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Ball (Sir Robert Stawell, F.R.S.), a Treatise on the Theory of 



Screws, 246 ; a Primer of Astronomy, 325 

 Ballistics : Explosive Effects of Modern Infantry Bullet, C. 

 Cranz and K. R. Koch, 12 ; Vibration of Gun-barrels, C. 

 Cranz and K. R. Koch, 279 

 Ballooning : Trial of Endurance in, 63 ; Count von Zeppelin's 

 Navigable Balloon, A. Stolberg, 187 ; by Land and Sky, 

 Rev. John M. Bacon, 203 ; Balloon Ascents, January 10, 

 353 ; the Ascents of February 7, Dr. Hergesell, 449 ; the 

 International Ascents of March 7, Dr. Hergesell, 594 

 Baracchi (P.), Annual Report of the Melbourne Observatory, 



67 

 Barlow (W. ), Model showing Arrangement for Chemical Atoms 



of Calcite, 363 

 Barnard (Prof. E. E. ), Abnormal Stars in Clusters, 68 

 Barnard (J. E. ), the Form and Size of Bacteria, 9 

 Barnes (H. T.), Experiments by Continuous-Flow Method of 



Calorimetry, 22 

 Barral (E.), the Preparation of Mixed Esters, 24 

 Barrett-Hamilton (G. E. H.), the Field-Mice and Wrens of St. 



Kilda and Shetland, 299 

 Barton (Dr. E. H.), the Refraction of Sound by Wind, 123 

 Barton (Mr.), New Lanterns for Projection Purposes, 291 

 Barus (C), Torsional Magneto-striction in Strong Transverse 

 Fields, 266 ; Apparent Hysteresis in Torsional Magneto-stric- 

 tion in Relation to Viscosity, 481 

 Basset (A. B., F.R.S.), Autotomic Curves, 82 

 Battelli (Prof. A.), the Behaviour of Gases at Low Pressure, 



594 

 Baud (E), Combinations of Ammonia with Aluminium Chloride, 



339 

 Bayley (P. Child), Photography in Colours, 298 

 Bayrac (P.), New Method of Distinguishing Colouring Matters 



by Study of Light-Absorption applied to Indophenols, 604 

 Beadnell (H. J. L.), Eocene and Cretaceous Series in Nile 



Valley, 382 

 Beard (Dr. J.), Morphological Continuity of Germ-Cells, 210 ; 



the Thymus Gland, 306 

 Beaulard (F. de), Dieletric Hysteresis, 36 

 Beauverie (J.), Influence of Osmotic Pressure of Medium on 



Vegetable Form and Structure, 364 

 Beck (Dr. Richard), Lehre von den Erzlagerstatten, 245, 510 

 Becquerel (Prof. Henri), the Radio- Activity of Matter, 396 ; 



Secondary Radio-Activity of Metals, 435 ; Secondary Radio- 



Activity, 556 

 Beddard (Frank E., F.R.S.), the Size of the Brain in the 



Insectivore Centetes, 394 ; Note upon a New Form of Sperma- 



tophore in an Earthworm, 515 

 Bedford (the Duke of), Report of the Working and Results of 



the Woburn Experimental Fruit Farm, 177 

 Beer Poisoning Epidemic, the, 541 ; Selenium in Sulphuric 



Acid, V. H. Veley, F.R.S., 587 

 Bees, the Habits of, A. Netter, 196 

 Beet, Sugar, Cultivation in England, A. D. Hall, 450 

 Behal (A.), Quinone, the Active Principle of lulus terrestris, 



196 ; Ketones from Wood Tar, 412 ; Action of Organo- 



metallic Derivatives on Alkyl Esters, 460 ; an Isomeride of 



Anethol, 483 

 Bektashis of Cappadocia, the, J. W. Crowfoot, 210 

 Belgian Antarctic Expedition, the Land Work of the, 516 

 Belief and Certitude, Knowledge, F. Storrs Turner, 273 

 Bellati (M.), Heat Evolved when Powders are Wetted, 500 

 Bemmelen (W. van). Die Sakular-Verlegung der Magnetischen 



Axe der Erde, 324 

 Benedict (F. G. ), Elementary Organic Analysis, 514 

 Benjafield (Dr.), Tasmania as a Health Resort, 187 

 Bennie (James), Death and Obituary Notice of, 352 

 Benoist (Louis), Law of Transparency of Matter for X-Rays, 



411 

 Berber Anthropology, Messrs. Maclver and Wilkin, 170 

 Bernoulli's (James) Theorem on Probability, Prof. J. Cook 



Wilson, 465 

 Bernard (Noel), Tuberculisation of Potato, 412 

 Berry (D.), the " Sentinel " Milk Steriliser, 205 

 Berry {Dr. R. J. A.), the True Csecal Apex, 266 

 Berthelot (Daniel), Diagnosis of Gaseous Supersaturation in 



Physical and Chemical Cases, 23 ; Chemical Activity under 



Silent Electrical Discharge, 99; Combination of Silver with 



Oxygen, 243 ; Silver and Carbon Monoxide, 243 ; Hydrogen 



and Silver, 243 ; AUotropic States of Silver, 387 ; Generation 



of Hydrocarbons by Metallic Carbides, 411 ; Platinum in 



Egyptian Hieroglyphics, 556 ; Electro-chemical Relations 



and AUotropic State of Silver, 556 ; Action of Hydrogen 



Peroxide on Silver Oxide, 628 

 Bertrand (Prof. C. E.), Kerosene Shale from Megalong Valley, 



N.S.W., 220 

 Berzelius (Jons Jacob), the Letters of, and Christian Friedrich 



Schonbein, 1836-1847, Georg W. A. Kahlbaum, Francis V. 



