Nature, ~l 



September 26, igiSj 



Index 



XIX 



Birmingham University : Impending Resignations of Drs. 

 R. S. Heath, S. Wilson, and M. Ciarko ; Appoint- 

 ments at, 197 ; Lord Robert Cecil recommended as 

 Chancellor of, 218; Sir W. Ashley invited to Become 

 Vice-Principal ; Prof. A. Hughes appointed Registrar, 

 318; Dr. C N. Watson appointed Professor of Mathe- 

 matics in ; Conferment of Degrees, 379 



Birthday Honours, The King's, 269 



Birth-rate, The Decline in the, 227 



Blood : Density of the, after Great Haemorrhage, C. Richet, 

 P. Brodin, and Fr. Saint-Girons, 180; in Exofrfithalmic 

 Goitre, Folley and Leprat, 380 -> 



Body-vermin, Suppression of, 454 



Bombardementes Terrestres et A^riens, Efficacit^ des, 9 



Bombardment of Paris by Long-range Guns, The, Sir G. 

 Greenhill, 65 



Bonn Durchmusterung, Corrections to the, Prof. F. Kiistner, 



"4 

 Bornylenecamphor and a New Dicamphor Isodicamphor, 



M. Guerbet, 380 

 Boron, The Spectrum Test for, A. de Gramont, 139 

 Borrelly's Comet: L. v. Tolnay, 414; Fayet, 472 

 Bose Institute, Gift to Sir J. C. Bose Held in Trust for 



the, 138 

 Botanical Abstracts, Dr. Marie Stopes to be the British 



Editor in Palaeobotany of, 349 

 Botulism ; Believed Occurrence of, in London and Sheffield, 



170 ; the Disease Resembling, Further Cases of, 209 

 Bows and Arrows, Use of, by Indian Tribes, 311 

 Bradshaw Lecturer of the Royal College of Surgeons of 



England, D'Arcy Power appointed, 249 

 Brahe, Tychonis, Opera Omnia. Tomi Quarti, Fasc. Prior, 



482 

 Brain, Extraction of a Small Metallic Fragment from the. 



Brasses of the Muntz Metal Type, Cause of Failures in, 

 P. D. Merica and L. W. Schad, 453 



Brazil, An Expedition to, in 1913, Prof. J. P. Hill, 198 



" Bread-crust" Volcanic Bombs, Prof. T. G. Bonney ; 

 J. S. F., 184 



Breadmaking from Wheat without Previous Grinding, M. 

 Bolland, 380 



Brinell Ball for Testing Construction Materials, The Use 

 of the, H. Le Chatelier and B. Bogitch, 299 



Briquetting, A Handbook of, vol. ii.. Prof. G. Franke, 

 Translated by F. C. A. H. Lantsberry, 403 



Bristle Number in Drosophila ampelophila. Effect of Arti- 

 ficial Selection on, F. Payne, 480 



Britain, The Afforestation Question in, .E. P. Stebbing, 466 



Britain's Heritage of Science, Prof. A. Schuster and Dr. 

 A. E. Shipley, f6i 



British : Antarctic Expedition, 1910, Arachnida Collected 

 during the, H. R. Hogg, 372 ; Association : The, and 

 the Nation, J. J. Robinson, 41;; Conference of Dele- 

 gates of Corresponding Societies of the. Dr. F. A. 

 Bather nominated President of the, 309 ; Correspond- 

 ing Societies of the. Conference of, 37; ; Grants of the, 

 390 ; Report on Science Teaching in Secondary Schools, 

 128 ; Statutory Meeting of the General Committee of 

 the, 371 : The Proposed Cardiff Meeting Cancelled, 8 : 

 Attitude towards Science and Learning, The, Princ* 

 Lichnowsky, 90 ; Chemical Manufacturers, Associa- 

 tion of, W. J. U. Woolcock appointed Secretary of 

 the, 28; Dyes, Ltd., to Amalgamate with Levinstein, 

 Ltd., 508: Eel Fisheries, The Economic Value of 

 the, 9; Engineering Apparatus and Materials, A 

 National Proving House ' for Testing, C. Turnbull 

 and others, 21^2 ; Guiana, Problems in the Develop- 

 ment of. Sir W. Egerton, 312; Institute at Florence, 

 Opening of the, Sir R. Rodd, 338 ; Journal Photo- 

 graphic Almanac and Photographer's Companion, 19 18. 

 Edited by G. E. Brown, 23 ; Museum (Natural His- 

 tory), Gift of Portions of Ichthyosaurus, S. L. Wood, 8 ; 

 Oligochaet Worms, Rev. H. Friend, 264; British Or- 

 nithologists' Union, Dr. W. Eagle Clarke elected Presi- 

 dent of the, ^o ; Science Guild, Forthcoming British 

 Scientific Products Exhibition. 149, 269 ; Twelfth 

 .Annual Meeting of the, 333 ; Twelfth Annual Report 

 of the, 453; Scientific Instruments and Products, 512; 

 Scientific Products Exhibition, The, 428, 468. 495 ; 

 Addresses at the, Lord Sydenham ; Sir W. Tilden ; 



R. R. Bennett ; E. White ; Prof. A. Keith ; Dr. F. M. 



Perkin, 493. 4^ ; Trade and the M-.-tric System'. 



