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Title Index 



r Nature, 



\_February 2, 1924 



Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries for England, Dr. 



G. H. Pethybridge appointed mycologist to the, 333 

 Mirage, A Mountain, E. L. Gill, 239 

 Mirrors, Prisms, and Lenses : a Text-book of Geometrical 



Optics, Prof. J. P. C. Southall. Enlarged and revised 



edition, 685 

 Molecular : Interruption, A. Fairbourne, 98 ; Movements, 



Selective Interruption of. Prof. A. F. Lindemann, 654 ; 



Pump, A Helicoidal, M. Holweck, 152 

 Molecule, On the Structure of the, A. P. Jenkin, 326 

 Mollusca : exhibited in the Zoological Department, 



British Museum (Natural History), Guide to the, 93 ; 



Guide to the, C. Tate Regan ; The Reviewer, 166 

 Molluscs, Vitamins in. Study of the, Mme. Randoin, 492 

 Monatomic Gases, Free Path of Slow Electrons in, 



Minkowski and Sponer, 557 

 Mongolia : Discovery of Fossils in, 699 ; Inner, The 



Inhabitants of, L. H. D. Buxton, 850 

 Monocotyledons, The Carbohydrate Enzymes of certain, 



R. E. Chapman, 814 

 Monocystis in Practical Class Work, A Method for demon- 

 strating the Stages in the Life History of, Dr. A. J. 



Grove, 397 

 Monotropa hypopitys. The Composition of, M. Bridel, 28, 



674 

 Mosquitoes : Salt-marsh, J. F. Marshall and others, 486 ; 



The Zoophilia of certain, and its Application to 



Prophylaxy, J. Legendre, 747 ; Zootropism in. The 



Physiological Condition of, E. Roubaud, 888 

 Motor Cars and Aeroplanes, Stopping, from a Distance, 839 

 Motions, Equations of. The True Relation of Einstein's 



to Newton's, Dr. L. Silberstein, 788 

 Mountain Observatories, H. Deslandres, 304 

 Mountains, A Lover of, 894 

 Mount Wilson Observatory : Dr. G. E. Hale appointed 



honorary director and Dr. W. S. Adams director of 



the, 108 ; The, E. J. Hartung, 348 

 Miiller X-ray Spectrograph, The, 877 

 Munich : Technical College, Dr. W. Schumann appointed 



professor of theoretical electrotechnics at the, 379 ; 



University, Dr. K. Fajans appointed assistq^it 



professor of physical chemistry in, 379 

 Muscular : Exercise, Prof. A. V. Hill, 63, 77 ; Work, The 



Adjustment of the Human Body to. Dr. M. S. Pembrey, 



N. W. MacKeith, W. R. Spurrell, E. C. Warner, and 



H. J. Westlake, 26 

 Music, Emotion in. Measurements on the Expression of, 



C. E. Seashore, 639 

 Musk Ox : in Arctic Islands, The, Dr. V. Stefansson, 590 ; 



The Wool of the. Dr. V. Stefansson, 804 

 Mutation, Cytology of, Prof. R. R. Gates, 951 

 Mycenaean Elements in the North ^gean, S. Carson, 770 

 Mytilus, the Laterofrontal Cilia of the Gills of, The 



Structure and Movements of, G. S. Carter, 885 



Nadorite found in Cornwall, and Beraunite (Eleonorite) in 

 Co. Cork, A. Russell, 779 



" Nanook of the North," Dr. F. W. Willway, 840 



Natal Technical College, Durban, E. C. Davies appointed 

 assistant lecturer in chemistry at the, 920 



National : Institute of Agricultural Botany, Annual 

 Journal of the, 332 ; Physical Laboratory, Report of 

 the, for 1922, 175 ; Annual Visitation, 70 ; Portrait 

 Gallery, Recent Additions to the, 840 



Natural : and Artificial Selection, A Mathematical Theory 

 of, J. B. S. Haldane, 922 ; History : in Kinemato- 

 graphy, 763 ; Museum : Staff Association, Scientific 

 Reunion of the, 804 ; unveiling of a mural tablet to 

 F. Du Cane Godman and O. Salvin, 175 ; History: 

 The New, being the Twenty -fifth Robert Boyle 

 Lecture delivered before the Junior Scientific Club 

 of the University of Oxford on 6th June, 1923, by 

 J. A. Thomson, 720 



Naturalist : and Teacher, Life of a, 231 ; at the Poles : 

 A, the Life, Work, and Voyages of Dr. W. S. Bruce, 

 the Polar Explorer, Dr. R. N. Rudmose Brown, with 

 five chapters by W. G. Burn Murdoch, 821 



Naturahsts' Field Club, A New, for Northern Antrim, 768 



Nature : Kinematograph Film, A, Capt. C. W. R. Knight, 

 517 ; Reserves, International Conference on, 115 



Naturwissenschaften, exakten, Ergebnisse der, 648 



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

 392 



Nematodes : of Sheep and Chickens, T. W. M. Cameron 

 and Dr. R. J. Ortlepp, 373 ; Parasitic, Dr. H. A. 

