Index 



Automobiles, Mode of Action of Brakes of, A. Petol, 464 

 Avebur)' (Lord, F.R.S.), Notes from a Diary 1SS9-1S91, Sir 



Mountstuart E. Grant Duff, 22S 

 Axis-vectors, the Use of. Prof. F. Slate, 54 

 Ayrton (Hertha), Mechanism of Electric Arc, 365 

 Ayrton (Prof. W. E., F.R.S.), Death and Obituary Notice of 



Viriamu Jones, 161 



Bacteriology : Luminous Bacteria, 57 ; the Diagnosis of Plague, 

 Dr. E. Klein, F.R.S., 91 ; Cement-disintegration, R. Greig 

 Smith, 144; Vibrio detiitrificaiis, R. Greig Smith, 144; New 

 Method of Examination for Typhoid Bacillus, R. Cambier, 

 200 ; Glucoproteins as Culture-media, Charles Lepierre, 296 ; 

 Bacteriology of Healthy Animal Organs, Dr. Ford, 333 ; 

 Oxidation of Propylglycol by Mycoderma Aceti, Andre 

 Kling, 344 ; the Life-work of Dr. G. A. Hansen, 433 ; 

 Bacterial Disease nf Potato, G. Delacroix, 464 ; the Report 

 of the Thompson Vates Laboratories, 604 ; on the Chemical 

 and Biological Changes occurring during the Bacterial Treat- 

 ment of Sewage, Prof. E. A. Letts and R. F. Blake, 612 ; 

 on Humus and the so-called Irreducible Residue in Bacterial 

 Treatment of Sewage, Dr. S. Rideal, 612; Neutral Red as 

 Test for Colon Bacillus, Messrs. Makgill and Savage, 637 ; 

 Bacteroids of Leguminous Nodules and Culture of Rhizobium 

 Leguminosarum, R. Greig Smith, 272 



Bactrian Camel, the Origin and Habits of, 355 



Baeyer (M. v.), Researches on Organic Peroxides, 64 



Bailey (L. H.), the Principles of Vegetable Gardening, 122 



Baillaud (B.), Stellar Photometry, 63 



Bakerian Lecture at Royal Society ; the Nadir of Temperature 

 and Allied Problems, Prof. James Dewar, F. R.S., 243 



Balachowski (D.), Electrolytic Separation of Nickel and Cobalt, 

 224 



Baldwin (E. B.), Meteorological Observations in Franz-Josef 

 Land, 357 



Balfour (Mr.), on Scientific Research, 109 



Balfour (Prof. J. Bayley, F.R.S.), Opening Address in Section 

 K at the Glasgow Meeting of the British Association, 557 ; 

 on the Cuticular Structure ai Euphorbia Abdelkuri, 618 



Balland (M.), the Voandzou plant, 48 



Ballistic Experiments, Testing of some. Rev. F. Bashforth, 445 



Ballooning: the International Balloon Ascents of April 19, SS ; 

 the Ascents of May 14, 1S9 ; High Balloon Ascent, Drs. 

 Berson and Suering, 356 ; the Santos Dumont Airship, 286, 

 4S9 ; the Deutsch Prize won by M. Santos Dumont, 635 ; 

 the William Beedle Airship, 4S9 ; Recent International 

 Ascents, 608 



Ballore (F. de M. de). the Non-existence of Isophygmic Curves 

 in Seismography, 524 



Baly (E. C. C), Spectrum of Cyanogen, 247 



Bancroft (T. L.), the Intermediary Host of Filaria immitis, 

 416 



Banks (Right Hon. Sir Joseph), Illustrations of the Botany of 

 Captain Cook's Voyage Round the World in H.M.S. 

 Endeavour \n 1768-1771, 374 



Barac (M.), Analysis of Red Rain, 489 



Barbados, Landslip at, 635 



Barnett (P. A.), on the Scope of Educational Science, 591 



Barr(Prof. ), on a Folding Range Finder for Infantry, 613 



Barr (M.), on a Machine for the Manufacture of Type, 613, 

 614 



Barrett (Charles G.), Lepidoptera of the British Islands, 444 



Barrett-Hamilton (Captain G. E. H.), the Colours of Guillemots' 

 Eggs, 600 



Barrow (George), Silurian (?) Rocks in Forfar and Kincardine, 

 142 ; on Lateral \'ariations of Composition in Zones of the 

 Eastern Highland Schists, 565 



Batrachians and Reptiles in the Cambridge Natural History, 

 G. A. Boulenger, F.R.S. , 401 



Baud (A.), Capillary Constants of Organic Liquids, 224, 248 



Baxandall (F. E.), Enhanced Lines in Spectrum of Chromo- 

 sphere, 45 ; the Arc Spectrum of Vanadium, 45 



Baxendell (J. ), Observations at Fernley Observatory, 1 12 



Bashforth (Rev. F.), Testing of some Ballistic Experiments, 

 445 



Basic Rocks, Chemistry of the Cygnian Stars and. Sir Norman 

 Lockyer, K.C.B., F.R.S., Prof. Edw. Suess, 629 



Basques, the Language and Origin of the, 90 



Basset (A. B., F.R.S. ), Problems of Geometry, 400 



Beadnell (H. J. L.), the Farafra Oasis, Egypt, 359; on the 



Discovery of Bone-beds of Early Tertiary Age in the Fayum 



Depression, 566 ; the Dakhla (Egypt) Oasis, 581 

 Bears, on the Relationships of the Premaxilla in the. Prof. 



