Index 



[Nature, 

 March 30, 1916 



Military Training in Schools, Dr. A. A. David, J, L. Paton, 



A. A. Somerville, and others, 328 

 Milk : Cost of Feeding in the Production of, J. Mackintosh, 



Prof. Crowther and A. G. Ruston, C. S. Orwin, 358; 



-secretion, Calcium Phosphate and, Dr. A. Lauder, 358 

 Milking Experiments, Prof. Crowther, 358 

 Miller, the Law of, A Simple Demonstration of, Prof. G. 



Ces^ro, 611 

 Mimosa pudica. Physiological Investigations with Prepara- 

 tion of, J. C. Bose and S. C. Das, 724 

 Minchin, The late Prof. E. A., on "The Evolution of the 



Cell," E. Heron-Allen, 173 

 Mineral: Industry of Canada, 25; Products of India, 514; 



Resources of Great Britain, Special Reports on the, 



683 ; Minas Geraes (Brazil), A. F. Calvert, 87 

 Mineralogical Society, Officers and Council of the, 319 

 Mineralogy, Determinative, Prof. T. V. Lewis, Second 



Edition, 396 

 Minerals, Field Analysis of, for the Prospector, etc., by 



G. D. McGrigor, 479 

 Mining Science, An Introduction to, J. B. Coppock and 



G. A. Lodge, 198, 352 

 Minute Life of the Sea, 441 

 Mira Ceti, 575 



Mission Range, The, Montana, W. M. Davis, 557 

 Missouri Botanical Garden, Twenty-fifth Anniversary of 



the, 320 

 Mitchell, Maria, Association, Miss M. Harwood appointed 



a Fellow of the Association and Director of its Observa- 

 tory ; Miss S. Raymond awarded the Fellowship of the 



Association at Harvard Observatory, 543 

 Modern Europe, An Historical Atlas of, from 1789 to 1914, 



C. G. Robertson and J. G. Bartholomew, 369 

 Molecular : Structure and its Influence on Life and Death, 



Prof. A. Pictet, 410; Volumes of Liquid Chemical 



Compounds from the point of view of Kopp, The, 



G. Le Bas, 476 

 Mollusca : of India, etc.. Land and Fresh-water, Lt.-Col. 



H. H. Godwin-Austen, vol. ii., part xii., Text and 



Plates, 56; of South Galway, R. A. Phillips, 1^1 

 Molluscs, Mammals, and Memorabilia, Rev. T. R. R. 



Stebbing, 56 

 Money Cowry. The, as a Sacred Object among North 



American Indians, J. W. Jackson, 612 

 Monitors, The New, 267 

 Montana Phosphate Deposits, Extension of the, F. D. 



Adams and W. J. Dick, 726 

 Monthly Meteorological Charts of the North Atlantic and 



Mediterranean, February, 657 

 Montserrat, Report of the Agricultural Department of, 



631 

 Monuments and Lightning, Prof. I. Galli, 286 

 Moon, Occultations by the, 379 

 Morals in Evolution, Prof. L. T. Hobhouse, 83 

 Morehouse Comet (1908 c), Helicoidal Filaments of the, 



F. Baldet, 82 

 Morphology and Anthropology, Dr. W. L. H. Duckworth, 



vol. i.. Second Edition, 648 

 Mosquitoes of North and Central America and the West 



Indies, Howard, Dyar, and Knab, 487 

 Mosses : Describing and Determining Species Biometrically, 



Prof. J. McLeod, 357 ; of Ireland, The, 207 ; Lord Howe 



Island, The, Dr. V. F. Brotherus and Rev. W. W. 



Watts, 82 

 Mothercraft and Infant Welfare, Prof. R. T. Hewlett, 482 

 Motion : of a Stream of Finite Depth past a Body, R. Jones, 



304 ; Pictures. Selling Machinery by, 68^; 

 Mount : Holyoke College, Gift to, by Mr. and Mrs. N. W. 



Harris, a.i^ ; Sorrel, The Granite Surfaces of, Prof. 



W W. Watts, i<;7 

 Mummification, the Practice of. On the Significance of the 



Geographical Distribution of, Prof. G. Elliot Smith, 370 

 Munitions : Inventions Branch, Removal of, 47 ; Ministry 



of. Appointments under the, 91 ; The Ministry of, 375 

 Musei, The Carbohydrates of the, T. G. Mason, 417 

 Museums : and Folk-art, 435 ; Educational Work in. Dr. 



W. M. Tattersall, 676 ; Journal, August, 49 ; Local, 



Dr. W. E. Hoyle, Dr. F. E. Bather, Dr. Marie C. 



