Index 



r Nature. 

 \_Octolei 7, 1920 



Ross (Sir Ronald), Organisation of Scientific Work, 6 ; 

 Philosophies; Psychologies, 414; Fellow-workers, 455 



Roth6 (E.), A New Electrical Anemometer, 443 



Roubaud (E.), The Mode of Action of Powdered Trioxy- 

 methylene on the Larvae of Anopheles, 667 



Roubaud (E.), Use of Trioxymethylenc in Powder for the 

 Destruction of the Larvae of Mosquitoes, 604 



Rouch (J.), Manuel Pratique de M6t6orologie, 451 ; The 

 Height of Sea-Waves, 219 



Routlcdge (Mrs. Scoresby), The Mystery of Easter Island : 

 The Story of an Expedition, 583 



Roux (Dr. E.). and Dr. C.-F. Muttelet, Aliments Sucr6s. 

 Sucres — Miels — Sirops — Confitures — Sucreries — Sues et 

 R^glisse, 641 



Rowett (J. Q.), Gift to the Institute of Research in Animal 

 Nutrition at Aberdeen, 80 



Russ (Dr. S.), appointed Professor of Physics at the 

 Middlesex Hospital Medical School, 2^ 



Russell (Dr. A.), Applications of Electricity, 418 ; The 

 Capacity Coefficients of Spherical Conductors, 57 ; 

 Occurrence of Cotunnite, Anglesite, Leadhillite, and 

 Galena on Fused Lead from the Wreck of the Fireship 

 Firebrand, Falmouth Harbour, 156 



Russell (Dr. E. J.), A Student's Book on Soils and Manures. 

 Second edition, 130 ; Basic Slag and Its Uses in Agri- 

 culture, 183 ; British Crop Production, 176, 206 ; 

 Organisation of Scientific Work, 7 ; The Manufacture 

 of Artificial Fertilisers, 4; The Nation's Food, 320; 

 Wheat and Wheat-growing, 224 



Russell (Prof. H. N.), The Masses of the Stars, 500 ; The 

 Planetary Families of Comets, 467 



Russell (Sir Thomas W.), [death), 302 



Rutherford (Sir Ernest), elected an Honorary Member of 

 the Royal Irish Academy, 113: elected a Fellow of 

 the Royal Danish Societj' of Science, 209; To Deliver 

 the Bakerian Lecture of the Royal Society, 80; 

 Nuclead Constitution of Atoms, 1500 



Rutherford (Capt. W. J.), "A Border Myth : The Stand- 

 ing Stones at Duddo," 623 



Rydberg (Prof. J. R.), [obituary article], 52s 



Ryneveld (Col. van), and Capt. Brand, Completion of 

 African Aeroplane Flight, 113 



Sabatini (V.), Leucitic Lavas of the Volcano of Roccamon- 



fina, 84-1 

 Saccardo (Dr. P. A.), [obituary], 76 

 Sadler (Sir M. E.), University Grants, 740 

 Saha (M. N.), lonisation in the Solar Chromosphere, 232 

 Saillard (E.), The Sugar-beet During the War, 571 

 St. John (C. E.), The Einstein Displacement of Spectral 



Lines, 244 

 Salmon (Dr. C. S.), appointed Lecturer in Physical Chemis- 

 try at King's College, London, 698 

 Sampson (Prof. R. A.), appointed Halley Lecturer for 



1920, 56 ; Eiffel Tower Wireless Time-signals. 265 ; 



Longitude by Wireless Telegraphy, 370; Relativity and 



Reality, 708 

 Sanderson (F. W.), The Evil iji Existing Educational Sys- 

 tems, .1^61 . 

 Sanford (Dr. E. C), Resignation of the Presidency of 



Clark College, 602 

 Sargent (H. C). The Lower Carboniferous Chert-formations 



of Derbyshire, £;8 

 Saunders (Miss E. R.), Presidential Address to Section K 



of the British Association, 828 

 Sauzin (M.), The Propagation of Sustained Electrical 



Oscillations in Water and the Dielectric Constant of 



Water, 763 

 Savage (R. E.). Structure of Scales of Fishes, 275 

 Savoor (S. R. U.). Rotating Eiquid Cvlinders. 379 

 Savory (Isabel), The Romantic Rousillon : In the French 



Pyrenees, 163 

 Sazerac (R.). Culture of the Tubercle Bacillus on a Medium 



of Autolvsed Yeast, 795 

 Scales (Dr. S.), appointed University Lecturer in Medical 



Radiology and Electrology in Cambridge University, 



601 

 Schafer (Sir E. Sharpey), London University Site and 



Need's, 484 ; The University Problem, 698 



Schaumasse (M.), A New Comet, 058 ; Discovery and 

 Observations of the Comet 1920b (Schaumasse), 794 



Schieiter (Dr. P.), Religion and Culture : A Critical Survey 

 of Methods of Approach to Religious Phenomena, 

 451 



Schlesinger (Prof. F.), and Z. Daniel, Capella, 183 



Schlick (Prof. M.), Rendered into English by H. L. Brose» 

