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INDEX 



{Nature, Nov. 22, 1888 



Bernoulli and Haecker, Formulas of, for the Lifting Power of 

 Magnets, Prof. S. P. Thompson, 190 



Bert (Paul), First Elements of Experimental Geometry, 295 



Berthelet and Fabre, the Chemistry of Tellurium, 63 



Berthelot (M.) : Experiments on the Fixation of Nitrogen by 

 certain Vegetable Plants and Soils, 408 ; and G. Andre, 

 Remarks on the Quantitative- Analysis of Nitrogen in 

 Vegetable Soil, 359 



Rertrand (M. J.), Note on Target Practice, 359 



Bessarabia, Disease of the Tobacco Plant in, 278 



Bezold (Prof, von), Thermodynamics of the Atmosphere, 144 



Bhabur Grass, the Kew Bulletin on, 277 



Bialoveski (A.), Dreams, 56 



Bibliography of Meteorology, C. J. Sawyer's, 574 



Biltz (Dr.), on the Vapour-Density of Sulphur, 229 



Biology: G. C. Bourne elected Director of the Marine Bio- 

 logical Association, 16; a Textbook of Biology, J. R. 

 Ainsworth Davis, 52 : Biological Society of University 

 College, 114; Text-book of, J.R. Ainsworth Davis, 126; 

 Fossil Fish Remains from New Zealand, 137 ; Mammals 

 of Liberia, 137 ; on New England Medusas, 137; Biological 

 Notes, 137; Davis's Biology, 149; Opening of the Marine 

 Biological Laboratory at Plymouth, 198, 236 ; Marine Bio- 

 logical Laboratory, Wood's Holl, Massachusetts, 348 ; 

 Studies from the Biological Laboratory of Johns Hopkins 

 University, 356 ; Natural Scavengers of French Beaches, 

 Hallez, 598 : Colorado Biological Association, 625 



Bird Pests of the Farm, 599 



Birds : Lissemination of Tlants by, W. Botting Hemsley, 53 ; 

 Dispersal of Seeds by, Dr. H. B. Guppy, 101 ; the Birds of 

 Dorsetshire, a Contribution to the Natural History of the 

 County, J. C. Mansel-Pleydell, 125 ; Notes on the Birds of 

 Herefordshire, Dr. H. G. Bull. 125 ; Manual of British Birds, 

 Howard Saunders, Prof. Alfred Newton, F.R.S., 145 ; 

 History of the Birds of New Zealand, Sir Walter Buller, 159 ; 

 Native Birds of North America, 373 : Key-List of British 

 Birds, Lieut. -Colonel L. Howard, Prof. R. Bowdler Sharpe, 

 587 ; Sea-Birds, how they Dine, Earl Compton, 618 ; Birds- 

 nesting and Bird-skinning, a Complete Description of the 

 Nests and Eggs of Birds which Breed in Britain, Edward 

 Newman, Prof. R. Bowdler Sharpe, 587 



Bis-cobra, Origin of the Belief in, G. A. Da Gama, 624 



Bismuth, Effect of Magnetism and Heat on the Electric Resist - 

 ance of, 19 



Bismuth Spirals (Flat) for Measuring Intensity of Magnetic 

 Field, Lenard and Howard, 577 



Blaine (Robert G.), Numerical Examples in Practical Mechanics 

 and Machine Design, 563 



Blake (Prof.), Anglesey Rocks, 597 



lilakesley (T. H.). on Magnetic Lag and the Work Lost due 

 to Magnetic Lag in Alternating Current Tiansformers, 141 ; 

 on a New Barometer, 287 



B'anchard (Prof.), La Vie chez les Etres animes, 17 



I lanchet's (M.) Speech at the Sorbonne on Education, 325 



Blanford (H. F., F.R.S.), the Relations of the Diurnal Baro- 

 metric Maxima to Conditions of Temperature, Cloud, and 

 Kainfall, 70 ; the Incurvature of the Winds in Tropical 

 Cyclones, 181 



Blanford (W. T., F.R.S.), Fauna of British India, including 

 Ceylon and Burma, 513 



Blindness, Statistics of, in Russia, 279 



Blindness, Snow-, Ncse-Blackening as Preventive of, Prof. E. 

