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Index 



[Naturt, 

 March 28, 1918 



Motor : -car Engineering, Text-book on, A. G. Clark. 

 Second edition, 2 vols., 102 ; Fuel, Testing and Stand- 

 ardisation of, E. L. Lomax, 231 



Mount Wilson Observatory, The loo-in. Reflector at, F. G. 

 Pease, 33 



Municipal Engineering Practice, A. P. Folwell, 282 



Munition Workers' Handbook, The, E. Pull. Second 

 edition, 343 



Muraena helena : The Poison of, W. Kopaczewski, 179 ; 

 Researches on the Serum of, W. Kopaczewski, 219 



Murcay River, Natural History and Possibilities of the, 

 O. W. Rosenhain, 311 



Muscle-tension Theory of Heliotropism, Proof of the, W. E. 

 Garrey, 439 



Muscular Work, Efficiency of, Capt. M. Greenwood, 517 



Museum : Management, Sir F. G. Kenyon, 502 ; The, M. T. 

 Jackson, 502 



Museums : and Galleries of Art and Technology in Man- 

 chester, Organisation of, Prof. W. Boyd Dawkins, 210; 

 National, in Peril, 365 ; of Old London, Some, W. H. 

 Mullens, 172 ; Provincial, A Conference of Representa- 

 tives of, 171 



Musical Instrument Trade, A Suggested Research and Test 

 Laboratory for the. Prof. M. Brillouin, 288 



Mycology, Economic, Prof. M. C. Potter, 454 



Napier Commemorative Lecture, Prof. H. S. Carslaw, 254 



National : Education and National Life, J. E. G. de Mont- 

 morency, 198 ; Food Policy, The, Lord Rhondda, and 

 others, 445 ; Food Supply in Peace and War, The, Prof. 

 T. B. Wood, 167 ; Game of Skill of Africft, The, P. A. 

 Wagner, 350 ; Museums in Peril, 365 ; Physical Labora- 

 tory, Collected Researches of the, vol. xiii., 231 ; Power 

 Supply, 347 



Native Philology and Ethnology, Need and Value of an 

 •Academic Study of. Rev. W. A. Norton, 109 



Natural : History Economic Series, Nos. 4, 5, 6, F. W. 

 Edwards, B. F. Cummings, S. Hirst, 191 ; History 

 Museum, The, not to be Used for Government Pur- 

 poses, 389 ; Sciences, The Relations of Mathematics to 

 the. Prof. E. W. Brown; Prof. J. W. Nicholson, jk: 

 Steam, Utilisation of, from a Volcanic Region, Sig. 

 Funaioli, 153 



Nature, The Order of. Prof. L. J. Henderson, 262 



Naval Architects Scholarship in Naval Architecture, The 

 Institution of, 216 



Navarre, The Defile of, S. Menteath, 439 



Nebulae : Photographs of. . F. G. Pease, 33 ; Spiral, Dis- 

 tribution of. Dr. R. F. Sanford, 52 



Negative and Imaginary Quantities, The Logical Founda- 

 tions for, H. Tanate, 52 



Nematode, A New, D. Keilin, 100 



Nervous Shell-shock in Fishes, etc.. Non-existence of, 

 A. G. Meyer, 439 



Nests. Co-partnership in, J. Wiglesworth, 329 



New Bone. Histological Mechanism of the Formation of, 

 P. Leriche and A. Policard, 519 



New Guinea as a Centre for Plant Distribution, 402 



New South Wales : The Geology and Petrology of the Great 

 Serpentine Belt of. Dr. W. N. Benson, 254, 259 



New Year Honours, 348 



New Zealand : Astronomical Tables, 332 ; Block Mountains 

 in, C. A. Cotton. 472 ; Forestry in the Dominion of. 

 Sir W^. Schlich. 400: Plants, T. F. Cheeseman's Collec- 

 tion of. 340 ; Standard Time^ 174 ; A Magnetic Survey 

 of the Dominion of. Dr. C. C. Farr, 453 



Nichols Medal of the New York Section of the American 

 Chemical Society, The, awarded to Prof. T. B. 

 Johnson, 469 



Nickel : and Manganese Steels, Classification of, P. Dejean, 

 60 ; Chrome and other Steels, Effects of the Heat 

 Treatment of, R. A. S. Thwaites. aqi ; Industry, The, 

 Prof. H. C. H. Carpenter, 225; ; Night-blindness, Con- 

 genital. Sir W. Abney. 190 



Nile : The Prefect of the. Dr. B. Cunningham. 50!^ ; -Congo 

 Watershed. A Journey Along the, Maior C. Christy, 40 



Nitiate: Nitrogen Accumulation in Soil, Some Factors 

 Affecting, P. L. Gainey and L. F. Metzler, 351 ; Supply 

 Committee, L^.S., Report of the, 228 



Nitriles, New Method of Preparation of the, by Catalysis, 



A. Mailhe, 439 

 Nitrites from Nitrates in Aqueous Solution, Formation of. 



