Index 



r Nnture, 



\_Deccml'er 8, 1904 



562 ; Variations in the Astragalus Observed in 1000 

 Specimens, Mainly Egyptian, R. B. Seymour Sewell, 

 562 ; Some Varieties of the Os Calcis Based on the 

 Cambridge Collections, P. P. Laidlaw, 562 ; on Facial 

 Expression, F. G. Parsons, 562 ; Prof. Windle, 562 ; 

 New System of Classifying the Records in Anthropo- 

 metric Identification, J. Gray, 562 ; Anthropometric 

 Investigations Among the Native Troops of the 

 Egyptian Army, Dr. Meyers, 562 ; Series of Amorite 

 Crania from Excavations at Gezer, in Palestine, Prof. 

 A. Macalister, 563 ; Linguistics, 563 ; Plan for a Uni- 

 form Scientific Record of the Languages of Savages, 

 Sir Richard Temple, Bart., 563 ; General Ethnology, 

 563 ; on Group-marriage in Australian Tribes, A. W. 

 Howitt, 563; "Classification Sociale, " E. Demolins, 

 563 ; the Funeral Ceremonies of the Todas, Dr. 

 W. H. R. Rivers, 563 ; a Votive Offering from Korea, 

 E. S. Hartland, 563 ; /Egean Archeology, 563 ; Results 

 of Recent Exploration in Crete, Dr. P. Kabbadias, 

 563 ; Preliminary Scheme for the Classification and 

 Approximate Chronology of the Periods of Minoan 

 Culture in Crete from the Close of the Neolithic to the 

 Early Iron Age, Dr. Arthur Evans, F.R.S., 563; Prof. 

 Ridge way, 564; J. Garstang, 564; Lord Aveburv, 564; 

 British School's Excavations 'at Heleia (Palai'kastro) 

 and Praises, R. C. Bosanquet, 564 : a Find of Copper 

 fngots at Chalcis, in Euboea, R. C. Bosanquet, ^64 ; 

 Description of the Geometric Period in Greece, Prof. 

 Oscar Montelius, 564; Latest Discoveries in Prehistoric 

 Science in Denmark, Prof. Valdemar Schmidt, 564 ; 

 Further Excavations on a PalfEolithic Site in Ipswich, 

 Miss Nina Layard, 564 ; Report of the Committee on 

 the Lake Village at Glastonbury, 565 ; an Interment 

 of the Early Iron Age Found at Moredun, near Edin- 

 burgh, in 1903 ; F. R. Coles and Dr. T. H. Bryce. 

 565 ; a Phase of Transition Between the Chambered 

 Cairns and Closed Cists in the South-west Corner of 

 Scotland, Dr. T. H. Bryce, s6i5 ; Report of the Roman 

 Sites Committee on Work at Silchester and Caerwent, 

 565 ; Excavations at Ehnasya, Prof. Flinders Petrie, 

 565 ; Recent Excavations at Great Zimbabwe, R. N. 

 Hall, 565 

 Section I (Physiology) — Opening Address by Prof. C. S. 

 Sherrington, M.A., D.Sc, M.D., LL.D., F.R.S., 

 President of the .Section, Correlation of Reflexes and 

 the Principle of the Common Path, 460; on Reflex 

 and Direct Muscular Response to Galvanic Currents in 

 Fishes, Prof. J. A. MacVVilliam, 586; on the .Meta- 

 bolism of Arginine, Prof. W. H. Thompson, 587 ; Prof. 

 A. Kossel, 587 ; Dr. F. G. Hopkins, 587 ; on the 

 Relation of Trypsinogen to Trypsin, Prof. E. H. 

 Starling, 587 ; Dr. F. A. Grunbaum, 587 ; Results of 

 Experiments upon the Action of .Mcoho' upon the Heart 

 and Circulation, Dr. W. E. Dixon, 587 ; Prof. E. A. 

 Schjifer, 587 ; on the Senses of the Todas, Dr. 

