Nature, May 30, 1889] 



INDEX 



Vll 



Bouty (M. E ), Conductivity ani MoJe of Electrolysis of Con- 

 centrated S.ilphuric Acid Solution?, 455 

 Biwer (Prof. F. O.), a Course of Practical In3truc;ion in 



Botany, 74 

 Boys (C. v., F.R.S.), the Celluloid Slide-rule, 486 

 Bradford (J. Rise), the Innervation of the Renal Blood-vessels, 



E. A. Schafer, F.R. S.,453; the Innervation of the Pulmonary 



Vessels, 478 

 Bradshaw (John), New Zealand of To-day, 340 

 Branchiae of a Crab, Mussel Living in the, W. R. Pid^eon, 127 

 Brassart (Signor E. ), Seismoscope, 321 

 Brassica Napus, Colouring Matter of the Testa of the Seed of 



Rape, Alexander Johnstone, 15 

 Brauner (Dr. B.), Constitution of the Chlorides of Aluminium 



and the Allied Metals, 318 

 Brazil, Dr. von der Steinen's Xingu Expedition, 62 

 Brazilian Transit of Venus Expeditions, 1882, 87 

 Bread-making, William Jago, 446 



Bredichin (Prof.), the Tail of Comet 1887 a (Thorns), 88 

 Bredichin (Th.), Comet 1887 I., 477 

 Bressa Prize, 255 

 Brester (Dr. A.), Variable Stars and the Constitution of the Sun, 



606 

 Brefschneider (E.), Mediaeval Researches from Eastern Asiatic 



Sources, &c., 170 

 Brewing, Lectures on the Science of. Dr. E. R. Moritz, 231 

 Brewster (E. M. A.), Ventilating Bees, 224 

 Brewster's Line 7, Prof. Piazzi Smyth, 370 



Brigham (William T.), Guatemala, the Land of the Quetzal, 412 

 Britain, on the Discovery of the Olenellus Fauna in the Lower 



Cambrian Rocks of, Prof. C. Lapworth, F.R.S., 212 

 British Association : Statistics of the, 152 ; Wm. Pengelly, 



F.R.S., on, 197; and Local Scientific Societies, Section A, 



Temperature Variation in Lakes, Rivers, and Estuaries, 187 ; 



Section C, Geological Photography, 187 ; Section D, Life 



Histories of Native Plants, 1S8 ; Earth Tremors, 231 ; 



Surplus, 2S2 ; Meeting at Newcastle, 516 

 British Bechuanaland, Forests of, 591 

 British Farmer and his Competitors, W. E. Bear, 146 

 British Islands, Fossils of the, Robert Etheridge, 49 

 British Isles, the Building of the, A. J. Jukes Browne, Prof. 



A. H. Green, F.R.S., 268 



British Mineralogy, the Renaissance of, L. Fletcher, 115 ; Prof. 

 W. N. Hartley, F.R.S., 149 



British Mosses, F. E. Tripp, 434 



British Museum : Catalogue of the Fossil Reptilia and Am- 

 phibia in the, Richard Lydekker, 53 ; Catalogue of the Fossil 

 Cephalopoda in the, 530 ; Francis Arthur Heron appointed 

 to the Assistantship in the Zoological Department of the, 590 



British Tertiary Volcanoes, Prof. A. H. Gieen, F.R.S , 131 



British Uredineae and Ustilagineae, a Monograph of the, Chas. 



B. Plowright, 553 



Broca's Cerebral Convolution, G. Ilerve, 404 



Broch (Dr. O. J.), Death of, 375 



Brock (Dr. Johan les). Death of, 446 



Brodhun (Dr.), Experiments on Fundamental Law of Psycho- 

 physics in connection with Sense of Sight, 119 



Bromine and Chlorine, Action of, on the .Salts of Tetrethylphos- 

 phonium. Prof. O. Masson and J. B. Kirkland, 454 



Brook (G.), Preliminary Remarks on the Homologies of the 

 Mesenteries in the Antipatharia and other Anthozoa, 335 



Brooke (Sir William O'Shaughnessy, F.R.S.), Death of, 281 



lirooks (W. K.), New Comet, 307 



"iown(Prijf. Crum,F.R.S.): Action of Sea-water on Magnesium 

 Silicates, 455 ; Anatomy and Physiology of Phreoryctes, 455 ; 

