Title Index 



r Nature, 

 \_Fehruary -j, 1924 



Discoveries, The Protection of, 246 ; Exhibition at 

 British Association Meeting, M. A. Giblett, 457 ; 

 Instruments, Journal of. No. i, 665 ; Literature : 

 A Survey of, 585 ; the Need for Co-ordination, 

 T. W. MacAlpine, 598 ; Method : an Inquiry into 

 the Character and Validity of Natural Laws, A. D. 

 Ritchie, 278 ; Names of Greek Derivation, Dr. J. W. 

 Evans, 9 ; Prof. G. A. J. Cole, 10 ; Sir Sidney F. 

 Harmer ; Prof. F. Jeffrey Bell, 165 ; Dr. W. D. 

 Matthew, 241 ; Sir Clifford Allbutt, 590 ; Prof. G.A.J. 

 Cole, 724 ; Dr. F. A. Bather ; Dr. J. W. Evans, 901 ; 

 Objects and Common-sense Things, Prof. T. P. Nunn, 

 746 ; Papers : and Books, 565 ; Catalogue of. 

 Fourth Series (1884-1900). Vol. 18, 235; Collected, 

 of John Aitken, LL.D., F.R.S... edited for the Royal 

 Society of Edinburgh (with introductory Memoir) 

 by Dr. C. G. Knott, 495 ; Thought, Certain Aspects 

 of, Dr. Dorothy Wrinch, 921 

 Scottish Animal Life, Man and, Dr. J. Ritchie, 169 

 Scott-Still Marine Engines, 915 



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

 Sea : Disturbance and Swell, Scale for, 633 ; Exploration 

 of the, Paris Meeting of the International Council 

 for the, 774 ; -level : Meteorological Perturbations 

 of. Dr. A. T. Doodson, 765 ; The Determination of. 

 Sir Charles Close, 602 ; Temperature, Pressure 

 Distribution, and Weather of May 1923, C. E. P. 

 Brooks, 112 ; Winds, Structure of, and their Utilisa- 

 tion for Hovering Flight, P. Idrac, 746 

 Secondary School and the Community, Contact between 



the, 884 

 Secretary House, The, in Maryland, L. V. Lochwood, 669 

 Secretory Granules, The Origin of, R. H. Bowen, 815 

 Seed Analysis, Methods of, C. B. Saunders, 735 

 Seeds : the Germinating Faculty of. The Vacuum as a 

 Means of Prolonging, A. Guillaumin, 28 ; The Swelling 

 of, and the Osmotic Pressure of the Medium, H. 

 Coupin, 852 

 Seenkunde, vergleichenden, Grundziige einer, Prof. W. 



Halbfass, 717 

 Seignette Salts, some Anomalous Optical Properties of 

 freshly prepared Mixed Crystals of the, H. E. 

 Buckley, 778 

 Selaginella pumila, Morphology of. Pt. III., A. V. Duthie, 



959 

 Selenium in Glass, The Estimation of, A. Cousen, 710 

 Serbia, Archaeological Discoveries in, 875 

 Seventeenth Century University of London, A, 343 

 Severn Valley, The Development of the, L. J. Wills and 



E. E. L. Dixon, 886 

 Sex : Chromosomes in Plants, Kathleen Bever Blackburn, 

 687 ; Determination : The Mechanism and Physiology 

 of. Prof. R. Goldschmidt, translated by Prof. W. J. 

 Dakin, 927 ; The Physiology of, J. S. Huxley, 927 ; 

 Reversal in the Common Fowl, F. A. E. Crew, 601 

 Sexual Physiology, 317 ; Dr. C. Shearer : The Reviewer, 



621 

 Shackleton, Sir Ernest, The Life of. Dr. H. R. Mill, 123 

 Shackleton's Last Voyage : the Story of the Quest, 

 Comdr. F. Wild. From the Official Journal and 

 Private Diary kept by Dr. A. H. Macklin, 754 

 Shakespeare and the Indian Meteors of 1592, H. Beveridge, 



57 



Sheel-na-gig at Oaksey, The, Miss M. A. Murray and A. D. 

 Passmore, 601 



Shefifield University : Dr. P. J. Daniell appointed to the 

 Town Trust chair of mathematics, 25 ; conferment 

 of the title of emeritus professor of mechanical 

 engineering on Dr. W. Ripper ; D. Guest appointed 

 assistant bacteriologist. 183 ; Prof. F. C. Lea 

 appointed to the chair of mechanical engineering ; 

