Nature., ~| 



Septeti'.ber ■ii,, 191 1 J 



Index 



xxui 



J. Ward, 2H ; Beitrage zur Naturdenkmalpflege, Prof. 

 H. Conwentz, A. E. Crawley, 286 ; Nature Pictures, 

 Richard Kearton, Cherry Kearton, 450 ; Erratum, 495 



Naval Architecture : Meeting of the Institution of Naval 

 Architects, 226; Size in Battleships, Prof. J. J. Welch, 

 226 ; the Geared Turbines of the Vespasian, Hon. C. A. 

 Parsons, R. J. Walker, 226 ; Diesel Engines for Sea- 

 going Vessels, J. T. Milton, Dr. Diesel, 226-7; Con- 

 siderations affecting Local Strength Calculations, J. 

 Montgomerie, 227 ; the Acceleration in Front of a Pro- 

 peller, Dr. R. E. Froude, 227 ; Anti-rolling Tanks, H. 

 Frahm, 227 ; Optical Method of Investigating Quantita- 

 tively Stress in Plates of Variable Section, Prof. E. G. 

 Coker, 227 



Nelson (E. M.), New Microscope Objective Mount fitted 

 with Iris Diaphragm, 199 



Nernst (Prof. W.), Trait6 de Chimie g^n6rale, 445 



Newfoundland, Big-game Shooting in, H. H. Prichard, 

 Sir H. H. Johnston, G.C.M.G., K.C.B., 80 



New Guinea, Anthropological Expedition to, 530 



New Zealand Institute, Trans, and Proceedings, 59 



Nicholson (J. W.), Scattering of Light by a Large Con- 

 ducting Sphere, 472 



Nicklin Q. A.), Dickens Land, 482 



NicoU (Dr. W.), Three New Trematodes from Reptiles, 337 



Nicolle (C), Experiments on Trachoma, 507 



Nigeria : the Geology and Geography of Northern Nigeria, 

 Dr. J. D. Falconer, the late A. Longbottom, H. Woods, 

 J. Parkinson, 489 ; Nigerian Studies, R. E. Dennett, 

 Sir H. H. Johnston, K.C.M.G., K.C.B., 113 



Nitrogen : Stereochemistry of Nitrogen, Dr. W. H. Mills, 

 Miss Bain, 93 ; Organic Chemistry of Nitrogen, Dr. 

 Nevil V. Sidgwick, 171 ; a Chemically Active Modifica- 

 tion of Nitrogen produced by the Electric Discharge, 

 Hon. R. J. Strutt, 233, 394 ; Spectroscopic Investigations 

 in Connection with the Active Modification of Nitrogen, 

 Prof. A. Fowler, Hon. R. J. Strutt, 471 ; New Organic 

 Compounds of Nitrogen, Prof. Martin O. Forster, 465 ; 

 the Role of Nitrogen in Plant Metabolism, Dr. J. M. 

 Petrie, 576 



Niven (Prof. C), the Measurement of Specific Inductive 

 Capacity, 32 



Nivi^re (J.), Action of Isobutylamine and Di-isobutylamine 

 upon a-Bromobutyric Acid, 609 



Nomenclature : Transference of Names in Zoology, Rev. 

 T. R. R. Stebbing, F.R.S., 43 ; What is the Genotype 

 of X . . us Jones, 1900, based upon a Species erroneously 

 determined as Albus Smith, 1890? C. W. Stiles, Secre- 

 tary of the International Commission on Nomenclature, 

 246 ; die taxonomischen Grenzen der Art und ihrer Unter- 

 abteilungen, Versuche einer genauer Definition der 

 untersten systematischen Kategorien, A. Semenov-Tian- 

 Shansky, 444 



Nopcsa (Baron Ferencz, jun.), Geology of N. Albania, 66 



Norman (Rev. Canon, F.R.S.), Marine Ostracoda Collected 

 in Madeira, 200 



Norris (Dr. W. P.), Public Health Ideals, 266 



North (Barker), Technical Education and Industries, Presi- 

 dential Address, 573 



Nottage (W. H.), Formation of Dust Striations by an 

 Electric Spark, 371 



Nubia : the Archaeological Survey of Nubia, Report, Prof. 

 G. A. Reisner, 283 ; the Racial Problem in Nubia, Prof. 

 E. Elliot Smith, F.R.S., 347 



Numerals : Origin of the Roman Numerals I.-X., Prof. 

 W. B. Dawkins, 33 



Nutrition Laboratory, Carnegie Institution Report, 29 



Nuttall (Prof.), the Adaptation of Ticks to the Habits of 

 their Host, loi 



Nuttall (G. Clarke), Wild Flowers as they Grow, 413 



Observatory of Cosmical Physics, the Ebro, 125 

 Ogilvie-Grant (W. R.), a List of British Birds, 271 

 Onnes (Prof. H. Kamerlingh), Obituary Notice of the late 



Prof. Johannes Bosscha, 419 

 Ophthalmology : Glaucoma, Dr. T. Henderson, 205 

 Optics : a London Institute of Technical Optics, 93 ; Tech- 

 nical Training and the Optical Industry, Report, R. 

