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Factories and Great Industries, F. A. Farrar, 68 
Fairfield Scholarship and Prizes, Examination for 
Suspended, 241 
Faraday Society: Forthcoming Discussion on “The Train- 
ing and Work of the Chemical Engineer,” 452; Officers 
and Council of the, 376 
Far East, C. W. Bishop’s Expedition to the, 334 
Farm Products, The Marketing of, Prof. L. D. H. Weld, 
245 
Farmers: and Science, Salmon and Eyre, 237; and Wheat, 
Sir H. Maxwell, 228 
Fasting, Individual and Sex Differences Resulting from, 
H. D. Marsh, 334 
Fatigue: Industrial, Second Interim Report on an In- 
vestigation of, Prof. A. F, S. Kent, 353; The Physi- 
ology of, 353 
Fauna: Littoral Marine, of the Cape Verde Islands, A. W. 
Waters, 283; of British India, including Ceylon and 
Burma. Rhynchota: vol. vi., Homoptera; Appendix, 
W. L. Distant, 107 
Faunal Succession of the Lower Carboniferous Rocks of 
Westmorland and North Lancashire, Prof. Garwood, 76 
Fermentation, Influence of Small Rises of Temperature on, 
C. Richet and H. Cardot, 423 
Ferns, The Sorus of, Morphology of, Prof. F. O. Bower, 442 
Fertilisers : and Agricultural Production, 400; and Chemical 
Products, Effects of the War on, 232; in the United 
Kingdom, Appointment of a Committee on the Increase 
of, 393; Potassic, Possible, 252; the late Prof. E. B. 
Voorhees, Revised edition by Prof. J. H. Voorhees, 446 
Field Glasses for Army Use, Countess Roberts, 310 ' ' 
Finger-: Print Patterns, The Permanence of, H. Faulds, 388 ; 
Sir W. J. Herschel, 389; Printing, The Origin of, Sir 
W. J. Herschel, 268 
Finsbury Technical College, ‘he Chemical Courses of the, 
the, 
103 
Fireball: of October 3, 116; W. F. Denning, 136; of 
October 20, The, W. F. Denning, 176 
Fireballs, Two Large, 156 
Firebricks, The Texture of, Dr. J. W. Mellor, 281 
Fire Prevention, A Manual of, and Fire Protection for 
Hospitals, Dr. O. R. Eichel, 368 
Fisheries: Inshore, Prof. W. A. Herdman, 136; Inshore, 
The Exploitation of, Prof. W. A. Herdman, 317; In- 
shore, of Northumberland, Prof. A. Meek 136; In- 
vestigations and Development, 136 
Fishes: Age of, Method of Estimating the, Prof. A. Meek, 
75; Palzozoic, Some, D. M. S. Watson and H. Day, 
135; The Scales of, Prof. A. Meek, 137 
Fisica Descritiva, Elementos de, Dr. F. J. S. Gomes and 
A. R. Machado, Fifth edition, Revised by A. R. 
Machado, 147 
FitzPatrick Lectures, The, to be Delivered by Dr. W. H. R. 
Rivers, 174 
Fizeau’s Experiment, Prof. Zeeman, 298 
Fleas as a Menace to Man and Domestic Animals, Rev. J. 
Waterston, 75 
Flies, Destruction of, Means Employed for the, Miss O. C. 
Lodge, 157 
Flight, Stability in: Prof. D’Arey W. Thompson, 409, 490; 
Sir H. Maxwell, 490, 
Florida, The Phosphate Deposits of, G. C. Matson, 118 
Flotation: of Ores, 246; Process, The, Compiled and 
Edited by T. A, Rickard, 246 
Flour : Government Control over, W. Jago, 250; Milling of, 
Regulations as to the, 232; Standards, W. Jago, 390 
Flowering Plants of Africa, The, F. Thonner, 26 
Flowers, Wild, of the North American Mountains, J. W. 
Henshaw, 2 
Fluviatile Origin, Dominantly, under Seasonal Rainfall of 
the Old Red Sandstone, J. Barrell, 83 
Flying Machines, Calculations for, 45 
Folk: Memory in Staffordshire, Survivals of, S. A. H. 
