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INDEX 



IX 



British Earthquakes, Record of, Charles Davison, 9 ; William 



"White, 202 

 British Guiana, the Journal Timehri, 549 

 British Journal Photographic Almanac, 1890, 510 

 British Museum : Reading Room, 199 ; Electric Light at the, 



301 ; Catalogue of the Fossil Reptilia and Amphibia in the, 



Richard Lydekker, 534 

 British Plants, Index of, Robert Turnbull, 196 

 Brodhun (Dr.), New Contrast-Photometer, 552 

 Brook and its Banks, the, Rev. J. G. Wood, 53 

 Brooks (W.) : Comet a 18S9, Comet d 1889, discovered by, 428 ; 



Comet [d 1889, July 6) Dr. Knopf, 115, 211 ; Brooks's Comet 



(1889), Identity of Comet Vico (1844) with, 233 ; Orbits of 



the Companions of, 305 ; Brooks's Comet (a 1890), 522, 549 ; 



Dr. Bidschof, 571 

 Brorsen's Comet, Return of, Dr. E. Lamp, 69 

 Brown (Arthur), Mirages, 225 

 Brown (A. B.), the Steering of Steam-ships, 516 

 Brown (Prof. Crum), a New Synthesis of Dibasic Organic Acids, 



431 



Brown (H. T., F.R. S.), Identity of Cerebrose and Galactose, 

 262 



Browne (Montagu), the Vertebrate Animals of Leicestershire 

 and Rutland, 220 



Bruce (E. S.), an Optical Feature of Lightning Flashes, 406 



Bruguiere (M.), Minimum Sun-spot Period, 68 



Brush-Turkeys on the Smaller Islands north of Celebes, Dr. 

 A. B. Meyer, 514 



Bryan (G. H.), Stability of Rotating Spheroid of Perfect Liquid, 

 526 



Bryce's (Prof. J. ) Speech on Presentation of A. R. Wallace for 

 Degree of D.C.L. at Oxford, 112 



Buchan (A.), Atmospheric Circulation, 363 



Buchan (Dr.), Influenza and Weather, 596 



Buffalo in Northern Australia, Increase of, 18 



Bulk of Ocean Water, Is the, a Fixed Quantity, A. J. Jukes- 

 Browne, 130 



Bulk of Ocean Water, Does the. Increase, T. Mellard Reade, 

 175; Rev. Osmond Fisher, 197 



Bulkeley (Owen T. ), the Lesser Antilles, 268 



Bulletin de 1' Academic Royal de Belgique, 212, 237 



Bulletin de la Societe d' Anthropologic, 332 



Bulletin de la Societe Imperiale des Naturalistes de Moscou, 92 



Bummelen (Van), Composition of Tobacco-growing Soils in 

 Deli and Java, 384 



Burder (Geo. F.), Self-luminous Clouds, 198 



Burmah, a Thousand Miles on an Elephant in the Shan States, 

 Holt S. Hallett, 265 



Burmeister (Dr. Hermann), on the Fossil Horses and other 

 Mammals of Argentina, 82 



Burnham (S. W.) : Measurementsof Double Stars, 19; Double- 

 Star Observations, 472 



Burton (C. V.), a Physical Basis for the Theory of Errors, 47 



Burton (F. M. ), Chiff-Chafif Singing in September, 298 



Burton (Prof. W. K.), Electrical Cloud Phenomena, 10 



Buschan (Herr), Prehistoric Textiles, 182 



Butter, Cocoa-Nut, 162, 284 



Butterflies, Maltese, George Eraser, 199 



Buys-Ballot (Prof. C. H. D.), Death of, 324 



Caballero (Dr. E.), Remarkable Meteor at Pontevedra, 303 



Caelum, New Variable in. Prof. Pickering, 571 



Caernarvonshire, Volcanic Rocks of, Alfred Harker, 414- 



Calculus of Probabilities, J. Bertrand, 6 



California, Spread of the Australian Ladybird in, J. R. Dobbins, 

 161 



Callandreau (O.), Stability of the Rings of Saturn, 548 



Calorimeter, the Steam, J. Joly, 212 



Camboue (Rev. Paul), Distribution of Animals and Plants by 

 Ocean Currents, 103 



Cambrian and Silurian, Sedgwick and Murchison, Prof. James 

 D. Dana, 421 



Cambridge : University of, Appointment of Examiners, 23 ; 

 the Mechanical Workshops at, 23 ; the John Lucas Walker 

 Fund, 23 ; Election of Fellows at St. John's College, 23 ; 

 Science and the Indian Civil Service, 25 ; Physiology at, 41 ; 

 the Newall Telescope, 166 ; Archaeological Museum, 324 ; 

