VI 



Index 



VSiififiifment to Nature, 

 L Vetittaber s, 1895 



a Textbook of Zoogeography, k. 

 346 



Beddard (K E., F.R.S.), 



Lydekker, F.R.S., 2S9 

 Bedford College for Women, Instructions in Hygiene at 

 Beilion (P. r. ), Argon in Rock-salt t'lases, 312 

 Bee-keeping Exhibition in Russia, Travelling, F. Motschalkin, 



523 

 Beehler (Lieut.), Origin and Work of Marine Meteorolc^- in 



fniled States, 587 

 Beer (Rudolf), the Penetration of Roots into Linng Tissues, 



630 

 Bchal (A.), Canipholenic Acids and Amides, 48; Acids pro- 

 duced in Oxidation of Inactive Canipholenic Acids, 588 

 Bchrens (I'rof. H.), .\rtificial Dichroism, 240 

 Belcher (Dr. H.), the Use and .Abuse of Examinations, 66 

 Belgique, Bulletin de IWcademie Royale de, 94, 309, 611 

 Belgium, a Belgian Astronomical Society, 62 

 Belinfante (L. ), Experimental Mountain-building, 459 

 Bell (I)ugald), the Shelly CLiys and Gravels of Aberdeenshire, 



« ith regard to Submergence Question, 95 

 Bell (I'rof. Jeffrey), Variations in Large Masses of Turbinaria, 



II 

 Belbirs (N. E.), some Reactions of .\mnionium Salts, 166 

 Ben Nevis Obsenator)', Effects of a Lightning Flash in, William 



S. Bruce, 244 

 Bcnda(Dr.), Longitudinal Bands in Mucous Membrane of True 



\'ocal Cords, 336 

 Bcnedikt (I'rof Dr. R.), Chemical Analysis of Oils, Fats, and 



Waxes, 265 

 Benham (C. E.), Colours of Mother-o"-Pearl, 619 

 Bennett (\. R ), the Telephone Systems of the Continent of 



Europe, 147 

 liennett (.Mfred W.), the Teaching University for London, 294 

 Benzene, the Fluorescence of -Vrgon and its Combination with 



the Elements of, 255 

 Berberich (Dr.). Ephemerisfor Barnard's Comet 1884 II, 327 ; 



Elements and Ephemeris of Comet a, 1895 (Swift), 553 

 Berdoe (Dr.), Microbes and Disease Demons, 340 

 Berlin Meteorological Society, 71, 216 

 Berlin Physical Society, 71, 167, 359 

 Berlin Physiological Society, 71, 167, 336, 432 

 Bern, the International Congress of Physiologists at, Dr. F. W. 



Tunnicliffe, 555, 603 

 Berridge (Dr. J. P.), on the .\ction of Light upon the Soluble 



Metallic Iodides in presence of Cellulose, 537 

 Berthelot (.M.), Thermochemical Relations between Isomeric 



.Salts of Glucose, 96; a New Combination of Argon, 202 ; the 



Fluorescence of Argon, 239 

 Bertin (Emile), Amplitude of Rolling on a Non-Synchronous 



Wave, 207 

 Bcrtrand (G.), Lacca.sc in Plants, 312 

 Besscl Functions and their .Applications to Physics, a Treatise 



on, .-Vndrew tlrayandCI. B. Mathews, Prof. A. G. Greenhill, 



F.k.S.. 542 

 Bessemer Prixress, Thermo.Chcmistr)- of. Prof W. N. I lartley, 



F.R.S., 426 

 Betts's Chromosco]>e, 178 



Bevan (I'mf I'cnry \aughan), .\rgon and Dissociation, 127 

 Beyerinck ^I'rof ), Cyiiips calyiis, 360 



Bezold (W. von), the Double Refraction of Electric Rays, 94 

 Bczold (Prof, von), a Thenry of Terrestrial .Magnetism, 167 

 Bibliographical Discoveries in Terrestrial .M.Tgnetism, some. Dr. 



L. .A. Bauer, 79 ; Captain Ettrick W. Creak, F. R.S., 129 

 Bibliographical Reform, the Question of, 59 

 Bibliography of Spectroscopy, Prof. Herbert Mcleod, F. R.S., 



.'°5 

 Bidwell (Shelford), Electrical Properties of .Selenium, 263 

 Biernacki (V.), Simple Objective Presentation of Hertzian Rc- 



Hettion Ex|>eriments, 539 : New Method of Measuring 



Di'.lance of Air-Gap during S|>ark-I'a.ss.ige, 653 

 Bil'.' ' 'iim at the Royal Obscrvator)', Edinburgh, the, 



I ih, 223 



Bi|;t :!.), Earth a Magnetic Shell, 431 



Biggart (A. .s. 1, ( i.xs-Works Machinery, 349 



Biggs (Dr. Hermann), the .\ntiinxin Treatment of Diphtheria, 



354 

 Bigourilan fM.V Orbit of 1771 Comet, 71 ; Obser\-ations of 



Bi: '.'markablc, 155 



Hi ' Wells, 410 



Bi' 1, anil Man of Lvllcn, the Evolution of the, 



I! 



Biolog)- : Death of Dr. Karl \"ogt, 34 ; the Plant-Individual in 

 the Light of Evolution, Prof L. H. Bailey, 59 : tlrowth of 

 Diatoms in Surface Waters, 112 ; the Relation of Biology to 

 theological Investigation, Chas. .A. White, 258, 279 ; Micro- 

 -scopic Foam and Protoplasm, Otto Biitschli, 291 : Remarkable 

 Lake on Kildine Island, M.M. Faussekand Kinjiowitsch, 303 ; 

 Evolution or Epigcnesis, H. Croft Ililler, 317 : How was 

 Wallace led to the Discover)^ of Natural Selection ? Dr. .A. B. 

