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Index 



[Naturt, 

 September 20, 1917 



Annual Meeting and Distribution of Medals and other 

 Awards ; Sir T. H. Holdich elected President of the, 

 248 ;' Awards of the, 69 ; Institution, Lecture Arrange- 

 nients at the, 90 ; Letter to the, P. Painlev^, 230 ; 

 The Annual Meeting and Election of Officers of the, 

 189 ; Observatory, Greenwich, The, 295 ; School of 

 Mines, The Case of Students of the, on State Ser- 

 vice, 76 ; Society Club, Annals of the, Sir A. Geikie, 

 521 ; Society, Selected Candidates for election into the, 

 13 ; Election of New Fellows of the, 211 ; The Bakerian 

 Lecture of the, to be delivered by J. H. Jeans, 211 ; 

 The Fellowship of the, 315 ; of Arts, A. A. C. Swinton 

 elected Chairman of the Council of the, 427 ; Zoolc^icaJ 

 Society, Ireland, Annual Report of the, 92 

 Rugby School Natural History Society, Report of, 1916, 



235 

 Rumania, The Conquest of, D. W. Johnson, 429 

 Russia : Condition of Scientific Work and Publications in, 

 408; Imperial Astronomical Society of. Bulletins of the, 

 93 ; Natural Productive Sources of, 169 ; " Science in, 

 210; The Fresh-water Fishes of, 222 

 Russian : and British Scientific Undertakings, Co-operation 

 in, Prof. B. Menschutkin, 168 ; Botanical Society, The 

 Annual Meeting and Election of Officers of the, 191 ; 

 Geographical Society, Dr. D. W. Freshfield elected an 

 Honorary Member of the, 51 ; Sir E. Shackleton elected 

 a Corresponding Member of the, 51 ; The Translitera- 

 tion of, E. Foord, 454 



St. Andrews University, Gift of Local and other Birds to. 

 Misses Baxter and Rintoul, 198 



St. Kenelm, The Legend of, E. S. Hartland, 372 



Sacbrood, G. F. WTiite, 232 



Sailors and Soldiers, Discharged Disabled, Training and 

 Employment of, Principal W. G. R. Paterson, 350 



Salinity of Sea-water, A Differential Refractometer for 

 Measuring the, A. Berget, 119 



Salmon : Fisheries, Nationalisation of, J. A. Hutton, 213 ; 

 of the River Lochy as shown by a Collection of Scales 

 made in 1916, W. L. Calderwood, 239 ; The Life'-history 

 of the, J. A. Hutton, 410 



Saltpetre : Indian, Sir T. E. Thorpe, 447 ; Its Origin and 

 Extraction in India, C. M. Hutchinson, 447 



Salts, Purification of, by Claitfage, E. Rengade, 520 



San Joaquin Vallev, Cal., Ground Water in, W. C. Menden- 

 hall, R. B. Dole, and H. Stables, 376 



San Salvador, Earthquake at, 312 



Sand : British, for Glass and Metallurgical Industries, Prof. 

 Boswell, 532 ; for Glass-making, Properties of, Dr. 

 Boswell, 71 ; in the Island of Sansego, etc., Origin of 

 the Deposits of. Prof. T. Taramelli, 511 



Santals, The, Rev. P. O. Bodding, 14 



Sartorite, The Problem of, Dr. G. F. H. Smith, 379 



Scandinavia, Severity of the Winter in, C. Rabot, 213 



Scandinavian Languages, The, T. R. R. S., 505 



Scattering Media in Fully Diffused Light, Behaviour of, 

 H. J. Shannon, F. F. Renwick, and B. V. Storr, 358 



Schaumasse Comet: J. Braae and J. Fischer-Petersen, 214; 

 Fayet and Schaumasse, 259; J. Braae and J. Fischer- 

 Petersen, 271; 315; Elements of, G. Fayet and A. 

 Schaumasse, 320 ; Fayet and Schaumasse, 375 



Schistosoma (Bilharzia) mansoni, The Host of, near 

 Caracas, Drs. Iturbe and Gonzalez, 451 



Science : and an Organised Civilisation, W. E. Ritter, 377 ; 

 and Education, Civil Service Estimates for, 175 ; Lec- 

 tures Delivered at the Royal Institution of Great 

 Britain, Edited, with an Introduction by Sir E. Rav 

 Lankester, 183 ; and Industry, Sir R. T. Glazebrook, 

 333 ; 376 ; The Place of Cambridge in any Scheme for 

 their Combination, Sir R. T. Glazebrook, 423 ; 465 ; and 

 Modern Languages in Civil Service Examinations, Prof. 

