Nature, ] 
August 11, 1923 
Title Index 
XXxi 

Benzoic Acid, The Ultra-violet Absorption Spectra of, and | Brass-casting in the Central Cameroon, L. W. G. Malcolm, 
of the Three Oxybenzoic Acids, A. Castille and F. W. 
Klingstedt, 488 
Bergen Museum, The New Marine Biological Research 
Station of the, Prof. A. Brinkmann, 358 
Berkeley and Broome, J. Ramsbottom, 274, 553 
Beryllium Acetate, Basic, Crystal Structure of, Sir W. H. 
Bragg, 532; Dr. N. V. Sidgwick, 808 
Bessel Functions: A Treatise on, and their Applications 
to Physics, Prof. A. Gray and G. B. Mathews. Second 
edition prepared by A. Gray and Dr. T. M. MacRobert, 
422; A Treatise on the Theory of, Prof. G. N. Watson, 
422 
Beta Ceti: Increase of Brightness of, 338; The Brighten- 
ing of, E. O. Tancock, 479 
Big ane The Wonderland of, Major A. R. Dugmore, 
782 
Binary Organic Mixtures, the Cryoscopic Study of, N. 
Perrakis, 691 
Bio-Chemistry, A Laboratory Handbook of, P. C. Raiment 
and G. L. Peskett, 181 
Biodynamik, Grundlagen einer, Prof. J. Reinke, 72 
Biological Action of Light, The Influence of Temperature 
on the, Dr. L. Hill and A. Eidinow, 653 
Biologischen Arbeitsmethoden, Handbuch der, Heraus- 
gegeben von Prof. E. Abderhalden. Abt. V. Teil 3A, 
Heft 3, Lief. 69. Abt. IX. Teil 1, Heft 2, Lief. 71, 
390; Abt. IX. Teil 4, Heft 1, Lief. 76, 530 
Biology : in Utopia, 591 ; Religion and, E. E. Unwin, 531 
Biometry and Genetics, Prof. R. Pearl and others, 513 
“ Bird Men ’”’ and Kindred Customs in the Balkans, Miss 
M. Edith Durham, 450 ‘i 
Birds ; the Orientation Faculty of, Terrestrial Magnetism 
and, 711; (Second edition), C. S. Baker’s, in the 
“Fauna of British India,’’ H. C. Robinson and C. B. 
Kloss, 656; Soaring Flight and the ‘ Olfactory” 
Organs of Birds, Prof. W. E. M‘Kechnie, 48 
Birmingham University : Appointments in, 167; Gift to, 
by the Mitsui Family; F. W. M. Lamb appointed 
assistant lecturer in pathology ; appeal for funds, 240 ; 
Dr. H. H. Sampson appointed honorary assistant 
curator of the surgical section of the Pathological 
Museum, and J. S. M. Connell honorary assistant 
curator of the gynzcological section, 723; Bequests 
by Elizabeth Kenway and J. S. Taylor, 792 
Birthday Honours, The King’s, 783 
Bismuthamines, The, a New Class of Bodies, 
Vournazos, 867 
Bivalve Molluscs injuring Brickwork in the Calcutta 
Docks, Dr. N. Annandale, 555 
Black: Currant, “ Big Bud” of, 719; Maketu Sand, 
Constitution of, Dr. C. J. Smithells and F. S. Goucher, 
397; Dr. A. Scott, 463 
Blattoid Wing, a New, from the Harrow Hill Mine, 
Drybrook (Forest of Dean), H. Bolton, 902 
Boat to travel against the Wind, a, 60 
Boiler Plant Testing: a Criticism of the present Boiler 
Testing Codes and Suggestions for an Improved 
International Code, D. Brownlie, 215 
Bone Harpoons discovered in Yorkshire, 547 
Bones, Destructive Distillation of, E. V. Aleksejevski, 684 
Boron, Valency of, Prof. J. Boeseken, 894 
Borough Polytechnic, The Work of the, Sir Douglas 
McGarel Hogg, 241 
Botanic Illustration, History of, during Four Centuries 
(Colour), Dr. B. Daydon Jackson, 623 
Botanical Survey of British Malaya, The, 6 
Botany in India, 547 
Botulism: and Food Preservation (The Loch Maree 
Tragedy), Dr. G. Leighton, 737; in Scotland, Dr. 
