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Biles (Prof. J. II.), on the Design nf Mail Steamers with special 

 reference to their use for War purposes, 329 



Binaries, Spectroscopic Velocities of, 327 



Biology : Introduction to Elementary Practical Biology, C. W. 

 Dodge, 77 ; Obituary Notice of George John Romanes, 

 I'.R.S, by Prof. E. Ray Lankester, F.R.S., 108; the 

 Biological Institution in Bergen, Norway, 271 ; Biological 

 .Stalion established at Dribatt, Norway, 275 ; Biological 

 Station established at Havana, Illinois River, 275 ; Prof. J. 

 M. Macfarlane on the Irrito-contractility of Plants, 361 ; 

 Opening Address in Section D of the British Association by 

 Prof. 1. Bayley Balfour, F.R.S., 371 ; a Theory of 

 Development and Herediiy, Henry B. Orr, 445 ; Alternat- 

 ing Generations : a Biological Study of Oak Galls and Gall 

 Flies, Dr. Hermann Adler, 545 ; Marine Biology, the 

 Projected Station at Cumbrae, 13 ; Joliann von Miiller 

 and the Gulf of Naples, 14; Ocean Meadows, 65; 

 Ouramceba, \Vm. L. Poteat, 79 ; Clavatella Prolifera, Henry 

 Scherren, 104 ; Annual Report of Wood's Holl (Mass.) 

 Laboratory, 130 ; the Marine Biological Association, 203 ; 

 Reports of, 251 ; Interesting Marine Animals, Prof. W. A. 

 Herdman, F.R.S., 475 ; Bacteriology of the Ocean, Dr. B. 

 Fischer, 431 ; Wood's H ill, Mass. Laboratory, 481; Results of 

 Dredgings on Macclesfield Bank in the China Sea, P. W. 

 Bassett-Smith, 552 (See also Section D of the British 

 Association) 



Bird (Charles), Geology, 171 



Birds, Early Arrival of, J. Lloyd-Bozward, 8 ; Rev. W. 

 Clement Ley, 31 



Birds, ihe Flight of Oceanic, Capt. D. Wilson Barker, 617 



Birds, Rate of the Flight of, F. W. Headley, 269 



Birkeland (M.), Exprnments on the Magnetisation of Iron 

 and ParafTin by Hertzian Waves, 203 



Biskra and the Oasis and Desert of the Zibans, Alfred E. 

 Pease, 317 



Biilncr (Dr. A.), the Newer Literature of the .\lpine Trias, 

 .283 



Bitumen, California, on the Nitrogen Content of, S. F. 

 Peckham, 515 



Black (Alex.), First Principles of Building, 6i6 



Black (Surgeon-Maior \V. G.), the Teeih and Civilisation, 148 



Blandford (\V. F. H.), on a Sand Flea, or Chigoe, from China, 



63s 

 Blandford (Dr. W. T., F. R.S.), Gohna Lake, 596 

 Blanshard (C. T.), New Element in the Sulphur Group, 571 

 Blast-Furnace, Sir Lowthian Bell on the use of Caustic Lime in 



the, 459 

 Bleekrode (Dr. L ) on the use of Quartz Fibres in Telescopes, 



174 

 Blond lot (R.) on the Propagation of Electromagnetic Waves 



in Ice, 604 

 Blood, Researches on the Causes of the Toxicity of the Serum 



of, MM. Mairet and Bosc, 335 

 Bloxam (A. G.), Cataloguing Scientific Papers, 104; Prof. 



Ostwald on English Chemists, 224 

 Boa-constrictor swallowed by another in the Zoological 



Gardens, one, 620 

 Board Schools, Scientific Method in, Prof. H. E. Armstrong, 



F.R.S., 631 

 Boaz (Dr. Franks on Human Faculty as determined by Race, 



487 

 Boilers : on the Influence of Circulation on Evaporative 



Efficiency of Waier Tube, J. I. Thornycroft, 328; 



Recent Experience with Cylindrical Boilers and the Ellis 



and Eaves Suction Draught, F. Gross, 329 

 Boisbaudran (NL l,eciiq de), Cry-ials. 420 

 Boll (Franz) Siudien uber Claudius Ptolem.ius : ein Beitrag 



zur Geschichte der griechischen Philosophic und Astrologie, 



398 

 Bol on (Herbert), New Goniatite from Lov/er Coal Measures, 



Boltzmann's Theorem on Perminence of Distributions, Dr. 



Watson's Proof of, Edwd. P. Culverviell, 617 

 Boinpas (G. C), tlie Semi Annual Variation of Meteors, 504 

 Bond'(C. II.), External .\naiomy of the Chinese Brain, ill 

 Bonney (Prof. T. G., F R.S.), Mes'zoic Rocks and Crystal- 

 line .Schists in Leponiine Alps, 22 ; Relations of the Older 

 Fragmenlal Rock in North west Carnarvonshire, 286 

 Bonnier (Gaston), Sructur: of Plants of Spitzbergen and Jan 

 Mayen Island, 216 



Books, the Dendritic Crystals on Pages of, .\. T. Tait, H2 ; 

