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INDEX 



[Nature, May il, 1876 



Belfast Natural History Society, 95 : Naturalists' Field Club, 



Report of, 38 

 Belgian Academy, Prizes of the, 413 

 Belgium, Horticulture in, 95 

 Belt (Thomas) Bees and Clover, 26 ; the Drift of Devon and 



Cornwall, 58 

 Benedict (Dr. ), on Crime, 34 

 Bengal, W. G Willson on the Meteorology of, 66 

 Bennett (A. W.), the Absorptive Glands of Carnivorous Plants, 

 403 ; Sir Thomas Millington and the Sexuality of Plants, 85, 

 166, 185 

 Bennett (J. J., F.R.S.), Obituary Notice of, 418 

 Bentley and Trimen's " Medicinal Plants," 36 

 Berlin, Geographical Society, 397 ; German Chemical Society, 



So, 119, 178, 259, 319, 360 

 Berwickshire Naturalists' Field Club, Proceedings, 19 

 Besant (W. H., F.R.S.), "Conic Sections," 24 

 Bessel's Astroiiomicil Works, 27, 248 

 Bliutas Worship in Western India, 158 

 Binary Stars, 69, 287, 349 



" Biolog)'," Article on, in " Encyclopsedia Britannica, 221" 

 Biology, Letourneau's, 404 

 15ird (C.), "Twelve Maps for Map-drawing," 7 

 "Birds," Article on, in "Encyclopaedia Ikitannica," 221, 266, 

 247; Dr. Alix on the Locomotion of, 3; As Astronomical 

 Objects, Prof. A. Newton, F.R.S., 447; of Madagascar, Dr. 

 Hartlaub's Work on the, 272 ; of North-Eastern Africa, 289 ; 

 of the Pelew Islands, 152 ; the Sailing Flight of, 324 ; Skulls 

 of. Prof. Parker, F.R.S., on, 178 

 Birmingham, Philosophical Society, 396 ; Science Classes and 



Penny Lectures in, 149 ; Sir Josiah Mason's College at, 174 

 ]jlackburn (Prof. H.), Communication of Information among 



Bees, 68 

 Blasius on Storms, 421 

 Blowpipe, W^orks on the, 164 

 Blowpipe Analysis, 186, 208, 224 



Boisbaudran (M. L. de) on some Properties of Gallium, 136 

 Bonavia (Dr. E. ), a Relapsed Donkey, 486 

 Bone-caves of the Creswell Crags, 534 

 Bonnat (M.), Exploration of the Gold Coast, 94 

 Boomerang, the, Rev. H. H. Higgins, 168 

 Boston Natural History Society, 60 

 Botanic Garden, Oxford, 61, 94, 315 

 Botanical Locality Record Club, Report of, 36 

 Botany : Botanical Notes, 38, 117 ; Calcutta Botanical Gardens, 

 117 ; Lectures on, at South Kensington, 436; W. J. Brown's 

 Manual of, 85 

 Bothkamp Sun Observations, Dr. A. Schuster, 402 

 r.ottomley (J. T.), the Use of the Words "Weight" and 



"Mass," 325, 446 

 Boulger (G. S. ), Glands of the Cherry Laurel, 107 

 Boyle (Hon. Robert), his Portrait, 76 

 Brazil : Kitchen Middens, Fritz Miiller, 304 ; Maps at Railway 



Stations,- 77 ; M. E. Andre's Expedition to, 76 

 Bremen, the Museum of, 273 

 Bristol, University College at, 113, 134, 488 

 Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Society, proposed, 



316 

 Bnstow (H. W., F.R.S.), Tables of British Strata, 464 

 British Association, Deputations from, on Scientific Instruction, 



371 ; Meeting at Glasgow, 335 ; President for 1876, 530 

 British Insects, Houghton's Sketches of, 365 

 British Museum, 414 



Brittany, Hutchinson's Summer Holidays in, 465 

 Broun (J. A., F.R.S.), Effects of the Sun's Rotation and the 

 Moon's Revolution on the Earth's Magnetism, 328 ; Lisbon 

 Magnetic Observations, 301, 448 ; Oiigin of the Numerals, 47 

 Browne (W, J., M.A.), Botany lor Schools, 85 

 Brussels, Climate of, 296 ; Cold in, 235 ; Observatory, 254 

 Bryant and May's Matches, W. H. Preece, 208 

 Buchan (Alex.), The Flowering of Spring Plants, 249 ; Swedish 



forms for observing Cirrus Clouds, 7 

 Buckland (Miss), Rhabdomancy, 200 

 Buckley (A. B.), " History of Natural Science," 343 

 Buckton (C. M.), Health in the House, 384 

 Bulletin de 1' Academic Royale des Sciences, 78 

 Bulletin International, 255, 256 



Bulletin de la Societc d' Anthropologic de Paris, 198 _; 



