Inaex 



r Mature, 

 \_October g, 1919 



TITLE INDEX. 



Aberdeen : Robert Gordon's Technical College, S. O. Rawl- 

 ing appointed Lecturer in Chemistry at, 295 ; Univer- 

 sity, Prof. A. Finlay appointed to the Chair of 

 Chemistry in, 397 ; Prof. C. R. Marshall appointed 

 Regius Professor of Materia Medica in, 218 



Abortion of Cattle, Contagious, 329 



Absorption : by Turbid Media, C. Cheneveau and R. Audu- 

 bert, 119 ; of Gases by Charcoal, Sir W. A. Tilden, 24; 

 Spectra, The Serial Constitution of, F. Vl^s, 319; of 

 the Haemoglobins from Annelids, F. Vl^s, 519 



Abyssinia and Eritrea, Analysis of the Population of, Prof. 

 Giuffrida-Ruggeri, 192 



Acad^mie Royale des Sciences, des Lettres et des Beaux- 

 Arts de Belgique : E. S'. Goodrich elected an Associate 

 of the, 370 ; Sir Norman Lockyer elected an Associate 

 of the, 350 



Academy, The Royal, 188 



Acetylenes, Preparation of some true Substituted, by means 

 of the Monosodium Derivative of Acetylene, M. Picon, 

 440 



Acid : Phosphates, Some Properties of the, A. Joannis, 380 ; 

 -steel Furnace Slags, .An Anorthic Metasilicate from, 

 A. F. Hallimond, 98 



Acidified Chromate replaced by a Solution of Potassium 

 Chloro-chromate, Lumiere and Seyewetz, 491 



Acidosis : Dr. J. S. Haldane. 162 ; The Principles of, and 

 Clinical Methods for its Study, Dr. A. W. Sellards, 162 



Acorn Barnacles, Phylogeny of the, R. Ruedemann, 19 



Acoustic Experiments in connection with Whistles and 

 Flutes, Dr. R. Dunstan, 97 



Acoustics, Submarine, Dr. F. L. Hopwood, 467 



Acquired Characters : Dr. Kammerer's Testimony to the 

 Inheritance of, Prof. W. Bateson, 344 ; The Inheritance 

 of. Prof. E. W. MacBride, 225 



Adelaide University, Dr. T. B. Robertson appointed Pro- 

 fessor of Physiolc'- in, 418 



Admiraltv : A. P. McCullen appointed Adviser on Education, 

 96; Tide-Tables, 331 



Aerial Photography, 115; Calculations in, L. P. Clerc, 352 



Aeronautical Research, The Air Force Estimates and, 

 Gen. Seely, 48 



Aeronautics, Forthcoming Exhibition of, 510 



Aeroplanes : and Seaplanes, The Government Competition 

 for, 510; Reduction of the Visibility of, Luckiesh, 290 



Afforestation, J. Boyd, 83 



Africa : East Central, A Scientific Expedition to, 208 ; The 

 Progressive Desiccation of, E. H. L. Schwarz, 91 



Africa, Expedition to, under Leadership of E. Heller, 510 



Aggregate, A Proof that any, can be Well-ordered, P. E. B. 

 Jourdain, 45 



Agricultural : Bacteriology, Dr. H. W. Conn. Third Edition 

 revised by H. J. Conn, 304 ; Grasses and their Culture, 

 H. A. Melle, 33 ; History Society, an, Established in 

 Washington, 518; Laboratory Exercises and Home Pro- 

 jects Adapted to Secondary Schools, H. J. Waters and 

 Prof. J. D. Elliff, 124; Policy, Forthcoming Appoint- 

 ment of a Royal Commission on, 190 ; Research and 

 Agricultural Education, The Government and, 218; 

 Research and Education in Great Britain, The Develop- 

 ment of, Dr. E. J. Russell, 227 ; in Madras, 137 



Agriculture : and Fisheties, Board o?, Appointment of Lord 

 Lee of Fareham as President of the, 489 ; Machines 

 for. Appointment of a Departmental Committee of the 

 Board of Agriculture and Fisheries for the Testing, 

 etc., of, 328 



Ainou, Les, des lies Kouriles, R. Torii, 432 



Aircraft : Design and Application during the War, Develop- 

 ments in, Lord Weir, 395 ; Production in the United 

 States, A Committee Appointed on, 149 



Air : Force Estimates, The, and Aeronautical Research, 

 General Seely, 48 ; Navigation : Notes and Examples, 

 Instructor Capt. S. F. Card, 481 ; Routes, Civilian 

 175 ; Proposed, 268 



Airship Construction, C. I. R. Campbell, 134 



Airships, The Commercial Use of, 4 



Alcohol : -.Acetone-Water, The System n-butyl. Dr. J. 