 Means adopted in Indian Museums for Preservation of, 

 against Insects, 155 



Bornand's (Dr.) Bequest to the Academie de Lausanne for the 

 Endowment of a Chair of Embryogeny, 325 



Bos (Dr. J. Ritzema), Agricultural Zoology, 567 



Bosc (M.), Researches on the Causes of the Toxicity of the 

 Serum of Blood, 335 



Bossi (A.), Formaldoxime, 22 



Botany : Irritability of Plants, R. W. Deeley, 8 ; the Natural 

 History of Plants, from the German of Prof. Anton Kerner 

 von Marilaun, Prof. F. W. Oliver, 28 ; Death and Obituary 

 Notice of Adolph Leipner and of A. Derbes, 33 ; 

 Number of Species at present known, Prof. Saccardo, 

 35; the Earliest! Mention of Dictyophora, Kumagasu 

 Minakata, 54; Death of Dr. E. H. Vinen, 60; Death 

 of Prof. Thomas Morong, 60 ; Size and Age of 

 Largest Native Trees in Britain. Dr. D. Chrislison, 62 ; 

 Habits of Lemna, Dr. H. B. Guppy, 71 ; the Fertilisa- 

 tion of Ckrodendron tomcntosum and Candolld: serrulata, 

 A. G. Hamilton, 95 ; Botanical Charts and Definitions, 

 Miss A. E. Brooke and Miss A. C. Brooke, loi ; Practical 

 Botany for Beginners, F. O. Bower, 123; the Latex of the 

 Lacquer Tree, G. Bertrand, 144 ; .Structural Botany 

 (Flowering Botany), Dukinfield Henry Scott, 147 ; Mohl's 

 Primordial Utricle, Thomas Hick, 173 ; Death of Ed. 

 Leievre, 177; Structure of Plants of Spitzbergen and Jan 

 Mayen Island, Gaston Bonnier, 216 ; the Root of Lygiito- 

 dendron Oldhamiuni, T>x. \V. C. Williamson, F.R.S.,and 

 Dr. D. H. Scott, 261 ; Methods of Fertilisation of 

 Goodeniacca , A. G. Hamilton, 28S ; the Royal Botanic 

 Garden, Calcutta, 30S ; Annual Report of the Royal Botanic 

 Garden, Calcutta, 326 ; Fungus Diseases of Cultivated 

 Trees, P. Baccarini, 309 ; Nuovo Giornale Botanico 

 I'aliano, 309 ; Journal of Botany, 309 ; a Handbook to the 

 Flora of Ceylon, Henry Trimen, F. R. S., James Britten, 

 316 ; Prof J. .M. Macfarlane on the Irrito-Contractility of 

 Plants, 361 ; Records of Kaffrarian Plants, Thos. R. Sim, 

 416; Miss Benson on the Fertilisation of the Chalazogamic 

 Amentiferas, 434 ; Miss Periz on the Hygroscopic Dispersal 

 of Fruits in certain I.abialoe, 434; Prof. Johnstone on Algse 

 which deposit Calcareous Matter in their Tisues, 434 ; 011 

 the Periodic Variation in the number of Chromosomes, Prof. 

 Slrasburger, 434 ; Prof. Douglas H. Campbell on the origin 

 of the Sexual Organs of the I'teridophytes, Notes upon the 

 Germination of the Spores of the Ophioglosseae, 435 ; Prof. 

 F. O. Bower on Sterilisation and a Theory of the Strohilu«, 

 435 ; Researches on the Respiration and Assimilation of the 

 Muscinece, B. Jrinsson, 444 ; on Nucleoli and Centrosomc, 

 J. F;. Humphiev, 503; Death of Ptof. Pringsheim, 580; 

 Two Letters of Charles Daiwin, 580 ; .Some New Facts with 

 regard to Scnncttites, K. C. Seward, 594 ; A Student's 

 Text- Book of Hotany," Prof. S. H. Vines, F. R.S., the 

 Student's Introductory Handbook of Systematic Botany, 

 Joseph W. Oliver, Harold Wager, 613 ; Death of General 

 Robert Benson, 620 



Bouchardot (G.), Action of Sulphuric Acid on Camphor, 

 264 



Bourru (M.), the Homologues of Quinine, 191 



Bouty (E. ), Capacity of Polarised Surface of Mercury, &c. , 

 35 ; on the Capacity of the Caiiillary Electrometer, 455 



Bouveault (L. ), an Unsaturated Natural Ketone, 48; Constitu- 

 tion of l^icareol, 144 ; on ihe Constitution of Rhodinol fiom 

 Essence of Pelargonium, 368 



Bovey (Henry T. ), Theory of Structures and Strength of 

 Materials, Piof. A. G. Greenhill, F.R.S , 97 



Bower (F. O. ), Practical Botany for Beginners, 123 ; on 

 Slerilisaiion and a Theory of the Strobilus, 435 



Bower (John .\.), Simple Experiments for Science Teaching, 



Boyle (Robert), the Sceptical Chemist, 349 



Boys (Prof. C. V., F. R..S. ) on the Newtonian Constant of 



Gravitation, 330, 366, 417, 571 

 Bozward (J. Llt>yd), Early Arrival of Birds, 8 

 BradWury's (Chas.) " Brunsviga " Calculating Machine, 1S2 

 Brain, l-.xternal Anatomy of the Chinese, C. H. Bond, III 

 Br.iins, Two Microcephalic, Dr. Telford Smith and Prof. D. J. 



Cunningham, F. R.S., 2S7 

 Brauiwell (Sir Fredciick), some Reminiscences of Steam Loco- 

 motion on Common Roads, 437 