Burne, 214; Psychology, Elements of, Prof. W. Wundt, 
Translated by Prof. E. L. Schaub, 346 
Folk-tales, Personal Experience as an Element in, Miss 
Freire-Marreco, 199 
Food: and Work, 290; Consumption, Need of Curtailment 
of, Lord Devonport, 451; Economics, Prof. G. Lusk, 
173; Increased Production of, Appointment of a Com- 
mittee on, 435; Increasing the Production of, 333; 
Lndex 
Nature, 
March 15, 1917 
Ministry of, Information and Statistical Bureau of the, 
U. Yule appointed Head of the, 393; Production, Sir 
A. Lee appointed Director-General of, 495; Standar 
and Man Power, Prof. A. D. Waller, 179; Supplies, 
Government Control of, 229; Supply of the Unit 
Kingdom, Report on the, 451; The Nation’s, 471 
Foods, Growth Factors of, 300 “sa 
Foraminifera: Collected off the West of Scotland, Heron- 
Allen and Earland, 155; Sessile Forms of, Prof. S. J. 
Hickson, 383 ° 
Forest: Economy, S. H. Collins, 302; Insects, Some, in 
Aberdeenshire, W. Ritchie, 376; Pathology in For 
Regulation, E. P. Meinecke, 176; Service Investiga- 
tions, E. R. Burdon, 450 
Forestry, British: Its Present Position and Outlook after 
the War, E. P. Stebbing, 105; Past and Future of, 
Prof. Somerville, 302 % 
Form and Function: a Contribution to the History of 
Animal Morphology, E. S. Russell, 306 i. 
Forrest,” “ James, Lecture, The, to be Delivered by Sir J. P. 
Griffith, 132 4 
Forthcoming Books of Science, 60, 115, 155, 156, 196, 298, 
316, 378, 397, 417, 456, 478 __ 
Fossil: Human Skulls, Recently Discovered, Prof. G. Elliot 
Smith, 258; Insects, Some, E. Meyrick, 75; The Mark 
Stirrup Collection of, H. Bolton, 343; Tsetse-fly, The 
Third, Prof. T. D, A. Cockerell, 70; Vertebrate 
Animals, 257 
France : Collége de, Chair of Social Providence and Assist- 
ance at the, 503; Plea for a National Physical Labora- 
tory for, 294; University and Higher Technical Instruc- 
tion in, Prof. P. Janet, 151; Le Climat de la, Tem- 
pérature, Pression, Vents, G. Bigourdan, 127 " 
Frankfurt Institute for Experimental Therapy, Prof. W. 
Kolle appointed Director of the, 375 
Fraunhofer Lines, Suggested Mutual Repulsion of, C. E. 
St. John, 83 
French: Battle-Front, Large-Scale Map of the, 388; Metal- — 
lurgy, The Future of, Prof. H. C. H. Carpenter; Dr. — 
L. Guillet, 493 ; War Chemistry, 498 
Frost: Thistle, A, a Beautiful Effect of Freezing, R. T. 
Gunther, 370; Thistles,” J. H. Coste, 470 
Fuel: Coal and, Economy, 341; Research, A Board — 
of, Appointed, 495 n 
Funereal Figures in Egypt, Prof. F, Petrie, 414 
Furcraea gigantea, The Fibre of, M. T. Dawe, 55 
Galloway and Carrick, Highways and Byways in, Rev. 
C. H. Dick, 205 
“Galvanoset,” The, 215 
Gaseous’ Gangrene, Etiology of, M. Weinberg and P. Séguin, — 
223 
Gases: Stepped Ignition in, Prof. W. M. Thornton, 280; — 
The Dynamical Theory of, Prof. J. H. Jeans, 3 
Gauges, Limit, Dr. R. T. Glazebrook, 158 
Gearing, High-Speed, Distribution of the Load on the 
Teeth in, 115 
Geikie, Prof. James, The late, Dr. M. I. Newbigin, 5 
Genera with Microscleres, Revision of the, E. F. Hallmann, — 
6 
Gare Science, First Course in, Prof. F. D. Barber, M. L. © 
Fuller, Prof. J. L. Pricer, and Prof. H. W. Adams, 348 
Genetic Studies in Plants, 119 5 
Genetics, New Institute of, at Potsdam, Prof. E. Baur, 
Director, 452 
Genotypic Factors, The Mutual Effect of, Dr. T. Tammes, 
Il ‘ 
Geographical: Association, Annual Meetings of the, 342; — 
Excursion, An International, 226 : 
Geography: Human, Regions in, Prof. Fleure, 380; Gen- — 
eralisations in, G. G. Chisholm, 454; The Teaching of, 
H. J. Mackinder, 380 ; 
Geological : Formations and Structures, A Method of Repre- 
senting, Dr. J. W. Evans, 138; Society, Awards of the, 
93; Work in Canada and Australasia, 398; Work in 
the United States, 117 
Geologists in the War, Work of, 193 
Geology : A Composite American Text-book of, 206; A Text- 
book of, Profs. L. V. Pirsson and C. Schuchert, 2 parts, 
