Nature, 

 September 26, 191 



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Agriculture : American, Atlas of, 231 ; and Horticulture, 

 Government Stores for, Appointment of a Committee 

 on, 309 ; in 1917, A. Haller, 254 ; in the Western 

 States, Dr. E, J. Russell* 441 ; Recent American Text- 

 books in, Dr. E. J. Russell, 6i ; The Damage to, by 

 Vermin and I?irds, Dr. W. E. Collinge, 48 



.\ir : -filter, A New, 331; Force Medical Service, Appoint- 

 ment of a Medical Administrative Committee of the, 

 27 ; Force, Pilots for the. Scientific Tests for the 

 Selection of, Major M. Flack, 225 ; Resistance of, 

 Lt.-Col. R. de Villamil, 201; "Standard" Internal- 

 combustion Engine Cycles and their Efficiencies, Prof. 

 C. H. Lees, yq ; The Sovereignty of the, and its 

 Relation to Civil Aerial Transport, C. Grahame- 

 White and H. Harper, 191 ; -wave Disturbance on 

 the Dutch Coast, An, 470 



Aircraft : .\ Dictionary of, W. E. Dommett, 123 ; Com- 

 mercial Possibilities of, 488 



Airfare of To-day and of the Future, E. C. Middleton, 123 



Alaska, Results of Two Expeditions to, iii 



Alcohol : Its Action on the Human Organism, 122 ; Its 

 Use and Abuse, Prof. W. M. Bayliss, 122 ; Fuel and 

 Engines, Report on, 190 ; Suggested Use of Black 

 Millet for the Production of, 510 



Alexander the Great : and his Celestial Journey, Prof. R. S. 

 Loomis ; Sir G. Greenhill, 292 ; The Legend of^ and 

 his Flying Machine, Sir G. Greenhill, 25 



Algol Variables, Ephemerides of, M. Luizet, 94 



Alkaline Felspars in Limestone, Low-temperature Forma- 

 tion of. Prof. R. A. Daly, 19, 174 



Allelomorphs, Reversible Transformability of, H. Terao, 



377 



Allied Nations, Scientific Organisations of the, 477 



Alsace, The Potash Deposits of, 291 



Alsace-Lorraine, The Economic Importance of. Prof. L. de 

 Launay, 229 



Alternating Currents and Electric Oscillations, A New 

 Method of Measuring, I. Williams, 399 



.\luminium : and Aluminium Alloys, Chemistry of, J. G. A. 

 Rhodin, 519 ; and its Congeners, including the Rare 

 Earth Metals, H. F. V. Little, 281 ; and Rare Earth 

 Metals, 281 ; Metallography of, R. J. Anderson, 520 



Ambulance de " L'Oc^an," La Panne. Tome i., fasc. ii., 

 Travaux, 444 



American : Ethnology, A Survey of. Dr. A. C. Haddon, 22 ; 

 Bureau of. Dr. J. W. Fewkes appointed to succeed 

 F. W. Hodge as Head of the, 28; Fuel Famine, The, 

 Prof. C. Berkev and C. van Hise, 312 ; Indian, The, 

 C. Wissler, 22 ;' Institute of Electrical Engineers, Oliver 

 Heaviside elected an Honorary Fellow of the, 208 ; The 

 Edison Medal of the, presented to Col. J. J. Carty, 

 329; Medical Profession, The, and the War. Dr. A. .D. 

 Bevan, 430; Museums, "Habitat Groups" in. Dr. 

 B. W^ Evermann ; Dr. S. F. Harmer, 365 ; Red Cross, 

 Anti-vivisectionists and the Work of the. Dr. W. W-. 

 Keen, 169 : Schools and the War, 478 ; University 

 Union in Europe, Inauguration of a London Branch of 

 the. Ijord Bryce, 57; Views on Aeronautics, Some, 187 



Amide Function, The, J. Bougault. 340 



Amines into Nitriles, Direct Transformation of the 

 Secondary and Tertiary, A. Mailhe. 360 



Amiurus, Reactions of -the Melanophores of, to Light and 

 to Adrenaline, A. W. L. Bray, 480 



Ammonia, Synthetic, Production of, before Haber, M. 

 Matignon', 210; The Thermodynamic Properties of, 

 N. S. Osborne and M. S. Van Dusen, 191 



Ammonites. Yorkshire Type, edited bv S. S. Buckman, 364 



Ammonium Nitrate as Manure, Th. SchlcEsing, 239 



Amcebae for Class Purposes, A Successful Method of Ob- 

 taining, Dr. T. Goodey. 40.1; 



^mphib'an": and Reptiles, Origin of the Vertebrae in the. 

 Prof. S. W. WilHston, 291 



Amphipods, Inheritance of Eye-colour in. Dr. E. J. Allen 

 and Mr. Sexton, 193 



Anaimalais. Flora of the, C. Fischer, 259 



Analysis, Quantitative, Principles of, Dr. W. C. Blasdale. 

