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INDEX 



[Nature, Nov. 28, 18S9 



Beddoe (Dr. J., F.R.S.), on the Natural Colour of Skin in 

 certain Oriental Races, 633 



Bedson (Prof.) on Dr. Netto's Process for the Manufacture of 

 Aluminium from Cryolite, 587 



Bee, Alimentary Apparatus of, A. J. Cook, 559 



Bee Mango, the, 654 



Beech, Ethnological Significahce of the. Canon Isaac Taylor on, 

 632 



Beginners, Statics for, John Greaves, 77 



Behrend and Roosen (Dr.), Synthesization of Uric Acid, 62 



Belgium : Agricultural Laboratories in, 481 ; the Meteorological 

 Service in, A. L. Rotch, 311 



Bell, a New Mountain of the, H. Carrington Bolton, 35 



Bell (Sir Lowthian, Bart., F.R.S.): Opening Address in Sec- 

 tion B (Chemistry) at the British Association, 473 ; on Gaseous 

 Fuel, 560 



Bells, Tones of, Lord Rayleigh, Sec.R. S., 584 



Beloochistan, Mr. Griesbach appointed Government Geologist 

 in, 444 



Bennett (Alfred W.) and George Murray, a Hand-book of 

 Cryptogamic Botany, 217 



Bennett (Alfred W.) : Systematic Position of the Characese, 

 298 ; on the Antherozoids of Cryptogams, 610 



Bennett (Mrs. Lydia S.), Death of, 373 



Ben Nevi-; Observatory, 350, 351 ; St. Elmo's Fire on Ben 

 Nevis, Angus Rankin, 439 ; Report of the Committee ap- 

 pointed by the British Association for the Purpose of co- 

 operating with ihe Scottish Meteorological Society in making 

 Observations on, 535 



Benares, Native Opposition to Sanitary Reforms at, 44 



Bennie (James), the Cowdenglen Valley, 627 



Benzene, M. Combes on, 370 



Berkeley (Rev. M. J., F.R.S.): Death of, 326; Obituary 

 Notice of, 371 



Berks, Yew-trees in, Rev. George Hendow, 621 



Berlin : Academy of Sciences, 372 ; Meteorological Society, 

 660 ; Physical Society, 72, 96, 168, 240, 287 ; Physiological 

 Society, 24, 119, 192, 288, 408 



Bernard ( Rev. Henry), Nose-blackening as a Preventive of 

 Snow-Blindness, 438 



Bert (Paul), Statue of, 252 



Berthelot (Marcellin, F.R.S.): the Thionic Series, 23, 71, 95; 

 the Origin of Bronze, 71 ; Heat of Combustion of Carbons, 

 167 ; the Fixation of Atmospheric Nitrogen, 539 ; Observa- 

 tions on Reciprocal Displacements between Oxygen and the 

 Halogens, 612, 636 : Rafifinose, 612 



Bertin (G,), Babylonian Astronomy, 237, 261. 285, 360 



Besson(A.), on the Existence of Sulphate of Phosphonium, 659 



Bevan (E. J.), a Text-book of Paper making, 414 



Bevan (George Phillips), Death of, 373 



Bhils, the, and their Country, Sir Lepel Griffin, 116 



Bi- and Di-, the Use of the Prefixes, 370 



Bibliography of Meteorology, 107 



Bidwell (Shelford, F.R.S.), Effects of Heat on Magnetic Sus- 

 ceptibility of Nickel, 70 



Bimetallism, Right Hon. Sir Lyon Playfair, F.R.S., 638 



Binary 7 Coronse Borealis, Prof. Celoria, 307 



Binet (Alfred), Psychic Life of Micro-organisms, 541 



Binger (Captain), Penetration of Kong Country by, 17 



Biology : Liverpool Marine Biology Committee's Easter Dredg- 

 ing Cruise, Prof W. A. Herdman, 47 ; the Progress of 

 Biology, Dr. Diising, 402 ; Prof. J. S. Burdon- Sanderson's 

 Opening Address in Section D at the British Association, 

 521 ; Alimentary Apparatus of Bee, A. J. Cook, 559 ; 

 Fermentation of Ensilage, Prof Burrill, 559; Marine Bio- 

 logical Association, S. F. Harmer, 593 ; Prof G. J. 

 Romanes, F.R. S., on Specific Characters as Useful and 

 Indifferent, 609 ; Alfred W. Bennett, on the Antherozoids of 

 Cryptogams, 610 ; E. B. Poulton, F.R.S., the Supposed 

 Transmission of Acquired Characters, 610; Francis Galton, 

 F.R.S., on Feasible Experiments on the Possibility of Trans- 

 mitting Acquired Habits by Means of Inheritance, 610 ; Prof. 

 F. O. Bower, on the Meristems of Ferns as a Study in Phylo- 

 geny, 610 ; Prof. Hartog, on the Structure of Saprolegnia, 

 611; F. E. Beddard, on Fresh-water Oligochgeta, 611; 

 Messrs. Robert Irvine and Dr. G. Sims Woodhead, on the 

 Secretion of Carbonate of Lime by Animals, 611 ; Sir John 

 Lubbock, F.R.S., on the Shape of the Oak Leaf and the 

 Leaves of the Guelder Rose, 611 ; Sir W. Turner, F.R. S., 

 on the Placentation of the Dugong, 611 ; Weismann's Essays 



on Heredity, &c., Poulton, Schonland, and Shipley, 618; 



Lamarck v. Weismann, Dr. A. R. Wallace, 619; Valuable 



Specimens of Vertebrates for Biological Laboratories, G. 



