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INDEX 



Besseraer's Steel, vni. 323. 



Bezold, Transmission by Nerves, iv. 



585. 

 Bicbat's View of tbe Nervous System, 



XT. 530. 

 Bicycles, xi. 13. 

 Bidwell, S., Selenium, ix. 52 1 ; Tele- 



pliotoo^rapby, 533. 

 Bigsby, J. J., Lake Superior, i. 154. 



• Donation, iv. 243. 



" Big Tree,'" viii. 578. 



Biogenesis, viii. 20. 



Biot, Experiments of, v. 188. 



Birds, History of, viii. 347. 



Birks, Rev. T. R., Analogies of Pbysi- 



cal and Moral Science, vit. 12. 

 Blackheatb Pebble-bed, i. 164. 

 Blackie, J. S.. Spartan Constitution and 



Agrarian Laws of Lycurgas, iv. 203. 



Music of Speech, v. 145. 



Popular Myths, vi. 129. 



Pre-Socratic Philosophy, vi. 302. 



Modern Greek Language, vi. 4'J3. 



Language, &c., of Scottish High- 

 lands, IX. 547. 

 Blakeley's Gun, m. 246 

 Blasting Gelatine, ix. 75 



of Coal or Rock, x. 110. 



Bleaching Powder invented, vi. 201. 

 Blind, Education of the, i. 290 ; Rules 



for their Management, 297. i 



Blue Sky, x. 204. 206. 

 Boileau, Sir J. P., Donation, iv. 153. 

 Boiler presented, ix. 37. 

 Boiling Water, Phenomena of, iv. 158. 

 Bolometer, xi. 273. 

 Bonelli's Electric Silk-Loom, iii. 272. 

 Bonnev, T. G., Building of the Alps, 



XI. 53. 

 Bonwick, J., on Tasmanians, viii. 621. 

 Boscovich's Theory, vii. 49. i 



Botfield, R., Legacy from, iv. 326. ' 



Boulger, G. S., obtains Actonian Prize, 



IX. 2S3. 



Boussingaiilt's Mode of procuring Oxv- 



gen, I. 337. , ' < 



Boutignv, M., Etudes sur les corps a 



I'e'tat sphe'roidal, i. 179. 

 Bowdich's Method of Purifying Coal I 



Gas, TV. 17. j 



Bowman, Sir W., presents ivory Bust \ 



of Faraday, viii. 508 ; elected Hon. 



Secretary, x. 14 ; resigns, xt. 285. 

 Boys, C. v., Meters for Electricity, &c. 



X. 235. 



Bicycles and Tricycles, xi. 13. 



Quartz Fibres, xii. 547. 



Bradbury, H., Nature Printing, ii. 106. 

 Bank Notes, ii. 263. 



Bradbury, H., Printing (no Ahstrarf) ii 



534. 



Present from, ii. 147. 



Bradford, W., Greenland, vt. 377. 

 Bradley, Rev. G. G., Westminster 



Abbey, xii. 217. 

 Bradley's Determination of the Velocity 



of Light, VII. 472 ; Discoveries, &c., 



X. 117. 

 Braid, Dr., on IMesmerism, xi. 26, 35. 

 Brain of Man and Apes, iii. 407. 



its Unconscious Activity, v. 338. 



Surgery in the Stone Ages, xii. 72. 



Br.imwell, Sir F., Future of Steel, viii, 



314. 

 "Thunderer" Gun Explosion, ix. 



221 ; Se.iuel to, 309. 



Channel Tunnel, x. 121. 



London (below bridge) N. and S. 



Communication, x. 483. 

 A Lecture with, and without, 



point (no Ahdract), xii. 262. 



Donation, xi. 175. 



elected Hon. Secretarv, xi. 284. 



Brande, W. T., Peat, i. 4. 



Electro-magnetic Clocks, i. 109. 



Address on resigning his Professor- 

 ship, I. 168 ; Report respecting, 170 ; 



elected Hon. Professor of Chemistry, 



171 ; Decease, iv. 550. 

 Branson, F., Nature-Printing, ii. 112. 

 LJrazil, Emjieror of, elected Hon. Mem- 

 ber, VI. :-'.84 ; Letter from, 422. 

 Breail-making, iii. 253. 

 BreeChloading Small Arms, v. 62. 

 Brett, J. W., Submarine Telegraph, ii. 



394. 

 Brewster, Sir David, on the Mirror of 



Japan, ix. 27. 

 Bridges, J. H., Influence of Civilisation 



upon Health, v. 470. 

 Bridges, x. 485 ; xii. 142. 

 Bri4:ain, Early Condition and Coinage, 



VII. 477. 

 British Empire, ]\Iap and Statistics, 



XII. 99, 127. 



Seas, Natural History of, i. 17. 



Brixham Hill Cavern, iii. 149. 

 Brockedon, W.. Caoutchouc, i. 42. 

 Foreign Wines and the Fungus 



on the Grape, i. 303. 

 Brodhurst, B. E., Donation, iv. 290. 

 Brodie, B. C, Allotropic Changes, i. 



201. 

 Hydrogen and its Homologues, i. 



325. 



Melting Points, i. 449. 



on Ozone, iii. 71 ; vi. 552. 



Brodrick, G. C, Land Systems, ix. 559. 



