September 



Natuit, 1 



26, 1918J 



Index 



XXXlll 



Service, 446 ; Prof. J. B. Cohen, 484 ; History 

 and Method of, Studies in the. Edited by 

 Dr. C. Singer, 82 ; and Technology in New 

 Zealand, 103 ; Britain's Heritage of, Prof. A. 

 Schuster and Dr. A. E. Shipley, 161 ; for Secondary 

 Schools, 128 ; History of. An Introduction to the. Prof. 

 W. Libby, 501 ; in Horticulture, 455 ; in Wales, The 

 Future of, 129; Our Heritage of, 161; Students, 

 Proposed Society of, J: A. Butler and P. E. Owens, 

 244 ; Teaching, A Text-book in the Principles of. Prof. 

 G. R. Twiss, 241 ; Principles and Methods of, 241 ; 

 The Growth of, 501 



Scientific : Advice for India, 19 16-17, Annual Report of 

 the Board of, 506 ; Activities of the Smithsonian Insti- 

 tution, 176; and Industrial Research, The Organisa- 

 tion of, G. Hogben and Dr. J. A. Thomson, 155 ; and 

 Learned Societies of Great Britain and Ireland, The 

 Year-book of the, 34th Annual Issue, 203 ; Apparatus, 

 Prices of, F. J. Brodie, 104 ; Industries, The Develop- 

 ment of, 493 ; Language, Modern, Observations on, 

 Bigourdan and others, 108 ; Men in Connection with 

 Industrial Research Associations, Payment of. Sir W. 

 Beale and §ir A. Stanley, 410; Nomenclature, Inter- 

 national, 108 ; Organisations of the Allied Nations, 477 ; 

 Publication, The Co-ordination of, 213; Publications, 

 Two Catalogues of, 363 ; Research and Industrial 

 Development, Sir A. F. Firth, 333, 336'; Work in 

 India, 506 



Scotland, Universities of, The Carnegie Trust for the, 245 



Scottish : Meteorology, 138 ; Mothers and Children, Vol. 

 iii., Scotland, Dr. W^ Leslie Mackenzie, 205 



Screw Gauges, A New Lathe for Making, 251 



Sea, Changes in the, and their Relation to Organisms, 

 J. F. McClendon, 434 



Sea-water Densities on Board Shin, \ New Instrument for 

 the Determination of, A. L. Thomas, 11 



Seaweed, Swedish, Uses of, 374 



Seismology, A Bibliography of, de Montessus de Ballore, 



413 

 Selenatos, Monoclinic Double, of the Iron Group, Dr. 



A. E. H. Tutton, 18 

 Selenic Acid and Iron, Dr. A. E. H. Tutton, 18 

 Self and Nature, The, De Witt H. Parker, 141 

 Septarian Nodules, W. A. Richardson, 3<;8 

 Sex-Segregation in the Bryophyta, E. J. Collins, 359 

 Seychelles. The Palms of, and the Mascarenes, Dr. W. B. 



Hemsley, 73 

 Sheep and Cows and the Effect of Dummy Bombs from 



Aeroplanes, Capt. W. N. Jones, 288 

 Shell Deposits Formed by the Flood of January, 19 18, P. 



Lake, 39 

 Shells in Flight, Method of Photographing, W. Block, 313 

 Shipyard at H(^ Island, The, 374 

 Short-period Variable RZ Cephei, A, Martin and Plum- 



mer, -?i 

 Sikkim Himalaya, The, 88 

 Silica Solutions, Colloidal, Nature of Growths in, Hon. H. 



Onslow, 219 

 Silk. Artificial, Treatment of the Wash Waters in the 



Manufacture of, M. de Chardonnet. 2 eg 

 Sirius : The Comoanion to. Rev. T. E. R. Phillips, 153 ; 



The Period of, R. Jonckheere, 414 

 Sleeping Sickness : and Big Game, ii;5 ; Commission of 



the Roval Society, Report of the. No. xvi., 155 

 Smallpox and Vaccination, Hayes Fisher, 132 

 Smith Sound Eskimo, The Food Supply of the, D. B. 



Macmillan 272 

 Smithsonian Institution, Scientific Activities of the, 176 

 Snails, Fresh-water, as a Cause of Parasitic Diseases, F. G. 



Cawston. 320 

 Social Heredity, 181 

 Society italiana per il Progress© delle Scienze, Forthcoming 



Meeting of the, 488 

 Sodium Rocks, Some, of the Archipelago of Los, French 



Guinea. .\. Lacroix, 179 

 Soil: Aeration, A. Howard and R. S. Hole, 2!;o; Biology, 



Or. A. L. WhitinC. 6t ; . Phvsics and Management, 



Profs. J. G. Mosier and .A. F. Gustafson, 441 ; Solu- 

 tion Obtained bv the Oil-nressure Method, The, l^o 

 Solar : Eclipse, The Total, of Tune 8, iqiS, Prof. H. C. 



