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[Siippletnenl to Nature, 

 May 3 If 1894 



Badenoch (L. N.), Romance of the Insect World, 314 

 Badonrean (A.), the Slow Ascensional Movement of Scandi- 

 navia, 159 

 Bahamas, Asvmnetroii lucayanu<n. New Acraniate found at, 



E. A. Andrews, 14 

 Bailey (E. H. S.), Sense of Taste amma; Indians, 82 

 Bailey (Dr. G. H.), Aspects of Town as contrasted with Co antry 



Air, 416 

 Bailey (Prof. S. J.), the Misti (Peruvian Andes) Meteorological 



Station, 229 

 Bailey (Vernon), the Spermophiles of the Mississippi Valley, 



36 

 Bain (T. C), Death of, 12 

 Bain ; Captain), Effect of Reversing Screw of Steamship on 



Steering, 208 

 Baker (H. F. ), the Applications of Elliptic Functions, Alfred 



George Greenhill, F. R.S., 359 

 Baker (Sir Samuel), Obituary Notice of, 227 

 Bakerian Lecture, the, 392; Prof. T. E. Thorpe, F. R.S., and 



J. W. Rodger, 419 

 Bakhuyzen (Prof. ), the Variation of Latitude and Sea Level, 



476 ; Rigidity of Earth, 476 

 Baldamus (Dr. A. K. E.), Death of, Si 

 Ball (Sir Robert S., F.R.S.), In the High Heavens, R. A. 



Gregory, 243 ; The Story of the Sun, A. Fowler, 382 

 Ball (Dr. V.), Volcano Folk-lore of India, 109 

 Balland (M.), Sterilisation of Bread and Biscuit by Baking, 



167 

 Balloon Ascents at Munich, Nocturnal, 416 

 Balloon Ascents, Electric Measurements made during, Prof. 



Bornstein, 595 

 Baly (Mr.), New High Temperature Thermometer, 538 

 Bamber (E. F.), Electric Traction, 567 

 Barcena (Senor M.), Climate of Mexico City, 229 

 Barell (Prof. F. R.), Separation of three Liquids by Fractional 



Distillation, 93 

 Barford(J. G.), Death of, (>t, 

 Barille(M.), Electric Alarm Thermometer for Laboratory Ovens, 



355 

 Barium, the Atomic Weight of, Prof. Richards, 562 

 Barnard (Prof. E. E.), Brooks's New Comet (18931:), 67 ; 



Period of Jupiter's Fifth Satellite, 85 ; Photographic Nebu- 

 losities in the Milky Way, 511 

 Barometer, Bartrum's Open-scale, J. J. Hicks, 48S 

 Barometer, Compensating Open-scale, Mr. Griffiths, 379 

 Bartrum's Open-scale Barometer, J. J. Hicks, 488 

 Barus (Dr. Carl), the Cloudy Condensation of Steam, 363 

 Basaltic Andesite of Glasdrumman Port, co. Down, Derived 



Crystals in, 499 

 Base-forming Element, Iodine as a. Prof. Victor Meyer and 



Dr. Hartmann, A, E. Tutton, 442 

 Basset (A. B., F.R.S.), A Treatise on Dynamics, W. H, 



Besant, 146 ; Stability of Deformed Elastic Wire, 215 ; the 



Foundations of Dynamics, 529 

 Batacchi Independenti, Fra i, Elio Modigliani, 314 

 Bath (W. H.), Vertical Distribution of British Lepidoptera, 



346 

 Bather (F. A.), the Zoological Record, 53, 198 

 Bavaria, Geological Survey Department of, 322 

 Beadle (C), the Decomposition of Liquids by Contact with 



Cellulose, 457 

 Beare (Prof. T. H.), the Research Committee on Marine Engine 



Trials, 350 

 " Beats," the Origin of, K. L. Schaefer, 370 

 Beats in Luminous Vibrations, on the Phenomenon of. Dr. J. 



Verschaffelt, 617 

 Beaulard (F. ), Optical Properties of Quartz Plate compressed 



perpendicularly to Axis, 37 

 Becher (H. M.), the Death of, 112 

 Beddard (Frank E., F.R. S.), an Ornithological Retrospect, 



31 ; the Fauna of the Victoria Regia Tank in the Botanical 



Gardens, 247 

 Bedell, Miller and Wagner (Messrs.), New Form of Contact 



Maker, 37 

 Beecher (C. E.), Larval Form of Triarthrus, 92 ; the Thoracic 



Legs of Triarthrus, 214 ; the Appendages of the Pygidium of 



Triarthrus, 617 

 Bees and Dead Carcases, W. F. Kirby, 555 

 Beetles of New Zealand, W. F. Kirby, 459 



Behn (U.), Peculiarities of Electrical Deposit of Silver on 



Platinum, 321 

 Behrens (Prof.), (i) the Structure of Native Gold, (2) Chemical 



Composition of Alloys, 144 

 Belgique, Bulletin de I'Academie Royale de, 283, 376 

 Belgium, Neolithic Discoveries in, 227 



Beneden (Prof. P. van). Death of, 251 ; Obituary Notice of, 293 

 Beni Hasan, G. W. Eraser, 169 ; P. E. Newberry, 169, 432 . 

