Nature, 1 



Noz'cniber 26, igoSj 



Index 



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Solar Eclipse of January 3, 1908, the Total, Dr. William 



J. S. Lockjer, 8 

 Solar Eclipse of May 8, 1910, the Total, J. K. Tennant, 



136 

 Solar Eclipse of December 22-23, '908, I'rof. \V. Krebs, 



330. 377 



Solar Halo, a Long-lived, Catharine O. Stevens, 221 ; 

 Charles J. P. Cave, 247 



Solar Phenomena and 1 errestrial Temperatures, Dr. J. 

 Loiscl, bo 



Solar Prominences in 1907, Prof. Ricco, 207 



Solar Radiation, a Possibly Undiscovered Form of, E. 

 Durand-Greville, 436 ; M. Deslandres, 43b 



Solar Rotation determined from Hydrogen Phenomena, 

 the. Prof. W. S. Adams, iS 



Solar Rotation as determined from the Motion of Dark 

 Calcium Flocculi, Philip Fox, 580 



Solar Spectrum, the D3 (Helium) .Absorption Line in the 

 Normal, J. Evershed, 38 ; Captain Daunt, 470 



Solar System, the, Charles Lane Poor, William E. 

 Rolston, 629 



Solar Vortices and Magnetic Fields, E. Percival Lewis, 

 569 ; sec also Sun 



Sollas (Prof.), on Mountain Building, 592 



Solomon (Maurice), Recent Developments in Electric 

 Lamps, 183 



.Somerville (Commander Boyle), the Submerged Plateau 

 surrounding Ceylon, 156 



Sommerville (Dr. JL Y.), Sunset and Twilight Curves and 

 Related Phenomena, 167 



Soulie (E.), an Amateur's Meridian Instrument, 281 



South-Eastern Union of Scientific Societies, 164 



Southern (R.), the Vascular System of Stylodrilus, 648 



Southwell (T.), Sealing in 1907, 15 



Space, Through the Depths of, Hector Macphcrson, jun., 

 W. E. Rolston, 507 



Space and Number, Leonard J. Russell, 305 ; Ottavio 

 Zanotti Bianco, 343 



Spanish, a Dictionary of, and Spanish-.^merican Mining, 

 Metallurgical, and Allied Terms, to which some Portu- 

 guese and Portuguese-American (Brazilian) Terms are 

 Added, E. Raise, 125 



Sparkman (P. S.), the Luiseno Tribe of Indians, 469 



Spectroscopy : the Spectroscope, its L^ses in General 

 Analytical Chemistry, T. Thorne Baker, 126; Handbuch 

 der Spectroscopic, H. Kayser, 33S 



Spectrum .Analysis : Echelon Spectroscopes and the Green 

 Mercury Line, H. Stansfield, 8; the D, (Helium) 

 .Absorption Line in the Normal Solar Spectrum, J. Ever- 

 shed. 38 ; the Dark D, Line in the Sun, Mr. Buss, 136 : 

 D, (Helium) Absorption in the Solar Spectrum, Captain 

 Daunt, 470 ; Dispersion of Gaseous Mercury, Sulphur, 

 Phosphorus, and Helium, C. Cuthbertson and E. Parr 

 Metcalfe, 45 ; on Dispersion and Spectrum Series, G. A. 

 Schott, 55 ; New Dark Space in Helium, F. VV. Aston. 

 60 ; Spectroscopic Binaries, Mr. Harper, 88 ; Peculiar 

 Orbit of a Spectroscopic Binary, 330 ; the Orbits of 

 Several Spectroscopic Binaries, Mr. Plummer, 517; 

 W. H. Wright, 517: A. B. Turner, 517; Photographic 

 .Action of Infra-red Light, .A. Gargam de Moncetz, 95 ; 

 the Spectrum Top. F. P. Sexton, 166; Absorption Spectra 

 of Solutions, Prof. H. C. Jones, 188; Absorption Spectra 

 of the Hydrocarbons isolated from the Products of the 

 .Action of .Aluminium Chloride on Naphthalene, Miss A. 

 Homer and J. D. Purvis, 191 ; a Probable New Fluting 

 in the Spectrum of Magnesium Oxide, E. E. Brooks, 

 198; Recent Work with the Spectroheliograph, Profs. 

 Hale and Ellerman, 200; Photography of Very Faint 

 Spectra, R. W. Wood. 232 ; Magnetic Resolution of 

 Spectral Lines, Prof. P. Zeeman, 233 ; Spark Lines 

 (Enhanced Lines) in Flames at Various Temperatures, 

 G. A. Hemsalech and C. de Watteville, 240 ; Spectrum 

 of the Radium Emanation, Prof. E. Rutherford, F.R.S., 

 and T. Royds, 220; Sir William Ramsay, K.C.B., F.R.S., 

 and A. T. Cameron, 245 ; Optical Constants of Gypsum 

 at Different Temperatures and the Mitscherlich Experi- 

 ment, Dr. A. E. H. Tutton, F.R.S., 260; " Seleno- 

 aluminium Bridges," Prof. George M. Minchin, F.R.S., 

 310; a Case of Anomalous Rotatory Dispersion', Eugene 

 Darmois, 311 ; Connection between Band and Line 

 Spectra of the same Metallic Elements, Prof. W. N. 



