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Supplement to Saturc,~\ 

 December^, 1897 J 



Index 



IX 



Prof. Osborne on the Restoration of Phenacodus prinucvus^ 

 and of the Skeletons and Restorations of Tertiary Mam- 

 malia in the American Museum of Natural History at New 

 York, 555 ; Prof. Herdman on Oysters, 555 ; Prof. H. F. 

 Osborne on the Origin of Mammalia, 555 ; Prof E. B. 



British Empire in 1896, Climatological Record for, 560; British 

 Empire, a Plea for a Bureau of Ethnology for the, Prof. A. C. 

 Haddon, F.R.S., 574 



British Islands, an Archaeological Survey of the. Dr. David 

 Murray, 12 ; Geological Map of the. Sir A. Geikie, 220 



Poulton on Theories of Mimicry as illustrated by African \ British Marine Food-Fishes, the Life Histories of the W C 



Butterflies, 555 ; Mr. W. Garstang on the Surface Plankton 

 of the Atlantic, 555 ; Prof. Herdman on the Surface 

 Plankton of the Atlantic, 555 ; Prof. E. B. Poulton on 

 Mimicry as Evidence of the Truth of Natural Selection, 

 555 ; Prof Miall on a Supposed New Inseci Structure, 

 555 ; Prof G. Gilson on the Muscular-Glandular Cells in 

 Annelids, 555 ; Prof Lloyd Morgan on the Natural History 

 of Instinct, 556 



Section G {Mechanical Science) — Opening Address by G. F. 

 Deacon (President of the Section), 409 ; Mr. T. Munro on 

 the Canalisation of the Rivers between Montreal and Lake 

 Erie, 507 ; the Engineering Laboratories at the McGill 

 University, 507 ; Prof Bovey on the Method of Testing 

 Timber at the McGill University, 507 ; Profs. Callendar 

 and Nicholson on an Apparatus for studying the Rate of 

 Condensation of Steam, when in Contact with Metal 

 Surfaces at Various Temperatures and Pressures, 507 ; Mr. 

 Cunningham on the Electric Tramway System in Montreal, 

 507 ; Mr. Aldridge on a Substitute for Overhead Wires in 

 Electric Tramway Working, 507 



Section H {Anthropology) — Opening Address by Prof Sir 

 Wm. Turner, F.R.S. (President of the Section), some 

 distinctive Characters of Human Structure, 425 ; Miss 

 A. C. Fletcher on the Scalp-lock and the Totem among the 

 Omaha, 486 ; Mr. C. Hill-Tout on a P^olk-tale " Sqaktkt- 

 quacht, or the Benign-Faced," 486 ; Mr. R. N. Wilson on 

 the Algonquian Blackfeet Legend concerning Scar-face, 

 486 ; Mr. Stansbury Hagar on the Star-lore of the Micmacs 

 of Nova Scotia, 486 ; Dr. W. J. McGee on the Seri Indians 

 of the Gulf of California, 486; Dr. A. F. Chamberlain on 

 the Kootenays and Salishans of British Columbia, 486 ; 

 Mr. E. Sidney Hartland on Hut-burial among the American 

 Aborigines, 487 ; Prof. A. Macalister on the Causes of 

 Brachycephaly, 487 ; Study of the Brains of Australian 

 Aborigines, 487 ; Prof. Lightner Witmer on certain Cor- 

 relations of Mental and Physical Reactions, 487 ; Prof 

 Y. W. Putnam on the Evidences of American-Asiatic 

 Contact, 487 ; Prof Sir Wm. Turner, Messrs. Morse, 

 Gushing, McGee and Chamberlain, 487 ; Prof F. W. 

 Putnam on the Antiquity of Man in America, 487 ; Prof 

 E. W. Claypole, Sir John Evans, Dr. J. W. Spencer, Dr. 

 McGee, 466, 487 ; M"r. F. H. Gushing on the Genesis of 

 Implement Making, 487 



Section I {Physiology)— O^^ximg Address by Prof Michael 

 Foster, Sec.R.S. (President of the Section), 435 



Section K {Botany) — Opening Address by Prof. H. Marshall 

 Ward, F.R.S. (President of the Section), 455,476; Mr. 

 Francis Darwin, F.R.S., on the Behaviour of Stomata, 



600 ; Prof C. E. Bessey on some Considerations upon the 

 Functions of Stomata, 600 ; Prof G.. F Atkinson on some 

 Preliminary Experiments with the Rontgen Rays on Plants, 

 600 ; Dr. Saunders on some Experiments in Cross- 

 Fertilisation, 600 ; Prof J. B. Farmer on the Structure of 

 a Hybrid Fern, 600 ; Prof Marshall Ward on Sterenin 

 hirsutuvi,dL Wood-destroying Fungus,6oo ; Prof P.Magnus 

 on the Mycelium of the Witches' Broom of Barberry caused 

 by ALcidium graveolens, 600 ; Mr. Harold Wager on the 

 Nucleus of the Yeast-Plant, 600 ; Mr. W. G. P. Ellis on a 

 Disease of Tomatoes, 601 ; Miss Dorothea F. M. Pertz on 

 Pletirococcus, 601 ; Prof. Farmer, 601 ; Mr. E. C. 

