Index 



[Supplement to Natn. 

 June II, 1896 



"'aponictim, Dr. O. Kirchner, 598 ; Influence of Induced 

 Currents on Living Bacteria, L. Lortet, 624 



Bagard (H.), Hall's Phenomenon in Liquids, 288 



Eailey (L. H.)) Plant-breeding : being Five Lectures upon the 

 Amelioration of Domestic Plants, 363 



Bailey (Prof. S. I.)» Diurnal Oscillation of Atmospheric Pressure 

 at Arequipa Observatory, 493 



Baker (A. L.), Algebraic Symbols, 382 



Bakker (Dr. G. ), the Pressure of a Saturated Vapour as an Ex- 

 plicit Function of the Temperature, 79 



Ball (Sir Robert S., F.R.S.), Great Astronomers, 29; the 

 Cause of an Ice Age, 220, 388 ; Sir Robert S. Ball, F.R.S., 

 and the Cause of an Ice Age, Sir Henry H. Howorth, 

 F.R.S.,29; Dr. Ball's Two Letters on the Ice Age, Sir 

 Henry H. Howorth, F.R.S., 460 



Ball (W. W. Rouse), a Primer of the History of Mathematics, 

 121 



Ballistics : Method of Measuring Velocity of Projectiles, Prof. 

 Neesen, 336 



Balloon Ascents, Summary of Results of Forty-seven German, 

 Dr. Assmann, 136 



Balloon Voyages from the Meteorological Point of View, Prof, 

 von Bezold, 503 



Balloons, Geographical Use of, A. Berson, 446 



Baracchi (Pietro), Australian Longitudes, 424 



Baratta (Dr. M.), the Florentine Earthquake, 278 ; Velocity of 

 Brescian Earthquake Wave of November 27, 1894, 564 



Barber (C. A.), the Origin of Plant Structures by Self-adapta- 

 tion to the Environment, Rev. G. Henslow, 145 



Barbier (P.), Rhodinol, 503 



Barisal Guns, Colonel H. S. Olcott, 130; Dr. G. F. Grant, 

 197; G. B. Scott, 197; Colonel H. . H. Godwin-Austen, 

 F.R.S., 247; J. D. LaTouche, 248; C. Tomlinson, F.R.S., 

 295 ; Hy. Harris, 295 ; R. Lloyd Praeger, 296 ; D. J. 

 Scourfield, 296 ; W. G. Brown, 296 ; Charles H. Robinson, 

 487 



Barlow (William), the Symmetrical Partitioning of Homogeneous 

 Structures, 191 



Barnard (Prof.), the New Merope Nebula, 62 ; Celestial Photo- 

 graphy by Simple Means, 229 ; Hind's Variable Nebula, 255 ; 

 Holmes' Comet, 329 ; the Dimensions of Saturn, 424 ; the 

 Surface of Mars, 424 ; the Fifth Satellite of Jupiter, 495 ; 

 Uranus and its Satellites, 587 



Barnes (C. L.), Geology, 460 



Barnet (R. E.), Phosphoric Anhydride and Metaphosphoric 

 Acid, 406 



Barometers, Mechanical Device for performing Temperature 

 Corrections of, Dr. John Shield, 167 



Barrett (James W. ), an Excellent View of the Retinal Circula- 

 tion, 510 



Barrows (Prof. D. R), the Common Crow a Farmer's Friend, 88 



Bars and Wires of Magnetic Material, Changes of Length in, 

 due to Magnetisation, C. Chree, 269 



Barton (Dr. E. H.), Graphic Method of determining Focal 

 Lengths of Lenses and Mirrors, 254 ; Temperature Variation 

 of Alagnetic Permeability of Magnetite, 383 



Barus (Carl), the Counter-twisted Curl Aneroid, 452 



Basilewski (M.), Experiments with Rontgen Rays, 528 



Basset (A. B., F.R.S.,), the Theory of Magnetic Action upon 

 Light, 130; MacCullagh's Theory of Double Refraction, 55 



Bastian (A. ), Ethnische Elementargedanken in der Lehre vom 

 Menschen, 291 



Bather (F. A.), the Colours of Mother-o'-Pearl, 6, 174 



Bats in Captivity, J. D. Batten, 135 



Batten (J. D.), Bats in Captivity, 135 



Baur (Dr.) and the Galapagos, W. Botting Hemsley, F.R.S., 

 78 



Bauschinger (Dr.), Search Ephemeris for Comet 1889 V, 520 



Baxandall (G. A.), Practical, Plane, and Solid Geometry, 267 



Baye (Baron de). Age of Metals in Ukraine, 213 



Bayrac (M.), Absorption of Light by Solutions of Indophenols, 

 335 



Beaulard (F.), the Refraction of the Rontgen Rays, 551 



Bebber (Dr. W. J. van), Climate and Disease, 421 



Becker (G. F.), Southern Appalachian Gold-Fields, 227 



Becquerel (H.), Photography by Phosphorescent Rays, 431 ; 

