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INDEX 



[Nat tire, May 30, 1889 



Beetroot, on the Early and Late Varieties of, MM. C. Vi>Ilette 



and F. Desprez, 312 

 Belfast Library, History of, John Anderson, 496 

 Belfast, Mosquito in, T. Workman, 567 

 Bell, a New Mountain of the, H. Carrington Bolton, 607 

 Bell (Prof. F. Jeffrey) : Echinoderm Fauna of the Bay of Bengal, 



311 ; Food of Bipalium, 311 

 Ben Nevis Observatory, 516 

 Berberich (Herr A.), Comet 18S8 ^ (Barnard, 1888 September 



2). 546 

 Berberine, Prof. W. IL Perkin, 190 



Berlin: Physical Society of, 24, 119, 167, 264, 288, 336, 360, 

 408, 480, 528, 552, 599 ; Physiological Society of, 72, 120, 

 264, 407, 479, 575, 624 ; Meteorological Society of, 120, 287, 

 360, 575 ; Academy of Sciences, 417, 612; Presentations, 230 ; 

 Geographical Society of, 283, 450 ; Annalen der Hydro- 

 graphie, 303 ; Grants to University and Natural History 

 Museum, 350 ; Astronomical Observatory of, 468 

 Berne Canton, the New Stalactite Cave in, 418 

 Bernstein (A.), Formula for Fusing Currents of Wire, 520 

 Berson (M. G.), on the Influenceof the Shock on the Permanent 



Magnetism of Nickel, 312 

 Berthelot (M.) : on the Reactions between Chromic Acid and 

 Oxygenated Water, 311 ; Reaction of _Oxygenated Water on 

 Chromic Acid, 359 ; Introduction a 1' Etude de la Chimie des 

 Anciens et du Moyen Age, 478 ; Hydrogen Peroxide and 

 Chromic Acid, 504 ; on the Heat of Formation of Antimoni- 

 urelted Hydrogen, 528 ; Fixation of Nitrogen during the Pro- 

 cess of.Slow Oxidation, 528 

 Beryllonite, Edward S. Dana and Horace L. Wells, 310 

 Belhnal Green Museum, Visitors to, 306 



Bezold (Prof. von). Thermo-dynamics of Atmosphere, 167 ; 

 Report on Prof. Kiessling's Book, Researches on the Pheno- 

 mena of Twilight, 287 

 Bialoveski (Dr. A.): Altaic Granites, 30; on the Want of an 



International Journal of Geology, 208 

 Bible-kissing in Law Courts, the Danij;ers of, 418 

 Bibliography of Astronomy for 1887, W. C. Winlock, 282 

 Bibliography of Geodesy, Prof. J. H. Gore, 327 

 Bidwell (Shelford, F. R. S.), Effects of Radiations on the Mag- 

 netization of Iron, 520 ; an Effect of Light upon Magnetism, 

 572 

 Bile, the Influence of, on the Digestion of Starch, Dr. Sidney 



Martin and Dr. Dawson Williams, 453 

 Bilz (Dr.), Vapour-density Determinations of Bismuth, Arsenic, 



and Thallium at Extraordinarily High Temperatures, 544 

 Biology : Marine, Dr. Camille Viguier on the Zo .logical 

 Station at Algiers, 16 ; Tran.-lations of Foreign Biological 

 Memoirs, 51; Biological Station, Denmark, 446; Text- 

 book of Elementary Biology, R. J. Harvey- Gibson, 

 482 ; the Rattle of the Rattlesnake, S. Garinan, 569 ; a New 

 Species of Laminaria, 569 ; the Envelopes in Nostocacese, 

 Maurice Gomont, 569 ; Biological Notes, 5^9 

 Birds, Angry, L. Blomefield, 175 ; W. G. Smith, 175 

 Birds, Morphology of. Dr. H. Gadow, 150, 177 

 Birds, Mr. Howoi th on the Variation of Colour in. Prof. Alfred 



Newton, F.R.S., 318, 389 

 Birds, Remiges of. Dr. Hans Gadow, 239 

 Birds from South Western Africa, J. Bullikofer, 500 

 Birds, Sympathy among. Palmer, 113 

 Biids, Tabular List of all the Australian, Dr. E. P. Ramsay, 



460 

 Bishop's Ring, T. W. Backhouse, 412, 462 

 Bison, Skeleton of, Dr. N. O. Hoist, 327 

 Blaauw (F. E.), White-tailed Gnu, 311 

 Black Mountain, Botany of, III 

 Black Sea, Storm- Warnings on the Coasts of, 40 

 Blackie's Modern Cyclopaedia of Universal Information, 581 

 Blakenbourg (M, O.), New Material from Kanaj^, 258 

 Blanc (M. Ed.), Desiccation of the Sahara, 497 

 Blanford (H. F., F.R.S.): How Rain is Formed, 224; the 

 Meteorological Conditions of the Aruwhimi Forest Tract, 

 582 

 Blizzard, the New York, over the Ocean, Lieutenant E. Hayden, 



418 

 Blomefield (L.), Angry Birds, 175 

 Blomstrand (Prof.), New F'latinum Bases, 112 

 Blue, Egyptian, F. Fouque, 432 

 Blyth (A. W.), Butter Fat, 358 

 Blytt (M. A.), on Alternating Beach-Lines, 613 



Board of Trade Examinations, Assistant to the, Captain D. 

