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Index 



XXXVIl 



Dr. W. S. Adams, 323 ; Velocity, Magnitude, and 

 Spectral Type, C. D. Perrine, 79 



'Radiation : and Convection from a Heated Wire, Dr. T. 

 Barratt, 331 ; Pyrometers, Examination of, G. K. 

 Burgess and P. D. Foote, 658 ; etc.. The Phenomena 

 of, Prof. Webster, 690 



Radio-active : Constants, A Relation between Atomic 

 Weights and, A. van den Broek, 677 ; Elements and 

 the Periodic Law, Prof. F. Soddy, Dr. N. Bohr, Dr. 

 F. A. Lindemann, A. Fleck, Dr. W. Gray, Sir E. 

 Rutherford, 240 ; Problems in Geology, Sir E. Ruther- 

 ford, Prof. J. Joly, Prof. F. Soddy, 158 



Radiologie de Guerre, La, G. Massiot and Biquard, 424 



Radiology and Electro-therapy, Archives of, 407, 438 



Radium : Emanation in Closed Tubes, Use of the Con- 



• densed, Debierne and Regaud, 193 ; Salts of the Product 



of Decay of, and Salts of Lead, Dr. W. Gray, 275 ; 



in Mineral Springs in Colorado, 47 ; The Effect of, on 



the Growth of Plants, Dr. E. J. Russell, 147 



Raies Ultimes, Comte A. de Gramont, 95 



Railroad Field Manual for Civil Engineers, Prof. W. G. 

 Raymond, . 139 



Railway Development of Africa, The, Sir C. Metcalfe, 632 



Railways of Asia Minor and Syria, The, 572 



Rainfall: British, in 1915, Dr. H. R. Mill, 576; in Man- 

 chester, 1915, W. C. Jenkins, 332 ; Mean Temperature, 

 and Sunshine for the Third Quarter, 1881-1915, 321 ; 

 Observations in Java, Results of, Dr. W. van Bem- 

 melen, 53 ; of Java, The, Dr. H. R. Mill, 53 ; of 

 September, The, 270 ; over the British Isles, October, 

 The, 406 ; Seasonal Variability of, N. A. Comissopulos, 

 361 ; Queensland, H. A. Hunt, 440 ; Values for August, 

 178 



Raingauge Exposures, Effects of, W. G. Reed, 546 



Rana tigrina. The Anatomy of. Dr. G. E. Nicholls, 360 



Range-finder, The Modern, F. J. Cheshire, 546 



Rare Earth Industry, The, S. J. Johnstone, with a Chapter 

 on the Industry of Radio-active Substances, Dr. A. S., 

 Russell, 365 



Rats, Experiments with Hooded-, Prof. W. Castle, 684 



Reading University College : Calendar of, 304 ; Members 

 of the Staff, Past and Present Students serving in the 

 War, 192 ; War Work of Chemical Department of, 666 ; 

 Work of the, 583 



Reclconing Chart, The Rapid, Dr. E. E. Fournier d'Albe, 

 506 



Rectal Gills in the Larva; of Anisopterid Dragon-flies, 

 Physiology of the, R. J. Tillyard, 193 



Redshank, the Nidification Instinct in the, C. W. Colthrup, 

 76 



Refuse Disposal, E. R. Matthews, 169 



Relativity, Prof. A. Conway, 617 



Renal Lesions Produced by Compounds, L. Pearce and 

 W. H. Brown, 27 



Reptiles of the Okefinokee Swamp of Florida, A. H. Wright 

 and W. G. Funkhouser, 350 



Resistance : A New Form of very High, for use with 

 Electrometers, J. J. Dowling, 417; to the Motion of an 

 Elongated Body, Prof. C. H. Lees, 360 



Respiratory : Exchange bf Man, Determining the, T. M. 

 Carpenter, 556 ; Gymnastics and its Therapeutic Effects, 

 J. Pescher, 136 



REVIEWS AND OUR BOOKSHELF 

 Agriculture : 



Hood (Prof. G. W.), Laboratory Manual of Horticulture, 



424 

 Knox (G. D.), The Spirit of the Soil, 399 

 Logan (A.), A First Book of School Gardening, 313 

 Lyon (Prof. T. L.), Prof. E. O. Fippin, and Prof. H. O. 



Buckman, Soils : Their Properties and Management, 452 

 Milburn (Dr. T.), Fungoid Diseases of Farm and Garden 



Crops, 312 

 Oil Seeds and Feeding Cakes, with a Preface by Dr. 



