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INDEX 



{Nature, Nov. 27, 



Beer Barrels, Wire-Worms in, W. F, H. Blandford 011, 573 



Beetles, Long Imprisonment of, in Wood, 109 



Beevor (Dr.), Results of Electrical Excitation of Motor Cortex 

 of Orang Outang, 189 



Beginners, Dynamics for, Rev. J. B. Lock, 270 



Behal (M.), Chloralimide and its Isomeride, 215 



Behrend (Dr.), Simple Derivatives of Hydroxylamine, 137 



Belgian Royal Malacological Society, Visit to England of, 401 



Bengal, Journal of the Asiatic Society of, 486 



Bennett (Alfred W.), Introduction to Freshwater Algae, with 

 an Enumeration of all the British Species, M. C. Cooke, 385 



Bennett (Mr. James), Proposed Government Enquiry into the 

 Mineral and Vegetable Resources of Lagos by, 252 



Berberich (Dr. A.) : Coggia's Comet {b 1890), 355 ; Denning's 

 Comet {c 1890), 378 ; Coggia's and Denning's Comets (b and 

 c 1890), 404 



Berberin, the Constitution of the Alkaloid, Prof. W. H. Perkin, 

 Jun., F.K.S., 532 



Berlin : Meteorological Society, 47, 143 ; Physical Society, 47, 

 144, 264, 288 ; Physiological Society, 48, 120, 144, 216, 264, 

 336 ; Geographical Society, Remarkable Map reproduced by, 

 209 ; Anthropological Museum, Prof. Bastian's Researches 

 for, 280 ; International Medical Congress, 352 ; Grants by 

 the Berlin Academy of Sciences, 374 



Bertillon (Alphonse), French Police Photography, Edmund R. 

 Spearman, 642 



Berthelot (Dr, Marcellin) : Conductivities of Ammonia and 

 Aniline Compounds with Oxybenzoic Acids, 143 ; Reduction 

 of Sulphates of Alkalies by Hydrogen and Carbon, 168 ; the 

 Various Isomeric Inosites and their Heat of Transformation, 

 215 ; Method for Estimation of Sulphur in Organic Bodies, 

 288 ; La Revolution Chimique — Lavoisier, Prof. '1'. E. Thorpe, 

 F.R.S., 313 ; Comparative Heat of Formation of Amides and 

 Anilides, 336 ; the Meteoric Iron of Magura, 408 



Bertin (G.), on the Manners and Customs of the Babylonians, 

 86 



Bertrand (Prof. J.), Le9ons sur la Theorie Mathematique de 

 I'Electricite, 2 



Bertrand's Idiocyclophanous Spar-prism, H. G. Madan, 52, 99 



Beryl, Specimen of a Large, from Ceylon, 91 



Beryllium, another Determination of Atomic Weight of, Drs. 

 Krliss and Moraht, 554 



Betes, I'Esprit de Nos, E. Alix, 413 



Beuttler (J. Oakley), Inorganic Chemistry, 614 



Beyerinck (Dr.), Artificial Infection- of Vicia Faba with Bacillus 

 radicicola, 312 



Bibliography : Forthcoming Scientific Books, 559 ; Friedlander 

 and Son's Catalogue of Astronomical Books, 648 



Bidel (Herman), Curious Effect of a Thunder-storm at Playford, 

 in Suffolk, 36 



Bidschof (Dr.), Brooks's Comet {a 1890), 183, 331 



Bidwell (Shelford, F.R.S.): on the Effects of Tension upon 

 Magnetic Changes of Length in Wires of Iron, Nickel, and 

 Cobalt, 45 ; Electrification of a Steam Jet, 91 ; Lightning 

 and the Electric Spark, 151 



Bigelow (Frank H.) : Actinic Light of the Solar Corona, 138 ; 

 on the Solar Corona, 529 



Biology : Marine Biological Laboratory at Wood's Holl (Mass.), 

 17; Marine Biological Laboratory at Boston (Mass.), 134; 

 the Marine Biological Association and the Chancellor of the 

 Exchequer, 34 ; Appeal for an Additional Grant by the 

 Marine Biological Association, 86 ; the Sixth Scientific Cruise 

 of the Steamer Hyccna with the Liverpool Marine Biology 

 Committee, Prof. W. A. Herdman, 132 ; Journal of the 

 Marine Biological Association, 136 ; Marine Biological Asso- 

 ciation, 236 ; Opening of the Seaside Laboratory at Cold 

 Spring Harbour, U.S.A., 327 ; Results of a Recent Dredging 

 Trip in Hobart Town Harbour, Mr. Morton, 328 ; Synonymic 

 Catalogue of the Recent Marine Bryozoa, E. C. Jelly, 589 ; 

 Reports from the Laboratory of the Royal College of 

 Physicians, Edinburgh, Vol. II, J. G. Adami, 97; Dr. 

