Nature, "I 



Scpiemeer 20, 191 7 J 



Index 



XXIX 



Ke'Ji Bulletin, The : 232 ; The Suspended Publication of the, 

 245, 289 ; The Publication of the, 348, 370 ; Publication 

 of the, to be Continued, 389 



Knots with a Census of Amphicheirals with Twelve Cross- 

 ings, M. G. Haseman, 399 



Kodaikanal Observatory Report, J. Evershed, 272 



Kodak Bromide Pictures, 92 



l^aboratoire Central d'Electricite, Paris, The, 270 



Labrador Eskimo, The, E. W. Hawkes, 313 



Lactic Ferments and Streptococci, Analogy between the, 



C. and H. Cardot, 539 

 Lake Baikal, The Flora, Fauna, and Hydrology of, 189 

 Land and the Empire, The, C. Turnor, 62 

 Language, Auxiliary International, Need for Standardising, 



G. H. Richardson, 279 

 Latitud, Determinacion de la, por Alturas Absolutas, etc., 



C. Puente, 83 

 Lau Islands of the Fiji Group,^ The, \V. G. Foye, 471 

 Launching, P. A. Hillhouse and \V. H. Riddlesworth, 114 

 Lava, Temperature of, 352 



Lead : Isotopic Forms of. Attempts to Separate the, by 

 Fractional Crystallisation, T. W. Richards and N. F. 

 Hall, 400 ; Isotopes from Thorium, The Stability of. 

 Prof. F. Soddy, 244; Dr. A. Holmes, 245 ; Prof. J. Joly, 

 284 ; of Radio-active Origin, Atomic Weight of, part iii., 

 T. ^V. Richards and C. Wadsworth, 140 

 Leeds University, Col. de Burgh Birch made Emeritus Pro- 

 fessor by the, 357 

 Leipzig University, Fraulein A. M. Curtius appointed 



Lecturer in French in, 198 

 Lice, Human, Specimens Desired of. Prof. G. H. F. 



Nuttall, 372 

 Lichens Used for Dyeing, Dr. H. Ryan and \V. M. 



O'Riordan, 92 

 Life : and Habit, S. Butler. New edition, 203 ; Evolution, 

 Application of the Laws of Action, Reaction, and Inter- 

 action in, H. F. Osborn, 159 ; Insurance and the War, 

 215; Insurance Companies in the United States, Func- 

 tions of. Dr. Fisk ; Cox; H. Fiske, 215; Insurance 

 Companies of New York State, The, E. E. Rittenhouse, 

 215; Insurance, Economics of, 215 ~- 

 Light : Alloys Sub-Committee, Appointment of a, 69 ; by 

 Animals, Production of, Prof. U. Dahlgren, 191, 430; 

 Practical Experiments in, W. St. B. Griffith and P. T. 

 Petrie, 41 

 Lightning Display, A Remarkable, 529 

 Lima, University of. Dr. J. .\rce appointed Professor of 



Tropical Pathology in the, 458 

 Limbs, Transplantation of, G. Harrison, 379 

 Linear Vector Function, The Square Root of a, F. L. 



Hitchcock, 359 

 Lingua Internazionale, Sulla questione della, Prof. I. Galli, 



Linnean Society : Election of Officers and Council of the, 



289 ; New Foreign Members of the, 211 

 Lions, Captive, Effects of Environment and Habit on, N. 



HoUister, 470 

 Liquid Fuel, Prof. J. S. S. Brame, 134 

 Liverpool University : Dr. P. G. H. Ek)swell appointed to 



the George Herdman Chair of Geology, 238 ; T. H. 



Bickerton appointed Lecturer on Ophthalmology in, 357 

 Livingstone, The David, Centenary Medal awarded to M. V. 



Ballivian, 509 

 Lizards of the Genus Tachydromus, Dr. G. A. Boulenger, 



23Q 

 Loaded Antennae, Wave-lengths and Radiation of, B. van 



der Pol, jun., 358 

 Longstreth. Edward, Medals, The, awarded to Prof. A. E. 



Kennelly, F. H._.Achard and A. S. Dana, 469 

 L.C.C. : Grants to London Polytechnics, 419; Report of 



the Education Committee of the, on the Training of 



Munition^nakers, 479 

 London : Appeal for an Increased Grant for Education 



Purposes in, 257 ; University. Report of the Military 



Education Committee, 18 ; Conferment of Doctorates ; 



Carpenter Medal awarded to Dr. P. B. Ballard, 95 ; 



-Annual Report of University College, 96 ; Report of the 



Vice-Chancellor for 1916-17, 238; Aims and Work of 



the .Appointments Board of, 278 ; Offer from the Rhodes 



Trustees for Secretarial Assistance ; Renewal of the 

 Franks Studentship ; Conferment of Doctorates, 278 ; 

 The Gilchrist Studentship awarded to Miss B. J. 

