Nature, "I 



March 23, 1911 J 



Index 



XV 



Meteors, 348 ; Fireball of January 9, 372 ; Meteors in 

 February, 417; Splendid Meteor on January 25, 453 



der Bilt (_Prof. van), Halley's Comet, 350 



der Waals (.Prof. J. D. Van), Nobel Prize Awarded to, 

 46. 213 



Descent of Man, a New Theory of the, Richard N. \\ egner, 

 119; Prof. A. Keith, 206, 509; Gerhardt v. Bonin, 50J8 



Desch (Dr» Cecil H.), Metallography, 301 ; the Origin of 

 Man, 406 



Deslandres (Dr. H.), the Progressive Disclosure of the 

 Entire Atmosphere of the Sun, Discourse at Royal Insti- 

 tution of Great Britain, 422, 457 ; Researches on the 

 Movements of the Solar Atmospheric Layers by the Dis- 

 placement of the Lines of the Spectrum, 497 



Desor's Svnopsis des Echinides Fossiles, Index to. Dr. 

 F. A. Bather. F.R.S., 404 



Dewar (G. A. B.), the Book of the Dry Fly, 39 



Diabetes Mellitus, Metabolism in, F. G. Benedict and E. P. 

 Joslin, Prof. J. S. Macdonald, 455 



Dickson (J. D. Hamilton), Thermo-electric Diagram from 

 — 200^ to -hioo° C, based on the Experiments of Sir 

 James Dewar and Prof. Fleming, 193 



Dictionaries, the Deinhardt-Schlomann Series of Technical, 

 in Six Languages, Alfred Schlomann, 99 



Dierckx (Henry), the Orbit of the Perseids, 218 



Digby (Miss), Behaviour of the Chromosomes during 

 Mitosis, 58 



Dines (\\'. H.), Results obtained from the Registering 

 Balloon Ascents carried out during the Two International 

 Weeks, December 6-1 1, 1909, and August 8-13, 1910, 128 



Diplodocus, Die Rekonstruktion des, O. .Abel, no 



Diptera Danica : Genera and Species of Flies hitherto found 

 in Denmark, W. Lundbeck, 506 



Diseases of the Skin, including Radiotherapy and Radium- 

 therapy, Prof. E. Gaucher, Dr. A. C. Jordan, 363 



Disintegration Theory, the Density of Niton (Radium 

 Emanation) and the, R. Whytlaw Gray and Sir William 

 Ramsay, F.R.S., at Royal Society, 524 



Ditmars (R. L.), Reptiles of the World, Tortoises and 

 Turtles, Crocodiles, Lizards and Snakes of the Eastern 

 and Western Hemispheres, 196 



Dixon (Dr. Henr}- H.), the Thermo-electric Method of 

 Crjoscopy, 531 



Dixon (Will. A.), Protection from "White Ants," and other 

 Pests, 270 



Dixon (Dr. W. E.), Pharmacological Action of Goniotna 

 Kamassi (South African Boxwood), 427 



Dixon (Mr.), the Geology of the South Wales Coalfield, 386 



Dobell (C. Clifford), Die Variabilitat niederer Organismen 

 Hans Pringsheim. 501 



Doelter (Prof. Dr. C), Das Radium und die Farben, 470 



Dohrn (.Anton), Gedachtnisrede gehalten auf den Imer- 

 nationalen Zoologen-Kongress in Graz am 18 August, 

 1910, Prof. Th. Boveri, 334 



Doncaster (L.), Heredity in the Light of Recent Research, 



331 

 Dorner (A.), Encyklopadie der Philosophie, 367 

 Dorrien-Smith (Captain A.), Two Botanical Excursions in 



the South-west Region of West Australia, 451 

 Doumer (E.), Epilepsy and Constipation, 328 

 Douville (Henri), How Species have Varied, 33 ; Some Cases 



of Adaptation, the Origin of Man, 65 

 Drainage and Malaria, Dr. Chas. A. Bentley, 471 ; Dr. 



Malcolm Watson, 471 

 Drawing : the Brooks Patent T-square Lock, 5 ; a Course 



of Drawing for the Standards, J. W. T. Vinall, 268 ; 



