Nature 

 September 2 



"1 



I, 1916J 



Index 



XXXVll 



Photographic Society, Exhibition of the, 524 ; Society, 

 Election of Five Foreign Members of the, 165 ; Selegted' 

 Candidates for Election, 12 ; Swedish Academy of 

 Sciences, Dr. D. H. Scott elected a Foreign Member of 

 the, 85 



Rugby Course of Elementary Chemistry, The, H. P. 

 Highton, 218 



Rum, The Ferments of, E. Kayser, 235 



Russia, Scientific Development in, 382 



Russian : Agriculture, Artificial Fertilisers in, 550 ; Arctic 



^ Expeditions, Two, Rewards for Information Concerning, 



503 ; Empire, The Natural Resources of the, Native 



Sources of Tungsten and Tin Ores, P. P. Suscinskij, 



W^m 226; Zoological Review, The, 351 



^^■tccharimeter, the Quartz-wedge, Constants of the. Bates 

 WK^ and Jackson, 427 



Sacramento \ alley, California, Ground Water for Irrigation 

 in the, K. Bryan, 17 



Safety-Lamp, The History of the. Prof. F. W. Hardwick, 

 284 



St. Vincent, Agricultural Department, Annual Report of, 15 



Saline Solutions, Rapid Action of, on Living Plants, H. 

 Devaux, 195 



Salmon Fisheries of the River Wye, J. A. Hutton, 286 



Salt and Alkali, 359 



Sang's Seven-Place Logarithms, 499 



Sanitation, Rural, in the Tropics, Dr. M. Watson, 141 



San Juan Mountains, Geographic History of the, W. W'. 

 Atwood and K. F. Mather, 215 



Sarcosporidia, The, G. van de Wall de Kock, .407 



Satellites of Spectral Lines, A Possible Explanation of the, 

 Dr. R. A. Houstoun, 355 



Scale-insect, A New, affecting Sugar-cane in New Guinea, 

 Dr. A. Rutherford and E. Jarvis, 556 



Scarabs, Lord Grenfell's Collection of, 14 



Scholarships and their Relation to Higher Education, 544 



Science: Abstracts, 1915, Index Numbers, 15; and Classics 

 in Modern Education, Sir E. Schafer, 251 ; and Com- 

 merce, Rt. Hon. Huth Jackson, 230 ; and Econom'c 

 Development, Prof. H. Le Chatelier, 295'; and Educa- 

 tion, Civil Service Estimates for, 132 ; and Government, 

 304 ; and Industry, A National Statutory Board of, 463 ; 

 Commonwealth Institute of. Prof. Orme Masson, 38, 

 126; Co-ordination of, in America, 513; President 

 Wilson, 165; and Literary Studies, 234; and Modern 

 Languages, Appointment of Committees on, 547 ; and 

 the Brewing Industry, 390 ; and the State, D. Balsillie, 

 14; Sir N. Shaw, 220; Prof. J. B. Cohen, 5; as "Cin- 

 derella," Prof. F. Soddy, 475 ; Committee on the 

 Neglect of. Meeting Convened by the, 194 ; lor Life, 

 Prof. J. A. Thomson, 438 ; in Education and Industry, 

 390 ; and the Civil Services, • 230 ; The Place of, D. 

 Balsillie, 240 ; in National Education, 305 ; in the 

 Examinations of the Higher Branches of the Civl 

 Service, Sir H. H. Johnston, 231 ; in the Smaller 

 Schools, Position of, H. Cradock-Watson, 154 ; Men 

 of, and Payment for Expert Knowledge, 345 ; Neglect 

 of, in Government Circles, Lord Montagu of Beaulieu, 

 230 ; Report of the Conference on the, 285 ; D. M., 381 ; 

 The Place of, in Education, 40 ; Scholarships, and the 

 State, Lieut. E. N. da C. Andrade, 361 ; Teaching in 

 Preparatory Schools, Discouragement of, O. H. Latter, 

 154; Teaching in Public Schools, 434; The Place of, in 

 Modern Metallurgical Industries, 312 ; The Subordina- 

 tion of, 13 : The Value of. Sir P. Magnus, 127 ; in the 

 Smithy and Forge, W. H. Cathcart, 379 ; versus 

 Classics, Sir E. A. Schafer, 120 ; What, says to Truth, 

 W. Watson, 344 



Scientific: and Industrial Research, iii; and Technical 

 Press, The Sphere of the. Dr. W. Garnett, 41, qi ; 

 A. P. M. Fleming, 92 ; Development in Russia, 382 ; 

 Education and Industrial Research, 91 ; Experts, Ques- j 

 tion of Payment of, 307 ; Research, A Scheme for the i 

 Promotion of, W. B. Priest, 348 ; in France, Organisa- j 

 tion of. Proposals for, Prof. W. Kilian, 41 ; Payment j 

 for. Prof. G. H. Bryan, 401 ; Resources of the Country 1 

 and the War, The, Sir W. Mather, 44 ; Societies, Board j 

 of. Establishment of a, 503 I 



Scott: Capt., and his Companions, Unveiling a Memorial 



in St. Paul's Cathedral to, 225; With, The Silver 



Lining, Dr. Griffith Taylor, 280 

 Scottish Ornithology in 19 15, Misses E. Baxter and L. 



