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Cady (W. G.), Phenomena Exhibited by Electric Arcs 



between ^Ietal Electrodes, 297 

 CaiUou (.Pousse), the Region Known as Changchenmo, 



Cajoii (Prof. F._), Invention of the Slide Rule, 470 



Calcutta : Asiatic Society of Bengal, 30, 150, 270 



Caldecott [W. A.), Development of Heavy Gravitation 

 Stamps, 5j9 



Calendar, Styles of the, W. T. Lynn, 277 



Callendar (Prof. H. L., F.R.S.), Osmotic Phenomena 

 and their Modern Physical Interpretation, Discourse at 

 Royal Institution, 235 



Calmette CDr. A.), Determination of the Bovine or Human 

 Origin of Tuberculosis, 135 ; Venoms, Venomous 

 Animals, and Anti-venomous Serum-therapeutics, 154 



Cambage tK- H.;, Native Flora of New South Wales, 

 240 ; New Species of Eucalyptus from the Monaro Dis- 

 trict, N.S.W., 240 



Cambridge, the Darwin Celebrations at, 7 



Cambridge, the Meeting of the International Geodetic 

 Association in London and, 420 



Cambridge County Geographies : Somerset, Francis A. 

 Knight and Louie M. Dutton, 18S 



Campbell (A.), Measurement of Wave-length for High- 

 frequency Electrical Oscillations, 119 



Campbell (Prof. D. H.), New Flora of Krakatau, 296 : 

 Prothallium and Embryo Sporophyte of Dana\a, 537 



Campbell (Prof.), Water Vapour in the Martian Atmo 

 sphere, 376 



Campbell (R. H.), Forestry Problems, 536 



" Canaan Stone," a, G. Harold Drew, 486 



Canada, Report on the Mining and Metallurgical Indus- 

 tries of, 1907-8, 511 



Cancer Researcii Fund, the Imperial, 86 



Cape Town : Royal Society of South .Africa, 30, 239, 270, 



Transition Point 



Zinc 



Carhart (Prof. H. S.), 



.Amalgam, 119 

 Carnegie, First Magnetic Results obtained on the, in the 



North Atlantic, Dr. L. A. Bauer and W. J. Peters, 529 

 Carnetz (V.), Sense of Direction of Man, 166 

 Carpenter (Prof. H. C. H.), Growth of Cast Irons after 



Repeated Heatings, 437 

 Cartography : the Imperial Gazetteer of India, Atlas, i 

 Carulla (F'. J. R.), Process of Manufacturing Artificial 



Magnetic 0.\ide of Iron, 437 

 Carus-Wilson (Cecil), Musical Sands, 69, 159 ; Pitting of 



Flint Surfaces, 403 

 Cassell's " Nature " Copies (Wild Flowers), 246 

 Castle (Frank), Five-figure Logarithmic and other Tables, 



484 

 Castro (R.), Search-ephemerides for Comet 1890 \TI. 



(Perrine), 170 

 Catania Observatory, the Spectroheliograph of the. Prof. 



Ricc6, 376 

 Cavers (Dr. F.), Botany for Matriculation, 451 

 Cecropia peltata und ihr N'erhiiltnis zu Azteca Alfari, zu 



Alta sexdens und anderen Insekten, Karl Fiebrig, 23 

 Celestial Charts, the Palisa and Wolf, Dr. Palisa, 230 

 Ceramics : Liquefaction of Clay by .Alkalis and Use of 



Fluid Clay Casting in the (ieramic Industry, Dr. E. 



Weber, 375 

 Cesaresco (Countess Evelyn Martinengo), the Place of 



.Animals in Human Thought, 276 

 Cetacea : Guide to the Whales, Porpoises, and Dolphins 



(Order Cetacea) Exhibited in the Department of Zoology, 



British Museum (Natural History), Cromwell Road, 



London, S.W\, 4 

 Cetus, a Newly Discovered Nebula Cluster in. Prof. Wolf, 



436 

 Ceylon, Recent Publications on Agriculture from India 



and, 231 

 Chagas (Carlos), a New Human Trypanosoma Parasite 



(T. criizi), 46 

 Challenger Society,. 119 

 Chalmers (S. D.), the Sine Condition in Relation to the 



Coma of Optical Systems, 119 

 Chamberlain (C. W.), the Relative Motion of the Earth 



and /Ether and the FitzGerald-Lorentz Effect, 474 

 Chamberlin (Prof. T. C), the Tidal and other Problems, 



102 



Chandler (Dr. S. C), Earth Tides, 472 



Chapman (Dr. H. G.), Hexone Bases of Egg-white, 240 



Charpy (Georges), Separation of Graphite in White Cast 

 Iron Heated under Pressure, bo 



Chassy (.A.), Conductivity of a Gas at Atmospheric Pressure 

 under the Influence of a High .Alternating Voltage, 90 



Chatley (Prof. Herbert), the Force of the Wind, 366 ; the 

 Stability of Aeroplanes, 366 



Chatterjee (G. C), Ova of a Distoma found in the 

 Skeletal Muscles of Saccobraiichus fossilis, 270 



Chemistry : the .Atomic Weight of Platinum, Prof. E. H. 

