XxXil 
Brito-Arctic Province, The Basalts of the, A. Holmes and 
Dr. H. F. Harwood, 222 
Bubbles, The Bursting of, A. A. C. Swinton and E. Beale, 
469 
Budgets, Family, and Dietaries of Labouring-class Families 
in Glasgow, Miss M. Ferguson, 463 
Buenos Aires, The Sociedad Argentina 
Naturales, Forthcoming Congress of, 52 
Buller—Mokihinui Sub-division, The, New Zealand, O. G. 
Morgan and J. A. Bartrum, 399 
Biirgi’s Logarithmic Tables, Dr. A. Bohren, 98 
Burma, Eocene Mammals in, G. E. Pilgrim and G. de P. 
Cotter, 481 
Bushmanland, Dinosaurs in, A. W. Rogers, 481 
B Stars, Distances and Distribution of the, Prof. Charlier, 
116 
B Urs Majoris, Radial Velocity of, 196 
de Ciencias 
Cagliari, Neolithic Implements found near, R. Bariola, 453 
Calculus, Problems in the, with Formulas and Suggestions, 
Dr. D. B. Leib, 88 
Calcutta Public Health Officer’s Proposals for the Future, 
: 234 
Cambrian Trilobites, Dr. C. D. Walcott, 454, 481 
Cambridge University: Dr. R. T. Glazebrook appointed 
Reader on the Sir R. Rede Foundation; W. G. Palmer 
elected to a Fellowship at St. John’s College; Capt. E. 
Hindle elected to the Charles Kingsley Lectureship, 
202; New Research Degrees, 481; Approval of Proposal 
to Found an Institute of Agricultural Mechanism, 481; 
Sanction of the Admission of Women to the M.B. 
Examinations ; Report of the Appointments Board, 240; 
The George Henry Lewes Studentship, 161; and Col- 
leges of, The Students’ Handbook to, Fifteenth edition, 
148 
Camera, The, as Historian, H. D. Gower, L. S. Jast, and 
W. W. Topley, 445 
Camptosorus rhizophyllus, Soil Conditions favoured by the, 
T. Wherry, 415 
Canada: and Australasia, Geological Work in, 398 ; Monthly 
Record of Meteorological Observations, March, 55 
Canadian: Fisheries, Report on, 297; Government, The, 
Appointment of an Honorary Advisory Council on 
Scientific and Industrial Research, 354; Observatory, 
The New, at Victoria, B.C., Prof. C. A. Chant, 472 
Canaigre, Acclimatisation in France of the, A. Piédallu, 264 
Cancer : Problem, Present Position of the, Prof. L. Loeb, 96; 
Crown Gall and, E. F. Smith, 83- Research Fund, 
Imperial, Annual Report of the, 30 , 
Cannonades, Distant, The Sound of, F. Houssay, 183 
Caoutchouec Sheet, Variations of Thickness of a, under the 
Influence of an Electrostatic Field, L. Bouchet, 223 
Cape Observatory, Report of the, 499 
Capillary Watering, Effects of Continual, L. Daniel, 243 
Carbon Tube Furnace, A, E. and E. A. Griffiths, 383 
Carbonates, Rhombohedral, Indices of Refraction of the, P. 
Gaubert, 443 ‘ 
Cardiff: A Singular Phenomenon at, 153; 
Society, Forthcoming Jubilee of the, 153 
Carso, The Waters of the, Dr. L. De Marchi, 436 
Cartwright Prize of the Royal College of Surgeons of 
England, The, 213 
Cass, Sir John, Technical Institute, Syllabus of Classes of 
the, 43 
Cement, A Pyritic, C. Carus-Wilson, 436 
Central American and West Indian Archeology, T. A. 
Joyce, 70 
Cepheid Variables: The, Dr. Ludendorff, 397; The Spectra 
of, Dr. Shapley, 498 
Ceramic Engineering Building, University of Illinois, Dedi- 
cation of the, 402 
Cereals, The World’s Supply of, 377 
Cestodes, Two New Species of, Dr. F. E. Beddard, 242 
Ceylon, Director of Agriculture, Appointment of F. 
Stockdale, 375 
Chadwick Public Lectures, Sixth War Course of, 174 
Characez from the Lower Headon Beds, C. Reid and J. 
Groves, 283 
Chaulmoogra Oil, ‘‘ False,’? H. C. Brill, 378 
Naturalists’ 
A. 