 Schlumberger, 318; Resolve to Institute a New B.Sc. 

 Degree, 338 ; Sir C. Perry elected Vice-Chancelior ; 

 Gifts to ; Conferment of Doctorates, 357 ; Increased 

 Grant by the London County Council, 378; C. O. 

 Blagden appointed Reader in Malay ; Sir A. Tata 

 thanked for Donation of ;£7i,40o; Conferment of Doc- 

 torates ; Grants from the Dixon Fund, 438 ; Prof. L. 

 de la Valine Poussin appointed Temporary Lecturer in 

 Sanskrit and Tibetan at the School of Oriental Studies, 

 499 ; Universitj- College, Pamphlet on Medical Sfudies 

 I at, 539; The New Chemical Laboratories of, 318 



Lowell Observatory, Dr. V. M. Slipher appointed Director 



of the, 51 

 Lower Limb, The Protheses of the, J. Amar, 79 

 Lucerne, A Disease or Malformation of, E. Archer, 179 

 Luna County, New Mexico, Geok^y and Underground 



Water of, N. H. Darton, 376 

 Lunar Globe, General Form of the, P. Puiseux and B. 



Jekhowsky, 199 

 Lyrids, April, The, 133, 172 



Macgregor, Dr. Jessie, Prize of the Royal College of 

 Physicians, Edinburgh, The, 328 



Machine-gun Shop, A New, 214 



Macmillan's Geographical Exercise Books. With Questions 

 by B. C. Wallis, i. to v., 4 



Macusi and Wapisiana Tribes, Practices of the, 491 



Madras Presidency, Edible Molluscs Found on the Shores of 

 the, J. Hornell, 410 



Magnesite, Exploitation of, at Bulong, F. R. Feldtmann, 233 



Magnetic : Elements of the Val-Joyeux Observatory on 

 January i, 1917, Value of the, A. Angot, 79; Inertia, 

 G. W. Walker, 178 ; Storm, .\ Large, Recorded at Kew 

 Observatory, 489; of Aug. 22, 1916, The, Dr. C. Chree, 



39 



Magnetisation <rf Iron, Nickel, and Cobalt by Rotation, S. J. 

 Barnett, 219 



Malleinisation, The Value of the Intra-dermo Palpebral 

 Method of. Major Hobday, 253 



Malta, Botany in. Dr. J. C. McWalter. 78 



Mammoth, Skeleton of a, Discovered near Bapaume, 370 



Manchester : Astronomical Societ\-, The, 16 ; Liverpool, 

 Leeds, Sheffield, and Birmingham, Joint Matriculation 

 Board of the Universities of, and Latin, 137 ; School of 

 Technolog)-, G. G. Stoney aj^winted Professor pt 

 Mechanical Engineering at the, 439 



Manganese : and Chromium, Rapid Estimation of, in Metal- 

 lurgical Products, H. Travers, 519 ; Steels, The, A. 

 Portevin, 480; The Magnetic Properties of, and trf Some 

 Special Manganese Steels, Sir R. Hadfield, C. Ch^ne- 

 veau, and C. G^neau, 419 



Manila Observatory, Weather Bureau of the, Annual Report 

 of the, 92 



Manitoba University. Establishment of a Chair of Zook>gy, 



Man of Science, The, in the Community <rf To-day, Prof. 

 D. Eraser Harris, 236 



Map, .\ New Method of Expressing the Representative Frac- 

 tion of a, -A. R. Hinks, 110 



Marine Fibre Industrj- of Spencer's and St. Vincent's Gulfs, 

 The, 314 



Mars, New Elements of, Dr. F. E. Ross, 493 



Mass-action, Does the Law of. Govern Diastatic Reactions? 

 O. Baillv, 520 



Maternal and Child Walfare, 388 



Mathematical : Analysis, 61 ; Logic, Function of Symbolism 

 in, P. E. B. Jourdain, 193 ; Text-books, Some, 102 



Mathematics : for the Needs of Science, The Provision made 

 bv. Prof. R. D. Carmichael, 353 ; Second-Year, for 

 Secondary Schools, E. R. Breslich. Second edition, 

 322 ; The Function of, in Scientific Research, Prof. 

 G. -A. Miller, 411 ; Value of Early Indian Contributions 

 to, Re\-. Dr. Mackichan, 108 



Mathematicians, Ten British, of the Nineteenth Century, 

 Lectures on, .A. MacFarlane, 221 



Mayor, J. E. B., and Todhunter, E. S. Payne, 264 



Meal Times, Remarks on, M. Amar, 320 



