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Hill-Tout, 477 ; the Blackfoot Medical Priesthood, Dr. 

 John Maclean, 477 ; Present Native Population and 

 Traces of Early Civilisation in the Province of New 

 Brunswick, William Mcintosh, 477 ; Copper Imple- 

 ments from a Site in Western Ontario, Prof. E. Guthrie 

 Perry, 478 ; Race Types in the Ancient Sculptures and 

 Paintings of Me.\ico and Central America, Miss A. 

 Breton, 478 ; Arms and Accoutrements of the Ancient 

 Warriors at Chichen Itza, Miss Breton, 478 ; Tribes 

 Inhabiting the Koskokurm \'alley. Dr. G. B. Gordon. 

 478 ; Recent Hittite Research, Dr. G. Hogarth, 47.S ; 

 Prehistoric Antiquities of Malta, Dr. Ashby and Mr. 

 Pect, 478 ; Archaeological and Ethnological Researches 

 in Sardinia, Dr. Duncan .Mackenzie, 478 ; Researches 

 in Crete, C. H. Hawes, 478 ; Neolithic Sites in Thes- 

 saly, 478 ; E.\cavations at the Nubian Cemetery at 

 Anibeh, Dr. Randall-Maclver, 478 



Section I (Physiology) — Opening .Address by Prof. E. H. 

 Starling, M.D., E.R.S., President of the Section, the 

 Physiological Basis of Success, 384 ; Report of the 

 Committee on -Anzesthetics, Dr. Waller, 507 ; Dr. N. H. 

 Alcock, 507 ; Prof. A. R. Cushny, 507 ; Prof. W. T. 

 Porter, 507 ; Use of Atropine in Conjunction with 

 Anaesthetics, Dr. Webster, 507; Inorganic Composition 

 of the Blood in Puerperal Eclampsia, Prof. A. B. 

 Macallum, 507 ; Tracts in the Spinal Cord, Dr. Page 

 May and Prof. Sutherland Simpson, 507 ; the Delimita- 

 tion of the Motor Area in the Cerebral Cortex Demon- 

 strated by the Method of Retrograde Chromatolysis, 

 Dr. Page May, 508 ; the Pyramidal Tract in the Sheep 

 and Guinea-Pig, Dr. Sutherland Simpson, 508 ; Study 

 of the Thyroids and Parathyroids, Mrs. Thompson, 50S ; 

 Effect of excluding the Blood Passing Through tiie 

 Adrenals from the Circulation, Dr. Young, 508 ; Effect 

 of Local Heat on Vegetable and Animal Tissues, L)r. 

 Waller, 508 ; Difference in Composition of Different 

 Proteins, Dr. E. Frankland Armstrong, 508 



Section K (Botany) — Opening .Address by Lieut. -Colonel 

 David Prain, CT.E., LL.D., F.R.S., President of the 

 Section, 406 ; Organisation and Reconstruction of the 

 Nuclei in the Root-tips of Podophyllum pcllatiini. Prof. 

 J. B. Overton, 537; Nucleus of the Yeast Plant, Harold 

 Wager and Miss A. Peniston, 5?r: Nuclear Phenomena 

 of Ascomycetes in Relation to Heredity, Miss H. C. I. 

 Fraser, 537 ; Production and Dispersion of Spores in 

 the Hymenoinycetes, Prof. A. H. R. Buller, i;:;- : 

 Number of Bacteria in the Air of Winnipeg, Prof. 

 Buller and C. W. Lowe, ^37 ; Prothallium and Embryo 

 Sporophyte of Dana;a, Prof. D. H. Campbell, 537 : 

 Ancestry of the Osmundacea;, Prof. D. T. Gwynne 

 Vaughan and Dr. Kidston, 537 ; Structure of a New 

 Zygopteris^ W. T. Gordon, 537 ; Fundamental Causes 

 of Succession among Plant-associations, Prof. H. C. 

 Cowles, 537 ; the Rocky Mountain Flora in Relation 

 to Climate, Prof. F. Ramaley, c^t ; Observations and 

 Experiments on the Ecology of Spiraea tibnaria. Prof. 

 R. H. Yapp, ;;37 : History of the Wheats, Dr. O. Stapf. 

 538 ; Delayed Germination of Seeds, Prof. Pammel, 

 53S ; the Industry of Rubber Cultivation, J. Parkin, 

 538 ; Chemistry of Chlorophyll, Prof. R. Willstatter, 

 538; Evolution of the Inflorescence, J. Parkin, 538; 

 Life-history of Trichodisc:is clegans. Miss E. J. Wels- 

 ford, 538 ; Effects of Tropical Conditions on the 

 Development of Certain English Oinotheras, Dr. R. R. 

