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Index 



[Nature, 

 Septet! I her 21, 191 



Variable Stars : A New Catalogue of, Miss A. J. Cannon, 

 494; near the South Pole, Miss Leavitt, 471 ; Observa- 

 tions of, Dr. C. Hoffmeister ; Dr. G. Hornig, 46 



Vaudese Alps, Rambles in the, F. S. Salisbury, 201 



Veal and Beef, Relative Nutritional Value of, W. N. Berg, 

 128 



Vegetable : Foods, The Microscopy of, Drs. A. L. Winton, 

 J. Moeller, and K. B. Winton, Second Edition, 500 ; 

 Products of Economic Importance, Lectures on, bv 

 A. W. Hill, 153 



V'egetables, Leaf, and How to Cook Them, C. H. Senn, 387 



Venereal Diseases : Grant to Carry Out Recommendations 

 of the Commission on, 165 ; Royal Commission on. 

 Final Report, 123 



Venezuela, Archaeology of, New Data on the, H. J. Spinden, 

 4.';6 



Ventilation and Metabolism, Prof. L. Hill, 491 



Venus : The Influence of, on the Mean Heliographic Lati- 

 tude of the Sunspots, H. Arctowski, 514; The Planet, 

 109, 289 



Vertebrate Remains from the Star Dalam Cavern, Malta, 

 Miss D. M. A. Bate, 274 



Vesta, Minor Planet (4), Opposition of the, G. Stracke, 88 



Veteran Naturalist, A, being' the Life and Work of W. B. 

 Tegetmeier, by E. W. Richardson, 399 



Virgin Islands, Agricultural Department of the, Report of 

 the, 287 



Viscosity of Suspensions of Rigid Particles at different rates 

 of Shear, E. Humphrey and E. Hatschek, 394 



Volcanic Rocks from the Neighbourhood of the Lu^alla 

 River, Angola, A. Holmes, 375 



Volcano, A New, in the Kivu Country, Sir A. Sharpe, 110 



Volcanoes : Experimental, and the Laws of Volcanic Pheno- 

 mena, E. Belot, 536 ; The Causes of, E. Belot, 235 '^. 



Volta Effect, Study of the, by Induced Radio-activity^ 

 E. Sarasin and T. Tommasina, 51 



Voltameter. The Silver, J. Obata, 427 



Vomiting Sickness of Jamaica, Dr. H. H. Scott, 286 



Voyage in Space, A, Prof. H. H. Turner, 139 



Wales : Anthropological Types in, Geographical Distribu- 

 tion of, H. J. Fleure and T. C. James, 504; Univer- 

 sity Education in, Royal Commission on, 173 



Walker Prize, The, awarded to W. S. Handley, 165 



Wallace : Alfred Russel, Letters and Reminiscences, J. 

 Marchant, 2 vols., 337; Memorial Tablet to, in West- 

 minster Abbey, 58 



War : Effect of the, upon Art Museums, E. R. Dibdin, 472 ; 

 -Planes, Foreign, 182 ; Wounds, Ozonised Oxygen in the 

 Treatment of, F. Bordas, 350 



Warrigal, Origin of the, R. Etheridge, 526 



Warwickshire, J. H. Bloom, 99 



Washington University Medical School, Gifts to, by E. 

 Mallinckrodt and T. T. Milliken, 414 



Water : Filtration of, W. Clemence, 188 : -power in South- 

 central Alaska, 470 ; Purification of Water by Precipita- 

 tion, Alum for the, Capt. Morison, 488 ; Influence of 

 the Algae on Submerged Sand Filters on the, F. Di^nert 

 and L. Gizolme, i;i4; Supply of Melbourne, The, 351 



Waterhen, Coot, Redshank, Ringed Plover, and Lapwing, 

 Habits of the. Miss E. L. Turner, 106 



Wave-length 4686 A.U., The Structure of the Line of, 

 E. J. Evans and C. Croxson, ,t;7 ; -lengths in the Iron 

 Spectrum, Burns, Meggers, and Merrill, 451 ; of the 

 Chief Nebular Lines, The, 208 



Weather for the Past Winter Season, The, 65 ; of the 

 United Kingdom, Summary of the, 346 ; The, of the 

 Present Summer, 426 ; Wet and Dry, The Persistence 

 of, E. V. Newnham, 234 



Weddell Sea, etc.. Temperatures, Specific Gravities, and 



Salinities of the. Dr. W. S. Bruce, A. King, and D. W. 



