INDEX 



[Nature, Nov. 27, 



Exposed to High Temperatures, 530 ; Dr. G. H. Bailey on 

 the Spectrum of the Haloid Salts of Didymium, 530 ; Fifth 

 Report of the B.A. Committee on Isomeric Naphthalene 

 Derivatives, 530 ; Prof J. H. Van't Hoffon the Behaviour 

 of Copper Potassium Chloride and its Aqueous Solutions 

 at Different Temperatures, 531 ; Report of the B.A. Com- 

 mittee on the Action of Light on the Hydracids of the 

 Halogens in Presence of Oxygen, 531 ; Profs. Liveing and 

 Dewar on the Explosion of Gases under High Pres- 

 sure, 531 ; Prof. H. B. Dixon and J. H. Harker on the 

 Rates of Explosion of Hydrogen and Chlorine in the Dry 

 and Wet States, 531 ; Dr. G. S. Turpin on the Ignition of 

 Explosive Gaseous Mixtures, 531 ; Report of the Com- 

 mittee on the Properties of Solutions, 531 ; Profi T. E. 

 Thorpe, F.R.S., on Phosphorous Oxide, 531 ; Prof. R. 

 Meldola, F. R.S., on Diazo-Amido-Compounds, 531 ; C. 

 H. Bothamley on the Action of Phosphorus Trichloride 

 on Organic Acids and Water, 532; Prof. W. H. Perkin, Jun., 

 F.R.S., on the Constitution of the Alkaloid Berberin, 532 



Section C {Geology) — Opening Address by Prof. A. H. Green, 

 F.R.S. , President of the Section, 454; Report of the 

 Photographic Committee of the Geological Section of the 

 British Association, 532 ; B. Holgate on the Coals and 

 Clays of Leeds, 532 ; J. R. Dakyns on the Yoredale Beds 

 in Yorkshire, 532 ; Mr. Lamplugh on the Geology of York- 

 shire, 532 ; Dr. Hicks on Earth-Movements in Wales and 

 Shropshire, 532 ; Dr. Hicks on the Contents of Cambrian 

 Conglomerates, 532 ; Dr. P. H. Carpenter on the Morpho- 

 logy of the Cystidea, 533 



Se:tion D {Biology)— O^&vimg Address by Prof. A. Milnes, 

 D.Sc, F.R.S., President of the Section, 468 ; Prof New- 

 ton, F.R.S., on the Ornithology of the Sandwich Islands, 

 579 ; Reports on the Zoology and Botany of the West 

 India Islands, 579 ; on the Teaching of Botany in Schools, 

 Profs. Marshall Ward, F. W. Oliver, and F. O. Bower, 



579 ; Dr. Forsyth on, 579 ; Prof Marsh on the Cretaceous 

 Mammals of North America, 579 ; Prof. Denny on an 

 Abnormality in some Flowers of Tropseolum, 579 ; E. H. 

 Hankin on the Modifying Action of Ferments, 579 ; Dr. S. 

 J. Hickson on the Hydrocorallina, 579 ; Dr. J. M. Mac- 

 farlane on Hybrids, 579 



Section E {Geography) — Opening Address by Lieut. -Colonel 

 Sir R. Lambert Playfair, K.C.M.G., President of the 

 Section, 480 ; E. G. Ravenstein on Lands Available for 

 European Settlement, 579 ; Miss Menie Muriel Dowie on 

 the Eastern Carpathians, ; 580 ; Dr. Kerr Cross on Africa, 



580 ; Dr. R. A. Freeman on Ashanti, 580 ; J. Scott 

 Keltic on the Commercial Geography of Africa, 580 ; 

 Papers on Asia, 580 ; H. F. Lynch on Ptrsia, 580 ; Henry 

 T. Crook on the Present State of the Ordnance Survey, 580 



Section F {Economic Science and Statistics) — Opening 

 Address by Prof. Alfred Marshall, F.S.S., President of 

 the Section, 491 



Section G (Mechanical Science) — Opening Address by Captain 

 Noble, C.B., F.R.S., President of the Section, 499 ; J. F. 

 Green on Steam Life-Boats, 533 ; G. R. Murphy on the 

 Victoria Torpedo, 533 ; Netting from Sheet Metal, 533 ; 

 W. B. Marshall on the "Serve" Tube and the Simplex 

 Brake, 533 ; Prof A. Lupton on the Pneumatic Distri- 

 bution of Power, 534 ; F, G. M. Stoney on the Construction 

 of Sluices for Rivers, 534 ; Sir William Thomson on the 

 new Electric Meter, 534 ; Lawrence and Harries on Alter- 

 nate V. Continuous Currents in relation to the Human 

 Body, 534 ; Wilson Hartnell on Electric Lighting and Fire 

 Insurance Rules, 534 ; W. Bayley Marshall on Factors of 

 Safety in the use of Iron and Steel, 534 



Section H {Anthropology) — Opening Address by John Evans, 

 D.C.L., F.R.S., Pres.S.A., 507; Horatio Hale on the Eth- 

 nography of British Columbia, 580 ; J. W. Fawcett on the ' 

 Religion of the Australian Aborigines, 580 ; F. W. Rudler 

 on the Present Aspect of the Jade Question, 581 ; " Is there 

 a Break in Mental Evolution ? ", Hon. Lady Welby, 581; 

 Dr. Phene on an Unidentified People occupying parts of I 

 Britain in pre-Roman-British Times, 581 ; Dr. G. W. I 

 Hambleton on Physical Development, 581 ; Dr. Munro I 

 on the Origin of the Anglo-Saxons, 581 ; Dr. Munro on 

 Prehistoric Otter and Beaver Traps, 581 ; Rev. E. Maule 

 Cole on the Duggleby " Howe," 581 ; Mr. Mortimer on a 

 Roman Camp at Octon, 581 ; Dr. Wilberforce Smith on 

 Male and Female Respiratory Movements, 581 ; Dr. J. G. 

