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Index 



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Perrine (C. D. ). Ktlation of the Ajiex of Solar Motion to 



Proper Motion, itxi 

 Perry (Sir C), elected Vice-Chancellor of the I'niversity of 



London, 357 

 Perrycoste (H. M. M.), A Note on Chaft'inches and Cuckoos, 



145 

 Peters (Prof. E. D.) [death], 69 

 Peterson (Sir W.), elected a Member of the Athc najiiin Club, 



Petherbridge (F. R.), Fungoid and Insect Pests of the Farm, 



144 

 Pethvbridge (G. H.), and H. A. Lafferty, Cause of the 



Common Drv-rot of the Potato in the British Isles, 79 

 Petrie (Prof. Flinders), History in Tools, 469 ; Photographs 



from Abu Simbel Depicting Racial Types, 429 

 Petrie (Df. J. M.). Hydrocyanic Acid in Plants, Part in., 



260; Poisonous Plants in the N. O. Solanaceae, part 



'^•' 260 ... J 



Petronievics (Prof. B.), Slow Achievement m Advanced 



Science, ^^ 

 Petrunkevitch (Dr. A.), Morphology of Invertebrate T:pes, 



63 

 Philip (A.), Simplification of the Calendar, 399 

 Philip (J. B.), Nature Study Lessons Seasonally Arvai.ged, 



82 

 Phillips (Sir L.), appointed Controller of a Branch of the 



.Ministry of Munitions on Mineral Properties (other 



than Coal and Iron Ore) in the United Kingdom, 69 

 Phillips (Rev. T. E. R.), Micrometrical .Measures of Double 



Stars, 339 

 Picart (L.), The Total Eclipse of the Moon of July 4, 19 17, 



539 

 Pickard-Cambridge (Rev. O.) [death], 51 ; [obituary article], 



89; Bequest to O.xford University, 338 

 Pickering (Prof. E. C), Variability of Uranus, 133 ; Dis- 

 covery of a New Star by Mr. Ritchey, 472 

 Pickering (S.), Problems Bearing on Residual .'\ffinity, 118 

 Pictet (.A.), O. Kaiser, and A. Labouchere, The .\lcohols 



and Bases of Vacuum Tar, 480 

 Pilcher (R. B.), Presentation to, 189 

 Piper (C. \V.), National Service, 25 

 Plimmer (Prof. H. G.), Deaths in the Gardens of the 



Zoological Society in 1916, 19 

 Pocock (R.), Horses, 364 

 Podjapolsky (Dr. P. P.), Chlorophyll in Animals and the 



Fate of Chlorophyll in the Animal Organism, 493 

 Pool (C. J. C), Insects Reared in the Insect House of the 



Zoological Society's Gardens in 1916, 78 

 Pope (Prof. W. J.)", elected President of the Chemical 



Society, 109 

 Popovatz (P.), Notions G^nerales sur les Appariels k 



Reaction, 145 

 Porter (Prof. A. W.), Osmotic Pressure, 215 

 Porter (Dr. J. B.), The Coals of Canada, with Reference 



to their Economic Qualities, 87 

 Porter (Mrs. L.), Attachment Organs of the Common 



Corticolous Ramalinae, 399 

 Porter (\V. T.), Observations on Traumatic Shock, 500 

 Portevin (.A.), Ihe Carburation of Iron by .Alkaline Cyanides 



and Cyanates, 519; The Manganese Steels,' 480 

 Poussin (C. de la \'allee). Integrates de Lebesgue. Fonc- 



tions d'Ensemble. Classes de Baire, 61 

 Poussin (Prof. L. de la Valine), appointed Temporary Lec- 

 turer in Sanskrit and Tibetan at the School of Oriental 



Studies, 499 

 Prain (Sir D.), re-elected President of the Linnean Society, 



289 ; The Geographical Diffusion of Kava and Betel, 



452 

 Preston (Dr. S. Tolver) [obituary], 190 

 Price (Dr. \V.), Bequest to the University College of South 



Wales and Monmouthshire, 216 

 Procopiu (St.), Induction Apparatus for Detecting Projec- 

 tiles in Wounds, 480 

 Prosser (R. B.), History of the Invention of the Achromatic 



Telescope, 393 

 Prior (Dr. G. T.), The Meterorites of Simondium, Eagle 



Station, and .\mana, 379 

 Puente (C), Determinacion de la Latitud por Alturas 



.\bsolutas, Circunmeridianas, Meridianas 6 Iguales de 



dos Estrellas, 83 



