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Name Index 



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Nature, 

 ehruaty 2, 1924 



Petrie (J. M.), Studies in Plant Pigments. I., 747 



Petrie (Sir Flinders), An Egyptian Statue of Menkaura 

 in London, 20 ; The Cave of Macpelah, 951 ; and 

 N. Giron, Antiquarian Work in Egypt, 669 



Pettersson (Dr. H.), Long-range Particles from Radium- 

 active Deposit, 540 



Pettit (E.) and S. Nicholson, Heat Radiations of Planets, 



454 

 Pfister (Dr. O.), translated. Some Applications of 



Psycho-analysis, 86 

 Philby (H. St. J. B.), The Heart of Arabia : a Record of 



Travel and Exploration. 2 Vols., 127 

 Philippot (H.), Comparison of Time by Wireless Telegraphy 



in 1922, 959 

 Phillips (Prof. H. B.), Differential Equations, 897 

 Phillips (J. B.), Weather at Falmouth in 1922, 178 

 Pick (W. H.), Upper-Air Observations in North Russia, 248 

 Pickering (Prof. W. H.), A Remarkable Meteoric Procession, 



805 ; The Axis of Mars, 950 

 Pienkowski (Prof. S.), Gradient of Potential near 



Electrodes, 99 

 Pilcher (R. B.), National Certificates in Chemistry, 793 

 Pile (S.) and R. G. Johnston, A Tested Method of Labora- 

 tory Organisation, 469 

 Piper (S. H.) and E. N. Grindley, The Fine Structure of 



Some Radium Salts of the Fatty Acids in Soap Curds, 



745 

 Pisarjevski (L.) and M. Rosenberg, The Paths of Electrons 



in Solution, 405 

 Pitt (Frances), Shetland Pirates and Other Wild Life 



Studies, 679 

 Plaskett (H. H.), A Possible Origin of the Nebular Lines, 



392 



Plaskett (J. S.), Fixed Calcium Clouds in Interstellar 

 Space, 912 



Playfair (G. L), Notes on Freshwater Algae, 304 



Pockhngton (Dr. H. C), The Transfinite Ordinals of the 

 Second Class, 57 



Pocock (R. I.), The Gorilla's Foot, 827 



Pollitt (A. A.), The Causes and Prevention of Corrosion, 357 



Ponte (Prof. G.), The Recent Eruption of Etna, 546 



Poole (H. H.), The Convection of Heat in Vertical Water 

 Columns, 923 



Portevin (A.), The Relation between Young's Modulus and 

 the Atomic Volume, 674 ; and F. Le Chatelier, 

 Obtaining, by Heat Treatment, Light Aluminium 

 Alloys of High Tensile Strength not containing 

 Magnesium, 347 ; Unusual form of Crystallisation 

 of Cementite in Steel, 728 ; and P. Chevenard, A 

 Dilatometric Study of the Transformations and 

 Thermal Treatment of Light Alloys of Aluminium, 492 



Potter (H. H.), The Proportionality of Mass and Weight, 

 778 



Powell (H. J.), Glass-making in England, 612 



Pownall (J. F.), A Standard System for Scientific and 

 Technical Publications, 794 



Prain (Sir David) and others. The Oxford Botanic Garden, 

 24 



Prashad (B.), The Respiration of the Ampullariidae, 527 



Pregl (Prof. F.), awarded the Nobel prize for chemistry 

 for 1923, 767 



Prescott (W.), bequest to Liverpool University, 777 



Preston (H.), appointed assistant science tutor in Leeds 

 University, 638 



Prey (Prof. A.), Prof. C. Mainka, Prof. E. Tams, Natur- 

 wissenschaftliche Monographien und Lehrbiicher. 

 Vierter Band : Einfiihrung in die Geophysik, 614 



Prianichnikov (M.), The Assimilation of Ammonia by the 

 Higher Plants, 639 



Prior (Dr. G. T.), The Chemical Composition of the 

 Ashdon Meteorite, 779 ; The Meteoric Stone which 

 was seen to fall at Ashdon on March 9, 1923, 118 ; 

 The Sinai Meteorite, 118 



Proctor-Smyth (Mrs. S. D.) and Miss Mary Proctor, 

 Biography of Richard A. Proctor, 865 



Prout (Dr. H. G.), A Life of George Westinghouse, 583 



Przibram (Dr. H.), Experiments on Alytes and Ciona, 899 ; 

