^ Nature, Nov. 27, 1890] 



INDEX 



Vll 



Botany: the Flowering Plant, as illustrating the First 

 Principles of Botany, J. R. Ainsworth Davis, 4 ; the Pro- 

 posed Hanbury Botanical Institute at Genoa, 16 ; Death of 

 Dr. F. Soltwegel, 16 ; Morot's Journal de Botanique, 17 ; 

 Fossil Flora of East Siberia, 18 ; the Flora of Eastern Central 

 Africa, C. J. Maximowicz, W. Botting Hemsley, F.R.S., 51 ; 

 Paris Academy Prize for Essay on Fertilization in Phanero- 

 gams, 64; Commercial Rubber from the "Abba" Tree of 

 West Africa, 65 ; the Shapes of Leaves and Cotyledons, Sir 

 John Lubbock, F.R.S., 81; Botanical Laboratory at the 

 McGill University, 87 ; Illustrations of the Fungi of Mary- 

 land, 87 ; Flora of the Bahamas, John Gardiner, 88 ; 

 Naturalization of Furze and Gorse in the New World, 88 ; 

 Journal of Botany, 93, 584, 655 ; Nuovo Giornale Botanico 

 Italiano, 94, 655 ; the Corolla in Flower Fertilization, Dr. 

 John Harker, 100 ; Grasses of South America, W. Larden, 

 115 ; BotanischeJahrbucher, 117 ; Hundredth Anniversary of 

 the Botanical Society, Regensburg, 134 ; Winkler Bequest to 

 Botanical Garden at Breslau, 134, 160 ; "Sports," Dr. Maxwell 

 T. Masters, 154 ; Exhibition of the Association pour la Protec- 

 tion des Plantes, 160 ; the Kew Lists of Introductions, 206 ; Mis- 

 souri Botanic Garden, 206 ; Spiny Plants in New Zealand, 

 Geo. M. Thomson, 222 ; the Work of the Town Gardening 

 Committee of Manchester Field Naturalists' Society, 234 ; List 

 of New and Reintroduced Garden Plants in the Kew Bulletin, 

 253 ; the Ripe Figs oi Ficits Roxburghii, Dr. D. D. Cunning- 

 ham, 255 ; Larva Collecting and Breeding and. Rev. J. 

 Seymour St. John, 269 ; Ornithophilous Flowers, Sun-birds 

 and Flower-fertilization, G. F. Scott-Elliott, 279; Artificial 

 Infection of Vicia Faba with Bacillus radicicola. Dr. Beyer- 

 inck, 312 ; Timbers, and how to Know Them, Dr. R. Hartig, 

 315 ; Chelsea Botanic Garden, 318 ; Recent Additions to the 

 Literature of Insular Floras, W. Botting Hemsley, F.R.S., 

 322 ; Thickening of Leaves by Marine Habitat, Pierre Lesage, 

 327 ; Discovery of many New Species of Australian Flora, 

 F. M. Bailey, 329 ; Experimental Study of Plant-transpira- 

 tion, Herr Eberdt, 329 ; History of Botany, Prof. Julius von 

 Sachs, 337 ; Fifty-first Anniversary Meeting of the Royal 

 Botanic Society, 375 ; Highland Plants from New Guinea, 

 Baron von Mueller, F.R. S., 382; Observations on Growth 

 of Lake-vegetation East of Baltic, Herr Klinge, 402 ; the 

 Reputed Digestive Power of Liquid in Covered Capsule of 

 Nepenthes, Raphael Dubois, 408 ; Daffodil Conference at 

 Chiswick, 426 ; Collection of Dried Plants presented to the 

 Kew Herbarium by Dr. A. E. von Regel, 485 ; Physiologi- 

 cal Botany, Dr. George Lincoln Goodale, Francis Darwin, 

 F.R.S., 516; Plant Organization, R. Halsted Ward, 518; 

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

 Cockerell, 519; Recent Researches among Fossil Plants, J. 

 i Starkie Gardner, 521 ; Brefeld's Method of the Artificial 



Culture of Fungi, 523 ; Discovery of a Variety of Laurus 

 nobilis at Pompeii, 524 ; Botanical Work in the United 

 States, 524; Comparative Influence of Anoesthetics on 

 Chlorophyllian Assimilation and Transpiration, 560 ; Das 

 reizleitende Gewebesystem der Sinnpflanze, Dr. G. Haber- 

 landt, 561 ; Prof. Denny on an Abnormality in some Flowers 

 of TropjEolum, 579 ; Reports on Botany and Zoology of the 

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

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

 and Dr. Forsyth, 579 ; Annals of the Royal Botanic Garden, 

 Calcutta, George King, F.R.S., D. D, Cunningham, W. 

 Botting Hemsley, F. R.S., 587 ; Meeting in Verona of the 

 Italian Botanical Society, 597 ; Report of the Calcutta Botanic 

 Garden, Dr. King, 597 ; Report of the British Sikkim Go- 

 vernment Cinchona Plantation and Factory, Dr. King, 597 ; 

 Keturn of Herr Dbrfler from his Botanical Expedition to 

 Albania, 617 ; Physiological Researches on Floral Envelopes, 

 Georges Curtel, 632 ; Botanical Expedition to Eastern Bosnia, 

 Dr. von Wettstein's Return, 647 ; Wattles and Wattle-bark, 

 J. H. Maiden, 648 ; a Sunken Forest discovered in Friesland, 

 648 ; Nicotra's Flora of Sicily, 655 



Bothamley (C H.) : the Progress of Photography, 206 ; on the 

 Action of Phosphorous Trichloride on Organic Acids and 

 Water, 532 



Boulanger (Louis), G. Marcel, 378 



Bourdon Gauge, the. Prof. A. M. Worthington, 125 ; Lord 

 Rayleigh, F.R.S., 197 



Boussinesq (M. J.), Le9ins Synlhetiques de Mecanique gene- 

 rale, 98 

 utroux (M.), Oxygluconic Acid, 336 



iiouty (E.), Residual Charge of Condensers, 263 



Bouveault (L.), Action of Aromatic Amines and Phenylhydra- 



zine upon j8 Ketonic Nitrates, 656 

 Bower (Prof. F. O.), on the Teaching of Botany in Schools, 579 

 Bower (John A.), Science Applied to Work, 147 

 Boys (Prof. C. Vernon, F.R.S.) : Oscillating Spark Experiment, 

 91, 95 ; on Photographs of Rapidly Moving Objects, 95 ; 

