Nature, "l 



September 2%, 191 1 J 



Index 



XIX 



Lake (P.), Geology for Students, 549 



Lallemand (C), a Project for an International Map and 

 Aeronautical Fixed Points, 506 ; Changes of Level in 

 the Soil of Provence resulting from the Earthquake of 

 June II, 1907, 542 



Lamb (Major Georg-e, LM.S.), Obituary Notice, 249 



Lambert (B.), the Rusting of Iron, 25 



Lamplough (F. E. E.), Freezing Point of Sodium Chloride, 

 167 



Landau (M.), Action of Ultra-violet Rays upon Lactic 

 Acid, 439 



Lan-Davis (C. F.), Theory of the Iris Diaphragm, 22 



Landsteiner (K.), Research on the Virus in the Organs of 

 an Infant Attacked by Acute Polymyelitis, 609 



Lange (E. F.), Some Remarkable Steel Crystals, Crystal- 

 lisation of Iron-Carbon Alloys, 505 



Langevin (Prof.), Speech at Bologna Philosophical Con- 

 gress, 400 



Langford (T. H.), Standard for Determining Magnetisation 

 Curves of Iron, 472 



Language : the Use by Men of Science of an Artificial 

 Language, B. Hobson, 180 ; Vocabulary of the PAsi Boli 

 or Argot of the Kunchandiya Kanjars, W. Kirkpatrick, 

 609 ; Notes on Urdu Grammar, Lieut. -Col. Phillott, 610 



Lantsberry (F. C. A. H.), Properties of some Alloys of 

 Copper, Aluminium, and Manganese, 400 



Latter (Oswald H.), Protective Value of the Sticky Hairs 

 on Young Leaves and Shoots, 484 



Launoy (L.), Can the Guinea-pig be Accustomed 10 

 Strychnine? 609 



Laurie (Principal A. P.), the Temperature Coefficient of 

 Concentration Cells in which the same Salt is Dissolved 

 in Two Different Solvents, 200 



Laveran (A.), the Identification of the Pathogenic Trypano- 

 somas, 67 ; the Unhealthiness of Corsica and Possibilities 

 of Improvement, 1541 



Lead, the MetallurgV of, H. F. Collins, Sir W. C. Roberts- 

 Austin, K.C.B., F'.R.S., 581 



Leake (H. M.), Experimental Studies in Indian Cottons, 65 



Lebeau (Paul), Uranyl Nitrate and its Ethereal Solution, 

 67; Some Definite Bismuthides, Vournasos' Method, 201 ; 

 the Formula of Uranium Carbide, 231; 



Le Chatelier (H.), Alterability of Aluminium, 135 



Ledeboer (J. H.), the Aeroplane : an Elementary Text-book 

 on the Principles of Dynamic Flight, 556 



Ledert (Mile. S.), Action of Cobra Venom upon the Serum 

 of the Horse, 167 



Leduc (Prof. St^phane), Th^orie Physico-chimique de la Vie 

 et Generations Spontan^es, 410 



Lee (Miss R. M.), North Sea Fishery Investigations, 417 



Lefroy (H. Maxwell), Economic Entomology and Nomen- 

 clature, 430 



Legendre (R.), Experimental Contribution to the Physiology 

 of Sleep, 67 



Le Goff (J.), Mortality through Diabetes in Paris, 168 



Lehmann (O.), das Kristallisationsmikroskop und die damit 

 gemachten Entdeckungen insbesondere die der flussigen 

 Kristalle, 5 



Leiper (Dr. R. T.), Nematode Parasites from Animals in 

 the Zoological Gardens, 235 ; Some Parasitic Nematodes 

 from Tropical Africa, 337 



Le Nouene (L.), Addition of a Microphone to the Ear 

 Trumpet for Relief of Deafness, 507 



Le Roux (J.), Incurvation and Flexion in Finite Deforma- 

 tions, 608 



Lesage (P.), Use of Potash Solutions for Recognition of the 

 Germinative Faculty of Seeds, 102 



Lespieau (M.), Method of preparing True Acetylenic 

 Alcohols, 201 



Lewis (Prof. W. J.), Mr. Solly's Observation of Wilt- 

 shireite in 1903, 234 



Lewis (Dr. W. C. McC), Internal, Molecular, or Intrinsic 

 Pressure, Expressions Proposed for its Determination, 504 



Ley (Capt. C. H.), Value of the Two-Theodolite Method 

 for determining Vertical Air Motion, 303 ; Automatic 

 Valve for Pilot Balloons, 303 



Life and Habit : W. H. M., the Reviewer, 12 ; Francis 

 Ram, 79 



Ligfht : Theory of the Iris Diaphragm, C. F. Lan-Davis, 

 22 ; a New Dark Ground Illuminator, Lees Curties, 33 ; 