Bullfinches and Primroses, 427 

 Burchett's " Practical Plane Geometry," 223 



Burton's Gorilla Land and the Congo, 123 

 Butter Case, the recent, 271, 287 

 Butterflies, Fossil, S. H. Scudder, 222 



Calcutta, Botanical Garden, 117 ; Rainfall of, 436 

 Calico Printing, Crace-Calvert's, R. Meldola, 283 

 California, Academy of Sciences, 180 

 Caligraphy as a test of Character, 77 



Cambridge University Board of Mathematical Studies, 434 ; 

 Clothworkers' Exhibitions, 316 ; Exhibitions at Christ's Col- 

 lege, 113 ; Human Anatomy at, 151 ; Local Examinations, 

 95 ; Memorial from Members of, 474 ; Natural Science Club, 

 155 ; Natural Science Lectures at, 316 ; Natural Science 

 Scholarships, &c., for 1876, 292 ; Philosophical Society, 40, 

 60, 160; Report of the Studies Syndicate, 414; Scholarships 

 at Caius College, 256 ; Scholarships at Clare College, 155 ; 

 Students at Dr. Dohrn's Zoological Station, 113; University 

 Commission, 414 ; " Wort's Scholarships," 315 

 Camerarius and the Sexuality of Plants, 85 

 Cameron (Lieut.), Expedition in Africa, 154, 174, 202, 256, 

 273, 296, 315, 414, 530 ; his return from Africa, 436 ; Arrival 

 at Liverpool, 456 ; at the Geographical Society, 473 ; and 

 the French Geographical Society, 473 

 Campbell (J. F.). " My Circular Notes," 481 

 Canary Islands, Gaunch Population of, 335 ; the Volcanic Rocks 



of the, 403 

 Cardiff Naturalists' Society, 16 

 Cardiograph, a Modified, 471 



Carnivorous Plants, the Absorptive Glands of, 36, 403 

 Carrington (R. C, F.R.S.), Death of, 134 

 Casclla (L.), a New Compass, 135 

 Caspian Sea, the Fauna of the, 74 

 Castleton, Museum at, 335 

 "Catechism of Chemistry," 464 

 Caterpillars and Linen, 54 

 Cats, White, and Deafness, 495 

 Cave, Prehistoric, Discovery of, in France, 456 

 Ceratodus, Prof. Huxley, F.R.S., on, 196 

 Chatopoda, Ehlers on the, 75 

 CV^a/Z^?^^ Expedition, 70, 76,216, 272, 413, 435, 457, 478;" 



Photography in the. Col. Stuart Wortley, 25 ; Reports, 250 

 " Chambers' Encyclopoedia," 42 

 Channel Tunnel, W. Topley, 133 

 Chaumont (Dr. F. de), Dr. Richardson's Hygeia, 25 

 " Chemical Analysis," Prof, Dittmar's, 507 

 Chemical Society, 39, 79, 118, 158, 258,298,339,399,418, 

 499, 534; Journal of, 78, 176, 277, 378; Research Fund for 

 the^ Dr. W. J. Russell, F.R.S., 461 j Visit to the Royal 

 Arsenal, 395 

 Chemistry, Catechism of, 464 ; Dammer's Dictionary of, 483 ; 



Dr. Youmans' Class-book of, 424 

 Chemistry of the Non-metallic Elements, Procter, 446 

 Cherry Blossoms destroyed by Squirrels, F. H. Storer, 26 

 Cherry Laurel, Glands of the, 107, 150 

 Chicago Botanical Garden, 357 

 Children, Science teaching to, 48 

 China, Tufted Deer of, 334 

 Chinese Miners in Victoria, 256 

 Chisholm (H. W.), International Metric Commission at Paris, 



452 



Chloride of Silver Batteries, W. De la Rue, F.R.S., 277 



Chlorides, Prof. T. E. Thorpe on the Specific Volumes of Inor- 

 ganic, 397 



Cholera and Meteorology, 340 



Christy and Lartet, " Reliquiae Aquitanicae," 401 



Chronoscope, a new form of, 139 



Cinchona in India, 196 



Circle, the Secret of the, Alick Carrick, 323 



" Circular Notes," J. F. Campbell, 481 



Cirrus Cloud, Forms for Observing, 7 



Citric and Tartaric Acids, 78 



City Companies, Mr. Gladstone on the, 42 



Clifton College Scientific Society, 236 



Climatic Characteristics of Winds as dependent on their Origin, 

 520 



Climbing Plants, Darwin on, 65 



"Close Time " for Indigenous Animals, 315 



" Clouds in the East," Valentine Baker, 484 



Clouds, Genesis of, 107 



Clover and Bees, Thomas Belt, 26 



