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INDEX. 



Black coral, ii., 62. I 



Blind crustaceans, i., 240. 



Blindness of deep-sea animals, i., 184. 



Boaz Island, Bermudas, i., 298, 306, 311. 



" Bocco do Inferno," cavern and hot 

 spring, San Miguel, ii., 44. 



Bockett microscope-lamp, used in the ex- 

 pedition, i., 29. 



Boiling springs, San Miguel, ii., 43. 



Bolax glebaria, balsam -bog of Falkland 

 Islands, ii., 184. 



"Booby" {Sula fu!^ca\\\., 95, 96, 109. 



Booby Island, Fernando Noronha group, 

 ii., 108. 



Bosanquet, Captain Stanley, R.N"., his re- 

 port on Tristan d'Acunha, ii., 166. 



Botany : Observations proposed to the ex- 

 pedition, i., 89 ; Portugal, 129, 151, 152; 

 Bermudas, 27*7, 281, 321 ; Halifax, 357, 

 358 ; the A9ores, ii., 24, 31, 33, 35, 37, 

 43-47; Cape Verde Islands, 71; Fer- 

 nando Noronha, 102 ; Brazilian forest, 

 124; Falkland Islands, 178, 184, 185; 

 Island of Ascension, 224, 225. 



Bongainvillea at Gibraltar and Funchal, 

 i., 152. 



Brachiopoda in the Atlantic, ii., 298. 



Brazier, Professor James S., chemical ex- 

 amination of samples of the bed of the 

 Atlantic, ii., 315-326. 



Brazil, forest scenery, natural history, ii., 

 122, 124. 



Brazil Current, ii., 219, 265, 267. 



Breffit & Co's "drop-bottles," used in the 

 exp,.(lition, i., 30. 



Brisinga., i., 172. 



British Museum, specimens of Ettplectella, 

 i., 137. 



Brito Capello, J. C, manager of the Lis- 

 bon Observatory, i., 119. 



Bromley, Lieutenant Arthur, R.N., ap- 

 pointed to the " Challanger," i., 24. 



Brooke's sounding-machine, i., 18. 



Bryozoa, i., 185, 187. 



Bryozoon {Naresia ci/afhufi\ dredged near 

 Cape St. Vincent, i., 142. 



Buchanan, J. Y., M.A., F.R.S.E., appointed 

 on the scientific staff of the "Challen- 

 ger," i., 24, 80 ; apparatus invented by 

 him, i., 51, 55, 172 ; geology of Fernan- 

 do Noronha, ii., 107 ; his observations 

 of the density of sea-water, i., 230, ii., 

 302 ; of carbonic acid and oxygen in 

 sea-water, 310-312, 327. 



Building at Tristan d'Acunha, ii., 142, 143. 



"Bull-dog," H.M.S., sounding expedition, 

 i., 19. 



Buteo vulgaris, ii., 43. 

 Butterflies, shower of, ii., 121. 



Cable telegraphs, deep-sea soundings in 

 connection with, i., 17. 



Calcareous concretions, Bermudas, i., 306- 

 311. 



Calcareous formation in the bed of the 

 Atlantic, i., 198, 199. 



Calcaromma calcarea, i., 221. 



Caldeira, great crater of, San Miguel, ii., 

 26, 36, 46. 



Calymne relicta, i., 368-370. 



Canary Islands, i., 152. 



Canto, Jose do, M., foreign trees and plants 

 in his garden, San Miguel, ii., 31, 33, 36, 

 43, 47. 



Cape Mondego, i., 113. 



Cape Roca, i., 113. 



Cape St. Vincent, trawling and dredging 

 near, i., 120, 130. 



Cape Verde Islands, ii., 68, 230, 231. 



Carbonic acid in sea-water, apparatus on 

 board the " Challenger," i., 40 ; general 

 conclusions, ii., 310; table of results, 

 327. 



Carinaria Atlantka, i., 124. 



Carpenter, Dr., C.B., F.R.S., " Lightning" 

 sounding expedition, i., 20; his sugges- 

 tion of the "Challenger" expedition, 

 22 ; on globigerina, 201. 



Cassava, i., 318. 



Catamarans at Fernando Noronha, ii., 57, 

 101. 



Cattle of Bermudas, i., 314; Falkland Isl- 

 ands, ii., 181. 



Caves in Bermudas, their origin, i., 293 ; 

 the Walsingham Caves, 300 ; in lime- 

 stone, 308 ; in Rock of Gibraltar, 130. 



Cavolinia, i., 126. 



Caxoeira, Brazil, ii., 123. 



Cedars in Bermudas, L, 277, 279, 299, 313, 

 321 ; overwhelmed by coral sand, 290, 

 292. 



Cephalopods in the Atlantic, ii., 299. 



Ceratias uranoscopus, ii., 67. 



Ceratotrochiis 7iobilis, ii., 55. 



Cluetoderma 7iitidulum, i., 249. 



Chalk from Bermudas, analysis of, i., 327. 



" Challenger," H.M.S., i., 72 ; causes which 

 led to the expedition, 17 ; official cor- 

 respondence from minutes of Council 

 of the Royal Society, 73 ; equipment of 

 the ship, 22 ; staff of officers, naval and 

 civilian, 24 ; special arrangements for 

 scientific work, 27 ; natural history 

 work - room, 26 ; chemical laboratory, 

 33 ; apparatus for boiling out the gas- 

 es from sea- water, 37 ; for determining 

 the carbonic acid, 40 ; for gas analysis, 



