XVI 



Index 



[Nature, 

 March 3o,.:i9i6 



Przybyllok (Dr. E.), The Variation of Latitude, 123 

 Puiseux (P.), The Future of the Planets, 297 

 Pupin (Dr. M. I.). Aerial Transmission Problems, 550 

 Putnam (Prof. F. W.) [obituary], 544 

 Pye (D. R.), Two Scientific Models, 576 



W. R., Germany's Supplies of Nitric Acid, 537 

 Rakshit (J. N.), Identification of Common Carbon Com- 

 pounds, 255 

 Ramaswami (M. S.), A New Species of Tephrosia from 



Sind, 669 

 Ramsay (Sir W.), Germany's Aims and Methods, 587 ; The 



Gases of the Atmosphere, Fourth Edition, 619 ; The 



Scientific Organisation of Industries, 480 

 Ramsbottom (J.), Colour Standards, 159; Cytology of 



Fungus Reproduction, 553 

 Ramwez (Prof.), Effect of Smoke on Vegetation, 274 

 Ransome (Dr. A.), A Campaign against Consumption, 141 

 Raphael (Mile. A.), and V. Frasey, The Toxin of the Septic 



Vibrion and the corresponding Antitoxin, 137 

 Rasch (E.), Electric Arc Phenomena, Translated by 



K. Tornberg, 559 . , ^ . , - 



Raven (H. C), The Inhabitants and Animals of Celebes, 303 

 Raven (V. L.), Chief Superintendent of the Royal Ordnance 



Factories, Woolwich, 91 

 Ravenna (Prof. C), Hydrocyanic Acid in Plants, 353 

 Rawdon (H. S.), Mechanical Properties of Zinc-brorize, 465 

 Raymond (Miss S.), awarded the Maria Mitchell Memorial 



Fellowship at Harvard Observatory, 543 

 Raymond (Prof. W. G.), Railroad Field Manual for Civil 



Engineers, .139 

 Rayleigh (Lord), Theory of the Capillary Tube, 360 ; 



Theory of the Helmholtz Resonator, 697 

 Read (Dr. J.), elected Professor of Organic Chemistry in 



Sydney University, 444 

 Reading (Lord), Tribute to Prof. R. Meldola, 463 

 Redgrave (G. R.), Exhibition of Books on Astronomy at 



the London Library, 629 

 Redgrove (H. S.), The Magic of Experience, 3 

 Redwood (Sir B.), and A. W. Eastlake, Petroleum Tech- 

 nologist's Pocket-Book, 29 

 Reed (H. L.), Plane Trigonometry, 199 

 Reed (Dr. J. O.) [obituary], 682 



Reed (W. G.), Effects of Rain-gauge Exposures, 546 

 Reese (Dr. A. M.), The Alligator and its Allies, 367 

 Regan (C. Tate), Larval Fishes from the Antarctic, 642 ; 



Morphology of the Cyprinodont Fishes of Phallo- 



stethinae, 389 

 Regel (Dr. F.) [obituary], 517 



Reich (S.), Nitration of Phenylpropiolic Acid, 669 

 Reid (C. and E. M.), The Pliocene Floras of the Dutch- 

 Prussian Border, 455 

 Renault (A.), L. Fournier, and L. Gu6not, Treatment of 



Syphilis, 446 

 Rentoul (Miss L. J.), and Miss E. W. Baxter, Moulting 



of Birds, 712 

 Rew (R. H.), Opening Address to the Agriculture Section, 



British Association, 216 

 Reynolds (B.), Whitby Wild Flowers, 140 

 Rhijn (P. J. van), Colour Index and Distance of Stars, 52 

 Rhys (Sir John) [death], 461 ; [obituary article], 484 ; 



Funeral of, 485 

 Rice (J.), Homogeneous Catalysis, 274 

 Rich (J. L.), and E. A. Filmer, Interglacial Gorges of Six 



Mile Creek, Ithaca, 49 

 Richards (Prof. T. W.), awarded the Nobel Chemistry 



Prize for 19 14, 319 

 Richardson (Prof. O. W.), Thermionic Emission, 241 

 Richet (C), Magnesium Salts and Lactic Fermentation, 81 

 Rideal (Dr.), The Corrosion of Metals, 439 

 Ridgeway (Prof. W.), The Dramas and Dramatic Dances 

 .of Non-European Races in special reference to the 



Origin of Greek Tragedy, 567 

 Rigge (Rev. W. F.), The Solar Eclipse of 1916, December 



24. 323 

 Riggs (A. S.), France, 602 

 Rintoul and Baxter (The Misses), Death of Birds by 



Floating Oil, 120 

 Risley (Sir H.), The People of India, Second Edition, 



Edited by W. Crooke, 309 



Ritchie (E. G.), The Torsional Vibrations of Beams, 529 



Ritchie (W.), The Smaller Pine Beetle in Aberdeenshire, 465 



Rivers (Dr. W. H. R.), awarded a Royal Medal of the 



Royal Society, 348 ; Ceremonial and Descent in 



Ambrim, 300 ; FitzPatrick Lectures, 248 ; Medicine, 



Magic, and Religion, 435 



Robertson (A.), Strength of Iron and Steel Struts, 299 



Robertson (C. G.), and J. G. Bartholomew, An Historical 



Atlas of Modern Europe from 1789 to 1914, 369 

 Robertson (Prof. D.), A Remarkable Solar Halo, 342 ; 



