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INDEX 



[Nature, May lO, 187' 



Basking Shark, Prof. Henry J. Giglioli, 273 ; Prof. E. Percival 



Wright, 292 

 Basques, the. Rev. A. H. Sayce, 394 

 Batrachians, the Development of, without Metamorphosis, 491 ; 



Non- Amphibious, Rev. Georp;e Henslow, 548 

 Bats, Mimetic Habits of, S. Archer, 313 ; Protective Mimicry 



among, G. E. Dobson, 354 

 Bauer's " Philological Introduction to Greek and Latin," 74 

 Baxendell (Mr.), the Protection of Buildings from Lightning, 88 

 Bayeux Tapestry, the Comet of the, 126 

 Bears, Polar, Fight between two, 70 

 Beaver in Siberia, 265 



Beckesheim (M.),, Experiments with Nitro-Glycerine, 71 

 Beer: Pasteur's Etudes sur la Biere, 213, 249 

 Bees : Toads eating, 502 ; Origin of the Flving Powers of, 559 

 Beetles, Blistering, as a Cure for Hydrophobia, 264 

 Belcher (Admiral Sir Edward), death of, 461 

 Belfast, Working Men's Institute, 128 

 Belgium : Geographical Society, 128 ; Geological Maps of, 304; 



Geological Society, 304 ; Education in, 326 ; Hurricane in, 253 

 Bellynck (Pro*".), Death of, 304 

 Belt (Thomas), Pre-Glacial Man in America, 295 

 Bengal, Cyclone Wave in, 261 



Beni, Prof. James Orton's Exploration of the River, 17 

 Bennett (A. VV.), European Polygalas, 5 

 Berkeley (Rev. M. J.), the Fungus Disease of India, 21 

 Berlin: Gorilla in, 51, 208; Additions to the Ethnological 



Museum, 89, 304; Anthropological Society, 169, 304, 364; 



Ethnological Objects at the Royal Museum, 208; Geographical 



Society, 345 ; Chemical Society, 211, 327, 367, 422 

 Berliner Astronomisches Jahrbuch, 362 

 Bemardin (Prof), Classification of Jecules, 209 

 Bernese Alps, Orography of, 188 

 Bessel's Treatises, 414 

 Bethnal Green Museum, 18 



Bettany (G. T.), on the Primary Elements of the Skull, 127 

 Beveiidge (H.), the District of Bakarganj, 135 

 Bianconi (Prof), Experiments on Ice, 69 

 " Bibliographia Caucasica et Transcaucasica," 71 

 Biela's Comet in 1805, 479 



Binary Stars, 186, 414, 500 ; y Centauri, 303 ; o Centauri, 510 

 Biological Notes, 15, 65, 108, 127,167, 263, 324, 414, 438, 458, 



558 

 Biology, Prof. Huxley's Lecture on the Study of, 219 

 Birds : Palmen on the Migration of, 465 ; Sense of Hearing 



in. Prof. A. Leith Adams, 334 ; can they Count ? 345 ; 



Hibernation of, 465, 527 ; of Celebes, 559 ; Bird's Eggs, 



502 ; Birds and Insects, Sense of Hearing in, 254, 292, 354 

 Birmingham (J.), the Suspected Intra-Mercurial Planet, 509; 



Occultaiion of Kappa Geminorum, 509 

 Bischofsheim Transit Instrument, 16 

 Bisons, the American, 167 

 Black Burgh Tumulus, Brighton, 131 

 " Black Drop," M. Ch. Andre on the, 285 

 Blake (John F.), "Astronomical Myths," 351 

 Blake and Tate's " Yorkshire Lias," 1 13 

 Blood, Absorption of Light in the, 362 

 Body-change, Relation of, to Temperature, 324 

 Bolide at Cierey, 69 



Boltzmann (M,), on Gas Molecules, 306 

 Bombay, Meteorology of, 482 

 Bonney (Rev, T. G.), the Age of the Rocks of Chamwood 



Forest, 97, 137 

 Boomerang, the, 312, 510 

 Borelly's Comet, 431, 549 

 Boring, Deep, at Kheinfelden, 128 

 Boron and its Specific He=t, 283 



Bosanquet (R. H. M.), the Hindoo Divisim of the Octave, 420 

 Boston (U.S.), Natural History Society, 192, 388 

 Botanic Gardens : Calcutta, 71 ; Brisbane, 190 

 Botanical Geography of Russia, 459 

 Bottomley (J. T., M.A.), " Dynamics," 467 

 Bowerbank (Dr. John Scott, F.R.S.), Death of, 481 

 Boxwood, the Supply of Russian, 345 

 Bradford Scientific Association, 560 

 Brahe (Tycho), Notice o*", 405 ; his Portrait, 530 

 Brain, the Functions of the. Dr. David Ferrier, F.R.S., 73, 93; 

