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INDEX 



[Nature, May 22, 1890 



Bibliography of Astronomy, General, 69 



Bibliotheque Photographique, P. Moessard, 224 



Biddulph, Lieut. -General Sir Robert, Cyprus, 45 



Bidschof (Dr.), Comet Brooks {a 1890), 571 



Bidwell (Shelford, F.R.S.), Electrification of Steam, 213 



Big Game, East Africa and its. Captain Sir John C. Willoughby, 



298 

 Bigelow (Prof. F. H.), Mathematical Study of Solar Corona, 



.595 



Biology : Proposed Lacustrine Station on Lake Plon, 18 ; Prof. 

 Weismann's Essays, Dr. St. George Mivart, F.R. S., 38; 

 Marine Biology, the Puffin Island Station, 304 ; Biology of 

 Anaerobic Bacteria, Dr. Weyl, 359 ; the Botanical Institute 

 and Marine Station at Kiel, 397 



Bionomics, " Like to Like," a Fundamental Principle in, Prof. 

 Geo. J. Romanes, F.R.S., 535 ; John T. Gulick, 535 



Bird-pr<rservation in the Fame Islands, H. G. Barclay, 112 



Birds of Berwickshire, Geo. Muirhead, R. Bowdler Sharpe, 

 169 



Birds : Count Salvadori on the Birds of New Guinea and the 

 Molucca Islands, 85 



Birds, Dr. R. W. Shufeldt on Avian Anatomy, 594 



Birds of India, Vol. I., E. W. Gates, 388 



Birds in My Garden, W. T. Greene, R. Bowdler Sharpe, 169 



Birds of Oxfordshire, O. V. Aplin, R. Bowdler Sharpe, 169 



Birds, Sea, the Wanton Destruction of, G. W. Lamplugh, 490 



Black Sea : Proposed Scientific Investigation of, 348 ; the Level 

 of the, 356 



Bladder in Fishes, the, Prof Liebreich, 359 



Blanchard (Prof Raphael) : Discovery of Caroline Pigment in 

 Alpine Lake Crustacean, 325 ; a Colouring-maiter from 

 Diaptomus analogous to Carotin, 383 



Blanford (Dr., F.R. S.), Presidential Address to the Geological 

 Society, 455 



Blind Species, Cave Fauna of North America, with Remarks 

 on the Anatomy of the Brain and Origin of the, A. S. 

 Packard, 507 



Blumentritt (Dr. F.), Ethnology of Philippine Islands, 327 



Blunfield (R. W.), Alexandrian Garden Pest, l8l 



Boat, Submarine, Periscope for Navigating, 349 



Bodmer (G. R.), Hydraulic Motors, Turbines and Pressure 

 Engines, 27 



Bogdanovitch (M.), in Central Asia, 352 



Boguski (J. J.), Variations of Electric Resistance of Nitric 

 Peroxide at various Temperatures, 119 



Boilers, Marine and Land, T. W. Traill, 486 



Boilers, the Evaporative Efficiency of, C. E. Stromeyer, 516 



Boisbaudran (Lecoq de), some New Fluorescent Materials, 287 



Bollettino of Italian Geographical Society, 164 



Bonavia (Dr. E.), the Cultivated Oranges and Lemons of India 

 and Ceylon, C. B. Clarke, F.R.S., 579 



Bone and Dentine, the Longevity of Textural Elements, par- 

 ticularly in, John Cleland, 392 



Bonn, Earthquake at, 470 



Bonney (Prof T. G., F.R.S.): Crystalline Schists and their 

 Relations to Mesozoic Rocks in Lepontine Alps, 333 ; a Geo- 

 logical Map of the Alpine Chain, 483 



Bonsdorf (A. B.), the Secular Upheaval of the Coasts of Fin- 

 land, 348 



Boole (Mary), a New Logical Machine, 79 



Borelly's Comet ig 1889, December 12), 211, 374, 429 



Borneo (British North), Gold Exploration in, 182 



Bort (Teisserenc de). Barometric Gradients, 161 



Bosnia: Earthquakes in, 136 ; Bears and Wolves in, 325 



Boss (Lewis), Apex of the Sun's Way, 548 



Botany : On a New Application of Photography to the De- 

 monstration of Physiological Processes in Plants, Walter 

 Gardiner, 16; Foreign Botanical Appointments, 17, 136; 

 Russian Botanical Appointments, 42 ; John Ball Bequest, 

 17; European Weeds in America, 18; Sea-water Cure for 

 the Banana Disease, 19 ; some Proven9al Tree Hybrids, G. 

 de Saporta, 23 ; Retarded Germination, 31 ; the African 

 Oil Palm in Labuan, 42 ; Street Plants in Manchester, 42 ; 

 Enumeratio Specierum Varietatumque Generis Dianthus, F. 

 N. Williams, 51 ; Morphology and Biology of Oidiian albicans, 

 Linossier and Roux, 72 ; the Flora of Derbyshire, by the Rev. 

 W. H. Painter, 77 ; Pinks of Western Europe, by F. N. 

 Williams, 78 ; Curious Dwarf Japanese Tree, Thuja obtusa, 

 86 ; Herr Kny, on Trees Growing in an Inverted Position, 

 86 ; How Plants maintain themselves in the Struggle for 

 Existence, Prof. Walter Gardiner, 90 ; the Botanical Gazette, 



92 ; Journal of Botany, 92 ; Nuova Giomale Botanico Italiano, 

 92 ; Cool Cultivation of Tropical, &c.. Plants, Thiselton Dyer, 

 136 ; Botanical Tour through Asia Minor, Prof Bornmiiller's, 

 136 ; Tubercles on Roots of Leguminous Plants, Prof. H. 