Stopes, ik8, i5;o; Natural History, Dr. O. C. Farring- 



ton, 14 ; The Closing of, 597 ; The Closing of. Sir Ray 



Lankester, 681 ; The Proposed Closing of, 626, 654, 



680 ; The Standards and Functions of, 96 ; Dr. F. A. 



Lucas, W. P. P., 370 

 Music of the Indian Tribes, Miss F. Densmore, 630 

 Mutarotation in Aqueous Solution, The Mechanism of, 



Prof. Irvine and Miss Steele, 94 

 Mycelium, Perennial, I. E. Melhus, 405 

 Mycetozoa, Japanese Species of the. Miss G. Lister, 553 

 Mycological Society, British, 553 

 Myriapod, A New, from New South Wales, H. W. Brole- 



mann, 530 

 Myriapods, Australian and other, W. W. Froggatt, 530 

 Myriodon senekalensis found near Senekal, Dr. E. C. N. 



van Hoepen, 321 



Nacoochee Mound, The, F. W. Hodge, 712 



Naples Zoological Station, A Committee of Administration 



of the, 599 

 Nass River Indians, The Social Organisation of the, 



E. Sapir, 712 



Nasturtium and the GeraniaceEe, Essential Differences 

 between the, P. Vuillemin, 136 



Natal Plants, Growth Forms of, J. W. Bews, 193 



National : Affairs, Science in, 195 ; Prof. W. M. Bayliss, 

 260; Dr. E. H. Tripp, 315; G. N. P., 315; Economy, 

 A Memorial on, 712 ; in Fuel, 457 ; Illumination 

 Committee, W. Duddell elected Chairman of the, 233 ; 

 Needs, 391 ; Problems, Scientific Committees on, 525 ; 

 Technical Training, W. H. F. Murdoch, 537 



Natural History : of the State, The, Prof. H. J. Ford, 83 ; 

 Old-Fashioned, and New-Fashioned Botany, 225 



Nature and Science on the Pacific Coast, 56 



Nautical Astronomy, Early, Sir C. R. Markham, 95 



Naval : Architects, Institution of, Annual Meeting of the, 

 628 ; Scholarship, 26 ; Consulting Board of the United 

 States, Proposals of the. Dr. L. H. Baekeland, 628 



Nebulae, Classification of the, by means of their Spectra, 

 W. H. Wright, 556 



Nebular and Stellar Spectra, Probable Identities in Wave- 

 length in, W. H. Wright, 556 



Nephrite Celt, A, Discovery in the Fayum, O. Bates, 13 



Neptune, Rotation. Period of, M. Hall, 123 



Nerve-conduction, A Theory of, A. G. Mayer, 725 



Nescience, Science and, 251 



Neuroterus lenticularis, Gametogenesis and Sex-determina- 

 tion in the, L. Doncaster, 724 



New-born Infant, Physiology of the, F. G. Benedict and 



F. B. Talbot, 556 

 Newcomen Engine, A, 153 

 Newfoundland, Aboriginal Inhabitants of, 282 

 New Methods and Old, 141 



New Mexico, Flora of, E. O. Wooton and P. C. Standley, 

 320 



New South Wales : Geology and Petrology of the Great 

 Serpentine-Belt of, W. N. Benson, 333 ; Report for 1913 

 on the Public Health of, 177 ; Report of the Government 

 Bureau of Microbiology, 177 ; The Burrinjuck Dam and 

 the Murrumbidgee Irrigation Area in, J. McFarlane, 275 



Newton Abbot Technical School, Fire at the, 119 



Newtonian Constant of Gravitation as affected by Tempera- 

 ture, P. E. Shaw, 416 



New Year Honours, 516 



New York Academy of Medicine, Bequest to, of Dr. R. A. 

 Witthaus, 666 



New Zealand : Fossils, Descriptions of, 601 ; Mollusca, 

 Manual of the, H. Suter, Atlas of Plates, 648 ; Survey 

 Work in, 1914-15, 378 



Nickel Wires, Change of Length in. Prof. W. Brown, 528 



Nitrate, Aniline, Crystallographic Peculiarities of, F. 

 Wallerant, 277 



Nitrates : Alkaline, Preparation of, H. Le Chatelier and 

 B. Bogitch, 277 ; for .Agricultural Purposes, Additions 

 to Committee on, 5;99 ; Synthetic, The "Wheat 

 Problem " and, 447 ; The Supply of, 372 



Nitre-cake as a Substitute for Sulphuric Acid, 714 



Nitrite-forming Organism from Soil, Isolation of a New, 

 N. V. Joshi, 352 



Nitrogen : Compounds, Industrial, and Explosives, Dr. G. 

 Martin and W. Barbour, 365 ; Effects of, on Steel, 

 Prof. N. Tschischewski, 380 ;' Problem in Arid Soils, 

 The, C. B. Lipman, 137 