 .Archibald, 29 ; Use of Platinum Felt as a Filtering 

 Medium, W. O. Snelling, 404 ; Dimethylcamphor and 

 Dimethylcampholic .Acid, .A. Haller and Ed. Bauer, 29 ; 

 .Action of some Organo-magnesium Compounds on 

 -Methyl-2-pentanone-4, F. Bodroux and F. Taboury, 29 ; 

 Pseudo-morphine, Gabriel Bertrand and V. 1. Meyer, 

 29 : Evolution in Applied Chemistry, Prof. Otto N. Witt 

 at Seventh International Congress of Applied Chemistry, 

 .SI ; Fermentation of Glucose, Mannose, and Fructose by 

 Veast-juice, A. Harden and W. J. Young, 57; Muta- 

 rotation of Glucose, V. Osaka, 528 ; Pharmacological 

 .Action of Protocatechyltropeine, Prof. C. R. Marshall, 

 ^9 ; Gases of Volcanic Funiaroles, -Armand Gautier, 59 ; 

 Ordinary Carbon, H. Le Chatelier and M. Wologdine, 

 >q : .Action of Metallic Oxides on Methyl Alcohol, Paul 

 Sabatier and .A. Mailhe, 59 ; Hydrolysis of Salts in 

 Amphoteric Electrolytes, Miss H. H. Beveridge, 59; 

 Formation of Oxygen Compounds of Nitrogen and their 

 Metallic Combinations (Iron and Lead) in the Produc- 

 tion of Ozone for the Sterilisation of Water, Ed. Bon- 

 jean, 60 ; Processes for the Fixation of Atmospheric 

 Nitrogen, 143 ; New Alkaloid Extracted from the Bark 

 of Pseiidocinchona Ajricaiia, Ernest Fourneau, 60; 

 Formation of Lactones from Acid Alcohols, E. E. Blaise 

 and .A. Koehler, Do; Introduction to the Chemistry 

 and Physics of Building Materials, Alan E. Munby, 62 ; 

 Modern' Organic Chemistry, Dr. C. A. Keane, 64; Prac- 

 tical Organic Chemistry, Dr. J. J. Sudborough and 

 T. C. James, 6i ; the Elements of Organic Chemistry, 

 E. J. Lewis, 64; .Abhandlung uber die Glycole odor Zwei 

 atomige .Alkohole, .Adolf Wurtz, 6j : Practical Physio- 

 logical Chemistry, Prof. Philip B. Haw^k, 67 ; Value of 

 Benzidine for the Detection of Minute Traces of Blood, 

 Prof. E. J. McWeenev, 89; Trialkylacetophenones and 

 the Xrialkylacetic Acids derived from Them, A. Haller 

 and Edouard Bauer, 90; Tautomeric Changes Elucidated 

 by Means of the Magnetic Rotatory Power, P. Th. Muller 

 and .M. Thouvenot. qo ; Esolution of Hydrogen from 

 Silicochloroform under Silent Discharge, A. Besson and 

 L. Fournier, 90 : Oxidation of .Aldehydes of Silver, Mar- 

 cel Del^pine and Pierre Bonnet, qo ; Hydrolysis of Pro- 

 teid Materials bv Means of Hydrofluoric Acid, L. 

 Hugounenq and 'A. Morel, 00; Naturgeschichte einer 

 Kerz-' von Michael Faraday, 9=; : Junior Chemistry, 

 R. H. Adie, qr : Chemistry, Prof. W. A. Tilden, F.R.S., 

 OS ; Histoir'e du D(5veloDpement de la Chimie depuis 

 Lavoisier jusqu'a nos Jours, Prof. A. Ladenburg, qb ; 

 Nature of the Change undergone by Crystals of Hepta- 

 hydrated Sodium Sulphate in Contact with Crystals of 

 the Decahydrate, D. Gernez. 120; New Method of 

 Separating 'Uranium X, B. Szilard, 120; R.ate of Helium 

 Production from the Complete Series of Uranium Pro- 

 ducts, Hon. R. J. Strutt. F.R.S., 158; Chemical .Action 

 of the Penetrating Ravs of Radium on Water, Miroslaw 

 Kernbaum, 120: Hvdrolvtic Decomposition of Bismuth 

 Bromide, Rene Dubrisav', 120; the Hydrolytic Dissocia- 

 tion of Bismuth Iodide, Rene Dubrisav, 330; Extr.action 

 of Lutecium from the Gadolinite Earths, G. Urbain, 

 MM. Bourion and Maillard. 120: Rapid Method for 

 Testing Plants for Hydrocyanic Acid, Marcel Mirande, 

 120 • Essays. Bioaraphical and Chemical, Sir William 

 Ran^sav, K.C.B., ^F.R.S., C. Simmonds, 122; Death and 

 Obituary Notice of Prof. G. Arth, 134; Synthesis of 

 Papaverine, Am(5 Pictet and A. Gams, 150; the Cata- 

 lysis of the Fatty .Acids, J. B. Senderens, 1^0: New Base 

 extracted from Rve containing Ergot, Ergothioneme, C. 

 Tanret, 150 : Grundriss der allticmeinen Chemie, Wilhelm 

 Ostwald, 183 ; Grundriss der Phnrmakochemie, Dr. O. A. 

 Oesterle,' Prof. Henry G. Greenish, 184; Southall's 

 Organic Materia Medica, J. Barclay, Prof. Henry G. 



