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Index 



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 December i, 1892 



British Ornithologists' Union, 572 



Britten (James), English Botany, N. E. Brown, 197 



Bromley, Flora and Fauna of, J. French, 316 



Brooks (W. ), Discovery of a new Comet by, 453 



Brooks, Comet (1882, August 27), 496 



Brooks (1892 'V), Comets ot Brorsen (1846 VII.) and, W. F. 



Denning, 514 

 Brooksmith (J. and E. J.), Key to Arithmetic for Beginners, 



441 

 Brorsen (1846 VII.), Comets of, and Brooks (1892 " rt"'), W. 



F. Denning, 514 

 Brown (Mr.), Yale College Observatory Report, 280 

 Brown (Prof. A, Crum, F.R.S.), on Electrolytic Synthesis, 



401 ; on a use of the External Ear, 404 

 Brown (Prof. G. T.), Contagious Foot Rot in Sheep, 560 

 Brown (N. E.), English Botany, James Britten, 197 

 Brown-Sequard (M.), Treatment of Cancer and Cholera by 



Testiculary Liquid, 484 ; Physiology of Epilepsy, 507 

 Browne (A. J. Jukes) and J. B. Harrison, the Geology of 



Barbadoes, 59 

 Brugsch Pasha (Henry), Lake Moeris, 15 

 Brunton (T. Lauder, M.D.), an Introduction to Modern 



Therapeutics, 172 

 Buchan (Dr.), Diurnal Variations of Summer Barometric readings 



in Polar Regions, 262 ; Preliminary Account of Oceanic 



Circulation based on the Challenger 01>servations, 383 

 Buchanan (|ohn), Industrial Resources of Nyasaland, 407 

 Buchner (Herr), Germicide and Antitoxical properties of the 



Serum of Blood, 495 

 Buckley (T. E.), the Birds of Sutherland and Caithness, 279 

 Buddhist Antiquities at Bhatuprolu, Discovery of, A. Rea, 178 

 Bullen (Robert), Death of, 572 

 Bulletino della Societa Botanica Italiana, 436 

 Bumping in the Lane Fox Mercurial Pump, 394 

 Burhury (S. H., F.R.S.), and Rev. H. W. Watson, F.R.S., 



Maxwell's Law of Distribution of Energy, 100 

 Burgess (Dr. J.), Place Names, 406 

 Burma, the Tin District in, H. Warth, 522 

 Burma, Upper, the Amber and Jade Mines of, Dr. Noetling, 



549.. 550 

 Bunneister (Hermann), Death and Obituary Notice of, 176 

 Burnham (S. W.), Nebulas, 87 ; Double Star Measures, 496 

 Burtcm (\V. K,), the Great Earthquake in Japan, 1891, 34 

 Butcher (A.), Aurora Borealis, 368 

 Buti (Prof. J.), Variations of Temperature and Rainfall at 



different heights, 299 

 Butler (G. W.), the Lithophyses in Obsidian of Rocche Kosse, 



Lipari, 95 ; Eruption of Vulcano (August 3, 1888, to March 



22, 1890), 117 

 Butterflies : a Colias edusa in London, II. Rowland-Brown, 



228 

 Buxton, the Deep Dale Bone Cave near, J. J. Fitzpatrick, 521 

 Byssus Silk Manufacture at Malta, late Rev. H. Seddall, 229 



Cables, Electric Light, 290 



•Cailletet (L.), Experiments at the Eiffel Tower on Falling Bodies 

 and Air Resistance, 262 



Calamostachys Binneyana Schimp, T. Hick, 555 

 •Calculus, an Introduction to the Study of the Elements of the 

 Differential and Integral, Axel Harnack, G. L. Cathcart, 

 Prof. A. G. Greenhill, F.R.S., 218 



•Calcutta: Annals of the Royal Botanic Garden, W. Botting 

 Hemsley, F.R.S., 122; Report of Calcutta Botanic Garden, 

 1891-2, 494 ; Proposed Systematic Enquiry into Snake 

 Poison at the Calcutta Zoological Gardens, 14 ; New Bio- 

 logical Laboratory to be established in the Calcutta Zoological 

 Gardens, 493 



Caldwell (Prof. E. C), Oleomargarin, 522 



■Calendar, Change in Samoan, 552 



California, Climate and Meteorology of Death Valley, 255 



California, Pearl Fishery of the Gulf of, C. H. Townscnd, 333 



Callendar (H. L.), Platinum Pyrometers, 115 



Calhphora erythrocephala. Anatomy, Physiology, Morphology, 

 and Development of the Blowfly, B. Thompson Lowne, 267 



Calorimeter, on a Delicate, J. A. Harker and P. J. Hartog, 

 385 



-Calorimetric Shell, Employment of, M. Berthelot, 339 

 Calorimetry, Physiological, Animal Heat and. Prof. Rosenthal, 

 403 



Cambridge Philosophical Society, 143, 156 



Camels in German S. W. Africa, 598 



Cameroon, the Development of the Resources of, 40 



Campania, Cunard s.s., Launch of, 472 



Campbell (W.W.), Spectrum of Swill's Comet (a 1892), 17;! 