 Garson on Human Remains found at Woodyates, 581 



British Cicadse, Monograph of the, or Tettigidse, G. B. Buckton 

 F.R.S., 169 



British Columbia, the Ethnography of, Horatio Hale, 580 



British Farm, Forest, Orchard, and Garden Pests, Eleanor E. 

 Ormerod, 609 



British Fossil Vertebrata, Catalogue of, Arthur Smith Wood- 

 ward and Chas. D. Sherborn, 122 



British Fossils, and Where to Seek them, an Introduction to 

 the Study of Past Life, J. W. Williams, 412, 457 



British Islands, Weather Forecasting for the, Captain Henry 

 Toynbee, 368 



British Medical Association, Fifty-eighth Annual Meeting of, 

 326 



British Museum Natural History Publications, Richard Lydekker, 



British Pharmaceutical Association, Annual Meeting, 458 



British Rainfall, 1889, G. J. Symons, F.R.S., 388 



British Sporting Fishes, Sketches of, John Watson, 172 



Brocken, the Spectre of the, 43 



Bromelhyl, Uses of, 120 



Broniometer, the, G. J. Symons, F.R.S., 324 



Brooks (W. K.), Skulls of the Lucayan Indians, 253 



Brooks's Comet (V. 1889), the Companions to, 487 



Brooks's Comet (a 1890), 38, 112; Spectrum of, A. Fowler, 



162 ; Photograph of, 183 ; Dr. Bidschof, 183, 331 

 Brorsen's Comet, E. Barnard, 331 



Brown (Prof. Crum), F.R.S., Relation of Optical Activity to 

 Character of Radicals united to Asympietric Carbon Atom,2i5 

 Bruce (Eric Stuart), Optics of the Lightning Flash, 197 

 Briihl on the Production of Zinc Ethyl by the Aid of Sunshine, 



524 

 Bruhn (Dr.), Researches on Adenin and Hypoxanthin, 244 

 Brussels Academy of Sciences, 48, 144, 264, 512, 536 

 Bryozoa, a Synonymic Catalogue of the Recent Marine, E. C. 



Jelly, 589 

 Buchner(Dr. Max), his Ethnological Collection, 88 

 Buckton (G. B., F.R.S.), Monograph of the British Cicadse or 



Tettigidse, 169 

 Budapest, the Curve of Mortality in, 524 

 Buenos Ayres, Annals of the Museum of, H. Burmeister, 293 

 Buenos Ayres Rural Exhibition, 402 

 Buffaloes, the Extermination of the American Bison, W^ T 



Hornaday, 11, 28, 53 

 Bukowski (Dr. G.), Geological Investigations in Western Asia 



Minor, 597 

 Bulb Thermometers, Wet and Dry, Captain T. H. Tizard, 391 

 Bull, English Wild, at the Zoological Gardens, 255 

 Bulletin de I'Academie des Sciences de St. Petersbourg, 535 

 Bulletins de la Societe d' Anthropologic de Paris, 213 

 Bulletins de la Societe des Naturalistes de Moscou, 118, 535 

 Bunge (Dr. Alex, von). Death, and Obituary Notice of, 327 

 Bunge (Dr. G.), Text-book of Physiological and Pathological 



Chemistry, 338 

 Bunkers, Spontaneous Ignition and Explosions in Coal, Prof. 



Vivian B. Lewes, 271 

 Burbury (Samuel Hawkesley), proposed Fellow of the Royal 



Society, 14 

 Burmeister (Dr. H.), Annals of the Museum of Buenos Ayres, 



293 

 Burton (Sir Richard) : Death of, 617 ; Obituary Notice of, 645 

 Burton and Vorce (Messrs.), Properties of Pure Magnesium 



obtained by Distillation in Vacuo, 161 

 Bustards, increasing Scarcity of, in France, 18 

 Butterflies, Fossil, of Plorissant, Colorado, S. H. Scudder, 18 

 Butterflies from Equatorial Africa, 92 

 Butterfly, Victorian, Bathing Habit of, G. Lyell, Jun., 402 

 Butterflies Bathing, G. A. Freeman, 545 

 Buxton (E. N.), Epping Forest, 389 



Cable, Submarine, Problem, the, Sir William Thomson,. 



F.R.S., 287 

 Calcite, Idiocyclophanous Crystals of, H. G. Madan, 99 

 Calcutta, Annals of the Royal Botanic Garden, George King, 



F.R.S., D. D. Cunningham, W. Botting Hemsley, F.R.S., 



587 

 Caldwell (A. L.), Occurrence of a Crocodile on Cocos Islands, 



463 

 Californian Vine and Orange Pests, 300 

 Caltha, Variability of the Number of Follicles in, T. D. A. 



Cockerell, 519 



