April 



Nature, 1 



Index 



xvii 



Beet : Estimation of Saccharose in Beet Molasses, E. Sail- 

 lard, 581 



Beetles, Common British, Rev. C. A. Hall, 227 



Belfast Technical Institute, 109 



Belgians : Hospitality of Scientific Societies to Refugees, 

 288 ; Belgians at Glasgow University, 327 ; Belgian 

 Medical Men and London School of Tropical Medicine, 

 327 ; Belgians at Cambridge, 340 ; Books for Belgian 

 Students, Dr. A. E. Shipley, 589 



Belgium, Royal Natural History Museum of, 569 



Bergson, Henri, by A. Ruhe and N. M. Paul, A. E. Crawley, 



474 



Berkeley Astronomical Department, 347 



Berkeley and Percival, B. Rand, A. E. Crawley, 474 



Bermuda. Geology, L. V. Pirsson, 399 



Beta-Eucaine, 594 



Bible Lands, Latest Light on, P. S. P. Handcock, 59 



Bibliotheca Geographica, J. Miiller, 171 



Biochemistry, Formation of an Aldehyde, Miss M. Cunning- 

 ham and Dr. Dor6e, 290 



Biography : Memorials of Henry Forbes Julian, Hester 

 Julian, 114; Roger Bacon, 443; Galileo, 443; James 

 Smithson, 708 



Biology : Progressive Evolution, British Association Ad- 

 dress, Prof. Dendv, 17 ; Artificial Parthenogenesis and 

 Fertilisation, J. Loeb, W. O. R. King, 30 ; Biology of the 

 Blood-cells, with Glossary, Dr. O. C. Gruner, 30 ; 

 Origin of Species, N. B. Pierce, 34 ; les Inconnus de la 

 Biologie d^terministe, A. de G. Lesparre, 168 ; I'Espece 

 et son Serviteur, Prof. h. Cresson, 168 ; Life and 

 Human Nature, Sir B. Fuller, 168 ; Controlled Natural 

 Selection, J. C. Mottram, 168 ; Experimental Zoology, 

 Dr. H. Przibram, 193 ; Mechanism, Life, and Person- 

 ality, Dr. J. S. Haldane, 193 ; Elementary Principles of 

 General Biology, Prof. J. F. Abbott, 227 ; die Natur 

 als Kiinstlerin, E. Haeckel, 227 ; Formenschatz der 

 Schopfung, Dr. W. Breitenbach, 227 : Handbuch der 

 naturgeschichtlichen Tecknik, Prof. B. Schmid, 227 ; 

 Biologen-Kalender, Prof. B. Schmid and Dr. Thesing, 

 227 ; Recent Aspects of Mutation, Dr. R. R. Gates, 296 ; 

 History and Theory of Vitalism, Prof. H. Driesch, 303 ; 

 Philosophy, Dr. J. Johnstone, 303 ; First Course, \V. S. 

 Furneaux, 305 ; Abstammungslehre : Systematik : 

 Paliiontologie : Biogeographie, R. Hert^g and R. v. 

 Wettstein, and others, 360 ; Production at will of Fungus- 

 germs, Monads, or Amoeba, from ultimate Segments 

 of Zoogloea, Dr. H. C. Bastian, 462 ; Apparent De- 

 velopment of very different Forms from a single Parent 

 Organism, Dr. Margaret C. W. Young, 569 ; Biology, 

 Prof. G. N. Calkins, 504 ; Life of Sir John Lubbock, 

 Lord .\vebury, H. G. Hutchinson, 528; Hay Infusions, 

 H. Richardson, 533 ; Spectrum Analysis Applied, 

 Dr. C. A. Macmunn, 533 ; Curves of Life, T. A. Cook, 

 533 ; Mendelism in the Seventeenth Century, C. Dobell, 

 588 ; Tierbau und Tierleben, Profs. Hesse and Doflein, 

 Prof. A. Thomson, 6n ; Influence of Electric Current 

 in Transmitting Excitation, Prof. J. C. Bose, 635 



Biology, Marine : Artificial Culture of Plankton Diatoms, 

 Dr. E. J. .Allen, 273 ; Sea-pens from the Cape, Dr. 

 J. S. Thomson, 273 



Bird-lice, 149 



Birds : Field Studies of Rarer British Birds, J. Walpole- 

 Bond, I ; Pheasants and Covert Shooting, Capt. A. 

 Maxwell, iii ; Our Domestic Birds, J. H. Robinson, 

 III; Economic Ornithology: the Western Meadow- 

 Lark, H. C. Brj'ant, 123 ; .Ad^lie Penguins, Dr. 

 Levick, 145 ; Bird Studies in Twentj--four Lessons, 

 227 ; Bird life on Bass Rock, L. Balfour, 236 ; 

 Notes, 262 ; Bird-marking, 399 ; the British Bird 

 Book, F. B. Kirkman, 478; Brent Valley Sanctuary, 

 525 ; Bird Biographies and other Sketches, O. G. Pike, 

 590 ; Food of British Wild Birds, W. E. CoUInge, 509 ; 

 Economic Status of Blackcap, A. O. Walker, W. E. 

