XIV 



Index 



[Naturt, 

 April I 



1912 



McAtee (W. L.), Injury to Trees by Woodpeckers, 426 

 MacBride (Prof. E. W.)i Studies in Heredity, 131 

 McDermott (F. A.), Nature of Liglit emitted by Fireflies, 



279 

 Macdonald (Dr. D.), Relative Liability to Infection of 

 Dark and Fair Children, 261 



Macdonald (Prof. J. S.), Food and Dietetics, Dr. R. 

 Hutchison, 476 



Macdonald (N.), Machine-drawn versus Hand-drawn Milk, 

 539 



McDonell (Sir Schomberg, sec. to the Office of Works), 

 Protection of Ancient Monuments : Proposed Advisory 

 Committee, 394 



Macdonnell (Sir J.), the Trial of Galileo, 562 



Macdougal (Dr. D. T.), North American Deserts : Lecture 

 at the Royal Geographical Society, 257 



MacDowall (A. B.), the Question of Sun-spot Influence, 449 



Macha(5ek (Dr. F.), Geomorphology of S. Norway, 461 



McHenry (A.), Report on the Dingle Bed Rocks, 504 



M'Indoo (N. E.), Lyriform Organs and Tactile Hairs of 

 Spiders, 89 



McKendrick (Prof. J. G., F.R.S.), Stammering, A. Appelt, 

 407 



Mackenzie (Dr. K.), Mechanism of Milk Secretion, 562 



Mackie (A.), Aberdeenshire, 73 



Mackinder (H. J.), the Nations of the Modern World : an 

 Elementary Study in Geography, 73 



Macnamara (N. C), Mutations in Foxglove Plants, 165 



McQuade (W.), Engines and Boilers Practically Con- 

 sidered : a Handbook for Young Engineers, 376 



MacRitchie (D.), the Kayak in N.W. Europe, 504 



McWilliam (Prof. Andrew), the Present Position of Electric 

 Steel-melting : British Association Report, 62 



Maeterlinck (Maurice), Nobel Prize for Literature, 418 



Magie (Prof. W. F.), Principles of Physics : Designed for 

 Use as a Text-book of General Physics, 510 



Magitot (P.), Possibility of Preserving the Human Cornea 

 in a Living State after Removal from the Body, 436 



Magnan (A.), Food and Length of Intestine in Mammals, 

 437 ; the Caecum in Mammals, 573 



Maillard (L. C), the Condensation of the Acid Amines in 

 the Presence of Glycerol : Cycloglycylglycines, 201 ; 

 Action of Amino-acids on the Sugars, 436 



Maler (Teobert), Explorations in the Department of Peten, 

 Guatemala : Tikal, 247 



Malfitano (G.) and Mile. A. MoschkofJ, Formation of 

 Dextrine from Starch by Drying, 573 



Mallock (H. R. A.), Iridescent Colours of Birds and In- 

 sects, 66 



Mangham (Mr.), Translocation of Sugars by Sieve-tubes, 59 



Manners-Smith (T.), Limb-arteries of the Primates, 490 



Marc (Prof. R.), Vorlesungen uber die chemische Gleich- 

 gewichtslehre und ihre Anwendung auf die Probleme der 

 Mineralogie, Petrographie, und Geologie, 103 



Marcolongo (Prof. R.), Prof. H. E. Timerding, Theo- 

 retische Mechanik, 580 



Marie (E. R.), Glazed Frost, 484 



Marmier (L.), Action of Ultra-violet Rays on Sodium Hypo- 

 sulphite, 403 



Marr (Dr. J. E., F.R.S.), Plants of Britain and the Glacial 

 Period, 5:7 



Marsden (E.) and T. Barratt, the Particles emitted by the 

 Active Deposits of Thorium and Actinium, 234 



Marshall (P.), Model Engineering, 458 



Martin (Edward A.), Dew Ponds in 191 1, 77 



Martin (H.),- Skeleton of a Neanderthal Man found at 

 Quma, 16 



Martin (Prof. L. A.), Text-book of Mechanics: vol. iii.. 

