XXX 
Measles Epidemics in London, The Periodicity of, Dr. J. 
Brownlee, 483 
Meat Production: Prof. D. A. Gilchrist, 302; Economy in, 
T. B. Wood and K. J. J. Mackenzie, 302 
Mechanics, Text-book of, Prof. L. A. Martin, Jr., 127 
Medical : Officer of the Local Government Board, Report of 
the, 477; Research Committee, Annual Report of the, 
253; lreatment for Disabled Soldiers, 293 
Medicinal Plants, Collection and Cultivation of, Prof. H. E. 
Greenish ; Holmes; Sir S. Olivier; Dr. E. N. Thomas, 
237-8 ; 497 
Mediterranean, 
Semple, 55 
Megalichthys, Rev. S. G. Birks, 155 
Megalithic Monuments and Ancient Mines, Geographical 
Distribution of, W. J. Perry, 134 
Megastigmus, Egg-laying of, J. M. Miller, 258 
Melbourne University: A. L. MacAulay appointed Demon- 
strator in Physics at, 82; E. J. C. Rennie appointed 
Acting Lecturer in Electrical Engineering in, 461 
Meldola : Memorial, J. L. Baker and others, 429; Raphael, 
Reminiscences of his Worth and Work, Edited by 
J. Marchant, 125 
Mellish Comet r1915a, 358 
Memories, E. Clodd, 267 
Men of the Old Stone Age, Prof. H F. Osborn, Second 
edition, 45 
Mendelism: A Manual of, Prof. J. Wilson, 3; 
Farm, 3 
Meningococcus, Effect of Sprays for Freeing Carriers from 
the, Lt.-Col. Gordon and Capt. Flack, 296 
Mentally Deficient Children: Their Treatment and Train- 
ing, Drs. G. E. Shuttleworth and W. A. Potts, Fourth 
edition, 227 
Mercury: an Evening Star, 336; Determination of the 
Freezing Point of, R. M. Wilhelm, 276; Visible before 
Sunrise, 116 
Meridian, The First, Declaration of Louis XIII. Relating 
to the, G. Bigourdan, 163 
Mesozoic Multituberculate Mammals, Structure and Affini- 
ties of the, Dr. R. Broom, 257 
*“ Metabolic,’’ The Date of the Introduction of the Term, 
Prof. D. Fraser Harris, 389 
Metallurgy, French, The Future of, Prof. H. C. H. Car- 
penter; Dr. L. Guillet, 493 
Metals: Fused, Thermo-electric Properties of, C. R. Dar- 
ling and A. W. Grace, 322; Institute of, Autumn 
Meeting of the, 18; Corrosion Ccmmittee of the, De- 
velopments of the Work of the, 19; Journal of the, 
The Pirate Coasts of the, Miss E. C. 
on the 
vol. xv., 69; Plastic Flowing of, W. H. F. Murdoch, . 
190 
Meteor: A Brilliant, Seen in Montgomeryshire, 355; A 
Large, on. January 4, W. F. Denning, 379 
Meteoric Shower from Biela’s Comet, The, 257 
Meteorite: Reported Fall of a, near Cardiff, 95; The Lake 
Okechobee, G. P. Merrill, 455 ; 
Meteorites: Catalogue of, Dr. G. P. Merrill, 196; Cata- 
logue of, in the Field Museum, Chicago, Dr. O. C. 
Farrington, 498; Chemical and Mineralogical Com- 
position of, Dr. G. P. Merrill and Dr. J. E. Whitfield, 
395; in the Indian Museum, Calcutta, J. C. Brown, 
395; The Photographic Spectra of, Sir W. Crookes, 
221; their Structure, Composition, and Terrestrial 
Relations, Dr. O. C. Farrington, 145 
Meteoritic Iron, The Use of, by Primitive Man, G. 
Zimmer, 350 
““ Meteoritics,’’ 145 
Meteorological: Observations in the Five Years IQII-I5, 
The, also of Underground Temperatures in the Twelve 
Years 1898-1910, made at the Radcliffe Observatory, 
Oxford, vol. li., 247; Phenomena, Discontinuities in, 
Prof. H. H. Turner, 343 
Meteorolog’st in China, A, C. E, P. Brooks, 242 
Meteorology: Argentine, W. G. Davis, 337; and Wheat 
Shortage, Prof. G. H. Bryan; Sir N. Shaw, 369; for 
General Readers, 286; in War, 216; Italian, Prof. 