Wilson and others, 253 : Haloes seen at Grf>ystones, 



CO. Wicklow, and in Texas and Ohk>, Sir J. Moore, 

 200; Motion and the Stream Motion, A Determina- 

 tion of the, Based on Radial Velocities and .Absokite 

 Magnitudes, G. Stromberg, 480 ; Physics Observatory, 

 The Fifth Annual Report of the, 513 ; Prominences, 

 Eastern and Western Asymmetry of, A. A. Buss, 5 ; 

 Radiation, Periodicity of, Dr. C. G. Abbot, 492 ; 

 System, Early History of the, Dr. H. Jeffreys, 273, 



447 



Soldato, II nostro, Fr. A. Gemelli, 201 



Soldiers, Disabled, Scientific Problems of, 316 



Solubility of " Insoluble Salts " and of Silver Oxide, Dr. 

 W. W. Taylor, 479 



Solution of Atmospheric Nitrogen and Oxygen by Water, 

 The Rate of, Dr. W. E. Adeney a,nd H. G. Becker, 

 oart i., 299 



Sotik, A Small Stone Bowl Found in, C. M. Dobbs ; 

 Remarkable Circular. Holes Found in District of, 

 C. M. Dobbs, 211 



Sound : and Light, Propagation of, in an Irregular Atmo- 

 sphere, Lord Rayleigh, 284 ; Waves and other Air 

 Waves of the East London Explosion of January 19, 

 1917, Dr. C. Davison, 319 



South : Africa and Australia, Agricultural Education in, 

 467; Africa, The Scorpion Fauna of, J. Hewitt, 290; 

 African Association, Forthcoming Meeting of the, 270; 

 Earthworm, Luminosity in a, and its Origin, Dr. 

 J. D. F. Gilchrist, 320 ; Journal of Natural History, 

 No. 1, 372 ; Medical College, T. J. Mackie appointed 

 Professor of Bacteriology in the, 178 ; Perisporiaceae, 

 II. , ^. M. Doidge, 320 ; III., 400; University of 

 Cape Town, Inauguration of the ; Acceptance of the 

 Chancellorship by the Prince of Wales, 119; Eastern 

 Union of Scientific Societies, Forthcoming Congress 

 of the, 208; Annual Congress of the, 314; Australia, 

 Gypsum in, D. C. Winterbottom, 435 



Southern India, The Geology of, Dr. W. F. Smeeth, 119 



Spain : Entomological Society of. Foundation of an, 28 ; 

 Lord Rothschild elected an Honorary Member of the, 

 208 



Spartina toitmsendii Plants to be Planted in the Medway 

 Mudbanks, 411 "^ 



Special Series. The Origin of. Dr. H. S. Allen, 39 



Spectra : of Chromosphere and Corona, Rev. Father A. L. 

 Cortie. 274 ; of Isotopes, The, and the Vibration of 

 Electrons in the Atom, W. D. Harkins and L. Aron- 

 berg, 20 



Spectroscopic : Binaries, Two, of Long Perk)d, J. B. 

 Cannon, Dr. J. Lunt, 414 ; Binary ^Boss 1082, The, 

 J. B. Cannon, 434 



Spectrum : and Radial V^ocity of N.G.C. 1068, Dr. V. M. 

 Slipher, 114; of 7 ArgOs, Changes in the. Dr. C. D. 

 Perrine, 114 



Speech : Recovery of, through Excitement, Capt. J. Newton 

 Friend, 184 ;' G. Archdall Reid, 204 



Spherical Aberration, T. Y. Baker and Major L. N. G. 

 Filon, 259 



Sphyraena barracuda, E. W. Gudger, 434 



Spinning-top, The, in Harness, Sir G. Greenhill, 416 



Spiral NebulfK. Absorption Effects in the, H. D. Curtis, 19 



Spitsbergen, Explorations in, \. Hoel and Capt. S. Rovig, 

 391 



Spleen : The, and Anaemia, Prof. R. M. Pearce, wi<h the 

 assistance of Dr. E. B. Krumbhaar and Prof. C. H. 

 Frazier, 342 ; The Function of the, 342 



Spring, Weather of the Past, 271 



Squid, Giant, stranded in Haddingtonshire, Dr. J. Ritchie, 

 4^2 



Siar :" A, with a Nova Spectrum. Dr. Max Wolf, 31 ; A 

 Faint, with Lar^ Proper Motion, Dr. Max Wolf. 352 ; 

 Clusters, Globular, H. Shanley, Dr. A. C. D. Crom- 

 melin, 2-?3 : Nebulositv in. Dr. H. Shapley. 314: Ts a 

 Moving, Retarded by the Reaction of its own Radiation?, 

 L. Page, 480 : The New, in Aquila, Sir F. W. Dvson, 

 Prof. A. Fowler, 285. 306: The Discovery of the New, 

 W. F. Denning. 325 ; Prof. \. Fowler and others. 

 333 ; H. Thomson and others. 352 ; Prof. Laskovski 

 and others, -i7<; : Prof. Fowler. 393 : J- Bosler. Mr. 

 Phillips, Father Cortie, ■'o^ ; Prof. A. Fowler. 433 : 

 R. Jonckheere, 440; P. Blanc. M. Mairgini, Dr. C. 

 Easton, I. Yamamoto and Y. Ueta, Prof. Fowler, 