 Baylis and R. Daubeny, 293 



Neolithic Man in Patagonia, Dr. J. Imbelloni, 486 



Nervous : Anxiety, Conditions of, and their Treatment, 

 W. Stekel, translated by Rosalie Gabler, 86 ; Char- 

 acter, the Inheritance of an Acquired, Prof. I. P. 

 Pawlow ; Major H. H. King, 664 



New South Wales : Proposal for Reservation of lands in, 

 737 ; The Freshwater Estomastraca of. Part III., 

 Ostracoda, Miss M. Henry, 304 ; The Micro-biological 

 Laboratory, Report for 192 1, 214 ; the Vegetation of 

 Arid and Semi-arid, Part I., The Plant Ecology of the 

 Barrier District, Miss M. I. CoUins, 304 



Newton, Sir Isaac : and the S.P.C.K., 406 ; The Life and 

 Work of, Prof. A. R. Forsyth, 453 



New York : the Broadcasting Station in, 290 ; Zoological 

 Society, gifts to the, 768 



New Zealand : Geomorphology of. Prof. C. A. Cotton, 

 Part I., 717 ; Proposed Observatory in, 842 



Nickel : Effect of Small Quantities of, upon High - grade 

 Bearing Metal, A. H. Mundey and C. C. Bissett, 491 ; 

 Ores, W. G. Rumbold, 756 ; The Mining, Refining, 

 and Applications of Nickel, F. B. H. White, 430 ; 

 The Permeability of, to Hydrogen, V. Lombard, 184 



Nitrogen : -fixing Bacteria : Influence of the Sugar Concen- 

 tration of the Media on the Activity of, G. Trufiaut 

 and N. Bezssonoff, 675 ; in Leaf Nodules, L. A 

 Boodle, 703 ; Requirement, The Role of the De- 

 ficient Proteids in Supplying the Minimum, E. F. 

 Terroine, P. Fleuret, and T. Strieker, 492 ; Total, 

 Estimation of, A Cause of Error in the lodlbauer 

 Method for the, J. Bordas, 711 



Nobel Prize : for Medicine for 1922, The, awarded to 

 Prof. A. V. Hill and Prof. O. Myerhoff ; that for 1923 

 to Dr. Banting and Prof. Macleod, 664 ; for Physics 

 for 1923, awarded to Dr. R. A. Millikan ; for chem- 

 istry to Prof. F. Pregl, 767 



Non-ferrous Metals, the Use of, in Engineering, Sir Henry 

 Fowler, 490 



North : Atlantic, Meteorological Chart for September, 

 402 ; of Scotland College of Agriculture, Appoint- 

 ments gained by Students, 957 ; Sea : Fisheries in 

 1920-22, 21 ; Southern, The Marine Deposits of the 

 J. O. Borley, 706 ; The Floor of the, 706 ; -Western 

 University, Chicago, gift to the, by IVIrs. M. Ward, 920 



Norwich, Strangers' Hall, presented to the city by L. G. 

 Bolingbroke, 64 



Notornis, Owen, The Ralline Genus, Dr. H. O. Forbes, 762 



Nuclear Division, Chromosome Movements in, G. Cannon, 

 177 



Numeral Relations, Some Curious, Dr. N. E. Dorsey, 505 



Nutrition Problems during Famine Conditions in Russia, 

 Prof. B. Slovtzov, 328 



Nyasa, the Great Water : being a description of the 

 Lake and the Life of the People, Ven. W. P. Johnson, 

 129 



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



Oak, A Secondary Disease of the, caused by Polyporus 

 (Phellinus) rubriporiis, J. Costantin and L. Dufour, 



779 



Oats, Physiological Classification of, M. G. Jones, 556 



Ocean Island, The Phosphate Deposit of, L. Owen, 362 ; 

 The Writer of the Note, 363 



Oceanography : Dr. Johs. Schmidt, 784 ; Founders of, and 

 their Work : an Introduction to the Science of the 

 Sea, Sir William A. Herdman, 784 



October Rains in the British Islands, 701 



Official Seed Testing Station for England and Wales, A. 

 Eastham appointed chief officer of the, 599 



Oil : and Gas Resources, Osage, Oklahoma, D. White, 

 112 ; Fields, Fire Hazards and Fire Extinction on. 

 Prof. J. S. S. Brame ; H. B. Milner, 344 ; Sub- 

 surface Geology in, W. W. Rubey, 914 ; Painting, 

 Early Methods of. Prof. A. P. Laurie, 882 ; Power, 

 S. H. North, 468 ; -sands. Correlation of. The Dakota 



