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INDEX II. 
Australian crania, on, 126. 
Avebury Hills, on the finding of Cnicus 
tuberosus at, 95. 
Azof, on the sea of, 148. 
Baalbec, on the supposed biblical names 
of, 143. 
Baalgad, on the position of, 143. 
Baily (W. H.) on carboniferous limestone 
fossils from the county of Limerick, 
collected by the Geological Survey, 62 ; 
on a new fossil fern from the coal- 
measures near Glin, Co. Limerick, 63. 
Ballymacadam, on the tertiary clay and 
lignite of, 94. 
Bar, on competition at the, 163. 
Barbary coast, notes from the, with fos- 
sils, 67. 
Barnes (Dr. R.) on the condition of 
Thames water, as affected by London 
sewage, 44. 
Barth (Dr. Henry) on the anomalous 
period of the rising of the Niger, 118. 
Barton (James), model of the Boyne via- 
duct, with description of it, and the 
principles of its construction, 178. 
Bases, on the heat of combination of 
acids and, 44. 
Basins, tidal, on the formation of the en- 
_ trances to, 198. ‘ 
Bath, on the oriental, 110. 
Beamish (Richard), the human hand an 
index of mental development, 118. 
Bean, sacred, of India, 96. 
Beattie (J. S.) on electro-magnetic en- 
gines, 178; on coal-burning engines, ib, 
Beddoe (Dr. John) on the physical cha- 
racters of the ancient and modern 
Germans, 118. 
Bianconi (C.) on his car establishment 
in Ireland, 155. 
Biology, on certain @ prior? principles of, 
109. 
Birchall (E.) on a list of additions to 
Trish Lepidoptera, 101. 
Birmingham (J.) on the drift of West 
Galway and the eastern part of Mayo, 
Blakeley (Capt.), a mathematical investi- 
gation of the proportion between the 
length required for an electric telegraph 
cable and its specific gravity, 11; on 
improvements in ordnance, 179. 
_ Blood-corpuscles, on certain pathological 
- characters of the, 113. 
-Bollaert (W.), ethnological and antiqua- 
rian researches in New Granada, Quito, 
and Peru, 121. 
Boole (Prof.) on the theory of astrono- 
_ - mical observations, and on some related 
, 
205 
questions, 2; on certain additions to 
the integral calculus, ib. 
Botany, 95. 
Boyne viaduct, on the, 178. 
Brakenridge (John) on the working and 
ventilation of coal mines, 180. 
Bray Head and Howth, on the zoological 
relations of the Cambrian rocks of, 75. 
Brehon laws, on the transcription and 
translation of the, 131. 
Brewster (Sir David) on the centring of 
the lenses of the compound object- 
glasses of microscopes, 4. 
British Association, on the money grants 
of the, 167. 
British Isles, on the distribution of heat 
over the surface of the, 30; on the 
cause of the mild winter temperature 
of the, 144. 
British plants, on some variations of, 96. 
Brooke (C.) on diminishing the strain on 
the Atlantic cable by an elastic regu- 
lator, 180. ’ 
Browne (S.) on the proportion of mar- 
riagesat different ages of the sexes, 156. 
Buchan (P.) on the composition of the 
iron ores of the Leitrim coal-field, 44. 
Buckman (Prof. J.) on the finding of 
Cnicus tuberosus at Avebury Hills, 95. 
Buist (Dr.) on the Lotus or sacred bean 
of India, 96. 
Cable, on diminishing the strain on the 
Atlantic, by an elastic regulator, 180 ; 
on the effect of the resistance of water 
to an extended, ib; on the submarine 
electric telegraph, 189; on machinery 
for laying the submarine telegraph, 
189, 199. 
Cexcide, on peculiarities of growthin, 102. 
Cairnes (Professor) on some of the prin-. 
cipal effects of the new gold, as an in- 
strument of purchase, in the produc- 
tion and distribution of real wealth, 
156. 
Calculus, on certain additions to the in- 
tegral, 2; on the icosian, 13. 
Caldbeck fells, on the geology of, 67. 
California, on the effects of the gold of, 
160. 
Callan (Rev. Prof.) on the electro-dyna- 
mic induction machine, 11. 
Cambrianrocksof Bray Head and Howth, 
on the zoological relations of the, 75. 
Cameron(Dr.CharlesA.) onureaasadirect 
source of nitrogen to vegetation, 44. 
Canterbury, New Zealand, census of the 
province of, 167. 
Car establishment of Mr, Bianconi in 
Ireland, on the, 155. 
