, Nature, ~| 



Nozicinbcr 25, 1909J 



Index 



xxxvu 



Ihe Faith and Works of Christian Science, 513 



Semitic Magic, its Origins and Development, K. Campbell 



Thompson, 514 

 , British Rainfall, 1908, Dr. Hugh Robert Mill, 514 

 La Mesure rapide des Bases geod^siques, J. Ren6 Benoit 



and Ch. Ed. Guillaume, 515 

 Bibliotheca Geographica, 515 

 The Invicta Number Scheme, J. W. Ladner, 515 



Reynolds (Prof. J. Emerson, E.R.S.), Recent .•\dvanccs in 

 Our Knowledge of Silicon and of its Relations to Orga- 

 nised Structures, Discourse at Royal Institution, 20b 

 Reynolds (Prof. S. H.), the British Pleistocene Canid^, 505 

 Ivhead (E. L.), Causes of Corrosion of Copper and Brass, 



540 

 Rheims, .Aviation Week at, 295 

 Ricco (Prof.), Prominence Observations, iii ; the Spcctro- 



heliograph of the Catania Observatory, 376 

 Richardson (R. E.), the Fishes of Illinois, 216 

 Richter's (V. v.) Chemie der Kohlenstoffverbindungen oder 



organische Cbcmie, Dr. R. Anschiitz and Dr. G. 



Schroeter, 215 

 Ridley (H. N.), Classification of Scitaminese as Represented 



in the Philippine Islands, 312 

 Ries (Dr. H.), History of the Clayworking Industry in the 



United States, 452 

 Rigge (Father), the Solar Eclipse of June 17, 1909, 171 

 Righi (Prof. .A.), La materia radiante e i raggi magnetici, 



245 

 Ringing of House-bells, Occasional Unexplained, Sir Oliver 



Lodge, F.R.S., 98; Rev. C. L. Tweedale, 189; Dr. John 



Aitken. F.R.S., 246 

 Ristenpart (F. W.), Search-ephemerides for Comet 1896 



VII. (Perrine), 170; Re-discovery of Perrine's Comet, 



22Q ; Comet 1909b (Perrine's 1896 VII.), 267 

 Roads, Dustless, Tar Macadam, a Practical Treatise for 



Engineers, Surveyors, and Others, T. Walker Smith, 92 

 Roberts (W. M.), a First Dynamics, 156 

 Robertson (Dr.). Tuberculosis, 142 

 Robinson (Dr. C. B.), Botanv of the Philippine Islands, 



= 65 

 Robinson (H. C), Fauna of the Malay Peninsula, 495 

 Rock Paintings of the Lower Ebro, TAbb^ Breuil and Juan 



Cabre, 522 

 Rocks and Rock Minerals, L. V. Pirsson, 242 

 Rodman (Dr. G. H.), Historical Collection of Si.xty-thrce 



R6ntgen-Ray Tubes, 198 

 Rogers (Major Leonard), on the Poison of Venomous 



Snakes and the Methods of Preventing Death from their 



Bite, iSb 

 Rolfe (R. .A.), Polymorphism in the Flower in the Orchid 



Cycnoches, 226 

 Rolston (William E.), the .Approaching Opposition of Mars, 



336 

 Rontgen Rays in the Diagnosis of Disease, 220 

 Rontgenuntersuchung der Brustorgane und ihre Ergebnisse 



fiir Physiologic und Pathologic, die. Dr. Hans Arnsperger, 



222 

 Rosa (E. B.), New Method of Determining an Electrical 



Resistance in .Absolute Measure, 266 

 Roscoe (Rev. J.), Cult of the Python at Uganda, 18 

 Rose (Dr. J. \.), the Genus Cereus, 462 

 Rosenheim (Dr. Otto), Nomenclature of Lipoid Substances, 



496 

 Rossi (R.), Effect of Pressure on the Band Spectra of the 



Fluorides of the Metals of the Alkaline Earths, 27 

 Rotch (Prof. .A. Lawrence), Observations and Investigations 



made at the Blue Hill Meteorological Observatory, 



Massachusetts, U.S.A., under the Direction of, 223 ; 



Highest Balloon Ascent in America, 473 

 Rougier (M.l, Record in Altitude Flight, 371 

 Rousselet (C. F.), Geographical Distribution of Rotifera, 



505 

 Roussy (.A.). Life of Fungi in Fatty Media, 360 

 Rowswell (Basil T.), the Recent Magnetic Storm and 



Aurora, 136 

 Royal Institution, Improvements in Production and Appli- 

 cation of Guncotton and Nitroglycerine, Sir Frederic L. 



