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INDEX 
Metazoa, life in (Loeb and Northrop), 382. 
Meteor system of Pons-Winnecke's comet 
(Olivier), 47. 
Metz, C. W., and Bridges, C. B. Incom- 
patibility of Mutant Races in Droso- 
phila, 673. 
MiCHELSON, A. A. The Laws of Elastico- 
Viscous Flow, 319. 
Miller, E. C. Daily Variation of Water 
and Dry Matter in the Leaves of Corn 
and the Sorghums, 427. 
MiLLiKAN, R. A. A Re-Determination of 
the Value of the Electron and of Re- 
lated Constants, 231. 
Miner, J. R. A Note on the Fitting of 
Parabolas, 91. 
Molecule, nature of the magnetic (Barnett), 
178. 
Molecules, shape of (Langmuir), 251. 
Montana, sublacustrine glacial erosion in 
(Davis), 696. 
Moore, A. R. Chemical Differentiation of 
the Central Nervous System in Inverte- 
brates, 598. 
MoRLEY, E. W., see Iddings, J. P., 105, 592. 
Moseley's law for X-ray spectra (Uhler), 88. 
MuLLER, H. J. An Oenothera-Like Case in 
Drosophila, 619. 
Murray- Agassiz solution theory (Mayer), 
522. 
Muscle tension theory of heliotropism (Car- 
rey), 602. 
Mutation theory of De Vries (Davis), 704. 
Mutations in Drosophila (May), 544. 
National Research Council, Research 
Committees in Educational Institu- 
tions, 223. 
. Central Committees on Research, 
226. 
. Reports of Meetings of the Execu- 
tive Committee, 227, 438, 530, 582, 628, 
733. 
. Membership of the Committees of 
the Council, 317. 
. Joint Meeting of the Executive, 
Military, and Engineering Committees, 
443. 
. First Meeting of the Engineering 
Committee, 443. 
. Report of the Astronomy Committee, 
444. 
. Suggestions Relating to the New 
National Army by the Anthropology 
Committee of the National Research 
Council, 526. 
. First Report of Committee on Bot- 
any, 529. 
. Minutes of the Meeting of the Na- 
tional Research Council held on Thurs- 
day, April 19, 1917, in Rooms 42 and 43 
of the United States National Museum, 
Washington, D. C, 580. 
— • — . Scientific Publications from Germany, 
717. 
— — . Report of the Geology and Paleon- 
tology Committee, 721. 
■ — ' — . First Report of Committee on Zool- 
ogy, 724. 
. The Scope and Work of the Botani- 
cal Raw Products Committee, 731. 
Natural and isogonal families of curves on 
a surface (Lipka), 78. 
Naval commissions to untried men, award- 
ing of (Davenport), 404. 
N-cell, deformation of (Veblen), 654. 
Nebula, N. G. C. 7662, parallax of (van 
Maanen), 133. 
Nebulae, spiral (Curtis), 678. 
Nelson, N. C. Archaeology of Mammoth 
Cave and Vicinity: A Preliminary Re- 
port, 192. 
Neon, Stark effect in (Nyquist), 399. 
Nets of curves on surfaces (Eisenhart), 637. 
Neurones, rate of discharge of central (Forbes 
and Rappleye), 12. 
New Mexico, design-sequence from (Kidder), 
369. 
Nichols, E. L. New Data on the Phos- 
phorescence of Certain Sulphides, 199. 
Nicholson, S. B. The Ninth SateUite of 
Jupiter, 147. 
Ninth satellite of Jupiter (Nicholson), 147. 
Noctiluca, physiological study of (Harvey)^ 
15. 
North Atlantic Ocean bottom, Atlantis and 
the permanency of (Schuchert), 65. 
Northrop, J. H., see Loeb, J., 382, 539. 
Notices of Biographical Memoirs, 537. 
NoYES, W. A. A Kinetic Hypothesis to 
Explain the Function of Electrons in 
the Chemical Combination of Atoms, 
356. 
Nucleoside transformations (Jonhson and 
Hadley), 418. 
Nudib ranch, assortive mating in (Crozier)^ 
519. 
Nyquist, H. The Stark Effect in Helium 
and Neon, 399. 
Oenothera, crosses and selfed lines (Davis),, 
704. 
Oenothera-hke case in Drosophila (Muller),. 
619. 
Olivier, C. P. The Meteor System of 
Pons-Winnecke's Comet, 47. 
Orbit of Jupiter's ninth satellite (Nicholson)^ 
148. 
Orthogonal functions, series of (Birkhoff),655. 
OsBORN, H. F. Application of the Laws of 
Action, Reaction and Interaction in 
Life Evolution, 7. 
Pacific Ocean, alkalinity (Mayer), 548. 
Paleogeography, indicators of (Bucher)^ 
285. 
Panama, hydrology of the Isthmus (Abbot). 
41. 
Parabolas, fitting of (Miner), 91 
