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INDEX 



[Nature, Nov. i6, 1876 



Bessels' " Abhandlungen," 2lo 



Bettany (G. T.), The Missing Link between the Vertebrates 

 and the Invertebrates, 195 ; Natural Science at Cambridge, 

 216 



Bibliography, New Scientific Books, 538, 562, 583 



Biden (H. B.), Visual Phenomena, 525 



Biela's Comet, 10 



Binary Stars, 29, 152, 474 



Biological Notes, 571 



Biology of Plants, Cohn on the, 326 



Birds, Destruction of Flowers by, lo 



Birds of Kerguelen's Land, 317 



Birmingham (J. ), Lunar Maps, 49 



Birmingham and Midland Institute, 497 



Blake (Rev. J. F.), Theory of Electrical Induction, 68 ; Visual 

 Phenomnea, 423 



Blandford, (H. F.), The two Semi-diurnal Oscillations of Baro- 

 metric Pressure, 314, 526 



Blanpain's Comet, 1819, 545 



Blasema on Musical Sound, Dr. W. H. Stone, 502 



Blowpipe, Quantitative Analysis by the, Major A. W. Ross, 130 



Blyth (E.), Catalogue of the Mammals and Birds of Burma, 153 



Bohemian Coal Beds, Feistmantel on the, 268 



Bonney (Rev. T. G. ), Miniature Physical Geology, 423 



Bonavia (Dr. E.), Moon- stroke, 545 



Boomerang, A. W. Howitt, 248 



Bora, the, at Noworosslsk, 200 



Bosjes Skulls, 489 



Bosnia and the Herzegovina, 230 



Bosnia and Servia, Resources of, 277 



Boston, U. S. Natural History Society, 499 



Botanical Locality Record Club, 139 



Botanical Tables, E. B. Aveling's, 348 



Botany, Dr. Hooker's Primer of, 8 



Botany, Journal of, 37, 518 



Boulders, Erratic, The Distribution of, 476 



Boulger (G. S.), The Axolotl, 209 ; The Origin of Variations, 



393 

 Bourke (Rev. U. J.), "The Aryan Origin of the Gaelic Race 



and Language," 88 

 Brady (H. B,, F.R.S.), Zittel's Handbook of Pateontology, 445, 



474 



Brains, Proposed Dissection of the, of Eminent Men, 581 



Bramwell (F. J., C.E., F.R.S.), Prime Movers, 140, 159, 175 



Bristol University College, 121, 470 



British Association : Glasgow Meeting, Preliminary Arrange- 

 ments, 170, 381, 393 ; Officers, 241 ; Foreign Visitors, 393, 

 426 ; Inaugural Address of the President, Dr. T. Andrews, 

 F. R. S. , &c. , 393 ; Number of Members, 425 ; Balance Sheet 

 for 1875-76, 425 ; Conversazioni, 426 ; Excursions, 426 ; 

 Place of Meetings in 1877 and 1878 ; Guide-books to Glas- 

 gow, 447 ; Grants for Scientific Purposes, 451 ; Report on 

 Ohm's Law, 452 ; Report on Kent's Cavern, 452 ; Report 

 on Earthquakes in Scotland, 454, 456 ; Report on Under- 

 ground Waters in the New Red Sandstone and Permian 

 Formations of England, 454 ; Prof. Tail's Lecture on Force, 

 459 ; Report on a Comparison of the B.A. Units of Elec- 

 trical Resistance, 476 ; Report of the Committee for effecting 

 the Determination of the Mechanical Equivalent of Heat, 



476 J Report on the Distribution of Erratic Boulders, 476 ; 

 Report of the Close Time Committee, 476 ; Report on the 

 Intestinal Secretion and Movement, 477 ; Report on the 

 Metric System, 477; Report on the Use of Steel for Struc- 

 tural Purposes, 477 ; Report of the Rainfall Committee, 



477 ; Report on Mathematical Tables, 477 ; Report on the 

 Improvement of Geometrical Teaching, 477 ; Sir C. Wyville 

 Thomson's Address on the Challenger Expedition, 492 



Section A {Mathetnatical and Physical). — Opening Address by 

 the President, Sir William Thomson, F.R.S., &c., 426; Prof. 

 Osborne Reynolds on the resistance encountered by Vortex 

 Rings, and the relation between the Vortex Rings and the 

 Stream-lines of a Disc, 477 ; Prof. Clerk-Maxwell on the 

 Protection of Buildings from Lightning, 479 ; Mr. C. Mel- 

 drum on a Cyclone Periodicity in connection with Sunspot 

 Peiiodicity, 479 ; Mr. O. L. Lodge on the passage of elec- 

 tricity through Metals, 479 ; Capt. A. W. Baird on Tidal 

 Operations in the Gulf of Cutch, 480 ; Various Experiments 

 and Papers in this Section, 480 



Section B {Chemical Science). — Opening Address by the Pre- 

 si lent, W. H. Perkin, F.R.S., 432 ; Mr. Ramsay's Paper 

 ©n Picoline, 455 ; Papers and Discussion on the Sewage 



Question, 455 ; Mr. Allen's Report on Commercial Phos- 

 phates and Potash Salts, 455 ; Dr. Gamgee's paper on 

 Pyro- Meta- and Ortho-phosphoric Acids, 455 ; Dr. Emer- 

 son Reynolds' Paper on the Specific Heat of Beryllium, 455 ; 

 Mr. Johnstone Stoney's paper on Oxygen in Basic Salts, 

 455 ; Dr. Mac vicar's Paper on Matter, 455 ; Mr. E. H. 

