INDEX. 



G31 



Barber, Mr. E. A., 2T3. 

 Barbier, Mr., lxxxiii. 

 Barium, metallic, 206. 

 Barker, Mr., lxxiv. 

 Barnacles ou birds, 33S. 

 Barnard, Prof. W. S., ccvii., 572. 

 Barnes, Mr., 366. 



Mr. Thomas, 591. 

 Barometer, a very delicate, 86. 

 altitude from, 2. 

 new self-recording, S4. 

 of large scale, new, S3. 

 Redier's self-recording, xxxvii., 



11L 

 the small oscillations of, 104. 

 Barometric changes, influence on clocks, 

 51. 

 hypsometry, 254. 

 observations on the ocean, 



104. 

 pressure, xxxviii. 

 pressure in European Russia, 

 105. 

 Barrel-hoops, closing, 545. 

 Bartells and Fritsch, Herren, clxvii. 

 Bartlett and Sous, Messrs., ccxxv. 

 Bartola and Maximo (Aztecs), clxvi., 



clxxi. 

 Bashforth, Prof., 189. 

 " Basilisk " in New Guiuea, 250. 

 Bastian, Dr., cxliii., cxlvi. 

 Mr., clxvii. 

 Prof., civ. 

 Bastie, M. De la, xliv., cclxxvii., 554, 



556. 

 Batrachia and reptilia of North America, 



343. 

 Batrachians and reptiles of Florida, cci. 



tailed, cc. 

 Bats and their young, ccix. 

 Baudelot, Prof. E., 591. 

 Baudrimont, Mr. E., clx., 355, 366. 

 Bauer, Mr., lxxxii. 



Prof., 557. 

 Banmann, Mr., xci. 

 Baunigarten, Dr. G., 175. 

 Baumhauer's meteorograph, xxxvii. 

 Bawins, Mr., 426. 

 Baye, Mr. de, clvii. 

 Beale, Dr., cxliv. 

 Beau, Mr. T. H., cxxv. 

 Beardslee, Capt. L. A., cxxiv., 490. 

 Beatty, Dr. Geo. D., cxl. 

 Bechamp and Estor, Messrs., cxlix. 

 Bechler, Mr. G. P., 275. 

 Beck, Messrs., cxxxviii. 

 Becker, Carl L. C, 591. 

 Becquerel, Messrs., S6. 



Mr., lxx., lxxiv., 120, 517. 

 Bedborough, Mr., 424. 

 Beddoe, Dr., clvi., clxvi. 

 Beddome, Mr., clxxxiii. 

 Bees and ants, cxci. 



wasps, and ants, habits of, 349. 

 Beetz, Mr., Ixxi., 164, 166. 

 Behm and Wagner, Messrs., 575, 

 Behrmann, Dr., xxix. 

 Belenet, Mr. A., 386. 

 Belgian exhibition of 1S76, 5S3. 

 Bell, Mr., 192. 



Bellefonds, M. Linant de, cxxx. 

 Bellomayer, Capt., 304. 

 Belluno, earthquake of, 65. 

 Belt, Mr., cviii. 



Bender, Mr., xciii. 



Benedict, Prof. T. N., 478. 



Benedikt, Mr., lxxxvii. 



Benfey, Prof., clxvii. 



Bengal, meteorology at, xxxv. 



Ber, Mr., civ. 



Beraud, Father, 12. 



Bereudt, Dr. Hermann, clxv. 



Berglaud, Lieut. E., 293, 294. 



Bergmann, Mr., 232. 



Bergsma, Mr., xxxiv. 



Bermardi, Mr., 481. 



Bershon and Perrier, Messrs., 31S. 



Bert, Dr. Paul, 353, 570. 



Berthelot, Mr., liii., lxxxiii., lxxxv., 



lxxxix., 125, 226. 

 Berthieu, Mr.,2<7. 

 Berthollet,Mr.,232. 

 Bertillon,Mr.,333. 

 Bertin, Mr., lxx. 

 Bertrand, Mr. A., clxxiii. 

 Berzelius and Kokscharof, Messrs., 206. 

 Besanez, Mr. Gorup, xcii. 

 Bessel, Mr., 26. 



Prof., 177. 

 Bessels, Dr. E., cxxvi., 261, 262. 

 Bessemer process, eclxiii. 

 works, cexxxiii. 

 Bettelli, Mr.,560. 

 Bettendorff, Mr., 232. 

 Bianchini, Mr., 22. 

 Bibra, Mr.J lxxxii. 

 Bickee, Prof. P. H., xxii. 

 Biela's comet, xxix., 49. 

 Biermann, Mr., 464. 

 Bikkers, Dr. A.W., clxxiii. 

 Binney, Mr. Wm. G., 573. 

 Binnie, Mr., 94. 

 Bird, Dr. Golding, exxxvi. 

 Bird, fossil, cciii. 

 Birds and reptiles, 357. 

 barnacles on, 338. 

 flight of, 340. 

 migration of, 340. 

 Birnie, Lieut. Rogers, Jr., 293. 

 Bishop, Mr., xxii. 



Black coloring of copper alloys and sil- 

 ver, 526. 



printing color, new, 528. 

 Bladderwort a carnivorous plant, 374. 

 Blandford, Mr., xxxv., xxxix., 17. 

 Blast, a monster, 50S. 

 Bleaching of linen, rapid, 524. 

 Bleaching-powder, 219. 



processes, eclxxxi. 

 Blochmann, Mr., lxxx. 

 Blood, cxl. 



diameter of the red globules, 

 31S. 



gases in the coagulation of, 317. 



gases of, 318. 



pigment scales of, 319. 

 Blue dye-stuff", new, 527. 



Ridge, pyrite deposits in, 210. 

 Bodman, Mr. Chas., 577. 

 Boehm, Mr., xcii. 

 Boeklund, Mr., xxvii. 

 Bogota Observatory, xxi. 

 Bohlken*s washing-machine, 452. 

 Boiler incrustation, preventing, 4S7. 

 Boillot, Mr., 215. 

 Boisbaudran, Mr., liv., Iv. 

 Bolau,Dr.,ccx. 

 Bolton, Prof. H. C, 5S5. 



