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Index 



IX 



Bloch (Salvador), the use of Collodion Films coloured with 



Fucbsine in Measurements of Light-absorption, 108 

 Blondlot's (M.) Experiments on Velocity of Propagation of 

 Electric Disturbance along Wire, 37, '^l ; Experiments on 

 Propagation of Hertzian Waves, M. Mascart, 394 

 ISlood, the Chemistry of the, and other Scientific Papers, L. C. 



Wooldridge, 2!; 9 

 Blood Corpuscles, Determination of Volume of. Dr. Grijns, 



476 

 Boehm (Dr. J.), Death of, 179, 270 

 Boiler Management and Construction, Marine, C. E. Stromeyer, 



410 

 Boltzmann (Dr. Ludwig), Lectures on Maxwell's Theory of 



Electricity and Light, 381 

 Bolus (Henry), Icones Orchidearum Austro-Africanarum Extra- 



Tropicarum, R. A. Rolfe, 50 

 Bonaparte's (Prince Louis Lucien) Library, Catalogue of, Victor 



Collins, 5S4 

 Bone (W. A.), the Formation of Indoxazen Derivatives, I18 

 Bonetti (M.), New Form of Electrical Machine, 460 

 Bonn University, Hygienic Laboratory established at, 345 

 Bonney (G. E. ), Electrical Experiments, 386 

 Bonney ((Prof. T. G., F.R.S.), the Erosion of Rock-Basins, 

 52 ; the Scandinavian Ice-sheet, 38S ; Conversion of Compact 

 Greenstones into Schists, 403 ; Recent Publications of the 

 American Geological Survey, 434 ; the North-East Wind. — 

 Devonian Schists, 577 

 Bordage (Edmond), Obituary Notice of Paul Henry Fischer, 



296 

 Bordas (M. ), Anatomy of the Trachean System of the Larvae of 



Hymenoptera, 524 

 Bornstein (Prof.), Electric Measurements made during Balloon 



Ascents, 595 

 Borodin (Alexander), Steam-pumps on Russian Railways, 19 

 Boron Carbide, Preparation and Properties of, M. Henri 



Moissan, 500 

 Bort (L. Teisserenc de), Report on the Present State of our 

 Knowledge respecting the General Circulation of the Atmo- 

 sphere, 217 

 Botany : The Embryonal Development of the Birch, L. 

 Nawaschin, 23: the Shrubs of North-Eastern America, Charles 

 S. Newhall, 28 ; the Caoutchouc of the Orinoco, Dr. Ernst, 

 35 ; Botanical Gazette, 46, 306, 424 ; Journal of Botany, 46, 

 330, 424 ; Localisation of Active Principles in Trnpoeolum, 

 Leon Guignard, 47 ; Icones Orchidearum Austro-Africanarum 

 Extra-Tropicarum, Henry Bolus, R. A. Rolfe, 50; Phanero- 

 gamic Botany of Matto Grosso Expedition, Spencer Moore, 

 95 ; Morphological and Micro-chemical Investigations on 

 Physodes, E. Crato, 132 ; Memoirs of St. Petersburg Society 

 of Naturalists, 189 ; Origin of Plants and Structures by 

 Self-adaptation to Environment, Rev. G. Henslow, 166 ; 

 Gynodicecism (III), J. C. Willis, 167 ; Death of Dr. G. 

 Boehm, 179, 270 ; British Fungus Flora, a Classified Text- 

 book of Mycology, George Massee, Dr. M. C. Cooke, 195 ; 

 theLaminariacese, W. A. Setchell, 207 ; Handbook of British 

 Hepaticse, M.C. Cooke, 220 ; Death of R. Bentley,228; Death 

 of R. Spruce, 228 ; Index Kewensis plantarum phaneroga- 

 marum nomina et synonyma omnium generum et specierum 

 a Linnaeo usque ad annum mdccclxxxv complectens nomine 

 recepto auctore patria unicuique plantae subjectis, 241 ; the 

 Fauna of the Victoria Regia Tank in the Botanical Gardens, 

 Frank E. Beddard, F.R.S., 247 ; Influence of Artificial Rain 

 on Plants, Prof. J. Wiesner, 253 ; the Edible Lichen of Japan, 

 Dr. M. Miyoshi, 253 ; Death of Baron K. von Kiister, 270; the 

 Internal Temperature of Trees, W. Prinz, 271 ; a Collection 

 presented by Mr. H. Fisher to Nottingham Museum, 271 ; 

 Formation of Carbon Dioxide and Absorption of Oxygen by 

 Detached Leaves of Plants, MM. Berthelot and Andre, 284 ; 

 an Elementary Text-book on Agricultural Botany, M. C. 

 Potter, 290 ; Death of Dr. J. K. Hasskarl, 296 ; Dropsical 

 Disease in Tomatoes, G. F. Atkinson, 298 ; the Original 

 Home of Maize, Dr. Harshberger, 298 ; Cohn's Beitrage zur 

 Biologie der Pflanzen, 306 ; Changes in position of Flower- 

 stalk of Cob.Ta scaiideiis before and after Flowering, Dr. M. 

 Scholtz, 306 ; Embryology of Gnetiim, G. Karsten, 306 ; 

 Origin of Structural Peculiarities of Climbing Stems, Rev. 

