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Index 



t Nature, 



September 20, 1917 



Preface to " British Universities and the War," 257 ; 

 Proposals Resixicting the Studies of Interned Prisoners, 

 76 ; Speech at Prize Distribution at University College, 

 London, 398; The Education Estimates, 167; The New 

 Education Bill, 485 



Fisk (Dr.) ; Mr. Cox ; H. Fiske, Recent Developments of 

 the functions of Life Insurance Companies in the 

 United States, 215 



Fitch (W. H.), Illustrations of the British Flora, with Addi- 

 tions by W. G. Smith. Fourth edition, 122 



Flatters and Garnett, Ltd., Cedarwood Oil, 15 



Fleet (Dr. J. F.) [obituary], 13 



Fleming (A. P. M.), Industrial Research in the United 

 States of America, 465 



Fleming (Prof. J. A.), After tin W.ir, 421 ; Derivation of 

 the General Equation for \\;ivi Motion in an Elastic 

 Medium, 258 



Fletcher {.\. L.) [obituary], 231 



Fontes-Diacon (M.), White Turbiditj' in Wines, 219 



Foord (E.), The Transliteration of Russian, 454 



Forbes (A.), Rate of Discharge of Central Neurones, 159 



Forbes (G.), David Gill, Man and Astronomer : Memories of 

 Sir David Gill, K.C.B., 161 



Forbes (Dr. S. A.), Noxious and I3eneficial Insects of 

 Illinois, 213 



Forrest (J.) [obituary], 30 



Forster (H. W.), Glycerine from Waste Fats, 29 ; The 

 Health of the British Armies, 29 



Foster (Sir Gregory), The Medical Education of Women, 398 



Fowler (Prof. A.), The Classification of Helium Stars, 25 ; 

 and J. Brooksbank, The Third Line Spectrum of 

 O.xygen, 159 ; and the Hon. R. J. Strutt, Absorption 

 Bands of Atmospheric Ozone in the Spectra of Sun 

 and Stars, 379 



Fowler (Dr. G. H.), Charts ; Their Use and Meaning, 461 ; 