Natural and Common Objects in Primary Drawing, 



J. W. T. Vinall, 268 

 Dreaper (W. P.), Instruction in Methods of Research, 73 

 Driencourt (L.), Observations of the Tides made at Sea in 



the Channel and the North Sea, 97 ; Telephonic and 



Radio-Telegraphic Comparisons of Chronometers by the 



Method of Coincidences between Paris and Brest, 161 

 Drinkwater (Dr. H.), a Lecture on Mendelism, 436 

 Drummond (Madge W.), the Cocos-Keeling Atoll, 107, 206 

 Dry Fly, the Book of the, G. A. B. Devvar, 39 

 Dublin: Royal Irish .Academy, 296; Dublin Roval Society, 



161, 327. 531 

 Duckworth (Dr.), Head Form and Pigmentation of Cretan 



School Children, 24 

 Duclaux (J.), Refrigerating Mixtures, 33 



Dudetzky (M.), Microstructure of Hailstones, 485 

 Dudgeon (L. S.), Influence of Bacterial Endotoxins on 



Phagocytosis, 127 

 Dumfriesshire, the Birds of, a Contribution to the Fauna 



of the Solway Area, Hugh S. Gladstone, 378 

 Dun Coat Colour in the Horse, J. B. Robertson, 138 

 Duncan (J. C), the Spectra of Some Wolf-Rayet Stars, 552 

 Duncker (George), Pipe-fishes, Syngnathidae, from Rivers 



of Ceylon, 122 

 Dunkelfeldbeleuchtung und Ultramikroskopie in der Biologie 



und in der Medizin, N. Gaidukov, 72 

 Dunstan (Dr. Wyndham R., F.R.S.), Report on the Present 



Position of Cotton Cultivation, 520 

 Duparc (Louis), Issite a New Rock in Dunite, 262 

 Dupont (Georges), Acetylene Pinacone, 463 

 Durand (Dr. Ernest), Bequest to Paris Museum of Natural 



History, 343 

 Durand-Gr^ville (M.), .Aviators and Squalls, 322 

 Dussaud (Madame M.), Discontinuous Sources of Light, 129 

 Dyer (Dr. B.), the Manuring of Market-garden Crops, 505 

 Dyke (G. B.j, Some Resonance Curves Taken with Impact 



and Spark-ball Discharges, 531 ; Measurements of Energy 



Losses in Condensers Traversed by High-frequency Electric 



Oscillations, 530 

 Dynamics : the Dynamics of a Golf Ball, Sir J. J. Thomson, 



F.R.S., at Royal Institution, 251 ; Dr. C. G. Knott, 306 

 Dzierzbicki (J. de). Progressive Phosphorescent Spectrum of 



Organic Compounds at Low Temperatures, 161 ; Influence 



of Functional Groups on the Spectrum of Progressive 



Phosphorescence, 395 



Earland (A.), the Foraminifera of the Shore-sands of Selsey 

 Bill, 86 ; Some Varietal Forms of Massilina Secatis, 95 



Earp (Rowland A.), the Clarification of Liquids by the 

 Process of Tanking, 308 



Earth's Action on Sunlight and Heat, the, James D. Roots, 

 486 



Earth's Rotation, New Experimental Demonstration of the. 

 Father Hagen, 248 ; B. Latour, 248 



Earthquakes : Earthquakes in the Pacific, J. J. Shaw, 

 115; Prof. Milne, 115; Earthquake at Zanzibar, 244; 

 Two Slight Earthquakes felt at Glasgow, 244 ; Earth- 

 quake on the West Coast of .Africa, 244 : in Scotland. 244 ; 

 in New Guinea, 244 ; in the West Indies, 244 ; Earth- 

 quake Shocks at Elis, at San Francisco, and at Brusa, 314 ; 

 the Recent Earthquakes in Asia, Dr. W. N. Shaw. 

 F.R.S., 335; Dr. C. Chree, F.R.S., 335; Earthquake in 

 Russian Turkestan, 342 ; the Turkestan Earthquake of 

 January 3-4, Rev. Walter Sidgreaves, 372 ; F. Edward 

 Norris, 372 ; \'yernyi Earthquake, 379 ; Earthquake Shock 

 at Tiensin, 449 



Ebell (Dr.), Ephemeris for Halley's Comet, 51 ; Metcalf's 

 Comet (1910b), 87, 319; Ceru'lli's Comet (igio^), 119; 

 Cerulli's Comet (1910*) Identified with Faye's Short- 

 period Comet, 151 ; Ephemeris for Faye's Comet (igioe), 

 iSo, 523 



Echinides Fossiles, Index to Desor's Synopsis des. Dr. F. .A. 

 Bather, F.R.S., 404 



Echinoderma of the Indian Museum, Prof. Rene Koehler, 



134 



Eckel (Edwin C), Origin of the Ores, 420 



Eclipses: the Total Eclipse of the Moon, November 16, 

 E. A. Martin, 118; Madame de Robeck, 118; MM. 

 Luizet. Guillaume, and Merlin, 180; M. Montangerand. 

 iSo: M. Lebeuf, 180; M. Jonckheere, 180; Dr. Max 

 Wolf, 319; Father Fenyi, 319 



Edinburgh, University of. Forestry Education : its Import- 

 ance and Requirements, E. P. Stebbing at, 61 : the 

 Reform of Mathematical and Science Teaching in 

 Germany, -A. J. Pressland at Edinburgh Mathematical 

 Societv, 125; Edinburgh Roval Society, 193, 261, 497, 



565 ' . . 



Education : the .Association of Teachers in Technical Insti- 

 tutions, 55 ; Education in Technical Optics, 56 ; Forestr>- 

 Education : its Importance and Requirements, E. P. 

 Stebbing at the L'niversity of Edinburgh, 61 ; the Reform 

 of Mathematical and Science Teaching in Germany, .A. J. 

 Pressland at Edinburgh Mathematical Society, 125 ; the 

 Work of Polytechnic Institutes, Lord Alverstone, 220 ; 

 Chez les Fran^ais, 270 ; Technical Education Branch of 