Wilton, 329 

 Weeds on Arable Land and their Suppression, Dr. W. 



Brenchley, 387 

 Wellcome Historical Medical Museum, The, C. J. Thompson, 



266 

 Welsh : Universities and Colleges, and National Medical 



School for Wales, Repbrts of Advisory Committee on 



Grants to, 233 ; University Colleges, A Royal Commis-. 



sion on, 153 

 Western : Australia, Vegetation of. Dr. C. H. Ostenfeld, 



129 ; Reserve University, Bequest to, by R. R. Rhodes, 



173 



West Indian Firefly, The, Prof. W. H. Pickering, 180 



What is Coming? A Forecast of Things after the War, 

 H. G. Wells, 478 



Wheatear, Black-eared, The, a New Bird for the Irish List, 

 Prof. C. J. Patten, 321 



Wheat Indu!»try, The, for use in Schools, N. A. Bengtson 

 and D. Griffith, 79 



Wheldon and Co. 's Catalogue of Cryptogamic Botany, 67 



White, Sir William, Memorial to, 466 



Wireless : Station at Dickson Island to be Maintained, 425 ; 

 Telegraphy, Regulation of the Charging Circuit in 

 Installations of, Girardeau and Bethenod, 95 ; and 

 TelepTiony, The Progress and Present Position of. Prof. 

 G. Vanni, 389 ; Use of High Potential Continuous 

 Current for, A. Blondel, 155 ; Transmission of Photo- 

 graphs, M. J. Martin, 258 



Witwatersrand, Conglomerates of the, E. T. Mellor, 25 



Woburn Experimental Fruit Farm, Fifteenth Report, 422 



Wolf: Comet 1916 6, R. T. Crawford and D. Alter, 410; 

 -note of the Violin and 'Cello, On the, C. V. Raman, 

 362 



Women and the Land, Viscountess Wolseley, 320 



Wood Pulps for Paper-making, C. F. Cross, 35 



Worcester Porcelain for Chemical Use, 527 



World : The, and its Discovery, H. B. Wetherill, 4 parts, 

 520; -time, A. H. Mackay, 381 



Worms, Nematode, Parasitic on Insects, J. H. Merrill and 

 A. L. Ford, 469 



Wounded. Care of the. Sir A. Keogh, 264 



Wounds, Seotic, The Treatment of, 468 



Wright, Wilbur, Memorial Lecture to be delivered by G. 

 Brewer, 284 



X-ravs, Illusory Protection against, J. Bergoni^ ; C. Ricliet, 

 215 



Yale University: Bequest to, by C. W. Harkness, 313; 



School of Medicine, Bequest by N. B. Bayley, 494 

 Year-book of the Scientific and Learned Societies of Great 



Britain and Ireland, The, 80 

 Yorkshire Trout Flies, 378 

 Yorkshire's Contribution to Science, T. Sheppard, 279 



Zeiss, Carl, Apochromatic Systems of, F. J. Cheshire, 345 



Zeppelin Notes, Observer, 201 



Zeppelins: Avoiding, Prof. E. C. Pickering, 221 ;_ Recent, 



G. Prade, 105 ; Super-, Lord Montagu of Beaulieu, 548 

 Zinc : its Production and Industrial Applications, ,J. C. 



Moulden, 328 ; -bronze. Standard Test Specimens of, 



C. P. Carr and H. S. Rawdon, 368 

 Zoological: Research in South Africa, Recent. 472; Results 



of a Tour in the Far East. Dr. N. Annandale, 416; 



Nomenclature, International Commission on, Dr. C. W. 



Stiles, 479 ; Society of London, Annual Report of the, 



227 ; Report of the, =149 ; Society of New York, Report 



of the Director of the Aquarium of the, 386 ; Society 



of Scotland, Annual Report of the, 386 



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