INDEX. 



631 



Barometric wave, the great, 60. 

 Barrett, Mr. Win. F., 87. 

 Bartholomite, 137. 

 Barytes for weighting goods, 523. 



in sugar refining, 505. 

 Bassaris, captured in Ohio, 240. 

 Bass, Mr. L., 170. 



Otsego, raising, 423. 

 Bastaert, Mr., 529. 

 Bastian, Dr., 196, 347. 

 Bate, Mr. S pence, 305. 

 Bathing, effects of, on the heat of the 

 body, 504, 

 effects of, on the weight of the 

 body, 5SS. 

 Bathmodon and pterodactyls, 244. 

 Baths, hot sand, 592. 

 Bats, Belgian, and their parasites, 242. 

 Baudrimout, Mr., 351. 

 Baxt, Mr., 77. 

 Bayer, Mr., 93. 



Bay of Fundy, explorations in, 176. 

 Bay of the Grand Duke Coustautine, 167. 

 Beads, prehistoric, 221. 

 Beaman, Mr., 127. 

 Beardsley, Mr., 196. 

 Beaver, parasite of, 300. 

 Beccari, Mr., 16S. 

 Beckwith, Captain N. W., 176. 

 Bccquerel, Edmond, 2. 

 Beef tea, 553. 

 Beer yeast, fat in, 98. 

 Bees, curious habit of, 304. 

 Beet-leaves for fodder, 364. 

 Benin, Mr., 329. 

 Beke, Mr. Charles, 163. 

 Belgium, death of A. J. Spring in, 353. 



new fossil Sirenian in, 246. 

 Bell, Mr. William, 175. 

 Beloochistan expedition, 161. 

 Bennett, Mr., 292. 

 Benzine for cleaning, 467. 



for cleaning sewing-machines, 

 522. 

 Berlin aquarium, 219. 

 Bermudas, geology of, 137. 

 Bernard, Professor Claude, 2S6, 556, 5S1. 

 Bert, Dr., 352. 

 Berthelot, Mr., 103, 002. 

 Bethell process for preserving timber, 4S5. 

 Beyrichite, a new mineral, 116. 

 Bibb, coast survey steamer, 44. 

 Bienue, lake, lacustrine villages on, 223. 

 Bill, Mr. James A., 410. 



of the huia bird, nse of, 324. 

 Billings, Dr. J. S., 3S2. 



Mr. E., 20S. 

 Binz, Mr., 2S4. 

 Biot, Mr., 79. 



Bird from Queensland, new wingless, 252. 

 Birds, carpal and tarsal bones of, 336. 



American, in Europe, 247. 



in France, scarcity of small, 359. 



in New Zealand, giant raptorial, 252. 



new fossil, 253, 254. 



of Florida, 320. 



of Kansas, etc., 321. 



of New Zealand, 309. 



of New Zealand, catalogue of, 253. 



of the British Islands, 326. 



of the United States, 336. 



work on American, 310. 

 Birmingham, college of physical science 

 in, 600. 



Birmingham, sewage committee, 575. 

 Birt, Mr., 33, 69, 587. 

 Bischoff, Mr., 610. 



Bismuthoferrite, anew mineral, 117. 

 Bisulphide of carbon and silver, 72. 

 Bituminous shales in Australia and India, 



119. 

 Black Baas to California, 409. 

 to England, 414. 

 Sea and Caspian, canal between, 473. 

 currents, 57. 

 Blackburn, Mr., 250. 

 Blacking, glycerine, 547. 

 Blackmore, Mr., 232. 

 Blaaders of fishes, gases in, 104. 

 Blake, Mr. Jas. II., 204, 10. 

 Blakiston, Captain, 105. 

 Blanford, Mr. W. T., 229, 161. 

 Blatchford, Mr., 610. 



Bleaching by permanganate of potash, 509. 

 process, new, 50S. 

 with sulphurous acid, 529. 

 Bleeker, Dr.,262. 

 Blodgett, Mr.,07. 

 Blondeau, Mr., 323. 

 Blood corpuscles, quinine on, 276. 



variation in size of, 276. 

 from the eye of horned toad, 256. 

 globules, modification of, 277. 

 injection of septicemic, 595. 

 iron in the, 314. 

 poisoning, 578. 

 Blood-stains, guaiacum on, 104. 

 Bloomingtou Scientific Association, 609. 

 Blue coloring matter of fishes, 302. 

 from antimony, 530. 

 Iudulin, 511. 

 new, 530. 

 Bluefish in New York, consumption of,414. 



on the southern coast, 205. 

 Blnmenthal, Mr., 564. 

 Blythe, Dr.,619. 



Board of Health, Massachusetts, 554. 

 Boeck, Dr. Axel, 190. 

 Bottger, Professor, 114, 545. 

 Boiler coating, Keenan's, 476. 

 Boletus, blue color from, 100. 



luridus, 100. 

 Bolson,Mr.,100. 

 Bone cave in Germany, 222. 



effect of interment on, 295. 

 Boomerang, people using it, 310. 



used by American Indians, 

 235. 

 Borate of manganese, 506. 

 Borax and Epsom salt for fire-proofing, 

 4^0. 

 and sub-borate of ammonia for ana- 

 tomical preparations, 578. 

 a preservative of milk, 463. 

 for drying oil and varnish, 545. 

 in starch, 459. 

 Borelli at Marseilles, 36. 

 Boston Advertiser, 51. 

 Botanical journal, new French, 339. 

 Botany, 339. 



Bothcamp observatory, 3S. 

 Bouchant.it, l)r.,9S. 

 Bongoin, .Mr.. 92. 

 Bouley, Dr., 3S7, 389, 392. 

 Boussinganlt, Mr., 155. 

 Bonwer, Mr.,.300. 

 Bowdich, Dr., 592. 

 Bowles, Mr. B.F., 401, 402. 



