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Index 



r Nature, 

 \,October 9, tgig 



ture of, under Prolonged Application of Stress, Dr. W. 

 • Rosenhain and S. L. Archbutt, 118; Mechanical Test- 

 ing of, New Methods for the, C. Tr^mont, 518; The 

 Occlusion of Gases by, Sir R, Hadfield, 168 ; Prof. 

 McBain, 169 

 Meteor: A Bright, 411; An Interesting, 291 

 Meteoric : Iron from Klondike, Acquired by the British 



Museum, 69 ; Shower, The, of Halley's Comet, 174 

 Meteorites Adare and Ensisheim, The, Dr. G. T. Prior, 



98 

 Meteorological : Chart, Monthly, of the East Indian Seas, 

 February, 10; Charts, North Atlaritic and East Indian, 

 491 ; Office, Sir Napier Shaw resumes the Administra- 

 tive Duties of the Directorship of the, 210; Re- 

 search, Change of Emphasis in, Prof. W. S. Frank- 

 lin, 211 ; Science, The Outlook of, Sir Napier Shaw, 

 475 ; Services of the British Dominions, Forthcoming 

 Conference of Representatives of the, 488 



Meteorology : During and .After the War, Col. H. G. Lyons, 

 12 ; Introductory, Sir Napier Shaw, 123 ; The Society 

 and its Fellows, Sir Napier Shaw, 47c; 



Meteors: The April, of 1919, 174; June, 2i:;2 



Methvl LfEvoinositol in an Australian Poisonous Plant, 

 Occurrence of, Dr. J. M. Petrie, 59 



Methylsvriphates of the Alkalis and Alkaline Earths, Action 

 of Heat on the, J. Guyot and L. J. Simon, 320 



Metric System : Industrial Reconstruction and the, H. All- 

 cock, \T\ ; Letter of the World Trade Club on the 

 Introduction of the, in the United Kingdom, 310 



Metrology in the Industries, Sir R. Glazebrook, 238 ; Dis- 

 cussion on. 373 



Mexican Clay Heads, etc., found on the site of Teotihuacan, 

 A. C. Breton, 192 



Microcephaly, An extreme case of. Dr. Dru-Drury, 460 



Micrococcus ■t)opuli. The Bacterial Nodule of the Poplar, 

 R. Regnier, 460 



Micropterygidae (sens, lat.), Morphology and Systematic 

 Position of the Family, Introduction and Part I., Dr. 

 R. J. Tillyard, 420 



Microscope, British Standard, Plea for a, Lt.-Col. CHbborn, 

 89 



Micro-voltameter, A, C. T. R. Wilson, 298 



Military : Camouflage, Major A. Klein and Dr. J. C. Mot- 

 tram. 364; Geology and Topography, 183 



Milk. Relation between the Fat-content and the Electrical 

 Conductivity of. Dr. H. S. H. Wardlaw, 19 



Millstone Grit. Series of Yorkshire, Petrography of the, 

 Dr. A. Gilligan, 297 



Minds, Other, Our Knowledge of, Mrs. N. A. Dudding- 

 ton, 57 



Mine-gas Poisoning, Lt.-Col. D. Logan. 137 



Miner on the Western Front, Work of the, H. S. Ball, 

 230 



Mineral : Production in Relation to the Peace Treaty, 

 Prof. H. Louis, 205 ; Salts, Absorption of, by the 

 Root-tip, H. Coupin, 519 



Miners' Lamps, Appointment of a Committee upon Possible 

 Improvements in, 210 



Mining Engineers, Institution of. Forthcoming Annual 

 General Meeting of the, 510 



Ministry : of Health, Appointments in connection with the, 

 <io9 ; of Munitions, a Portion of the, Transferred to the 

 Board of Tr^de, 268 



Mira Ceti, 4'?3 



Mirrors, Prisms, and Lenses, Prof. J. P. C. Southall, 302 



Mitta Mitta Dam, The, on the Murray River, 41^2 



Mnemonic Notation for Engineering Formulae, E. F. 

 Etchells, 2 



Moisture in Deciduous-leaved Trees during the Felling Sea- 

 son, Regional Spread of, W. G. Craib, 232 



Molecular Physics, Dr. J. A. Crowther. Second edition, 

 303 



Monomethvlamine, New Method for the Preparation of, 

 Prof. P. F. Frankland, F. Challenger and N. A. 