 Motion in the Line of Sight, 64 



Canada, Meteorological Service of : Reports from Oct. i, 1800, 

 to Oct. 31, 1891, 62 



Canada, Aurora in, 361 



Canadian Guide Book, Charles G. P. Roberts, 54 



Canalisation des Cellules et la Continuite de la Matiere Vivanie 

 chez les Vegetaux et les Animaux, La, Louis Olivier, 

 404 



Canals, Mars, Earth Fractures and, G. A. Lebour, 611 



Cancer by Testiculary Liquid, Treatment of, M. Brown-Sequard, 

 484 



Cab (Diogo), the First Portuguese Explorer, Two Pillars 

 Erected on West Coast of Africa by, brought back to Lis- 

 bon, III 



Cape Colony, Meteorological Commission, Report of, 493 



Cape Colony, the Extermination of the Antbear in, A. C. Mac- 

 donald, 522 



Captivity, Animals in, a Handbook on the Management of, in 

 Lower Bengal, 314 



Carbon and Phosphorus in Oxygen, Investigation of the Phe- 

 nomena which accompany the Burning of, H. Breretoti Baker, 



431 



Carbonic Acid in France, the Industrial Preparation of, 399 



Carbonyls, Metallic, Ludwig Mond, F. R. S., 230 



Carbonyls, Molecular Refraction and Dispersion of Metallic, 

 and of Indian Gallium and Sulphur, Dr. Gladstone, 402 



Carburization of Iron, on the, John Parry, 283 



Carbuit (John), on Results achieved by Mr. F. E. Ives in Colour 

 Photography, 13 



Carceag, an Enzootic Disease of the Sheep in Roumania, 

 Etiology of, V. Babes, 436 



Carlier (Dr. E. W. ), on the Hibernating Gland of the Hedge- 

 hog, 403 ; on the Skin of the Hedgehog, 405 



Carnivorous Caterpillars, Juliet N. Williams, 128 ; R. McLach- 

 lan, F.R.S., 151 



Carnot (Adolphe), Occurrence of Fluorine in Different Varieties 

 of Natural Phosphates, 48 ; Application of Chemical Analysis 

 for Fixing Age of Prehistoric Human Remains, 412 



Carob-bean Tree in New South Wales, the, F. Turner, 210 



Carroll (Dr. A.), Alleged Decipherment of the Eastern Island 

 Inscriptions, 494 



Carter (Brudenell), Apparatus for Measuring Colour-blindness, 



44 



Carter's (G. T. ) Journey into Interior of Lagos, 55 



Carus-Wilson (Cecil), Musical Sands, 44, 316; Lava in the 

 Bournemouth Drift, 316 



Carver (H. C), Fire Extinction on Board Ship, 432 



Cash (Dr. J. T., F.R.S.), Action of Paraffin Nitrites on Mus- 

 cular Tissue, 339 



Caspian, Formation of a New Islet in the, 212 



T Cassiopeia:, Variable Star, Cuthbert E. Peek, 443 



Castell-Evans (John), a New Course of Experimental Chemistry, 

 with Key, 511 



Catalogue of the Specimens Illustrating the Osteology of 

 Vertebiated Animals, Recent and Extinct, contained in the 

 Museum of the Royal College of Surgeons of England, 

 B. Bowdler Sharpe, 125 



Caterpillars, Carnivorous, Juliet N. Williams, 128; R. McLach- 

 lan, F.R.S., 151 



Cathcart (G. L.), an Introduction to the Study of the Elements 

 of the Differential and Integral Calculus, Axel Harnack, 

 Prof. A. G. Greenhill, F.R.S., 218 



Caucasus Petroleum Trade, the, 333 



Cellular Growth and Action by Physical Forces, Co-ordination 

 of. Dr. Francis Warner, 404 



Century of Scientific Work, a, 504 



Ceraiodus, the, Prof. Baldwin Spencer, 161 ; a Trip to Queens- 

 land in Search of, Prof. W. Baldwin Sptncer, 305 



Cerebral Commissures in the Marsupialia and Monotremata, 

 Dr. J. Symington on the, 405 



Ceylon, Ants in, W. F. Liesching, 15 



Ceylon, Coffee, Cacao and Rubber Cultivation in, J. Ferguson, 

 300 



Ceylon, Wild Strawberries in, Mr. Nock, 494 



Chain-making Machine (the "Triumph "), A. New, 527 



