Index 



V Supplement to Naiiite, 

 \_ December (), 1897 



Botrychium virgimanitm, the Gametophyte of, E. C. Jeffrey, 



601 

 Bouffe (F.), Psoriasis and Syphilis, 240 

 Bouman (Z. P.), Emission and Absorption of Glass and Quartz 



at Different Temperatures, 47 

 Bourbon : Voyages made by the Sieur D. B. to the Islands 



Dauphine or Madagascar, and Bourbon or Mascarenne, in the 



Years 1669, 1670, 167 i, 1672, 341 

 Boutroux (Leon), Double Chlorides formed by Cinchonamine, 



560 

 Bovey (Prof. ), on the Method of Testing Timber at the McGill 



University, 507 

 "Bow-puller," Morse's, the Greek Myrmex, Prof. D. G. 



Brinton, 15 

 Bower (Prof. F. O., F.R.S.), on Changes in Number of 



Sporangia in Vascular Plants, 601 

 Boys (C. v., F.R.S.), the Visibility of a Sound Shadow, 173 ; 



Bicycles and Tricycles, Archibald Sharp, 217, 293 

 Bozward (J. Lloyd), a Colony of Phosphorescent Earth-worms, 



544 



Brachycephaly, on the Causes of. Prof. A. Macalister, 487 



Branchat (Dr. R.), Death of, 594 



Branner (J. C), Bacteria and Rock-Decomposition, 188 ; on 

 the Former Extension of the Appalachians, 484 



Braun (Dr. C. ), a New Determination of the Gravitation Con- 

 stant and the Mean Density of the Earth, 127, 198 



Braun (Ernest), Sensitiveness of the Retina to X-Rays, 271 



Braun (Prof.), on an Apparatus for Mapping the Form of an 

 Alternate Current Wave, 462 



Brauner (Prof.), on the Atomic Weight of Thorium, 462 



Brazil : Botanische Wanderungen in Brasilien, Prof. Dr. W. 

 Detmer, 315 



Breeding of Sea Fishes, the, W. C. Mcintosh and A. T. Mas- 

 terman, Prof. E. Ray Lankester, F.R.S., 337 



Brenner (Herr Leo), the Diameters of Jupiter and his Satellites, 



504 

 Briggs (L. J.), Electrical Determination of Moisture Contact of 



Arable Soils, 277 

 Briggs (William), the Tutorial Trigonometry, 391 

 Bright Meteor, a, Prof. J. P. O'Reilly, 469 

 Brillouin (Marcel), Physical Theory of Electrical Phenomena of 



Higher Atmosphere, 472 

 Brinton (Prof. D. G.), Morse's " Bow-puller " the Greek 



Myrmex, 15 

 Britain, the Ancient Volcanoes of Britain, Sir Archibald Geikie, 



F.R.S., Dr. Chas. Barrois, 241 

 British Association : Toronto Meeting of the, 85, 250, 369, 

 395 ; Prof. A. B. Macallum, 85, 250, Prof. Herdman, 

 425 ; Inaugural Address by Sir John Evans, Treas..R.S., 

 President, 369 

 Section A {^Mathematics and Physics) — Opening Address by 

 Prof. A. R. Forsyth F.R.S. (President of the Section), 

 374 ; Mr. J. A. Paterson on the Unification of Time, 461 ; 

 Prof. Newcomb, 461 ; Prof. Riicker, 461 ; Prof. RUcker 

 on Photographic Records of Objective Combination Tones, 



461 ; Prof. Milne on the Work of the Committee on 

 Seismological Observations, 461 ; Lord Kelvin, 461 ; Di". 

 N. E. Dorsey on Experiments on the Surface Tension of 

 Water, 461 ; Prof. Callendar and Mr. Barnes on a New 

 Method of Measuring the Specific Heat of a Liquid, 461 ; 

 Profs. Ewingand Dunkerley on the Specific Heat of Super- 

 heated Steam, 461 ; Lord Kelvin on the Fuel-supply and 

 Air-supply of the World, 461 ; Prof. Fitzgerald, 461 ; 

 Prof. Runge and Prof. F. Paschen on the Spectrum of 

 Oxygen, Sulphur and Selenium, 461 ; Mr. W. J. Humphries 

 on the Shifting of the Lines in the Arc Spectra of Metals 

 caused by increased Pressure of the Atmosphere round 

 the Arc, 461 ; Dr. J. Larmor, 461 ; Prof. Schuster on 

 Photographing a Metallic Spark-Spectrum, 461 ; Prof. S. 

 P. Thompson on Varieties of Kathode Rays, 461 ; Prof. 

 A. Johnson on a Canadian and Imperial Hydrographic 

 Survey, 462 ; Dr. Harris Hancock on the Historical 

 Development of Abelian Functions, 462 ; Prof. Henrici 

 on a New Notation for Products of Vectors, 462 ; Prof. A. 

 Macfarlane on the Solution of the Cubic Equation, 462 ; 

 Prof. Michelson and Mr. W. S. Stratton on some New 

 Harmonic Analyses, 462 ; Dr. van Ryckevorsel on Daily 

 Temperature Curves in Europe, 462 : Mr. N. F. Denison 

 on "Seiche" Movements on Lakes Ontario and Huron, 



462 ; ISIr. A. L. Rotch on Scientific Kite- flying, 462 ; Prof. 



Marvin on Experiments with Tailless Kites, 462 ; Prof. 

