XVI 



Index 



[Nature, 

 September 20, 1917 



Sherrington (Prof. C. S.), elected a Corresponding Member 



of the R. Accademia delle Scienze of Bologna, 69 

 Shipley (Dr. A. E.), elected Vice-Chancellor of Cambridge 



University, 299 ; Studies in Insect Life, and Other 



Essays, 244 

 Shklovsky (I. VV.), In Far North-East Siberia. Translated 



by L. Edwards and Z. Shklovsky, 426 

 Shrev'e (F.), Vegetation Map of the United States, no 

 Sidgreaves (Father), Stonyhurst College Observatory Report, 



252 

 Silberstein (Dr. L.), Motion of the Perihelion of Mercury, 



Deduced from the Classical Theory of Relativity, 159 ; 



The Motion of the Perihelion of Mercury, 412 

 Simonsen (Dr. J. L.), Causes of the Paucity of Research 



Work, 108 

 Simpson (Dr. G. C), A Very Penetrating Radiation in the 



Atmosphere, 124 

 Skeats (E. W.), Age of the Alkali Rocks of Port Cygnet 



and the D'Entrecasteaux Channel, 180 

 Skinner (C. E.), Dielectric Losses in Insulating Materials, 



453 ,, J. . ■ , 



Skottsberg (Dr. C), Leader of an Expedition to Juan 



Fernandez and the Galapagos Islands, 314 

 Sleggs (G. F.), Drum-fire, 513 

 Slipher (Dr. V. M.), appointed Director of the Lowell 



Observatory, 51 ; Persistent Aurora, 193 ; Radial 



Velocities of Spiral Nebulae, 532 ; The Variable Nebula 



N.G.C. 2261, 54 

 Smith (Prof. .A.), General Chemistry for Colleges. Second 



edition, 343 

 Smith (A. H.), The Acquisition of the Elgin Marbles, 31 

 Smith (C. M.), Electric and Magnetic Measurements, 401 

 Smith (E. F.), Chemically Induced Crown-galls, 380 

 Smith (Prof. G. Elliot), Form of the Frontaf Pole of an 



Endocranial Cast of Eoanthropus dawsoni, 78 ; The 



Endocranial Cast of the Boskop Skull, 79 

 Smith (Dr. G. F. H.), The Probkm of Sartorite, 379 

 Smith (H.), The High Price of Sugar and How to Reduce 



It, 14 

 Smith (Dr. J. H.), A New Acid Sodium Phosphate, 471 

 Smith (M.), and Matthews, Intestinal Protozoa, 14 

 Smith (S. A.), The Fossil Human Skull Found at Talgai, 38 

 Smith (Prof. S. W. J.), The Bursting of Bubbles, 5; and 



H. Moss, Experiments with Mercury Jets, 96 

 Soddy (Prof. F.), The Complexity of the Chemical Elements, 



414, 433 ; The Stability of Lead Isotopes from Thorium, 



244 

 Somerville (Prof. W .), Forestry in Britain, 330 

 Somerset (Duchess of), Reported Decrease of Migratory 



Birds, 390 

 Sosman (R. B.), Common Refractory Oxides, 314 

 Sowerby {A de C), Heude's Types of Artiodactyle Ungu- 

 lates in the Sikawei Museum, China, 78 

 Spencer (Dr. G. L.), A Handbook for Cane-Sugar Manu- 

 facturers and their Chemists. Fifth edition, 162 

 Sperry (E. A.), Aerial Navigation over Water, 15 

 Spier (L.), Zuni Chronology, 379 

 Spiers (F. S.), Refractory Materials for Use in the Glass 



Industry, 430 

 Spind^n (Dr. H. J.), Tour in Central .America, 212 

 Stager (H. W.), A Sylow Factor Table of the First Twehe 



Thousand Numbers, etc., 164 

 Stanford's Half-inch Map of the Battle Front in France and 



Flanders : Ostend, Zeebrugge, Bruges, 523 ,- Lai^e-scale 



War Map, No. 17, 171 

 Stansfield (Prof. A.), Smelting of iron-ores Rich in 



Titanium, 352 

 Stapledon (R. G.), Grassland and Ploughed Land, 373 

 Starch (D.), Similarity of Brothers and Sisters in Mental 



Traits, 313 

 Starks (Prof. E. C), The Sesamoid .Articular Bone in the 



Mandible of Fishes, 31 

 Start (Miss L. E.), Burmese Textiles, 91 

 Stephenson (Dr. J.), Zoological Results of a Tour in the 



Far East : Aquatic Oligochaeta from Japan and China, 



240 

 Stephens (Miss J.), Sponges Collected off the Coast of 



Ireland, 399 

 Stephens (W. H.), Bequest to the American .Associaticm, 518 

