INDEX. 



An asterisk (''') indicates that a figure is given. 



Abbott, W. J. L., on Pre-glacial Man, 



400 

 *Abdei-ites, 106 



Academy Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, 798 

 *Acanthaspis decipiens, 599 

 *Acipcnser, 34 



Agassiz, A., and the Museum of Com- 

 parative Zoology, 72 



Age of earth, 487 



Agricultural museums, 371 



Alcyoniuiii, 93 



"Albatross" Expedition, 448 



Algae, 249 



Alpheus, 244 



Amber, plants in, 377 



American Association, 397 



American Museum, 557 



American Ornithologists' Union, 799 



Ammodorcas clarkei, 259 



Ammophila, 494 



Amphioxus, 728 

 *AucJienaspis egertoni, 599 



Andes, the, 217 

 *Aneroids, errors of, 219 



Animal coloration, 700 



Animal life, phases of, 222 



Animals, dispersal of, 562 



Animals, sudden destruction of, 322 



Annals of British Geology, 69 



Annals of Scottish Natural History, g 



Antelopes of Somali-land, 255 



Anthropology as a science, 252 

 *Anthropops, 104 



Anti-vivisection, 648 



Ants and mites, 164 



Apodidag, 312 



Arachnida, 53, 522 



Archaeology in Dorset and Wilts, 569 



Arthropods ; how they walk, 676 



Association frangaise, 397 



Atlas of Physical Geography, 226, 395 



Australasian Association, 159 



Australia and extinct forms of life, 732 

 * Australian Barrier Reef, 646 



Australian Museum, 557 



Babies and monkeys, 799 



Bacteria, 338 



Baddeleyite, 734 



Bagshot controversy, 654 



Baltic, Quaternary history of, 5G8 



Barbados, 324 



Barbados coral reefs, 52 



Bas Boulonnais, geology of, 414 



Bath Museum, 576 



Bather on " Museums and Specialists," 



718 

 Batrachians, poisonous secretions of, 



185 

 Bavaria, geology of, 69 

 Beauties of Nature, 782 

 Beavers, 789 

 Beavers, extinct, 337 

 Beddard on Mimicry, 10 ; on Colora- 

 tion, 700 

 Belemnites, 95 



Bergen biological station, 648 

 Biographical Index of British and Irish 



Botanists, 95 

 Biological stations, 648 

 Biology, Campbell on, 787 

 Bird-like reptiles, 414 

 Birds (fossil), 266 

 Birds of Devon, 706 ; of Lancashire, 



707 ; of N. America, 714 

 Birds, habits of, 478 

 Birds, migrations of, 772 

 Birds, protection of, 331 

 Birds ; the Elements of Ornithology, 552 

 Blanford on Permanence of Oceans, 



639, 740 

 Blow-fly, 550 



Bone, chemistry of, 565, 655 

 Bones, decalcification of, 333 

 Bones (fossil), 655 

 Borassus, 633 

 Borings in coral reefs, 50 

 Borneo, geology of, 108 

 Botanical Congress, 233, 399 

 Botanical nomenclature, 409, 735 

 Botany, Brown's English, 313, 471 

 Botany, Australian, 788 

 Boulenger on Marine Snakes, 44 

 Boulenger on poisonous secretions of 



Batrachians, 185. 

 Boy collectors, 5 

 Boyle Lecture, 798 

 Brachiopoda, 603 



Brachiopoda, Genera of Palaeozoic, 628 

 Branchiura, 168 

 Brazil, geology of, 95 

 Brighton Aquarium, 238, 316 

 Brighton Museum, 396, 798 

 Bristol Museum, 73, 797 

 British Association, 327, 555, 556 

 British land and freshwater mollusca,7o8 