 The Causes of Animal Colouring, 675 ; The Trans- 

 plantation Experiments made by R. G. Harrison, 675 



Pulfrich (Prof. C), Die Stereoskopie im Dienste der 

 Photometric und Pyrometrie, 468 



Pumpelly (Prof. R.), [death], 482 



Punnett (Prof. R. C.), Heredity in Poultry, 571 



Piiringer (K.), Chemical Analysis of the Leaves and 



Flowers of Chamesnerion augusti folium , 675 

 Puthomme (M.), Study of the Secondary X-rays, 492 

 Putnam (G. E.), Supplying Britain's Meat, 617 

 Pye (D. R.), Heat and Energy, 721 

 Pye-Smith (Dr. J.), Scientific Terms derived from the 



(Ircek Language, 371 



Quintus (R. A.), The Cultivation of Sugar Cane in Java : 

 an Elementary Treatise on the Agriculture of the 

 Sugar Cane in Java, and more especially on its 

 cultivation on the Krian Sugar Estate, 824 



Radin (P.), The Winnebago American Indians, 521 

 Rainich (G. Y.), Tensor Analysis without Co-ordinates, 227 

 Raman (Prof. C. V.), The Scattering of Light by Aniso- 

 tropic Molecules, 165 ; The Scattering of Light by 

 Liquid and Solid Surfaces, 281 

 Rambaut (Dr. A. A.), [death], 599 ; [obituary article], 628 

 Rambu.sh (N. E.), Modern Gas Producers, 389 

 Ramsbottom (J.), Amanita m,uscaria on Hampstead 

 Heath, 791 ; elected president of the British Myco- 

 logical Society, 666 

 Ramsden (Prof. W.) and others, Interfacial Phenomena, 



671 

 Randoin (Mme. L.), Study of the Vitamins in Molluscs, 492; 

 and H. Simonnet, Influence of the nature and 

 quantity of the Glucides present in a Ration deprived 

 of factor B on the precocity of appearance of the 

 Accidents of Polyneuritis in Birds, 815 

 Rankine (Prof. A. O.) and others. Loud-speakers for 



Wireless and other purposes, 878 

 Rasmussen (K.), Researches in Arctic Canada, 17 

 Rasor (Prof. S. E.), Mathematics for Students of Agri- 

 culture, 128 

 Rathbun (Miss Mary J.), Fossil Crabs from Haiti, 20 

 Rathke (Prof. H. B.), [death], 663 

 Rau (L. R.), The Age of the Uttatur Marine Transgression, 



76 

 Rawlins (F. I. G.), The Microscope in Physics, 886 

 Rayleigh (Lord), Further Studies on the Glow of Phos- 

 phorus and its Extinction by Moist Oxygen, 778 

 Read (Mrs. A. P.), proposed use of the bequest by, 744 

 Read (Sir Hercules), Collaboration in Archaeological Re- 

 search with Foreign Nations, 142 

 Read (Prof. J.), appointed professor of chemistry and 

 director of the Chemistry Research Laboratory in 

 St. Andrews University, 73 

 Read (J.) and G. J. Burrows, The Dilution of Ethylene- 



bromohydrin with Water, 256 

 Reader (R. C), Effects of Rate of Cooling on the Density 



and Composition of Metals and Alloys, 490 

 Redeke (Dr. H. C.) and others. Flora en Fauna der Zuider- 

 zee, 533 

 Redmayne (Sir Richard), The Valuation of Mines, 891 

 Regan (C. Tate), " Guide to the Mollusca," 166 

 Reich (R.), New Organometallic Compounds : Copper 



Phenyl and Silver Phenyl, 347 

 Reid (Sir James), [death], 62 



Reilly (Dr. J.), The Thermal Decomposition of Wood, 157 

 Remsen (Dr. I.), An Introduction to the Study of the 

 Compounds of Carbon or Organic Chemistry. Re- 

 vised and enlarged with the collaboration of the 

 author by Prof. W. R. Orndorff, 897 ; bestowal upon, 

 of the Priestley medal of the American Chemical 

 Society, 632 

 Reynolds (J. H.), The Gaseous Nebulas, 375 ; The Spiral 

 Nebulae as Dust-clouds, no ; The Spiral Nebulae, 668 

 Reynolds (S. H.), The Igneous Rocks of the Tortworth 



Inlier, 813 

 Reynolds (Dr. W. C), Globular Lightning, 903 ; Thunder- 

 storms and Ozpne, 396 

 Ricardo (H. R.), The Internal Combustion Engine. Vol. 



2 : High-speed Engines, 350 

 Rice (W. H.), Hawaiian Legends, 556 

 Richards (Prof. H. C), The Great Barrier Reef, 213 

 Richardson (C. A.), Methods and Experiments in Mental 

 Tests, 6 