Pugsley (H. W.), Enumeration of the Species of Fumaria„ 



Section Sphoerocapnos, 239 

 Puiseux (P.), and B. Jekhowsky, General Form of the 



Lunar Globe, 199 

 Purser (Major F. C), elected Professor of the Theory and 



Practice of Physic in the Schools of Surgery of the 



Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland, 499 



Quaintance (A. L.), and A. C. Baker, White Flies 

 (Aleyrodina;), 213 



Rabot (C), Severity of the Weather in 1917 in Scandinavia, 



213 

 Raciborski (Prof. .M.) [death],' 189 

 Raclot (M.), Origin of Terrestrial Magnetism, 39 

 Raistrick (H.), Formation of an Unsaturated Carbo.vylic 



Acid, 431 

 Rajchman (Dr.), and Dr. Western, Cases of Bacillary 



Enteritis from the Eastern Mediterranean, 130 

 Ramsay (Dr. E. P.) [death], 30 

 Ramsay (Sir W.), Memorial Fund, 325 ; Memorial Tablet 



of, in Glasgow University, 327 

 Ramsbottom (J .), .A Canvas-attacking Fungus, 206 ; 



appointed Protozoologist at Salonika, 289 

 Raymond fV.), and J. Parisot, Trench Feet, 60 

 Redding (C. L.), A Method of Determining the Size of the 



Tool required for a given Block of Lenses, 96 

 Regan (C. Tate), Distribution of the Clupeinae, 398 ; Guide 



to the British Fresh-Water Fishes, 130 

 Reina (V.), Sulla Determinazione del Coefficient di Rifra- 



zione Terrestre in Base ad Elementi Meteorologici, 433. 

 Reinach (S.), Floating Earths, 165 

 Reiman (C. K.), Revision of the .Atomic Weight of 



Bromine, 59 

 Renaud (J.), Influence of the Hermelles on the regime of 



the Bay of .Mont St. Michel, 179 ; The Time on 



Ships, 79 

 Rengade (E.), The Purification of Salts by Claircage, etc., 



520 

 Reni^ (-^f-)> P^^t and its Uses, 333 

 Renouard (M.), The Metric System in France, 152 

 Rettger (Prof. L.), Milk in its Relation to Health, 510 

 Rey (J.), The Range of Electric Searchlight Projectors, 



Translated by J. H. Johnson, 401 

 Reynolds (J. H.), Photographs of Jupiter, 112 

 Riban (Prof. J.) [obituary article], 247 

 Ricard and Barral, .A .Method of Ascertaining whether 



Water has been Poisoned, 351 

 Rice (Dr. H.), Expedition to the .Amazon, 429 

 Richards (Prof. C. R^), appointed Dean of the College of 



Engineering, etc., of the University of Illinois, 238 

 Richards (T. VV.), and H. S. Davis, Improvements in 



Calorimetric Combustion, and the Heat of Combustion, 



160; and N. F. Hall, .Attempt to Separate the Isotopic 



form of Lead by Fractional Crystallisation, 400 ; and 



C. Wadsworth, Atomic Weight of Lead of Radio-Active 



Origin, part iii., 140 

 Richardson (G. H.), Need for Standardising Auxiliary 



International Language, 279 

 Richardson (L.), The Inferior Oolite and Contiguous 



Deposits of the Crewkerne District, 459 

 Richet (C), H. Cardot, and P. Le Rolland, Regular and 



Irregular Antiseptics,' 239 ; and H. Cardot, New 



Method of Determining the Reducing Substances in 



Urine, 539 

 Richmond (K.), The Permanent Values in Education, 201 

 Richmond and Gordon (Duke of), elected Chancellor of 



.Aberdeen University, 158 

 Riddelsdell (Rev. H. I.), The Flora of Gloucestershire, 192 

 Rintoul and Baxter (The Misses), .American Brent Geese in 



Scotland, 31 ; Scottish Ornithology in 1916, 470 

 Ritchie (Dr. J.), Plated Teeth of Sheep, 306 

 Ritchie (W.), Structure, etc., of Myelophilus minor, 19 

 Righi (.A.), lonisation of the X-rays in a Magnetic Field, 



439 

 Rittenhouse (E. E.), The Life Insurance Companies of New 



York State, 215 

 Ritter (W. E.), Science and an Organised Civilisation, 377 

 Robbins (W. W.), J. P. Harrington and .Miss B. Friere- 

 Marreco, Ethnobotany of the Tewa Indians, 291 