 Change in the Thermo elecric Properties of Wood's Fusible 

 Metal, 4155 ; the Scientific Papers of the late Thomas Andrews, 

 F.R.S., with Memoir by, 554 



Brown (E.), Remarkable Rime and Mist, 342 



Brown (H. T.), the Permian Rocks of the Leicester^hTe Coal- 

 field, 95 



Brown (J. A.), Tattooing in India, 113 



Brown (Prof. Mainwaring), Supposed Death of, 378 



Brown (Montague), Evidences of the Antiquity of Man in 

 Leicestershire, 232 



IJrown-Sequard and D'Arsonval, the Toxic Quality of Exhaled 

 Air not dependent on Carbonic Acid, 407 



Browne (A. J. Jukes) : Origin of the Radiolarian Earth of 

 Barbados, 367 ; and J. B, Harrison, Tertiary Chalk in 

 Barbailos, 607 



Bruce (Dr. Adam Todd), Observations on the Embryology of 



Insects and Arachnids, 509 

 Bryan (G. H.), the Waves in a Rotating Liquid Spheroid of 



Finite Ellipticity, 142 

 Buchan (Dr.), Distribution of Stones round the Scottish Coast 



570 

 Buchanan (J. ¥., F.R.S.), Air-tight Subdivision in Ships, 608 

 I Buckman (S. S. ), Cotteswold, Midford, and Yeovil Sands, and 

 ! the Division between Lias and Oolite, 478 

 Building, the, of the British Isles, Prof. A. H. Green, F.R.S., 



268 

 Building-Stones of New York City, Alexis A. JuHen, 258 

 Buitenzorg Botanic Gardens 384 

 I Bulletin de 1' Academic Royale de Belgique, 262 

 j Bulletin de I'Academie des Sciences de St. Peiersbourg, 23 

 \ Bulletin International de I'Academie des Sciences de Cracovie, 

 614 

 Bulletin of Moscow Society of Naturalists, 6t 

 Bulletin of Paris Geographical Society, 421 

 Bulletin de la Societe des Naturalistes de Moscou, 477 

 Bulletins de la Societe d'Anthropologie, 70, 404 

 Bulletin de la Societe de Geigraphie, 498 

 Bureau des Longitudes, Extract from Connalisancc des Temps, 



1890, 467 

 Buriates, the Customs of the Ancient, Khangalofif, 185 

 Burder (George F.), Alpine Haze, 247 

 Bury (Mr. H ), 16 

 Busk (Chas. J.), to find the Factors of any Proposed Number, 



413 

 Blittikofer (J.), Birds from South- Western Africa, 500 

 Butter Fat, Blyth and Robertson, 358 

 Butterflies of the Eastern United States and Canada, with 



Special Reference to New England, Samuel H. Scudder, 



Captain H. J. Elwes, 193 

 Butterflies of the Eastern United States, Samuel H. Scudder, 468 

 Butterflies, which are the Highest?, Dr. Alfred R. Wallace, 

 I W. H. Edwards, 611 

 I Butterflies, Variation in, W. W. Smith, 397 

 Butterfly (Tirumala pctiverana) from Mombaza, Eastern Africa, 



Jenner-Weir, 527 

 Butylic Ethers, on the True and Mixed, M. E. Reboul, 311 



Caillard (E. M.), the Invisible Powers of Nature, 257 



Calculus, Differential, B. Williamson, 26 ; J. Edwards, 26 



Calcutta, Earthquake at, 305 



Calendar of Imperial University of Japan, 352 



California, Earthquakes in, 85 

 , California, on the Occurrence of Hanksite in, Ileiuy G. Hanks, 

 310 



Caligny (Anatole de). Hydraulic Machine, Mr. P-earsall s Ap- 

 paratus, 311 

 j Calorimetric Experiments on Animals, Prof. Rosenthal, 624 

 j Calorimetry, Electro-, Sydney Evershed, 9 



Cambridge : Sedgwick Triennial Prize, Alfred Harker, 286 ; 

 ! Candidates for Lectureship in Geography, 329 ; Studies from 

 the Morphological Laboratory in the University of, 338 ; 

 Discovery of Saxon Burying-ground at, 396 ; the New Build- 

 ings for Physiology and Anatomy, 445 ; Mr. R. S. Newall's 

 j Telescope, 477 ; Local Examinktions Report, 525 ; Prof. 

 Stokes, P.R.S., elected Rede Lecturer, 280; Proposed New 

 Buildings for Anatomy and Physiology, 525 ; General Board 

 of Studies Report, 525 



Camera Club, Photographic Exhibition, 231 



Campbell (Albert), Change in the Thermo-electric Properties of 

 Wood's Fusible Metal, 455 



Camphols, New Neutral and Acid Ethers of the, M. A. Haller, 

 456 



Canada, Superficial Geology of Central North- West, J. B. 

 Tyrrell, 95 



Canadian Record of Sciences, 137 



Canary Islands, Rides and Studies in, Charles Edwardes, 232 



Cancri, Multiple Star ^. 398 



Canidic, the Precursors of the, Marceliin Boule, 359 



Cannibalism, the Origin of, De Nadaillac, 70 



Caps, French Student, 352 



Carbohydrates, Prof. B. Tollens's, 433 



Carbonic Acid, the Toxic Quality of Exhaled Air not dependent 

 on, Brown-Sequard and D'Arsonval, 407 



Carboniferous Rocks containing BacillariUs, Stur, M. Stanislas 

 Meunier, 479 



