IV 



Index 



[Nature, 

 September 20, 1917 



Barbillion (Prof. L.), Lemons sur le Fonctioiinement dcs 



("irou|K's Klcctrojj^nes en R(5gimc Trouble, 2 

 Barnard (C), New Method of Dispersal of Noxious Weeds 



by Birds, 392 

 Barnard (Prof. R. J. A.). Elementary Dynamics of the 



Partii'le and Rijjid Body, 322 

 Barnes (Prof. J. H.), awarded the Dej^ree of D.Sc, by 



Birmingham I'niversity, 397; [d«»tlij, 37<> ; [obituary], 



428; and A. J. drove, Insects .Attacking Stored Wheat 



in the Punjab, 170 

 Barnett (S. J.), \lagnetisation of Iron, Nicktl, and Cobalt 



by Rotation, 219 

 Barry (Sir J. Wolfe), to Deliver the "James Forrest" 



Lecture, 89 

 Bartholomew (Dr. J. C), The .Advanced Atlas of Phvsicnl 



and Political Geography, 323 

 Bartlett (F. C), Valuation and Existence, 58 

 Bartlett (Dr. H. H.). Status of the Mutation Theory, with 



Special Reference to Qinothera, 34 

 Barton (Prof. E. H.), Thermodynamics and Gravitation, 45 

 Baskerville (Prof. C), ap|X)inted Representative in the 



I'nited States of the Ramsay Memorial Committee, 391 

 Barus (C), Displacement Interferometry of Long Distances, 



500 

 Bassot (Genl. J. A. L.) [obituary], 51 



Bastin (H.). British Insects and How to Know Them, 404 

 Bastin (S. L.), How to Know the Ferns, 463 

 Bateson (Prof. W.), Is Variation a Reality?, 43 

 Bather (Dr. F. A.), The Triassic Crinoids from New 



Zealand Collected by C. T. Trechmann, 59 

 Battelli (Prof. A.) [obituary], 90 

 Baumberger (J. P.), Food of Drosophila melanogastcr, 



Meigen, 179 

 Baxter (G. P.), and H. W. Starkweather, Revision of the 



.Atomic Weight of Tin, 140 

 Bayley (T.), Edited by R. Ensoll, A Pocket-book for 



Chemists. Eighth edition, 503 

 Bailly (O.), Does the Law of Mass- Action Govern Diastatic 



Reactions?, 520 

 Bayliss (Prof. W. M.), awarded the Baly Medal, 460 ; 



Hunger and .Appetite, 41 ; The Nature of Renal Activity, 



344 ; The New Food Orders, 128, 165; The Teaching of 



Physiology, loi 

 Baxter and Rintoul (Misses), Gift of Local and other Birds 



to St. Andrews University, 198 

 Bazin (H.) [obituary], 190 



Beattie (Prof. J. C), Deviation of the Compass, 15 

 Bcatty (Dr. J.), The Method of Enzyme Action, 443 

 Becker (Prof. L.), The Arithmetical Mean and the "Middle" 



Value of Certain Meteorological Observations, 340 

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

 Beeson (C. F. C), Life-history of Diapus furtivus, 392 

 von Behring (Dr. E.) [death], 109 ; [obituary], 169 ; [obituary 



article], 228 

 Beilby (Sir G.), Chemical Engineering, 54 

 Bell (Dr. R.) [death], 350 ; [obituary article], 370 

 Bellingham and Stanley, Ltd., The Design of the Zeiss 



Abbe Refractometer, 331 

 Belot (E.), Possible Origin^of Star Clusters, 159 

 Belton (Re\-. P. S.), appointed Honorary Assistant and 



Demonstrator in the Metallurgical Department of Bir- 

 mingham University, 58 

 Benares (The Maharaja of). Foundation of a Gold Medal 



at the Ladv Hardinge Medical College for Women, 



338 

 Benham (C. E.), Electric Discharge from Scythe, 366 

 Benson (W. N.). and others, British Antarctic Expedition, 



1907-9. Reports on the Scientific Investigations. 