 Cartwright Wood on Enzyme Action in the Lower Organisms, 

 97 ; H. A. Thomson on Tuberculosis of the Bones and Joints, 

 97 ; Natural Causes checking over-increase of Plants and 

 Animals, Alex. Becker, 136; at Fontainebleau, Opening of 

 Laboratory of Vegetable, 180 ; Effect of Light on Production 

 of Carbon Dioxide by Frogs, Martin and Friedenwald, 212; 

 the Ventricular Epithelium of Frog's Brain, A. C. Wightman, 

 212 ; Morphology of the Compound Eyes of Arthropods, S. 

 Watase, 213 ; the Amphibian Blastopore, T. H. Morgan, 213 ; 

 a New Actinia, Dr. H. V. Wilson, 213 ; Studies in Biology 



for New Zealand Students, T. J. Parker, F.R.S., 309; In- 

 discriminate Separation, under the Same Environment, a Cause 

 of Divergence, Rev. John T. Gulick, 369 ; Opening Address 

 in Section D, at the British Association, by Prof. A. Milnes 

 Marshall, D.Sc, F.R.S., 468; Dr. Charles S. Minot, 

 on Growing Old, 528 ; the Progress of Biology in 

 Canada, 572; Prof. Newton, 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. 

 Macfarlane on Hybrids, 579 



Biophene, a New Intermediate between Fatty and Aromatic 

 Series, Dr. L. E. Levi, 281 



Bird Classification, Sundevall's Tentamen, 3 



Bird Migration, a Recently Established, Henry Cecil, 520" 



Birds : Classification of, an Attempt to Diagnose the Sub-classes, 

 Orders, Sub-orders, and some of the Families of Existing 

 Birds, by Henry Seebohm, R. Bowdler Sharpe, 74 ; a Hand- 

 book of European Birds, for the use of Field Naturalists 

 and Collectors, by James Backhouse, Jun., R. Bowdler 

 Sharpe, 74 



Birds and Flowers, 317 ; Dr. Alfred R. Wallace, 295 



Birds, on the Soaring of, Prof. Magnus Blix, 397, 593 ; Rev. O. 

 Fisher, 457; C. O. Bartrum, 457, 637; Right Rev. Bishop 

 Reginald Courtenay, 463 



Birds, Variation in the Nesting-habits of, T. D. A. Cockerell, 

 6 ; Thos. Swan, 54 



Birds : Hand-book of Field and General Ornithology, a Manual 

 of the Structure and Classification of Birds, Prof. Elliott 

 Coues, 541 



Birds : the I3irds of Essex, a Contribution to the Natural His- 

 tory of the County, M . Christy, 564 



Birthday Honours and the Science and Art Department, 86 



Bismarck Archipelago, Masks from New Guinea and the. Dr. 

 A. B. Meyer, 268 



Bison, the Extermination of the American, W. T. Hornaday, 

 II 



Bison and Aurochs, Prof. Alfred Newton, F.R.S., 28, 53, 81 ; 

 R. Lydekker, 53 



Black Sea, Andrusoff's Exploration of the, 556 



Blackie's Modern Cyclopaedia, 567 



Blackley (D. J.), Acoustics in Relation to Wind Instruments, 



S^° . . 



Blanc (Louis), Colouring of Silkworm by Feeding, 384 



Blandford (W. F. H.), on Wire- Worms in Beer Barrels, 573 

 Blandford on London-purple as an Insecticide, 287 

 Blindness, Colour, and Colour- Vision, R. Brudenell Carter, 55 

 Blindness, Colour, Testing for, D. D. Redmond, 126 ; Latimer 



Clark, 147 

 Blix (Prof. Magnus), on the Soaring of Birds, 397, 593 

 Blumenau's (Dr.) Researches on Development of Corpus 



Callosum, 336 

 Bohm-Bawerk (Prof. Eugen von), Capital and Interest, trans- 

 lated by William Smart, 462 

 Bohul Mountain, Globular Lightning seen on, 458 

 Bolton (H. Carrington), the "Barking Sands" of the Hawaiian 



Islands, 389 

 Bombay Meteorolo,o:y, 1888-89, S. H. C. Hutchinson, 134 

 Bonaparte (Prince Roland), Le Glacier de I'Aletsch et le Lac de 



Miirjelen, Prof. T. G. Bonney, F.R.S., 51 

 Bonney (Prof T. G., F.R.S.): Prince Roland Bonaparte's Le 

 Glacier de I'Aletsch et le Lac de Marjelen, 51 ; Coral Reefs, 

 Fossil and Recent, 53, 100 ; Coral Reefs — Snail-Burrows, 

 147 ; the Life and Letters of Rev. Adam Sedgwick, F. R.S.,, 

 John Willis Clark, F.S.A., and Thos. McKenny Hughes, 

 F.R.S., 217, 241 

 Bordeaux Chamber of Commerce and the Use of Oil at Sea, 87 

 Borneo, New Map of, 66 

 Bornholm, Islands of, Earthquake at, 648 

 Bort (L. Teisserenc de), Cloud-Distribution over Globe, 260 

 Bosanquet (Robert Holford Macdowall), proposed Fellow of the 



Royal Society, 14 

 Boscombe and Southbourne-on-Sea, on some Decomposed Flints- 



from, Cecil Carus- Wilson, 7 

 Bossert (J.), on Stellar Proper Motions, 20 

 Boston (Mass.), Marine Biological Laboratory, 134 