 G. Hemslow, 307 ; Sugar Maples, W. Trelease, 323 ; 

 Orchids, W. A. Styles, 352 ; the Solandi Sun-printing 

 Process as applied to Botanical Technique, Prof. Byron 



Halsted, 370; Botanical Garden established in Mountains 

 near Grenoble, 393 ; Nuovo Giornale Botanico Italiano, 424; 

 Germination of Pollen Grain and Nutrition of Pollen Tube, 

 Prof. J. R. Green, 424 ; the Fertilisation of some Species of 

 Medicago, J. H. Barkill, 426 ; Apogamy in Pteris serrtilata 

 (L. fil.) var. crisiala, A. H. Trow, 434; Measurements of 

 Growth of Trees, J. Heuchler, 439 ; Der Botanische Garten 

 '"s Land's Plantentuin " 2 v. Buitenzorg auf Java, 453 ; Eine 

 Botanische Tropenreise, Indomalayische Vegetationsbilder 

 und Reiseskizzen, Dr. Haberlandt, 453 ; Growth of Mould- 

 Fungi on Solid Compounds of Arsenic, S. Bipodo, 461 ; the 

 Blind Root-suckers of the Sunderbans, 461 ; on the Irrita- 

 bility of Plants, Prof. F. Elfving, 466 ; Root-galls, Dr. M. 

 Masters, 474 ; Origin of Filamentous Thallus of Dutnontia 

 siliformis, George Brebner, 474 ; Illustrated Guide to British 

 Mosses, H. G. Jameson, 479 ; the Flowering Plants of 

 Western India, Rev. A. K. Nairne, 501 ; Remarkable 

 Section of Sequoia gigantea acquired by British Museum, 

 507 ; Cause of Extinction of Pine in South of England, 

 Clement Reid, 522, Growth of Wellingtonia, Mr. Carruthers, 

 522 ; Peculiar Method of the Development of the Axillary 

 Buds of Vanda teres, Henry Dixon, 523 ; Deherainea smarag- 

 dina, J. C. Willis, 523 ; Death of Dr. G. A. Weiss, 538 ; 

 Grundziige einer Entwickelungsgeschichte der Pflanzenwelt 

 Mitteleuropas seit dem Ausgang der Tertiarzeit, Dr. August 

 Schulz, 553 ; the Royal Botanic Gardens, Peradeniya, Henry 

 Trimen, F. R.S., 539; Botany of Death Valley, California, 

 F. V. Coville, 583 ; Irritability of Plants, Prof F. Elfving, 

 466 ; Prof. Pfeffer, 5S6 ; Anatomical Modifications of Plants 

 of the same Species in the Mediterranean Region and in the 

 Region of the Neighbourhood of Paris, W. Russell, 620 

 Bottone (S. R.), How to manage the Dynamo, i(>'i, 

 Boulenger (Mr.), a Nothosaurian Reptile from the Trias of 



Lombardy, 95 

 Bourke(Capt. J. G.), the Medicine-men of the Apache Indians, 



439 

 Bovey, Lignite Age of the, A. R. Hunt, 600 

 Bowen (Lord), Death of, 558 

 Boyle (Frederick), the Orchid Seekers, 28 

 Boys (Prof. C.V., F.R.S.), the Attachment of Quartz Fibres, 



45° 

 Boys (Prof), Arithmometers, 618 



Bozward (Lloyd), the Earthquake of November 2, 1893, at 

 Worcester, 35 ; Brilliant Daylight Meteor seen near Wor- 

 cester, 368 

 Branly (Edward), Conductibility of Discontinuous Conducting 



Substances, 404 

 Brauns (Dr. D. A.), Death of, 179 

 Brazil, the supposed Glaciation of, W. T. Thiselton-Dyer, 



F.R.S.,4 

 Brebner (George), on the Development of the Mucilage Canals 



of the Marattiacea, 5 23 

 Bredikhin (Th.), the Perseids observed in Russia in 1892, 23 

 Bricout (G. ), Ceric Bichromate and Separation of Cerium from 



Lanthanum and Didymium, 308 

 Briggs (William), Mensuration of the Simpler Figures, 28 ; 

 Worked Examples in Co-ordinate Geometry, 52 ; the Geo- 

 metrical Properties of the Sphere, 75 

 British Forest Trees, J. Nisbet, i 

 British Fungus Flora; a Classified Text-book of Mycology, 



George Massee, Dr. M. C. Cooke, 195 

 British Institute of Preventive Medicine, the Directorship of 

 the. Prof. Chas. S. Roy, F.R.S., 269 ; Sir J. Fayrer, F. R.S., 

 292 ; Prof Victor Horsley, F.R.S., 292 

 British Isles, Afforestation in the, Prof W. R. Fisher, 601 

 British Isles, Rainfall Records in, G. \. Symons, 438 

 British Mosses, Illustrated Guide to, H. G. Jameson, 479 

 British Museum, Remarkable Section of Sequoia gigantea 



acquired by, 507 

 Brodie (F. J.), the Great Drought of 1893, 119 

 Brogger (Prof W. C), Basic Eruptic Rocks ot Gran, 142 

 Brooks' Comet (October 16) 18, 39 

 Brooks, the Tail of Comet {c 1893 ), 210, 233 

 Brooks' New Comet (c 1893), Prof E. E. Barnard, 67 

 Brooks (W. R.), a Comet Finder, F. W. Mack, 543 

 Brough (Bennett H.), Iron Ores of Great Britain and Ireland, 



J. D. Kendall, 27 

 Brown (Prof Crum), on the Division of a Parallelepiped into 

 Tetrahedra, 571 



