March 28, 1918. 



Index 



xvu 



Worthington (VV. B.), Resignation of the Presidency of the 



Institution of Civil Engineers, 149 

 Aright (Sir A. E.), awarded the Buchanan Medal of the 



Royal Society, 210 ; Buchanan Medallist of the Royal 



Society, 277 

 Wright (W. B.), The Interglacial Problem, 72 

 Wright (W. J.), Greenhouses : Their Construction and 



Equipment, 362 

 Wvatt (H. G.), Methods of School Inspection in England, 

 ' 256 



Yapp (Sir A.), appointed Director of Food Economy, 70 

 Yensen and Gatward, The Properties of Iron-Aluminium 



Alloys, 51 

 Young (Mrs. G. C), Edouard Sarasin (1841-1917). a8 

 Young (Prof. R. B.), The Banket, 281 

 Young (Prof. W. H.), awarded the de Morgan Medal of 



the London Mathematical Society, 191 



Zimmer (G. F.), Storage of Coal under Water, 409 



TITLE INDEX. 



Aberdeen : Public Library, Annual Report of the, 438 ; 



University, Bequest to, by Dr. A. Carmichael, 256 

 Aberrations of a Centred Optical System, The Primary 



Monochromatic, S. D. Chalmers, 518 

 Acacia, Notes on the Genus, No. iii., J. H. Maiden, 260 

 Acrotreta in Lower Palaeozoic Shales, Occurrence of, F. 



Chapman, 440 

 Actinium, The Parent of, Prof. F. Soddy and J. A. Cran- 

 ston, 498 

 Activated Muds?, What are, F. Di^nert, 420 

 .. .\cyl Hydroxylamines, Preparation of, J.' Bougault, 219' 

 K Admiralty : Board of Invention and Research, Central Com- 

 4p mittee of the, C. H. Merz to be a member of the, 391 ; 



*' Director of Experiments and Research at the, C. H. 



Merz to be, 391 

 Adolescence, S. Paget, 384 



Adsorption, The Thermodynamics of, A. M. Williams, 359 



Aorial : Flight from TiTrin to London, Capt. G. Laureati, 



70; to Constantinople, 314; Posts, International, to the 



Continent to be instituted, 210 



Aerienne, La Liaison, et la T61egraphie sans Fil en Avion 



chez les.Allemands, 314 

 \ o-ongine, Standard Production, 370 

 Aeronautical : Articles in the Scientific American, 251 : Maps 



and Aerial Transportation, 314 

 Aeronautics: and Invention, 314; Experimental Work in, 



37 ; Military, 512 

 \i roplane, The Landing of an, J. Fontanges, 133 

 Aeroplanes : and Ships, Stabilisation of, 190 ; Armament of, 

 251 ; Problems as to the Effects of Atmospheric and 

 other Disturbances upon. Prof. Bryan given a grant 

 and leave of absence to investigate, 112 

 Africa : Equatorial, To-day, Sir H. H. Johnston, 127 ; 



South, Science and Industry in, Prof. J. Orr, 76 

 Agaricaceae, Spore-coloration in the. Dr. H. Wager, 319 

 Agricultural : and Horticultural Research Station, Long 

 Ashton, Report of, for 1916, 132 ; Education and Re- 

 search in the United States, 308 ; Free, G. Lemoine, 

 240 ; Educational Work of the State College of Agri- 

 culture, University of Wisconsin, A. W. Ashby, 457 ; 

 Output, Increase of, 382 

 Agriculture : and Fisheries, British, Development of, 37.'; ; 

 British, The Task of, R. Prothero, 116; in Madras, 76; 

 The Organisation of Research in, G. Wery, 507 

 Air : -engine, A Standardised, 132 ; Force Bill, The, 208 ; 

 Force, Work of the New, Major Baird, 512; Inventions 

 Committee, Members of the, 314; of a Room, the Dry, 

 Sensqtion produced by, G. T. Palmer, 329 ; -raid 

 Casualties, Lord Montagu of Beaulieu, iii 

 Aircraft : Military, and their Armament, 194 ; Progress in, 



Joynson Hicks, in 

 Albertella Fauna in British Columbia and Montana, The, 



Dr. C. D. Walcott. 273 

 Alcohol : as a Fuel and its Manufacture in Australia, W. T. 

