Index 



r. Nature, 

 \_March 28, igi 



Prism Astrolabe of the Latitude of Paris Observatory, A 

 Determination with the, Mme. E. Cbandon, 399 



Prisms, Reflecting, T. Y. Balcer, 518 



Prize Awards of the Paris Academy of Sciences, 1917, 352 



Projection, a Gnomonic or Stereographic, Changing the 

 Plane of. Prof. H. Hilton, 218 



Propelling Machinery, Standard, for British Standard Ships, 

 272 



Prosencephalon of Spinax, The Morphology of the, Dr. J. S. 

 Thomson, 518 



Psychobiology, First Number of, 271 



Psychology, A Committee on, for the U.S. National Re- 

 search Council, 49 



Psychopathy of the Barbed Wire, The, Sir R. Armstrong- 

 Jones, I 



Public-School : Science Masters, Association of. Forthcoming 

 Annual Meeting of the, 216; Association of. Annual 

 General Meeting of the, 419 ; System, The, in Relation 

 to the coming Conflict for National Supremacy, "V. S. 

 Bryant, 41 



Public Schools, The, and National Supremacy, 41 



Pulmonary Tuberculosis, Modifications in the Treatment of, 

 by Antiseptic Inhalations, C. Richet, P. Brodin, and 

 F. Saint-Girons, 519 



Pyrenees, The Peridotites of the, A. Lacroix, 100 



P3'^rites in Illinois Bituminous Coal, Utilisation of, E. A. 

 Holbrook, 291 



Pyrometer, The Thermo-electric, R. S. Whipple, 212 



Pyrometers and Pyrometry, C. E. Foster, 244 



Quebec Bridge, The New, 89 



Queensland : Museum, Resignation of Dr. R. Hamlyn- 

 Harris of the Directorship of the, 210; Royal Geo- 

 graphical Society of, The Thomson Foundation Gold 

 M<^dal of the, presented to Dr. GrifTfith Taylor, 391 ; 

 Some Anthropological Considerations of, and the His- 

 tory of its Ethnography, Dr. R. H. Harris, 95 ; 

 Western, The Flowing Wells of, Prof. J. W. Gregory, 

 72 



Quetzaltepec Volcano, Eruption of tlic, A. Lacroix, 419 



Quichuas of Southern Bolivia, The, L. E. Miller, 280 



Race and Nationality, Relationships between. Miss New- 



bigin, 249 

 Radiation : Some Problems in the Theory of, Prof. A. 



Schuster, 499 ; Emitted by a Palladium Anticathode in 



Rhodium, etc., Absorption of the, E. A. Owen, 499 

 Radio-active Substances on the Permeability of the Kidneys 



to Glycose, Influence of, H. J. Hamburger and D. J. 



de Waard, 80 

 Radium, Tracks of Individual a Particles from, Kinoshita 



and Ikeuti, 491 

 Rail Creep, H. P. Miles ; F. Reeves, 393 

 Rain, Heavy, in July and August, 11 

 Rainbows, Unusual, J. L. ; C. T. Whitmell ; Dr. F. W. 



Aston, s ; Lt. W. N. Jones, 6 ; Sir G. Greenhill ; J. H. 



Grace, 28 ; A. J. Low, 44 

 Rainfall : and Gunfire. Dr. H. Deslandres, 131 ; British, 



1916, Dr. H. R. Mil! and C. Salter, 483 ; in Norway 



during 1916, 334; in the British Isles, in 1917, 472; 



The, .of August and the Summer of 1917, 73 

 Rajputana, North-eastern, A Re-survey of, A. M. Heron, 



290 

 Ramsay Memorial Fund : Progress of the, 9 ; A. Villanueva, 



Representative and Corresponding Member of the, for 



Chile, q ; Lord Rayleigh, and others, 304 

 Range-Finder : The Modern, Prof. F. J. Cheshire ; Prof. 



C V. Boys, 14 ; J. W. French, 104 

 Rangers and Woodsmen, Handbook for, J. L. B. Taylor, 44 

 Rarer Elements : Introduction to the. Dr. P. E. Browning. 



