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INDEX 



Birds: AlbiniMU in, Herbert W. Page, 540; Edward Balfour, 

 56S ; \Vm. Lyall, 568 ; Mimicry in, William E. Armit, 643 



Birds' Eggs, the Colouring of, H. C. Sorby. F.R.S., 426 



Birdvvood (Dr.), Handbook of British Indian Section of Paris 

 Exhibition, 504 



Birkbcck Institution, New Chemical Laboratory at, 608 



Birmingham Natural History and Microscopical Society, 48, 

 262, 292, 436, 504 



Black (Joseph), Prof. Crum Brown on, 346 



Blackburn's Double Pendulum, 594; Hubert Airy, 617 



Blaikley (G. D. J.), Brass Wind Instruments as Kesonators, 271 



Blake (Dr. Clarence J.), th3 Phonograph, 249 



Blake (Prof, E. W.), a Method of Recording Articulate 

 Vibrations by Means of Photography, 338 



Blanford (H. F.), Weather Forecast of the Monsoon Season, 

 287 ; the Genesis of Cyclones, 328 ; Janssen's New Method 

 of Solar Photography, 643 



Blanford (W. T.), the Pikermi nnd Siwalik Faunas, Pliocene, 

 not Miocene, 501 



Blister-beetles, tne Transformations of, 252 



Blumenbach (Prof. Joh. F.), Monument to, 205 



Blyth (James), the Microphone, 172, 181 



Bock (Carl), Expedition to Padang, 132 



Bolivar, the Land of, and its Products, 230 



Bologna, Rendiconto delle Sessioni dell' Accademia delle 

 Scienze dell' Istituto di Bologna, 428 



Bolton, the Chadwick Museum, 291 



Bombay, Meteorology of, in 1876, 199 



Bone Caves in Styria, 618 



Bonin Islands, Exploration of, 200 



Bonn, University of, Legacy to, 82 



Book-Case, a Rotating, 15 



Boots, Manufacture of, in Japan, 49 



Bordier (A.), the Greenland Eskimo, 16, 169 



Boring Exploration, the Kentish, 469 



Borneo, Expedition through, 289 



Boron Fluoride, Action of, on Certain Classes of Organic Com- 

 pounds, 337 



Botany: lienfrey's Course of, 217, 278 ; Holmes' "Botanical 

 Note-Book," 299; Dr. Arnold Dodel-Port's "Anatomisch- 

 physiologischen Atlas der Botanik," 317 ; Dr. Asa Gray's 

 " Synoptical Flora of North America," 325 ; Watson's " Index 

 to North American Botany," 325 ; Royal Botanic Society, 425 ; 

 Botanical and Horticultural Congress at Paris, 465, 553 ; 

 Botanical Locality Record Club, 682 



Bouillaud (M ), and the Phonograph, 630 



Boulders, Erratic: in Switzerland, 206 ; in France, 2c6 ; B.A. 

 Report on, 599 



Boulger (G. S.), Scent and Colour in Flowers, 427 



Boulogne, Geologists' Association at, 424 



Boussingault (Prof. J.), the Physical Functions of Leaves, 672 



Brahe (Tycho), his Correspondence, 306 



"Brain," 64 



Brass Wind Instruments as Resonators, 271 



Braun (Prof. A.), his Library, 133 



Brazil, Rainfall of, and the Sun-Spots, Orville A. Derby, 3S4 



Bread, Real Brown, Prof. A. H. Church, 229 



Brehm's " Thierleben," 496 ; E. H. Pringle, 518 



Bremen Geographical Society, 46, 697 



Brewing in Japan, R. W. Atkinson, 521 



Bristol : University College, 108, 687 ; Lectures at, 683 



Britanny, Earthquake in, 105 



British Archteological Association, 466 



British Association : Dublin Meeting. — Preliminary Arrange- 

 ments, 132; Foreign Visitors, 261; the Excursion Com- 

 mittee, 262 ; General Arrangements, Officers, Excursions, 

 Visitors, &c., 236, 391 ; Tickets sold, 403; the Guide to 

 Dublin, 403 ; Royal IDublin Society Soiree, 404 ; Mr. 

 Howard Grubb's Great Telescope, 404 ; the Inaugural 

 Address of the President, William Spottiswoode, LL. D., 

 F. R.S., 404; General Arrangements and Proceeding-:, 

 436 ; the Question of the Reporting of the Proceedings, 

 436 ; Conversazioni and Entertainments, 437 ; the Meetings 

 for 1879 and 1880, 437 ; the Attendance, 437 ; the New 

 Assistant Secretary, 437 ; the Annual Grants, 438 ; Report 

 of the Committee appointed to consider the Advisability 

 and to estimate the Expense of Constructing Mr. Babbage's 



» Analytical Machine, 438 ; Third Report of the Committee 

 for the Determination of the Mechanical Equivalent of 

 Heat, 440; Report of the Committee on establishing a 



"Close Time " for Indigenous Animals, 440; Report of 

 the Committee for commencing Secular Experiments on the 

 Elasticity of Wires, 467 ; Report of the Committee ap- 

 pointed to investigate the Effect of Propellers on the Steer- 

 ing of Vessels, 468 ; Report of the Committee on the best 

 Means of developing Light from Coal Gas, 468 ; Four- 

 teenth Report of the Committee for Exploring Kent's 

 Cavern, 468 ; Report of the Committee on the Fermanagh 

 Caves, 469 ; Report of the Underground Water Committee, 

 469 ; Report on the proposed Kentish Exploration, 469 ; 