W. R. Dunstan, 394 

 Penlington (W. A. G.), Science of Dairying, 142 

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



Schools, 55 

 Stebbins (C. A.), The Principles of Agriculture through 



the School and the Home Garden, 339 



Waters (H. J.), The Essentials of Agriculture^ 55 

 Yeaw (Prof. F. L.), Market Gardening, 284 

 Anthropology and Archaeology : 



Clarke (W. G.), Report on the Excavations at Grime'i 



Graves, Weeting, Norfolk, March-May, 1914, 316 

 Duckworth (Dr. W. L. H.), Morphology and Anthro- 

 pology, vol. i., Second Edition, 648 

 Howley (J. P.), The Beothucks or Red Indians, 282 

 Johnston (Sir H. H.), The Northern Bantu, 507; Two 



More Bantu Books, 336 

 Keith (^Prof. A.), The Antiquity of Man, 450 

 Laufer (Dr B.), Chinese Clay Figures, Part i.. Proleg- 

 omena on the History of Defensive Armour, 229 

 Louw (C. S.), A Manual of the Chikaranga Language, 336 

 McLaren (J.), A Concise Kaffir-English Dictionary, 336 

 Parkyn (E. A.), An Introduction to the Study of Pre- 

 historic Art, 624 

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

 of Non-European Races in special reference to the 

 Origin of Greek Tragedy, 567 

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



'edited by W. Crooke, 309 

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

 Smith (Prof. G. Elliot), On the Significance of the Geo- 

 graphical Distribution of the Practice of Mummifica- 

 tion, 370 

 Waddell (Lt.-Col. L. A.), Chinese Defensive 'Armour, 229 ; 

 Origin of the Indian Caste System, 309 

 Biology : 

 Annandale (Dr. N.), and S. Kemp, Fauna of the Chilka 



Lake, 493 

 Bailey (Prof. L. H.), Plant-breeding, New Edition, revised 



by Dr. A. W. Gilbert, 253 

 Bonhote (J. L.), Vigour and Heredity, 561 

 British Mycological Society, Transactions of the, vol. v., 



part i., 553 

 Coit (Prof. J. E.), Citrous Fruits, 58 

 Cooke (W. W.), Bird Migration, 604 

 Cox (L. E.), Experimental Plant Physiology for 



Beginners, 140 

 Dixon (G. C), Tubifex (L.M.B.C. Memoirs on Typical 



British Marine Plants and Animals, xxiii.), 228 

 Dixon (R.), The Human Side of Plants, 225 

 Fowler (W. Warde), British Warblers, 616 

 Fritsch (Prof. F. E.), and Dr. E. J. Salisbury, Ele- 

 mentary Studies in Plant Life, 140 

 Fyson (Prof. P. F.), The Flora of the Nilgiri and Pulney 

 Hill-tops (above 6,500 feet), being the Wild and Com- 

 moner introduced Flowering Plants round the Hill- 

 stations of Ootacamund, Kotagiri, and Kodaikanal, 

 2 vols., 615 

 Gask (L.), The Hundred Best Animals, 225 ; True Stories 



about Horses, 225 

 Godman (F. D.), and O. Salvin, Biologia Centrali 



Americana. Zoology, Botany, and Archaeology, 448 

 Godwin-Austen (Lt.-Col. H. H.), Land and Freshwater 

 Mollusca of India, including South Arabia, etc., vol. ii., 

 part xii.. Text and Plates, 56 

 Gran (H. H.), The Plankton Production in the North 



European Water in the Spring of 1912, 441 

 Green (F. E.), The Surrey Hills, 534 

 Hall (C. A.), Plant Life, 140 

 Hayata (Dr. B.), Icones Plantarum Formosanarum, 



vol. iv., 112 

 Heron-Allen (E.), Foraminifera (Phil. Trans., June, 1915), 



239 

 Hooper (C. H.), Citrous Fruits, by Prof. J. E. Coit, 58 

 Hornell (].). The Sacred Chank of India, 410 

 Horslov (Rpv. Canon J. W.). Our British Snails, 56 

 Howard (H. E.), The British Warblers, 2 vols., 616 

 Hudson (W. H.), Birds and Man, New Edition, 342 

 Joly (Prof. J.), The Birth-Time of the World, etc., 342 

 kellaway (H. J.), How to Lay Out Suburban Home 



Grounds, Second Edition, 534 

 Lankestcr (Sir Ray), Diversions of a Naturalist, 342 

 Lydekker (R ), Catalogue of the Ungulate Mammals in 



the British Museum (Natural History), vol. iv., 56 

 Macnamara (Dr. N. C), Instinct and Intelligence, 561 

 Mathews (F. S.), Field Book of American Trees and 



Shrubs, 140 

 McArthur (P.), In Pastures Green, 534 



