A'oveitiifi:r 25, 1909J 



Index 



XXXIX 



Shiill iDr. G. H,), the Shepherd's Purse, 354; Deleriora- 

 tioii that Follows upon Self-fertilisation or Inbreeding 

 uf tlic Maize Plant, 402 



Shutt (F. T.), Influence of Environment on the Composi- 

 tion of Wheat, 475 ; Pig-feeding, 476 ; Influence of 

 Environment on the Composition of the Grain, 535 ; 

 Soil Problems, 536 



iSidgreaves (Rev. Walter), the Magnetic Storm, 426 



Sight, a First Study of the Inheritance of Vision and of 

 the Relative Influence of Heredity and Environment on, 

 Amy Harrington and Karl Pearson, F.R.S., 49 



Silicon, Recent Advances in our Knowledge of, and of its 

 Relations to Organised Structures, Prof. J. EniKTSon 

 Reynolds, F.R.S., at Royal Institution, 206 



Simmonds (C), Essays, Biographical and Chemical, Sir 

 William Ramsay, K.C.B., F.R.S., 122 ; Chemical 

 Technologv and .Analysis of Oils, Fats, and ^^'axes, Dr. 

 J. Lewkowitsch, 211 



Sinipson (Prof. Sutherland), Tracts in the Spinal Cord, 

 507; the Pyramidal Tract in the Sheep and Guinea-pig, 

 50S 



Simpson (Prof. W. J.), Sanitation and Public Health in 

 West .African Colonies, 374 



Sinhalese Art, Medieval, .Ananda K. Coomaraswamy, 39 



Sirius, the Faint Companions of Procyon and. Prof. 

 Barnard, 229 



Skiagrams, an .Atlas of. illustrating the Development of 

 the Teeth, with Explanatory Text, Dr. J. Symington, 

 F.R.S., and Dr. J. C. Rankin, 334 



Sladen, Percy, Memorial Expedition in South-west .Africa, 

 1908-9, Prof. H. H. W". Pearson, 466, 499 



Sleeping Sickness Commission of the Royal Society, Re- 

 ports of the, 73 



Slipher (Mr.), Observations of Saturn, 405 



Smalian (Dr. K.), Naturwissenschaftliches Unterrichts- 

 werk fur hohere Madchenschulen, 273 



Smith (Prof. C. A.), Results of some Experiments on 

 Solid Steel Bars under Combined Stress, 355 ; Elastic 

 Breakdown of Non-ferrous Metals, 540 



Smith (C. F.), A'ectors and Vector Diagrams .Applied to 

 Alternating Current Circuit, 93 



Smith (G.), a Naturalist in Tasmania, 61 



Smith (Geoffrey), the Presence of Hcemoglobin in Inverte- 

 brate Blood, 395 



Smith (Major G. E.), Report of the Survey Department 

 of British East .Africa, 313 



Smith (Dr. G. Elliot), Prehistoric Cemeteries at Kosh- 

 ■ tamna, in Nubia, 46^ 



Smith (Dr. G. F. Herbert), Phenakite from Brazil, 28 



Smith (H. M.), the Herring-fisheries of the W'orld, 433 



Smith (Prof. Michie), Large Disturbances of Seismographs 

 by Distant Earthquake .Shocks, 524 



Smith (T. Walker), Dustless Roads, Tar Macadam. .1 

 Practical Treatise for Engineers, Surveyors, and Others, 



Q2 



Smith (W. G.), Eoliths found with Remains of EJcphas 



meridionaUs at Dewlish, in Dorset, 266 

 Smoke, the Nature and Extent of .Air Pollution by, Prof. 



J. B. Cohen and .A. G. Ruston at Health Congress, 



468 

 Smolenski (Dr. Georg von). Causes of the .Asymmetrical 



Form of the North-and-south River Valleys in Galicia, 



374 

 'Snakes : A'enoms, A^enomous .Animals, and Anti-venomous 



Serum-therapeutics, Dr. -A. Calmette, 154 ; on the Poison 



of A'enomous Snakes and the Methods of Preventing 



Death from their Bite, .Sir Joseph Fayrer, Sir Lauder 



Brunton, and Major Leonard Rogers. 186 

 Snelling (W. O.), Use of Platinum Felt as a Filtering 



Medium, 404 

 Snodgrass (R. E.), Uniformity of Thoracic Structure in all 



Orders of Insects, 135 

 Soil Bacteria, the Fixation of Nitrogen by, -A. D. Hall, 



F.R.S., 98 

 Solar -Atmosphere. Hydrogen Layers in the, MM. 



Deslnndres and d'.Azambuja, 498 

 Solar Eruptions, ^lasnetic Storms and. Sir Oliver Lodge, 



F.R.S., 425, 456; Dr. C. Chree. F.R.S., 456 

 Solar Facula;, the Nature of, M. Deslandres. 465 

 Solar Observations : a Novel Spectroscope, W. M. Mitchell, 



408 



Solar Research, A. A. Buss, 200 



Soliraan (M. Georges), Etirage, Trefilage, Dressage des 

 Produits m^tallurgiques, 68 



Solomon (Alaurice), Modern Electric Practice, 151 



Somerset, Cambridge County Geographies, Francis .A. 