 Forbes, 411 



Boars, Wild, in Shawangunk Mountains, NY., 566 



Boas (Dr. Franz), the Houses of the Kwakiutl Indians, 545 



Boeddicker (Dr.), Observat'ions of Jupiter, 519 



Boisbaudran (Lecoq de), Gad linium, 359 



Bois-Reymond (Dr. Paul du). Death of, 612 



Bollettino of Italian Geographical Society, 159 



Bolton (Prof. H. C), Sonorous Sands, 18 



Bombay Anthropological Society and Mr. E. T. Leith's Literary 

 Remains, 466 



Bombay Chamber of Commerce Report, 447 



Bombay, Proposed Uniform Standard of Weight in, 419 



Bonaparte (Prince Roland), Geographical ai?d Anthropological 

 Papers, 518 



Bone Tissue, on the Activity of, Prof. Wolff, 72 



Bongartz (Dr.) and Pi of. Classen on the Atomic Weight of 

 Tin, 39 



Bonney (Prof. T. G., F.R.S.) : Foundation-stones of the Earth's 

 Crust, 89 ; Crystalline Rocks of Alps, 191 ; Die Gletscher 

 der Ostalpen, Dr. Eduard Richter, 361 ; the Alps, Prof. F. 

 Umlauft, 361 



Bonvalot (Gabriel), Through the Heart of Asia, 457 



Boodlea, New Genus of Green AlgK, Mr. Murray, 454 



Book of the Lantern, T. C. Hepworth, 172 



" Bore" in Hangchow Bay, Captain Moore, 469 



Borelli (Jules), Explorations in Shoa and Galla Land, 520 



Bornet (Ed.) and Ch. Flahault, a Revision of the Heterocyst 

 Nostocacea;, 197 



Bornstein (Prof.), the Ebb and Flow of the Tide, 600 



Bosnia, Earthquake in, 613 



Boston, U.S.A., Exhibition of Meteorological Instruments at, 

 591 



Botany: Ueber Kern- und Zelltheilung im Pflanzenreiche, 

 nebst einem Anhang liber Befructung, Prof. E. Strasburger, 

 4 ; Queen's Juliilee Prize Essay of the Botanical Society of 

 London, John W. Ellis, 10 ; a Course of Practical Instruction 

 in Botany, Prof. F. O. Bower, 74 ; Botany of Socotra, Isaac 

 Bayley Balfour, F. R.S. , 99 ; Botany of the Black Mountain, 

 III ; Botanical Gazette, 142, 284, 286, 477 ; a New Gutta- 

 percha Plant, Pleckel and Schlagdenhauffcn, 192; Dr. Schwein- 

 furth's Expedition to Arabia Felix in search of Botanical Speci- 

 mens, 207 ; Kaiiaff, a New Material from, M. O. Hlakenbuurg, 

 258 ; Java Fern Hair«, Cihotiuvi Cummiyigii, Dicksonia, 262 ; 

 Lamb of Tartary, 262 ; Erythroxylin boca, 7.(>7. ; E. novo-gi-atia- 

 tense,262 ; Apiocystis, 263 ; Botanical Institute, Stiassburg, 284; 

 Journal of Botany, 286 ; Photolysis in Lenina trisiilea, S. Le M. 

 Moore, 286 ; Biographical Index of Briti h and Irish Botanists,. 

 286 ; Development of Cork-wings on certain Trees, Miss 

 E. L. Gregory, 286 ; a Jamaica Drift-fruit, D. Morris, 322 ; 

 Botanical Station at St. Lucia, 326 ; Nymphma cceni'ea, 334 • 

 Drift-fruit from Jamaica, Hiimiria balsamifera, 334 ; Kangaroo 

 Island Grass-tree, Xantharrhcea Tateana, 334 ; the Bui'enzorg 

 Botanic Gardens, 384; Tond-Weed'i, Eoiumigc'ton fa/caiiis, 

 A. Fryer, 477 ; Fcsttica heterophylla, Kev. E. S. Marshall,. 

 477 ; f^ieracium, F. J. Hanbury, 477 ; Avrainvilka, G. 

 ^Iurray and L. A. Boodle, 477 ; Botanical Laboratory at 

 University of Philadelphia, 477; New Phosphorescent Fungus, 

 Agaricus {Clitoryhe) illudens, 477 ; Common Dodder of 

 Massachusetts, Ctcscxta Gronovii, 477 ; Development of Cork- 

 wings on certain Trees, Emily L. Gregory, 477 ; Oxalate of 

 Linie in Plants, Prof, Aser Poll, 477 ; Flora, Prof. K. Goebel, 

 494 ; Narcisstcs Tazzetta, Signor G. Arcangeli, 500; Nymphiva 

 alba and N'uphar luteiim, 500 ; Aniorphophallus Kivieri, 500 ; 

 Botanical Congress in Paris, 516 ; Botanical Society of France, 

 516; Sexual Forms of Catasetum, R. A. Rolfe, 551 ; a 

 New Species of Laminaria, J. Rodriguez, 509 ; the Flora of 

 Archangelsk, A. Kuznetsoff, 571 ; Flora of St. Petersburg 

 Province, Dr. R. Regel, 592 

 Bott (Dr. W.) : Derivatives, &c., of a-Pryocresole, 190; a 



Method of determining Vapour-Density, 190 

 Bouchard (M. ), on the Haematozoa detected by M. Laveran in 



the Blood of the Inhabitants of Marshy Districts, 335 

 Bouchardat (G.), Transformation of Terpilene into a Menthene, 



167 

 Boule (Marcellin), the Precursors of the Canidae, 359 

 Boulenger (G. A.), a New Permian Rhynchocephalian Reptile, 



Dr. Hermann Credner, 562 

 Bourquelot (Em.), Researches on the Saccharine Substances 

 contained in Certain Species of Mushroom, 528 



