Index 



r Nature, 



\^Sept ember 26, 191 8 



Leverhulme (Lord), The Coinage (Decimal System)'Bill, 270 



Lewis (G. N.), E. D. Eastman, and W. H. Rodebush, Heat 

 Capacity of Electro-positive Metals and the Thermal 

 Energy of Free Electrons, 480 



Lewis (Prof. W. C. McC), Colloids and Chemical Industry, 

 66 



Libby .(Prof. W,), An Introduction to the History of Science, 

 501 



Lichnowsky (Prince), The British Attitude towards Science 

 and Learning,. 90 



Lindeman <(E.), and L. L. liolton. Iron-ore Occurrences in 

 Canada, 495 



Lindsay (Miss B.) [obituary], 50 



Lingen (J. S. v. d.), and A. R. E. Walker, Preliminary 

 Note on Anatase, 520 



Lister (F. S.), Prophylactic Inoculation against Pneumo- 

 coccal Infections, 91 



Little (H. F. v.), Aluminium and its Congeners, including 

 the Rare Earth Metals, 281 



Lodge (Sir O.), Mercury's Perihelion Progress, 44; The 

 Astronomical and Gravitational Bearings of the Elec- 

 trical Theory of Matter, 72 ; The Motion of the Peri- 

 helion of Mercury, 125 



Loeb (Prof. J.), awarded the Walker Grand Honorary 

 Prize of the Boston Society of Natural History, 309 ; 

 Sex of Parthenogenetic Frogs, 480 



Long (Dr. H. S.) ; The Writer of the Note, The Food of 

 the Rook, 304 



Loomis (Prof. R. S.), Alexander the Great's Celestial 

 Journey, 292 



Loseby (A. J.), The Great Hereafter and the Road to Per- 

 fection, 431 



Lotsy (Dr. I. P.), Hybridisation Experiments of R. IIou- 

 wink, 149 



Louis (Prof. H.), "After the War," 268; Condition of the 

 Chemical Industry, 430 ; The. Mineral Wealth of 

 Germany, 346, 385 



Lucas (Dr. Keith), The Conduction of the Nervous Impulse, 

 163 



Luizet (M.), Variable Stars, 511 ; Ephemerides of Algol 

 Variables, 94 



Lull (Prof. R. S.), The Alleged "Sacral Brain" of Dino- 

 saurs, 211 ; Quadrupedal Tracks from Carboniferous 

 Strata in the Grand Canon of the Colorado River, 432 



Lundmark (K.), Orbit of the Comet Pons, 12 



Lunt (Dr. J.), a Phoenicis, 414 ; The Spectroscopic Binary 

 CT Capricorni, 2152 



Lutz (Dr. F. E.), Field Book of Insects, 384 



Lyons (Lt.-Col. H. G.), appointed Acting Director of the 

 Meteorological Office, 248 



Lyster (C. R.'C), and Dr. S. Russ, .A. Biological Basis for 

 Protection against X-rays, 79 



Lytton (Lord), and others. The Education Bill, 44:; 



