XXVI 



Index 



L-iv, 



Nature, 

 •pteinler 21, 1916 



Electro-vibrators, Powerful, working with Small Current, 

 J. Bergoni^, 436 



Elephas antiquus. Bones of, on Exhibition in the British 

 Museum (Natural History), 12 



Elliptic Functions, Linkages illustrating the Cubic Trans- 

 formation of. Col. R. L. Hippisley, 274 



Embryology of the Worker Bee, Early, 97 



Emission Quanta of Characteristic X-rays, D. L. Webster, 75 



Employers' Parliamentary Association, A Resolution of the, 

 on Research Work, 246 



Endocrine Organs, The, Sir E. A. Schafer, 338 



Energy : and Matter, Statistical Theory of. Dr. T. Wereide, 

 197 ; Transformations during Horizontal Walking, F. G. 

 Benedict and H. Murschhauser, 430 



Engineering : Education and Research in Relation to the 1 

 Organisation of British Engineering Industry, 

 J. C. M. G., 520 ; Standing Committee on, Appointed 

 by the Advisory Council, 345 ; and Scientific Research, 

 Col. R. E. Crompton, 208 ; Prof. J. A. Fleming, 208 ; 

 Geology, Prof. H. Ries and T. L. Watson, Second 

 Edition, 239 



English : and of Science, The Study of. Dr. Macan, 230 ; 

 Ceramic Society, Transactions of the, 45 ; Measures of 

 Length, Sir C. Watson, 16 



Entomology : Economic, Recent, 529 ; Recent, 312 



Entomostrata, Fresh-water, Collected in Cevlon, R. Gurney, 



Epicentre of an Earthquake, Localisation of the, B. Galitzine, 



395 

 Epidemiology, The Application of Mathematics to, M. 



Greenwood, Jr., 243 

 Epsom College, Bequest to, by J. S. N. Boyd, 94 

 Eridani, 0, The Magnitude of, T. W. Backhouse, 479 

 Erythrocytes, Processes by which the Number of, is In- 

 creased, P. D. Lamson, 515 

 Eskimo of Coronation Gulf, The, 286 

 Esperanto, C. M. Houghton, 16 

 Ethics, Abstract, The Theory of. T. Whittaker, 32 

 Ethnography of Central India, The, 363 

 Ethnological Expedition, An, by Dr. R. H. Lowie, 425 

 Eton, Headmastership of, 194 



Eucalyptus calophylla x E. ficifolia, J. H. Maiden, 415 

 Euclid's Book on Divisions of Figures, etc., by Prof. R. C. 



Archibald, 98 

 Eugenics : Education Society, Annual General Meeting of 



the, 385 ; Preventive, 123 ; Dr. C. W. Saleeby, 161 

 Evolution : and Symmetry in the Order of the Sea-pens, 



Prof. S. J. Hickson, 372 ; Present State of the Problem 



of. Prof. M. Caullery, C49 

 Evolutionary Theory, The Form "of. Dr. C. B. Davenport, 



.S49 

 Excavations at Dunagoil, Bute, Dr. J. N. Marshall and J. 



Ritchie, 167 

 Exhaust from Liquid-fuel Engines, Composition of the, 



R. W. Penning, 169 

 Exhibition Jars for Museums, Rectangular Glass, E. E. 



Lowe, 472 

 Experimental ; and Research Station, First Annual Report 



(1915) of the, 224 ; Spectroscopy, 377 

 Exploration in South-West Africa, Prof. W. A. Herdman 



and Prof. H. H. W. Pearson, a 

 Explosives : 207 ; A Manual on, A. R. J. Ramsey and H. C. 