 Phenomena of Visual Inhibition accompanying Re- 

 association of the Two Retinal Images Dissociated by 



the Prisms of the Stereoscope, A. Chauveau, 67; Dura- 

 tion of Phosphorescence of Uranyl Salts, J. Becquerel, 

 67; Reflections in Water, W. B. Croft, 44; Visual 

 Sensations from the Alternating Magnetic Field, Knight 

 Dunlap, 129 ; Reflection of Ultra-violet Rays by Snow, 

 Prof. J. V. Kowalski, 144; Optically Active Phosphorus- 

 compounds, Prof. Meisenheimer, 297 ; Dioptriemeters, 

 Prof. W. W. H. Gee, A. Adamson, 303 ; Optically Active 

 Alcohols, Dr. R. H. Pickard, Mr. J. Kenyon, 325 ; 

 Experiments on the Velocity of Light in Refractive 

 Media, M. Gutton, 371 ; the Absolute Measurement of 

 Light, Dr. R. A. Houstoun, 404; Oureta (Senor D. de), 

 New Apparatus for Photomicrography with the Micro- 

 scope in the Inclined Position, 405 ; Scattering of Light 

 by a Large Conducting Sphere, j. W. Nicholson, 472 ; 

 Model Illustrating the Passage of a Light Wave through 

 Quartz, Prof. H. N. Allen, 607 ; Circular Double Refrac- 

 tion in .Sodium Chlorate, G. Meslin, 60S 



Lilienthal (O. and G.), Birdflight as the Basis of Aviation 

 582 



Lindet (L.), Elective Power of Plant Cells towards Dextrose 

 and Levulose, 167 



Lindgren (Dr. W.), Ore Deposits of New Mexico, 531 



Lindstedt (Mile.), Wave-length of the Solar Line &„ 473 



Linnean Society, 33, 100, 167, 235, 471, 541, 608 " 



Linnean Society of New South Wales, 575 



Linton (Rev. E. F.), Anatomy of Sedges, F. C. Crawford, 



Lioret (H.), a Self-recording Telephone, 507 



Liquid Films, Flow of Thin, W. G. Royal-Dawson, no; 



J. Aitken, 143 

 Liquids, Formation of Stable Columns of, Ch. R. Darling, 



Lister (J. J., F.R.S.), Distribution in the Pacific of the 

 Avian Family Megapodidae, 33, 472 



Littlewood (J. E.), the Range of Borel's Method of Summa 

 tion, 541 



Lobster, Proper Scientific Name of the, Rev. T. R. R. 

 Stebbing, F.R.S., 43 



Lockyer (Sir Norman. K.C.B., F.R.S.), Southern Hemi- 

 sphere Surface-air Circulation, in 



Lockyer (Dr. W. J. S.), Southern Hemisphere Surface-air 

 Circulation, in; the British Solar Eclipse Expedition, 

 426, 461, 496, 529, 565 



Locust Destruction, Report of the S. African Central 

 Locust Bureau, 184 



Lodere (Sir Oliver, F.R.S.), a Kinetic Theory of Gravita- 

 tion, 142 ; Sir J. J. Thomson's New Method of Chemical 

 Analysis, 554 



Loeb (Leo), Cyclic Changes in the Mammalian Ovary, 533 



London Society, the Green Book of, 109 



Longbottom (the late A.), Geology and Geography of 

 Northern Nigeria, Notes, 489 



Love (Prof. A. E. H., F.R.S.), Dynamical Enunciations, 

 411; ; the Conditions that a Homogeneous Strain may be 

 Reducible to a Plane Strain and an Extension at Right 

 Angles to the Plane, 541 



Lowe (Houston), Paints for Steel Structures, 346 



Lowson (J. M.), a Text-book of Botany, 515 



Lucas (Mile. Pauline), Dehydration of Alkyl and Benzyl- 

 isobutylphenyl-carbonals 609 



Lucet (A.), Influence of Agitation on Development of 

 Bacillus anthracis Cultivated in Liquid Media, 507 



Luizet (M.), Form of the Light-curve of the Variable Star 

 5 Cephei obtained from Argelander's Observations, 608 



Lumi^re (A. and L.), Differentiation by Chemical Develop 

 ment of Latent Images, 167 



Lydekker (R., F.R.S.), Tragelaphus btixtoni, an Antelope 

 obtained by Mr. Ivor Buxton in Abyssinia. 66 ; a Rare 

 Beaked Whale, 135 ; Age Phases of the Rorqual, 135 ; 

 an Abnormal Zebra, 281 ; Three .\frican Animals, 607 



Lynn (W. T.), the Reform of the Calendar, 381 



Lyons (W. J.), Determination of Density, Thermal Expan- 

 sion, and Volume-change, on Fusion of Waxes, 135 



McCampbell (Prof E. F.), Text-book of General Bacterio- 

 logy, 344 



McCarrison (Captain R.), the Experimental Transmission 

 of Goitre from Man to Animals, 540 



McCay (Capt. D., I.M.S.), Bengal Jail Dietaries, and 

 Influence of Diet on the People of Bengal, 228 



