Nature "I 

 December t, 1911J 



Index 



Rorer (J. B.), Bacterial Disease of Bananas in Trinidad, 

 151 ; Cause of Cacao Diseases, Canker and Black Rot, 

 traced, 191 

 Rosenhain (Dr. W.) and S. L. Archbutt, Alloys of 

 Aluminium and Zinc, 441 



Ross (H. C.) and J. W. Cropper, Induced Cell-reproduc- 

 tion and Cancer : the Isolation of the Chemical Causes 

 of Normal and of Augmented Asymmetrical Human 

 Cell-division, 1 



Ross (Sir Ronald, K.C.B., F.R.S.), Succeeds the late 

 Sir Rubert Boyce, F.R.S., as Member of the Advisory 

 Medical Committee for Tropical Africa, 423 ; Quantita- 

 tive Studies in Epidemiology, 466 



Roth (W. E.), Modern Men of the Stone Age in New 

 Guinea and North Australia, 124 



Rouse (.Dr. \v. H. D.), Education of Engineers, 22 



Rousselet (C. F.), Clare Island Survey : Rotifera, 33 



Rousset (J.), les Machines a Ecrire, 277 



Roussy (B.), Simple Geometrical Law of the Body Sur- 

 face of a Man of given Dimensions, 135 



Rowswell (Basil T.), a Starling's Deception, 550 



Rudzki (Prof. M. P.), Physik der Erde, 38 



Russell (A.), Prehnite from the Lizard, 33 



Russell (Dr. E. J.), Production of Plant Food in the Soil, 

 259 ; Lessons on Soil, 414 



Rutherford (Prof.), Necessity for a Standard of Radium, 

 89 



Ruthven (J. F.), Moxly's Theory of the Tides, 449 



Ruzicka (Prof. Vlad.), Studies of Bacterium nitri, 443 



Sabatier (Paul), Hydrogenation and Dehydrogenation by 



Catalysis, 426 

 Sabatier (P.) and A. Mailhe, Some New Preparations of 



the Benzylamines and of Hexahydrobenzylamine, 135 

 St. John (C. E.), Calcium Vapour in the Solar Atmo- 

 sphere, 460 

 Sankey (Captain), Portable Wireless Plant for Horseback, 



470 

 Sankey (Captain) and Pollard Digby, Study of Human 



Susceptibility to Vibration, 470 

 Sartory (A.), Value of Meyer's Reagent in Examination of 



Blood, 102 

 Sasaki (C), Life-history of the Aphis Schlechtendalia 



chine nsis, 444 

 Sawyer (VV. E.), Sugar Beet Industry in Norfolk, 259 

 Sayce (A. O.), Obituary Note, 150 

 Schaxel (J.), Oogenesis of the Jelly-fish Pelagia, 443 

 Schidrowitz (Dr. P.), Rubber, 348 

 Schlesinger (Dr.), Stellar Parallax Results with the Yerkes 



40-inch Refractor, 193 

 Schlich (.Sir Wm., K.C.I. E., F.R.S.), Schlich's Manual of 



Forestry, Vol. Hi., 243 

 Schneider (Dr. K.), die vulkanischen Erscheinungen der 



Erde, 410 

 Schneider (Karl C), Chromosomes in the Larval Sala- 

 mander, 443 

 Schofield (J-). 'he Anti-kathodes of X-Ray Tubes, 215 

 Schtschelkanowrew (J. P.), Male Organs of Chelifer and 



Chernes, 444 

 Schuberg (Prof. A.), Zoologisches Praktikum, 73 

 Schulz (Dr. W.), Zur Kenntniss der Cellulosearten, 108 

 Schuster (Prof. A., F.R.S.), Address to International 



Association of Seismology, 128 ; the Progress of Physics 



during Thirty-three Years, 375 

 Schwalbe (Prof. C. G.) and A. Lutz, Literatur der 



Zellstoff- und Papier-Chemie und der Papier-Technik im 



Jahre 1909, 108 

 Schwangart (Dr.), " Traubenwickler " Caterpillars (Vine 



Pests), 444 

 Schwartz (Prof. A.), Education of Engineers, 23 

 Schwarz (Prof. Ernest H. L.), Anhydrous Volcanoes, 45 

 Schweitzer (Dr. J. P.), Death, 253 

 Schwerz (Franz), Anthropology of the Canton Schaff- 



hausen since the Neolithic Period, 522 

 Scott (Mrs. D. H.), a Puzzling Fossil Organism, 



Traquairia, 527 

 Scott (Sir J. George, K.C.I.E.), Burma: a Handbook of 



Practical Information, 248 

 Scott (Kilburn), Manufacture of Nitrogen Products by 



Electric Power : Discussion by Sir Wm. Ramsay, Sir 