Rintoul, 504 

 Screv/ Gauges, Production and Testing of, 130 

 Scripps Institution, La JoHa, a Summer -Assembly in Science 



at, 94 

 Sea : -Anemones, Nervous Transmission in, G. H. Parker, 



515 ; Responses of the Tentacles of, G. H. Parker, 515 ; 



The Neuromuscular Structure of, G. H. Parker and 



E. G. Titus, 456; The Effectors of, G. H. Parker, 515; 



Otter, Habits and Hunting of the, C. Littlejohn, 387; 



-Serpent, A Supposed, in Lilla Vartan, 468 ; -Sp.ders 



and Feather-Stars, 46 

 Secondary Schools Association, Annual Meeting and Con- 

 ference of the, 394 

 Seismic Intensity, A Standard Scale of. Prof. A. McAdie, 267 

 Selenium : Photometry, Prof. J. Stebbins, 349 ; Properties 



of. W. R. Cooper, 66 

 Sensation, Return of, after the Division of Cutaneous 



Nerves, Dr. E. G. Boring, 525 

 Sense Data and the Physical Object, Prof. T. Percy Nunn, 



15s 

 Seychelles : and Aldabra, The Flora of the. Dr. W. B. 

 Hemsley, 347 ; The Apterygota of the, G. H. Carpenter, 

 27 

 Shackleton Antarctic Expedition, The, 103, 127, 225, 241, 



245, 301, 325, 345, 366, 385, 425, 449, 467, 503, 548 

 'Shafts, Loaded, Whirling Speeds of, W. Kerr, 66 

 " Shakespeare : and Medicine," Sir St. Clair Thomson to 



Lecture on, 105 ; Tercenteary, The, 203 

 Sharks of Long Island, The, J. T. Nichols and R. C. 



Murphy, 468 

 Sheffield : University, A Lectureship in Russian to be In- 

 stituted, 94 ; Bequests by W. E. Allen, 253 : Gift by 

 Sir J. Jonas, 253; Edgar .Allen Scholarships, 513; 

 Institution of a Diploma in Glass Technology, 393 

 Sheldrake, Breeding Habits of the. Miss E. L. Turner, 267 

 Shell : -purple Industry, Geographical Distribution of the, 

 J. W. Jackson, 26 ; Trumpets and their Distribution, 

 J. W. Jackson, 26 

 Shells for the Purposes of Currency, The Use of, J. W. 



Jackson, 235 

 Ship Waves, Main Crests of, G. Green, 115 

 Siam : Carboniferous Fossils from, F. R. C. Reed, 27J : 

 Flora of, New Species of the, W. G. Craib and M. 

 Gagnepain, 209 

 Sidenal Universe, The Moton of the, R. K. Young and 



W. E. Hi^rper Truman, 208 

 Sikhs, The, Sirdar Daljit Singh, 488 

 Sikkim, Plants collected in. C. C. Lacaita, 135 

 Simatco Apparatus, The, for the Determination of Trans- 

 formation or Critical Points in Iron, etc., 389 

 " Simpson Light," The, Dr. S. Russ, 19 

 Sinking Islands versus a Rising Ocean in the Coral-reef 



Problem, Prof. VJ. M. Davis, 4Q2 

 Siphonophores, The Geographical Distribution of, E. T. 



Browne, 234 

 Sitatungas of the Sesse Islands, Major R. Meinertzhagen. 



Skew Variation, Prof. K. Pearson, 50 



Skin Friction of a Fluid in Stream Line, Laws of, Prof. 



C. H. Lees, 170 ; Friction Resistance of Ships, G. S. 



Baker, 170 

 Sleep and Sleeplessness, H. A. Bruce, 498 

 Sleeping Sickness, Trypanosomes of, G. P. Maynard, 266 

 Slugs, Carnivorous, H. Watson, 472 

 Smith, Wm., Portraits of, T. Sheppard, 462 

 Smithsonian : Astrophysical Observatory. Annual Report for 



1915. 131; Institution. Report of the, 204; Report of 



the Secretary of the. for the Year ending June 30, 1915, 



229; Physical Tables, Dr. C. D. Walcott, 141 

 Smoke : Nuisance in the United States, The. 420 ; as a 



Source of Atmospheric Pollution, Dr. W. F. M. Go^- 



429 

 Soap Necessary for Shaving?, Is, G. A. Stephens, 141 

 Soci^t^ Helvitique des Sciences naturelles, Forthcoming 



Meeting of the, 308 

 Sociology : as a Science, A. E. Crawley, 07 : Outlines of. 



Prof. F. W. Blackmar and Prof. J. L. Gillin, 97 

 Sodium : Chtoride, Purity of, G. Lohman, 505 ; Salts, The 



