XXIV 
Index 
ae Nature, 
October 24, 1912 
Belfast : Rolling-stock on Irish Railways, R. M. Livesey ; 
New Belfast Graving Dock, W. R. Kelly; Evolution of 
Flax-spinning Spindle, J. Horner; Peat for Power Pur- 
poses, H. Pegg; Durability of Wire Ropes, D. 
Adamson ; Reciprocating Straight-blade Sawing-machines, 
C. Wicksteed, 589 
Engines: Testing of Motive-power Engines, R. Royds, 27; 
Heat Engines, H. A. Garratt, 628; Radial Tank Loco- 
motives, 643; see also Diesel 
Entomology: Bionomics of Nematus ericksoni, the large 
Larch Sawfly, Dr. R. S. MacDougall, 52; Mimicry 
amongst the Blattide, R. Shelford, 77; Acclimatisation 
in New England of the European Ground Beetle to check 
Destructive Moths, A. F. Burgess, 91; Attempts to check 
Gipsy and Brown-tail Moths in U.S., L. O. Howard and 
W. F. Fiske, 197; Maxillule, Presence of, in Larve of 
Dytiscide, J. Mangan, 260; Claviger longicornis in 
Oxfordshire, J. J. Walker, 275; Entomology for Medical 
Officers, A. Alcock, C.I.E., F.R.S., 474; Larvicides in 
Action, Surgeon-Captain F. F. MacCabe, 496; Second 
International Congress of Entomology: Address by 
President, Prof. Poulton; Nature Reserves, Hon. N. C. 
Rothschild ; Entomological Problems in the West Indies, 
W. A. Ballou, Sir D. Morris; Nomenclature, C. 
Oberthiir ; Insect Vision, Dr. A. Seitz; Distribution of 
Mallophaga, Prof. V. L. Kellogg, all 610-611; Pairing 
of False-scorpions of Subgenera Chelifer and Chernes, 
H. W. Kew, 614; see also Insects 
Enzyme Action, H. E. Armstrong and others, 311, 312 
Eoliths, R. Bonnet and G. Steinmann, 92 
Equations, Real Roots of Algebraic, Dr. R. F. Muirhead, 
431 
Eskdalemuir Observatory, 593 
Eskimo, a Lost Tribe among, V. Stefansson, 644 
Ethnology: Primitive Exogamy and the Caste System: the 
Sirki Walas, W. Kirkpatrick, 132; Mohammedan Shrines 
in the Valley of the Indus, Major A. O’Brien, 225; 
Collections at Marischal College, Aberdeen, 274; Bush- 
man Sticks decorated in Intaglio and Poker-work, L. 
Peringuey, 287; Indians of N.W. Coast of America, 
C. M. Barreau, 483; Hammock Dance at Sierra Leone, 
s10; Omens and Superstitions of Southern India, E. 
Thurston, 530; Pygmies of New Guinea, 556; Australia, 
Prof. B. Spencer, C.M.G., F.R.S., and F. J. Gillen, 
Dr. A. C. Haddon, F.R.S., 608; Ceremonies at Burial 
of a Chief in Rhodesia, D. Wright, 667; Namaqualand 
Bushmen, Miss L. Currlé, 677 
Etna Eruption, 640 
Eugenics : Eugenics Congress, 38, 558; President’s Address, 
558; an Introduction to Eugenics, W. C. D. Whetham, 
F.R.S., and Catherine D. Whetham, 263; Vererbung 
und Rassenhygiene, Dr. H. Bayer, 325; Dr. A. F. 
Tredgold, 586; Eugenics Review, 614; see also Dwarfism 
and Heredity 
Euphrates and Tigris Water Regulation, Sir W. Willcocks, 
81 
Brolution die Abstammungslehre: zw6lf Vortrage iiber 
die Deszendenztheorie im Licht der neueren Forschung, 
O. Abel, A. Brauer, and others, 4; Evolution in the 
Past, Henry R. Knipe, 137; Evolution of Human Hand, 
and the Ape, Prof. H. Klaatsch, 374 
Exercising in Bed, S. Bennett, Prof. R. T. Hewlett, 527 
Explosions in Mines, 562 
Explosives : Historical Papers on Modern Explosives, G. W. 
MacDonald, 372 
Eyes: Instrument for Measuring the Distance between the 
Centres of Rotation of the Two Eyes, H. S. Ryland and 
B. T. Lang, 51; Histological Structure of Retina in 
Lateral Eyes of Sphenodon, Miss Freda Bage, 67; Prof. 
Bergson and the Eye of Pecten, Dr. W. J. Dakin, 86; 
Autophanous Eyes, Charlotte I. W. Cuffe, H. de S.-P., 
87; Are Eyes ever Autophanous? K. H. Barnard, 138; 
Development of Eye in Embryos of Edible Frog, Prof. 