 Jeffrey on the Gametophyte of Botrychium virginianum, 



601 ; Prof F. O. Bower, F.R.S., on Changes in Number 

 of Sporangia in Vascular Plants, 601 ; Mr. H. J. Webber 

 on Spermatozoids in Zamia integrifolia, 601 ; Prof. Bessey 



Mcintosh and A. T, Masterman, Prof E. Ray Lankester, 

 I F.R.S., 337 



I British Museum (Natural History), Guide to the Fossil Inverte- 

 ! brates and Plants in the Geological and Paloeontological 

 I Department of the, 29 

 British Rainfall, 1896, G. J. Symons, F.R.S., H. Sowerby 



Wallis, 419 

 Broca (Andre), Influence of Intensity on Pitch of Sound, 240 

 Bromic and Ilydrobromic Acids, Dr. J. W. Walker on the 



Reaction between, 463 

 Bromide Enlargements and how to make them, J. Pike, 612 

 Brooks's Comet, 1886 V., Mile. Klumpke, 415 

 Brough (Bennett H.), Deep Mines, 116 ; our Coal Resources at 



the close of the Nineteenth Century, Edward Hull, F.R.S., 



389 

 Brown (H. T.), Thermal Phenomena attending Change of 



Rotary Power of freshly-prepared Solutions of Carbohydrates, 



214 

 Brunton (Dr. J. Lauder, F.R.S.), the Relationship of Physio- 

 logy, Pharmacology, Pathology, and Practical Medicine, 473 

 Bryan (Prof G. H., F.R.S.), First Stage Mechanics of Fluids, 



196 ; the Tutorial Trigonometry, 391 

 Buchner (Herr), Zymase and Yeast-fermentation, 109 

 Bucknill (Sir John, F.R.S.), Death and Obituary Notice of, 



276 

 Buisson (H.), New Optical Method of Studying Alternating 



Currents, 287 

 Bulletin of American Mathematical Society, 44, 189, 387, 488, 



631 

 Bulletin de la Soci^te des Naturalistes de Moscou, 189, 237, 287 

 Butler (Dr. A. G.), the Instinctive Building Habits in Birds, 



183 

 Butterflies, Mimicry in. Dr. Dixey, 215 ; on Theories of Mimicry 



as illustrated by African Butterflies, Prof E. B. Poulton, 



555 

 Burke (J.), Change of Absorption produced by Fluorescence, 



261 

 Burmah, the Fauna of British India, including Ceylon and, 363 

 Burnham (Mr.), the Double Star 44 Bodtis, 17 

 Burton (F. M.), Dog Running on Two Legs, 613 



Cables, Submarine, New Self-registering Apparatus for, M. 



Ader, 216 ; Working of Submarine Cables disturbed by Electric 



Tramways, A. P. Trotter, 422 

 Cabot (Dr. Richard C), a Guide to the Clinical Examination 



of the Blood for Diagnostic Purposes, 100 

 Cabs, Electric, in London, 414 



Caddis-worms, Rotifers Commensal with, Henry Scherren, 224 

 Calandruccio (Dr. S. ), New Observations on the Larva of the 



Common Eel, 85 ; Metamorphoses of the Murenoids, 422 

 Calculus for Engineers, the, John Perry, F.R.S., Prof O. 



Ilenrici, F.R.S., 338 

 Calculus for Engineers and Physicists, the, Prof Robert H. 



Smith, 247 

 Calcutta, Earthquake at, 160, 182, 346 ; T. D. La Touche, 



273. See also India 

 Caldecott (W. A.), Decomposition of Iron Pyrites, 94; the 



Successful Treatment of Stamp Battery Slimes from Gold 



Ores, 501 

 Calendar Computation, Chinese, Paul d'Enjoy, 37 

 Calendar, Styles of the, W. T, Lynn, 180, 277 

 Calice (Franz), Primitive Methods of Drilling, 317 

 Californian Orchards, Lady-birds and Insect Pests in, C. L. 



Marlatt, 299 



on the Chimney-shaped Stomata of Holacantka emoryi, ! Call (R. Ellsworth), the Mammoth Cave of Kentucky, 493 



601 ; Prof D." P. Penhallow on the Species of Picea 

 occurring in the North-eastern United States and Canada, 1 



602 ; Mr. A. C. Seward's Notes on Fossil Equisetacea, 602 ' 

 British Birds, Coloured Figures of the Eggs of, with Descrip- 

 tive Notes, Henry Seebohm, 25 ; among British Birds in ! 

 their Nesting Haunts, illustrated by the Camera, Oswin 

 A. T. Lee, 25, 196 



British Columbia, on the Kootenays and Salishans of, Dr. A. F 

 Chamberlain, 486 



Callendar ( Prof H. L., F.R.S.), on a New Method of Measuring 

 the; Specific Heat of Liquid, 461 ; Apparatus for studying 

 the Rate of Condensation of Steam when in contact with 

 Metal Surfaces at Various Temperatures and Pressures, 507 ; 

 the Behaviour of Argon in X-I^y Tubes, 624 



Callandreau (O. ), the Disaggregation of Comets, 143 ; Disin- 

 tegration of Comets, 473 



Calmette (Prof.), Further Studies on Snake Poison and Im- 

 munity, 39 