 Rowe, 32 : Fuel and Engines, Report on, 129 ; Fuel and 

 Engines. Prof. T. R. Lyle, 504 

 Alcyonaria and 'the Formation of some Pacific Coral Reefs, 



L. R. Cary, 439 

 Algebra, Higher. A First Course in. Prof. H. A. Merrill 

 and Dr. C. E. Smith, 263 



Alkali : Soils and Soil Solutions, Dr. Breazeale ; J. F. 

 Morgan, 292 ; Soils, Reclamation of, J. H. Barnes and 

 B. AH, 250 



Alkaloids from Water, Extracting, L. Launoy, 80 



Allen's Commercial Organic Analysis. Fourth edition. 

 Vol. ix., Edited by W. A. Davis. With Index for all 

 the Volumes, 443 



Alternating-current Electricity and its Applications to In- 

 dustry. Second course, W. H. Timbie and Prof. H. H. 

 Higbie, 201 



Aluminium, Tenacity of Cold-worked, Prof. Carpenter and 

 Taverner, 116 



Alveolar Air, Expired, Composition of, Miss E. C. Pinker- 

 ton, 460 



America : Early Man in, E. S. Botch, 36 ; The Discovery 

 of, 1492-1584, Edited by P. F. Alexander, 283 



American : Academy of Arts and Sciences, Sir Napier Shaw 

 elected a foreign honorary member of the, 469 ; Associa- 

 tion, The Pittsburgh Meeting of the, 515 ; Fossil Verte- 

 brate Animals, 54 ; Museum of Natural History, Report 

 for 1916, 12 ; Museum of Natural History, Work of the, 

 349 ; Ornithologists' Union, Election of Officers and 

 Honorary and Corresponding Fellows, 311 ; Philo- 

 sophical Society, The, Dr. A. W. Goodspeed, 36 ; 

 Society of Civil Engineers, Prof. A. N. Talbot elected 

 President of the, 448 



Amphibia, Structure, Evolution, and Origin of the, part i., 

 Lt. D. M. S. Watson, 217 



Amphibian, The Largest Known, from the Trias of North 

 America, W. J. Sinclair, 273 



Analytical Dynamics, 363 



Anamba Islands, Birds of the, H. C. Oberholser, 450 



Ancient Sanctuaries of Knockainey and Clogher, The, T. J. 

 Westropp, 494 



Andromeda Nebula, Proper Motion of the Great, Prof. 

 Barnard, 14 



Animal : Husbandry Investigations, Dr. R. Pearl, 75 ; Life, 

 The Study of. Prof, J. A. Thomson. Revised edition, 



143 

 Animals, Figures of, by Stone-Age Artists in Southern 



Norway, Hr. J. Petersen, 72 

 Annuaire du Bureau des Longitudes, 452 

 Antarctic, 1914-16, Medal with Clasp, granted to Sir E. H. 



Shackleton and others, 488 

 Anthropology, Speculative, 4 



Antiseptic Treatment by Chloroform, .'\. Cabanes, 420 

 Antiseptics, Regular and Irregular, C. Richet and H. 



Cardot, 179 

 Apatosaurus, The Recognition of, C. C. Mook, 55 

 Apricot Trees in Emilia, Gummy Fungus threatening the. 



Prof. V. Peglion, 192 

 Argentine : Ant, Method of Destroying the, C. W. Mally, 



371 ; Republic, Meteorol<^ in the, 415 

 Arithmetic : Commercial, and Accounts, A. R. Palmer and 



J. Stephenson. 2 parts, 41 ; for Engineers, C. B. 



Clapham, 41 ; Revision Papers in, W. G. Borchardt. 162 

 Armement A^rien, La Technique Allemande de 1*, J. -A. 



Lefranc, 194 

 Armstrong College, Instruction at, too 

 Army : Boots, The Utilisation of Condemned, M. C. Lamb, 



