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INDEX 



\_Natnre, June ^ , i< 



Benoist (M.), a Toy Panorama, 89 



Bentham Trustees and Odoardo Beccarl's Researches as pub- 

 lished in Malesia, 421 



Bentley (Prof. Robert), Text-book of Organic Materia Medica, 

 460 



Benzil, Isomeric Series of Dei'ivatives of (Prof. Victor Meyer), 



443 



Benzyldithiourethane, Dr. A. E. Dixon, 503 



Berberich (A.), Occultations of Stars by Planets, 234 



Bergeron (Jules), First Discoveiy of Trilobites of Primordial 

 Fauna in France, 360 



Berlin Meteorological Society, 72, 552 



Berlin Ornithological Exhibition, Proposed, 88 



Berlin: Physical Society, 48, 167, 311, 408, 528, 576 ; Physio- 

 logical Society, 144, 168, 215, 264, 336, 576 



Berliner (Dr. A.), Cause of Emission of Solid Particles by 

 Platinum under Electric Current, 378 



Bernard (Rev. Henry), Shadow of a Mist, 392 



Bernicle Geese on Coniston Lake, William R. Melly, 585 



Berthelot (M.), on the Transformation of the Nitrates into 

 Nitrous Organic Compounds, 479 



Berthelot and Andre (MM.) : on the State of the Potassa in 

 Plants, 71 ; on the Absorption of Saline Substances by 

 Plants, 527, 551 ; on Phosphorus and Phosphoric Acid in 

 Vegetation, 504 



Bertrand (J.) : Note on Errors of Observation in Astronomy, 

 M. Faye, 166, 191 ; on the Combination of Measures of the 

 same Magnitude, 504 ; on the Probable Value of the Smallest 

 Errors in a Series of Observations, 527 ; Geometrical Curves, 

 M. G. Demartres on, 600 



Best (Geo. Payne), Morality and Utility, Prof. Geo. J. 

 Romanes, F. R. S., 290 



Bethlehem, the Star of, 169; John T. Nicolson, 221; Prof. 

 Wm. Pengelly, F.R.S., 221 : E. Coatham, 221 



Bibliography of Russian Books on Chemistry, 525 



Billwiller (Dr.), Permanent Observatory on the Summit of the 

 Santis, 350 



Biology: Liverpool Biological Society, 113; Huxley and 

 Martin's Biology, 187; the Geographical Distribution of 

 Actinise in P'rench Mediterranean Waters, F. Isambert, 192 ; 

 M. L. Vaillant on the Nest of the Anteitnarius marmoratus, 

 208 ; the Relations between Geology and the Biological 

 Sciences, Prof. John W. Judd, F. R. S., 401, 424; Animal 

 Biology, C. Lloyd Morgan, 484 ; Elementary Instniction in 

 Practical Biology, T. H. Huxley, F.R.S., and H. N. Martin, 

 F.R.S., 505 



Bird- Lime, Composition of, 406 



Birds : the Tweeddale Collection, R. Bowdler Sharpe, 13 ; New 

 Species of, from Guadalcanar, R. Bowdler Sharpe, 503 ; 

 Curious Discovery about, Prof. W. P. Trowbridge, 139 ; 



« Autumnal Migration of, in Ireland, Allan Ellison, 232 ; 

 W. K. Parker, F.R. S., on the Secondary Carpals of Carinate 

 Birds, 333 ; Flight of, M. Marey, 474 ; the Soaring of, by 

 the late William Froude, 527 ; Birds of Wiltshire, Rev. Alfred 

 Charles Smith, 601 ; Bird's-Nest or Elephant Islands of the 

 Mergui Archipelago, Alfred Carpenter, 348 



Birdwood (Hon. H. M.), Catalogue of the Fish of Matheran 

 and Mahableshwar, 126 



Birkbeck (Sir Edward), the Carriage of Fish, 423 , 



Bismutosphserite from Willimantic and Portland, Connecticut 

 H. L. Wells, 47 



Bisulphide of Carbon, 142 



Bivalve Mollusks, by D. McAlpine, 527 



Black (W. G.), Wind Force at Sea, 321 ; Water Supplies and 

 Reservoirs, 439 



Blackie (C), a Dictionary of Place Names, 151 



Blake (Rev. J. F.), the Monian System, 526 



Blakesley (T. H. ), Geometrical Method of determining the 

 Conditions of Maximum Efficiency in the Transmission of 

 Power by alternating Currents, 119 



Blakesley (T. E.), Electro-dynamometer and Harmonic Currents 

 of Electricity, 502 



Bleiburg, Earthquake at, 113 



Blind and Deaf Child, Education of, 615 



Blizzard, the, H. Faye, 575 



Blondlot (B.), Double Dielectric Refraction, 360 



Bliimcke (Herr), Experiments on the Resistance of Materials to 

 Frost, 209 



Bodo, Earthquake at, 138 



Boedicker (Otto), Total Eclipse of the Moon, 318 



Bogdanoff (Prof.), Death and Obituary Notice of, 567 



Bohemia, Crustacean Fauna of the Chalk of. Prof. Dr. Anton 

 Fritsch and Jos. Kafka, 51 



Bollettino of the Italian Geographical Society for September, 1 7 



Bolton (Thos.), Death of, 34 



Bombay Presidency, Meteorology of the, S. Chambers, 378 



Bombay Technical Institute, 378 



Bonney (Prof. T. G., F.R. S.) : a Conspiracy of Silence, 25, 77 ; 

