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Index 



r Nature, 



\_Ncz'euiber 25, 1909 



history of Diphlebia lestoides. Selys, R. J- TiUyard, 330 ; 

 Our Food from the Waters, Prof. W. A. Herdman, 



. F.R.S., 356; Exploration of the Fauna and Flora of the 

 Waters of Lake Tanganyika, 461 ; Inspection of Pearl- 

 banks between Dutch Bay Point and Negombo, T. 

 Southwell and J. C. Kerkham, 461 



Marloth (Dr. Rudolf), Wissenschaftliche Ergebnisse der 

 deutschen Tiefsee-E.xpedition auf dem Dampfer Valdivia, 

 1898-1S99, das Kapland, insonderheit das Reich der 

 Kapflora, das Waldgebiet und die Karroo, pflanzen- 

 geographisch dargestellt, 129 ; New South African Succu- 

 lents, 240 ; Absorption of Water by Aerial Organs of 

 Plants, 270 



Marr (J. E., F.R.S.), the Howgill Fells and their Topo- 

 graphy, 89 



Marriott (W.), Some Facts About the Weather, 45 



Mars: la Planfete Mars et ses Conditions d'Habitabilit(5, 

 Camille Flammarion, Dr. William J. S. Lockyer, 33 ; 

 Observations of Mars, R. Jonckheere, 229, 376; M. 

 Jarrv-Desloges, 229, 355, 376, 436; M. Antoniadi, 355, 

 436;' M. Ou^nisset, 355; Prof. Lowell, 405; J. H. Elgie, 

 405 ; the South Polar Spot on Mars, Dr. Lohse, 298 ; 

 Changes on Mars, M. Jarry-Desloges, 314: R. Jonck- 

 heere, 465 ; M. Antoniadi, 465 ; the ,'\pproaching Opposi- 

 tion of Mars, William E. Rolston, 336; Water Vapour 

 in the Martian Atmosphere, Prof. Campbell, 376 ; Mars, 

 M. Jarry-Desloges, 49S ; .\L Jonckheere, 498; MM. 

 Qu^nisset and Antoniadi, 498 ; Observations on the Sur- 

 face of the Planet Mars from June 4 to October, 1909, 

 R. Jarry-Desloges, 510; Ouantitative Measures of the 

 O.xygen Bands in the Spectrum of Mars, Prof. Very, 



529 

 Marsden (E.), Diffuse Reflection of o Particles, 27 

 Marshall (Prof. C. R.), Pharmacological .Action of Prolo-- 

 catechyltropeine, 59 ; the Toot Poison of New Zealand, its 

 Pharmacological Action, 59 

 Marshall (Dr. Francis H. A.), Experimental-Zoologie, Part 



ii., Regeneration, Dr. Hans Przibram, 61 

 Martin (E. A.), Scientific Studies of Dew-ponds, 458 

 Martin (Dr. William B. .M.), Studies on Immunity, 214 

 Ma^ek (Dr. B.), Radiation of Radio-tellurium, 138 

 Mas6 (Rev. Miguel Sadcrro), List of the Strong Earth- 

 quakes felt in the Philippine Islands during the Last 

 Half-century, 527 

 Massart (J.), Notice sur L^o Errera, 333 

 Massol (G.), the Latent Heat of Fusion and the Specifii 



Heat of I'ropionic Acid, 210 

 Mathematics ; a New Analvtical Engine designed by Percy 

 E. Ludgate, Prof. C. V. Boys, F.R.S., 14; Results in 

 the Theory of Elimination, A. L. Dixon, 25 ; Tables of 

 Bessel Functions, Prof. M. J. M. Hill, F.R.S., 38 ; 

 Bessel's Functions, A. B. Basset, F.R.S., 68; the Com- 

 mutative Law of .Addition and Infinity, Philip E. B. 

 Jourdain, 69; G. B. M., 69; Vectors and Vector Dia- 

 grams .Applied to .-Mternating Current Circuit, W. Cramp 

 and C. F. Smith, 93 ; \'ector Analysis, Dr. J. G. Coffin, 

 392 ; Electromagnetic Method of Studying the Theory of 

 and' Solving .Mgebiaical Equations of any Degree, Dr. 

 Russell and Mr. Alty, 119; a Question of Percentages, 

 J. T. Cunningham, 159; Lewis Wlialley, 220; Prof. R. 

 Abegg, 220; Spencer Pickering, F.R.S., 275; Percentages 

 in School Marks, J. D. Hamilton Dickson, 367 ; Easy 

 Methods of Constructing the Various Types of Magic 

 Squares and Magic Cubes with Symmetric Designs 

 founded thereon, "Dr. John Willis, 182 ; Verification of 

 a Merscnne's Number, Lieut. -Colonel .^llan Cunningham, 

 194 ; Plane and Spherical Trigonometry and Four-place 

 Tables of Logarithms, Dr. Wm. A. Granville, 241 ; a 

 Course of Mathematics for Students of Engineering and 

 Applied Science, Fredk. S. Woods and Fredk. H. Bailey, 

 241 ; the Thirteen Books of Euclid's Elements, T. L. 

 Heath, 271 ; Vorlesungen iiber technische Mechanik, Dr. 