 Nicholls, 2152 



Monosodium Derivative of Acetylene, Action of the, on 

 some Halogen Esters of Secondary and Tertiary 

 Alcohols, M. Picon, 200 



Moon, the Daylight, The Whiteness of, C. T. Whitmell, 



Moriori, The, H. D. Skinner, 329 



Mosquitoes, The Oldest, Prof. T. D. A. Cockerall, 44 



Mosses from Deception Island, H. N. Dixon, 319 



Mother-right, R. H. Lowe, 351 



Mount Wilson Observatory, Name changed from that of the 

 Mount Wilson Solar Observatory, 291 



Mozambique, The Pre-Caxnbrian and Associated Rocks of. 

 Dr. A. Holmes, 490 



Munition Dump, Sound of an Explosion of, R. B. Marston, 

 5" 



Muscoid Flies, The External Breathing Apparatus of the 

 Larvae of some, J. L. Froggatt, 19 



Museums : as Educational Instruments, Lord Sudeley and 

 others, 49 ; Association, Forthcoming Annual Confer- 

 ence of the, 288 ; Thirtieth Annual Conference of, 394 ; 

 Sir W. M. Concay elected President ; Dr. W. M. 

 Tattersall Secretary, 395 ; Municipal, The Control of, 



E. E. Lowe, 394 ; Re-opening of, 7, 69 



Mutation in Bacteria, An Experiment dealing with, Dr. 



Doncaster, 58 

 Mutations, Sudden, in the Formation of a New Race of 



Micro-organisms, C. Richet and H. Cardot, 159 

 Muzzling of Dogs, 149 

 Myology and Osteology, Studies in Comparative, W. K. 



Gregory and C. L. Camp, 90 

 Mysore, Government of. Dr. Shaiffer appointed Expert in 



.Animal Husbandry to the, 471 

 Myzus ribis, Linn., Life-history and Bionomics of, Miss 



M. D. Haviland, 18 



National : Alliance of Employers and Employed, Offer of 

 Prizes for Essays on Industrial Subjects, 249 ; Illumina- 

 tion Committee of Great Britain, Election of the 

 Executive of the, 268 ; Life from the Standpoint of 

 Science, Prof. K. Pearson, 112; Physical Laboratory, 

 Annual Visitation and Inspection of the, 331 ; Research 

 Council of the United States, The, Dr. C. G. L. 

 Wolf, 245 



Nation's Debt to Science, The, 141 



Natural History : in the New World, 22 ; Museum, The 

 Directorship of the,. Prof. W. Boyd Dawkins and 

 others, 3 ; Retirement of Sir L. Fletcher from the 

 Directorship of the, 6 ; The Directorship of the, 6 ; 

 Sir G. Greenhill, 24; Dr. S. F. Harmer, 31; Dr. S. P. 

 Harmer appointed Director of the ; C. Tate Regan 

 appointed Assistant Keeper or Zoology in the, 49 ; Staff 

 Association, Inaugural Scientific Reunion of the, 52 ; 

 Official Title of C. E. Fagan of the, 89 



Natural : Organic Colouring Matters, 241 ; Science in 

 British Education, 387 ; in the Educational System of 

 Great Britain, The L.C.C. and, 218 



Nautical Astronomy : Graphic Methods in, A. Hutchinson, . 

 25 ; Graphical Methods in, H. B. Goodwin, 44; Naviga- 

 tion and, 481 



Naval Architects, Institution of, Offer of Two Scholarships 

 of the, 358 



Navigation : Prof. H. Jacoby, Second Edition, 481 ; and 

 Nautical Astronomy, 481 



Nayars of Malabar, The, K. M. Panikkar. 450 



Neon Lamps in Technical Stroboscopic Work, Use of, 



F. W. Aston, 297 



Nervous System : The Elementary, Prof. G. H. Parker, 

 322 ; The Primitive, Prof. G. Elliot Smith, 322 



Neurologic de Guerre, Traits Clinique de, P. Sollier, 

 Chartier, F. Rose, and Villandre, 501 



Neuroses, War, Dr. J. T. MacCurdy, loi 



Neurosoria pteroides. Notes on, Rev. W. W. Watts, 520 



New : Guinea Primitive People, Reactions of certain, to 

 Government Control, Lt. E. W. P. Chinnery, 199; 

 South Wales, Report of the Director-General of Public 

 Health, 1916, 211; Wine into Old Battles, Prof. F. 

 Soddy, 308; Year "Honours, The, 170; York Associa- 

 tion for the Advancement of Medical Education and 

 Medical Science, Formation of the, 499 ; Zealand Flax, 

 Growth of, in the British Isles, 410 ; Institute, A 

 Science Congress of the, 192 ; Introduction of Foreign 

 Birds into, A. Philpott, 90 



Newport, Mon., Technical Institute, G. R. Bennett ap- 

 pointed Principal of the, 218 



Nickel and Cobalt, The Normal Nitrides of, A. C. Vour- 

 nasos, 259 



Night Glasses, Performance of, L. C. Martin, 251 



