Nature, l 

 A^ril 15, 191 5J 



Index 



XV 



SUBJECT INDEX. 



Abrolhos Islands, Structure and Fauna, W. J. Dakin, 636 



Absorption of Light, F. O. Rice, 301 



Acoustics of Auditoriums, F. R. Watson, 122 



Adelard of Bath and Continuitj' of Universal Nature, Prof. 

 L. Thorndike, 616 



Adrenalin, Action on Heart, S. W. Patterson, 356 



Aerial Post in U.S.A., 567 



Aerodynamical Laboratories, European, Dr. A. F. Zahm, 506 



Aeronautics : Report of Advisory Committee, 89 ; Animal 

 Flight, Dr. E. H. Hankin, 172 ; Trials with Langley's 

 Machine, 261 ; Discontinuous Fluid Motion past a bent 

 Plane, Prof. G. H. Bryan and R. Jones, 661 



Africa : Supplementary Geography, J. F. and A. H. Cham- 

 berlain, 115; Hunting the Elephant, Capt. C. H. 

 Stigand, 140 ; the Eastern Libyans, O. Bates, 224 



After Effects of Seen Movement, W. S. Hunter, 63 



Age of a Herring, Prof. D'Arcy W. Thompson, 60, 363 ; Dr. 

 J. Hjort and Einar Lea, 255 



Agriculture : Pilgrimage of British Farming, A. D. Hall, 

 Dr. E. J. Russell, i ; Soils and Crops, Prof. Hunt and 

 Burkett, Dr. Russell, i ; Manures and Fertilisers, Prof. 

 H. J. Wheeler, Dr. Russell, i ; Development Grants, 

 26 ; Edinburgh College, 26 ; the Farm Woodlot, E. G. 

 Cheyney and Prof. Wentling, 88 ; Problems of Produc- 

 tion : British Association .Address, .A. D. Hall, 156, 601 ; 

 Impurities of Agricultural Seed, S. T. Parkinson and G. 

 Smith, 171 ; Cultivation of Medicinal Plants in England, 

 W. A. Whatmough, 175 ; Higher Instruction in north 

 of Scotland, 191 ; Natural History of the Farm, Prof. 

 Needham, 222 ; Sheep Disease, "Scrapie," Dr. M'Gowan, 

 222 ; Types of Soil, Prof. K. Glinka, 222 ; Potassium 

 Salts and Agriculture, 287 ; Partial Sterilisation of Soils, 

 Dr. E. J. Russell, 308 ; Agriculture at the British 

 Association, 324 ; Agriculture in the Tropics, Dr. J. C. 

 Willis, 334 ; Analyses of .Ag^cultural Yield, W. L. 

 Balls and F. S. Holton, 355 ; .Agricultural Education 

 Association : the War, 491 ; Farm Accounts, C. S. 

 Orwin, 505 ; Food of Wild Birds, W. E. Collinge, 509 ; 

 Bacterial Disease of White Grub, 514; Development of 

 Culms of Grasses (Wheat), R. S. Hole, 600 ; Woburn 

 Experimental Fruit Farm, Duke of Bedford and S. 

 Pickering, 628 ; Universit\- of Bristol, 628 ; Rotation 

 Experiments at Peepy, Prof. Gilchrist, 651 ; Trenching 

 Ground and Spraying Potatoes, S. Pickering, 672 ; 

 Cacao and Coco-Nuts, Dr. van Hall, Prof. Copeland, 

 Dr. Chandler, 695 



Air and Tuberculosis, Dr. G. Hinsdale, 374 ; Air, Water, 

 and Food from a Sanitary Standpoint, A. G. Woodman 

 and J. F. Norton, 641 



Aircraft in War, F. W. Lanchester, 65 



-Alcohol as Fuel, J. S. S. Brame, 195 ; Alcohol for Research, 

 Sir W. Ramsay, 642 ; Prof. S. J. Hickson, 670 ; 699-700 



Algae, etc., of West Falklands, A. D. Cotton, 328 



.Algebra : Analytic Geometry and Principles of Algebra, 

 Prof. -A. Ziwet and L. A. Hopkins, 31 ; School .Algebra, 

 A. G. Cracknell, 389 ; Linear Algebras, Prof. L. E. 

 Dickson, 389 ; Elements of .Algebra, G. St. L. Carson 

 and Prof. D. E. Smith, 417 ; Examples and Test Papers, 

 W. J. Walker, 667 



Allen's Commercial Organic .Analysis, 387 



Alloys : Widmanstatten Structure, Capt. Belaiew, 107 ; .An- 

 nealing : Institution of Metals papers, 153 ; Apparatus 

 for studying .Anomalies in Expansion, E. L. Dupuy, 

 684 



Alpha Particles traced by Photographic .Action, S. Kinoshita, 



» 371 



Alps, Eastern, Geology of, 493 



Alternating Currents and Current Machinery, Prof. D. C. 