 Invisible Radiation emitted by Phosphorescent Bodies, 445, 

 455 ; New Properties of Invisible Radiations of Phosphor- 

 escent Bodies, 480; the Invisible Radiations from Uranium 

 Salts, 527, 551 



Beddard (F. E., F.R.S.), a Monograph of the Order of 



Oligochteta, 74; the Former Northward Extension of the 



Antarctic Continent, 129 

 Beddoe (Dr. John, F.R.S.), Anthropometric Research in India, 



37 

 Beeldsnyder's Map (1575) of North Holland, M. van Diesen, 48 

 Bees : Ammoqiated Tincture of Quinine as Antidote for Bee- 



Stings, 88 ; Early Swarm of, A. Page, 510 

 Belgique, Bulletin de I'Academie Royale de, 70, 309 

 Bell, a Lecture Experiment on the Nodes of a, G. Osborn, 



223 ; R. L. Taylor, 272 ; H. G. Williams, 367 

 Bell (Mrs. Arthur), Mammals of Land and Sea, 244 

 Bell (James), Submarine Telegraphy and other Papers, 196 

 Bell (Sir Robert), Discovery of Large River in Canada, 61 

 Belopolsky (Dr.), Equatorial Velocity of Jupiter, 280; Orbit of 



5 Cephei, 448 ; the Absolute Velocity of 61 Cygni, 448 

 Bemmelen (Dr. W. van). Lines of Equal Secular Variation of 



Magnetic Declination for period 1 540-1 880, 359 

 Benda (Dr.), the Regeneration of Blood-Corpuscles in Man, 



503 

 Bengal, Gold found in, 160 

 Benham (W. B. ), a Monograph of the Order of Oligochteta, 



F. E. Beddard, F.R.S., 74; Male of Apus, 175; Kynotus 



ctngulatus, 478 

 Benjamin (Park), the Intellectual Rise in Electricity, 601 

 Bennett (Alfred W.), Inverted Images, 414 

 Benoist (L. ), the Rontgen Rays, 349; Electric Properties of 



Rontgen Rays, 399 ; Action of X-Rays on Electrified Bodies, 



551 



Beresford (Lord Charles), Watertight Doors, 520 j 



Bergen (J. Y.), Elements of Botany, 460 \ 



Berlin : Berlin Meteorological Society, 72, 215, 288, 359, 503, 1 



575; Berlin Physiological Society, 119, 215, 336, 407, 503, 



576 ; Berlin Physical Society, 120, 216, 312, 336, 384, 503, 



600 ; the International Geodetic Congress at Berlin, 306 ; an 



Exhibition of Astronomical Photographs at, F. S. Archenhold, 



Bernard (J.), Rapid Method of Estimating Arsenic, 407 



Berson (A.), Geographical Use of Balloons, 446 



Bertin-Sans (H. ), Experiments with Rontgen Rays, 528 



Bertrand (G.), Pectase in Plants, 96 ; the Biochemical Pre- 

 paration of Sorbose, 624 



Bertrand (Marcel), Structure of Mount Joly, 383 



Besan9on (G. ), Minimum Temperature at Height of 8^ miles, 

 600 



Besson (A.), Action of Carbonyl Chloride on Hydrogen Com- 

 pounds, 311 ; Bromide and Chlorobromide of Thionyl, 384; 

 Isolation of Phosphoryl Chlorobromide, POClBrj, 565 ; 

 Action of Hydrobromide and Hydriodic Acids on Phosphoryl 

 Trichloride, 575 



Bezold (Prof, von), Balloon Voyages from the Meteorological 

 Point of View, 503 



Bidder (Geo.), Collar-cells of Heteroccela, 212 



Biedermann (Prof. W.), Elektro-physiologie, 457 



Bigourdan (G.), a Brilliant Meteor, 192 



Billings (Dr. J. S. ), Organic Matter in Expired Air, 429 



Bingara (New South Wales) Diamond Fields, G. A. Stonier, 

 178 



Bio-Chemical Laboratory, Handbook for the, Prof. John A. 

 Mandel, 579 



Biology : Biological Value of Inflammatory Leucocitosis, W. 

 Woronine, 24 ; a Biologist as Metaphysician, 52 ; Studies , 

 from the Biological Laboratories of the Owens College, 149 ; , 

 Marsupial with an Allantoic Placenta, Prof. G. B. Howes, 

 270 ; Oysters and Typhoid, 280 ; Rowing applied to. Dr. S. 

 Ahlborn, 327 ; Practical Studies in Fermentation, Prof. Emil 

 Chr. Hansen, 530 ; Marine Biology, a Neritic Group of Irish 

 Sea Deposits, Prof. Herdman, 305 ; Work during 1895 at Port 

 Erin, 305 ; 'Do.ve^o'^xcvitVitoi Asterinagibbosa, E. W. MacBride, 

 334 ; the Plymouth Laboratory, 610 



Birds : the Structure and Life of Birds, F. W. Headley, 3 ; 

 Flight of Birds across the Moon's Disc, Robert H. West, 

 131 ; a Glossary of Greek Birds, D'Arcy W. Thompson, 

 W. Warde Fowler, 292 ; the Seebohm Collection, Dr. R. 

 Bowdler Sharpe, 369 ; Natural History Museum Bird Gallery, 

 461 ; the Life of Joseph Wolf, A. H. Palmer, 559 



Black Body, a perfectly, W. Wien and O. Lummer, 136 



Black Light, Le Bon's, merely a False Light, Mr. Archenholz, 

 6cx) 



Bland ford (W. F. H.), the Cambridge Natural History, .322; 