H. Spemann, 327 
False-scorpions, Pairing of, H. W. Kew, 614 
Fasting Cure, Upton Sinclair, Prof. R. T. Hewlett, 527 
Feeble Minded, see Mental 
Ferric Oxide, Transformation of, into. Magnetic Oxide, 
Dr. G. E. Allan and J. Brown, 547 
Fever, a Clinical Study of Experimental, E. C. Hort and 
W. J. Penfold, 76 
Fibre: Anleitung zur mikroskopischen Untersuchung von 
Pflanzenfasern, Dr. G. Tobler-Wolff and Prof. F. Tobler, 
Dr. F. Cavers, 497 
Filaria Bancrofti, P. H. Bahr, 487 
Fiords in relation to Earth Movements, 
Gregory, 179 
Fire: Technical Committee for Fire Prevention in France, 
199; British Fire Prevention Committee, 586 
Fish: Living Specimens of the Australian Lung-fish, Dr. 
Bashford Dean, 207; Index to Pieter Bleeker’s Papers, 
Dr. M. Weber and Dr. L. F. de Beaufort, 225; Poison 
Organs and Venoms of Poisonous Fishes, Dr. H. Muir 
Evans, 259; Fishes from British E. Africa, G. A. 
Boulenger, A. B. Percival, 312; Forme, Puissance et 
Stabilité des Poissons, Prof. F. Houssay, 319; Expedi- 
tion to Panama Canal, 327; Pharyngeal Teeth of Carp, 
Col. Shepherd, 483; Antarctic (Scotia) Collection, C. T. 
Regan, 521; Age and Growth of Salmon and Trout in 
Norway, K. Dahl, I. Baillie, 523; New Japanese Cyclo- 
gaster, Messrs. Gilbert and Burko, 564; Diseases of 
Fishes, G. H. Drew, 641; Ornamentation during the 
Breeding Season, H. W. Fowler, 668; see also Eel 
Fisheries : Sea Fisheries: their Treasures and Toilers, Prof. 
Marcel A. Hérubel, B. Miall, S. Reynolds, 1; Fisheries 
of Bengal, Dr. J. T. Jenkins, 20; Sea Fisheries 
Organisation and Research, 509; the North Sea, Prof. 
D’A. W. Thompson, 593 
Fishing : the Gentle Art, H. Lamond, 523 
Flints, Striated, from Chalky Boulder Clay, J. Reid Moir, 
607 
Flowers: Wild Flowers as they Grow: Photographed in 
Colour, H. E. Corke, G. C. Nuttall, Dr. Cavers, 213, 497 ; 
Flower Sanctuary, F. H. Perrycoste, 548, 607; Right 
Hon. Sir H. Maxwell, F.R.S., 581; Right Hon. Sir 
Ed. Fry, G.C.B., F.R.S., 661 
Fluorescence of Sodium Vapour, L. Dunoyer, 131 
Fluorine: Apparatus for Determining Minute Quantities, 
A. Gautier and P. Clausmann, 390, 443 
Fog: the Sun as a Fog-producer, Dr. J. Aitken, 131 
Food: Food and the Child, 280; see also Diet and 
Physiology 
Forced Vibrations, see Vibrations 
Forestry : Planting at High Altitudes in the Lake District, 
14; Report of Departmental Committee in Scotland, 90; 
Complete Yield Tables for British Woodlands and the 
Finance of British Forestry, P. Trentham Maw, 319; 
Forest Resources of India, R. S. Pearson, 539; Develop- 
ment, 570; Lichtgenuss of Oak and Beech, G. P. Gordon, 
Prof. J. W. 
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Forests and Rainfall, Sir W. Schlich, F.R.S., 662 
Fossils, Early Fossil Cirripedes of the Genus Scalpellum, 
T. H. Withers, 130; Rhetinangium Arberi, a new Type 
of Fossil Stem from Pettycur, Dr. W. T. Gordon, 131; 
Beekite in Fossil Shells, James Strachan, 145; Remark- 
able Cambrian Fossils from British Columbia, Dr. C. D. 
Walcott, 334; Guide to Fossil Invertebrate Animals in 
the British Museum (Natural History), 345; Discovery of 
Fossils in the Chert and Black Shale Series at Aberfoyle, 
Dr. Thomas J. Jehu, 347; Nature of Tooth-like Paleozoic 
Fossils Edestus, &c., Dr. O. P. Hay, 430; Nature of 
Stromatoporoids, R. Kirkpatrick, 607 
Fowls, Spirochztes in, Dr. Andrew Balfour, 11 
France, State Universities of, Anna T. Smith, 571 
Friction of Solids, Miss Jacob, 303; Effects of Friction in a 
Vacuum on Thorium Oxide, R. Howlett, 606 
Frost, Glazed, Andrew H. Palmer, 192 
Fuel: Introduction to the Study of Fuel, Dr. F. J. Brislee, 
549; Royal Commission to Report on Liquid Fuel, 561 
Fungi: British Fungi: with a Chapter on Lichens, G. 
Massee, 30; Fungi parasitic on Fruits and their Toxic 
Action, Dr. Diana Bruschi, 92; Lower Fungi, Dr. 
Némec, 539; Critical Summary of Works in 1911 on 
Cytology of Reproduction, J. Ramsbottom, 564 , 
Furnace, Crucible, for Laboratory Work up to a Tempera- 
ture of 1600° C., A. Verneuil, 669 
Fusibility Curves of Volatile Binary Systems at Low Tem- 
peratures, G. Baume and N.. Georgitses, 79; Fusibility 
Curves of Volatile Systems, G. Baume and P. Pamfi!, 
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