, 4 



Man and his Future, a Glimpse from the Fields of Science, 

 Lieut. -Colonel William Sedgwick, 5 



Developpement et Progrfes de la Fabrication du Malt pen- 

 dant les quarante derniferes Anntes, Ed. Eckenstein, 5 



The Romance of the Sky, the Story of Star-gazing and 

 Star-tracing, being an Introduction to the Study of 

 Astronomy, C. J. Griffith, s 



Mutations, Variations, and Relationships of the Oeno- 

 theras, D. T. Macdougal, A. M. Vail, and G. H. Shall, 

 10 



The History of the Study of Medicine in the British Isles, 

 Dr. Norman Moore, 25 



The California Earthquake of 1906, Prof. J. Milne, 

 F.R.S., 27 



Electric Railways Theoretically and Practically Treated, 

 Sydney W. Ashe, Prof. Gisbert Kapp, 27 



Algebraic Equations, G. B. Malhews, F.R.S., 28 



The Theory of Optical Instruments, E. T. VVhittaker, 28 



Detection of the Common Food Adulterants, E. M. Bruce, 

 28 



Altitude Tables, Frederick Ball, Count de Miremont, 29 



Logarithmic and other Tables for Schools, Frank Castle, 



Praise of a Simple Life, 29 



Three Voyages of a Naturalist, being an Account of 



many little-known Islands in Three Oceans visited by 



the Valhalla, R.V.S., M. J. NicoU, 32 

 Historical Geography of the British Colonies, Australasia, 



J. D. Roger, Sir John A. Cockburn, K.C.M.G., 49 

 The British Tunicata, Joshua Alder and Albany Hancock, 



Prof. Walter Garstang, 50 

 Principles of Breeding, a Treatise on Thremmatology, E. 



Davenport, 51 

 Thermochemistry, Julius Thomsen, 51 

 The Elements of the Geometrv of the Conic, Prof. G. H. 



Bryan, F.R.S., and R. H. Pinkerton, 52 

 Geometry, Theoretical and Practical, W. P. Workman and 



A. G. Cracknell, 52 

 Practical Integration for the Use of Engineers, &c., A. S. 



Percival, 52 

 Integration by Trigonometric and Imaginary Substitution, 



C. O. Gunther, 52 

 A Course in Mathematics for Students of Engineering and 



Applied Science, F. S. Woods and F. H. Bailey, 52 

 Nephilim, William J. H. Bohannan, 53 

 Le Principe de la Conservation de I'Assise et ses Applica- 

 tions, George Matisse, 54 

 The Case for the Goat, 54 

 Confessio Medici, 54 



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 ^ . 



Contribution h la Faune du Congo, Okapia, Julien Frai- 



Pont, 57 

 Year-book of the Khedivial Agricultural Society, Cairo, 



1906, 68 

 Modern Electrical Theory, Norman R. Campbell, 73 

 Scientific Papers, Sir George Howard Darwin, K.C.B., 



F.R.S., 74 

 Roses, their History. Development, and Cultivation, Rev. 



J. H. Pemberton, 75 

 Sir William Temple upon Gardens of Epicurus, with other 



Seventeenth-century Garden Essays, 75 

 Bakterien und ihre Bcdeutung im praktischen Leben, Dr. 



H. Miehe, C. Simmonds, 76 

 Lebensfragen, die Vorgange des Stoffwechsels, Dr. F. B. 



Ahrens, C. Simmonds, 76 

 Studies in Blood Pressure, Physiological and Clinical, Dr. 



George Oliver, 77 

 Dairy Laboratory Guide, Prof. C. W. Melick, 77 

 Discoveries in Hebrew, Gaelic, Gothic, Anglo-Saxon, 



Latin, Basque, and other Caucasic Lang^uages, showing 



Fundamental Kinship of the Aryan Tongues and of 



Basque with the Semitic Tongues, Dr. A. E. Drake, 77 

 A Guide to the Exhibited Series of Insects in the Zoo- 



logical Department (Insect Section), British Museum 



(Natural History), 82 

 Folklore as a Historical Science, G. L. Gomme, 97 

 .\sthetik der Tierwelt, Karl Mobius, 98 

 Stoichiometry, Prof. Sydney Young, F.R.S., 98 

 La Philosophie de Newton, Dr. L6on Bloch, 99 

 The Common Bacterial Infections of the Digestive Tract 



and the Intoxications arising from Them, Prof. C. A. 