 Gates, 538 ; Perception of Light in Plants, Harold 

 Wager, 538 



Sub-section of K (Agriculture) — Opening .Address bv 

 Major P. G. Craigie, C.B., F.R.S., Chairman of the 

 Sub-section, 411: Experimental Farm System in 

 ; Canada, Dr. W, .Saunders, S"^'" Possibilitv of extend- 

 ing the Food Production of Canada, Prof. Brigham, 

 ; S35 : Prof. Mavor, ^35 ; Factors Determining the Yield 

 of Wheat, A. D. Hall and E. J. Russell, =;3:; : the 

 Influence of Environment on the Composition of the 

 Grain, F. T. Shutt, 531; ; Strength of Wheat, A. E. 

 Humphries, 1:36; Dr. E. F. Armstrong, 536; Baking 

 Qualities of Certain Flours, Prof. Harcourt, 536 ; Ex- 

 periments in Breeding Wheat, Dr. C. Saunders, 536 ; 

 Forestry Problems, Prof. Somerville, i;36 ; R. H. Camp- 

 bell, 5?6; History of the Aberdeen-Angus Breed of 

 Cattle', "Prof. Wilson. 536; Soil Problems, F. T. Shutt, 



536 ; Prof. Alway, 526 ; Soil Moisture, Prof. King, 536 ; 

 Conservation of Soil Fertility, A. D. Hall and E. J. 

 Russell, 53b 

 Section L {Educational Science) — Opening Address by 

 the Rev. H. B. Gray, D.D., Warden of Bradfield 

 College, Berkshire, President of the Section, the Educa- 

 tional Factors of Imperialism, 442 

 British Birds in their Haunts, Rev. C. A. Johns, 100 

 British Birds and their Eggs, with a New Method of 



Identification, J. Maclair Boraston, 99 

 British Explosives Industry, the Rise and Progress of the, 



190 

 British Medical Association, Physiology at the, 200 

 British Mountain Climbs, George D. Abraham, 485 

 British Museum : 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; British Museum Report, 78; 

 Catalogue of the Fresh-water F"ishes of Africa in the 

 British Museum (Natural History), G. A. Boulenger, 

 216; Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phaljenae in the 

 British Museum, Vol. viii.. Catalogue of the Noctuidte, 

 Sir George F. Hampson, Bart., 455 

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

 Briiton (Pi'of. N. L.), the Genus Cereus, 462 

 Bronson (Dr. H. L.), on Clark and Weston Standard Cells, 



Bionze-age Interments in Switzerland, F. A. Forel, 371 

 Broom (Dr. R.), the Organ of Jacobson in Orycteropus, 



28; Milk Dentition of the Aard-vark, 166 

 Browne (Miss E. N.), Production of New Hydranths by 



the Insertion of Small Grafts from another Individual of 



the same Species, 406 

 Browning (Dr. Carl H.), Studies on Immunity, 214 

 Bruce (Eric Stuart), the .Aeronautical Society, 6 

 Bruce (Dr. William S.), Scottish Expedition to .Spits- 

 bergen, 87 

 Brunton (Sir Lauder), on the Poison of Venomous Snakes 



and the Methods of Preventing Death from their Bite, 



186 

 Bryan (Prof. G. H., F.R.S.), the .Aeronautical Society, 6; 



the Stability of Aeroplanes, 366 : Aviation, 397 

 Bryant (Father A. T.), Materia Medica among the Zulus, 



2qS 

 Bucking (Dr. H.), the Antiquity of Man in South America, 



,=i,U 

 Building Materials, Introduction to the Chemistry and 



Physics of, Alan E. Munby, 62 

 Buisson (M.), Comparison of the Spectra of the Centre 



and Edge of the Sun's Disc, no 

 Buller (Prof. A. H. R.), Production and Dispersion of 



Spores in the Hymenomycetes, 537 ; Number of Bacteria 



in the -Air of Winnipeg, 537 

 Bumstead (Prof.), .Ascertained Properties of Light of very 



Short Wave-lengths (" Schumann Rays '"), 469 

 Burkill (I. H.), Coptis, 30; Cymbopogon Martini, Stapf, 



30 

 Burnham (Prof.), Double-star Measures, 376; Halley's 



Comet, 376 

 Burns (Gavin), the Number of the Stars, 220 

 Burpee (Lawrence J.), the W'ater Route from Lake 



Superior to the Westward, 506 

 Burrnrd (Col. S. G., F.R.S.), a Sketch of the Geography 



and Geology of the Himalaya Mountains and Tibet, 



Burton (E. F.), Influence of Electrolytes on Colloidal 



Ferric Qxide Solutions, 470 

 Buss (.\. A.), Solar Research, 200 ; Temperature and 



Pressure Conditions in the Solar Atmosphere, 356 ; Ho 



Images on Spectrohcliograms, 376 

 Butier (C. P.), Origin of Certain Lines in the .Spectrum 



of 6 Orionis, 26 

 Butler (Dr. E. J.), Fungal Disease, Coryneum mori, in 



the Mulberry Nurseries near .Srinagar, 226 

 Biitv (.M. de), .Application of the Magnetic Properties of 



Metals to .Automatic Coin Machines, 150 



Cabre (Juan), Rock Paintings of the Lower Ebro. 522 

 Cadastral Survey of Egypt, 1892-1907, the, Capt. H. G. 

 Lyons, 194 