Darbishire, N. V. Sidgwick, Prof. R. Meldola, F.R.S., 77 

 Bessel's Functions, the Value of the Cylinder Function of the 



Second Kind for Small Arguments, W. B. Morton, 29 

 Best (W. C), Australian Observations of November Meteors, 



209 

 Bezold (Dr. C), Catalogue of the Cuneiform Tablets in the 



Konyunjik Collection of the British Museum, 562 

 Biblical Studies, Popular, Rev. Edward Day, 559 

 Bickerton (A. W.), the Romance of the Earth, 298 ; the 



Romance of the Heavens, 607 

 Bidwell (Dr. S.), Experiments illustrating Phenomena of 



Vision, 23 

 Biehringer (Joachim), Einfiihrung in die Stdchiometrie, 250 

 Biffen (R. H.), Influence of External Conditions on Spore- 

 formation of Acrospeira mirabilis, 555 

 Biles (Prof. J. H.), Naval Architecture in United States, 546 

 Biltz (Dr. H.), Oxidation of Hydrazone of Dibromoxybenzalde- 



hyde in Alkaline Solution by Air at Ordinary Temperature, 



Binet (Maurice), Respiratory Diagnosis of Tuberculosis, 532 

 Biology: Buchner's Zymase, Prof. J. Reynolds Green, F.R.S., 

 106 ; Death of Prof. John Gardiner, 186 ; the Thompson- Yates 

 Laboratories Report, 249 ; Mathematics and Biology, Prof. 

 Karl Pearson, F.R.S., 274 ; Some Recent Advances in Bio- 

 logical Science, Prof. G. B. Howes, F.R.S., 261 ; Scientific 

 Developments of Biology and Medicine, 286 , a Text-book 

 of Zoology, treated from a Biological Standpoint, Dr. O. 

 Schmeil, 321 ; the Liverpool Museum and Progress, 327 ; 

 the Cell in Development and Inheritance, E. B. Wilson, 

 Prof. J. B. Farmer, 437 ; les Diastases et leurs Applications, 

 E. Pozzi-Escot, 607 ; Marine Biology : Regenerative Power 

 of Marine Planarians, Rina Monti, 113; Influence of Nutri- 

 tion on Sex, Dr. J. F. Gemmill, 140 ; Organographie der 

 Pflanzen, insbesondere der Archegoniaten und Samenpflanzen, 

 Dr. K. Goebel, Prof. J. B. Farmer, 149 ; Male Squilla 

 Desniatestii taken at Plymouth, 163 ; Osmotical Openness 

 of Marine Invertebrate, R. Quinton, 171 ; Compensation-sac 

 in Lepralioid Polyzoa, Dr. Harmer, 195; Note on d'Orbigny's 

 Onychoteuthis dussumieri, 291 ; Alcyonium, Dr. Hickson, 

 330 ; the Fifth Report upon the Fauna of Liverpool Bay and 

 the Neighbouring Seas, Prof. W. A. Herdman, F.R.S., 370 ; 

 Recent Work of the Indian Marine Survey, 427 ; Captures 

 at Plymouth, 451 ; Species taken at Plymouth, 548 ; Contents 

 of Cods' Stomachs, Dr. B. Sharp, 618 



Birds : the Birds of Ireland, R. J. Ussher, R. Warren, loi ; 

 the Story of the Birds, C. Dixon, loi ; Among the Birds, 

 Florence Anna Fulcher, loi ; Our Bird Friends, R. Kearton, 

 183 ; a Nest of Young Starlings in Winter, 252 ; Birds of 

 Africa, the, G. E. Shelley, 393 ; Bird-destruction in France, 

 L. A. Levat, 500 



Birmingham : Inauguration of a Birmingham Section of the 

 Institution of Electrical Engineers, 452 



Bison : the Numbers of the American Bison, 96 



Black Rules White, Where : a Journey Across and About Hayti, 

 H. Prichard, 512 



Black (J. H. ), Death and Obituary Notice of, 473 



Blackman (V. H.), "Blood-rain" Plant in Camden Square 

 Tank, 617 



Blaise (E. E.), New General Method for Preparation of Ketones 

 and Ketonic Acids, 292 



Blanc (G.), the Alkylcyanomalonic Esters and Derivative Alkyl- 

 cyanacetic Acids, 435 



Blanford (Dr. W. T., F.R.S.), the Distribution of Vertebrate 

 Animals in India, Ceylon and Burma, 287 ; Directions of 

 Spirals in Horns, 298 



Blast-furnace Gases in Gas Engines,' the Use of, 241 



Bloch (Eugene), Action of Radium Radiation on Selenium, 

 628 



Blood, Method of Distinguishing Human from Animal, Dr. 

 Uhlen-Luth, 499 ; Drs. Wassermann and Schutze, 499 



"Blood-rain" Plant in Camden Square Tank, V, H. Blackman, 

 617 