 W. H. R. Rivers, 587; Recent Developments in Helm- 

 holtz's Theory of Hearing, Dr. C. S. Myers, 587 ; on 

 Conduction and -Structure in the Nerve Arc and Nerve 

 Cell, Prof. J. N. Langley, 587; Dr. A. Hill, 5S8 ; 

 Researches on the Development of the Nerves in 

 Lepidosiren, Prof. Graham Kerr, 588 : Dr. Mann, 588 ; 

 Dr. W. B. Hardy, 588; Or. H.' K. Anderson, ^88; 

 Dr. E. Overton, 588 ; Dr. W. MacDougall, 588 ; 

 Method of Artificial Respiration, Prof. E. A. Schiifer, 

 588 ; on the Necessity of a Lantern Test as the Official 

 Test for Colour Blindness, Dr. F. W. Edridge-Green, 

 589; on the Protamines, Prof. A. Kossel and H. D. 

 Dakin, 389 ; Experiments upon the Immediate Effect 

 of Carbohydrates upon Metabolism, Prof. J. E. Johans- 

 son, s8q ; Results of Some Observations on Blood 

 Pigments, P. P. Laidlaw, 589; Dr. F. G. Hopkins, 

 SSg ; on the Distribution of Potassium in Animal and 

 Vegetable Cells, Prof. A. B. Macallum, .<;8q : Dr. 

 W. B. Hardy, 589 ; Prof. Brodie, 589 : on the Motor 

 Localisation in the Lemur, Dr. W. Page May and 

 Prof. Elliot Smith, 590; Results of Previous Workers 

 on the Optic Thalamus, Dr. Page May, 590; on Joint- 

 ill in the Foal, Prof. G. S. Woodhead, 590 ; a Com- 

 mittee of Pathological Research, Dr. T. S. P. Strange- 

 ways, 590: Results of an Investigation into the Amount 

 of Chloroform which when .■\dministered to the Heart 

 can Dangerously Embarrass its .Action, Prof. C. S. 



Sherrington and Miss S. C. M. Sow'ton, 590; the 

 Relation of Oxidation to Functional Activity, Sir John 

 Burdon-Sanderson, 590 ; Dr. W. M. Fletcher, 592 ; 

 Prof. N. Zuntz, 592; Prof. T. G. Brodie, 592; J. 

 Barcroft, 592 ; Prof. Starling, 593 ; Prof. T. Clifford 

 AUbutt, 593 : the Spread of Plague, Dr. E. H. Hankin, 

 616 ; Investigations on the Nutrition of Man, Prof. 

 W. O. Atwater, 617 



Section K (Botany) — Opening Address by Francis Dar- 

 win, F.R.S., Fellow of Christ's College, President of 

 the Section, on the Perception of the Force of Gravity 

 by Plants, 466 ; Ecology, 565 ; on the Problems of 

 Ecology, Prof. A. G. Tansley, 565 ; Ecological Aspect 

 of the British Flora, Dr. W. G. Smith, 565; on the 

 Plants of the Northern Temperate Zone in Their Tran- 

 sition to the High Mountains of Tropical Africa, Prof. 

 A. Engler, 565 ; on the inter-Glacial and post-Glacial 

 Beds of the Cross Fell District, Francis J. Lewis, 566 ; 

 Morphology (including Palseobotany), 366 ; New Type 

 of Sphenophyllaceous Cone from the Lower Coal- 

 measures, Dr. D. H. Scott, F.R.S., 566; Two New 

 Lagenostomas, Dr. D. H. Scott, F.R.S., and E. A. 

 Newell Arber, 566; Anatomy of Psilotum triqtietriim. 

 Miss Sibille O. Ford, 566 ; on the Presence of Parich- 

 nos in Recent Plants, T. G. Hill, 566 ; on the Reduc- 

 tion of the- Gametophyte in Todea Fraseri, L. A. 