 Method of Analysis of Tidal Stream Observations, 398 



Foxwell (G. E.), Utilisation of By-products from the Coking 

 of Coal, 471 



Foye {\\ ■ G.), Geology of the Fiji Islands, 380 ; The Lau 

 Islands of the Fiji Group, 471 



Franke (Prof.), A Handbook of Briquetting. Vol. i.. The 

 Briquetting of Coals, Brown Coals, and other Fuels, 

 Translated bv F. C. A. H. Lantsberry, 242 



Franklin (Prof. W. S.), Bill's School and Mine : A Collec- 

 tion of Essays on Education. Second edition, 204 



Eraser (W. P.), Appointed to Investigate the Problem of 

 Grain Rust in Western Canada, 170 



Frassetto (Prof. F.), Lezioni di Antropologia. Vol. iii., 444 



Frazer (Sir J. G.), Ancient Stories of a Great Flood, 191 



French (J. W.), British Optical Science, 103 ; Glass Grind- 

 ing and Polishing, 39, 511 



Freshfield (Dr. Douglas W.), Elected an Honorary Member 

 of the Russian Geographical Society, 51 



Friend (Rev. H.), Public Schools and Nature Study, 235 



Fritsch (Prof. F. E.), Report on the Fresh-water Algas Col- 

 lected by the Terra Nova Expedition, 352 



Frost (Prof.), Spectrum of Comet 1917 a (Mellish), 315 



Frouin (A.) and R. Gr^goire, Action of Metallic Tin and 

 Oxide of Tin in Staphylococcus Infections, 280 



Fry (Prof. M. W. J.), Impact in Three Dimensions, 132 



de Fursac (Dr. J. R<^ues), and Dr. A. J. Rosanoff, Manual 

 of Psychiatry. Fourth edition, 301 



von Furth (Dr. O.), The Problems of Physiological and 

 Pathological Chemistry of Metabolism, Translated bv 

 Prof. A. J. Smith, loi 



Furuhjelm (R.), Recherches sur les Mouvements Propres 

 des Etoiles dans la zone photographique de Helsingfors, 



Gabri^ (R. M.), Commercial Utilisation of Fumaroles and 

 Hot Springs, 259 



Gage (H. C), Simplified X-ray Methods. 410 



Gallardo (Dr. A.), Importance of Biological Research to 

 Modern Man, 355 ; Studies of Ants, 191 



Gallenkamp and Co. 's List of Small Electric Furnaces, 53 



Galli (Prof. I.), "Sulla Questione della Lingua Interna- 

 zionale," 358 



Gammell (S.), A Scheme of Afforestation for Scotland, 91 



Ganong (Prof. W. F.), A Text-book of Botany for Col- 

 leges, 261 



Ganz (Prof. A. F.) [obituary], 528 



Garrard (Dr. C. C), Electric Switch and Controlling Gear, 2 

 Garstin (Sir W. E.), Elected an Honorary Member of the 



Institution of Civil Engineers, 51 

 Garvin and Portevin, Cooling of Various Metals by Water, 



280 

 Garwood (Dr. E. J.), and E. Goodyear, Geology of the Old 



Radnor District, 339 

 Gaster (Leon), The Nationality of, 230 

 Gates (Dr. R. R.), The North .\nierican Melanthacese from 



the Genetic Standpoint, 97 

 Gautier (A.), An Artificial Soil, 440 ; Increase in the Cura- 

 tive Properties of Quinine and of Mercury by the 



Organometallic Compounds of Arsenic, 199 ; Speech 



at the Unveiling of a Statue of Prof. M. Berthelot, 290; 



and P. Clausmann, A New Method of Destrtic- 



tion of Tissues for the Estimation of Arsenic and 



other Mineral Matter, 460 

 Geddes (Major A. C. B.) [obituary], 190 

 Geikie (Sir A.), Annals of the Royal Society Club, 521 

 Gibbs (A. E".) [obituary], 70 

 Gibson (A.) [obituarv], 268 

 Gilbreth (F. B.), and Dr. L. M. Gilbreth, Fatigue Study : 



The Elimination of Humanity's Greatest Unnecessary 



Waste, 23 

 Gilchrist (Dr. J. D. F.), and W. W. Thompson, The Sea 



Fishes of Natal, 491 

 Gill, David, Man and .Astronomer : Memories of Sir David 



Gill, K.C.B., Collected and Arranged bv G. Forbes, 



161 

 Gillingham (J.), Photographs and Papers in Memory of 



J. Stringfellow, 51 

 Giltner (W.), Contagious Abortion of the Cow, 351 

 Glazebrook (Sir R.), Science and Industry, 333 ; The Place 



of Cambridge in any Scheme for their Combination, 423 

 Gley (Prof. E.), Le Besoin d'Alimento Sp^ciaux, 374 ; 



Prof. Rignano's Suggestion for Quadruple Scientific 



Entente, 409 

 Gloster, White, and Brooks, Plague Investigations in India, 



530 

 Glover (T. R.), appointed Wilde Lecturer at Oxford Univer- 

 sity, 299 

 Goadbv (K. W.), Bacteriology of War Wounds, 138 

 Godarcl (A.), Services Rendered by Birds to Agriculture, 



470 

 Godman (Dr. DuCane), Resignation of the Treasurership of 



the Rav Society, 409 

 Godwin-.Austen (Col. H. H.), awarded the Barclay Memorial 



Medal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal, 427. 

 Goethals (Genl. G. W.), acceptance of the Position of State 



Engineer, 211 

 Gold (Major E.), The Horizontal Temperature Gradient and 



the Increase of Wind with Height, 63 

 Goldfarb (A. J.), Variability of Germ-Cells of Sea-Urchins, 



37Q 

 Goldsmith (Mile. M.), Some Sensorial Reactions of the 



Octopus, 139 



Goodale (H. D.), Gonadectomy in Relation to the Second- 

 ary Sexual Characters of some Domestic Birds, 226 



Goodrich (E. S.), The Development of Hatschek's Pit, etc., 

 199 



Goodwin (Engineer Rear-Admiral G. G.), appointed En- 

 gineer-in-Chief of H.M. Fleet, 268 



Gordon (Lt.-Col. M.), and others. Researches on Cerebro- 

 spinal Fever, 147 



Goursat (Prof. E.), Functions of a Complex \'ariable. 

 Pt. i., vol. ii.. Translated by Prof. E. R. Hedrick 

 and O. Dunkel, 61 



Graham (T.), .Apparatus for Interpreting Stability, 113 



Grahame-W'hite (C), and H. Harper, Air-Power : Naval, 

 Military, Commercial, 481 ; The Civil Aerial Transport 

 Committee, 390 



Granjon (R.), and P. Rosemberg, A Practical Manual 

 of. Autogenous Welding (Oxy-Acetylene), etc.. Trans- 

 lated by D. Richardson. Fourth edition, 143 



Grant (M.), The Passing of the Great Race : or the Racial 

 Basis of European History, 502 



Graveson (W.), British Wild Flowers : Their Haunts and 

 Associations, 501 



Greenhill (Sir G.), The Civil Aerial Transport Committee, 

 506 ; The Rankine Trochoidal Wave, 420 ; The Theory 

 of Wave- Motion on Water, 114 