 Second edition, 341 



Anatase. Preliminary Note on, J. S. v. d. Lmgen and 

 A. R. E. Walker, 520 



Anatomical Nomenclature, 130 



Anatomy, The Teaching of. Prof. Ellioi Smith, 11 1 



Ancient Levels near Ipswich, Study of Two, J. Reid Moir, 



372 

 Andromeda Nebula, Rotation and Radial Vclocltv of the 



Central Part of the, F. G. Pease, 480 

 Anopheline Mosquitoes, A Map showing i the Ki.own Dis- 

 tribution in England and Wales of the, with Explana- 

 tory Text and Notes, W. D. Lang, 463 

 Antarctic : Auroral Observations in the, Dr. C. C 



114; Ice-cap, Some Features of the. Sir D. Maw- 



399 

 Anthelmintics, Efficiency of some, M. C. Hall and 



W. D. Foster, 290 

 Anthocyanine and the Respiratory Gas Exchange of 



Leaves, G. Nicolas, 460 

 Anthocyanins and Anthocyanidins, Dr. A. E. Everest. 



Part iii., 298 

 Anljirax : and its Prevention, 347 ; Report of the Depart- 



mental Committee on the Prevention of, 290, 347 

 Antimony Tri-iodide, A New Metastable Form of, A. C. 



Vournasos, 140 

 Antineuritic and Antiscorbutic Accessory Substances, The, 



Dr. A. Harden and S. S. Zilva, 511 

 Antiseptic Value of some Essential Oils, L. Cavel, 280 

 Antiseptics : \ Handbook on, Drs. H. D. Dakin and 



E. K. Dunham, 321 ; Recent Chemical, .',21 ; Woj-k on, 



at the Pathological Department, Edinburgh University^ 



Dr. T. Rettie, 2^2 

 Antityphoid Vaccines in Aqueous Solution. Physiological 



Study of the, J. Gautrelet and F. Le Moignic, 40 

 Anti-Vivisectionists and Protective Medicine in the Army, 



169 . 



Appetities and Aversions as Constituents of Instincts, W. 



Craig, 19 

 Aquila, The New Star in : Sir F. W. Dyson ; Prof. A. 



Fowler, 285, 306 ; W. F. Denning, 325 ; Prof. A. 



Fowler and others, 333 ; H. Thomson and others, 352 ; 



Prof. Laskovski and others, 375 ; Prof. Fowler, 393 ; 



J. Bosler; Mr. Phillips; Father Cortie, 394; Prof. A, 



Fowler, 433; R. Jonckheere, 440; P. Blanc; M. 



Maggini ; Dr. C. Easton ; I. Yamamoto and Y. Ueta ; 



Prof. Fowler ; Father Cortie, 492 

 Arachniiio^sis paradoxa, A New Type of Infusorian, Dr. 



E. Penard, 359 

 Arc Searchlights, High-candle-power, Lt.-Com. H. T, 



Harrison, 9 

 Archaeological : Museum Work and the War, H. I. Smith, 



509 ; Publications, Co-ordination in the Exchange of, 



H. St. G. Gray, 272 

 Argon : Density, Compressibility, and .■\tomic Mass of, 



A. Leduc, 440; The Industrial Preparation of, G. 



Claude, 139 ■ . , 



Aristotelian Society, Proceedings of the. New Series, vol, 



xvii., 343 

 Armstrong" College : Gifts to, bv Miss Stephenson and 



Messrs. Cochrane, Ltd., 318; Dr. T. F. Sibly 



appointed Professor of Geology at, 178 

 Army : Biscuits, Infestation of, by Flour-moths. J. H. 



Durrant and Col. W. W. O. Beveridge, 248; The 



Cost of the, and the Amount Paid to Inventors. 132 

 Art, Registration of Works of, in Occupied Countries, Sir 



C. H. Read, 230 

 Artificial Limbs and War Injuries. 421 

 Asteroid, A New. of the Trojan Group, Dr. Max Wolf, 35i 

 Astronomical : and Gravitational Bearings of the Electrical 



Theory of Matter, Sir O. Lodge, 72 ; Model. A New, 



Dr. W. Wilson, 172 ; Stations of Nantes and Pau, 



The Old, G. Bigourdan, 59 



ASTRONOMICAL NOTES. 



^Scke's Comet, R. Jonckheere; .\n Object with an Orbit 

 of a Cometarv Character, Prof. Max Wolf; Comet 

 (Pons), K. Lundmark, 12 ; Tempel's Comet, Dr. 

 A CD Crommelin, 134 ; Ephemeris of Wolf 's Periodic 

 Comet, Kamenskv, 375 ; Discovery of Wolf's Periodic 

 Comet, R. Jonckheere, 303 : Periodic Comets. Prof Bar- 

 nard ; L. V. Tolnav. 414; Borrelly's Comet. Fayet. 

 472 • Wolf's Periodic Comet. M. Kamensky. 491 : The 

 Origin of Comets. Prof. E. Stromgren. 51a 