Eredia, 401; of the Upper Air, G. Taylor, 20 
Metric Syste: Increased Use of the, in America, 52; 
Sir E. Holden, 453; The Prime Minister on the, 
192 
BP: 
Index 
Nature, 
March 15, 1917 Ps 
Mexico, Mercurial, The Treasure ‘Chest of, F. H. Prober 
19 
Michell Type of Bearing, The, H. T. Newbigin, 158 
Microbes and War, Prof. E. Glynn, 375 
Microbiology, General, Laboratory Manual in, 308 
Micro-organisms, Filterability of, Wolbach, 39 4 
Microscleres, Revision of the Genera with, E. F. Hallmann, ~ 
2 
Mair oscevren Science, Quarterly Journal of, Index to thi 
6 * 
aiaiene Hospital, W. Kewley appointed Secretary-Super- 
intendent of the, 313 : 
Migrations of Early Culture: Objections to the Reality 
of the, Prof. G. Elliot Smith, 342; Ships as Evidence — 
of the, Prof. G. Elliot Smith, 394 a 
Military : Education, Elements of, W. A. Brockington, 289; — 
Map, The, 4 : 
Milk: and its Hygienic Relations, Dr. J. E. Lane-Claypon, — 
467; and the Public Health, 467; Supply, Recom- — 
mendations for the Improvement of the, 75 
Millibar, The, and Atmospheric Pressure, 332 
Milne’s Institution, Fochabers, Bequest to, by Sir J. Sive- — 
wright, 63 a 
Mineral: Field in Telemark, Norway, Discovery of &, 95; 
Oil, Geology and Supply of, 487; Production, An Im-— 
perial Department of, Prof. H. Louis, 91; Resources 
of the British Empire, The, Prof. C. G. Cullis, 361 
Mineralogic Notes, W. T. Schaller, 416 
Mineralogical Society, Election of Officers and 
the, 213 
Minerals: and Metals, An Imperial Department of, 199; 
Separating, A Method for, Dr. P. Riboni, 436 $ 
Minefs’ Phthisis, Nature of Mineral Matter in Lung Tissue 
in, Drs. W. Watkins-Pitchford and J. Moir, 416 a 
Minimum Radiation Visually Perceptible, The, Dr. H. E. © 
Ives, 216 
Mining: Geology and, in Rhodesia, 
Primitive, at Alderley Edge, 38 
Mira Ceti, 1915, Maxima of, F. de Roy, 21 ~ 
Mitchell, Maria, Memorial Astronomical Fellowship, The, 
213 
Money-Cowrie in America, Pre-Columbian Use of the, 
J. W. Jackson, 48, 309; H. N. Wardle, 308 
Monism in the Light of Recent Developments in Philosophy, 
C. E. M. Joad, 442 
Monoclonius, Skull of, Added to ‘the Collection 
Natural History Museum, 133 
Moneecious Plants, Distribution of, Miss A. J. Davey and 
Miss M. Gibson, 343 
Montana, The Glacier National Park, 117 
Montreal, The Artesian Wells of, C. L. Cumming, 398 
Moon: The Physical Libration of the, P. Puiseux, 183; 
Total Eclipse of the, 336 
Moose Factory, Ships to and from, J. B. Tyrrell, 155 
Morphology, Old and New, 306 
Mortality Tables and Expectation of Life, Prof. W. W. 
Campbell and others, 391 
Moscow, Report of the Agronomical Laboratory at, for 
1914, 114 7 
Mosquitoes, The Destruction of, by Fish, J. Legendre, 183 
Mothercraft, A School of, 334 
Mozambique, The Tertiary Volcanic Rocks of, A. Holmes, 
163 
Munition Workers: Health of, Memorandum of the Com- 
mittee, 134; Output of, in Relation to Hours of Work, 
Dr. H. M. Vernon, 315 
Murchison: Goldfield, Geological Reconnaissance of a 
Portion of the, H. P. Woodward, 390; of Taradale 
Memorial, Bequest of the, by Miss A. F. Yule, 382 | 
Musci and Hepaticz of the Glen of the Downs, D. McArdle, 
63 
swnels Physiology, Prof. F. S. Lee and others, 39 
Museums, Provincial, Evolution of, F. Woolnough, 376 
Musgrave Ranges, The, R. L. Jack, 399 
Muspratt, Dr. E. K., The Life-Work of, Sir T. E. Thorpe, 
Council of 
294; Implements, 4 
in the 
2 
Mussel The Common, I. Field, 297 
Mussels, Sterilised Water and, Dr. A. T. Masterman, 137 
Mutation: and Evolution, 99; The Relation of, to the 
Evolution Theory, Prof. A. Dendy, 99 
