iv Index 
Bartrum (C. O.), A Clock of Precision, 483 
Barus (C.), Interferometer Methods based on the Cleavage 
of a Diffracted Ray, 83; Non-reversed Spectra of 
Restricted Coincidence, 402; Path Differences within 
which Spectrum Interferences are Observable, 402 
Barzizza (G. B.), Gnomonica, 326 
Bather (Dr. F. A.), on Drawing, 402; The Value of Draw- 
ing to the Scientific Worker, 422 
Batho (C.), Riveted Joints, 276 
Bathurst (Capt. C.), appointed Parliamentary Secretary to 
the Ministry of Food, 313, 355 
Bauer (Dr.), and Mr. Fisk, The Effects of Eclipses on Solar 
Terrestrial Magnetism, 77 
Baur (Prof. E.), Director of the Genetics Institute at 
Potsdam, 452 
Bayliss (Prof. W. M.), Accessory Factors, or “ Vitamines,” 
in Diet, 372; Methods of Raising a Low Arterial 
Pressure, 241; Properties required in Solutions for 
Intravenous Injection, 179 
Bean (Dr. T. H.) {obituary], 393 
Beatty (R. T.), The Spectrum of Hydrogen, 169 
ae (J.), Influence of Osmotic Pressure on Bacteria, 
393 
Beddard (Dr. F. E.), Two New Species of Cestodes, 242 
Beekly (A. L.), Lenticular Masses of Coal in North Park, 
Colorado, 117 
Beilby (Sir G.), appointed Director of the Board of Fuel 
Research, 495 
Bell (Sir Hugh), Sir Wm. Ramsay, 197 
Bell (Dr. W. B.), The Sex Complex, 266 
Belogolovy (G. A.), The Development of the Frog Pelobates, 
54 
Bemmelin (Dr. W. van), Registering Balloon Ascents at 
Batavia, 21 
Benbow (Sir H.) [obituary], 174 : 
Benedicks (C.), A New Effect relative to Thermo-Electricity, 
etc., 363 
Bennett (A. A.), Newton’s Method in General Analysis, 243 
Benson (A. C.), Literature and Science in Education, 433 
Berberich (Dr.), Comet 1916b (Wolf), 437 
Bevan (Rev. J. O.), The Towns of Roman Britain, 468 
Bierry (H.), Detection of Tubercle Bacilli in Expectora- 
tions, etc., 303 
Biffen (R. H.), Suppression of Characters on Crossing, 119 
Bigourdan (G.), An Old Observation of an Eclipse of the 
Sun, 263; Le Climat de la France: Température, Pres- 
sion, Vents, 127; Astronomical Observations at the 
Paris Observatory, 223; Petit Atlas Céleste, 208; Posi- 
tion and Co-ordinates of the Old Observatory in the 
rue Vincenne, 242; Position and Co-ordinates of the 
Astronomical Station of the Island of Notre-Dame, 323 ; 
The Declaration of Louis XIII. relating to the First 
Meridian, 163; The Propagation of the Sound of the 
Cannonade at the Front to Great Distances, 163 
Bijl (P. A. van der), Polysaceum crassipes, 44 
Billings Family, Gift to Chicago University, 482 
Birkeland (Prof.), Ultra-Violet Radiation from the Sun, 177 
Birkett (G. A.), appointed Lecturer in Russian at Sheffield 
University, 261 
Birks (Rev. S. G.), Megalichthys, 155 
Bishop (C. W.), Report on his Expedition to the Far East, 
334 
Blackwelder (E.), The Geologic Réle of Phosphorus, 83 
Blanchard (Prof. A. H.), Elements of Highway Engineering, 4 
Bland-Sutton (Sir J.), to deliver the Bradshaw Lecture, 503 
Blum (W.), The Determination of Aluminium as Oxide, 76 
Blyth (Lord), The Close Co-ordination of Science with 
Practice in Agriculture, 413 
Boccardi (Prof. G.), Lezioni di Cosmografia, 326 
Bogue (V. G.) [obituary], 193 
Bohle (H.), Theory of Automatic Regulators, 244 
Bohren (Dr. A.), Biirgi’s Logarithmic Tables, 98 
Bolduan (Dr. C. F.), The Death-rate in the United States, 
391 
Boll (M.), and L. Mallet, Determination of the Practical 
Constants of the Coolidge Tube, 144 
Bolton (H.), The Mark Stirrup Collection of Fossil Insects, 
343° 
Bolton (S.), An Oil Drive for Equatorial Telescopes, 28 
Bone (Prof. W. A.), appointed Consultant to the Board of 
Fuel Research, 495 
Nature, 
March 15, 1917 
‘Bonney (Prof. T. G.), Changes in the Rhone Glacier, 430 
Survey Work in the Sinai Peninsula, 352 . 