 Kay Lankester, F.R.S., Edmund J. Power, 7 



Blood : on the Coagulalion of the, Profs. W. D. Haliburton and 

 E. A. Schafer, F.R.S., 331 ; the Gases of the, Prof. John 

 Gray McKendrick, F. R.S., 376, 399 



1 lown Sand, the Cornish, R. H. Curtis, 55 



Blunt (A. H.), Euclid's Method, or the Proper Way to Treat 

 on Geometry, 363 



Bodies, Latent Colours of, M. G. Govi, 631 



Bohemian Caddis-flies, Transformations of, Prof. Klapalek, 553 



Boillot (M. A.), Experiments with a Non-oscillating Pendulum, 

 192 



Pois-Reymond (Trof. Claude du), Photograph of the Eye by 

 Plash of Magnesium, 15 



Boisbaudran (Lecoq de), Fluorescence of Ferruginous Lime, 

 216 



Bologna University, Octocentenary of, 113 



Bologna, the University of, ar.d the 7'ivies Correspondent, 302"* 



Bolometer, New Form of, Dr. R. von Helmholtz, 311 



Bolton (H. Carrington), Sonorous Sands, 515 



Bombay Natural History Society, 623 



Bombay Presidency, Poisonous Snakes of the, H. M. Phipson, 

 284 



Bombay, Proposed Zoological Garden in, 623 



Borelli's (Jules} African Explorations, 259 



Borelly (278), Observations of, M. Esmiol, 143 



Borgman Dr.), the Transmission of Electric Currents through 

 Air with Flames as Electrodes, 577 



Bort (M. de), Storm Warnings, 419 



Boss (Prof. Lewis), Comet 1888 a (Sawerthal), 88 



Boston (U.S.A.), Proposed Zoological Garden at, 42 



Botany : Flora of the Antarctic Islands, W. T. Thiselton Dyer, 

 F. R.S., Dr. H. B. Guppy, 40; Flora of the Hawaiian 

 Islands, William Hillebrand, J. G. Baker, F.R.S., 49 ; 

 Dr. Trimen's Keport on the Botanic Gardens of Ceylon. 112; 

 a Remarkable Case ofFasciation in Fourcrcya cubenis, Haw., 

 Dr. A. Ernst, 131 ; Flora of West Yorkshire, F. A. Lees, 

 147 ; M. Korzchinsky on Aldrovandia vesiculosa, 160 ; 

 Botanical Drying Paper, 183 ; the Botany of the Afghan 

 Delimitation Commission, J. E. T. Aitchison, F.R.S., 219; 

 Prof. Church on Aluminium in Plants, 228 ; the Botanical 

 Magazine, 238 ; the Journal of Botany, 238, 430 ; Nuovo 

 Giornale Botanico Italiano, 238 ; Synoptical Flora of North 

 America, Prof. Asa Gray, J. G. Baker, 242 ; Bhabur (Irass 

 for Manufacturing Purposes. 277 ; Annual Report of i'he Royal 

 Botanic Gardens, Trinidad, 278 ; Pflanzen-Teratologie, Max- 

 well T. Masters, 341 ; Botanical Gazette, 430, 582 ; the Cen- 

 tenary of the Calcutta Botanic Garden, 493 ; Geological 

 History of Plants, Sir J. W. Dawson, F.R.S.,538; German 

 Botanical Journal, 552 ; the Queen's Jubilee Prize Essay of 

 the Royal Botanic Society of London, 594 ; Flora of the 

 Kermadec Islands, W. Botting Hemsley, 622 ; Report of the 

 Adelaide Botanic Garden, 623 



Bott (Dr. W.)and J. B. Miller, Pyrocresols, 596 



Boule (M. Marcellin), Stratigraphic Palaeontology in Relation to 

 Man, 211 ; Stratigraphic Palaeontology of Man, 357 ; Strati- 

 graphic Palaeontology of Man, 431 



Bourgeois (M. L. ), Researches on Hydrocerusite and Cetusite, 

 191 



Bourne (G. C.) : Coral Formations, 5 ; elected Director of the 

 Marine Biological Association, 16 ; the Supply of Bait for 

 Sea Fishermen, 318 



Rourne (Consul) : Report on the Non-Chinese Races of China, 

 345, 455 ; Report on his Journey to South-West China, 455 



louty (M. E.) and M. L. Poincare, on the Electric Conducti- 

 bility of Mixtures of Salts in Solution, 384 



Bowles (Dr. Robert L.), Nose-Blackening as Preventive of 

 Snow-Blindness, 101 



Bowman (Sir Win.) Testimonial Fund, 325 



Boys (C. Vernon) : Radio-micrometer, 19, 46; on Soap Bubbles, 

 22 ; Magnetic and Electric Experiments with Soap Bubbles, 

 162 



Brain, M. Brown-Sequard on the Action of the, 168 



Bramwell (Sir Frederick, F.R. S.), Inaugural Address to the 

 British Association at Bath, 440 



Bronchial Clefts of the Dog, on the, with special reference to 

 the Origin of the Thymus Gland, Dr. F. Mall, 356 



Brassard (M.), Recording Rain-Gauge, 205 



Brauner (Dr. B.), Sun Columns, 414 



Brazil : the Bahia or Bendego Meteorite, 349 ; Meteorological 

 Observatory established in Brazil, 42 ; Brazilian Government 

 Expeditions for Exploration of Interior of, 455 



Bridge Construction, a Practical Treatise on, T. Claxton Fidler, 

 Prof. A. G. Greenhill, F.R.S., 2 



Bridge, the Forth, 39 



Bright (Sir Chas.), Death of, 41 



Brinton (Dr. David G.) : Fixedness of the American Type, 256; 

 the Alleged Mongoloid Affinities of the American Race, 552 



Bristol Naturalists' Society, 486 



British Archaeological Association, 421 



British Association: President for 1889,16; General Ar- 

 rangements, 85 ; the Bath Meeting of the, 346, 382 ; Ad- 

 dress of the Retiring President, Sir Henry Roscoe, M.P., 

 F.R. S., 439; Inaugural Address by Sir Frederick Bram- 

 well, F.R.S., President, 440; Attendance at the, 469; 

 Chemistry at the, 595 ; Report of the Committee on the 

 Action of Light en the PJ)di acids in Presence of Oxygen, 

 Dr. Richardson, 595 ; the Study of Mineralogy, Prof. 

 Sterry Hunt, 596; Chemical Problems presented by Living 



