INDEX. 



641 



Bass, black, clxx. 



Bastaert's method of drying fabrics, 501. 



Bastian, Dr., xcv., cxxxi. 



Bates, Mr. H. W., cxxx. 



Bathybius, news of, cii. 



a living organism, cxxxix. 



Baudelot, Mr., cxxxiii. 



Baudrimont, Mr., 184. 



Baumeister, Mr., 455. 



Baxendell, Mr., xxx., OS. 



Bay of Fundy, sea-weeds of, 356. 



Bayan, Ferdinand, Oil. 



Beach-mining in California, 462. 



Beardslee, Commander L. A., xxxviii., 

 clxxx. 



Beccari, Mr., xciii., 249. 



Bechler, Mr. G. K., 276. 



Becquerel, Mr., xlii. 



Beddoe, Dr., ex. 



Beeches in South America, 36S. 



Beer, detection of foreign bitter princi- 

 ples in, 440. 

 detection of picric acid in, 440. 

 unalterable, 438. 



Bees and wasps insensible to sound, cliii. 



Begonia siderie, 363. 



Begonias, ornamental, 363. 



Behm & Wagner, Messrs., Ixxviii. 



Behring's Strait, catalogue of shells of, 

 345 



Beke', Dr. Charles F., 611. 



Belgrand, Mr., 564. 



& Lemoin, Messrs., 106. 



Belknap, Commander Geoige E., Ixxviii., 

 lxxx. 



Bell, Mr., Ixxiv. 



Prof. S. L., 257. 



Belladonna and Calabar bean, 547. 



Bellegarde, fossil phosphates of, 3S4. 



Bellucci, Prof., 203. 



Belt, Mr. Thomas, cxxx., 235. 



Bending glass tubes, 452. 



Beneche, Mr., xcviii. 



Benevides, Prof., 431. 



Bengal meteorology, 74. 



Benneder, Mr.,4SS. 



Bennett, Mr. A. W., clx. 



Bentley, Prof., 361. 



Benzine for cleaning, 434, 435. 

 stains, preventing, 433. 



Benzole acted on by ozone, 204. 



Beranger, Mr., 471. 



Berendt, Dr., cxviii. 



Berkeley, Mr., 374. 



Bermudas, botany of the, 355. 



natural history of the, 2S3. 



Bernard, Mr. Claude, exxxii. 



Berndt, Prof., 4S2. 



Bert, Mr., 372, 572. 



Berthelot, Mr., xlv., xlvii., 1. 



Bertrand, Mr., 297. 



Bessel & Auwers, Messrs., xxx. 



Bessels, Dr., lxxxii., lxxxv., exxxviii., 55. 



Bessemer steel in the United States, 459. 



Biblical archaeology, exxv. 



Bichromate of potash in dressings for fab- 

 rics, 495. 



Bickmore, Mr., 579. 



Bickuell, Mr. Edward, 579. 



Bidder, Mr. G. P., 127. 



Binney, Mr. William G., 592. 



Binz, Dr., 559. 



Birch, Dr., cxv., exxiv. 



Bird & Co., Messrs., 45S. 



Birds, color of, and their geographical dis- 

 tribution, 306. 

 history of North American, clvi. 

 new classification of, 307. 

 of Alaska, 340. 



of Northwestern Mexico, 341. 

 protection of, 375. 

 Birds-of-paradise, collection of, 341. 

 Birnie, Lieutenant, 271. 

 Birt, Mr., xxvii. 

 Bischof, Mr., lxiii., 503. 

 Bischoff. Mr., 341. 

 Biscoe, Prof. T. D., xcix. 

 Biscuit of meat, 44s. 

 Bismuth mine in France, 220. 

 Bison, decrease in the European, 339. 

 Bisulphide of soda against chlorine, 49S. 

 Bite of poisonous serpents, cure for, 570. 

 Black, dyeing feathers, 503. 



fast, 505. 

 Black-drop, phenomena of the, 145. 

 Blackmann, Mr., 144. 

 Blackly, Mr., 350. 

 Blair, Mr. Thomas S., clxxiv. 

 Blake, Mr. James, lxxi. 



Mr. J. M., xliii. 

 Bland, Mr. Thomas, 592. 

 Blaney, Dr. J. V. Z.,611. 

 Blauford, Mr. H. F., 74, 92. 

 Blaserna, Prof., 21. 

 Bleaching shellac, 436. 



skeletons, 2S1. 

 Bleaching-powder, lxiii. 

 Bleek, Dr., exxxii. 



Blight on forest trees, new form of, 394. 

 Blochmann,Mr., xlix., 1. 

 Blondlot, Mr., xlviii. 

 Blood, circulation of, 2S6. 



gaseous constituents of, lix. 

 microscopically, cvii. 

 stains, determination of, 279. 

 Bloomer, Jr., Hiram G., 611. 

 Blower & Co., Messrs., ci. 

 Blue, Egyptian, 536. 



on wool, aniline, 504. 

 Blunt, Lieutenant, 270. 

 Blyth, Mr. Edward, 012. 

 Blytt, Mr. Alexander, clx. 

 Bobretzky, Dr., cxlviii. 

 Bockeler, Mr., clx. 

 Bocourt, Mr., 311. 

 Boehm, Mr., 370. 

 BGhme, Mr.,432. 



Boiler incrustation, prevention of, 469. 

 Bolzmann, Mr., xliv., 175. 

 Bombay, Colaba Observatory at, 67. 



diurnal variations at, 67. 

 Bond, Mr., xxviii. 

 Bondonneau, Mr., lii. 

 Bone, composition of, 290. 

 Bone-black and light for bleaching shel- 

 lac, 436. 

 -cave in Switzerland, new, 296. 

 Borax and caseine, 541. 



for cleaning j;ilt articles, 454. 

 Borden, Prof. W. W., 236. 

 Boricky, Mr., lxvi. 

 Botany, clviii., 355. 



anatomical and physiological, clx. 

 of the Bermudas, 355. 

 systematic, 363. 



yearly report cf progress in, 361. 

 Bottger, Mr., xlv., 201, 4S8, 491. 

 Bouchut, Mr., 549. 



