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Index 



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\_I^ oz'etnbcr 26, 1908 



Encke's Cornel, iqoSb, 158; Observations of Encke's 



Comet, 351 T^' 1. o 



Woodland (W.), Mew Gland in Teleostean Fishes, lib 

 Woods (F. S.), a Course in Mathematics for Students of , 



Enrtineering and Applied Science, 52 ' 



Woodward (A. Smith), Fossil Fishes in Cretaceous Forma- ■ 



tion at llhtos, Brazil, 142; the Fossil Fishes of the \ 



Hawkesburv Series at St. Peter's, 476 

 AVoodward (H. P.), Geology of the Cue and Day Dawn 



Districts, Murchison Goldfield, 16 

 Woolacott (Dr.) on Earth Movements, 591 

 Workman (Dr. and Mrs. Bullock), Survey of the Hispar 



Glacier in Hunza-Nagar, 577 

 AVorkman (W. P.), Geometry, Theoretical and Practical, 52 

 AVorms : Giant Nerve Cells and Fibres of Halla par- 



Ihcnopcia, Dr. J. H. Ashworth, 655 

 Worth (R. Hansford), Submarine Stratigraphy of the 



English Channel, 253 

 Worthington (Prof. A. M., C.B., F.R.S.), a Study of ; 



Splashes, 666 . 



Wright (OrviUe), Aeroplane Flights in America, 483 ; Acci- 

 dent to OrviUe Wright's Aeroplane, 513 

 Wright (Wilbur), .Aeroplane Flight, 347, 513; \\ ilbur 



Wright's Aeroplane, 545; Flight on October 6, 576; on t 



October 10, 608 j 



Wright (Prof.), Saturn's Rings, 255 , | 



Wright (W. H.), the Orbits of Several Spectroscopic 



Binaries, 517 

 Wiillner (Prof. .Adolf). Death and Obituary Notice of, 640 



:X-Rays, .Absorption of. Dr. C. G. Barkla and C. A. 

 Sadler, 245 ; sec Radiography 



Vamashina (H.I.H. Prince), Death and Obituary Notice 

 of, 277 



Yendo (K.), the Fucaceae, 230 



Yerkes Observatory, the Forty-inch Objective of the, Philip 

 Fox, 1S2 



A'lJrk CJamcs E.), Physical Qualities of Steel in Relation 

 to its Mechanical Treatment, 67 



Yoshida (Dr. Y.), an Investigation on the Secondary Un- 

 dulations of Oceanic Tides, carried out by the Order of 

 the Earthquake Investigation Committee during 1903-6, 

 249 



'A^oung (Prof.), Geologv and Mineralogy of Albany, 216 



Young (R. B.), the Life and Work of George AVilliam 

 Stow, South .African Geologist and Ethnologist, 150 



A'oung (Prof. Sydney. F.R.S.), Stoichiometry, 98 

 Young (W. J.),' Fermentation of Mannose and Ljevulose 

 by Y'east-juice, 93; Function of Phosphates in the 

 Fermentation of Glucose by Yeast-juice, 117 



Zappa (Dr.), Comet Morehouse, 1908c, 612 

 ;Zepman (Prof. P.), Magnetic Resolution of Spectral Lines, 

 233 ; Solar Alagnetic Fields and Spectrum .Analysis, 369 



Zeipel (H. v.). Photometric Observations of Short-period 



Variable Stars, 66 

 Zeppelin's (Count) Successful Flight in his New Airship, 



228; Count Zeppelin's Ascent, 325; Voyage on August 4, 



347 

 Zimmern (A.), Thermal Effects of High-frequency Currents 



on the Organism, 72 

 Zircons, the Halos Round, in Biotite, A. R. Hunt, 19S 

 Zoology : Appearance of the Slug Testacella in a Flooded 

 District, M. D. Hill, 8; Death of Prof. K. A. M5bius, 

 34 ; Obituary Notice of, 82 ; Variation in the Lobster, 

 Prof. D. C. M'lntosh, 35; Zoological Society, 4b, 118, 

 143, 260; the British Tunicata, Joshua Alder and Albany 

 Hancock, Prof. Walter Garstang, 50 ; Contribution a la 

 Faune du Congo, vol. i., Okapia, Julien Fraipont, 66; 

 Is the Okapi Identical with the " Thahash " of the 

 Jews? S. M. Perlmann, 327: Variations in Secondary 

 Genital Structures of Land-planarians correlated with 

 Geographical Distribution, Dr. W. E. Bendl, 85 ; 

 Asthetik der Tierwelt, Karl Mobius, 98; the Apodous 

 Holothurians, H. L. Clark, loi ; Geographical Distribu- 

 tion of the Acarine Family Oribatida;, C. Warburton, 

 119; Death and Obituary Notice of Dr. Oswald Seeliger, 

 156; a Monograph of the British .Annelids, Prof. AV. C. 

 Mcintosh, F.R.S., 171 ; Death and Obituary Notice of 

 George Sim, 179 ; Migration of Elephant Stock, Prof. 

 H. F. Osborn, 187; Crystallographic Study of Ha-mo- 

 oiobins, a Contribution to the Specificity of A'ital Sub- 

 stances in Different Vertebrates, Prof. E. T. Reichyt 

 and A. P. Brown, 187; Death of Prof. J. A'. Barbosa 

 du Bocage, 228; on the Shapes of Eggs and the Causes 

 which Determine Them, Prof. D'Arcy W'entworth 

 Thompson, C.B., at Zoological Society, iii ; Corr., 158; 

 A. R. Horwood, 240 ; Vestiges of Scales in the Fox, 

 k. Toldt, 250 ; the Taxonomy and Geographical Distri- 

 bution of Brachiopods, F. Blochmann, 278 ; the Work of 

 John Samuel Budgett, Balfour Student of the University 

 of Cambridge, A. E. Shiplev, F.R.S., Richard .Assheton, 

 Edward J. Bles, Edward T. 'Browne, J. Herbert Budgett, 

 and J. Graham Kerr, 313; the Ciliated " Urns '^ of the 

 Sipunculids, Sir E. Ray Lankester, K.C.B., F.R.S., 318; 

 the A'ertebrate Fauna of North Wales, H. E. Forrest, 

 -,2i ; Vestiges of Teeth in Pangolin Group of Mammals, 

 br.H. \A'. Marett Tims, 327; Variations and Genetic 

 Relationships of the American Garter-snakes, A. C. 

 Ruthven, 374 ; Ancestry of the Tailed Amphibians, Dr. 

 R. L. Movelic, 375 ; the Preservation of Well-established 

 Names in Zoofogical Nomenclature, 394 ; Capture of 

 Sowerbv's Beaked Whale at Bergen, 399; Nature and 

 Causes' of Dwarf Faunas, Prof. H. W. Shimer, 433; 

 the Size of the Mammoth, F. A. Lucas, 443 : Death of 

 Prof. J. G. Hjalmar Kinberg, 513; the Placing of the 

 American Prong-buck (Antilocapra), M. W. Lyon, 610; 

 Pearls and Parasites, A. E. Shipley, F.R.S.. 662; 

 Determination of Sex, a Correction, Prof. W. Bateson, 

 F.R.S., 665; Mice, Voles and Shrews from the 

 Economic Standpoint, 676 ; see also British Association 

 Zurhellen (Dr.), Radial Velocities of Ninety-nine Stars, 

 232 