Macalister (D.) fobituary], 149 



MacGregor (M. E.), Insect Vectors of Disease, 92 



Machado (A. R.), Origin, Theory, and Use of the Nonius, 

 332 



Macintyre {D.), Factors causing "Grouse Disease" on Scot- 

 tish Moors, 500 



Mackenzie (Dr. J. S.), Elements of Constructive Philosophy, 



lOI 



Mackenzie (K. T- J.), and Dr. F. H. A. Marshall, Mutton 



Points in Sheep, 472> 

 Mackenzie (Dr. W. L.), Scottish Mothers and Children, 205 

 Mackie (T. J.), aptx)inted Professor of Bacteriology in the 



South African Medical College, 178 

 Mackintosh (J.), Effect of the New Agricultural Policy on 



the Dairy-farming Industry, 490 

 Maclaurin (Dr. R. C), Acceptance of the Directorship of 



College Training in the U.S. Students' Army Training 



Corps, i;t9 

 MacLean (Dr. H.), Lecithin and Allied Substances : The 



Lipins. 402 

 Macleod (Prof. T. J. R.), appointed Professor of Phvsio- 



lo^v in the Universitv of Toronto, J30 

 Macmillan (D. B.), The Food Supply of the Smith Sound 



Eskimo, 272 

 Macoherson (Mr.). Construction of a Long-range Gun. 132 

 MacWifliam (Prof. J. A.). Mechanism and Control of Fibril- 

 lation in the Mamnrialian. Heart, 419 



Maggini (Dr.), Determinations of the Brightness of Nova 

 AquiljE, 492 ; The Lunar Crater Eimmart, 153 



Maignon (F.), Influence of Carbohydrates and Fats on the 

 Nutritive Power of Alimentary Proteids, 479 ; Influence 

 of the Species of Animal on the Toxic Power, etc., of 

 the Food Proteins, 440 ; The Toxicity and Nutri- 

 tive Power of Food Proteins Employed iji a Pure State, 

 360 : The Toxicity oT Egg-^albumin, 340 



Mailhe (A.), Direct Transformation of the Secondary and 

 Tertiary Amines into Nitriles, 360 ; and F. de Godon, 

 A New Catalytic Method for the Formation of Nitriles, 

 39 ; and F. de Godon, A New Method of Preparation 

 of Monomethylaniline and Dimethylaniline by Catalysis, 

 100 ; and F. de Godon, .A New Preparation of the 

 Methyltoluidines by Catalysis, 179 



Majorana (Q.), Constancy of the Velocity of Light Emitted 

 by a Moving Source, 440 



Maiden (W. J.), Science and the Farmer, 450 



Mallock (A.), Certain Coloured Interference Bands and the 

 Colours of Tempered Steel, 279 ; Effect of Wind- 

 pressure on the Pitch of Organ-pipes, 339 ; Long-range 

 Guns, 84. 125 



Maquenne (L.), and E. Demoussy, Influence of Acids on 

 Germination, 179 ^ 



Marchant (Prof. E. W.), Some Transient Phenomena in 

 Electrical Supply Systems, 273 



Marconi (Senator G.), awarded the Medal of the Franklin 

 Institute, 2Jo 



Marett (Dr. R. R.), The Transvaluation of Culture, 411 



Marlborough (The Duke of). Grassland and Food Supplies, 



449 

 Marshall (W. C), The Education Bill and Eugenics, 278 

 Martin (Dr. F.), La Prothfese du Membre Inf^rieur, 421 

 Martin (Prof. L.), awarded the Conrad Ealte-Brun Prize 



of the French Geological Society, 450 

 Martin (Dr. W.), elected President of the Gilbert White 



Fellowship, 189 

 Martin and Plummer, The Short-period Variable RZ 



Cephei, 31 .J 



Martineau (G.), The Sugar Industry after the War, 344 I 



Martinet (J.), The Isatic Acids, 340 3 



Marvin (Prof. C. F.), The Meteorological Unit of Pressure, 



353 ; Meteorology and Exact Thermometry, 14 

 Mason (J. A.), Dialects of the Salinian Indian Linguistic 



Group, 1:^1 

 Mathews (Prof. G. B.), Formulae for Tetrahedron, 504 

 Matignon (C), Ferro-silicons not .Attacked by Acids, 280 ; 



The Production of Synthetic Ammonia before Haber, 



210 

 Matsuyama (M.), A Gravitational Problem in connection 



with the Theory of Coral Reefs, .i^io 

 Matthai (G.), appointed Professor of Zoology, Lahore, 119; 



Reactions to Stimuli in Corals : Is the Madreporarian 



Skeleton an Extraprotoplasmic Secretion of the Polyps?, 



39 



Matthews (Mrs. D. J.), appointed to a New Research Post 

 at the Rothamsted Experimental Station, 208 



Mawson (Sir D.), .Auroral Observations at the Cape Royds 

 Station. Antarctica, 114: Some Features of the Ant- 

 arctic Ice-cap, -^00 



Maxwell (Sir H.), The Value of Insectivorous Birds, 464 



Maycock (W. Perren) [obituary], 348 



Mayer (Dr.), Nerve ConductMn in Diluted and in Concen- 

 trated Sea-water; Toxic Effects due to High Tempera- 

 ture, 434 



McAdie (Prof. .A.), Meteorology and the National Welfare, 

 92 



McCance (A.), Importance of the Non-Metallic Inclusions 

 in Steel, 334 



McClelland (Prof. J. A.), and T. Enright, Some Properties 

 of Large Ions. 200; and P. J. Nolan, Nature of the 

 Ions Produced by Bubbling Air through Liquids, 199 



McClendon (.!• F-). Changes in the Sea and their Relation 

 to Organisms, 474 ; Effect of Stretching on the Rate 

 of Conduction in the NeurO-muscular Network in 

 Cassiopeia, 20 



McDakin (Cant. "S. G.) fobituaryl, 28 



M'Intosh (Prof. W. C), Honorary Degree conferred 

 upon, by Oxford Universitv, 37 



McKerral (A.), The Burmese Sesamum Varieties, 260 



McLennan (Prof. J. C), Capabilities of Water-power, 51 