 Life and Letters of Chas. Darwin, 73 ; Notes on a Part of 

 the Huronian Series in the Neighbourhood of Sudbury 

 (Canada), 143 ; Prof. Rosenbusch's Work on Petrology, 556 



Bonus (Albert), the Mist-Bow, 273 



Boomerang in Australia, Limits of Use of, 568 



Borates and Borosilicates, Analysis of some Natural, 47 



Borda (Sig. A.), on the Geography, History, and Present Social 

 Conditions of the Republic of Columbia (New Grenada), 211 



Borneo, Expedition into, John Whitehead, 349 



Bornholm in the Baltic, Curious Christmas Customs observed 

 in, 352 



Bornstein (Prof.), Preparation discovered by Chance. 408 



Boswell (Dr. J. T. I.), Death of, 327 



Botany: Hand-book of the Fern Allies, J. G. Baker, F.R.S., 

 Prof. W. R. McNab, 4 ; Practical Botany, F. O. Bower and 

 Sydney H. Vines, 28 ; Botanical Gazette, 163, 308 ; Geo. 

 Massee, on the Growth'and Origin of Multicellular Plants, 163; 

 Botanical Results of the Cruise of the Dijtimphna, 173; a 

 Flora of Hertfordshire, 187 ; Alexipharmic Plants, D. Morris, 

 257 ; Discovery oi Ju7tcus tenuis in Sweden, 258 ; Royal 

 Botanic Garden of Calcutta, 283 ; Report of Royal Botanic 

 Garden, Calcutta, 476 ; Manual of Biitish Discomycetes, 

 William Phillips, 340 ; Atlas der Pflanzenverbreitung, 362 ; 

 Botanists and the Micromillimetre, Prof. Arthur W. Ritcker, 

 F.R.S., 388; Odoardo Beccari's Malesia and the Bentham 

 Trustees, 421; Prof. Bayley Balfour and Edinburgh University, 

 421 ; Frank Smart Studentship of Botany, Cambridge, 430 ; 

 Lund University Botanical Museum, 442 ; Dr. Robert Fries 

 on the Fungus Flora of Sweden, 445 ; Botryocytinns, by E. 

 G. Baker, 478 ; Sig. A. N. Berlese on the Genus of Fungi 

 Pleospora, 500 ; Prof. A. Beccari on New Species of Palm, 

 New Guinea, 500 ; Endosperm, by G. S. Boulger, 500 ; 

 Polypodium Annabella, 500 ; Tillandsiese, 500 ; Botanical 

 Department, the. Northern India, 522 ; Flora of the Baha- 

 mas, Baron Eggers, W. T. Thiselton Dyer, F.R.S., 565 ; A. 

 Johnston's Botanical Plates, 582 ; List of New Garden Plants, 

 595 ; Additional Records of Scottish Plants for the Year 1887, 



615 



Botryocytinns, by E. G. Baker, 478 



Bottone, S. R., Electrical Instrument-making for Amateurs, 



412 

 Bouchard (Ch. ), Naphthol as an Antiseptic, 24 

 Boulenger (G. A.), Classification of the Ranidte, 526 

 Bourne (Prof. G. C.) : Coral Formations, 415; the Atoll of 

 Diego Garcia and Coral Formations of the Indian Ocean, 546 

 Bouty (M. E.), on the Electric Conductibility of Concentrated 



Nitric Acid, 479 

 Bow, Fog, and Ulloa's Ring, Dr. H. Mohn, 391 

 Bower (F. O.) and Sydney H. Vines, Practical Botany, 



Part II., 28 

 Bozward (J. Lloyd), Meteor of November 15, 178 

 Brady (Henry B., F.R.S.), " Soapstone" of Fiji, 142 

 Brain, Monkey's, Functions of the. Dr. Sanger Brown and 



Prof. E. A. Schiifer, F.R.S., 214 

 Brazilian Expedition, Dr. von Steinen's, 570 

 Brazilian Results from the Transit of Venus, M. Cruls, 233 

 Brazza (Giacomo di). Death of, 492 

 Breath of Man and other Mammals, 288 



Brillouin (M.), Note on Permanent Deformations and Thermo- 

 dynamics, 384 

 Brinton (Dr. R. G.), Ancient Foot-prints in Nicaragua, 474 

 Bristol, University College, 87 



British Association : and Local Societies, 91 ; Section A — 

 Temperature Variation in Lakes, Rivers, and Estuaries, 92 ; 

 Section C — Erratic Blocks Committee, 92 ; Sea-Coasts 

 Erosion Committee, 93 ; Earth Tremors Committee, 93 ; 

 Section D — Life-Histories of Plants, 93 ; Section H — Ancient 

 Monuments Act, 93 ; Prehistoric Remains Committee, 94 ; 

 Work of the Corresponding Societies Committee, 94 

 British and Atlantic Weather, R. H. Scott, 350 

 British Discomycetes, Manual of, William Phillips, 340 

 British Empire, Annual Table of the Climate of the, 38 