Booth (Rt. Hon. C.) [obituary]) 253 
Bordier (H.), The Action of Light on Dilute Aqueous Solu 
tions, 24; Action of the X-rays upon Iodine, etc., 104 
and G. Roy, Colloidal Iodine, 263 ; 
Borelly (A.), The Search for a Transneptunian Planet, 2 
Borradaile (L. A.), Functions of the Mouth-parts of th 
Common Prawn, 242 
Bosanquet (Dr. B.), The Function of the State in Promo 
ing the Unity of Mankind, 303 , 
Boswell (P. G. H.), Constitution of the North Sea Drift 
76; The Geological Characters of Sands used in Glass 
Manufacture, 13 
Bosworth (G. F.), Ships, Shipping, and Fishing, 68 
Bouchet (L.), Variations of Thickness of a Caoutchoue 
Sheet, 223 
Bougault (J.), The Preparation of Acylsemicarbazides, 64 
Boulger (Prof. G. S.), Early Chapters in Plant Distribu- 
tion, 222 ; 
Boulton (Prof. W. S.), Presidential Address to the Geology 
Section of the British Association, 100; Problems pre- 
sented by an Esker near Kingswinford, 55 
Boussac (Dr. J.) [obituary], 133 
Boutaric (A.), Nocturnal Radiation, 324 
Boutroux (E.), translated by F. Rothwell, The Contingency 
of the Laws of Nature, 426 
Bower (Prof. F. O.), Morphology of the Sorus of Ferns, 442 
Boys (Prof. C. V.), Annealing Glass, 150 
Bradley (B.), Plotting the Inflections of the Voice, 335 
Bragg (Prof. W. H.), awarded the Rumford Medal of the 
Royal Society, 212, 278 
Brame (Prof. J. S. S.), Coal and its Economic Utilisation, 
500 ’ 
Brearley (H.), The Heat Treatment of Tool Steel, Second 
Edition, 308 
Breuil (l’Abbé H.), Dr. H. Obermaier, and Col. W. Verner, 
La Pileta 4 Benaojan (Malaga) (Espagne), 51 
Brierley, Suggestion for the Formation of an Imperial 
Bureau of Mycology, 237 
Briggs (L. J.), and J. F. Breazeale, Experiments with 
Orthoclase and Pegmatite, 478 
Brill (H. C.), Edible Beans containing a Substance giving 
a Reaction with Ferric Chloride, 378; The “False 
Chaulmoogra Oil, 378 
Broad (C. D.), Hume's Theory of the 
Miracles, 422 . 
Brockington -(W. A.), Elements of Military Education, 289 
Brodetsky (Dr. S.), pe eee Initial Motion and Forced 
Oscillations of a Disturbed Aeroplane, 417; Mathe- 
matical Work on Aeroplanes, 97; The Two-dimensional 
Motion of a Plane Lamina in a Resisting Medium, 483 
Brodie (Prof. T. G.) {obituary article], 9 , 
de Broglie (M.), A System of Absorption Bands, 183 
Bromwich (Prof. T. J. I’a.), Scattering of Plane Electric 
Waves by Spheres, 282 
Brooks (A. H.), Mineral Resources of Alaska, 118 
Brooks (C. E. P.), A Meteorologist in China, 242 
Brooks (S. C.), New Determinations of Permeability, 243 
Broom (Dr. R.), Structure and Affinities of the Mesozoic 
Multituberculate Mammals, 257 
Brotherus (Dr. V. H.), New Species of Australian Mosses, 
28 
Brown (Prof. A. J.), and F. Tinker, Select Permeability, 242 
Brown (B.), Corythosaurus casuarius, 356 _ 
Brown (Dr. H.), Scientific Method in Brewing Practice, 31 
Brown (Dr. H. T.), to lecture on “The Principles of 
Diffusion,” 134; to lecture to the Chemical Society, 495 
Brown (J. C.), Meteorites in the Indian Museum, Calcutta, 
Credibility of 
395 f ; 
Brown (R.), Magnetic Properties of Iron and Nickel, 455 
Brown (Prof. W.), Fatigue of Nickel and Iron Wires, 343 
Brown (W. A.), The Portland Cement Industry, 368 
Browne (Miss E. A.), The Tropical Countries of the 
Empire, 82, 402 
Browne (F.), The Training of an Analyst, 478 
Brownlee (Dr. J.), The Periodicity of Measles Epidemics in | 
London, 483 : 
Brunton (Sir Lauder) (death), 52; [obituary articles], 72, 73 
Brush (C. F.), and Sir R. Hadfield, Spontaneous Genera- 
tion of Heat in recently Hardened Steel, 503 
