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Squier, 269 ; Life among the Bushmen, W. E. Stanford, 



Etirage, Tr^filage, Dressage des Produits m^tallurgiques, 

 M. Georges Soliman, 68 



Etymology: Derivation of the Word "Theodolite," 

 E. H. V. Melvill, 517 



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

 271 



Eugenics : a First Study of the Inheritance of \ ision and 

 of the Relative Influence of Heredity and Environment 

 on Sight, Amy Barrington and Karl Pearson, F.R.S., 49; 

 the Problem of Practical Eugenics, Prof. Karl Pearson, 

 374 ; Relative Strength of Nurture and Nature, Ethel M. 

 Elderton, 463 



Evershed (Mr.), Radial Motion in Sun-spot Vapours, 82 ; 

 Temperature and Pressure Conditions in the Solar Atmo- 

 sphere, 356 



Evolution : the Darwin Celebrations at Cambridge, 7 ; 

 Evolution in Applied Chemistry, Prof. Otto N. Witt at 

 Seventh International Congress of Applied Chemistry, 

 51; Nutrition and Evolution, Hermann Reinheimer, b8 ; 

 Natural Selection and Plant Evolution, James B. John- 

 ston, 159; Dr. D. H. Scott, F.R.S., 188; Various Criti- 

 cisms against the Darwinian Theory, Prof. Poulton, 168 ; 

 Tennyson and Evolution, Rev. F. St. John Thackeray, 

 195 ; " Selection Index Numbers " for Breeding, Messrs. 

 Pearl and Surface, 196 ; the Cult of the Unfit, E. B. 

 Iwan-Miiller, 264 ; Man and Environment, F. C. Con- 

 stable, 306 ; Evolution, a General Sketch from Nebula to 

 Man, Joseph McCabe, 425 



Ewald (CarlJ, the Pond and other Stories, 485 



Ewart (Dr. J. C, F.R.S.), Possible Ancestors of the 

 Horses Living under Domestication, 57; the " Prehistoric 

 Horse " of Bishop's Stortford, 223 



Explorations in Central Asia, Dr. Stein, 368 



Explosives : the Rise and Progress of the British Explosives 

 Industry, 190 ; History of Propellants, Sir Andrew Noble, 

 203 



Fabry (Louis), Oscillation of the Sea on June 15, 1909, in 

 the Port of Marseilles, 210 



Fabry (M.), Comparison of the Spectra of the Centre and 

 Edge of the Sun's Disc, no 



Falconer (Dr. J. D.), Preliminary Mineralogical and Geo- 

 logical Survey of Northern Nigeria, 263 



Faraday (Michael), Naturgeschichte einer Kerze von, 95 



Farbstoffe, Untersuchung und Nachweis organischer, auf 

 spektroskopischen Wege, J. Form^nek, 37 



Farmer, the State and the. Prof. L. H. Bailey, 157 



Faucon (M. A.), the Latent Heat of Fusion and the Specific 

 Heat of Propionic Acid, 210 



Fayrer (Sir Joseph), on the Poison of Venomous Snakes 

 and the Methods of Preventing Death from their Bite, 

 186 



Fearnsides (W. G.), the Howgill Fells and their Topo- 

 graphy, 89 



Feeble-minded, the Problem of the, 158 



Ferber (Captain), Death and Obituary Notice of, 398 



Ferguson (Dr. .Alexander R.), Studies on Immunity, 214 



Fergusson (S. P.), Exploration of the Air with' Ballons- 

 sondes at St. Louis and with Kites at Blue Hill, 223 



Fermor (L. L.), Mining Administration in India, 219 



Fernbach (.'\.). a Poison Elaborated bv Yeast, 300 



Fertilisers and Manures, A. D. Hall, F.R.S.,' 483 



F^ry (Dr.), the. Solar Constant and the Apparent Tempera- 

 ture of the Sun, 47 



Fiebrig (Karl), Cecropia peltata und ihr Verhaltnis zu 

 Azteca .Mfari zu .Atta sexdens und anderen Insekten, 23 



Finger (Dr. H.), Influence of the Surrounding Medium on 

 the Lines of the Spark Spectrum, 496 



Finn (Frank), Wild Beasts of the World, 332 ; the Making 

 of Species, 481 



Fireball in Sunshine, W. F. Denning, 456 



Fisheries : Report for 1908 on the Lancashire Sea-fisheries 

 Laboratory at the University of Liverpool and the Sea- 

 fish Hatchery at Piel, Prof. Herdman, F.R.S. , Andrew 

 Scott, and J. Johnstone, 142 ; Quarantining Mussels, J. 