 Boodle, 566 ; Reduction of the Marchantiaceous Type 

 in Cyathodium, Dr. William H. Lang, 566 ; the Virgin 

 Woods of Java, Dr. J. P. Lotsy, 566; Some Measure- 

 ments of the Great Swamp Cypress at Santa Maria 

 del Tule, Mexico, .Alfred P. Slaudslay, 566 ; on the 

 Forms of the Stems of Plants, Lord Aveburv, F.R.S., 

 566 ; Cell Structure of the Cyanophyceas, Harold 

 Wager, F.R.S., 566; Prof. E. Zacharias, 566: Prof. 

 R. Chodat, 566 ; the Pineapple Galls of the Spruce, 

 ¥.. R. Burdon, 566; Physiology, s66 ; Researches on 

 the Proteases of Plants, Prof. 'S.'H. Vines, F.R.S., 

 s66 ; on the Localisation of Alkaloids in Plants, Prof. 

 L. Errera. 566 ; Experimental Demonstration of a 

 Brilliant Pigment Appearing after Injury in Species of 

 Jacobinia, J. Parkin, 567; Fungi, 567; Recent Re- 

 searches in Parasitic Fungi, Prof. H. Marshall Ward, 

 F.R.S., 567 ; the Vegetative Life of Some L'redineje, 

 Prof. Eriksson, 567 ; Cultural Experiments with 

 Biologic Forms of the Erysiphaceje, E. S. Salmon, 

 567 : on the Inheritance of Susceptibility to and Im- 

 munity from the .Attacks of Yellow Rust, R. H. Biffen, 

 367 ; Infection Experiments with Various Uredinea;, 

 C. M. Gibson, 567 ; Investigations on the -Sexuality of 

 Zygospore Formation, Dr. .A. F. Blakeslee, 367 



Section K (Subsection Agriculture) — Opening Address by 

 William Somerville, M.A., D.Sc, D.CEc, Chairman of 

 the Subsection. 488 



Section L (Educational Science) — Opening .Address by 

 the Right Rev. the Lord Bishop of Hereford, D.D., 

 LL.D., President of the Section, 493 ; on the Present 

 Educational Position of Logic and Psychology, Miss 

 E. E. C. Jones, 367 ; -Advances Made in the Teaching 

 of Experimental Science in the Secondary Schools of 

 Ireland, Rt. Rev. Gerald Molloy, 367 ;' Sir Philip 

 Magnus, 568 ; George Fletcher, i;68 ; Prof. .Armstrong, 

 368 ; Comparison of the Intellectual Power of the Two 

 Sexes, Dr. J. de Kbrosy, 568; on Specialisation in 

 Science Teaching in Secondary Schools, J. H. Leonard, 

 368 ; School Certificates, 568 ; Report of the Committee 

 on the Influence of Examinations, Prof. Armstrong, 

 ■;68 ; Canon Bell, 568 ; Dr. Gray, 568 ; Sir Arthur 

 Rijcker, 568 ; Ernest Grav, 568 ; Rev. R. D. Swallow, 



368 ; Dr. Mangold, 368 ;' Principal Griflfiths, 368 : Sir 

 Oliver Lodge, 368 ; .Alderman Fordham, 368 ; National 

 and Local Provision for the Training of Teachers, Rt. 

 Hon. Henry Hobhouse, 368 ; H. Macan, 569 ; Ernest 

 Gray, 569; G. F. Daniel^ 369: Rev. W. T.' A. Barber, 



369 • Dr. Ernest Cook, 369 : Principal Griffiths. 3(10 ; 

 Sir John Gorst, 369 ; J. L. Holland, 569 ; Miss Walter, 

 369 ; Emile Havelaque, 569 ; Dr. Mangold, 369 ; 

 Manual Training, 569 ; Reports of Committees, 369 



British Association and Referees, William .Ackroyd, 627 

 British Chemical Exhibit at the St. Louis Exhibition, 433 

 British India, Including Ceylon and Burma, the Fauna of, 



Rhynchota, vol. ii., part ii.. Heteroptera, W. L. Distant, 



341'. 396 