 Reilly and E. Ralph, 179 ; Effect of, on Psycho-Physiolo- 

 gical Functions, Dr. W. R. Miles, 151 ; Industrial, 

 Production of, in Ireland, Dr. J. Reilly, 330 ; Influence 

 of, on Manual Work, etc., Dr. H. M. Vernon and 

 others, 511; Power, 469; Use of, for Rapid Drying of 

 Gelatine Negatives and Prints, L.-P. Clerc, 251 



Alcohols as Allophanates, Isolation and Characterisation 

 of, A. Behal, 280 



Alkyl : Chlorides, Catalytic Formation of. Starting with the 

 Primary Alcohols, P. Sabatier and A. Mailhe, 479 ; 

 Iodides, Action of, on Neutral Sodium Phosphate in 

 Aqueous Solution, O. Bailly, 119 



Allied Red Cross Societies, Conference of the, 132 



Alloys, Some Chemically Reactive, E. A. Ashcroft, 459 



Aluminium : Alloys, Preparation of, for Microscopic Ex- 

 ammation, S. L. Archbutt and D. Hanson, 251 ; Solders, 

 Tests on, 474 



Alsace and Lorraine, The Navigable Waterways of, Ed. 

 Imbeaux, 259 



America : A Century of Science in, with Special Reference 

 to the "American Journal of Science," 1818-1918, 

 E. S. Dana and others, 183 ; at School and at Work, 

 Rev. Dr. H. B. Gray, 203 ; Mathematical Association 

 of, Prof-. H. E. Slaught Elected President of the, 

 131 ; The Geography of, T. Alford Smith, 444 



American : Association for the Advancement of Science, The 

 71st Meeting of the, 36 ; Dr. S. Flexner elected Presi- 

 dent of the, Dr. G. T. Moore elected General Secre- 

 tary, and Prof. J. F. Abbott elected Secretary of the 

 Council of the, 37 ; Astronomical Society, The, Dr. J. 

 Stebbins, 321; ; Astronomy, 394 ; Institute of Electrical 

 Engineers, The Edison Medal of the, Awarded to B. G. 

 Lamme, 289 ; Magnetic Observatories, New Procedure 

 at. Dr. C. Chree, 54 ; Mathematical Society. Prof. F. 

 Morley Elected President of the, 131 ; Philosophical 

 Society, Annual General Meeting of the, 317; Society 

 of Mammalogists, Inauguration of the, 329 ; Timber 

 Law, The Essentials of, J. P. Kinney, 321 ; Union 

 of Scientific Federal Employees, Formation of an, 328 



Ammonia, Commercial Synthesis of, An Important Conse- 

 quence of the, G. Claude, 299 



Amundsen Expedition, Relief Expedition, 308 



Anaphylactic Shock, Supypression of, W. Kopaczevski and A. 

 Vahram, 519 



Ancestor Worship and the Chinese Drama, Sir W. Ridge- 

 way, 231 



Andalusite (Chiastolite) : Its Genesis, Morphology, and 

 Inclusions, A. Brammall, 359 



Aniline of the Principal Hydrocarbons Contained in Petrol, 

 The Critical Solution Temperatures in, G. Chavanne 

 and L. J. Simon, 339 



Animals : (Angesthetics) Bill, Second Reading of the, 190 ; 

 The, Read a Second Time in the House of Lords, 370 ; 

 Experiments on. Report for 1918 on, 510; The Use of, 

 in Medical Research, 108 



Annual Report for 1917 of the Chief Medical Officer of 

 the Board of Education, 11 



" Annuaire de I'Observatoire Royal de Belgique," 1915- 

 1918, 234 



Anomalies of the Meteorological Station of Skudesness 

 (Norway), G. Guilbert, 79 



Antarctic, Forthcoming New Expedition to the, 171 