 Space and Time in Contemporary Physics : An Intro- 

 duction to the Theory of Relativity and Gravitation, 

 546 



Schmidt (P. W.), Die Gliederung der Australischen 

 Sprachen, 707 



Schroeder (Major R. W.), Record Aeroplane Height Flight, 

 18 



Schwarz (Prof. E. H. L.), The Kalahari and Ovamboland, 

 297 



Scott (A.), A Swarm of Noctiluca and Pleurobrachia and 

 Beroe in the Barrow Channel, 656 



Scott (Dr. H.), appointed Curator in Entomology in Cam- 

 bridge University, 345 



Scott (H. H.), and C. Lord, Skeleton of Nototherium 

 Found in Tasmania, 593 ; Studies of Tasmanian Mam- 

 mals, Living and Extinct. Part ii., 796 



Scott (J. W.), appointed Professor of Logic and Philosophy 

 in the University College of South Wales and Mon- 

 mouthshire, 537 



Scott (Sir Percy), Fifty Years in the Royal Navy, 94 



Searle (A. B.), elected President of the National' Associa- 

 tion of Industrial Chemists, 785 ; The Preparation of 

 Tungsten and its Uses in the Filaments of Incandescent 

 Lamps, etc., 339 ; The Use of Colloids in Health and 

 Disease, 351 



Searle (G. F. C), A Bifilar Method of Measuring the 

 Rigidity of Wires, 473 ; An Experiment on a Piece 

 of Common String, 474 ; Experiments with a Plane 

 Diffraction Grating, Using Convergent Light, 474 



Seeger (H.), The Lighting of Museums and Art Galleries, 

 627 ; The Lighting of Picture-galleries and Museums, 



723 



Selous (the late Capt. F. C), Memorial to, 504 



Semmes (D. R.), The Geology of the San Juan District, 

 Porto Rico, 148 



Senderens (J. B.), and J. Aboulenc, The Catalytic Decom- 

 position of the Fatty Acids by Carbon, 411 



Sergent (Dr. F.), awarded a Mary Kingsley Med'al, 697 



Seton (E. Thompson), Animal Heroes. Fourth impres- 

 sion, 580; Monarch : The Big Bear of Tallac, 450; The 

 Arctic Prairies : A Canoe-journey of 2,000 Miles in 

 Search of the Caribou, 426 



Seward (Prof. A. C), A Study in Palaeogeography, 223 ; 

 Fossil Plants. Vol. iv. : Ginkgoales, Coniferales, 

 Gnetales, 97 ; Organisation of Scientific Work, 7 ; The 

 Origin of the Vegetation of the Land, 250 



Seyevvetz (Dr.), Photographic Developing Agents, 182 



Seymour (H. L.), Astronomy in Town Planning. 691 



Shanahan (Dr. E. W.), Animal Foodstuffs : Their Produc- 

 tion and Consuimption, with a Special Reference to the 

 British Empire, i;i3 



Shapley (Dr. H.), Increasing the Photographic Power of 

 Telescopes, 621:; : Star Clusters, 54 



Shaughnessy (Major), A New Radio Call Signal, 690 



Shaw (F.), appointed Assistant Lecturer in Electrical 

 Engineering in Birmingham University, 154 



Shaw (Sir Napier), appointed Professor of Meteorology in 

 the Department of Aeronautics at the Imperial College 

 of Science and Technology, 841 : Impending Retirement 

 of, from the Meteorological Office, 144 



Sheldon (W.), [obituary], 405 



Sheppard' (W. F.), Reduction of Error by Linear Com- 

 pounding, 632 



Sheriff (Miss C. W. M.), appointed Assistant Lecturer irr 

 Mathematics at King's College, Lond'on, 698 



Sherman (H. C), The Protein Requirement of Mainten- 

 ance in Man, 668 



Shidrowitz (Dr. P.), to Direct the School of Rubber 

 Technology at the Northern Polytechnic Institute, 731 



Shive (J. W.), Relation of the Moisture in Solid Substrata to 

 the Physiological Salt-balance, etc., 310 



Shore (A.). Alternating Current Work. An Outline for 

 Students of Wireless Telegraphy, 133 