 Rosa, Mr. Duddell and Prof. Braun on Instruments for 

 Registering Alternate Current Waves, 462 ; Prof. Henry 

 Crew and Mr. O. H. Basquin on the Source of Luminosity 

 in the Electric Arc, 462 ; Report of the Electrical 

 Standards Committee, 462 ; Prof. Ramsay on the 

 Refractivity of Mixtures of Gases, 462 ; Prof. Fitzgerald, 

 462 ; Prof. {Lodge on Zeeman's Discovery of the Effects of 

 Magnetism on Spectral Lines, 462 ; Prof. Michelson, 462 ; 

 Prof. Runge, 462 ; Prof. Webster on Clark Cells, 462 ; 

 Mr. J. W. Edmondson on Spark-length and Potential 

 Relations in Air and Dielectric Liquids, 462 

 Section B {Chemistry)— 0^&x{m'g Address by Prof. Wm. Ram- 

 say, F.R.S. (President of the Section), an Undiscovered 

 Gas, 378 ; Appointment of a New Committee for the 

 Promotion of Agriculture, 462 ; Prof. Ramsay on Methods 

 employed in Experiments on Helium, 462 ; Mr. M. Travers 

 on Hydrogen obtained by heating Igneous Rocks in vacuo 

 462 ; Prof. Brauner on the Atomic Weight of Thorium, 



462 : Prof. Richards on the Atomic Weights of Nickel and 

 Cobalt, 462 ; Prof. E. Meslans on the Preparation of 

 Fluorine, 463 ; Prof. H. B. Dixon on Explosions of 

 Gases, 463 ; Dr. J. W. Walker on the Reaction between 

 Hydrobromic and Bromic Acids in Aqueous Solutions, 463 ; 

 Dr. W. L. Miller and Mr. Rosebrough on the Vapour 

 Tensions of Mixed Liquids, 463 ; Dr. J. H. Gladstone and 

 Mr. W. Hibbert on the Absorption of Rontgen Rays by 

 Salts of Lithium, 463 ; Prof. J. V. Nef on the Chemistry 

 of Methylene and Compounds containing Dyad-carbon, 



463 ; Dr. F. T. Shutt on the Virgin Soils of Canada, 463 ; 

 Prof. Ellis on Coal from the pre-Carboniferous Rocks of 

 Canada, 463 ; Prof. Roberts- Austen on the Metals of 

 Canada, showing the Similarity between Ordinary Liquids 

 and Molten Metals, 463 ; Mr. Ramage on Spectra of 

 Various Metals, 463 ; Prof. Andrews on the Plaster of 

 Paris Method in Blowpipe Work, 463 ; Prof. Andrews on 

 the Iodide Film Test for Metals, 463 ; Mr. L. T. Addison 

 on Allotropic Forms of some of the Elements, 463 



Section C [Geology) — Opening Address by G. M. Dawson, 

 F.R.S. (President of the Section), 396; Dr. L. W. 

 Bailey on the pre- Palaeozoic and Palaeozoic Rocks of Nova 

 Scotia, 484 : Dr. R. W. Ells on the Geology of Quebec, 



484 ; Mr. J. C. Branner on the Former Extension of the 

 Appalachians, 484 ; Dr. F. D. Adams and Mr. J. T. 

 Nicholson on Experiments on the Flow of Rocks, 484 ; 

 Dr. F. D. Adams on certain Rocks of the Laurentian 

 System, 484 ; Prof. F. C. Chamberlin on the Constituents 

 of the Atmosphere, 485 ; Prof F. C. Chamberlin on the 

 Distribution of the Pleistocene Ice-Sheets of the Northern 

 United States, 485 ; Prof. C. H. Hitchcock on the 

 Laurentian Ice-sheet in New England, 485 ; Prof. H. Le- 

 Roy Fairchild on the Glacial Geology of Western New York, 



485 ; Mr. F. B. Taylor on the Champlain Submergence 

 and Uplift and their Relations to the Great Lakes and 

 Niagara Falls, 485 ; Prof. A. P. Coleman on the Glacial 

 and inter-Glacial Deposits at Toronto, 485 ; Dr. J. W. 

 Spencer on the Continental Elevation during the Glacial 

 Epoch, 485 ; Mr. J. B. Tyrrell on the Glaciation of 

 North Central Canada, 485 ; Mr. Bailey Willis on the 

 Drift- Phenomena of Puget Sound, 485 ; Mr. R. Chalmers 

 on the pre-Glacial Decay of Rocks in Eastern Canada, 485 ; 

 Prof. A. Penck on the Glacial Deposits of the Alps, 485 ; 

 Prince Kropotkin on the Asar of Finland, 485 ; Mr. H. 

 B. Woodward on the Chalky Boulder Clay in the West 

 Midland Counties of England, 485 ; Messrs. Barlow and 

 Ferrier on the Relation and Structures of certain Granites 

 and Associated Arkoses in Lake Temiscaming, Canada, 

 485 ; Mr. J. J. H. Teall on Differentiadon in Igneous 

 Magmas as a Result of Progressive Crystallisation, 485 ; 

 Sir W. Dawson on certain pre-Cambrian and Cambrian 

 Fossils, 485 ; Mr. J. F. Whiteaves on a Dendrodont Tooth 

 from the Upper Arisaig Rocks of Nova Scotia, 485 ; Dr. 

 H. M. Ami on some Palreozoic Formations in North 

 America, 485 ; Dr. G. F. Mathew on some Characteristic 

 Genera of the Cambrian, 485 ; Profs. Putnam, McGee, and 

 Claypole, and Drs. Dawson and Spencer on the first Traces 

 of Man in North America, 486 



Section D {Zoology) — Opening Address by Prof. L. C. Miall, 

 F.R.S. (President of the Section), 402; Prof. Ramsay 

 Wright on a Proposed Lacustrine Biological Station, 555 ; 



