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Index 



r Kaittre, 

 \_A/rii 15, 1915 



W. H. H. King, 623 ; Medieval English Femora, F. G. 

 Parsons, 643; Prof. Karl Pearson, 698; Bronze Age 

 Invaders of Britain, Prof. A. Keith, 657 ; Vital Statistics, 

 J. Burn, 665 



Antwerp Gazette Astronomique, 373 ; Antwerp Astronomical 

 Society, 460 



Appley Bridge Meteorite, 258, W. C. Jenkins, 505 ; 599 



Archaeology : (i) Palaeolithic Implements, Cape Town ; (2) 

 Grooved Stone Slabs, L. P^ringuey, 27 ; Latest Light 

 on Bible Lands, P. S. P. Handcock, 59 ; Large Frac- 

 ture Surfaces of Early Flints, J. Reid Moir, 89 ; British 

 School at Athens, 419 ; Bone Tool from Piltdown, C. 

 Dawson, 440 



Arctic : Fate of Sedoff Expedition, 35 ; Rescue of part of 

 Stefansson's Expedition, 94; Canadian Expedition, 321 



Argyllshire and Buteshire, P. Macnair, 304 



Arithmetic, H. Freeman, 389 ; Development of Arithmetic 

 in Europe, Prof. N. Bubnow, Prof. Lezius, 417 ; 

 Arithmetic : Pendlebury's New Concrete Arithmetic, C. 

 Pendlebury and H. Leather, 667 



Arizona Meteor Crater, 430 



Arsenic Fixation bv the Brain, J. Mcintosh and P. Fildes, 



356 



Art : Pigments and Mediums of Old Masters, Prof. Laurie, 

 Prof. Gardner, 276 



Artillery Science, Mathematics in. Sir G. Greenhill, 573 



Arts, History of the Royal Society of. Sir H. Trueman 

 Wood, A. A. C. Swinton, 415 



Assam, Col. L. W. Shakespear, 481 



Assaying, E. A. Wraight, 612 



Astronomy : 



General ; Introduction to Celestial Mechanics, Prof. F. R. 

 Moulton, 143 ; Navigation, Lieut. H. Raper, 144 ; 

 Cosmical Physics : British Association Address, Prof. 

 E. W. Brown, 184 ; .'\stronomy, Thresholds of Science, 

 C. Flammarion, 252 ; Essence of Astronomy, E. W. 

 Price, 280 ; Dante and the Early Astronomers, M. A. 

 Orr (Mrs. J. Evershed), 359 ; Astronomy and Mathe- 

 matics, 685 

 Comets: Encke's Comet, 151, 210, 346; Halley's Comet in 

 1910, 401 ; Comet 1913/ (Delavan), 7, 38, 65, 97, no, 

 151, 182, 191, 2IO, 346, 373, 432, 609, 708; Comet 

 1914^ (Lunt), 97, 151, 262, 273, 319, 346, 373; Comet 

 1914c (Campbell), 373 ; Comet 19150 (Mellish), 685, 708 

 Instruments ; Mirrors of Helwan Observatory, 38 ; Ver- 

 tical Circle Observations in U.S. Naval Observatory, 

 66 ; New Form of Grating Mounting, Dr. A. S. King, 

 98 ; Tests of a 24-inch Objective Profs. Miller and 

 Marriott, 240 ; Rapid Testing of Small Telescopes, G. 

 Bigourdan, 580 ; Collimation of non-reversible Meridian 

 Telescopes, M. Hamy, 609 ; New Instrument for 

 differential Comparison of great angular distances in 

 the Sky, G. Bigourdan, 637; Angular Comparator for 

 .\stronomical Refraction, G. Bigourdan, 691 

 Meteors : Perseids, W. F. Denning, 7 ; Three new Indian 

 Meteorites, 98 ; Meteorite Fall at Appley Bridge in Lan- 

 cashire, W. F. Denning, 258 ; W. C. Jenkins, 505 ; 

 Analysis, 599 ; Brilliant Fireball, 320 ; Geminids, 460 ; 

 Meteors of December 29 and 31, 517 ; January Fireballs, 

 543 ; Meteor Fall of Ensisheim (1492), 543 

 Observatories: French Provincial Observatories in 1913, 

 123 ; Paris, 320 ; Berkeley .'\stronomical Department, 

 347 ; Kashmir as Site for Solar Observator}-, 460 ; 

 Annual Report of U.S. Naval Observatory, 599 ; .^stro- 

 physical Observatory, Smithsonian, 653 ; Madrid Ob- 

 servatory, 685 

 Planets: Rotation Periods of Two of Saturn's Satellites, 

 Prof. Lowell and Dr. Slipher, 239 ; Transit of Mercury, 

 257, 432; Water Vapour in Mars's Atmosphere, 518; 

 Capture Theory of Satellites, Dr. A. C. D. Crommelin, 



543 

 Stars : Parallaxes of Galactic Helium Stars, Prof. J. C. 

 Kapteyn, 66 ; Sidereal Centre of Universe, O. R. 