 Report of the Earthworks Committee — Cscsar's Camp, 

 Folkestone, Mount Caburn, Lewes, 470 ; Report of the 

 Committee on the Fossils of the North-west Highlands of 

 Scotland, 470; Report of the Committee on Mathematical 

 Tables, 505 ; Report of the Committee on Oscillation Fre- 

 quencies of the Rays of the Solar Spectrum, 505 ; Report 

 of the Committee on Luminous Meteors, 505 ; Report of 

 the Committee on Underground Temperature, 505 ; Report 

 of the Committee on Erratic Boulders, 599 



Section A {Mathematical and Physual). — Prof. Stanley Jevons, 

 F.R.S., on the Pedetic Action of Soap, 440; Robert 

 Sabine on Motions produced by Dilute Acids on some 

 Amalgam Surface, 441 ; Prof. Silvanus P. Thompson on 

 Certain Phenomena accompanying Rainbows, 441 ; Prof. 

 W. E. Ayrton on a New Determination of the Number 

 of Electrostatic Units in the Electromagnetic Unit, 470 ; 

 Douglas Galton, F.R.S., on the General Results of some 

 recent Experiments upon the Co-efficient of Friction be- 

 tween Surfaces moving at High Velocities, 471 ; Researches 

 made at Dunsink on the Annual Parallax of Stars, by Prof. 

 R. S. Ball, 505 ; Description of an Equatorial Mounting 

 for a Three-foot Reflector, by Lord Rosse, 506 ; R. Harley 

 on the Stanhope " Demonstrator," or Logical Machine, 506 ; 

 W. Ladd on Edmunds' Electrical Phonoscope, 506 ; W. 

 Ladd on Byrne's Battery, 506 ; Solar Photography, Spec- 

 troscopy, Flashing Gas-light, Sun's Heat, &c., &a, 506 



Section B (Chefnical Science). — Opening Address by the Pre- 

 sident, Prof. Maxwell Simpson, M.D., F.R.S., 441 ; Dr. 

 Oliver J. Lodge on a Simplification of Graphic Formula?, 

 472 ; Dr. E. W. Davy and Dr. C. A. Cameron on the 

 Action of Heat upon the Selenate of Ammonium, 472 ; 

 Dr. E. W. Davy on the Action of Chlorine upon the Nitro- 

 prussides, 473 ; Dr. Johnstone Stoney and Prof. Reynolds 

 on the Spectrum of Chlorochromic Anhydrids, 473 ; Dr. 

 Louis Siebold on a New Method of Alkalimetry, 473 ; 

 William Thomson on the Estimation of Mineral Oil or 

 Paraffin Wax when Mixed with other Oils or Fat, 473 ; 

 Prof. Emerson Reynolds on some Double Salts of Glu- 

 cinum, 473 ; Dr. H. Ramsay's Summary of Investigations 

 on the Pyridine Series, 473 ; Dr. W. Ramsay on some of 

 the Derivatives of Furfurol, 474 ; Prof. Letts on the The- 

 tines, 474 ; Dr. Gladstone and Mr. Tribe on Aluminium 

 Alcohols, 474 ; Alex. S. Wilson on the Amounts of Sugar 

 contained in the Nectar of various Flowers, 474 ; W. Lant 

 Carpenter on Waters from the Severn Tunnel Springs, 



474. 

 Section C {Geolooy). — Opening Address by the President, John 

 Evans, D.C.L., F.R.S., 415; Prof. J. Sterry Hunt, 

 F.R.S., on the Origin and the Succession of the 

 Crystalline Rocks, 443 ; Prof. J. Sterry Hunt, F.R.S., 

 on the Geological Relations of the Atmosphere, 475 ; 

 Isaac Roberts on the Filtration ' of Sea- Water through 

 Triassic Sandstone, 475 ; W. Ball on a New Geological 

 Map of India, 475 ; VV. H. Baily on some Additional 

 Labyrinthodont Amphibia and Fish from the Coals of 

 Jarrow Colliery, near Castlecomer, County Kilkenny, 475 ; 

 Joseph Nolan on the Ancient Volcanic District of Slieve 

 Gullion, 475 ; Dr. John Evans, F.R.S., on some Fossils 

 from the Northampton Sands, 476 ; W. H. Baily on a 

 New Star-fish from Lower Silurian Caradoc Strata, Co. 

 Wexford, and some New Carboniferous Limestone Mol- 

 lusca from the County of Limerick, 476 ; Prof. E. D. 

 Cope on the Saurians of the Dakota Cretaceous Rocks of 

 Colorado, 476 ; Prof. E. Hull, F.R.S., on the Progress of 

 the Geological Survey of Ireland, 476 ; the Cost of the | 

 Survey Publications, 476 ; Alphonse Gages on the Influ- *' 

 ence that Microscopic Vegetable Organisms had in the 

 Production of some Hydrated Iron Ores, 476; Notes on 

 some New Fossils, " Eribollia Mackayi" from the Quartz- 

 ites of Loch Eribol and other parts of the Western Islands 



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