Prof. B. Moore, 338 

 Nitrogen : in Oxidised Coals, Amount of, P. Mahler, 240 ; 



Problem, The, 266 ; Report on, Dr. C. L. Parsons, 267 : 



Problem, The, and the Work of the Nitrogen Products 



Committee, 316 

 Nomenclature and Classification of the Native Element 



Minerals, E. T. Wherry, 335 

 Non-ferrous : Metals Bill, Resolution of the Institution of 



Electrical Engineers on the, 311 ; Metal Industries, 



The Control of the, Prof. H. C. H. Carpenter, 284 

 Non-phosphoric Iron Ore, The Shortage of the Supply of, 



Prof. W. G. Fearnsides, 234 

 Northampton Polytechnic : Prof. F. J. Cheshire appointed 



Honorary Head of the Technical Optics Department of 



the, 119 ; Report of the, 418 

 Norway: Rainfall in, during 1916, 334; and Sweden, The 



Winter of 1917 in, 153 

 Norwich Public Library, Gift to the, A. H. Patterson, 489 

 Novae in the Andromeda Nebula, 512 

 Nuclei Present in Air, Nature of the. Dr. J. Aitken, 251 

 Nudibranch, Assortive Mating in a, W. J. Crozier, 279 

 Nurse, The Ideal, Dr. Mercier, 11 

 Nyasaland, Department of Agriculture, Annual Report of 



the, 432 



Oats, Manuring of. Principal Paterson, 312 

 Objectives, Multiple Thin, A Class of, T. Smith, 217 

 Observation, Philosophy, and Teaching, 162 

 Observations, The Combination of, D. Brunt, 162 

 Observatory, Companion to the, for 1918, 351 

 Ocean : Drift Fruits, 162 ; Magnetic Observations, 1905-16. 

 ana Reports on Special Researches, L. A. Bauer, and 

 others, 305 ; Shore-line Vegetation from the Port Jack- 

 son District, A. A. Hamilton, 278 

 CEnothera, Vegetative Segregation in a Hybrid Race of. 



Dr. R. R. Gates, 53 

 Oil : Industry. A New' British, C. Craig ; Dr. M. Perkin : 

 Berry and Dr. Dunstan, 506; Prospects in the British 

 Isles, W. H. Dalton, 336 

 Oils, Fats, and Waxes, Technical Handbook of, vol. i.. 

 Chemical and General, P. J. Fryer and F. E. Weston, 



381 

 Oligocene Fossil Mollusca from Cartagena, Colombia, 



H. A. Pilsbury and A. Brown, 151 

 Ontogdn^se, L'Qtuf et les Facteurs de 1', Prof. A. Brachet, 



62 

 Ophioglossum, A Species of. Found on Rawaya Peninsula, 



C. Crossland, 489 

 Optical : Nomenclature and Symbolism, T. Smith, 339 ; 



Notation and Sign Convention. Proposed Standard 



System of, J. W. French, 330; Phenomenon, An, Capt. 



C. J. P. Cave, 126. 284 : C. Carus-Wilson ; H. M. 



Atkinson, 146; Dr. F. J. Allen, 165, 324: J. W. Giltay, 



225 ; .Society, Election of Officers and Council of the. 



488 : Stores Captured from the Enemy, Lt.-Col. A. C. 



Williams to Describe, 171 ; Description of, Lt.-Col, A. C. 



William<;, 218; Theories, Based on Lectures delivered 



before the Calcutta University. Dr. D. N. MalHk, 83 

 Optics, Classification in, Uses of Certain Methods of, T. H. 



Blakesley, 339 

 Ore, Fuels, and Refractories, Report on, G. Barrett and 



T. B. Rogerson, 131 

 Organised Knowledge and National Welfare, Dr. P. G. 



Nutting, 156 

 Organism : and Environment as Illustrated by the Phy- 

 siology of Breathing, Dr. J. S. Haldane, 241 ; The, as 



a Whole, from a Physico-chemical Viewpoint, Dr. J. 



Loeb, 441 

 Ornitholestes and Tyrannosaurus, Skeletons of, Prof. H. F. 



Osborn, 54 

 Ornithology, British. 183 

 Osteolepis, Restoration of the .Superficial Bones of the Head 



of, E. S. Goodrich. 438 

 Oxford University : Prof. E. Boutroux to Deliver the 



Herbert Spencer Lecture, iiq; Rev. H. E. D. Blakie- 



ton new Vice-Chancellor, 119; Number of Under- 



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