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Index 



r Nature, 



\_Scpteiiiber 26, igiE 



• Future of the International Catalogue of Scientific 

 Literature, 98 



Owen (E. A.), The Absorption of X-rays, 98 ; The Asym- 

 metrical Distribution of Corpuscular Radiation Produced 

 by X-rays, 79 



Owens (J.), and others, Offer to the University of Wales 

 for the Establishment of a Music Directorship, 278 



Owens (Dr. J. S.), Au Automatic Recorder of Atmospheric 

 Pollution, 214; The Mea'surement of Atmos'^heric Pollu- 

 tion, 79 



Packard (J. C), Everyday Physics, 223 



Page (L.), Is a Moving Star retarded by the Reaction of 

 its own Radiation?, 480 



Pag6 (ist Lt. V. W.), Aviation Engines : Design, Con- 

 struction, Operation, and Repair, 242 



Paige (S.), and'G. Steiger, The Origin of Kaolin in Rock- 

 masses, 392 



Palazzo (Prof.), Magnetic Observations taken at Theodosia, 

 112 



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



Parr (Prof. S. W.), Potassium Supplies of the United 

 States, 332 



Parsons (Hon. Sir C. A.), Acceptance of the Presidency 

 of the Polytechnic School of Engineering, 338 ; 

 Bakerian Lecture. Experiments on the Production 

 of Diamond, 197 ; to Deliver the Bakerian Lecture 



• of the Royal Society, and the May Lecture of the 

 Institute of Metals, 130 



Parsons Q. H.), Mind and the Nation, 462 



Patchin (G.), and others, awarded Grants from the Car- 

 negie Research Fund of the Iron and Steel Institute, 



. 189 



Paulson (R.), Microscopical and Biological Work at 

 Ruhleben, 151 ; and S. Hastings, Relationship be- 

 tween the Symbionts in a Lichen, 319 



Payne (F.), Effect of Artificial Selection on Bristle Number 

 in Drosophila ampelophila and its Interpretation, 

 480 



Pearce (Prof. R. M.), with the assistance of Dr. E. B. 

 Krumbhaar and Prof. C. H. Frazier, The Spleen 

 and Anaemia, 342 



Pearson (R. Hooper) [obituary], 310 



Pease (F. G.), Rotation and Radial Velocity of the Cen- 

 tral Part of the Andromeda Nebula, 480 



Peckham (Prof. S. F.) [obituary], 468 



Pedler (Sir A.) [death], 208; [obituary article], 227 



Pekkola (W.), Seasonal Occurrence and Edibility of Fish 

 at Khartoum, 372 



Pelly (Rev. S. A.), Glossary and Notes on Vertebrate 

 Palaeontology, 303 



Penard (Dr. E.), A New Type pi Infusorian, Arach- 

 nidiopsis paradoxa, 359 



Perkin (Dr. F. M.), elected President of the Association of 

 Chemists engaged in the Oil an1i Colour and Allied 

 Trades, 468 ; Oil from Mineral Sources, 494V 



Perregaux (C), Technical Instruction in Switzerland, 33 



Perrett (Dr. W.), The Duration of Resonance in the In- 

 ternal Ear, 204 



Perrine (Eh". C. D.), Changes in the Spectrum of 7 Argds, 

 114; Dependence of the Spectral Relation of Double 

 Stars upon Distance ; Hypothesis to account for the 

 Spectral Conditions of the Stars, 480 ; Interpretation 

 of Stellar Types, 314 



Peters- (G. H.), An Unidentified Planet, 174 



Pethybridge (Dr. G. H.), and H. A. Lafferty, Disease of 

 Flax Seedlings caused by a species of Colletotrichum, 



2Q9 



Philip (A.), The Improvement of the "Gregorian Calendar, 



83 

 Philipson (Sir G. H.), Bequest to the University of Durham 



College of Medicine, 318 

 Phillips (E. A. W.), British Trade and the Metric System, 



30 

 Phillips (Rev. T. E. R.), The Companion to Sirius, 153 

 Pickard (Dr. R. H.), Cross and Bevan's Cellulose. New 



impression, 202 

 Pickering (G. F.), Aids in the Commercial Analysis of 



Oils, Fats, and their Commercial Products, 503 



Pickering (S.), The Encouragement of Invention, 445 



Pickering (Prof. W. H.), Distance of the Orion Nebula,. 