 Blair, 299 ; see also Light 



Orchids : the Genus Dendrobium, Fr. Kranzlin, 308 ; South 

 African Orchids, Dr. Harry Bolus, 490 



Ore Treatment, Modern Methods of : Address at Annual 

 Meeting of Institution of Mining and Metallurgy, H. 

 Livingstone Sulman, 159 



Oriental Silverwork, Malay and Chinese, H. Ling Roth 

 353 



Ornithology : Distribution of the Megapodidse in the 

 Pacific, J. J, Lister, 33 ; Fifth Migration Report of the 

 British Ornithologists' Club, 47; Ornitologia Argentina, 

 Dr. R. Dabbene, 378; Memoir based on a Collection by 

 Mr. M. G. Palmer in Western Columbia, C. E. Hell- 

 mayr, 608 ; see also Birds 



Orr (Prof. W. McFadden), Extension of Fourier's and the 

 Bessel-Fourier Theorem, 66 



Osborn (Prof. H. F.), Huxley and Education, 277 



O'Shea (Prof. L. T.), Elementary Chemistry for Coal- 

 mining Students, 408 



Ostwald (Prof.),' the Second Law of Thermodynamics and 

 the Mental Phenomena of Will, 400 



Outes (Prof. F. F.), los Aborigenes de la Republica Argen- 

 tina, 481 



Page (W. M.), Two-dimensional Problems in Electro- 

 statics and Hydrodynamics, 541 



Paillet (J.), New Method for De-electrification of Textile 

 Materials by High-frequency Currents, loi 



Paints for Steel Structures, Houston Lowe, 346 



Palaeobotany : Compulsory Latin Diagnoses of Fossil 

 Plants, E. A. Newell Arber, 380 



Palaeontology : Foraminifera found at Selsey Bill, E. 

 Heron-Allen, A. Earland, 33 ; the Extinct Buffalo of 

 Algeria as Drawn by Prehistoric Man, Sir H. H. John- 

 ston, G.C.M.G., K.C.B., 42 ; the Institute of Human 

 Palaeontology in Paris, 112; Kainozoic Mollusca, R. B. 

 Newton, 134 ; Foraminifera, Ostracoda, and Parasitic 

 Fungi from the Kainozoic Limestones of Cyrenaica, F. 

 Chapman, 134 ; the Fossil Echinoidea of Cyrenaica, 

 Prof. J. W. Gregory, 134; Teeth of the Genus Ptychodus 

 and their Distribution in English Chalk, G. E. Dibley, 

 134 ; Mammalian Teeth from the Wealden of Hastings, 

 Dr. A. S. Woodward, 233 ; Trilobites from the Para- 

 doxides Beds of Comley (Shropshire), E. S. Cobbold, 

 269 ; Discovery of the Teeth of Paleolithic Man in 

 Jersey, Dr. A. Keith, 414; German East African Dino- 

 saurs, F. Gillman, 416 ; Palaeontology of the Cretaceous 

 Deposits of Northern Nigeria, H. Woods, 489 ; the 

 Fauna of the Carboniferous Period, Dr. A. S. Wood- 

 ward, 541 ; Origin of Cuts on Bones of Australian 

 Extinct Marsupials, W. B. Spencer, R. H. Walcott, 

 576 



Paraguay : the Lengua Indians of the Paraguayan Chaco, 

 W. Barbrooke Grubb, 451 



Parkinson (John), the Structure of Hausaland and its 

 Neighbourhood, 489 



Parsons (Hon. C. A., C.B., F.R.S.), the Geared Turbines 

 of the Vespasian, 226 ; Recent Advances in Turbines, 259 ; 

 further Experiments with the Gramophone, 416 ; Experi- 

 ments on Compression of Liquids at High Pressures, 

 470 



Pascal (P.), Magnetic Properties of Fluorine, 304 



Pascher (Dr. A.), Biology of the " Grossteich " in N. 

 Bohemia, 432 



Past, the, at Our Doors, or the Old in the New Around Us, 

 W. W. Skeat, 379 



Patagonia, Big-game Shooting in, H. H. Prichard, Sir 

 H. H. Johnston, G.C.M.G., K.C.B., 80 



Pathological Conditions induced by Aviation, R. Cruchet, 

 M. MouHnier, 372 



Peach (Dr. B. N., F.R.S.), Scottish Geological Survey 

 Memoirs, 586 



Peak District, the, R. M. Gilchrist, 482 



Peary (Commander Robert E.), the North Pole, 373 



Peat, the Production of Ammonia and the Economy of 

 Nitrogen in, H. Woltereck, 439 



Pelabon (H.), Resistivity of Selenides of Antimony, 439 



Penlake (R.), How to Colour Photographs and Lantern 

 Slides, 109 



Penny, the: a Suggestion, Prof. J. Milne, F.R.S., 216 