 Mechanics of Materials, 276 



Martinelli (G.), History of Earthquake Prediction, 356 



Massart (Prof. J.), Phytogeography as an Experimental 

 Science, c^S 



Mathews (Prof. G. B., F.R.S.), Theory of Complex Carte- 

 sian Coordmates, 279 



Matignon (C), Synthetic Formation of Nitrous Oxide, 471 



Matisnon (C.) and M. Lassieur, Actions of Nitrogen and 

 Oxygen on Magnesium, 436 



Matley (Dr. C. A.), the Upper Keuper (or Arden) Sand- 

 stone Group and Associated Rocks of Warwickshire, 503 



Maudslay (A. P.), Exploration in the Department of Peten, 

 Guatemala, T. Maler, A. M. Tozzer, 247 ; American 

 Archajological Problems : Presidential Address to Royal 

 Anthropological Institute, 428 



Maurer (J.), R. Billwiller, jr., and C. Hess, das Klima 

 der Schweiz, 542 



Maw (George), Obituary Note, 561 



Maxwell (Right Hon. Sir H., Bart., F.R.S.), the Thames 

 Valley, 27S 



Mayer (Robert), Papers on the Conservation of Energy, 361 



Mazelle (E.), die tagliche Periode der Windrichtung und 

 VVindstiirke nach den anemometrischen Aufzeichnungen 

 auf der Klippe Porer, 218 



Mearns (Lieut. -Col. E. A., U.S.A.), attached as Naturalist 

 to the Childs Frick Abyssinian Expedition, 151 



Meek (A.) and R. A. H. Gray, Animal Remains at the 



Roman City near Newcastle-upon-Tyne, 222 

 Meek (Captain C. F. U.), a Metrical Analysis of Chromo- 

 some Complexes, showing Correlation between Evolu- 

 tionary Development and Chromatin Thread-widths, 538 



Meissner (Herr O.), Sun-spots and Climate, 190 



Meldola (Prof. R., F.R.S.), Glazed Frost: a Reminiscence, 



447 



Melikoff (P.), Method for separating Phospho-molybdates 

 from Silico-molybdates, 403 



Mendel^eff Congress and Museum Inauguration, 496 



Meslin (G.), Application of Wireless Telegraphy to the 

 Measurement of Coefficients of Self-induction, 539 



Meunier (F.), Blattidae of the Commentry Coal-measures, 

 67 



Meunier (J.), Conditions of Production of the Swan Spec- 

 trum and Conclusions relating to Comets possessing it, 

 98 



Meyer (S. Burtt), Scientific Forestry in Norway, 360 



Meyermann (Dr.), Aspect of Comet 191 le (Borelly), 54 



Michelson (Dr. A. A.), Recent Progress in Spectroscopic 

 Methods : Address, 362 



Mickle (K. A.), Flotation of Minerals, Part ii. : Oil Attach- 

 ments, 539 



Miehe (Hugo), Javanische Studien, 599 



Miethe and Seegert (Herren), the Nova or Variable 87, 1911 

 Persei, 565 



Mill (Dr. Hugh Robert), the Principles of Weather Fore- 

 casting, Dr. W. N. Shaw, F.R.S., 575 



Miller (Prof. G. A.), American Mathematics, 224 



Millochau (G.), Spectra produced in Gases and Vapours by 

 different Types of Electric Discharge, 67, 595 



Milne (Prof. John, F.R.S.), Irregular Long-period Changes 

 in Level, 6 ; the Taal Volcano, 12 ; the Propagation of 

 Earthquake Waves, Dr. G. Negri, A. Torcelli, 47 ; Seis- 

 mology at the British Association, 124 ; the Central 

 Europe Earthquake, November 16, 191 1, 146 



Minchin (Prof. E. A., F.R.S.), Relation of Big Game to 

 Sleeping Sickness, 210 



Mines (G. R.), Note on the Mode of Discharge of the 

 Cuverian Organs of Holothuria nigra, 98 



Minot (Prof. C. S.), a Laboratory Text-book of 

 Embryology, 347 



Mitchell (Dr. P. Chalmers, F.R.S.), Longevity and Rela- 

 tive Viability in Mammals and Birds : with a Note on 

 the Theory of Longevity, 286 



Mitchell (Dr. P. Chalmers, F.R.S.), G. P. Mudge, Outlines 

 of Biology, 410 



Mockler-Ferryman (Lieut. -Col. A. F.), Confessions of a 

 Robin, 209 



Moir (J.), the Spectrum of Ruby, 166 



Moir (J. Reid), Sub-crag Flints and "Ancient Hunters," 

 489 



Mohsch (Prof. H.), Action of Radium Compounds on 

 Plants, 463 



Molliard (Marin), Action of various Polyureides on Tuber 

 Formation of the Radish, 133 ; Comparison of the 

 Phenomena of Oxidation in Galls and in the Homologous 

 Organs, 436 ; Is Humus a Direct Source of Carbon for 

 the Higher Green Plants? 539 



Mond (Robert), Colour Photography of the Senmut Fresco 

 382 



Monserrate (Father A.), Mongolicae Legationis Commen- 

 tarius, 337 



Moor (C. G.) and Wm. Partridge, Aids to Bacteriology, 106 



