Index 



t Nature, 



September 26, 1918 



Genetics : and Evolution, 376 ; v. Palaeontology, Dr. W. K. 

 Gregory, 377 



Geodesy, The Relations of, to Geology, 246 



Geodetic Work, Proposed Entente Body for, Ch. Lallemand, 

 90 



Geography, Practical, Essentials of, B. C. Wallis, 364 



Geological : Society, Ofificers and Council of the, 8 ; Struc- 

 ture in Relation to Magnetic Disturbance, Dr. A. H. 

 Cox ; Dr. A. Strahan, 257 



Geology : and Eruptive Phenomena of the More Important 

 Volcanoes of Southern Italy, Bibliography of the, Prof. 

 H. J. Johnston-Lavis. Second edition, 501 ; and Modern 

 Geography in General Education, Prof. R. D. Salisbury, 

 291; of the Barberton Gold-mining "District, 415; The 

 Relations of 'Geodesy to, 246 



Gerhardt and Wurtz, The Centenaries of. Sir T. E. Thorpe, 



German : Aeroplanes, The Armament and Bomb-dropping 

 Arrangements of, Lt. Lefranc, 229 ; Bombing 

 Machines, Lt. J. A. Lefranc, 32 ; Chemical Society, 

 Jubilee of the, 508 ; Dirigibles, How Wireless Signals 

 can be Heard in, 270 ; Ironmasters, The Claims of, 

 435 ; Raiding Aeroplanes, The Size of, 289 



Germany : and Austria, Geology and Allied Sciences in, 330 ; 

 The Mineral Wealth of. Prof. H. Louis, 346 ; " Poli- 

 ticus " ; Prof. H. Louis, 385; The Water-power in, 291 



Germination, Influence of Acids on, L. Maquenne and E. 

 Demoussy, 179 



"Ghar Dalam,"' Malta, Exploration of, 450 



Ghosts in Prisms, Detection of, T. Smith, 79 



Gipsy-moth Caterpillars, New Bacterial Disease of, R. W. 

 Glaser, 489 



."Githathi," or Magic Stones, in Use among the Akikuyu, 

 H. R. Tate, 210 



Glasgow : University, New Research Fellowships at, 77 ; 

 The Ferguson Fellowship in Applied Chemistry, 439 ; 

 Royal Technical College, Dr. C. H. Desch appointed 

 Professor of Metallurgy at the, 478 



Glass : Furnaces, Crystals obtained from, G. V. Wilson, 

 217; Industries, Organisation of, F. Wood, 'and others, 

 277 ; Industry To-day and Before the War, Position of 

 the, F. Wood, 191 ; Optical, Supply of, 469 



Glasses for Cemented Doublets, Charts for Assisting in the 

 Selection of Suitable, T. Smith, 339 



Glassware : Economy, Laboratory, Prof. H. B. Dunnicliff, 

 43 ; Scientific and Laboratory, Wood Bros. Glass Co., 

 Ltd., 10; Scientific, etc.. Testing of, at the National 

 Physical Laboratory, 430 



Gloucester, Some Early Artists of, St. Clair Baddeley, 330 



Glycerol, Decomposition of, in Presence of various Catalysts, 

 P. Sabatier and G. Gaudion, 380 



Goitre, Exophthalmic, The Aortic Cross in, M. Folley, 50 



Gold Deposition in the Bendigo Goldfield, The Factors In- 

 fluencing, 112 



Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, Bequest to, by Lord 

 Rhondda, 399 



Gorgosaurus from Alberta, L. M. Lambe, 250 



Goursat's "Course of Analysis," and other Mathematical 

 Works, 81 



Graphical Operations with Four Independent Variables, Prof. 

 E. S. Federov, qg 



Grapsoid Crabs of America, The, M. J. Rathbun, 384 



Grass, The Story of a. Dr. A. B.'Rendle, 317 



Grassland and Food Supplies, Duke of Marlborough, 449 



Gravitation : and the Principle of Relativity, Pr»f. A. S. 

 Eddington, n;. 34; Relativity and, H. H. O'Farrell ; 

 Prof. A. S. Eddington, 126 ^ 



Great Britain, Water-power in. Dr. B. Cunningham, 186 



Great Hereafter, The, and the Road to Perfection, A. J. 

 Loseby, 431 



Greenland, Return of K. Rasmussen from, 248 



Greenwich, The Royal Observatory, Report of the Astro- 

 nomer Royal, 278 



Gregorian Calendar, The Improvement of the, A. Philip ; 

 Dr. A. C. D. Crommelin, 83 



Grenades, Hand, Major G. M. Ainslie, 63 



Grenoble University, Work of, 37 



Gresham Professor of Physic, Sir R. Armstrong-Jones 

 elected, 218 



Ground-ice, A Curious Case of, Smillie and Watt, 138 



" Grouse : Disease " on Scottish Moors, Factors causing, D. 



