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Name Index 



r N'ature, 

 \_February 2, 1924 



Degner (Dr. E.), The Molluscan Genus Sculptaria, 670 

 Deighton (T.), The Basal Metabolism of a Growing Pig, 709 

 Delaby (R.). The Action of Formic Acid on Ethylglycerol, 



119 

 Demolon (A.) and P. Boischot, The Activity of the Bio- 

 logical Phenomena in Peat, 304 

 Dempster (Prof. A. J.), Positive Ray Analysis of Copper, 7 

 Dendy (Prof. A.), Outlines of Evolutionary Biology. 



Third edition, 574 ; and Miss Leslie M. Frederick, 



Sponges from the Abrolhos Islands, 1 1 8 

 Denham (H. J.), The Structure of the Plant Cell Wall, 144 

 Denne (M. T.), A new Variable Light Screen for use with 



the Microscope, 709 

 Denning (W. F.), A bright Meteor, 702 ; A large Fireball, 



454 ; Fireball of September 7, 520 ; The Coming of 



the Perseids, 19 ; The December Meteor Shower, 842 ; 



The Fireball of November 3, 738 ; The Great Perseid 



Meteor Shower, 176 ; The November Leonids, 769 ; 



Two large Fireballs, 668 

 Deperet (C), F. Arcelin, and L. Mayet, The Discovery of 



Fossil Remains of Man of the Aurignacian Age at 



Solutre (Saone-et-Loire), 674 ; and Mayet, Origin 



and Evolution of the Elephants, 405 

 Derry (Dr. D. E.), Fossil Human Bones found in Egypt, 250 

 Desgrez (A.), H. Bierry, and F. Rathery, Utility of 



Vitamin B and of Levulose in the Cure by Insulin, 747 

 Deslandres (H.), Mountain Observatories, 304 

 Desliens (L.), The Measurement of Arterial Pressure by 



the Bleeding Method, 28 

 Detlefsen (J. A.) and L. S. Clemente, Genetic Variation 



in Linkage Values, 120 

 Dewar (D.), illustrated by G. A. Levett- Yeats, The 



Common Birds of India. Vol. I. Part I., 161 

 Dewrance (Sir John), Invention and Research in Mechanical 



Engineering, 742 

 Dewey (H.), H. G. Dines, and others. Tungsten and 



Manganese Ores. Third edition, 357 

 Dey (M. L.), Phototropic Compounds of Mercury, 240 

 Dickinson (G. Lowes), War : Its Nature, Cause, and Cure, 51 

 Dina (M.), endowment of a new French observatory, 805 

 Dines (L. H. G.), Can the Geostrophic Term account for 



the Angular Momentum of a Cyclone ? 473 

 Dines (W. H.), Correlation of Upper Air Variables, 502 

 Dingle (H.), The Temperatures of the Stars, 167 

 Dixey (Dr. F.), The Water Supply of Nyasaland, 772 

 Dixon (Prof. H. B.), Coal-dust Explosions at the Mines 



Department Experimental Station at Eskmeals, 608 

 Dixon (Prof. H. H.), The Nerves of Plants, 799 ; and 



N. G. Ball, Extraction of Sap from Living Leaves by 



means of Compressed Air, 923 

 Dixon (Prof. R. B.), The Racial History of Man, 854 

 Dixon (M.), appointed senior demonstrator in biochemistry 



in Cambridge University, 673 

 Dobson (G. M. B.), An Uncommon Type of Cloud, 793 ; 



awarded the Johnson memorial prize of Oxford 



University, 673 

 Dodd (S.), Cancer of the Ear of Sheep, 564 

 DoUo (L.) and P. T. de Chardin, The Deposits of Palseocene 



Mammalia in Belgium, 74 

 Donaldson (R. W.), R. H. Turner, and A. E. Cameron, 



awarded Dawnay scholarships, 674 

 Donnan (Prof. F. G.), Physical Chemistry of Surfaces, 420 ; 