 University Natural Science Club Conversazione, 371 ; An- 

 thropometry at, 560 ; Dr. John Venn, F.R.S., 450 ; Francis 

 Galton, F.R.S., 454 



Campbell (A. J.), Collections of Western Australian Birds>kins 



and Eggs, 593 

 Canada, Mining and Mineral Statistics of, 87 

 Canary, Effects of Musical Sounds on a, 593 

 Cannibals, Among, Carl Lumholtz, 200 



Capacity, Specific Inductive, Piof. Oliver J. Lodge, F.R.S., 30 

 Capital, Accumulations of, in the United Kingdom in 1875-85, 



Robert Giffen, 2U 

 Capital, the Growth of, Robert Giffen, 553 

 Carbutt (Mrs. E. H.), Five Months' Fine Weather in Canada, 



Western United States, and Mexico, 247 

 Cardani (Signer), New Method of measuring Small Elongations 



of a Bar, 427 

 Carinthia, Earthquake in, 284 

 Carlet (G.), Wax Organs of Bees, 407 

 Carlier (E. W.), Note on a Probable Nervous AfTection observed 



in an Insect, 197 

 Carnelley (Prof.) : the Relation of Physiological Action to 



Atomic Weight, 189 ; Attempt to express Periodic Law of 



Chemical Elements by Algebraic Formula, 304 

 Carotine Pigment in Alpine Lake Crustacean, Discovery of, by 



Prof. Raphael Blanchard, 325, 383 

 Carruthers (G. T.), Locusts in the Red Sea, 153 

 Carstensen (G.), Suggestion for Facilitating Study of Botany in 



India, 546 

 Cartailhac (Emile), La France Prehistorique, 102 

 Carter (Brudenell), Vision-Testing for Practical Purposes, 302 

 Cartography, Facsimile Atlas to the Early History of, A. E. 



Nordenskiold, 558 

 Cams- Wilson (Charles A.) : Behaviour of Steel under Mechanical 



Stress, 213 ; the Rupture of Steel by Longitudinal Stress, 



574 

 Cashmere, North- West, Dauvergne s Journey in, 165 

 Cassedy ( W. S.), Is the Copernican System of Astronomy True ?, 



366 

 Cassiopeire, S, Rev. T. E. Espin, 115 

 Catalogue of the Fossil Reptilia and Amphibia in the British 



Museum (Natural History), Richard Lydekker, 534 

 Cattle-poisoning by Ergotized Lolium, 569 

 Caucasus, Prehistoric llurial Ground in, Beyern, 43 

 Caucasus, Search and Travel in the, D. W. Freshfield, 351 

 Caucasus, a Trip through the Eastern, Hon. John Abercromby, 



391 

 Causes of Variation, E, D. Cope on, Prof. E. Ray Lankester, 



F.R.S., 128 

 Cave Dwelling in New Zealand, Discovery of, H. O. Forbes 



209 

 Cave Fauna of North America, with Remarks on the Anatomy 



of the Brain and Origin of the Blind Species, A. S. Packard, 



507 

 Cavendish Experiment, C. V. Boys, F.R.S., on the, 155 

 Cayley (Prof. A., F.R.S.), Roots of an Algebraic Equation, 



335. 359 

 Celebes Photographs, Dr. A. B. Meyer, 471 ; Brush-Turkeys 



on the Smaller Islands north of. Dr. A. B. Meyer, 514 

 Celts in Hampshire, Characteristic Survivals of, T. W. Shore, 



406 

 Centauri, Spectra of 5 and /*, 374 



Cetacea, Rorqual musculus stranded in Medoc District, 113 

 Cetaces des Mers d'Europe, Histoire Naturelle des, P. J. Van 



Beneden, 223 

 Ceylon : Geodetical Survey of, 86 ; the Veddahs of. Dr. Arthur 



Thomson, 303 ; Asiatic Society, 349 ; Proposed Archaeological 



Survey of, 372 

 Chabrie (M.) : the Chlorides of Selenium, 284; Gas obtained 



by Heating Silver Fluoride with Chloroform in Sealed Tube, 



521 



Chaffinch, the, E. J. Lowe, F.R.S., 394 



Challenger Expedition : Report on the Magnetical Results of the 

 Voyage of H. M.S., E. W. Creak, F.R.S., 105 ; Zoological 

 Results of the, 217; Report on the Scientific Results of the 

 Exploring Voyage of H.M.S., 361 ; Meteorological Report 

 of the, 443 



Chambers (G. F.), Hand-book of Descriptive and Practical 

 Astronomy, 49 



Chandler (S. C.) : Period of U Coronae, 163 ; Identity of 

 Brooks's Comet (d 1889) with Lexell's Comet (1770). '63 



Characters, Acquired : and Congenital Variation, the Duke of 

 Argyll, F.R.S., 173, 294; Palaeontological Evidence for the 

 Transmission of, Henry Fairfield Osborn, 227 ; Congenital 

 Variation, the Duke of Argyll, F. R. S., 366 ; Right Rev. 