Wm. White and others, 470 



Scott-Elliot (Prof. G. F.), Useful Plant-inhabiting Mites, 



457 

 Scourfield (D. J.), Clare Island Survey: Fresh-water 



Entomostraca, 33 

 Seager (Mr.), Cretan Ancient Cliff-village, 518 

 Seal (Dr. Brajendranath), Meaning of Race, Tribe, Nation, 



'59 

 Sedgwick (.Rev. b. X.j, Butterflies and How to Identify 



them, 43 

 See (Prof. T. J. J.), Researches on the Evolution of the 



Stellar Systems, 275 

 Selenka (Frau Lenore) and Prof. Max Blanckenhorn, die 



Pithecanthropus-Schichten auf Java : Ergebnisse der 



Trinil Expedition, 49 

 Seligmann (Dr. C. G.J, the Divine Kings of the Shilluk, 



- 4/1 



Seligmann (Dr. C. G.) and Brenda Z. Seligmann, the 



Veddas, 175 

 Semple (Lieut. -Col. Sir D., Kt.), Relation of Tetanus to 



the Hypodermic or Intramuscular Injection of Quinine, 



259 ; Preparation of a Safe and Efficient Antirabic 



Vaccine, 259 

 Senderens (J. B.) and J. Aboulene, Catalytic Esterification 



of Aromatic Acids in the Wet Way, 34 

 Seward (Prof. A. C, F.R.S.), Links with the Past in the 



Plant World (.Evening Discourse at the British Associa- 

 tion), 502 

 Sharman (A. W.), Telephoning through Water without 



Wires, 422 ; System of Wireless Telephony and Tele- 

 graphy, 553 

 Shaw (Knox), Rediscovery of Borrelly's Comet, 427 

 Shaw (Dr. W. N.), Disappearance of Cloud at Full Moon, 



153 ; Portrait and Description of in The Scientific 



American, 392 ; Dangers to Aviators from Fluctuations 



in Air-currents, 440 ; Thunderstorms of July 2S and 29, 



498 ; Models Representing Air Currents up to Heights 



of 10 km., 498; Informal Meteorological Meetings at 



South Kensington, 558 

 Shenton (E. W. H.), Disease in Bone, and its Detection; 



by X-Rays, 448 

 Shepherd (Dr. W. T.), Mental Processes of the Rhesus 



Monkey, 53 

 Sheppard (Thomas), the Evolution of Kingston-upon-HuIl 



as Shown by its Plans, 549 

 Sherrington (Prof. C. S., F.R.S.), Inhibition, 533 

 Shoebotham (J. W.), Spring-tails (Collembola) New to 



British Fauna, &c, 465 

 Shoosmith (Capt. H. C), the End of the Beagle, 45 

 Siemens (Alex.), Remarks at the Conference on Training of 



Engineers, 21 

 Siemens (Alex.), Sir Wm. White, Composite Tramway 



Rails, 470 

 Sieverts (A.), Solubility of Hydrogen in Copper, Nickel, and 



Iron, 426 

 Simmons (W. H.) and C. A. Mitchell, Edible Fats and 



Oils : their Composition, Manufacture, and Analysis, 



546 

 Simpson (Prof. W. J., C.M.G.), Plague in England, 249 

 Skeat (W. W.), Origin of some Old Agricultural Words, 

 , 259 

 Slipher (Dr.), Peculiar Stellar Spectra and Selective 



Absorption in Interstellar Space, 128 

 Smith (Miss A. Lorrain), Clare Island Survey : Lichens, 



34, 425 ; a Monograph of Lichens, 175 

 Smith (B.), Physical Geography for Schools, 312 

 Smith (Prof. Elliot), Relations and Influence of the 



Egyptians under the Ancient Empire, 472 

 Smith (Geoffrey), Rapid Increase of Hen's Comb Prior to 



Egg-laying, 335 

 Smith (Thomas), Collection of Roman Coins, 150 

 Smith (Sir Wm. E., C.B.), Appointed Director of Naval 



Construction, 558 

 Sola (Comas), Brilliant Cloud on Martian Area Libya, 562 

 Sommerfeldt (Prof. E.), Praktikum der experimentellen 



Mineralogie mit Beriicksichtigung der kristallo- 



graphischen und chemischen Grenzgebiete, 513 

 Sommerville (Dr. D. M. Y.), Non-Euclidean Geometry, 450 

 Soper (H. E.), Hot Days in 1911, 550 

 Soueges (R.), Development of the Embryo in Mysorus 



minimus, ^76 

 South (F. W.), List of West Indian Fungoid Pests, 



1909-10, 231 



