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INDEX 



[Nature, Dec. i, 1887 



]5inet (Paul) and J. L. Prevost, Cytisus laburnum, Physio 



logical Action of, 504 , t /- 



Binocular Vision, on some Phenomena of, Joseph Le Conte, 



Biolog}- : Seaside Laboratory for Study of, American Women's 

 Education Association, 15 ; Liverpool Marine Biology 

 Station on Puffin Island, Prof. W. A. Herdman, 275 ; on a 

 Point of Biological Interest in the Flowers of Pleurothalhs 

 ornatus, Rchb. f., F. W. .Oliver, 303; Opening Address in 

 Section D at the British Association, by Prof. Alfred Newton, 

 F.R.S., President of the Section, 462; the Problem of the 

 Hop-Plant Louse {Phorodon humuli, Schrank) in Europe and 

 America, Prof. C. V. Riley, 566 ; Proposed Contributions to 

 the Theory of Variation, Patrick Geddes, 592 ; on the Struc- 

 ture of Haplodiscus piger, W. F. R. Weldon, 592 ; on the 

 Degeneration of the Olfactory Organ of Certain Fishes, Prof. 

 Wiedersheim, 592 ; on the Torpid State of Protopterus, Prof. 

 Wiedersheim, 592 ; the Larynx and Stomach of Cetacean 

 Embryos, Prof. D'Arcy Thompson, 592 ; the Blood Corpuscles 

 of the Cyclostomata, Prof. D'Arcy Thompson, 592 ; on the 

 Luminous Larviform Females of the Phengodini, Prof. C. V. 

 Riley, 592 ; the Present Aspect of the Cell Question, Prof. 

 Schafer, 592 ; Icerya purchasi, an Insect Injurious to Fruit- 

 Trees, Prof. Riley, 592 ; the Hessian Fly, Prof. Fream, 592 ; 

 Recent Researches on Earthworms, W. B. Benham, 593 ; a 

 Luminous Oligochaete, Prof. Harker, 593 ; on the Structure 

 of Fraterctda arctica, F. E. Beddard, 593 ; on Cramer's 

 Gemma borne by TricJiomanes alata. Prof. Bower, 593 ; on 

 Bennettites, the Type of a New Group between Angio- 

 sperms and Gymnosperms, Count Solms-Laubach, 593 ; 

 Secretion of Pure Aqueous Formic Acid by Lepidopterous 

 Larvae for the Purposes of Defence, E. B. Poulton, 593 ; 

 Further Experiments upon the Protective Value of Colour 

 and Markings in Insects, E. B. Poulton, 594 ; Further 

 Experiments upon the Colour-Relation between Phyto- 

 phagous Larvae and their Surroundings, E. B. Poulton, 



594 



Birds : Provincial Names and Folk-Lore of British Birds, Rev. 

 Charles Svvainson, 49 ; Our Bird Allies, Theodore Wood, 

 99 ; Use of Flowers by Birds, loi, 244 ; William White, 

 173; Birds and Caterpillars, A. G. Butler, 280; Folk-Lore 

 of Ceylon Birds, 381 ; Ocean Birds, J. F. Green, Prof. R. 

 Bowdler Sharpe, 435 ; Bird-Life in England, Edwin Lester 

 Arnold, Prof. R. Bowdler Sharpe, 435 ; Photochrono- 

 graphy applied to Dynamic Problems of Flight of Birds, 

 M. Marey, 480 ; Birds at Lighthouses and Light-vessels, 

 Migration of. Report of the B.A. Committee for the Purpose 

 of obtaining Observations on the, 516 ; on the Measurement 

 of the Forces brought into Play in the Flight of a Bird, M. 

 Marey, 552. (iV^ a/j^ Ornithology.) 