 Biges on a new Form of Voltaic Battery, 455 ; Sir 

 William Thomson on Anthracene, 455 ; Mr. W. Welden's 

 Paper on the Means of Suppressing Alkali Waste, 455 ; 

 Mr. Kingzett on the Oxidation of Terpenes, 455 ; Prof. 

 Dewar on Chinoline and Aniline, 455 



Section C {Geology), — Opening Address of the President, Prof. 

 J. Young, M.D., 399; Duke of Argyll's Paper on "The 

 Physical Structure of the Highlands in Connection with their 

 Geological History," 435 ; the Discussion thereon, 437 ; 

 Dr. D. Milne-Home's Paper oil Terraces, Flats, and Haughs 

 at High Levels in the Carron Valley, 456 ; Dr. James Bryce 

 on the Earthquake Districts of Scotland, 456 ; Dr. D. Milne- 

 Home's Paper on the Parallel Roads of Glen Roy, 456 ; 

 Mr. G. A. Gibson's Paper on the Geology of Foula, Shet- 

 land, 456 ; Mr. E. Wiinsch's Paper on the Junction of 

 Granite and Old Red Sandstone in Arran, 456 ; Prof. W. C. 

 Williamson on the Plants of the Coal Measures, 456 ; Dr. 

 Anton Fritsch on Labyrinthodont Remains in Bohemia, 

 457 ; Prof. Harkness and Prof. Nicholson on the Strata and 

 Fossils between the Borrowdale Series and the Coniston 

 Flags of the North of England, 457 ; Rev. E. Sewell's Notes 

 on the Drifts and Boulders of the Valley of the Wharfe, 

 Yorkshire, 457 ; Prof. James Thomson on Ridgy Structure 

 in Coal, 457; on Basalts and other Igneous Rocks, by the 

 same Author, 457 ; Prof. Hull on the Carboniferous Rocks, 

 480 ; C. E. de Ranee on the Coal Measures of West Lanca- 

 shire, 480 ; G. A. Lebour on the Lowest Carboniferous 

 Rocks, 480 ; Prof. Ferd. Roemer on the Mountain Lime- 

 stone on the West Coast of Sumatra, 480 ; Prof. A, vou 

 Lasaulx on a New Mineral, 480 ; Messrs. A. Russell and 

 T. V. Holmes on the Raised Beaches of the Cumberland 

 Coast, 480 ; Dr. James Croll on Tidal Retardation — Argu- 

 ment for the Age of the Earth, 481 ; Mr. J, Young on 

 Siliceous Sponges, 481 ; Dr. James Bryce on the Granite of 

 Strath-Errick, 481 ; Prof. Hull on a Deep Boring for Coal 

 at Scarle, 481 ; Mr. R. L. Jack on Tertiary Basaltic Dykes 

 ia Scotland, 481 ; Mr. W. A. Traill on Pre-Carboniferous 

 Rocks in North Mayo, 481 



Section D {Biology). — Opening Address by the President, A. 

 Russel Wallace, 403 



Department of Zoology and Botany. — Address by Prof. Alfred 

 Newton, F.R.S., 438; Mr. Gwyn Jeffreys on the Valorous 

 Expedition, 459 ; Mr. John Murray on Oceanic Deposits, 

 459 ; Dr. I. H. Balfour on Mascarene Species of Pandanus, 

 487 ; Prof. W. C. Williamson on the Structure of Coal 

 Plants, 487 ; Prof. Leith Adamson on the Fossil Remains 

 of Malta, 487 ; Mr. C. W. Peach on Circinate Vernation 

 of 'phenopteris affinis, 487 ; Mr. Spence Bates' Report on 

 the Structure of the Crustacea, 487 ; Dr. Carmichael on 

 Spontaneous Evolution, 487 



Department of Anthropology. — Papers on the Highland Race 

 and Language, 457 ; Dr. Phene's Paper on Recent Remains 

 of Totemiom in Scotland, 458 ; Mr. W. J. Knowle's Paper 

 on Prehistoric Discoveries at Port Stewart, near London- 

 derry, 458 ; Capt. J. S. Hay's Paper on a Strange Mal- 

 formation among People in Akem, West Africa, 458 ; Miss 

 A. W. Buckland's Paper on Primitive Agriculture, 458 ; 

 Mr. James Shaw on Righthandedness, 488 ; Mr. Hyde 

 Clark on the Prehistoric Names of Men, Monkeys, and 

 1 izards, 488 ; Mr. Hartshorne on the Rodiyas of Ceylon, 

 488 ; Mr. W. Harper on the Natives of British Guiana, 

 488 ; Mr. Kerry Nichols on the New Hebrides, Banks, 

 and Santa Cruz Islands, 488 ; Dr. Knox on Bosjes Skulls, 

 489 



Department of Anatomy and Physiology . — Prof. J. G. McKen- 

 drick's Address, 482 ; Papers on Special Poisons, 458 ; 

 Prof. Gamgee on Changes of Circulation of the Blood, 

 458 ; Dr. Stirling on Nerve Ganglia in the Lungs, 458 ; 

 Prof. Turner on the Placenta, 485 ; Mr. F. M. Balfour on 

 the Development of the Protovertebrse and Muscle-plates 

 in Elasmobranch Animals, 485 ; Prof. Haeckel on Hali- 

 physema and Gastrophysema, 485 ; Dr. D. J. Cunningham 

 on the Spinal Nervous System of the Cetacea, 486 ; Prof. 

 Burdon Sanderson on Dionoea Muscipula, 486 ; Prof. 

 Struthers on the Finger- muscles of Whales, 486 ; Mr. T. 