 R. R. S. Cox appointed assistant lecturer and tutor 

 in mathematics ; M. H. Evans appointed an assistant 

 lecturer in physics, 607 ; appointments in, 920 



Shetland Pirates and other Wild Life Studies, Frances 

 Pitt, 679 



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



Shield-urchins, Anatomy of the. Prof. Koehler, 144 



Ship Waves, Theory of, E. Hogner, 294 



Shoals, Researches on, with the Aid of the Divergent 

 Drag, J. Rouch, 851 



Siccitci, La, del 1921, Prof. F. Eredia, 488 



SiddhSnta-Sekhara of Sripati, N. K. Majumder, 76 



Signalling at Sea and on the Coast, 108 



Silica Gels, Influence of Neutral Salts on the, S. Glixelli, 28 



Silver : -leaf Disease, F. T. Brooks, 740 ; Salts and 

 Ammonia or the Substituted Ammonias, The Complex 

 Ions formed by, P. Job, 75 



Skull, Effect of Drying upon the, T. W. Todd, 455 



Sky : Proposed International Survey of the, C. J. P. Cave 

 and G. A. Clarke, 282 ; C. J. P. Cave, 363 



Small-pox : and Vaccination, Dr. J. C. McVail, 713 ; 

 in Gloucester, 16 



Smithsonian Institution : Bequest to, by Mrs. Bacon, 214 ; 

 Report of the : Field Work of the, 599 ; for 192 1, 841 



Smokeless Fuel, Production of, W. D. Scott-Moncrieff, 249 



Smoluchowski's Equation as appUed to the Coagulation 

 of Gold Hydrosol, L. Anderson, 851 



Snow Line, Below the, D. W. Freshfield, 894 



Social and Political Ideas of some Great Mediaeval 

 Thinkers : The, a Series of Lectures delivered at 

 King's College, University of London, edited by 

 Prof. F. J. C. Hearnshaw, 685 



S.P.C.K., Sir Isaac Newton and the, 406 



Sodium : Arsenite, Action of, on Photographic Plates, 

 W. Clark, 877 ; Amide, The Action of, on the 

 Chlorides derived from an Aldehyde or a Ketone by 

 the Use of Phosphorus Pentachloride, M. Bourguel, 

 780 ; Salts, The fine Structure of some, of the Fatty 

 Acids in Soap Curds, S. H. Piper and E. N. Grindley, 

 745; Sulphate: Its Sources and Uses, R. C. Wells, 912 



Soil Acidity and Light Intensity, J. L. Sager, 670 ; 

 Bacteria of the, H. G. Thornton, 49 ; -grains. 

 Adsorption on. Prof. G. A. J. Cole, 205 ; Micro- 

 biological Study of the. The Direct Method in the, 

 S. Winogradsky, 887 



Soils in the Region of Saulieu (Morvan), Formation of, 

 Mile. Brepson, 75 



Solar : Activity and Atmospheric Electricity, Dr. L. A. 

 Bauer, 203, 686 ; Dr. C. Chree, 361 ; Eclipse : of 

 1922, The, and Einstein's Theory, Prof. W. W. 

 Campbell and R. Trumpler, 485 ; of September 10, 

 Insurance Policies in connexion with the, 453 ; The 

 Total, of September 10, 333, 403, 805 ; Prelude of 

 an Unusual Winter, The, C. G. Abbot and colleagues, 

 227 ; Radiation : Diminution of Intensity in the 

 Red Portion of the, observed in Europe and at the 

 Equator, L. Gorczinski, 747 ; in the Extreme Ultra- 

 violet, Attempt to prove the Existence, at High 

 Altitude, of a, P. Lambert, G. Dejardin, and D. 

 Chalonge, 747 ; Sunspots and Changes in. Prof. 

 Abbot, 738 ; System, Our, and the Stellar Universe : 

 Ten Popular Lectures, Rev. C. Whyte, 200 



Soldner and the Gravitational Shift of Light, R. Trumpler, 

 520 



Solid Solutions and Inter-Metallic Compounds, Dr. W. 

 Rosenhain, 832 



Solomon's Pools, The Flora of. Miss E. M. Blackwell, 813 



Soluble Ester Salts of Starch and the Higher Fatty Acids, 

 H. Gault, 638 



Solute Atoms in certain Metallic Solid Solutions, The 

 Volumes occupied by the, and their Consequent 

 Hardening Effects, A. L. Norbury, 850 



Solution, Ionic Dissociation in, P. Debye and E. Hueckel, 

 146 



Solutions, Solid, X-ray Analysis of, E. A. Owen and 

 G. D. Preston, 745 



South African Cyperaceae, Introduction to. Dr. S. Schon- 

 land, 221 



Space, Complex, 582 



Spahhnger's Consumption Cure, 630 



Spain, Northern, Discovery in, of an Industry which 

 appears to be transitional between the Late Palaeo- 

 hthic and the Opening of the NeoUthic Ages, M. C. 

 Burkitt, 746 



Spark Spectra : in Non-metals in the Liquid State, M. 

 Curie, 887 ; of Tin and Zinc in the Schumann Region, 

 New Extension of the, L. and E. Bloch, 887 



Specola Astronomica Vaticana V. Herausgegeben von 

 J. G. Hagen and J. Stein. Die Veranderlichen Sterne. 

 Erster Band : Geschichtlich-Technischer Teil, J. G. 

 Hagen, 5 