Weston. 270 : High, and the Central Nervous System, 



Dr. F. W. Mott, 112 

 Eyesight and the War, Dr. E. Clarke, 552 



Family, The History of the : Prof. J. A. Green, 477 ; as a 

 Social and Educational Institution, Prof. W. Goodsell, 



477 



Farms, Staircase, of the Ancients, O. F. Cook, 469 



Fauna of Prairie and Forest Regions near Charleston, III., 

 Dr. C. C. Adams and T. L. Hankinson, 146 



Federation of University Women, Offer of a Prize Fellow- 

 ship by the, 134 



Feebly Inhibited, The, Nomadism or the Wandering Im- 

 pulse, with special reference to Hereditv. Inheri- 

 tance of Temperament, Dr. C. B. Davenport, 343 



Fenland, Notes on the, with a description of the Shippea 

 Man, by Prof. A. Macalister, 431 



Feuerbach's Theorem, An Extension of, F. Morley, 215 



Finsbury Technical College, Prof. G. T. Morgan appointed 

 to the Chair of Chemistry, 153 ; Dr. VV. Eccles ap- 

 pointed Professor of Electrical Engineering and .Applied 

 Physics at, 454 



Fireball, A Large Daylight, W. F. Denning, 288 



Fish, British Sea, II. Swithinbank and G. E. BuUen, 260 



Fishes, Larval and Post-larval, C. Tate Regan, 247 



Fizeau's Experiment, On, Prof. P. Zeeman, 540 



Flagellates and Amcebze from Old Stored Soil, Cytology 

 of. Dr. T. Goodey, 174 



Flat Rectangular Plates, Formulae for the Strength of, 

 Zach, 348 



Flies: Hibernation of. Dr. J. H. Ashworth, 247; Studies in, 

 II., P. R. Awati, 313; The Removal of, from Houses, 

 C. Galaine and C. Houlbert, 515 



Flint and Quartz, Studies on. Dr. J. W. Mellor and 

 others, 248 



Flora : A Cretaceous, Prof. A. C. Seward, 198 ; Melitensis 

 Nova, Dr. A. C. Gatto, 86 



Floras and Geographical Distribution of Plants, 209 



Floridian and Bahaman Shoal-water Corals, Ecology of 

 the, T. W. Vaughan, 75 



Flow of Heat in Conducting Sheets, S. Skinner, 135 



Fluorine, The Estimation of, F. Pisani, 315 



Food Value of Great Britain's Food Supply, The, Prof. 

 W. H. Thompson, 231 



Foraminifera from the Kerimba Archipelago, E. Heron- 

 Allen and A. Earland, 90 ; Purposeful Behaviour of, 

 E. Heron-Allen, 291 



Forecast by Mr. Wells, 478 



Foreign War-planes, 182 



Formol for Disinfection at the Front, A New Method of 

 Employing, F. Goud, 95 



Formosanarum, Icones Plantarum, B. Hayata, vol. v., 220 



Forthcoming Books of Science, 45, 88, 109, 130, 147, 207, 

 249, 427, 451, 506, 528, 551, 



Fossil : Characeas from the Purbeck Beds, C. Reid and 

 J. Groves, 335 ; Floras of the Coal Measures of South 

 Staffordshire, E. A. N. Arber, 314; Insects from the 

 British Coal Measures, H. Bolton, 154; Plants, Qld 

 Red Sandstone, from Rhynie Chert Bed, Aberdeen- 

 shire, Dr. R. Kidston and Prof. W. H. Lang, 435 ; 

 Remains, Use of, of the Higher Vertebrates in Strati- 

 graphical Geology, Dr. A. Smith Woodward, 92 ; 

 Vertebrates, Methods of Mounting, 386 



Fossiliferous Limestones from Mount Carstensz, R. B. 

 Newton, 469 



Fossils, Ordovician and Silurian, from the Northern Shan 

 States, Dr. F. R. Cowper Reed, 247 



Foster, P. le Neve, Prize and Medal awarded to J. C. 

 Moulden, 41 



Fowl : Domestic, The Physiology of Reproduction in the. 

 Dr. R. Pearl and M. R. Curtis, 370 ; The Structure of 

 the, Dr. O. C. Bradley, 56 



Fox Valley, Wisconsin, Geography of the. Prof. R. H. 

 Whitbeck, 408 



Fractions, Continued, The Theory of. Prof. E. T. Whit- 

 taker, 415 



France : Education and Industry in. Prof. M. E. Bertrand, 

 131 ; Still-births and Deaths of Infants in, M. Cham- 

 brelent, 488 ; Technical Instruction in the Universities 

 of. Prof. P. Rivals, 273 



French : .Academv of Agriculture, Annual Meeting, 104 ; 

 Professors. Visit of, to Great Britain, 291^ 



Fresh-water Fishes of .Africa : Catalogue of the, in the 

 British Museum (Natural History^, vol. iv.. Dr. G. A. 

 Boulenger, 218; The, Sir H. H. Johnston, 218 



Fricke's Apparatus for locating Vessels at Sea during Fogs, 

 R. G. Skerrett, 45 



Frost : Damage by. Methods of Prevention of. 168 ; in 

 relation to Agriculture, A Bibliography of, W. G. 

 Reed and C. L. Feldkamp, 65 



Fruit-flies. Chemical Reactions of, F. M. Howlett, 291 



Fruits for Health, Strength, and Longevity. 4oq 



Functions of Several Variables, Linear Dependence of, 

 G. M. Green, 251; 



Fungi : British, and how to Identifv them. J. H. Crabtree, 

 160 ; New Exotic. Miss E. M. Wakefield. 347 



Fusion of a Metal, The Latent Heat of, and the Quantum- 

 theory, Dr. H. S. Allen, 475 