Herter, Prof. R. T. Hewlett, 100 

 National Antarctic Expedition, 1901-4, the Charts of the 



Discovery Antarctic Expedition, Lieut. G. F. A. Mulock, 



100 

 Archhelenis und Archinotis, Gesammelte Beitrage zur 



Geschichte der neotropischen Region, Herman von 



Ihering, 100 

 The Moon, a Popular Treatise, Garrett P. Serviss, 101 

 The .\podous Holothurians, H. L. Clark, loi 

 Report of the Superintendent of the Coast and Geodetic 



Survey showing the Progress of the Work from July 1, 



igo6, to June 30, 1907, 113 

 An Introduction to the Mechanics of the Inner Ear, Prof. 



Max Meyer, Prof. John G. McKendrick, F.R.S., 114 

 The Eleventh Dynasty Temple at Deir-el-Bahari, Eduard 



Naville, H. R. Hall, and E. R. Ayrton, 121 

 Thomas Alva Edison, Sixty Years of an Inventor's Life, 



Francis Arthur Jones, Prof. G. H. Bryan, F.R.S., 122 

 Traite de G(;ologie, E. Haug, 123 

 Vegetationsbilder, 124 

 Analysis of Mixed Paints, Colour Pigments, and Varnishes, 



Dr. C. D. Holley and Prof. E. F. Ladd, Dr. A. P. 



Laurie, 125 

 Modern Pigments and their \"ehicles, Frederick Maire, Dr. 



A. P. Laurie, 125 

 A Dictionary of Spanish and Spanish-American Mining, 



Metallurgical, and Allied Terms, to which some Portu- 

 guese and I'ortuguese-American (Brazilian) Terms are 



added, E. Halse, 125 

 Immanuel Kants Metaphysik der Sitten, 126 

 Kirchners Worterbuch der philosophischen Grundbegriffe, 



126 

 B. de Spinoza's kurzgefasste Abhandlung von Gott dem 



Menschen und dessen Gluck, 126 

 G. W. F. Hegel's Phiinomenologie des Geistes, 126 

 The Spectroscope : its Use in General Analytical Chemistry, 



T. Thorne Baker, 12b 

 Der Bedeutung der Reinkultur, Dr. Oswald Richter, 126 

 La Distribution des Etoilcs par rappart a la Voie lact^'C 



d'aprfes la Carte et le Catalogue photographiques du 



Ciel, Paul Stroobant, 129 

 Die Milchstrasse, Prof. Max Wolf, 129 

 Biologia Centrali-Americana, Pisces, C. Tate Regan, 145 

 La Loi des petits Nombres, Charles Henry, 147 

 The Theory of Light, a Treatise on Physical Optics, 



Richard C. Maclaurin, 14S 

 Die .Mpen, Dr. Fritz Machacek, 148 

 Eiszeit und Urgeschichte des Menschen, Prof. Hans Pohlig, 



148 

 Plants of New Zealand, R. M. Laing and E. W. Black- 

 well, 149 

 Soils : their Nature and Management, Primrose McCon- 



nell, 150 

 The Life and Work of George William Stow, South 



African Geologist and Ethnologist, R. B. Young, 150 

 Lessons in Hygienic Physiology, W. M. Coleman, 150 

 L'A^robisation "des Microbes Ana^robies, Georges Rosen- 

 thal, Prof. R. T. Hewlett, 150 

 Anleitung zur KuUur der Mikroorganismen, Dr. Ernst 



Kiister, Prof. R. T. Hewlett, 150 

 Report on the Quality of Cottons grown in British Pos- 

 sessions, Prof. Wyndham Dunstan, F.R.S., 154 

 Meteorological Atlas of the Indian Seas and the North 



Indian Ocean, W. L. Dallas, 169 

 Tropical Medicine, Hygiene, and Parasitology, Gilbert E. 



Brooke, Colonel David Bruce, C.B., F.R.S., 170 

 .\ Monograph of the British Annelids, Prof. W. C. 



Mcintosh, F.R.S., 171 

 Principles of Direct-current Electrical Engineering, J. R. 



Barr, 172 

 A Handbook of Employments, Mrs. Ogilvie Gordon, 



173 