G. R. Leighton, 415; Organism, Distribution of the, 
Prof. K. F. Meyer and others, 95 
Bournemouth, Middle Eocene Flora of, The Cuticular 
Structure of certain Dicotyledonous and Coniferous 
Leaves from the, Miss Helena Bandulska, 206 
Bowmore-Portaskaig District of Islay, Structure of the, 
J. F. N. Green, 725 
Boys and Girls respectively in Secondary Schools, Report 
of the Consultative Committee on Differentiation of 
the Curriculum for, 657 
Brain-workers, Payment for, 405 
BIC; 
129 
Breeding Experiments on the Inheritance of Acquired Char- 
acters, Dr. P. Kammerer, 637; J. T. Cunningham, 702 
Bristol University: H. Briton-Jones appointed lecturer 
in mycology, E. Ballard adviser in plant pathology, 
and H. P. Hutchinson organiser of research in willow 
growing at the Agricultural and Horticultural Station 
at Long Ashton, 273; War Memorial Tablet, 306 ; 
Dr. L. J. Russell appointed professor of philosophy, 
449; The Promotion of Research in the, 790 
British : Association : Committee on Training in Citizenship, 
Third Report of the, 307; meeting at Liverpool, 
Presidents and Recorders of the Sections, 91, 825; 
The Local Handbook of the, T. Sheppard, 16; 
Astronomical Association Handbook for 1923, 27; 
Basidiomycete : A Handbook to the Larger British 
Fungi, C. Rea, 213; Botany: Manual of, containing 
the Flowering Plants and Ferns arranged according 
to the Natural Orders, C. C. Babington. Tenth 
edition, edited by A. J. Wilmott, 251; Coleoptera, 
Records of, J. C. F. and H. F. Fryer, 683 ; Dyestuffs 
Corporation, Ltd., list of the products of the, 158 ; 
Empire: Exhibition, 1924, 37, 93; and a Scientific 
Exhibit, 715 ; Water-Power in the, T. Stevens, 607 ; 
Journal Photographic Almanac and Photographer’s 
Daily Companion, 1923. Edited by G. E. Brown, 45 ; 
Meteorological and Magnetic Year Book, 1920. 
Part III. Section 2. Geophysical Journal, 1920, 45 ; 
Museum: (Natural History), addition of Dinosaunan 
remains to the, 231; protest against rumoured 
reduction of grant for, 265; (Natural History), 
Carboniferous Corals in the Geological Department of 
the, 371 ; The proposal to charge for admission to the, 
405; (Natural History), the palzo-botanical Collec- 
tion of Dr. D. H. Scott acquired by the, 406 ; (Natural 
History), Scientific Reunion of the Staff Association 
of the, 407 ; withdrawal of the proposal to charge for 
admission to the, 439, 475; (Natural History), a Rib 
of the Cetiosaurus leedsi added to the, 509; Guide 
to the Maudslay Collection of Maya Sculptures 
(Casts and Originals) from Central America, 631 ; 
(Natural History), acceptance of a portrait of Dr. A. 
Russel Wallace, 819; Mycological Society, Trans- 
actions ofthe. Vol. 8, Pts. 1 and 2, 234; Non-Ferrous 
Metals Research Association, Lectures on the Work 
of the, 406 ; North Borneo: An account ofits History, 
Resources, and Native Tribes, ©: Rutter, 391; 
The Natives of, E. O. Rutter, 309; Science Guild : 
Journal of the, February, 408; meeting at the 
Mansion House, 342; Work of the, 782; Surveying 
Instruments, W. H. Connell, 648; (Terra Nova) 
Antarctic Expedition, 1910-1913. Observations on 
the Aurora, C. S. Wright, 897; Determinations of 
Gravity, C. S. Wright, 898; University Statistics, 
1921-22, 899; Upper Air Data in the Light of the 
Norwegian Theory of the Structure of the Cyclone, 
An Examination of, W. H. and L. H. G. Dines, 587 
Broadcasting: a Picture, Dr. Fournier d’Albe, 751 ; 
appointment of a committee on, 613; and Wireless 
Sciences, 589; Pictures, A Method of, Dr. E. E. 
Fournier d’Albe, 811; Practical, Mr. Shaughnessy, 
679; Transmitter, Sir Oliver Lodge, 13 
Bronze Age, The, and the Celtic World, H. Peake, 454 
Brown Bast Disease of Rubber Trees, A. Sharples, 234 
Bubonic Plague, Surg.-Gen. Bannerman, 197 
Building : Construction Research, 415; in Cob and Pisé 
de Terre, 415 
Burettes, Notes on, V. Stott, 830 
Burma: Eocene Pelecypoda of, Dr. G. de P. Cotter, 893 ; 
Riverine Tract of, Preliminary Note on the Ecology 
of Part of the, Dr. L. D. Stamp and L. Lord, 555 
Butter-Making, Principles: and Practice of, Dr. G. L. 
McKay and Prof. C. Larsen. Third edition, 77 
“Cabinet du Roi,” The, and the Forgotten Discoveries of 
Rochon, G. Bigourdan, 310 
Cactacee, The: Descriptions and Illustrations of Plants 
of the Cactus Family, N. L. Britton and J. N. Rose, 
Vol. 3, 426 