R. J. Anderson, 587 

 Beat, a Simple Model for Demonstrating, K. Honda, 626 

 Beaumont (Prof. Roberts), Le Coton, Prof. H. Lecomte, 124 

 Beauverie (J.), Attempt to Render Vegetables Immune against 



Cryptogamic Diseases, 296 

 Becquerel (H.), Physiological Action of Radium Rays, 175; 



Radiation of Uranium Constant at very Low Temperatures, 



344 

 Bedford (Duchess of). Photograph of Greenland Musk-ox, 63 

 Bee, the Life of the, Maurice Maeterlinck, 231 

 Bee, Variation in a. Prof. T. D. A. Cockerel!, 1 58 

 Beedle (William), Airship, the, 489 

 Beetle, the Colorado Potato, W. F. Kirby, 450 

 Behaim (Martin), and the History of Geography, 5S9 

 Behrend (B. A. ), the Induction Motor, 252 

 Beilby (G. T. ), on the Minute Structure of Metals, 612 ; on the- 



-\ction of Ammonia on Metals at High Temperatures, 612 

 Belgian Expedition to Ka-Tanga, Captain Lemaire, 590 

 Belgica Soundings, H. Arctowski and A. F. Renard, 23S 

 Bell (A. M.), on Plants and Coleoptera from a Pleistocene 



Deposit at Wolvercote, Oxfordshire, 565 

 Bell (Dr. Robert, F. R.3. ), a Canadian Geological Explorer, 



Si ; on the Topography and Resources of Northern Ontario, 



Canada, 590 

 Benard (Henri), on the Cellular Distribution of Eddies pro- 

 duced in Liquid Films when Convection Currents are set up, 



454. 

 Benedict (Francis Gano), Chemical I^ecture Experiments, 



350 

 Benham (Dr. W. B. ), \ iscera of Cogia Whale, 142 

 Benoit (Dr. ), Mass of Cubic Decimetre of Distilled Water, 112; 



Best Alloy for Measures of Length, 112 

 Bensley (B. A.), the Australian Marsupials, SS 

 Benson (Claude E. ). the Cape Viper, 126 

 Benthall (Dr. W.), Reflex Action Instinct, Paper read at Derby 



Medical Society, 459 

 Berkeley's Drei Dialoge Zwischen Hylas und Philonous, Dr. R. 



Richter, 4 

 Berkeley's .\bhandlung iiber die Prinzipien der Menschlichen 



Erkenntnis, Dr. F. Ueberweg, 4 

 Berlin, the International Zoological Congress, 405 

 Bernadou (John B.), Smokeless Powder, Nitro-cellulose and 



Theory of the Cellulose Molecule, 600 

 Berson (Dr.), High Balloon Ascent, 356 

 Bertainchand (E. ), .\nalysis of Tunis Red Rain, 72 

 Bertrand (G. ), Biochemical Differentiation of two ferments of 



Vinegar, 224 

 Berthelot (A.), Origin of the Loue River, 440 

 Berthelot (Daniel), the Neutralisation of Phosphoric Acid, 175; 



Behaviour of Amino- Acids to Indicators, 199; Formation of 



Insoluble Phosphates by Double Decomposition, 224; Reaction 



of two bases added simultaneously to Phosphoric Acid, 248 ; 



Acetylometallic Radicles, 248; Phosphoric Acid and Chlorides 



of Alkaline Earths, 271 ; Formation of Acids in Plants, 596 ; 



Action of Hydrogen Peroxide Solution on Silver Oxide, 



644 

 Bertsch (E.), Synthesis of Aromatic Aldeximesby Fulminating 



Silver, 191 

 Betterave a Sucre, La, L. Malpeaux, 28 

 Beyer (Prof.), Protection of Sea Birds of Louisiana Gulf Coast, 



19 

 Bianco (Ottavio Zanotti), Boomerangs, 400 

 Biblical Encyclopaedia, A, Prof. T. K. Cheyne and Dr. J. 



Sutherland Black, 3 

 Bibliography of Chemistry, A Select. 1492-1S97 ; Henry Car- 



rington Bolton, 430 

 Bibliography, An Essay in Critical, G. Rudolf, 51 

 Bicyclists, the Mechanical Efficiency of, Drs. Atwater and Sher- 

 man, and R. C. Carpenter, 382 

 Bidwell (Shelford, F.R.S.), Negative After-images and Colour- 

 vision, 216 

 Bigourdan (G.), Le Systeme Metrique, 250 ; New Nebulse, 312 

 Billet (A.), Simultaneity of Mosquitoes and Malaria at Con- 



stantine, 524 

 Biltz (H. ), Dissociation of Sulphur Molecules, 63S 

 Binary Stars, Close, Density and Figure of. Dr. Alex. W. 



Roberts, 468 