 \ Action of the, 264 



Braun (Alexander), Obituary Notice of. 490 

 Brazil, Geology in, 149 

 Bremen geographische Gesellschaft, 246 



Bressa (Dr. C. A.), Prize instituted by, 207 



Brighton Aquarium, 365 



Brighton, Black Burgh Tumulus, 131 



Brisbane Botanic Gardens, 190 



Bristol, University College, 459 



British Guiana, C. Barrington Brown's Camp Life in, 311 



" British Manufacturing Industries," 54, 96, 445 



British Museum : Semitic Remains in the, 247 ; the Estimafe: 



on the, 382 

 Broca's Stereograph, 558 

 Bronze, Steel, 522 



Broun (J. Allan, F.R.S.), Variations of the Barometer, 151 

 B>-crcuallia elata. Supposed Self-Fertilisation of, 24 

 Brown (Rev. G.), Exploration of Polynesia, 246 

 Brown (C. Barrington), Canoe and Camp Life in Britisli 



Guiana, 311 

 Brussels Observatory, New Instruments for, 304 

 Buchan (Alexander), Greenwich as a Meteorological Observa- 

 tory, 450, 528 

 Buckland (Frank) on the Breeding of the Salmon, 375 

 Bulletin de 1' Academic Imperiale des Sciences de St. Peters- 

 bo urg, 20 

 Bulletin des Sciences Mathematiques et Astronomiques, 332 

 Burial-Ground near Rauschenbure, Discovery of, 51 

 Burrows and Colton, " Concise Instructions in the Art of Re- 

 touching," 156 

 Butterflies of America, Edward's Work on the, 70 



Caesium and Rubidium, Atomic Weights of, 282 



Calabria, Natural History of, 541 



Calcutta, Report of the Royal Botanic Gardens, 71 



California, Glacial Drift in, A. R. Wallace, 274 



Cambridge, Natural Science Club, 70 ; Philosophical Society, 87, 

 132, 151, 444, 5?3 ; Natural Science Scholarships and Exhi- 

 bitions, 70, 89, 322, 325 ; Lectures in Science at, 325, 540 



Cambridge, Mass., U.S. : Science at, 432 ; Observatory, 201 



Camelidse, the evolution of the, 168 



Cameron (Commander V. L.), "Across Africa," 277; Lecture 

 at the Sorbonne, 305 



Campbell (Lord George), * Log Letters from the Challenger" 290 



Canada : the Emigrant and Sportsman in, John J. Rowan, 216 ; 

 Catalogue of the Minerals of, 272 



Caucasica and Transcaucasica, Bibliography of, 71 



"Canoe and Camp Life in Brit. Guiana," Barrington Brown, 311 



Cape Astronomical Results, 1871-1873, 478 



Capercailzie in Northumberland, W. Topley, 7 



Carbon Dioxide in Minerals, Variations of, 167 



Carboniferous System of Northumberland, 189 



Carboniferous Amphibia, in Nova Scotia, 264 



Carnivorous Water-Beetles, Respiratory Functions of, 91 



Carob, the, in Madras, 419 



Carrick (Alick), " The Secret of the Circle," 155 



Carruthers (Mr.) on Evolution and the Vegetable Kingdom, 467 



Cast-iron, 529 



Caterpillar : J. A. Osborne, 7 ; Commensalism among, 264 



Cayley's Elliptic Functions, C. W. Merrifield, F.R.S., 252 



Celebes, Birds of, 559 



Celts, Discovery of, in Gurnet Bay, 128 



Cerebellum, the Functions of the, 438 



Cetus, Red Star in, 281 



Ceylon, Patenas of, 398, 548 



Chad Basin, Races and Tribes of the, 550 



Challenger QoW^cSAOXis : Sir C. Wyville Thomson, F.R.S., 254 ; 

 Prof. Agassis on the, 256; Henry H. Higgins, 274 



C/iallen^er Expedition: Lord George Campbell's "Log 

 Spry's "Cruise of the Challenger," 290 



Challenger Soundings and the " Lost Atlantis," 553 



Chappell (Wm., F.S.A.), Just Intonation, 196, 430 



Chamwood Forest, Rocks of, 7«, 97, ii6, 137, 470, 548 



Chekanoffsky (M.), Death of, 50 



Chemical Notes, 167, 282, 362, 520 



Chemical Society : 72, 91, 210, 286, 327, 367, 420, 463, 523, 

 563 ; Goldsmith's Company's Grant to, 16 ; Research Fund, 

 88 ; Dinner, 459 



Chemistry : Hofmann's Lecture on Liebig, 193 ; Eltoft's Com- 

 bined Note-book and Lecture Notes, 195 ; the Article in the 

 Encyclopaedia Britannica, 269 ; Vacher's Primer of, 527 



Chemistry and Telegraphy, Prof. Abel, F.R.S., 321 



Chester Society of Natural History, 461 



Chevreul (M.), Dinner to, 87 



Chlorine, Aciion of, on Peroxydes, 2S3 



'Log Letters;" 