Some Aspects of the Physical Chemistry of Inter- 

 faces, 867, 905 ; The Secret of Life, 352 

 Doodson (Dr. A. T.), Meteorological Perturbations of Sea- 

 Level, 765 

 Dorsey (Dr. N. E.), Some Curious Numerical Relations, 505 

 Dowson (E. M.), retirement of, 911 

 Dresslar (Dr.), The School Janitor, 346 

 Druce (Dr. G. C), A Flora of the Shetlands, 222 

 Drury (A.), World Metric Standardisation : an Urgent 



Issue. A Volume of Testimony urging World-wide 



Adoption of the Metric Units of Weights and Measures 



— Meter — Liter — Gram, 234 

 Duane (W.) , The Transfer in Quanta of Radiation Momentum 



to Matter, 120 

 Dubiago and Lexin, D'Arrest's Comet, 247 

 Dubrisay (R.) and P. Picard, The Capillary Phenomena 

 manifested at the Surface of Separation of Water 

 and Vaseline Oil in the Presence of Fatty Acids and of 

 Alkalies, 638 



Dufiieux (M.), The Mass of the Particles which emit the 

 Secondary Spectrum of Hydrogen, 119 



Duisberg (Prof. C), The work of, 483 



Dull (C. E.), Essentials of Modern Physics, 587 



Dumanois (P.), A Method of Air-drying, 564 



Dumas (Prof. G.), Traits de Psychologic. Tome I., 278 



Dunham (late Prof. E. K.), establishment of a lectureship 

 at Harvard University in memory of, 25 



Dunlop (J. C), The Misstatement of Age in the Returns of 

 the Census of Scotland, 74 



Dunmore (F. W.) and F. H. Engel, Short-wave Directive 

 Radio Transmission, 68 



Dunstan (B.), Mesozoic Insects of Queensland, 20 



Dupont (G.) and L. Desalbres, A curious case of Separation 

 of Optical Isomerides by Distillation and by Crystal- 

 lisation, 119 



Durham (Earl of), elected president of the Durham 

 Philosophical Society, 840 



Durham, (Mrs. E. O.), bequest to the Junior Institution 

 of Engineers, 632 



Durrant (P. J.), elected fellow and lecturer in natural 

 sciences at Selwyn College, Cambridge, 777 



Duthie (A. V.), The Morphology of Selaginella pumila. 

 Pt. III., 959 



Duveen (G. E.), gift to London University for a lectureship 

 in otology, 673 



Dwerryhouse (Major A. R.), The Glaciation of North- 

 eastern Ireland, 771 



Dymes (T. A.), Seeds of the Marsh Orchids, 118 



Eason (A. B.), The Prevention of Vibration and Noise, 466 

 Eastham (A.), appointed chief officer of the Official Seed 



Testing Station for England and Wales, 599 

 Eastwood (T.), Dr. W. Gibson, T. C. Cantrill, T. H. 

 Whitehead, and others. The Geology of the Country 

 around Coventry, including an account of the 

 Carboniferous Rocks of the Warwickshire Coalfield, 



354 

 Eccles (Prof. W. H.), Studies from a Wireless Laboratory, 11 

 Eckel (E. C), Cements, Limes and Plasters : their 



Materials, Manufacture and Properties. Second 



edition, 357 

 Edgell (L. F. A.), awarded the Burdett-Coutts scholarship 



in geology of Oxford University, 673 

 Edmondson (C. H.), Crustacea from Pacific Islands, 404 

 Edridge-Green (Dr. F. W.), Colour Vision and Colour 



Vision Theories, 283, 473, 687, 900 ; Houstoun's 



Light and Colour, 433 

 Edwards (W. N.), Origin of certain Filamentous Forms 



from Eocene Beds, 9 ; The Cuticular Structure of the 



Devonian plant Psilophyton, 746 

 Edwards (Sir William Rice), [obituary article], 698 

 Edwards (Prof.) and Mr. Pfeil, Unusual form of Crystal- 

 lisation of Cementite in Steel, 729 

 Ehrenpreis (A.), Curvature of the Neck of the Larva when 



the Animal Pole of the Ovum of Triton alpesiris, 



Laur., has been punctured, 675 ; Transplantation of 



the Sperm of Full-grown Urodelae, 675 

 Einleger (J.), J. Fischer, and J. Zellner, Chemistry of 



Heterotrophic Phanerogamia, 675 

 Einstein (Prof. A.), elected a member of the order Pour le 



Merite, 17 ; The Philosophies of Kant and Mach, 253 ; 



The Theory of the Afhne Field, 448 ; translated by 



Drs. G. B. Jeffery and W. Perrett, Sidelights on 



Relativity. I. Ether and Relativity. II. Geometry 



and Experience, 319 

 Eldridge (E. S.), appointed to the Empire Cotton Growing 



Corporation's Cotton Experiment Station in Nyasa- 

 land, 708 

 Elles (Dr. Gertrude), Evolutional Palaeontology, 420 

 Ellinger (Prof. A.), [obituary], 551 

 Ellis (C), Synthetic Resins and their Plastics, 930 ; and 



Prof. Annie L. Macleod, Vital Factors of Foods : 



Vitamins and Nutrition, 576 

 Ellis (H.), The Dance of Life, 721 

 Elwell (C. F.), The Poulsen Arc Generator, 860 

 Emery (Dr. W. d'E.), [obituary article], 62 

 Endell (K.), The Casting Process for Glasshouse Refractories 



in German Glass Plants, 923 