 August FoppI, 274; an Introduction to the .Study of 

 Integral Equations, M. Bocher, 304; das Theorem des 

 Pythagoras, Dr. H. A. Naber, 361 ; il passato ed il 

 presente delle principali Theorie geometriche. Prof. Gino 

 Loria, 361 ; the Stability of .Aeroplanes, Prof. Herbert 

 Chatlev, 366; Prof. G. H. Bryan, F.R.S., 366; Properties 

 of Mbbius's Surface, Prof. C. E. CuUis, 375 ; Death 

 of Dr. Hugh Blackburn, 460 ; Obituary Notice of, 522 ; 

 Five-figure Logarithmic and Other Tables, Frank Castle, 



484 ; Taschenbuch fiir Mathematiker und Physiker, Felix 

 .Auerbach, 4S4 ; Death of Dr. living Stringham, 493; 

 Mathematical Work of Sully Prudhomme, Prof. H. 

 Poincar^, 496 ; Problems Connected with Games of 

 Chance, Prof. J. L. Coolidge, 496; see also British 

 Association 



Matkiewitsch (L.), Halley's Comet, 46 



Matteucci (Dr. V. R.), Death and Obituary Notice of, 134 



Matthews (D. . J.), Hydrographical Investigations in the 

 English Channel for the Years 1904-5, 492 



Mavor (Prof.), .Agricultural Development of Canada, 

 1904-9, 506; Possibility of E.xtending the Food Produc- 

 tion of Canada, 535 



.Maxon (W. R.), Studies of Tropical American Ferns, 434 



May (Dr. Page), Tracts in the Spinal Cord, 507 ; the 

 Delimitation of the Motor .Area in the Cerebral Cortex 

 Demonstrated by the Method Retrograde Chromatolysis, 

 508 



May (Dr. Walther), Korallen und andere gesteinsbildende 

 Tiere, 243 



Mechanical Engineers, the Institution of, 175 



Mechanics : Geometrie der Kriifte, H. E. Timerding, Sir 

 Robert Ball, F.R.S., 34; Th(5orie des Corps d^formables, 

 E. and F. Cosserat, by ; a First Dynamics, C. S. Jack- 

 son and W. M. Roberts, 156; Elementary Mechanics, 

 Prof. C. M. Jessop and Dr. T. H. Havelock, 156; 

 Vorlesungen iiber technische Mechanik, Dr. August 

 Foppl, 274 ; Lectures de M{5canique, E. Jouguet, 301 ; 

 Applied Mechanics for Engineers, E. L. Hancock, 332 ; 

 Machines— Outils, Outillage, Verificateurs, P. Gorgeu, 

 332 



Mediaeval Sinhalese .Art, Ananda K. Coomaraswamy, 39 



Medicine : Value of Benzidine for the Detection of Minute 

 Traces of Blood, Prof. E. J.McWeeney, 89; Barnato 

 Cancer Wards at Middlesex Hospital, 195 ; Inaccurate 

 Method of Stating Dosage, Prof. Benjamin Moore, 196 ; 

 Physiology at the British Medical .Association, 200 ; Drugs 

 and the Drug Habit, Dr. Harrington Sainsbury, 271 ; 

 Materia Medica .Among the Zulus, Father A. T. Bryant, 

 298; the Sixteenth International Congress of Medicine, 

 369 ; the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, Sir 

 William MacGregor, 432 ; the Opening of the London 

 Medical Session, 438; Death and Obituary Notice of 

 Dr. George E. Post, 493 



Mehrtens (A. C), Gas-engine Theory and Design, 245 



Meisenheimer (Prof. J.), the Reproductive Apparatus of 

 Insects, 433 



Meldola (Prof. R., F.R.S.), the Making of Species, Douglas 

 Dewar and Frank Finn, 481 



Meldrum (Dr. A. N.), Gay-Lussac's Law— its Centenary, 

 519 



Mellor (Dr. J. W.), History of the Clayworking Industry 

 in the United States, Dr. H. Ries and H. Leighton, 452 



Melvill (E. H. V.), Derivation of the Word "Theodolite," 

 517 



Memory, the Economy and Training of, Henry J. Watt, 



158 

 Menegaux (Dr. E.), Collection of American Egrets as 



" Ospreys," 167 

 Mercers' Company Lectures on the Fluids of the Body, the. 



Prof. Ernest H. Starling, F.R.S., 362 

 Mercury, the Shape of the Planet, R. Jonckheere, 20 

 M^ridiennes, les Observations, Theorie et Pratique, F. 



Boquet, 301 

 Merrill (E. D.), Botany of the Philippine Islands, 265 

 Merritt (Prof. E.), Effects of Low Temperature on Fluores- 

 cence Spectra, 473 

 Metabolism, Inborn Errors of. Dr. A. E. Garrod, 96 

 Metallic Ores, Genesis of, and of the Rocks which Enclose 



Them, B. Svmons, 242 

 Metallurgy : Liquidus Curves of the Ternary System 

 Alumini'um-Copper-Tin, J. H. Andrew and C. A. Edwards, 

 26; Mechanical Testing of Cast Iron, Ch. Fremont, j:; ; 

 Separation of Graphite in White Cast Iron Heated under 

 Pressure, Georges Charpy, 60 ; Tests on Cast Iron, E. 

 Adamson, 438 ; Growth 'of Cast Irons after Repeated 

 Heatings, Profs. H. F. Rugan and H. C. H. Carpenter, 

 jT- : -Antimony: its History, Chemistry, Mineralogy, 

 Geoiogy, Metallurgy, Uses, Preparations, Analysis, Pro- 

 duction, and Valuation, Chung \u Wang, 68 ; Etirage, 

 Tr^filage, Dressage des Produits m^tallurgiques, M. 