Geology, vol. ii., 441 

 Berg (Prof. L. S.), Les Poissons des Eaux douces de la 



Russie, 222 

 Berg (W. N.), Transformation of Pseudoglobulin into Eu- 



globulin, 379 

 Berget (A.), Differential Refractometer for Measuring the 



Salinity of Sea-water, 119 

 Bergenia (J.), .Advantages from a Change in Number, Time, 



and Importance of Meals, 320; Superioritv of .Agricul- 

 tural Work Medically Prescribed and Controlled, etc., 199 

 Beringer (J. J.), The Physical Condition of Cassiterite (Tin 



Ore) in Cornish Mill Products, 112 

 Berkeley (Earl of), E. G. J. Hartley, and C. V. Burton, 



Osmotic Pressures Derived from Vapour Pressure 

 Measurements, 58 



Berry (C. S.), Effect of Smoking on the Speed and Accuracy 

 of Adding Figures, 71 



Berry (E. W.), Age of the Bolivian .\ndes, 379 



Berry (H. S.), (iift of the Equipment of a Technical Mining 

 and luigineering Institute, 418 



Berry (W.), Pica for a Professorship of Economic 

 Ornithology, 372 



Bethelot (.A.), The Production of Phenol bv Micro-organisms, 

 60 



Berthelot (Prof. M.), Unveiling a Statue of, 290 



Besant (Dr. W. H.) [death], 289; [obituary article], 310 



Beslev (Capt. C), .A Kinematograph Film of an Expedition 

 to the Head Waters of the Amazon, 109 



Bews (Prof. J. W.), The Plant Ecology of the Drakensberg 

 Range, 430 



Bickerton (T. H.), appointed Lecturer on Ophthalmology in 

 the University of Liverpool, 357 



Bickerton (W.), Feeding Habits of Woodpeckers, 192 



Biggart (.A. S.) [obituary], 189 



Bigourdan (G.), Some .Ancient Observations of the Provenc^al 

 Region in the Seventeenth Century, 79 ; The Observa- 

 tions Attributed to -Prince Louis of Valois, 440; The 

 Observations of La Fl^che, etc., 119; The Propagation 

 of the Sound-wave Produced by Gun-tire to Great 

 Distances, 519 



Bilham (E. G.), The Diurnal Variation of Atmospheric 

 Pressure at Benson, during 1915, 178 



Bingham (E. C), and R. F. Jackson, Standard Liquids for 

 the Standardisation of Viscometers, 512 



Binnie (Sir A. R.) [death], 248; [obituary article], 267 



Birch (Col. de Burgh), Title of Emeritus Professor Con- 

 ferred upon, 357 



Birkeland (Prof. Kr.) [obituary article], 349 



Birdwood (Sir G.) [obituary], 370 



Blackman (Prof. V. H.), and I. Jorgensen, E^ffect of Over- 

 head Electric Discharge upon Crop Production, 232 



Blagden (C. O.), appointed Reader in Malay in London 

 University, 438 



Blaikie (Dr.), Monthly Star Maps for 1917, 93 



Bland-Sutton (Sir J. and Lady), Gift to the Middlesex Hos- 

 pital Research Fund, 169 



BIyth (B. H.) [obituary article], 249 



Boardman (Lt.-Col. T. H.) [obituary], 1528 



Bodding (Rev. P. O.), The Santals, 14 ' 



Bolton (A. T.), appointed Curator of Sir John Soanc's 

 Museum, 499 



Bonacina (L. C. W.), The Frequency of Snow in London, 

 i8s 



Bonnier (P.), Incontinence of Urine, 159 



Booker (.A.) [obituary], 129 



Bordas (L.), Ichneumonides as .Auxiliaries in Forestry, 360 ; 

 Role of the Ichneumonides in the Contest against the 

 Parasites of Forest Trees, 79 ; The Egg Deposition of 

 Rhynchites conicus, etc., 480 



Bordier (H.), and G. Roy, Colloidal State of Camphor in 

 Water in Presence of Camphorated Oil, 219 



Borradaile (L. .A.), Decapod Crustacea and Barnacles Col- 

 lected by the Terra Nova Expedition, 155 ; The Mouth- 

 parts of the Palaemonid Prawns, 19 



Boswell (Dr. P. G. H.), appointed to the Cieorge Herdman 

 Chair of Geology at Liverpool University, 238 ; British 

 Sands : their Location and Characteristics, 16 ; Proper- 

 ties of Sand Suitable for Glass-making, 71 ; British 

 .Sand for the Glass and Metallurgical Industries, ^32 



Bottomley (Dr. F.), Plants Fitted with Fused Silica Con- 

 densers, etc., 431 



Bottomley (W. B.), Effects of Growth-promoting Substances 

 (.Auximone-s) on the Growth of Lemna minor in Culture 

 Solutions, 77 



Bougault (J.), Acidylsemicarbazides and .Acidylsemicarbazic 

 .Acids, 319; .Action of Iodine on .Alkalies, 439; A New 

 Method of Estimating .Aldehydic Sugars, 440 ; Isomerisa- 

 tion in the Ethylenic Acids by Migration of the Double 

 Bond, 219; Mixed .Anhydrides derived from Ben- 

 zoylacrylic .\cid, 99 



Boule ('Prof. M.), and Prof. R. Anthony, Neopallial Mor- 

 phology of Fossil Men, 52 



Bouienger (Dr. G. .A.), Revision of the Lizards of the Genus 

 Tachydromus, 239 ; The Genus Nucras, 430 