 Jackson and Dr. J. P. Jackson, 250 



.Aluminium, 319 



-Amazonia, Birds of. Dr. Snethlage, 264 



Ambulance Construction Commission, 514 



American Association, Philadelphia Meeting, 397, 457, 563 ; 

 -Aspects of Progress in Zoolog\- : Address, Prof. E. B. 

 Wilson, President, 574 



American Mathematical Society : Colloquium Lectures, 166 



-Amethjsts in Egypt, 569 



Ammonium Haloids, Dissociation in saturated Vapours of. 

 Prof. Alex. Smith and R. H. Lombard, 608 



-Amphibolites, 96 



Amulets, Prof. W. M. F. Petrie, 531 



Amj'loses, C. Tanret, 191 



Anatomy : Ozobranchus, E. J. Goddard, 27 ; .Anatomical 

 Museums, F. Cole, 238 ; Comparative Microscopic 

 Anatomy of Vertebrates, Prof. Oppel : the Eye, Dr. V. 

 Franz : the Pituitary Body, Dr. W. Stendell, 252 ; 

 Quain's Elements: Splanchnology, Prof. J. Symington, 

 390; Deparia tnoorei, J. M'L. Thompson, 412; Dental 

 Anatomy, Dr. C. S. Tomes, 445 ; Solifugida, Dr. W. 

 Sorensen, 458 ; Measures of Medieval English Femurs, 

 F. G. Parsons, 643 ; Prof. K. Pearson, 698 



.Animals : Lectures on the -Animal Kingdom, by Linnaeus, 

 34 ; Courtship of Animals, W. P. Pycraft, 140 ; Ce que 

 j'ai vu chez les bStes, P. Noel, 140; -Animals of the 

 Past, F. A. Lucas, 141 ; Animal Flight, Dr. E. H. 

 Hankin, 172 ; Animal Life by the Sea-shore, Drs. G. A. 

 and C. L. Boulenger, 227 ; Thinking Animals, O. 

 Pfungst, K. Krall, and others, 426 ; Concerning 

 Animals, etc., E. H. Aitken, 590; Tierbau und Tier- 

 leben in ihrem Zusammenhang betrachtet. Profs. F. 

 Hesse and F. Doflein, Prof. A. Thomson, 611 



.Annelids, new, 487 



-Annuaire du Bureau des Longitudes, 599 



-Antarctic : Meteorological Map, 6 ; Shackleton Trans- 

 Antarctic Expedition, 94, 260, 648 ; Geology and Glacier 

 Shrinkage (Discovery, 1901), H. T. Ferrar, 96 ; -Antarctic 

 Penguins, Dr. G. Nlurray Levick, 145 ; British Associa- 

 tion Discussion, Dr. R. N. Rudmose Brown, 241, 405 ; 

 Australian Expedition, Prof. T. G. Bonney, 335 : 

 Antarctic Adventure : Scott's Northern Part},-, R. E. 

 Priestley, 364 ; Scott Expedition Memorials in Bombay 

 and Norwav, 48^ ; Scottish National Expedition : 

 WTialing, T.' E. Salvesen, 678 



.Anthropology : British .Association Address : a Study of 

 Primitive Character, Sir Everard im Thurn, 68 ; Report 

 on the Ibo-speaking Peoples of Nigeria, N. W. Thomas, 

 Sir H. H. Johnston, 165 ; Antiquity of Man in Europe, 

 Prof. J. Geikie, 174 ; Anthropology at the British 

 Association, 210; the Eastern Libyans, O. Bates, 224; 

 Royal Anthropological Institute, 240 ; Reconstruction 

 of Fossil Human Skulls, Prof. .A. Keith. 240 ; Fire- 

 making with a flexible sawing thong, H. Balfour, 240 : 

 Antiquity of Man in Ireland, Mr. Knowles, 241 ; 

 Dental Mutilation in Neolithic Man, J. W. Jackson, 

 294 ; the Far-North -Australian, Prof. Baldwin Spencer, 

 312 ; Anthropology of the Greeks, E. E. Sikes, A. E. 

 Crawley, 360 ; Prehistoric Pottery from Canary Isles, 

 Hon. J. Abercromby, 383 ; Palaeoliths in South Africa, 

 Major E. R. Collins, 383 ; Soldiers as Anthropologists, 

 Prof. A. Keith, 391 ; Wookev Hole, H. E. Balch, 

 Prof. A. Keith. 395 ; Shippea Hill Man, Prof. Hughes, 

 440; Early Man in South .America, 515; Human 

 Skeleton in Oldoway Ravine. German E. Africa, 539 ; 

 Folk Beliefs and Songs from N. African Western Oases, 