 Meyer and Dr. A. R. Wallace, F.R.S., 415 ; Protoplasme et 

 Noyau, J. Perez, 543 ; Biology Notes, 593 ; the Penetration 

 of Roots into Living Tissues, Rudolf Beer, 630 ; Marine 

 Biologj-, Piaster \'acalion Work at Port Erin Station, 35 ; the 

 Voyage of IL.M.S. Challenger, a Sumniarj- of the Scientific 

 Results, Dr. .Anton Dohrn, 121 ; the Whitsuntide Work at 

 Port Erin Station, 152 ; Pelagic Dcep-Sea Fishing, L. 

 Boutan and E. P. Racovitza, 312; Oceanic Islands, F. W. 

 Headley. 366 (See also Section D of the British .Association > 



Birds : Birds, Beasts, and Fishes of the Norfolk Broadland, P. 

 H. Emerson and R. Lydekker, F. R.S., 195 ; the Bird of 

 Paradise, Margatetta L. Lemon, 197 ; a Chapter on Birds, 

 R. Bowdler Sharpe, 220 ; the International Bird Protection 

 Conference, 325 : a Remarkable Flight of Birds, R. A. Br>iy, 

 415 ; J. Evershed, 50S ; Late Nestlings, Jas. Shaw, 459 ; the 

 Land Birds in and around St. Andrews, George Bruce, 589 ; 

 the Migration of British Birds, including their Post-Glacial 

 Emigration as traced by the application of a New Law of 

 Dispersal, Charles Dixon, 5S9 ; Heligoland .as an Ornitho- 

 logical Observatory, the Result of Fifty \' ears' Experience, 

 Heinrich Gritke, 5S9 : a Hand-hook to the Game-birds, W. 

 R. Ogilvie-Grant, 5S9 ; the Land-birds and Came-birds of 

 New England, with de.scriptions of the Birds, their Nests, and 

 Eggs, their Habits, and Notes, H. D. Minot, 5S9 ; Wild 

 England of To-day and the Wild Life in il, C. J. Cornish, 

 589 : the Phe.isant : Natural History, Rev. I[. A. Macpher- 

 son. Shooting, A. J. Stuart-Wortley, Cooking, .Alexander 

 Innes Shand, 589 ; Note on the Dendrocolapline .Species 

 Dendrexelasles capilouies of Eyton, Dr. Henry O. Forl>es, 619 



Bjerknes (V.), Electric Resonance, 1S9 



Black (Surgeon. Major W. G.), the .Antiquity of the Medical 

 Profession, 174 



Blaikie (W. B. ), on the .-Vstronomical Relations of Geograjihy, 



563 

 Blake (Dr. E. W.), Death of, 626 

 Blanford (Dr. W. T., F. R.S. ), the Southern Carboniferous 



Flora, 595 

 Blass (E.), a Problem in Thermodynamics, 415 

 Bleekrode (L. ), Miignetism of Asbestos, 309 

 Bodmer (G. K.), Ilydraulic Motors, Turbines, and Pressure 



Engines, 170 

 Boisbaudran (Lecoqde), Crystals forming at Bottom of Solution 



of Greater SiKcific Gravity, 24 ; \'olunies of Salts in .-Vtiueous 



Solutions, 287 

 Bollcttino delta Societa Botanica Italiana, 45 

 Bollcttino della Societa Seismologica Italiana, 309, 335, 455, 



611 

 Bolton (Reginald), Motive Powers and their Pr.actical Selection, 



170 

 Boltzmann (Prof Ludwig), on the Minimum Theorem in the 



Theory of ti.ases, 221 

 Boltjmann's Minimum Function, S. H. Burbury, F.R.S., 104 

 Boltzmann's Minimum Theorem, Edwaid P. Culverwell, 149 

 Boltzmann's Minimum Theorem, the .Assumptions in, G. H. 



Br)an, 29 

 Bonavia (E.), Studies in the Evolution of Animals, 411 

 Bonchill (E.), Direct Puddling of Iron, 425 

 Bonhote (J. L.), Harrow BuHerHies and .Moths, 388 

 Bonney (Prof. T. tl., F.R..S.), Le Lenian, Monographic I.ini- 



mologique, F. A. Forel, 52 ; My Climbs in the Alps and 



Caucasus, A. F. Mummery, F. R.S., 219 

 Book of the Dead, the, V.. A. Wallis Budge, I 

 Book-keeping, a Manual of, J. Thornton, 388 

 Books of Science, Forthcoming, 556 

 Boole (L. E. ), Nature of Vesicating Constituent of Croton Oil, 



•5'° 

 Borchgrevink (C. E. ), the \'oyage of the AnlantK to Victoria 



Land, 375 

 Botany: Over de Bevruchling der Bloemen in het Ivempisch 

 Ge<leelle van Vhuanderen, J. .MacLeod, 2 ; F.niile l.evier, a 

 Travers le CaHca.se, 3 ; \ilality of Seeds, W. Hotting Hems- 

 ley, F.R.S., 5 : Latent N'ilalily in Seeds, Prof Italo (iiglioli, 

 544 ; Latent Life of Seeds, C. de Candolle, 347 ; Grand 