Macintyre, 509 ; Ruffed, Drumming of the, F. K, Vree- 

 land, 172 



Gunfire : and Rainfall, F. J. Brodie, 10 ; Audibility at Chig- 

 nal St. James of the, on the Continent, during 1917, 

 M. Christy. 350 ; Audibility of. Seasonal Variation 

 in the, F. J. W. Whipple, 359 ; in France, Rainfall 

 in England, Dr. H. R. Mill, 10 



Gypsum in South Australia, D. C. Winterbottom, 435 



" Habitat Groups " in American Museums, Dr. B. W. 



Evermann ; Dr. S. F. Harmer, 365 

 Haloes, Elliptical, Prof. J. B. Dale, 126 

 Halogens, Sulphur, and Nitrogen, Estimation of the, in 



Presence of Mercury, M. Frangois, 360 

 "Harbour Engineering": Dr. Brysson Cunningham, 326; 



A Treatise on the Principles and Practice of. Dr. B. 



Cunningham. Second, edition, 282 

 Harbours, The Construction of, 282 

 Hardinge, Lady, Medical College for Women, Delhi, Miss 



P. M. Borthwick appointed Assistant-Professor of 



Physics and Chemistry at the, 98 

 Harrow School, Bequest to. Major E. A. de Rothschild, 17 

 Harvard College Observatory, Report of Committee upon 



the, 93 

 Hawaii, Results of Volcano Study in, T. A. Jaggar, 54 

 Hawaiian : and other Pacific Echini, Dr. H. L. Clark, 29 ; 



Lava, The Aa and Pahoehoe Typos of, T. A. Jaggar, 



jun., 175 

 "Hay-box" Principle in Cooking, The, An Inquirer, 264 

 Hay Dumps, Spontaneous Ignition of, 288 

 Hazel, Abnormal Catkin of, W. B. Grove, 126 

 Health : A Ministry of, 121 ; Memorial in Support of a, 



411 ; The Desirability of the Establishment of a, Lord 



Willoughbv de Broke, 411 ; The Creation of a. Dr. 



C. Addison, 49 ; The Proposed Ministry of, 68 ; in 



Camp, Dr. A. T. Nankiveli, 3 ; Public, The Proposed 



Ministry of, 89 

 Heart, the Law of the. The Linacre Lecture on. Prof. 



E. H. Starling, 43 

 Heat : A New Principle in the Flow of, Dr. C. Hering, 



71 ; Capacity of Electro-positive Metals, etc., G. N. 



Lewis, E. D. Eastman, and W. H. Rodebush, 480; 



The Nature of, as Directly Deducible from the 



Postulate of Carnot, 18 

 Hector Observatory, N.Z., Bulletins of the, ,333 

 Height, An Ideal British Standard of, Major J. Kerr, 272 

 Helium : Lines, The Electrical Resolution and Broaden- 

 ing of. Dr. T. R. Merton, 279 ; Spectrum of. Intensity 



Relations in the. Dr. T. R. Merton and Prof. J. W. 



Nicholson, 238 

 Helvetica Chimica Acta, No. i, 310 

 High-tension Magnetos, 513 

 Hilsa Food-fish, Culture of the, T. Southwell and B. 



Prashav, 391 

 Himalaya : Possibility of Exploration in the, by Aero- 

 planes, Dr. A. M. Kellas, 310; The Structure of the, 



and of the Gangetlc Plain, R. D. Oldham, 246 

 Hog Island Shipyard, Work at the, 488 

 Holland, University Development in, 160 

 Hollandite, Crystallisation of. Dr. L. L. Fermor, 392 

 HoUv Tortrix Moth, Formation of the Germ-band in the 



iEgg of the. Miss L. H. Huie, 319 

 Home Timber Supply, Position and Prospects of the, E. P. 



Stebbing, 386 

 Honey-bee, Appointment of a Committee on the Life 



Habits of the, 451 

 Hooker, Sir Joseph, 481 



Horizons : At Dawn and at Dusk, C. Tolly, 484 

 Horse, Oxyurosis in the. Prof. Railliet, 392 

 Horticulture : Science in, 41;'^ ; The Standard Cyclopedia of. 



Prof. L. H. Bailey. Vols. v. and vi., 241 

 House-fly, Over-wintering of the, R. H. Hutchison, 432 

 Hull: Municipal Museum, Extension of the, 150; Recent 



Additions to the, 431 ; Technical College, P. L. Bern- 

 stein appointed Lecturer in Electrical Engineering at 



the, 2q7 

 Human : Nurture, A Study in Conditions of, 205 ; Sacrifice 



amonjj the Mundurucu Indians, 91 

 Humanisme." " Le Nouvel, Prof. G. Sarton, 370 

 Hungary, The Peoples of, their Work on the Land, B. C. 



Wallis, III 



