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Index 



Brodie, Sir B. C. (the elder), election 

 of, 49, and biographical note on, 

 50; communication from, 145; 

 death of, 57. 



Brodie, Sir B. C. (the younger), 

 election of, and biographical note 

 on, 57; communications from, 

 185, 191, 192. 



Brome, Captain, discovery of an 

 ossiferous cave at Gibraltar, 168 ; 

 of a second one, 169 ; of three 

 others, 172. 



Bronze articles and their moulds 

 exhibited, 190. 



Brown, Barrington, beryl and 

 rubies brought by, 239. 



Brown, R., biography of, 6 ; resig- 

 nation of, 41. 



Brown-S6quard, C. E., experiments 

 by, on transfusion of blood, 139 ; 

 on existence of special nerve 

 fibres, 148. 



Browning, Spencer, maker of special 

 form of spectroscope, 162. 



Bruce, J., account of Abyssinian 

 gadflies, 112. 



Brunton, T. L., election of, and 

 biographical note on, 91. 



Buckton, J., election of, and bio- 

 graphical note on, 61 ; placed on 

 honorary supernumerary list, 85. 



Budd, Dr. W., photographs of 

 pathological specimens, 158. 



Buenos Aires, subfossil skull of a 

 peculiar felis from, 124. 



Bunsen, R. W., on results of spec- 

 trum analysis, 151. 



Burdon-Sanderson, J. S., election 

 of, and biographical note on, 70 ; 

 communication from, 205. 



Burlington House and Scientific 

 Societies, 40, 44, 49, 50. 



Busk, G., election of, and bio- 

 graphical note on, 41 ; communi- 

 cations from, 140, 149, 157, 165, 

 168, 169, 172, 178, 182, 188, 193, 

 207 ; placed on supernumerary 

 list, 81. 



Cables, telegraph, see Telegraph 



cables. 

 Cahours, M., on affinity of ammonia 



and phosphuretted hydrogen, 



130 ; on manufacture of alumi- 

 nium, id. 

 Calabria, study of earthquakes in, 



138- 



Canary Islands, note on their vege- 

 tation, 235. 



Candles, difference in flame of, at 

 top of Mont Blanc and at Chamo- 

 nix, 146. 



Cannon, projectile force of Arm- 

 strong's, 142, 143. 



Canton, J., correspondence with, 99. 



Carbon, crystals of, resembling 

 diamond, obtained artificially, 



235- 



Carbonic acid, effect, when frozen, 

 on living tissues, 202. 



Carpenter, W. B., election of, and 

 biographical note on, 34 ; com- 

 munications from, 121, 124, 135, 

 136, 152, 154, 158, 162, 174, 175, 

 178, 180, 181, 184, 188, 191, 194, 

 196, 204, 207, 216, 217, 218, 224, 

 225 ; death of, 80, 229. 



Carpenter, W. Lant, description of 

 Niagara Falls in winter, 216. 



Cartridge factory at Woolwich, 128, 



Cattle plague disease, remarks on 

 its character, 173. 



Cautley, P. T., biography of, 7 ; 

 communication from, 125 ; ab- 

 sence from England, 30 ; replace- 

 ment on list, 41 ; resignation of, 56. 



Cave, ossiferous, at Aquadolce, 150 ; 

 at Brixham, with remains of 

 three species of bears, 178. 



Caves in Devonshire, investigations 

 of, 140, 142. 



Cellulose, wrongly said to be present 

 in the brain, 128. 



Ceria, effect of, on luminosity of 

 gas-mantles, 255. 



Challenger, safe journey from Sheer- 

 ness to Portsmouth, 191 ; sends 

 plants from Bermuda, 192 ; deep 

 dredging in Atlantic, 196. 



Chappelsmith, Mr., on a tornado in 

 Indiana, 131. 



Charleston earthquake, sands 

 ejected by, 232. 



Chemical Society, 27, 28, 30. 



Children prematurely born reared 

 in incubators, 244. 