Electrical Engineering, 2 

 Romanes (Capt. J.), wounded at the Dardanelles, 47 

 Roner (J. B.), The .Anthracnose of the Mango, 545 

 Rosa (Dr.), Electrica^l Work of the U.S. Bureau of 



Standards, 407 

 Rosanoff (Dr. M. A.), appointed Willard Gibbs Professor 



at the Mellon Institute, 359 

 Roscoe (Sir Henry) [obituary article], 459 ; Memorial Service 



and Funeral of, 485 

 Roscoe (Rev. J.), The Northern Bantu, 507 

 Rose (Dr. J. N.), and P. G. Russell, return from Expedi- 

 tion to Brazil and Argentina, 463 

 Rose (Sir T. K.), The Metallurgy of Gold, Sixth Edition, 590 

 Rosenbaum (S.), The War and the Overseas Trade of the 



United Kingdom, 50 

 Ross (Sir R.), Studies on a priori Pathometry, part i., 330; 



The Organisation of Science, 536 

 Rouse (Dr. W. H. D.), Latin as a Universal Language, 705 

 Row (R. W. H.), Simple Device for Controlling the Move- 

 ments of Paramaecia, 286 

 Roxby (P. M.), North China and Korea, 276 

 Royds (Dr.), Anomalous Dispersion in the Sun, 686 

 Riicker (Sir A.) [death], 267 ; [obituary article], 289 ; Reso- 

 lution of Regret, at the death of, by Leeds University, 

 303 ; Resolution of Sympathy by the University of 

 London, on the death of, 359 

 Rudge (W. A. D.), Self-recording Electrometer for 



Atmospheric Electricity, 332 

 Ruehle (G. L.), Bacterial Analysis of Air, 77 

 de Ruiter (J.), Lipoids and Vitamines in Margarine and 



Butter, 704 

 Runciman (Mr.), Industries in Hands of Germany, 542 

 Russell (Dr. A.), Recent Electrical Books, 4 

 Russell (Dr. E. J.), Agricultural Teaching in American 

 Schools, 55 ; Soils : their Properties and Management, 

 by Profs. Lyon, Fippin, and Buckman, 452 ; The Effect 

 of Radium on the Growth of Plants, 147 ; The Prin- 

 ciples of Crop Production, 546, 579 

 Russell (R. V.) [obituary], 1^99 

 Russell (V.), The Students' System, 368 

 Ruston (A. G.), Effect of Smoke on Vegetation, 274 ; The 



Plant as an Index of Smoke Pollution, 358 

 Rutherford (Sir E.), Henry Gwyn Jeffreys Moseley, 33 ; 

 Radio-active Elements and the Periodic Law, 240 ; 

 Radio-active Problems in Geology, 158 

 Ryan (H.), and J. Algar, Studies in the Diflavone Group, 

 501 ; and Miss A. Devine, Condensation of Aldehydes 

 with Ketones, 501 ; and T. Dillon, The Hydrocarbons 

 of Beeswax, 668 ; and Miss G. Plunkett, Unsaturated 

 ^-diketones, 501 ; and M. J. Walsh, Desoxyhydrocat- 

 echintetramethyl Ether, 668 ; Studies in the Diflavone 

 Group, 501 

 Ryan (Prof. W. T.), Continuous and Alternating Current 

 Machinery Problems, 589 



F. S. (and the Writer of the Article), Chemistry at the 



British Association, 315 

 Sabatier (Prof. P.), awarded the Davy Medal of the Royal 



Society, 348 

 Sadler (Dr. M. E.), German and English Education, 584 

 Sadtler (S. S.), Chemistry of Familiar Things, 255 

 Safford (W. E.), Eysenhardtia polystachya (Ortega), 



Sargent, 93 

 Sage (Mrs. R.), Gift to the Emma Willard School, Troy, 



666 ; Gift to Syracuse University, 500 

 Sage (Mrs. S. M.), Bequest to Cornell University, 472 

 Salisbury (Dr. E. J.), Influence of Coppicing, 357 ; Welsh 



Vegetation, 388 

 Sampson (Prof. R. A.), elected President of the Scottish 



Meteorological Society, 518 