Bismuth in Magnetic Field, Calorific Conductibility of, 

 A. Righi, 312 



Bismuth and Manganese, Fluorescences of, Lecoq de Boisbaudran, 

 336 



Blake (Prof. J. F.), on a Star-fish from the Yorkshire Lias, 

 591 



Blanford (Henry F., F.R.S.) : Eleven- Year Periodical Fluctua- 

 tion of the Carnatic Rainfall, 227 ; Carnatic Rainfall, 293 



Blast-Fumace Coal Tar from the Garthsherrie Works, on the 

 Constituents of the Light Oils of, Watson Smith, 569 



Blue Hill Observatory, 281 



Blyth (A. W.), Lead-poisoning, 117 



Board Schools, Proposed Evening Classes in Elementary 

 Natural Science in, 254 



Board of Trade on Weights and Measures, Report of, 204 



Boat-shaped Graves in Syria, Geo. St. Clair, 598 



Bodies, Rolling Contact of, Prof. Hele Shaw, 92 



Bodleian Library, the, 109 



Bog-Oak in Norway, 185 



Bohemia, on the Permian Fauna of, Prof. Anton Fritsch, 591 



Boiling-Point and Pressure, M. F. O'Reilly, 4 



Boiling, Melting and. Point Tables, Thos. Carnelley, 411 



Boisbaudran (Lecoq de) : Fluorescences of Manganese and 

 Bismuth, 336 ; New Fluorescences with well-marked Spectral 

 Bands, 360 ; New Fluorescences with well-defined Spectral 

 Kays, 383, 408 



Boiteau (O.), Phylloxera, 312 



BoUetino della Societa Geofragica Italiina, 575 



Bombay Observatory, 280 



Bonavia (E.), the Cultivated Oranges and Lemons of India and 

 Ceylon, 563 



Bonn, Earthquake at, 452 



Bonnetond (M.), New Way of utilizing Dynamite, 564 



Bonney (Rev. A.), Air-Bubbles from Snow, 215 



Bonney (Prof. T. G., F.R.S.) : Microscopic Structure of some 

 Caucasian Rocks, 70 ; Landslip at Zug, 389 ; on the Rounding 

 of Pebbles by Alpine Rivers, with a Note on their Bearing 

 upon the Origin of Bunter Conglomerate, 573 ; Preliminary 

 Note on Traverses of the Western and of the Eastern Alps, 

 made during the Summer of 1887, 590 ; Miirjalen Sea, 612 



Bonnier (Gaston), Les Plantes des Champs and des Bois, 555 



Bonvalot, Capus, and Pepin's (MM.) Journey in Central Asia, 

 588 



Bore, the Diamond-Drill, in Australia, C. S. Wilkinson, 210 



Boreal Cloudlets, Luminous, D. J. Rowan, 245 



Borneo Expedition, Whitehead's, 279 



Bort (L. Teisserenc de), Charts showing Mean Amount of Clou 

 over Surface of Globe, 15 



Bosanquet (R. H. M.), Magnetization, on Sequences of Re- 

 versals, 23 



Bosjes Pelvis, on the, Prof. Cleland, F.R.S., 598 



Boss (Prof. Lewis), New Variable, 501 



Boston Church Tower, Thermometrical Observations on, W. 

 Marriott, 118. 



Botany : Proposed Botanical Survey of India, 14 ; Botanirche 

 Jahrbiicher, 22 ; the Development of Form in Roburoid Oaks, 

 Franz Krasan, 22 ; a New Species of Truffle, Ad. Chatin, 

 23 ; Tabasheer mentioned in Older Botanical Works, Dr. 

 Ernst Huth, 29 ; Variation in Plants and Animals, 'Patrick 

 Geddes, 47 ; on Bigeneric Orchid Hybrids, R. A. Rolfe, 70 ; 

 Nai-cisstisrejlextis, W. Brockbank, 70; Nicotiana glauca, 

 J. H. Stone, 70 ; the Proteids of the Seeds of Abrus preca- 

 torius (Jequirity), Dr. Sidney Martin, 70 ; Vaecinum inter- 

 medium, N. E. Brown, 70: Flora of Christmas Island, W. T. 

 Thiselton Dyer, F.R.S., 78; Aponogetonaceae, A. Engler, 

 117; Die Natiirlichen Pflanzenfamilien, A. Engler and K. 

 Prandl, 123 ; Botanical Federation in West Indies, D. Morris, 

 135 ; Oberpliocan-Flora aus den Baugruben des Klarbeckens 

 bei Niederrad und Schleuse bei Hochst a M., T. Geyler und 

 F. Kinkelin, J. Starkie Gardner, 150; German Carnivorous 

 Plants, Kerner and Wettstein, 209 ; the Mucilage-Cells of 

 Ferns, Tokutaro Ito and Walter Gardiner, 214 ; the Tuber- 

 cular Swellings on Roots of Vicia Faba, Prof. H. M. Ward, 

 214 ; Annals of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Calcutta, vol. 

 i., 242; the Annals of Botany, 254; Botanical Researches 

 in Egypt, Prof. Paul Ascherson's, 254 ; My Hundred Swiss 

 Flowers, Mary A. Pratten, 267 ; Proposed West Indian 

 Island Botanical Stations, 279, 348 ; on a Point of Biological 

 Interest in the Flowers of Pleurothallis ornatus, Rchb. f., 

 F. W. Oliver, 303 ; Habitat of Peripatus leuckarti, 324 ; 

 Botany of San Domingo, W. T. Thiselton Dyer, -F.R.S., 

 Baron Eggers, 367 ; Radicular Nature of Stolons in Nephro- 

 lepis, A. Trecul, 408 ; a Monstrous Foxglove, F. R. Tennant, 

 482 ; F. Howard Collins, 508 ; Garden Roses of India, Sir 

 D. Brandis, : F.R.S., 509; Alphita : a Medico-Botanical 

 Glossary from the Bodleian Manuscript Selden B. 35, 529 ; 

 Botany of the Riukiu (Loochoo) Islands, Tokutaro Ito, 538 ; 

 Flora of North Patagonia, John Ball, F.R.S., 539; Les 

 Plantes des Champs et des Bois, Gaston Bonnier, 555 ; 

 Cornus macrophylla, Specimen near Auchnagie, 564 ; on 

 Cramer's Gemma borne by Trichojnanes alata. Prof. Bower, 



593 

 Bottomley (J. T. ), Expansion by Heat of Wires under Pulling 



Stress, 550 

 Boulder-Clay, Till or Lower, Comparative Study of the, in 



several of the Glaciated Countries of Europe, Hugh Miller, 



573 

 Boulder-Stones, Note on a Few of the Remarkable, to be found 



along the Eastern Margin of the Wicklow Mountains, Prof. 



Edward Hull, F.R.S., 574 

 Bouquet de la Grye, Tidal Velocities of Pacific and Atlantic 



Oceans in Canal between the two, 143 

 Bourdillon (T. F.), Fertilization of the Coffee Plant, 580 

 Bourne (Prof. A. G.)': Scorpion Virus, 53; a Junior Course of 



Practical Zoology, 77 ; Sense of Taste or Smell in Leeches, 



125 

 Boussmesq (M. J.), on the Theory of Outflow between Narrow- 

 Walls at a Low or a High Level, 600 