 Bennett (Dr. Geo.), Death of, 63 

 Bent (J. T.), The Sacred City of the Ethiopians, 314 

 Bent's (Mr. Theodore), Expedition, Return of, 487 

 Bentley (Prof. R.), Death of, 228 

 Benzene Nucleus, Further Light upon the Nature of the, A. 



E. Tutton, 614 

 Berlin, the Temperature in and outside, Prof. G. Hellmann, 460 

 Berlin Geographical Society, the Greenland Expedition of the, 



399 



Berlin Meteorological Society, 48, 216, 427, 596 



Berlin Physical Society, 48, 167, 216, 356, 427, 595 



Berlin Physiological Society, 48, 167, 240, 380, 427, 596 



Bernard (H. M.), the Stigmata of the Arachnida, as a Clue to 

 their Ancestry, 68 ; the Systematic Position of the Trilobites, 

 521 



Berson (M.), Mutual Action of Bodies Vibrating in Fluid 

 Media, 143 



Berthelot (M.), Spontaneous Heating and Ignition of Hay, 240 ; 

 Formation of Carbon Dioxide and Absorption of Oxygen by 

 Detached Leaves of Plants, 284 



Bertrand (C. E ), General Characters of Bogheads produced by 

 Algae, 47 



Bertrand (G. ), Poisonous Principles of Adder's Blood, 284; 

 Viper Poison, 380 



Besant (W. H.) A Treatise on Dynamics, A. B. Basset, 

 F.R.S., 146 



Bezold (Prof, von). Wave Clouds, 48 ; Various Modes of Dis- 

 criminating between Clouds, 427 ; Cloud-Formation, 508 



Bicalcic Phosphate, Action of Water on, A. Joly and E. Sorel, 

 572 



Bidwell (Shelford, F. R. S. ), the Cloudy Condensation of 

 Steam, 212, 388, 413 



Biela Meteors, 67 



Bigelow (F. H. ), Recurrence of Hurricanes in Solar Magnetic 

 26 '68 day period, 330 



Bigourdan (M. ), Magnitude and Position of T Aurigse, 85 



Bile Ducts, on Absorption by the, Celestin Tobias, 617 



Billroth (Prof.), Death of, 345 



Biology : Reappearance of the Freshwater Medusa {Liinnoco- 

 diiim Sowerbii), Prof. E. Ray Lankester, F. R. S., 127 ; 

 Text-Book of Biology, H. G. Wells, 148 ; Projected 

 Marine Biological Station at Millport, N.I3., 180; Death of 

 Dr. Chabry, 158 ; Biologie der Pflanzen, 306 ; 

 Forschungsberichte aus der Biologischen Station zu Plon, 

 Dr. O. Zacharias, 385 ; Biology as it is applied against 

 Dogma and Freewill, and for Weismannism, H. Croft-Hiller, 

 386 ; the Macleay Memorial Volume, 597 ; the Naples 

 Zoological Station, 604 ; Marine Biology, the Pteropod Col- 

 lections of the Albatross, 36 ; Week's W^rk of Plymouth 

 Station, 37, 67, 84, 162, 323, 372, 418 ; Some Laboratories 

 of Marine Biology, 70 ; the Protective Colouration of Vibrius 

 varians, Prof. W. A. Herdman, F.R.S., 417; the Floor of 

 the Ocean at Great Depths, Dr. John Murray, 426 ; Ento- 

 mostraca and Surface-film of Water, D. J. Scourfield, 474 ; 

 the Rovigno Station, 560 ; the Melbourne Exhibition Aqua- 

 rium, 583 



Bionomie des Meeres, Johannes Walther, 244 



Birch, the Embryonal Development of the, S. Nawaschin, 23 



Bird Life in Arctic Norway, Robert Collett, 599 



Bird Protection Bill, the New, 54 



Birds : Are Birds on the Wing Killed by Lightning ? Skelfo, 

 577 ; G. W. Murdochs, 601 ; the Early Return of Birds, 

 Robert M. Prideaux, 578 



Bjorling Arctic Expedition, the Fate of the, Capt. McKay, 85 ; 

 Proposed Search for the, 606 



Black Sea during Pliocence Age, N. Andrusoff, 23 



Blackburn's Pendulum for Slow Production of Lissajous's 

 Figures, Improved Form of. Prof. A. Righi, 582 



Blakesley (T. H.), a New Electrical Theorem, 450 



Bliss (Dr. C. B.), Investigations on Reaction-time and Attention, 

 439 