Fourth edition. 142 ; The, J. H. Gardiner, 142 

 Rationing : Scientific, Prof. L. Hill, 248 ; The Scientific 



Basis of, 385 

 Rations, Growth and Reproduction of. Physiological Effect 



on, E. B. Hart, and others, 271 

 Rats : Experiments with. Prof. J. B. Watson, 271 ; Growth 



and Fecundity of Alcoholised, E. C. MacDowell and 



E. M. Vicari, 439 



Reagents and Ruactions, Prof. E. TagnoU. Translated by 



C. Ainsworth Mitchell, 421 

 Reality, The Conception of. Dr. G. E. Moore, 359 

 "Recalled to Life," No. 2, 211 

 Reconstruction: and Public Health, E. J. Lidbetter, 510; 



Ministry of, .Appointment of an Advisory Council to 



Assist the, 508 ; Problems of, Mr. Asquith, 299 

 Recruits, The Phvsique of, 109 

 Red Sandal Tree,' The, T. A. Whitehead, 91 

 Reflection from a Mirror in Motion and the Velocity of 



Light, Dr. Q. Majorana, 351 

 Refractivjties of Saturated and Unsaturated Compounds, 



G. Le Bas, 379 

 Refractory Materials Section of the Ceramic Society : 



Appointment of two Sub-committees of the, 149 ; Work 



of the, W. J. Jones, 130 

 Refrigeration, The Elements of, Prof. A. M. Greene, jun. ; 



Prof. J. Wemyss Anderson, 401 

 Regionalism, The New, B. Branford, 242 

 Register of all Existing Schools, Need for a. Lady N. Shaw, 



378 

 Reinforced Concrete Structures, Cracks m, Prof. H. J. M. 



Creighton, 331 

 Relativity : and Gravitation, Sir O. Lodge ; Prof. A. S. 



Eddington, 33 ; A. Palatini, 492 ; and Shifts of Fraun- 



hofer Lines, Dr. St. John, 433 

 Re-levelling in 1915-17 of a Line from the English Channel 



to the Bristol Channel, 16 

 Research: and the State, 121; Defence Society, The, and 



the Association for the Advancement of Medicine 



bv Research Amalgamated, 429; in Agriculture, 



The Organisation of, G. Wery, 



Laboratories 



•of the American Universities, Prof. W, A. Noyes, 8: 



The Co-ordination of, 261 , Workers, Universities and 



the Supply of, 181 

 R6seau Magnetique de la France et de I'Afrique du Nord 



au ler Janvier 191 1, Prof. A. Angot, 334 

 Resin of the Outer Bark of Melaleuca tincinata, H. G. 



Smith, 139 

 Resonance Radiation and the Quantum Theory, T. K. Chin- 



mayam, 284 

 Reuben Harvey Prize of the Royal College of Physicians of 



Ireland, Forthcoming Award of the, 469 



REVIEWS .AND OUR BOOKSHELF. 

 Agriculture and Horticulture : 



Armsby (Dr. H. V.), The Nutrition of Farm .Animals, 184 

 Armstrong (S. F.), British Grasses and their Employment 



in Agriculture, 382 

 Brown (Prof. B. S.), Modern Propagation of Tree Fruits, 



362 

 Crookes (Sir W.), The Wheat Problem. Third edition, 422 

 Ferguson (Prof. J. A.), Farm Forestry, 324 

 Larson (Dr. C. W.), and Prof. F. S. Putney, Dairy Cattle 



Feeding and Management, 461 

 Lay (E. J. S.), The Vegetable Garden, 463 

 Russell (Dr. E. J.), Manuring for Higher Crop Production. 



Second edition, 382 

 Watts (R. L.), Vegetable Forcing, 362 

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



Equipment, 362 



Anthropology and Archaeology: 



.Athens, British School at, .Annual of the, No. xxi., i6i 

 Jackson (J. W.), Shells as Evidence of the Migrations of 



Early Culture, 482 

 Spurrell (Dr. H. G. F.), Modern Man and his Fore- 

 runners, 4 



Biology : 



.Anthony (Prof. R.), La Force et le Droit. Le Pr^tendu 



Droit Biologique, 63 

 .Arrow (G. J.), The Fauna of British India, including 



Ceylon and Burma. Coleoptera. Lamellicornia, Part 



ii., 123 

 Berlese (Proi. A.), Insetti delle Case e dell' Uomo < 



Malattie che diffondono, 164 



