Nature, ] 

 October 7, 1920 J 



Index 



XXV 



Van Rhijn (P. J.), .Total 'Light of the Stars, 54 



\aughan (T. VV.), The American Tertiary, Pleistocene, 

 and Recent Coral-reefs, 401 



Vaughan -Williams (Capt.), Discovery of supposed Saxon 

 Remains in Windsor Great Park, 209 



Vernon (R. H.), appointed Assistant to the Professor of 

 Chemistry in the University of Cambridge, 665 



Verschaffelt (J. E.), and R. Crombez, Anomalous Dis- 

 persion of Methyl-violet, etc., 559 



Veil (Mile. S.), Alloys of Oxides, 347 



Very (Prof. F". W.), The Wasting of Stellar Substance, 276 



Vignaud (H.), The Columbian Tradition on the Discovery 

 of America and of the part played therein by the 

 Astronomer Toscanelli, 803 



Vignon (L.), The Resistance of Tissues to Light and 

 Ultra-violet Rays, 506 



Villey (J.), Flight at High Altitudes, 346 



Vincent (Dr. J. H.), Further E.xperiments on the Varia- 

 tion of Wave-length of the Oscillations Generated by 

 an Ionic Valve due to Changes in Filament Current, 

 121; The Origin of the Elements, 842 



Violle (H.), Milk and Haemolysis, 411 



\'irville (Ad. Davy de), Comparative Geographical Distribu- 

 tion of Primula officinalis, P. grandiflora, and P. 

 elatior in the west of France, 411 



Vl^s (F.), Study of Absorption based on the Properties of 

 the Nitrophenols, i;o6 ; Ultra-violet Spectrophotometry, 

 of the Nitrophenols, 475 



Vleuten (Miss A. van), The Possibility of accounting for 

 the Daily Variations of the Earth's Magnetic Field, 401 



Vournazos (A. ' C), A new Series of Complex Combina- 

 tions : the Antimony Oxyiodides, 475 



Voiite (J.), and others, Parallax of the B-type Star Boss 

 1517. 838 



Waddell (J. A. L.), The Economical Use of Special Alloy 



Steels in the Construction of Bridges, 699 

 Wagner (W. G.), Museums and the State, 70 

 Wakeford (the late E. K.), Canonical Forms, 369 

 Walcott (Dr. C. D.), The Persistence of Genera, 689 

 Whales (the Prince of), nominated as an Honorary Fellow 



of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, 335 ; patron of 



the British School of Archaeology in Jerusalem, 52 

 W'alker (Dr. C), appointed Associate-Professor in Cytology 



and Lecturer in Histology in Liverpool University, 376 

 Walker (Dr. G. T.), The Probable Amount of Monsoon 



Rainfall in 1920, 724 

 Walker (G. W.), A Dynamical Specification of the Motion 



of Mercury, 198 

 Walker (Prof. J.), Introduction to PFiysical Chemistry. 



Eiehth edition, 129 

 Wall (Dr. R. C. B.), to Deliver the Bradshaw Lecture, 722 

 Wallas (Prof. Graham), gift to University College, London, 



i,'>5 

 Waller (Dr. A. D.), The apparent " Growth " of Plants 



(and of Inanimate Materials) and of their apparent 



" Contractilitv," 410 

 Wallis (T. E.), The Lycopodium Method of Quantitative 



Microscopy, 249 

 Walmsley (Lt. L.). " The Recent Trans-African Flight," 