 J. Wertheimer, 74; and Society, 521; and the Indus- 

 tries, Dr. W. Martin, 354 ; and the Nation, Edited bv 

 Prof. A. C. Seward, 141 ; Applied, and Pure Science, 

 Principal C. Bradley, 330; Charged as the Enemv of 

 Mankind, G. Gissing, 230 ; Fran^aise — Scolastique Alle- 

 mande, Prof. G. Papillault, 225 ; for the People, 18 ; 

 in Education and Administration, 455 ; in Girls' Schools, 

 Miss Escott, 339; in Russia," 210; in Schools, Present 



Methods of Teaching, H. A. L. Fisher, 186 ; Lectures 

 to the Troops in France, 93 ; Natural, Teaching, Effect 

 of, upon Children, Prof. R. Muir, 148 ; Teaching and 

 National Character, Prof. Ramsay Muir ; the Editor, 

 184 ; The Application of, Prof. W. F. Durand, 377 ; 

 The Borderlands of. Dr. A. T. Schofield, 263 ; The Lack 

 of, in Modern Educaticni, with Some Hints of What 

 Might Be, Sir Napier Shaw, 367 ; The Man of, in the 

 Community of To-day, Prof. D. Fraser Harris, 236 ; 

 The Value of Research in. Sir A. G. Bourne, 75 



Scientific : and Industrial Research, Grants to the Depart- 

 ment of, 68 ; Instrument Trade, The Regeneration of 

 the British, after the War, E. S. Hodgson, 488; In- 

 vestigation, Pure, Neglect of, Prof. G. H. Carpenter, 

 213; Literature, The Organisation of, P. E. B. 

 Jourdain, 306 ; Observation and Reasoning, 142 ; 

 Problems to be Solved, Some, H. Le Chatelier, 79; 

 Research, State Aid for, 329 ; The Carnegie Institution 

 and, 395 ; Societies, Conjoint Board of, Report of the 

 Executive Committee of the, 350 ; Theories, The Making 

 of, Prof. W. H. Hobbs, 373 



Scotland, Economic Geology of the Central Coalfield of, 131 



Scottish : Ornithology in 1916, L. Rintoul and E. Baxter, 

 470 ; Shale Industry, .Appointment of Committees in 

 Connection with the, 13 



Sea-Urchins, Variability of Germ-cells of, A. J. Goldfarb, 



379 

 Sea Water, Hydrogen Ion • Concentration of, J. F. 



McClendon, 139 

 Seaman Gold Medal, The, awarded to the Julius King 



Optical Company, 489 

 Secondary Schools' Examinations Council, FtM^mation of a, 



278 

 Set, The Egyptian Deity, The ' Animal Symbol of, G. 



Daressy ; J. Offord, 316 

 Seeding and Planting, J. W. Tourney, 422 

 Seeds, Improved Varieties of Agricultural, Need for a 



National Organisation for, 71 

 " Sei " Whale, The, Dr. F. E. Beddard, 17 

 Seismographs, Sites for the Installation of, no 

 Selby Scientific bociety, T. Sheppard elected an Honorary 



Life Member of the, 150 

 Selous National Memorial, The, 230 

 Septic Problem in W'ar, The, 48 

 Sesamoid Articular Bone in the Mandible of Fishes, The, 



Prof. E. C. Starks, 31 

 Sewage, Activated Sludge Process, Ardern, 533 

 Shark, Permian, The Skull of a. Dr. G. Hickling, 79 

 Ship-worms and Wood-lice, Life-histories of, H. F. Weiss, 



392 

 Siberia : In Far North-East, I. W'. Shklovsky, Translated 



by L. Edwards and Z. Shklovsky, 426 ; North-East, 



Prince P. Kropotkin, 426 

 Sierra Nevada Mountains, Fish in Dams in the, A. D. 



Ferguson, 430 

 Silica : Fused, Condensers, etc., for Sulphuric Acid and 



Nitric Acid, Dr. F. Bottomley, 431 ; Refractory Pro- 

 perties of, H. Le Chatelier and B. Bogitch, 520 

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

 Silkworms, The Genetics of, 174 

 Size of the Tool Required for a given Block of Lenses, 



Method of Determining the, C. L. Redding, 96 

 Slav Achievements in Advanced Science, Prof. B. 



Petronievics, 53 

 Slavs, Southern, Suggested Federation of the. Sir T. 



Holdich, 491 

 Smith, W^illia;n, His Maps and Memoirs, T. Sheppard, 351 

 Smithsonian Institution, Exploration and Field Work of 



the, 510 

 Smoking, Effect of, on the Speed and Accuracy of Adding 



Figures, C. S. Berry, 71 

 Snow in London : The Frequency of, L. C. W^. Bonacina, 



185; F. J. Brodie, 205; E. L. Hawke, 206 

 Soane's Museum, A. T. Bolton appointed Curator of, 499 

 Societa Italiana della Scienze, The Gold Medal of the 



Physical Section awarded to Prof. W. H. and W. L. 



Bragg, 150 

 Soci^t^ de Chimie Industrielle, Object of the, 450 

 Sodium, Neutral and Acid Sulphates of, P. Passal, 219 

 Soil : Aeration in Agriculture, Howard, 195 ; An Artificial, 