 Johnstone, 142 ; the Herring-fisheries of the World, 

 H. M. Smith, 433 ; .Successful Shipments of Salmon Ova 

 to New Zealand, 461 ; North Sea Fisheries Investiga- 



tions, 491 ; Probability of Survival of Trawl-caught Fish 

 Returned to the Sea, J. O. Borley, 491 ; Size and Age 

 of Plaice at Maturity, Dr. W. Wallace, 492 ; Records 

 of Catches furnished by Captains of Lowestoft Sailing- 

 trawlers, Miss R. M. Lee, 492 ; Attempt to Re-introduce 

 the Sturgeon into the Rivers of the Atlantic Coast, 

 Horace G. Knowles, 524 



Fishes : Colour Changes in Tropical Sea Perches from the 

 Bermudas, C. T. Regan, 119; Changes of Colour among 

 Tropical Fishes, C. H. Townsend, 174; Papers on 

 Reptiles and Fishes, 203 ; Catalogue of the Fresh-water 

 Fishes of Africa in the British Museum (Natural 

 History), G. A. Boulenger, 216; the Fishes of Illinois, 

 S. A. Forbes and R. E. Richardson, 216; Andrew 

 Garrett's Fische der Siidsee, A. C. L. Gunther, 216; 

 Ova of a Distoma found in the Skeletal Muscles of 

 Saccobranchus fossilis, G. C. Chatterjee and T. C. 

 Ghosh, 270 



Fishing : an Angler's Season, W. Earl Hodgson, 37 



Fitzmaurice (Maurice, C.M.G.), the National Consumption 

 of Water, W. R. B. Wiseman at Royal Statistical 

 Society, 47 



p-lammarion (Camille), la Planfete Mars et ses Conditions 

 d'Habitabilit^, 33 



Fleischmann (F. N. A.), Occurrence of Gyrolite in Ireland, 28 



Fleming (Prof.), New Method to Secure an almost Un- 

 damped Series of Oscillations in the Secondary Circuit 

 of the Sender, ig 



Fletcher (T. B.), Plume-moths of Ceylon, 22 



Flora Koreana, T. Makai, 422 



Flora of the West of Ireland, a Tourist's, R. L. Praeger, 

 422 



Florence (J. E.), Proof of Experimental Ammoniuria in 

 Epilepsy, 330 



Fluids of the Body, the Mercers' Company Lectures on 

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



Flying Animals and Flying Machines, A. Mallock, F.R.S., 

 - 247 , 



I- oil (Edouard), Ri^sultats scientifiques des Voyages en 

 .Afrique d', 31 



Fodor (.Antal), .Application of the Magnetic Properties of 

 .Metals to .Automatic Coin Machines, 150 



Folklore : Folk-tales Current among Yoruba-speaking 

 Peoples, J. Parkinson, 18; a National Folk-museum, 

 Henry Balfour, 115 



Food : a Compendium of Food-microscopy, E. G. Clayton, 

 97; Refrigerating Installations on Ships, Robert Balfour, 

 198; Artificially Bleached Flour, Prof. Halliburton, 496 



Foppl (Dr. .August), Vorlesungen iiber technische 

 Mechanik, 274 



Forbes (S. .A.), the Fishes of Illinois, 216 



Forchheimer (Dr. Philip), Mathematical Solutions of 

 Underground Flow of Water, 81 



Forel (F. A.), Bronze-age Interments in Switzerland, 371 



Forest Boundary Stones in Essex, 195 



Forestry : Our Forests and Woodlands, Dr. J. Nisbet, 63 ; 

 Trees : a Handbook of Forest Botany for the Woodlands 

 and the Laboratory, H. Marshall Ward, 63 ; Forest 

 Practice in India and Burma, B. Moore, 80; Forests of 

 Colorado, Prof. F. Ramaley, 108 ; the Loranthus Para- 

 site of the Moru and Bau Oaks, E. P. Stebbing, 150; 

 Proposed "Arbour Day," W. R. Boelter, 16-;; Forest 

 .Administration in Southern Nigeria, H. N. Thompson, 

 402 ; Forest Experiment Stations, 525 



Forminek (J.), Untersuchung und Nachweis organischer 

 Farbstoffe auf spektroskopischen Wege, 37 



Forsyth (Dr. David), Children in Health and Disease, 454 



Fortpflanzung der Tiere, die. Dr. R. Goldschmidt, 243 



Fossil Plants, E. A. Newell .Arber, 304 



Fossil Plants, .Adaptation in, Dr. D. H. Scott, F.R.S., at 

 Linnean Society, 115 



Fourneau (Ernest), New .Alkaloid Extracted from the Bark 

 of Psciidocitichoiia Ajricana, 60 



Fournier (L.). Evolution of Hydrogen from Silicochloro- 

 form under Silent Discharge, 90 



Fowler (Prof. A.), Photographs of the Spectrum of 

 Scandium, 20; Spectrum of Magnesium Hydride, 58; 

 Magnetic Storm of September 25, 396 



Fox (Phillin), Micrometer .Measures of Double Stars. 83 



Foxcraft (C), an Elementarv Course in Practical Science, 

 363 