624 

 Walsh (Prof. J. J.), Medieval Medicine, 127; Science and 



Scholasticism, 547 

 Walshe (Dr. F. M. R.), The Pathology and Symptom- 

 atology of Beri-beri, 241 

 Walston (Sir Charles), Eugenics, Civics, and Ethics, 804 

 Waltenberg (R. G.), and W. W. Coblentz, The Spectral 



Reflective Properties of Allovs of Aluminium, etc., 212 

 Waran (H. P.), The Effect of' a Magnetic Field on the 



Intensity of Spectral Lines, 379 

 Ward (Miss' E. M.), The Evolution of the Hastings Coast- 

 line, 82 

 Ward (Dr. F.), Animal Life under Water, 651 

 Ward (W. A.), Modern By-prodtJct Coke-oven Construction, 



695 

 Warren (S. H.), A Natural " Eolith " Factory beneath the 



Thanet Sand, 378 

 Waterson (].), Fleas and their relation to Man and 



Domestic Animals, 787 



Watkins (L. T.), Libraries in Indian High Schools, 698 



Watson (Prof. J. B.), Psychology from the Standpoint of 

 a Behaviorist, 512 



Watson (J. S.), Development of the Generating Stations of 

 the Newcastle-upon-Tyne Electric Supply Co., 369 



Watt (Sir George), Cotton-growing in the British Empire, 

 104 ; to deliver Lectures on Indian Forest Trees at 

 Edinburgh University, 120 



Watt (Dr. H. J.), The Foundations of Music, 98 



Watts (Sir Francis), Tropical Departments of Agriculture, 

 with Special Reference to the West Indies, 344 



Watts (Prof. W. W.), The Evolution of the Bicycle, 435 



Webb (Sir Aston), Value of Science and Scientific Research 

 to Medicine and Surgery, 304 



Webb (W. M.), The Brent Valley Bird-sanctuary, 614 



Weber (Dr. F. Parkes), appointed Mitchell Lecturer of the 

 Royal College of Physicians of London, 192 1, 755 



Webster (A. D.), National Afforestation, 577 



Webster (D. L.), The Intensities of X-ravs of the L series 

 II., 667 



Wedderburn (Dr. E. M.), The Importance of Meteorology 

 in Gunnery, 492 



W'edmore (E. B.), The Importance of Co-operative Scientific 

 Research, 339 



Weiss (H.), The Constituents formed by Reciprocal Pene- 

 tration of Zinc and Copper at a Temperature where 

 One of the Two Metals and All their Alloys are in 

 the Solid State, 699 



Wells (Prof. H. L.), Chemical Calculation Tables: fo. 

 Laboratory Use. Second edition, 33 



Wells (Dr. S. Russell), London Degrees in Commerce, 440 ; 

 re-elected Vice-Chancellor of London University, 568 



Wells and Southcombe, The Theory and Practice of 

 Lubrication, 21 



Wertheimer (Prof. J.), Seconding of Officers for Study at 

 Universities, 41 



West (F. L.), N. E. Edlefsen, and S. Ewing, Determina- 

 tion of Normal Temperatures by Means of the Equa- 

 tion of the Seasonal Temperature Variations, etc., 

 628 



West (G. D.), A Modified Theory of the Crookes Radio- 

 meter, 473 ; The Forces Acting on Heated Metal-foil 

 Surfaces in Rarefied Gases, 122 



West (Dr. S. H.), [obituary], 50 



Westaway (F. W.), Science and Theology : Their Comrnon 

 Aims' and Methods, 607 ; Scientific Method : its Philo- 

 sophy and its Practice, 5 



Wharton (the late Rear-Admiral Sir W. J. L.), Hydro- 

 graphical Surveying. Fourth edition, revised and en- 

 larged by Adml. Sir Mostvn Field, 576 



Wheaton (Dr.), Maternity and' Child Welfare, 151 



Wheeler (Dr. R. B.), appointed Professor of Fuel 

 Technology in Sheffield University, 665 



Wheeler (Dr. R. E. M.), appointed Keeper of the Depart- 

 ment of Archaeology in the National Museum of Wales, 

 and Lecturer in Archaeology in the University of South 

 Wales and Monmouthshire, $6^ 



Wheeler (Prof. W. M.). The Parasitic Aculeate Hymen- 

 optera, 835; and I. W. Bailey, Feeding Habits of 

 Pseudomvnmine .Ants, 843 



Whiddington'(Prof. R.), An Attempt to Detect the Fizeau 

 Effect in an Electron Stream, 708; Science and the 

 New Army, 135 



Whipple (Prof. G. C), Vital Statistics : An Introduction to 

 the Science of Demography, 131 



Whipple (R. S.), Electrical Methods of Measuring Body 

 Temperatures, ';38 



White (B.), Gold : Its Place in the Economy of Mankitid, 

 774 ; Silver : Its Intimate .■\ssociation with the Daily 

 Life of Man, 774 



White (Dr. N.), Health Conditions in Eastern Europe : 

 Typhus a Serious Menace, 723 



White (R. S.), Report on Outbreak of Pellagra amongst 

 Armenian Refugees at Port Said, 592 



Whitehead (Prof. A. N.), An Enquiry Concernmg the 

 Principles of Natural Knowledge, 446 



Whitehead (Prof. J. B.), The High-voltage Corona in Air, 

 842 



Whitfield (Dr. A.), appointed Lumleian Lecturer of the 

 Roval College of Physicians of London, 1921, 7f,!\ 