Hartley, F'.R.S., 350; Quantitative Indications furnished 

 by Dissociation .Spectra, Silver, A. de Gramont, 359 ; Solar 

 Vortices, Prof. Hale, 368 ; Solar Magnetic Fields and 

 Spectrum .Analysis, Prof. P. Zeeman, 369 • Registration 

 of the Upper Layer of Calcium in the Solar Atmosphere, 

 H. Deslandres and L. d'.Azambuja, 3S4 ; the Spectrum of 

 the Nebula HV 15 Cygni, Prof. Max Wolf, 471 ; 

 .Anomalous Forms of the Calcium Line, K, in Pro- 

 minences, Prof. Belopolsky, 4S6 ; the Spectrum of Scan- 

 dium and its Relation to the Solar Spectra, Prof. .A. 

 Fowler, 504 



Speleology : I'EvoIution soutcrraine, E. A. Martel, 2 



Spicer (Rev. E. C), Solulinn \'alleys in the Glyme .Area of 

 O.xfordshire, 117 



Spider, on the Change of Colour in the Eyes of an Attis, 

 T. Padmanabha Pillai, 631 



Spinoza's (B. de) Kurzgefasste .Abhandkmg von Gott, dem 

 Menschen und dessen Gluck, 126 



Splashes, a Studv of. Prof. A. M. Worthington C.B., 

 F.R.S., C. V. Boys, F.R.S., 666 



Spooner (H), the Royal Gardens, Kew, 318 



Staffordshire and Shropshire for 1907, Field Experiments 

 in, 188 



Stansfield (H.), Echelon Spectroscopes and the Green 

 Mercury Line, S 



Stanton (Dr. T. E.), Wind Pressure, 79 



Stapf (Dr. Otto, F.R.S.), Genera Siphonogamarum ad 

 .Systema Englerianum conscripta. Dr. K. W. von Dalla 

 Torre and Dr. H. Harms, 195 ; New Rubber Plant 

 Raphionacme iitijis, 204 ; Garileiiia Tliunhcrgia and its 

 ■Allies, 261 ; a Rubber-yielding Tree of Indo-China, 

 Blcckrodea tonkinefisis, 304; Supplementum Conspectus 

 F"lor;t; Grajcee, E. de Haldcsy, 341 



Stars : the Romance of the Sky, the Story of Star-gazing 

 and Star-tracing, being an Introduction to the Studv of 

 Astronomy, C. J. Griffith, 5 ; the Light Curve of 5 

 Cephci, Joel Stebbins, 38 ; the Masses of a Carinse and 

 a Pavonis, H. C. Plummer, 38 ; Variable Star Work at 

 the Laws Observatory, Missouri, 65 ; Correlation of 

 Stellar Characters, Miss Gibson and Prof. Karl Pearson, 

 65 ; Photometric Observations of Short-period Variable 

 Stars, H. v. Zeipel, 66 ; the Relative Accuracy of Variable 

 Double-Star Observers, V. Ehrenfeucht, 66 ; Double-star 

 Observers, Mr. Lewis, 88 ; Double Stars, E. D. Roe. 

 jun., 255 ; Catalogue and Re-measurement of the 648 

 Double -Stars discovered by Prof. G. W. Hough, Prof. 

 Doolittle, 276 ; Double-star Measures, Prof. Burnham, 

 306 ; One Hundred New Double Stars, Prof. R. G. 

 .Aitken, 377 : the Hypothetical Parallaxes of Double 

 Stars, Dr. Doberck, 486 ; Spectroscopic Binaries, Mr. 

 Harper, 88 ; Peculiar Orbit of a Spectroscopic Binary, 

 330 ; the Orbits of Several Spectroscopic Binaries, Mr. 

 Plummer, 517; W. H. Wright, 517; .A. B. Turner, 517; 

 the Orbit of a Andromeda;, Mr. Baker, iii; Herr 

 Ludendorff, 136 ; the Radial Velocity of Algol, Prof. 

 Belopolsky, iii, 612 ; the Orbit of Algol, Dr. Schlesinger, 

 2S1 ; Dr. Curtiss, 281 ; the Radial Velocity of € Urs« 

 Majoris, Messrs. Baker and Schlesinger, 11 1 ; la Distribu- 

 tion des Etoiles par rapport h la Voie lact^e d'aprfes la 

 Carte et le Catalogue photographiques du Ciel, Paul 

 Stroobant, 129 ; die Milchstrasse, Prof. Max Wolf, 129 ; 

 Photographic Determination of Star Colours, Messrs. 

 Parkhurst and Jordan, 158 ; the Maximum of Mira in 

 October, 1907, Dr. .A. A. Nijland, 158; Radial Velocities 

 of Ninety-nine Stars, Prof. Kustner and Dr. Zurhellen, 

 232 ; the Observations of Coloured Stars, Herr Osthoff, 

 232 ; Photometric Observations of Eros, Dr. Paul 

 Guthnick, 232 ; Catalogue of 1680 Stars for the Equinox 

 :90o-o from Observations made at the Royal Observatory, 

 Cape of Good Hope, during the years 1905-6, Sir David 

 Gill, K.C.B., F.R.S., 258; a Variable Star of Remark- 

 ably Short Period, M. Baillaud, 351 ; the Parallax of 

 61 Cygni, Giorgio Abetti, 435 : Observations of Variable 

 Stars, 436 ; the Orbit of C Cancri C, Prof. Doberck, 550 : 

 the Effect of Star-colours upon the Constant of Astro- 

 nomical Refractions, Mr. Hirayama, 612 ; Photometric 

 Observations of Variable Stars, A. Tass, 612 ; the Orbit 

 of 42 Comas Berenices (2 1728), Dr. Doberck, 644 

 Statistics : Kraft, Okonomische, technische und kultur- 

 geschichtliche Studien iiber die Machtentfaltung der 

 Staaten, Prof. E. Rever, 660 