 Collinge, 617, 673 ; Notes, 653 ; Birds of the Latin 

 Poets, Prof. E. W. Martin, Rev. T. F. Royds, 693 



Blackcap, Economic Status, A. O. Walker, W. E. Collinge, 

 617. 673 



Bison, 64 



Blast-furnace Stoves, Method of Heqting, Dr. Spannagel, 

 312 



Blind, Optophone for the, E. E. F. d'.Albe, 4 



Blood : Biology of Blood-cells, Dr. O. C. Gruner, 30 ; 



Respiratory Function of Blood, J. Barcroft, 331; 



Clinical Examination of Blood, Prof, A. Pappenheim, 



R. Donaldson, Prof. Hewlett, 418 

 Board of Trade Report on Bulkheads, 542 

 Boilers, Economisers, and Superheaters, Prof. R. H. Smith, 



587 



Bonecourt \\ aste Heat Boiler, 542 



Books : Forthcoming Books of Science, 154, 182, 209, 655, 

 685 ; Foreign Books on view at Nature Office, 

 485 ; Books for Belgian Students, Dr. A. E. Shipley, 



5«9 

 Borneo, New Mountain in, J. C. Moulton, 369 

 Botany : Origin of Species : Cross between Oak and Walnut, 



N. B. Pierce, 34 ; Plant Life at the Snow Line, J. 



Braun, 39 ; Introduction to Botany, J. Y. Bergen and 



Prof. O. W. Caldwell, 57; Flora of Norfolk, W. A. 



Nicholson, 57 ; Wild Flowers as They Grow, H. E. 



Corke, G. C. Nuttall, 57 ; English Year : Spring, W. B. 



Thomas and A. K. Collett, 57 ; My Garden in Spring, 



E. A. Bowles, 57 ; British Association Address, Prof. 



F. O. Bower, 99; Botanical Survey of India, 208; 

 Horticultural Record, R. Cory, 225 ; Standard Cyclopedia 

 of Horticulture, L. H. Bailey, 279 ; Plants and their 

 Uses, F. S. Sargent, 279 ; My Garden in Summer, 

 E. A. Bowles, 279 ; Desert Flowers collected near Cairo, 

 Grace M. Crowfoot, 279 ; Flower Favourites, Lizzie 

 Deas, 279; Botany of Lord Howe Island, J. H. 

 Maiden, 301 ; First School Botany, Miss E. M. Goddard, 

 305 ; Summer, W. B. Thomas and .A. K. Collett, 

 305 ; British Flowering Plants, Mrs. H. Perrin, Prof. 

 Boulger, 332 ; Botany at the British Association, 354 ; 

 Evolution of Eucalypts, Dr. C. Hall, 413 ; Isoetes 

 japonica, C. West and H. Takeda, 440 ; Study of Cells 

 by Dark-ground Illumination, S. R. Price, 458 ; Change 

 of Petiole into Stem by Grafting, J. Doyle, 525 ; 

 OEdanometer for measuring expansive force of wetted 

 Seeds, Prof. J. B. Butler and J. M. Sheridan, 525; 

 Longevity of Seeds, Rt. Hon. Sir H. Maxwell, 562 ; 

 .Atlas of Japanese Vegetation, Prof. Mivoshi, 669 ; Cocoa 

 Dr. C. J. J. van Hall, 695 ; the Coco-Nut, Prof. E. B. 

 CojJeland, hoth Dr. S. E. Chandler, 695 ; see also 

 Palaeobotany 



Bournemouth and District, Natural History of, 227 



Brachydactyly, Dr. Drinkwater, 663 



Brent Valley Bird Sanctuary, W. M. Webb, 525 



Bristol University, 628 



Britannic Geography, 304 



British .Association Australian Meeting : 



British .Association in West Australia, Prof. W. J. Dakin, 

 91; in South Australia, 118; in Victoria, Dr. T. S. 

 Hall, 147 ; in New South Wales, Prof. H. S. Carslaw, 

 177 ; in Queensland, 204 ; in Australia, 232 ; Council 

 Resolution, 317; .Australia and the British Association, 

 Sir E. Schafer, 376 ; in Tasmania, 376 ; Field Work, 

 423 ; Australian Handbooks, 436 ; the Camera in 

 Australia, Prof. T. Johnson, 450 



Sub-section A — Costnical Phvsics : Opening .Address, 

 Prof. E. W. Brown, 184 



Section A — Physics and Astronomy, 349 ; Salts coloured 

 by Kathode Rays, Prof. E. Goldstein, 494 



Section B — Chemistry, 437 



Section C — Geology : Opening Address, Sir T. H. Hol- 

 land, 8 ; Other papers, 294 



Section D — Zoology : Opening .Address, Prof. .A. Dendy, 

 17 ; Other papers, 405 



Section E — Geography : Opening .Address, Man as a Geo- 

 graphical .Agency, Sir C. P. Lucas. 40 : Discussion on 

 Antarctic Problems, Dr. R. N. R. Brown, 241 



Section G — Engineering : Opening .Address : Stress Dis- 

 tribution, Prof. E. G. Coker, 48 ; Other papers, 265 



Section H — Anthropology : Opening Address : Primitive 

 Character, Sir Everard im Thurn, 68 ; Other papers, 

 210 



Section I — Physiology ; Opening Address : Value of Re- 

 search in Development of National Health, Prof. B. 

 Moore, 74 ; Other papers, 322 



Section K — Botany : Opening .Address, Prof. F. O. Bower, 

 gq : Other papers, 354 



Section L — Education : Opening .Address, Prof. J. Perry, 

 125; .Address by Prof. H. E. .Armstrong, 213; Other 