Nathan at, 144, 17S ; Recent Advances in our Knowledge 



of Silicon and of its Relations to Organised Structures, 



Prof. J. Emerson Reynolds, F.R.S., 206; Osmotic 



Phenomena and their Modern Physical Interpretation, 



Prof. H. L. Callendar, F.R.S., 235 

 Royal .Meteorological Society, 28 

 Royal Observatory and Electric Tramways, the, 399 

 Royal Society, 25, 56 ; the Royal Society Conversazione, 



20 ; Reports of the Sleeping Sickness Commission of the 



Royal Society, 73 

 Royal Society of Arts, Modern Methods of Illumination, 



Leon Gaster at, 500 

 Royal Society, Dublin, 89 

 Royal Society, Edinburgh, 29, 59, 148 

 Royal Society, New South Wales, 330 

 Royal Society of South Africa, Cape Town, 30, 231, 270, 



510 



Royal Society of Sciences, Gottingen, 270 



Royal Statistical Society, the National Consumption of 

 Water, W. R. B. V\'iseman at, Maurice Fitzmaurice, 

 C..M.G., 47 



Rozenband (Mile. M.), Paralysing Influence E.xercised by 

 Certain Acids on .Alcoholic Fermentation, 210 



Rubber : Hevea brasilicnsis or Para Rubber, its Botany, 

 Cultivation, Chemistry, and Diseases, Herbert Wright, 

 3 ; the Manufacture of Rubber Goods, Adolf Hell and 

 Dr. W. Esch, 391 



Rudorf (Dr. G.), Kohlrausch's " Physical Measurements," 

 220 



Ruediger (E. H.), Chamberland Filter will not Allow the 

 Cattle-plague Virus to Pass Through, 196 



Rugan (Prof. H. F.), Growth of Cast Irons after Re- 

 peated Heatings, 437 



Russ (C), Electrical Reactions of Certain Bacteria applied 

 to the Detection of Tubercle Bacilli in Urine by Means 

 of an Electric Current, 57 



Russell (Dr. A.), the Coefficients of Capacity and the 

 Mutual Attractions or Repulsion of Two Electrified 

 Spherical Conductors when Close Together, 27 



Russell (Dr.), Electromagnetic Method of Studying the 

 Theory of and Solving Algebraical Equations of any 

 Degree, 119 



Russell (Dr. E. J.), Factors Determining the Yield of 

 Wheat, 475, 535 : Problems of the Stock Feeder, 470 ; 

 Conservation of Soil Fertility, 536 



Russell (Frank), the Pima Indians, 230 



Russell (Mr.), Bovine Tuberculosis in Wisconsin, :66 



Ruston (A. G.), the Nature and Extent of Air Pollution by 

 Smoke, Paper at Health Congress, 468 



Rutherford (Prof. E., M.A., D.Sc, F.R.S.), Opening 

 Address in Section A at the Meeting of the British Asso- 

 ciation at Winnipeg, 257 ; Methods of Separation of 

 Radio-active Products, 470 ; Action of a Rays upon Glass, 

 471 ; Effect of Temperature Variations on the Lumin- 

 ous Discharge in Gases for Low Pressures, 473 



Ruwenzori. II, parte scientifica : risultati delle osservazioni 

 di S..A.R. 11 Principe Luigi .Amedeo di Savola, Duca 

 degli .Abruzzi, Sir H. H. Johnston, G.C.M.G., K.C.B., 

 31 



Sabatier (Paul), Action of Metallic Oxides on Methyl 



Alcohol, 59 

 Sadler (Charles A.), Homogeneous Corpuscular Radiation, 



X Sagittarii, the Orbit of, a Cepheid Variable, J. H. Moore, 

 170 



Sainsbury (Dr. Harrington), Drugs and the Drug Habit, 

 271 



St. Laurent (Mr.), Deep Water and Railway Communica- 

 tions, 448 



Salet (M.), the Polarisation of the Solar Corona, 46 



Salomon (Wilhelm), die .Adamellogruppe, ein alpines Zen- 

 tralmassiv, und seine Bedeutung fiir die Gebirgsbildung 

 und unsere Kenntniss von dem Mechanismus der Intru- 

 sionen, loi 



Samuel (T.), an Elementary Course in Practical Science, 



363 

 Sands, Musical, Cecil Carus-Wilson, 69, 159; Rev. Dr. A. 



Irving, 99 

 Sands, Musical, in Chile, M. H. Gray, 126 

 Santos-Dumont's (M.) Aeroplane Flights, 352 

 Saturn : Observations of Saturn and its Rings, M. Schaer, 