Index 
Nature, 
March 15, 1917 
Chemical: Enterprises, Impending Developments in 
“ Krypton,’’ 489; Industry and Research, The Need o' 
Organisation of, Prof. J. A. Wilkinson, 41; Societ: 
Forthcoming Lectures by Col. C. T. Heycock, Dr. 
H. T. Brown, and A. C, Chapman, 134; Forthcoming 
Lectures to the, 495; Proposed New Officers of the, 
495; Water Purification, D. B. Byles, 105; World, 
Need of Well-educated Young Men in the, Dr. M. O. 
Forster, 143 7 
ae for Laboratory Use, Preparation of, Rintou 
280 ‘ 
Chemistry: A Class-book of, G. C. Donington, part iv. 
Metals, 67; and its Relation to National Affairs, Sir 
W. A. Tilden, 282; at the British Association, 280; 
Colloid-, A Handbook of, Dr. W. Ostwald. Translated 
by Prof. M. H. Fischer, 47; Experimental, A Senior, 
Drs. A. E. Dunstan and F. B. Thole, 67; General, 67; 
Institute of, Proposed New Regulations of the, 342; 
of Foul Mud Deposits, Prof. E. A. Letts, 344; oO} 
Igneous Magmas and of Organic Metabolism, 
Apparent Correspondence between the, H. S. Wash-— 
ington, 403; of the Radio-elements, Prof. F. Soddy, 
French Translation of, 115; Organic, for Agricultural 
Students, 366; Physical, A System of, Prof. W. C. McC. 
Lewis, Prof. F. G. Donnan, 25; Physical, for Schools, 
Dr. H. H. Fenton, 67; Physiological, 167; Synthetic, 
and the Renascence of British Chemical Industry, Prof. 
G. T. Morgan, 316 
Cheshire Technological 
McGill University, 43 
Chicago, University of, Gift for a Medical Department, by 
Mr. Rockefeller, 321 
Child Hygiene, An Irish Syllabus of Instruction in, 241 
Chimie Physique et d’Electrochimie, Cours de Manipula-— 
tions de, M. Centnerszwer, 407 
China, Geological Work in, Dr. T. G. Halle and others, 
Scholarships, Winners of, and 
17 
Chlorination Process, Modified, Dr. J. A. Smythe, 280 
Chlorine, Free, A Reagent for, in Drinking Water, G. A. 
Le Roy, 44 
Chloroform, Apparatus for the Administration of, Prof. 
Waller, 178 : 
Cholera Vaccines, Relative Values of Various Kinds of, 
Capt. Fox, 415 
Christianity in partibus, 26 J 
Chrysopa californica, Life-history of, V L. Wildermuth, 75 
Cinchona. Plantations in Bengal, The Government, 79 ; 
Circle of Scientific, Technical, and Trade Journalists, Visit 
of the, to Liverpool and Manchester, 302 
Citric Solubility and the Fertilising Value of Basic Slag, 96 
City and Guilds (Engineering) »College, Work of the 
Chemical Department of the, 195 
City and Guilds of London Institute, Department of Tech- 
nology of, Report of the, 362 ‘ 
Civil Engineering : Constructional Work, 365; Works on, 
Civil Engineers, Institution of, Awards of the, 153 ; 
Civil Service: Home, Committee on Examinations for the, 
Dr. W. H. Hadow appointed a Member of the, 382; — 
Science and the, 251 
Claybury County Asylum, Presentation by the Staff to — 
Dr. R. Armstrong-Jones, 63 
Cleator and Cleator Moor: Past and Present, Rev. Czesar 
Caine, 205 4 
Cleistogamic Flowers, A. Manganaro, 478 
Climate and Crop Production, T. Wibberley, 301 
Clock of Precision, A, C. O. Bartrum, 483 
Clover Sickness, A. Amos, 263 . 
Coal : and Fuel Economy, 341; and its Economic Utilisation, 
Prof. J. S. S. Brame, 500; Botanical Aspects of, Dr. — 
Marie Stopes; Prof. A.-C. Seward; Prof. Weiss, 237; 
Measures Amphibia of North America, The, Dr, R. L. 
Moodie, 356; Mines, G. Calthrop appointed Controller 
of, 495; Powdered, and the Heating of Furnaces, 135; — 
Tar Colour Industry, British, in Peace and in War, — 
C. M. Whittaker, 280; Tar Colour Industry, The 
British, and its Difficulties in Time of War, C. M. 
Whittaker, 357; Tar Industry, The Future of the, Prof. — 
A. G. Perkin, 143; The Oxidation of, G. Charpy and 
M. Godchot, 363 