Baur, 644 

 Biquartz, the Use of the, A. W. Ward, 191 

 Bird-Life of the Borders, Abel Chapman, 147 

 Birds, Effects of Pepper-feeding on. Dr. Sauermann, 192 

 Birds, Large, Sailing Flight of, over Land, S. E. Peal, 518; 



Dr. R. Courtenay, 573 

 Birds, Migration of. Report to the British Association on the 



Observations made at Lighthouses and Light-vessels, John 



Cordeaux, 556 

 Birds and Seed-dispersion, 305 



Birhans (F. C.)i the Solidification of Nitrous Acid, 287 

 Birmingham, Mason Science College, 13 

 Birth-rate in France, the, Chervin, 92 

 Bishop (Sereno E.), Sunset Glows at Honolulu, 415 

 Bishop's Ring and Allied Phenomena, T. W. Backhouse, 519 

 Bismuth, New Aromatic Compounds of, Michaelis and Mar- 



quardt, 134 

 Black Rain, the Earl of Rosse, F.R. S., 202 

 Blackley (Dr. C. H.), Improved Method of Preparing Ozone 



Paper, 94 

 Bladder, Apparatus for Examining the. Dr. Nitze, 192 

 Blair (Andrew Alexander), Chemical Analysis of Iron, 51 

 Blake, Three Cruises of the, by Alexander Agassiz, Dr. John 



Murray, 361 

 Blanc (Prof), Lake Trout reared at Champ de I'Air, 422 

 Blanchard (Emile), the Natural History of the River-Eel, 383 

 Blanford (Henry F., F. R. S.), a Practical Guide to the Climates 



and Weather of India, Ceylon, and Burmah, 221 

 Blaschka (Dr.), Formation of Horny Layer of Skin, 119 

 Blater (Joseph), the Method of Quarter Squares, J. W. L. 



Glaisher, F.K.S., 573 

 Blindness, Colour-, Testing of, Rev. J. F. Heyes, 572 

 Blindness, the Eyes of Young Children, Dr. Webster Fox, 305 

 Blood, Quantity of Water in, Grehant and Quinquaud, 144 

 Blue Hill Meteorological Observatory, 283 

 Blythe (Prof Jas.), New Form of Current-Weigher, 586 

 Board School Laryngitis, Greville Macdonald, Dr. E. CliflforJ 



Beale, 8 

 Bodily Efficiency, on Weighing Marks for, in the Examination 



of Candidates for Public Service, Francis Galton, F.R. S., 



631, 649 ; A. A. Somerville, 652 

 Boehmer (Geo. H.), Astronomical Observatories, 597 

 Bohemia, Cystidea of, 267 

 Boiler Incrustations, on the Formation of Marine, Prof. Vivian 



B. Lewes, 19 

 Boilers, their Construction and Strength, Thomas W. Traill, 



414 

 Boissier (Edmond), R. Buser's Supplement to h:s Flora 



Orientalis, W. B. Hemsley, 98 

 Bolivia and Peru H. Guillaume on, 630 

 Bolivia, the Population of, 482 



Bolton (H. Carrington), a New Mountain of the Bell, 35 

 Bombay : Endowment by Framjee Dinshaw Petit of a Laboratory 



at, 44, 133 ; Opening of the Jubilee Technical Institute at, 60 ; 



Proposed Improved Zoological Collection for, 282 

 Bonney (Prof. T. G., F. R. S. ), Columnar Structure in Ice, 55 ; 



Contact Metamorphism in Silurian Rocks, near New Galloway, 



190 ; Structure and Distribution of Coral Reefs, 77, 125, 222 ; 



a Lizard Swallowed by a Viper, 150 ; Ice Blocks on a Moraine, 



391 

 Bonvalot's (M.) Tour in Central Asia, 483 

 Borders, Bird-Life of the, Abel Chapman, 147 

 Bore of the Tsien-Tang Kiang, the, Captain W. U. Brown, 



163 

 Bored Stones in Boulder Clays, G. W. Lamplugh, 297 

 Borelli (Giulio), Outflow of the River Omo, 165, 353 

 Borneo, Dr. Theodor Posewitz's Explorations in, 49 

 Borneo, the Old- Slate Formation of, Martin, 120 

 Boscovich's Theory, on. Sir William Thomson, F. R.S., 545 

 Bosnia, Earthquakes in, 84, 401 

 Boston, Proposed Natural History Gardens in, 577 

 Bostwick (A. E. ), Absorption Spectra of Mixed Liquids, 189 

 Bosworth- Smith, Discovery of Old Mining Implements in India, 



229 

 Botany: in India, J. F. Duthie, 13; Botany of the Cayman 



Islands, W. Fawcett, 15 ; Comparative Morphology of the 



Coniferse, Dr. Masters, 22 ; a New Conifer, Dr. Marion, 