 Quartz Fibres, 604 

 Boys and Girls, Comparative Growth of, Geisler and Ulitzsch, 



376 ; Charles Roberts, 390 

 Bozward (J. L.), a Fall of Black Rain, 254 

 Brackett (Dr.), Progress of Maryland Negroes since Civil War, 



234 

 Bram-Functions : Modern Experimental Researches and Phre- 

 nology, Bernard Hollander, 263 

 Brain- Weight of New-born Infants, 18 



Brake, the Simplex, and the "Serve" Tube, W. B. Marshall, 533 

 Brakes, Vacuum, on Railways, 88 



Brandza (Marcel), Anatomical Researches on Hybrids, 408 

 Branner (Prof. John C), the Relation of National Geological 



Surveys to each other, 528 

 Breath Figures, W. B. Croft, 92 

 Bredichin (Prof. Th.) : Comets and Meteor Streams, 20 ; Moscow 



Observatory, 404 

 Brefeld's Method of the Artificial Culture of Fungi, 523 

 Breslau Botanical Garden, Winkler Bequest to, 134, 160 

 Bridge (John), on a Problem in Practical Geometry, 415 

 Bridge, Proposed Channel, Soundings for, 647 

 Briggs (Wm.), University Correspondence College, 554 

 Brighton Aquarium, Manatee at, 524 

 Brinton (Dr. Daniel G.), Essays of an Americanist, 77 

 Briscoe (A. E.), the Measurement of Electro-Magnetic Radiation, 



262 

 Britain, an Unidentified People in, in pre- Roman-British Times, 



Dr. Phene, 581 

 British Association : — Meeting at Leeds, Preliminary 

 Arrangements, 158, 180, 326, 351, 433; Attendance, 463 ; 

 Meetings for the Years 1891, 1892. 1893, 463 ; Grants of 

 the, 464 ; Proposed Excursion to Malham of, 401 ; British 

 Association Procedure, Prof. H, E. Armstrong, F.R.S., 

 414; Prof. W. A. Tilden, F.R.S., 456, 518; W. A. 

 Shenstone, 456; Prof. Oliver J. Lodge, F R.S., 491; 

 Prof. C. Vernon Boys, F.R.S., on Quartz Fibres, 604; 

 Inaugural Address by Sir Frederick Augustus Abel, C.B., 

 D.C.L., F.R, S., 433 

 Section A {Mathematics and Physics) — Opening Address by 

 J. W. L. Glaisher, Sc.D., F.R.S. , President of the Section, 

 464 ; M. Du Bois, on Refraction and Dispersion in Certain 

 Metals, 577 ; Sir William Thomson, F.R.S., on Contact 

 Electricity, 577 ; Lord Rayleigh, Sec.R.S., on Defective 

 . Colour-Vision, 577 ; R. T. Glazebrook, F.R.S., on Elec- 

 trical Unit.«, and the Determination of the Ohm, 577 ; 

 Principal J- V. Jones, on the Determination of the Ohm, 



577 ; Sir William Thomson, F.R.S., on Alternate Electric 

 Currents, 577; Sir William Thomson, F.R.S., on Anti- 

 Effective Copper in Parallel Conductors, 577 ; Prof. J. A. 

 Ewing, F.R.S., on the Molecular Theory of Induced Mag- 

 netism, 578 ; Sir William Thomson, F.R.S., on Determining 

 the Magnetic Susceptibility of Diamagnetic and Feebly 

 Magnetic Solids, 578; Lord Rayleigh, F.R.S., on the 

 Tension of Water Surfaces, 578 ; J. Hopkinson, on the 

 Inland and Maritime Climate of England and Wales, 578 ; 

 Prof. Ramsay, on the Adiabatic Curves for Ether, '578; 

 Prof. Ostwald, on the Action of Semi-permeable Mem- 

 branes in Electrolysis, 578 ; Prof. C. Piazzi Smyth, on 

 Photographs of the Invisible in Solar Spectroscopy, 578 ; 

 W. Barlow, on Atom-Grouping in Crystals, 578 ; W. H. 

 Preece, F.R.S., on Steel used for Permanent Magnets, 



578 ; Prof. S. P. Thompson, on the use of Fluor Spar m 

 Optical Instruments, 578 ; F. H. Varley, on a New Photo- 

 meter, 579 



Section B {Chemistry) — Opening Address by Prof. T. E. 

 Thorpe, Ph.D., F.R.S., President of the Section, 449; 

 Third Report of the B.A. Committee on the Present 

 Methods of Teaching Chemistry. 530; Sir Henry Koscoe 

 on Recent Legislation for Facilitating the Teaching of 

 Science, 530; Dr. J. II. Gladstone, F.R.S., and G. 

 Gladstone rn the Kefraction and Dispersion of Fluor- 

 benzene, 530 ; Dr. G. H. Bailey and J. C. Cain on a 

 Method of Quantitative Analysis by Weighing Precipitates 

 suspended in Liquids, 530 ; Dr. G. H. Hailey and A. A. 

 Read on the Behaviour of Different Metallic Oxides when 