 233 ; Distance of the Pleiades, 252 



Pilcher (R. B.), and F. Butler-Jones, What Industry Owes 

 to Chemical Science, 222 



Pizzetti {Prof. Paolo) [obituary article], 507 



Plimmer (Prof. H. G.) [obituary article], 328 



Plimmer (R. H. A.), Practical Organic and Bio-chemistry. 

 New edition, 364 



Plummer (Prof. H. C), The Symmetrical Optical Instru- 

 ment, 299 



Pluvinal (Count A. De La Baume), elected a Foreign Mem- 

 ber of the Society of Italian Spectroscopists, 288 



Pocock (R. I.), External Characters of the Lemurs and 

 Tarsius, 59 



"Politicus," The Mineral Wealth of Germany, 385 



Pope (Prof. W. J.), The Future of Pure and Applied 

 Chemistry, "?!, 377 



Portier' (P.), and H. Bierry, Importance of the Ketonic 

 Function in Metabolism, 440 



Potter (Prof. E. L.), and others. Western Live-stock 

 Management, 441 



Poulton (Prof. E. B.), Mimetic and Mendelian Relation- 

 ships of the " White Admirals " of North America, 59 ; 

 The Supposed " Fascination " of Birds by Snakes, 223 



Power (D'Arcy), appointed Bradshaw Lecturer of the 

 Roval College of Surgeons of England, 249 



Pozzi (Prof. S. J.) [obituary], 329 



Prain (Sir D.), Chrozophora (Euphorbiaceae), 470 ; elected 

 President of the Linnean Society, 249 



Preller (Dr. C. S. Du Riche), Italian Mountain Geology, 

 2 parts, 501 



Prior (Dr. C. T.), Composition of the Nickeliferoiis Iron 

 of the Meteorites of Powder Mill .Creek, Lodran, and 

 Holbrook, 31^9 



Proctor (Miss J.), Variation of the Pit-viper, Lachesis 

 atrox, 160 



Prosser (R. B.) [obituary], 140 ■ 



Pryde (Cant. T. W.) [obituary], 248 



Pulligny (M. de), Construction for an Approximate Quad- 

 rature of the Circle, 234 



Putti (Prof. v.). Surgical Work on the Stumps of Am- 

 putated Limbs. 289 



Pycraft (W. P.), Whale-meat in War-time. 24 



Raber (O. L.), The Synergetic Action of Electrolytes, 19 



Railliet (Prof.), Oxyurosis in the Horse, 392 



Railt (W.), Preservation of Paper in India, 452 



Rakshit (J. N.), The Contraction of Volume Resulting 



from Substances Dissolved in Water, 1 1 

 Ramage (A. G.), Mirage Observed on the Queensferry 



Road, 479 

 Raman (C. V.), The " Wolf-note" in Pizzicato Playing, 264 

 Ramsay (Sir William), Sir W. A. Tilden, 361 

 Ramsower (Prof. H. C), Equipment for the Farm and 



the Farmstead, 223 

 Randall (W. B.), Gift for a New Research Post at the 



Rothamsted Experimental Station, 208 

 Rasmussen (K.), Return of, 248 



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

 Rathbun (Dr. R.) [obituary], 468 



Rawdon (H. S.), Selective Corrosion of Muntz Metal, 30 

 Rawlins (F. I. G.), The Technique of the Vertical Illu- 

 minator, 78 

 Rawson (Col. H. E.), Illustrations of Photosynthetic Action 



Induced in Living Cells, 78 

 Ray (S.), The People and Language of Lifu, Loyalty 



Islands, 249 

 Rayleigh (Lord), Propagation of Sound and Light in an 



Irregular Atmosphere, 284 ; The Scattering of Light 



by Spherical Shells and by Complete Spheres of Periodic 



Structure, 18 

 Read (Sir C. H.), The Registration of Works of Art in 



Occupied Countries, 230 

 Redwood (Sir B.), The Romance of Petroleum, 516 

 Reed (E. N.), Late Cabbage from Seed until Harvest, also 



Seed-raising, 61 

 Reed (W. G.), Damage by Frost in the United States,. 



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