IV 



Index 



[Nature, 

 September 21, 1916 



Balfour (Prof. Bayley), and W. W. Smith, Becsia cordata, 15 



Ball (Sir C), [death], 86 



Ball (J. D.), Magnetic Properties of Steels, etc., 348 



Ball (Lieut. J. J.) [obituary], 448 



Balland (M.), An unpublished Letter of Parmentier, 335 



Ballhatchet (A. V.), Electrical Apparatus-making .for 

 Beginners, 240 



Balls (W. L.), Analyses of Agricultural Yield, 51 



Balsillie (D.), Science and the State, 34 ; The Place of 

 Science in Education, 240 



Banerji (S. K.), The Expansion of a Homogeneous Func- 

 tion in Spherical Harmonics, 123 



Barker (Col. A. E.) [obituary], 166 



Barker (Prof. P. B.), and Prof. H. J. Young, A Manual of 

 Soil Physics, 119 



Barkla (Prof. C. G.), to deliver the Bakerian Lecture, 246 



Barnard (Prof. E. E.), Comet 19156 (Taylor), 67; Dark 

 Markings in the Sky, 148 



Barnes (Rev. E. W.), elected a Member of the Athenaeum 

 Club, 41 



Barratt (Dr. T.), Electrical Capacity of Gold-leaf Electro- 

 scopes, 214 



Barret (Lt.-Col. J. W.), The Reform of the Man of 

 Science, 59 



Barrett (C), The Spotted Bower Bird, 44 



Barry (Sir J. Wolfe), elected an Honorary Member of the 

 Institution of Civil Engineers, 62 



Barton (Prof. E. H.), Gravitation and Temperature, 461 



Barton (Prof. J. R.), bequest to Pennsylvania University, 414 



Bartrurn (C. O.), Birds' Songs and the Diatonic Scale, 381 



Bassani (Prof. F.) [obituary], 468 



Bate (Miss D. M. A.), Vertebrate Remains from the Har 

 Dalam Cavern, Malta, 274 



Bateman (Dr. H.), Systems of Partial Differential Equa- 

 tions, etc., 435 



Bates and Jackson, The Constants of the Quartz-wedge 

 Saccharimeter, 427 



Baudouin (M.), Early Date of the Jaw found at La Naulette, 



175 



Bauer (Dr. L. A.), Relation between Changes in Solar 

 Activity and the Earth's Magnetic Activity, 1902-14, 493 



Baugh (D.), Gift to Jefferson Medical College, 414 



Baxter (Miss E.), and Miss L. Rintoul, Scottish Ornith- 

 ology in 19 15, 504 



Bayley (N. B.), Bequest to the Yale University School of 

 Medicine, 494 



Bayliss (Prof. W. M.), The Mechanism of ChemiQal Change 

 in Living Organisms, 352 



Beardmore (Sir W.), The Place of Science in Modern Metal- 

 lurgical Industries, 312 



Beattie (Prof. J. M.), Post-Mortem Methods, 80 



Beaussenat (M.), Wound of the Heart by a Shrapnel Ball, 

 195 



Beckwith (Miss C. E.), Bequest to the Victoria University, 

 Manchester, 313 



Bedford (Sir C. H.), appointed Secretary of the Association 

 of British Chemical Manufacturers, 548 



Beebe (C. W.), Animal Life in the Tropics, 552 



Beebe (J. A.), Bequest to Harvard University, 233 



Bell (Sir H.), Commercial Policy of the Country after the 

 War, 186 



Bell (Dr. W. Blair), The Astley Cooper Prize for 19 16, 

 awarded to, ^.'74 



Belot (E.), Experimental Volcanoes and the Laws of Vol- 

 canic Phenomena, 536 ; The Causes of Volcanoes. 235 



Benedicks (C), A New Thermo-electric Method for the 

 Study of the Allotropy of Iron, etc., 51 ; Determination 

 of Thermo-electric Power by means of the Differential 

 Galvanometer, 436 



Benedict (F. G.), and H. Murschhauser, Energy Trans- 

 formations during Horizontal Walking. 430 ; and F. B. 