 Marshall Ward, F.R. S., 140; the Flora of Suffolk, by Dr. 

 W. M. Hind, 149 ; Noxious Grass, Lalang, at Singapore, 

 182; the Useful Plants of Australia, J. H. Maiden, 194; 

 Index of British Plants, Robert Turnbull, 196 ; Hand-book of 

 Practical Botany for the Botanical Laboratory and Private 

 Student, E. Strasburger, 223 ; the Revised Terminology in 

 Cryptogamic Botany, Alfred W. Bennett, 225 ; Flower- Land, 

 an Introduction to Botany, Robert Fisher, 247 ; the Coco de 

 Mer, 256 ; Malayan Plants in Calcutta Herbarium, 283 ; the 

 Weather Plant {Abrus precatorius), Dr. Francis Oliver, 283 ; 

 St. Louis, the Shaw Bequest for the Endowment of Botanic 

 Garden at, 324 ; the Kew Bulletin, 325, 426 ; Sweet-scented 

 Fern, 349 ; Das australische Florenelement in Europa, Dr. 

 Constantin Freiherr von Ettingshausen, 365 ; Effects of Fog 

 on Plants under Glass, 372 ; Melilotus alba (Bokhara Clover) 

 as a Weed in Western States of America, 372 ; Germination 

 of Castor-oil Plant Seed, J. R. Green, 380 ; Die Arten der 

 Gattung Ephedra, von Dr. Otto Stapf, 390 ; the Botanical 

 Institute and Marine Station at Kiel, 397 ; Hygrometric Club 

 Moss from Mexico, 401 ; Botanical Gazette, 405 ; Diseases of 

 Plants, Prof H. Marshall Ward, F.R.S., 436 ; the Botanical 

 Laboratory in the Royal Gardens, Peradeniya, Ceylon, 445 ; 

 Haudleiding tot de Kennis der Flora van Nederlandsch Indie, 

 461 ; Abnormal Shoots of Ivy, W. F. R. Weldon, 464; Seed- 

 ing of Sugar-Cane, D. Morris, 478 ; True Nature of Callus, 

 Spencer Moore, 478 ; the Dispersal of Plants, as Illustrated by 

 the Flora of the Keeling Islands, Dr. H. B. Guppy, 492 ; 

 Salad-plants, H. de Vilmorin, 494 ; the Native Ebony of St. 

 Helena, Morris, 519 ; Self-colonization of Coco-nut Palm, W. 

 B. Hemsley, 537 ; Suggestion for Facilitating the Study of 

 Botany in India, G. Carstensen, 546 ; Self-colonization of 

 Coco-nut Palm, Captain W. J. L. Wharton, F.R.S., 585; 

 Organization of Fossil Plants of Coal-measures, Prof William- 

 son, F.R.S., 572; Botanical Condition of German Ocean, 

 Major Reinhold, 569 ; a Blue Primrose, 569 ; Threatened Ex- 

 tinction of Cyclamen in Savoy, 569 ; How to know Grasses 

 by their Leaves, A. N. M'Alpine, Prof. John Wrightson, 557 

 Bottomley (J. T., F.R.S.), Four-Figure Mathematical Tables, 



510 

 Bouchard (Ch.), Mechanism of the Local Lesion in Infectious 



Diseases, 48 

 Bourdon's Pressure-Gauge : Prof A. M. Worthington, 296 ; 



Prof A. G. Greenhill, F.R.S., 517 

 Bournemouth Industrial and Loan Exhibition, Science Exhibits 



in, 545 

 Boussingault (M.), Proposed Statue to the late, 207, 348 

 Boutzoureano (M.), on a New Series of Salts of Selenite, 87 

 Bower (J. A.), Science of Every-day Life, 78 

 Boys (C. v., F.R.S.), on the Cavendish Experiment, 155 

 Brande (Dr. ), Taxine, a New Alkaloid from Yew Leaves, &c. , 



496 

 Brandis (Sir D., F.R.S.), a Manual of Forestry, William 



Schlich, 121 

 Brassart Brothers' New Seismoscopes, 137 



Brazil, Dr. Lund's Exploration of the Limestone Caverns of, 26 

 Brazilian Honours to French Astronomers, 135 

 Breal (M.), Fixation of Nitrogen of the Leguminosse, 23 

 Breathing, Thought and : R. Barrett Pope, 297 ; Prof. F. Max 



Miiller, 317 ; Rev. W. Clement Ley, 317 ; Mrs. J. C. Murray- 



Aynsley, 441 

 Brewery and Malt-House, the Microscope in the, Chas. Geo. 



Mathews and Francis Edw. Lolt, 246 

 Brezina (A.), Die Meteoritensammiung des k.k. mineralog. 



Hofkabinetes in Wien, 127 

 Brezina (A.) and E. Cohen, Die Structur und Zusammensetzung 



der Meteoreisen erlautert durch photographische Abbildungen 



geatzter Schnittflachen, 127 

 Brick Buildings, Magnetism in. R. W. Wilson, 405 

 Bridge across the Bosphonis, Proposed, 568 

 Bridge, Chenab, Testing of, 372 



Bridge, Testing of the New Forth, 281 ; Opening of the, 429 

 Bright Lines in Stellar Spectra, Rev. J. E. Espin, 549 

 Brinton (Dr. D. G.) : Ethnologic Affinity of Ancient Etruscans, 



66 ; Etruscans a Libyan Offihoot, 448 ; the Cradle of the 



Semites, 569 

 British Association, Second Report of the Committee on Teach- 

 ing Chemistry, 160 