 Stephenson (L. W.), A. F. Crider, and R. B. Dole, Geology 



and Ground Waters of North-Eastern .Arkansas, 376 



Steven (H. M.), Relation of the Chermes Group of Insects 

 to British Forestry, 491 ; The Chermes of Spruce and 

 Larch and their Relation to Forestry, 359 



Stewart (Lieut. C. D.), Atmospheric Electrical Phenomena 

 during Rain, 178 



Stiles (P. G.), Human Physiology, loi 



Stirling (Lord Justice), Herbarium of. Presented to the 

 Tunbridge Wells Natural History Society, 248 



Stirling-Ma.vwell (Sir J.), appointed Assistant-Controller of 

 Timber Supplies for Scotland, 509 



Stoney (G. G.), appointed Professor of Mechanical Engin- 

 eering in the Manchester School of Technology, 439 



St0rmcr (Prof. C), Numerical Calculations of Orbits about 

 a Magneto-electric Centre, 453 ; Photographs of Aurora, 



405 

 Stratton (Dr. S. W.), awarded the Medal of the U.S. 



National Academy of Sciences, 212 

 Street (R. O.), Dissipation of Energy in the Tides, 96 

 Stromeyer (C. E.), Aeroplanes and Atmospheric Gustiness, 



164 

 Stromgren (Prof.), Comet 1916 b (Wolf), 72 

 Strutt (Hon. E. G.), L. Scott, and G. H. Roberts, British 



Agriculture : The Nation's Opportunity, 3 

 Stubenrauch (Prof. A. V.) [obituaryj, 109 

 St. John and Adams, Effect of Haze on Solar Rotation 



Measures, 32 

 Sutton (.\T. H. F.), Experiments with " Humogen," 373 

 Swann (Dr. W^ F. G.), and S. J. Mauchly, .A Method of 



Constructing a High Resistance of the Bronson Tvpe, 



251 

 Swinnerton (Prof. H. H.), and A. E. Trueman, Development 



and Morphology of the Ammonite Septum, 218 

 Swinton (A. A. C), elected Chairman of the Council of the 



Royal Society of Arts, 427 

 Sydenham (Lord), National Reconstruction, 186, 196 



Taber (S.), Origin of Veins of the .Asbestiform Minerals, 



139 ; Pressure Phenomena Accompanying Growth of 



Crystals, 380 

 Taggart (W. Scott), Cotton Spinning. Vol. iii. Fourth 



edition, 462 

 Tait (Dr. J.), Experiments and Observations on Cructacea. 



Parts iv. and v., 340 

 Tams (W. H. T.), Euplexia lucipara taken in the British 



Isles and in Canada, 410 

 Tanaka (Y.), Genetic Studies on the Silkworm, 174 

 Taylor (Admiral D. W.), awarded the Franklin Medal of 



the Franklin Institute, 248 

 Taramelli (Prof. T.), Origin of the Deposits of Sand in the 



Island of Sansego, etc., 511 

 Taylor (Dr. G.), Control of Settlement by Humidity and 



Temperature, 14 

 Taylor (Major G. I.), The Formation of Fog and Mist, 98 

 Taylor (Sir W.) [obituary], 170 

 Tesla (Nikola), awarded the Edison .Medal of the .American 



Institution of Electrical Engineers, 328 

 Theobald (Prof. F. V.), Petherbridge's Fungoid and Insect 



Pests of the Farm, 144 ; The Caterpillar Attack on 



Fruit Trees, 326 

 Theophrastus, Enquiry into Plants, and Minor Works on 



Odours and Weather Signs. With an English Transla- 

 tion by Sir A. Hort, 282 

 Thomas (H.), Commercial Aviation, 294 

 Thomas (J. S. G.), Gravitation and Thermodynamics, 405 

 Thompson (B.), Plated Teeth of Sheep, 264 

 Thompson (Prof. D'.Arcy W.), to Deliver the Huxley Lecture 



at Birmingham, 18 

 Thompson (J. McLean), Anatomy and .Affinity of Stroma' 



topteris moniliformis, 99 

 Thompson (Dr. J. M.), Platyzoma microphylLum, R. Br., 460 

 Thompson (Prof. P.), appointed I ngleby Lecturer at Bir- 

 mingham University, 397 

 Thomson (E.), Inferences Concerning Auroras, 159 

 Thomson (Sir J. J.), .Address at the Unveiling of a Memorial 



to Sir W. and Lady Huggins, 153 

 Thorpe (Sir T. E.), Chemistry and the War, 463 ; Indian 



Saltpetre, 447 

 Tiddeman (R. H.), 13 

 Tilden (Sir W. A.), Chemical Discovery and Invention in 



the Twentieth Century, 121 