 Talbot. The Phy^ology of the New-born Infant, 128 



Bengtson (N. A.), and D. Griffith, The Wheat Industry for 

 use in Schools, 79 



B^rard (L.). and A. Lumi^re, Retarded Tetanus, 51 



Berberich (Prof. A.), Comet 1915^ (Taylor), 46; Comet 

 1916 b (Wolf). 1916ZK (Planet), 289 



Berg (W. N.), Relative Nutritional Value of Veal and 

 Beef, 128 



Bergoni^ (L), Illusory Protection against the X-rays, 215; 

 Powerful Electro-vibrators working with small Current, 



436 ; and C. E. GulUaume, Surgical Instruments 

 adapted to the Field of the Electro-Vibrator, 514 



Berkeley (Earl of). Molecular Attractions in Solutions, 301 ; 

 and E. G. J. Hartley, Determinations of Direct Osmotic 

 Pressures, 354 



Bernard (Right Rev. Dr. J. H.), elected President of the 

 Royal Irish Academy, 85 



Berry (E. W.), Upper Cretaceous Floras of the World, 215 



Berry (Prof. R. A. J.), and Dr. A. W. D. Robertson, Atlas 

 of Tracings of Crania of Australian Aborigines, 167 



Bertrand (Prof. M. E.), Industrial Education in France, 131 



Beyschlag (Dr. F.), Prof. J. H. L. Vogt, and Dr. P. Krusch, 

 The Deposits of the Useful Minerals and Rocks: their 

 Origin, Form, and Content, Translated by S. J. 

 Truscott, vol. ii., 457 



Bierry (H.), The Detection of Tuberculous Bacilli in Sputa, 

 496 



Bigourdan (G.), Discovery of the Nebula of Orion by 

 Peiresc, 175 ; Monthly distribution of Average Cloudi- 

 ness in France, 235 ; The Immediate Collaborators of 

 Peiresc, 315; The Propagation of Sound to a great 

 distance in the Open Air, 395, 436, 496 ; The Visibility 

 of Stars in Daylight, 328, 335 ; The Discovery of the 

 Visibility of the Stars in full Daylight, 375 



Bingham (H.), The People of Machu Prichu, 450 



Blackmar (Prof. F. W.), and Prof. J. L. Gillin, Outlines 

 of Sociology, 97 



Blaikie (Dr. W. B.), A Universal Sun-dial, 435 



Blake (L. I.) [obituary], 265 



Blanchard (R.), A Glacial Island at Grenoble, 195 

 I Blondel (A.), High Potential Continuous Current for Wire- 

 less Telegraphy and Telephony, 155 ; The Limiting 

 Perception of Light Signals, 214; and J. Rey, Com- 

 parison of Short Light Signals produced by a Rotating 

 Apparatus, 355 



Bloom (J. H.), Warwickshire, 99 



Bolton (H.), Fossil Insects from the British Coal Measures, 



Bonacina (L. C. W.), Meteorological Conditions of a 



Blizzard, 301 ; Readjustment of Pressure Differences, 275 

 Bonney (Prof. T. G.), Geologists and Special Constables, 



260 ; Prof. J. W. judd, 37 

 Bonnier (G.), Address on Pasteur, 105 

 Boole (Mrs. M. E.) [obituary], 284 

 Booth (Sir A. A.), Sir A. Denny, W. S. Abell, and J. 



Readhead appointed to the Committee on Shipping and 



Shipbuilding Industries, 170 

 Boothroyd (I. W.), The Gun-firing on the Western Front, 



500 

 Bordas (F.), Ozonised Oxygen in the treatment of War 



Wounds, 356 

 Bordet (Prof. J.), elected a Foreign Member of the Royal 



Society, 165 

 Boring (Dr. E. G.), The Return 



Division of Cutaneous Nerves, 

 Borissiak (A.), Indricotherium, a 



Rhinoceros, 17'; 

 Boss (B.), Systematic Motion among Stars of the Helium 



Type, 255 

 Bostwick (A. E.), Meteorological Conditions of a Blizzard, 



261 

 Bottazzi (Dr. F.), awarded the King's Prize for Human 



Physiology by the Accademia dei Lincei, 12 

 Bouchet (L.), The Electric Expansion of Solid Insulators, 



Bougault (J.), Phenyloxymaleic Anhydride. 295 



Boulenger (Dr. G. A.), Catalogue of the Fresh-water Fishes 



of Africa in the British Museum (Natural History), 



vol. iv., 218; Lizards allied to Lacerta muralts, 194 

 Bourguignon (G.). A Method of determining Chronaxy in 



Man, /•76 ; Measurement of Resistances by Discharges 



of Condensers, 3q<; 

 Bourlon (Capt.), Edited by I'Abb^ Breuil, Nouvelles 



d6couvertes k Laugerie Basse, 250 

 Bourne (Sir A. G.), elected President of the Indian Science 



Congress, 42 

 Bourne (Prof. G. C), New Species of Edwardsia, Quatr., 



from New Guinea. 195 

 Bourquelot (E.), and A. Aubry, The Biochemical Synthesis 



of a Galactoblose, 476 

 Boutaric (A.), The French Optical Industry, 522 



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 New Genus of Giant 