 Walkey, 183 ; Notes on Stellar Classification, Sir 

 Norman Lockyer, 282, 618, 644; Colours of Stars in 

 Cluster M13, Prof. Barnard, 291 ; Measured Parallaxes 

 Summarised, O. R. Walkey, 320 ; Spectra of Novae 

 at late stage, W. S. Adams and F. G. Pease, 373 ; 

 Stars having Peculiar Spectra, Miss Cannon, 402 ; 

 Maximum of o Ceti, 459 ; Short-Period Variable SZ 

 Tauri, 518; 100 New Double Stars, 518; Statistics of 



Spectroscopic Binaries, Dr. S. Wicksell, 571 ; Cepheid 

 Variation, Dr. H. Shapley, 572 ; Stellar Movements 

 and Structure of the Universe, Prof. A. S. Eddington, 

 584 ; Wolf Rayet Stars and Planetary Nebulae, 626 ; 

 Red Spectrum of Wolf Rayet Type, J. Bosler, 654 ; 

 Star Clusters, Prof. H. C. Plummer, 674 ; Magnitude 

 Error in Parallax, Prof. Kapteyn, 709 ; Radiometric 

 Measure, W. W. Coblentz, 709 

 Sun: Radial Motion in Sunspots, 8; Strong Magnetic 

 Fields for Solar Research, 123 ; Distribution of Ele- 

 ments in Solar .Atmosphere, C. E. St. John, 401 ; 

 Strange Objects transiting across Disc, 401 ; Spectral 

 Line Displacements at the Sun's Limb, A. A. N. Ayyar, 

 571 ; Theory of Sunspot Meteor Swarm, Prof. Sampson, 

 599; Solar Rotation in 1913, 626; Total Eclipse of 

 August 21, 1914 : Eclipse Expeditions, notes, 21, 38, 65; 

 at Paris and Algiers, 123 ; Eclipse Expedition to Herno- 

 sand in Sweden, Father A. L. Cortie, S.J., 202 ; note, 

 210; Observations in Russia, H. S. Jones; Prof. D. 

 Todd, 230; Spanish Expedition, 432 ; Some Results, 460 

 Miscellaneous ; Hj'drogen Lines and Series Constant, 

 W. E. Curtis, 98; Leeds .'\stronomical Society, 151; 

 Enhanced Lines and Hydrogen, A. S. King, 151 ; Cen- 

 tral Bureau for Transmission of News, 183, 373, 402 ; 

 Society degli Spettroscopisti Italiani, 210; Longitude 

 Difference of Paris and Nice, B. Jekhowsky, 239 ; 

 Effect of Humidity on Photographic Plates, 239 ; Series 

 Lines in Spark Spectra, Prof. Fowler, 320 ; Spark 

 Spectrum of Nickel under Pressure, E. G. Bilham, 346 ; 

 Astronomy at the British Association, 349 ; .Antwerp 

 Gazette Astronomique, 373 ; Antwerp .Astronomical 

 Society, 460; Second Harvard May of Sky, 518; Com- 

 panion to The Observatory, 543 ; Changes on the Moon, 

 Prof. W. H. Pickering, 543 ; Annuaire du Bureau des 

 Longitudes, 599 ; Canadian Astronomical Handbook, 

 627 ; L'Astronomie for September and October, 627 ; 

 Aid to Research, 652 ; Zodiacal Light, 685 



Atikokania lawsoni, G. Abbott, Dr. Walcott, 477 



Atmosphere : Atmospheric Pollution, 433 ; Atmospheric Elec- 

 tric Potential at Kew, Dr. C. Chree, 607 ; Polarisation 

 and Absorption, A. Boutaric, 609 ; Pilot Balloon Obser- 

 vations at Aberdeen, A. E. M. Geddes, 718 



Atoms : Enhanced Series and Atomic Models, Prof. .A. W. 

 Conway, 171 ; Kinetic Stereochemistry, Dr. von Wein- 

 berg, 280 ; Constitution of the Atom : Royal Society 

 Address, Sir W. Crookes, 367 ; Atomic Weights of 

 Silver, etc., P. A. Guye and F. E. E. Germann, 526; 

 Atomic Weight of Tin, H. V. .A. Briscoe, 684 



Australasian Fossils, F. Chapman, 83 



Australia : Minerals, 64 ; British Association in South 

 Australia, 118; Australian Meeting of the British Asso- 

 ciation, 125 ; Australia and the British Association : 

 Discourse, Sir E. Schafer, 376 ; Handbooks for the 

 British Association, 436 ; Wells, 292 ; Native Tribes of 

 the Northern Territory, Prof. B. Spencer, 312; Aus- 

 tralian Antarctic Expedition, Sir D. Mawson, Prof. 

 T. G. Bonney, 335 ; Mollusca, C. Hedley, 581 ; Birds, 

 653 ; See also British Association. 



Austria, Climate of. Dr. V. Conrad, 263 ; Geology in 

 .Austria-Hungary, 492 



Avebury, Life of Lord, H. G. Hutchinson, 528 



Azores, Native Plants of. Dr. H. B. Guppy, 570 



Bacon, Roger : Life and Work of, J. H. Bridges, 443 ; 

 Essays on, collected by A. G. Little, 443 



Bacteriology : Bacteriological Examination of Food and 

 Water, Dr. W. G. Savage, Prof. Hewlett, 276 ; Bacterial 

 Diseases of Plants, Dr. E. F. Smith, 404 ; (i) Bacterio- 

 toxic Action of Water ; Dr. R. Greig-Smith ; (2) De- 

 struction of ParafTRn by B. prodigiosus, 413 ; Sulphur 

 Bacteria, G. A. Nadson, 458 ; Production at Will of 

 either Fungus-germs, Monads, or Amoebae from Seg- 

 ments of Zoogloea, Dr. Bastian, 462 ; Dr. Margaret 

 C. W. Young, 569 



Ballistics, Internal, E. Vallier, 81 



Bamboo, Flowering in Burma, 1914-15, 515 



Barkevikite from Ayrshire and Litharge from Persia, A. 

 Scott, 329 



Beaver. Romance of the, .A. R. Dugmore, 590 



Bees, Scent-producing Organ of. Dr. Mclndoo, 95 