E. .V W. Phillips, 30 

 Bronze Age : Implements in the Whitby Museum, T. Shep- 



pard, 91 ; Weapons in the Doncaster Museum, T. Shep- 



pard, 508 

 Building Construction, Appointment of a Board of Trade 



Committee on, 131 

 Bukovina, Deposits of Manganese Ore in the, 291 

 Bullock's, William, Museum, History of, W. H. Mul- 

 lens, 70 • 

 Burial Customs, The Influence of, on the Belief in a Future 



State, Mrs, M. A. Holland, 432 

 Burlington Limestone of Missouri, Elongated Chert-lumps 



in the, W. A. Tara, 175 

 Burmese Sesamum Varieties, The, A. McKerral, 260 

 Butterflies, Exotic, Plea for Introduction into Great Britain 



of, E. E. Green, 92 



Cabbage : Disease Resistance in, L. R. Jones, 480 ; Late, 

 from Seed until Harvest, also Seed Raising, E. N. 

 Reed, 61 



Cadmium, Influence of, on the Properties of the Copper- 

 zinc Alloys, L. Guillet, 239 



Calcium Carbide, The Production of, C. Bingham, 232 



Calculus : of Variations, Introduction to the, Prof. W. E. 

 Byerly, 81; Infinitesimal, Sections i. and ii., Prof. 

 • F. S. Carey, 401 



Cambridge : Essays on Education, Edited by Dr. A. C. 

 Benson, i ; Standards of Value, i ; University, Report 

 of the Syndicate on the Previous Examination, 36 ; 

 Reports recommending Changes at, 218; Memoran- 

 dum on the Study of Geodesy and Geodynamics, 297 ; 

 C. R. A. Thacker elected a Fellow of Sidney Sussex 

 College, 338 



Camels, Protection of, from Attacks of Blood-Sucking 

 Flies, Dr. H. E. Cross, 290 



Canada : Mineral Production of, for 1917, 251 ; Proposed 

 Research Institute for, 309 ; Unexplored, C. Camsell, 

 172 



Canadian : Mineral Springs, The Radio-activity of some, 

 Dr. J. Satterley and R. T. Elworthy, 6; Observer's 

 Handbook," " The, 94 



Cancer Experiments at the Middlesex Hospital, J. C. Mot- 

 tram and Dr. S. Russ, 92 



3 Canis Majoris, Radial Velocity of. Dr. F. Henroteau, 454 



Cannel Coal, The Distillation of, 450 



Canning of Fruit and Vegetables, 134 



Canterbury, New Zealand, Philosophical Institute of. 

 Annual Report of the, 29 



Capricorni, The Spectroscopic Binary 42, Dr. Lunt, 252 



Carbohydrates and Fats, Influence of, on the Nutritive 

 Power of Alimentary Proteids, 479 



Carbonisation and Distillation of Peat, etc.. The, C. Galaine 

 and C. Houlbert, 300 



Caribou Hunting in Newfoundland, 470 



Carlisle Education Committee, Gift to, bv F. W. Chance, 

 118 



Carmichael Prize of the Roval College of Surgeons in Ire- 

 land awarded to Capt. J. C. McWalter, -8 



Carnegie : Institution of Washington, 217; Prof. S. J. Bar- 

 nett appointed Physicist at the, c;o8 ; Classified List of 

 Publications of the, 351; and the "Humanities," 194: 

 Survey Ship, Return of the, 48Q : Trust for the 

 Universities of Scotland. The, 245 ; United Kingdom 

 Trust, Fourth Annual Report of the, 177 



Cass, Sir John. Technical Institute, F. J. Harlow ap- 

 pointed Head of •the Mathematics and Physics Depart- 

 ment of the, 178 



SU CassiopeijE. W. S. Adams and H. Shaoley, 174 



Cast Iron, The Corrodibility of, E. L. Rhead, 80 



Cattle-poisoning by Water ' Dropwort, 354 



Celestial Objects for Common Telescopes, Rev. T. W. 

 Webb. Sixth edition, revised by Rev. T. E. Espin, 

 2 vols., 2 



Cellulose : Cross and Bevan, Dr. R. H. Pickard, 202 ; Dis- 

 tillation, A Product of, J. Sarasin, 3'3 . 



Ceramics and Glassmaking, A Proposed National Experi- 

 mental Station at Naples, 150 



Ceratitis capitata, E. A. Back and C. E. Peraberton, in 



Cereal Balance. The, 370 