 Knight and Louie M. Dutton, 18S 



Somerville (Captain Boyle T.), Notes on a Stone Circle 

 in County Cork, 126 



Somerville (Prof.), Forestry Problems, 536 



Sommerfeld (Prof. .A.), Wave-propagation iii Wireless Tele- 

 graphy, 81 



Sommerfeldt (Prof. E.), Some Notes on Mineralogy, 150 



■Sorby Research Fellowship, the, 42 



South Kensington, the Science Collections at, 84 



Southall's Organic .Materia Medica, J. Barclay, Prof. 

 Henry G. Greenish, 184 



Southwell (T.), Inspection of Pearl-banks between Dutch 

 Hay Pt)int and Negombo, 461 



Southwell (Thomas), Death of, 311; Obituary Notice of, 

 351 



Space, the .-Ether of, Charles W. Raffety, 127 



Sparrow (C. M.), Physiology of Nematocysts, 107 



Species, the Making of, Douglas Dewar and Frank Finn, 

 ProL R. Meldola, F.R.S., 481 



Spectroscopy : Wratten Light Filter, 435 ; Solar Observa- 

 tions : a Novel Spectroscope, W. M. Mitchell, 498 



Spectrum .Analysis : Photographs of the Spectrum of 

 Scandium, .A. Fowler, 20 ; Spectroscope for Estimating 

 Colour Perception, Dr. F. Edridge-Green, 20; Nature 

 of the Hydrogen Flocculi on the Sun, Prof. G. E. Hale, 

 26 ; Origin of Certain Lines in the Spectrum of € Orionis, 

 Sir Norman Lockyer, K.C.B., F.R.S., F. E. Baxandall, 

 and C. P. Butler, 26 ; Effect of Pressure on the Band 

 Spectra of the Fluorides of the Metals of the .Alkaline 

 Earths, R. Rossi, 27 ; Untersuchung und Nachweis 

 organische Farbstoffe auf spektroskopischen Wege, J. 

 Form^inek, 37 ; Spectrum of Magnesium Hydride, Prof. 

 A. Fowler, 58; Supplementary Investigations of Infra- 

 red Spectra, Prof. Wm. W. Coblentz, 82 ; Comparison 

 of the .Spectra of the Centre and Edge of the Sun's 

 Disc, M.M. Buisson and Fabry, no; Study of Rotatory 

 Dispersion, Dr. T. M. Lowry, 119; Variation in Relative 

 Intensity of Helium Lines, P. G. Nutting and Orin 

 Tugman, 189 ; the Spectroscopic Binary Orionis, J. 

 Plaskett, 267 ; the Orbits of Certain Spectroscopic 

 Binaries, R. H. Baker, 29S : F. C. Jordan, 208; New 

 Spectroscopic Binaries, 315; Zeeman Effect in the Spec- 

 trum of Titanium, Dr. A. S. King, 354: the Spectro- 

 heliograph of the Catania Observatory, Prof. Ricco, 

 376 ; Hcc Images on Spectroheliograms, M. Deslandres, 

 376 : Mr. Buss, 376 : Multii)le ATonochromatic Images of 

 ihe Sun given by the Large Lines of the Spectrum. 

 H. Deslandres and L. d'.Azambuja, 420; Influence of 

 the Surrounding Medium on th" Lines of the Spark 

 Spectrum, Dr. H. Finger, 496; Spectrographic Analysis 

 of Blendes, G. Urbain, 510; New Lines in the Calcium 

 Spectrum, Prof. James Barnes. 527 ; Stars having 

 Peculiar Spectra, 529; Quantitative Measures of the 

 Oxygen Bands in the Spectrum of Mars, Prof. Very, 



Speech, the Science of, an Elemenl n'v M.Tnual of En^ilish 

 Phonetics for Te;tchers, Benjamin Dimi\ille, Prof. John 

 G. McKendrick, F.R.S., 124 



Speech, the .Analysis of Sounds used in, Edwin Edser, 533 



Speyer (E R.,) Occurrence in Sussex of the Continental 

 Dragon-fly SomatoMora meiallica, 462 



Spitsbergen! Scottish Expedition to. Dr. William S. Bruce, 



87 

 Spitzer (Mr.), Estimation of Fat in I nsweetened Evaporated 



Milk, 226 

 .Spontaneous Combustion, Dr. John Knott, 26S 

 Spooner (Dr. D. B.), Remarkable Discovery in the Neigh- 

 bourhood of Peshawar, 232 

 Springer (Dr. .Alfred), .Anti-putresc-nt Effects of Copper 



Salts, in Particular towards the Bacteria of Milk, ±-jj 

 Squier (E. G.), the .Archa;ology and Ethnology of 



Nicaragua, 269 

 Slabilitv of .Aeroplanes, the. Prof. Herbert Chatlev, 366 ; 



Prof.G. H. Bryan, F.R.S., 366 

 Starkhouse (J. Foster), Hypsometrical Model of the District 



of Ingleborough, 267 



