Nature, Dec. 27, 1883] 



INDEX 



V 



Bird (Isabella L.), "The Golden Chersonese," 361 



Birds: Migration of, B.A. Report on, 547 ; the Soaring of, R. 



Courtenay, 28 ; James Cuvrie, 82 ; Dr. Hubert Airy, 103 ; 



Rev. W. R. Manley, 19S ; Birds and Cholera, 353, 366, 



389 ; Rev. O. Fisher, 342 ; Henry Cecil, 342 

 Birmingham Natural History and Microscopical Society, 64, 



116, 353 

 Birmingham and Midland Institute, 597 

 Bischoffsheim Observatory at Nice, 377 

 Bisulphide of Carbon and Carbonic Acid, Resemblance between, 



John TynHall, F.R.S., 22 

 Bitumen, Sulphur in, H. R. Mill, 414 

 Black Sea, Invertebrate Fauna of, 157 

 Blake (James), Cold and Sunspots, 319 

 Blakiston (Capt.) Yezo, 1 59 

 Blytt (Prof. A.), Disease of Potatoes, 367 

 Boase (Henry S., F.R.S.), "A Few Words on Evolution and 



Creation," Dr. Geo. J. Romanes, F.R.S., 222 

 Boat, New Electric, 233 

 Bohemian Nationalities, 547 



Bone-Growtb, Influence of Soft and Hard Water on, 329 

 Bones, Lime and, 414 

 Bonney (Prof.), Febites and Schists, 167 

 Boracite, Pyro-electric Phenomena of, M. Friedel, 426 

 Borschoff (M.), Formation of Dunes in Kyzyl-Kum Steppe, 159 

 Botanical Gardens, Ceylon, 234 ; Hong K ng, 234 

 Botanic Garden, &c, of South Australia, Report on, by Dr. 



Schomburgk, 572 

 Boulder, the Story of a, 153 

 Boulder from the Chloritic Marl of Ashwell, 578 

 Bourne (A. G.), the Difference between the Males and Females 



of the Pearly Nautilus, 5S0 

 Bournemouth, Earthquake at, 623 

 Boursene (Charles), Telephone claimed to have been invented by, 



445 

 Bower (F. O.), on the Relations of Protoplasm and Cell-Wall 



in the Vegetable Cell, 581 



Boys (C. Vernon), Meters for Power and Electricity, 162 



" Bradshaw's Railway Guide " Map of Great Britain, Addition 

 of Meridian Lines to, 622 



Brachial Plexus, on the Motor Roots of the, Prof. Ferrier, 

 F.R.S., 214 



Brahe (Tycho), Kiell on his Nova 1572, 65 



Brazilian Moth, Curious Habit of a, E. Dukinfield Jone=, 55 



Bresse (Charles), Death of, 133 



Bretschneider (Dr.), his Scientific Work, 16 



Brieger (Prof.), Violent Poisons formed by Animal Decompo- 

 sition, 192 



Brighton Aquarium, Bottle-nosed Dolphin at the, 257 



Bristol Channel Meteorological Observatory, Proposal for, 470 



Bristol, University College, 470 



Britain, Contributions to the Physical History of, E. Hull, 

 F.R.S., 99 



British Association: Meeting at Southport, Officers and 

 General Arrangements, 41, 115, 133, 400, 409, 491 ; Num- 

 ber of Members, 516; the Meeting in Canada, 115, 516; 

 Grants, 516; Exhibition of Scientific Instruments, 2S0 ; 

 Catalogue of Stars, 90 ; Inaugural Address by the Presi- 

 dent, Prof. Arthur Cayley, D.C.L., LL.D., F.R.S., 491 ; 

 Report of the Committee for Investigating the Natural His- 

 tory of Socotra and the adjacent Highlands of Arabia and 

 Somali Land, 547 ; Report of the Committee for Exploring 

 Kilimanjaro, 547 ; Report of the Committee on the Obser- 

 vation of the Migration of Birds at Lighthouses and Light- 

 ships, 547 ; Report of the Committee on Underground 

 Water.-, 54S ; Report of the Committee for Investigating 

 the Natural History of Timor Laut, 549; Report of the 

 Committee for Defining the Facial Characteristics of the 

 Races and the principal Crosses in the British Isle?, 549 ; 

 Report of the Raygill Fissure Exploration Committee, 550 ; 

 Report of the Committee on Erratic Blocks, 550; Report 

 on the Fossil Plants of Halifax, 550 ; Report ot the Com- 

 mittee to Explore Caverns in the Carboniferous Limestone 

 in Ireland, 550 ; Fourth Report of the Committee for Re- 

 porting on Fossil Polyzoa, 550; Report on Seismic Inve.~ti- 

 gations in Japan, 1S82-83, by Prof. John Milne, 550; 

 Report of the Committee on Electric Standards, 604 ; Re- 

 port of the Committee on the Harmonic Analysis of the 

 Tides, 605 ; Report of the Committee appointed to co- 

 operate with the Scottish Meteorological Society in making 



Meteorological Observations on Ben Nevis, 605 ; Sixteenth 

 Report of the Committee on Underground Temperature, 

 605 



Section A (Mathematical and Physical), — Opening Address by 

 the Presided, Frof. Olaus Hei rici, Ph.D., F.R.S., 497; 

 Prof. Balfour Stewart on the Forms of the Sun's Influence 

 on the Magnetism of the Earth, 605 ; Prof. Balfour Stewart 

 and W. Lant Carpenter on supposed Sunspot Inequalities 

 of Short Period, 605 ; Trof. Chandler Roberts on the 

 Rapid Diffusion of Molten Metals, 605 ; W. G. Black on 

 a Simple Form of Marine Anemometer, 605 ; Capt. Abney 

 on the Standard of White Light, 605 ; Sir W. Siemens on 

 the Relation between Temperature and Radiation, 605 ; 

 Prof. Vernon Harcourt on a Lamp for Producing a Standard 

 Light, 605 ; E. P. Culverwell on the Probable Explanation 

 of the Effect of Oil in Calming Waves in a Storm, 605 ; 

 Dr. Huggins on Coronal Photography without an Eclipse, 

 606 ; Prof. Schuster on the Internal Constitution of the 

 Sun, 606 ; Ralph Copeland on some Recent Astronomical 

 Experiments at High Elevations on the Andes, 6c6 



Section B (Chemical Science). — Opening Address by J. H. 

 Gladstone, Ph.D., F.R.S., 5C0 ; Profs. Dewar and 

 I.iveing on Sunspots and the Chemical Elements, 551 ; 

 R. Meldola on the Colouring Matters of the Liazo- 

 Group, 551 ; H. B. Dixon on Carbonic Oxide Gas and 

 Oxygen and the Elec'ric Spark, 551 ; Prof. A. W. William- 

 son on the Chemical Constitution of Matter, 551 ; Prof. 

 Dewar, F.R.S., and A. Scott on the Atomic Weight of 

 Manganese, and on the Molecular Weights of Substituted 

 Ammonia^, 551 ; Rev. W. A. Irving on Trioxides of 

 Phosphorus, 55 1 ; Prof. Dewar, F.R.S., on the Relation 

 between the Critical Temperature and Pressure of Volatile 

 Liquids and their Molecular Volumes, 551 ; Dr. Gladstone 

 and A. Tribe on the Electrolysis of Dilute Sulphuric Acid 

 in Secondary Batteries, 551 ; H. Brereton Baker on the 

 Alleged Direct Union of Hydrogen and Nitrogen, 551 ; 

 Friedel and Crafts on the Decomposition of Hydrocarbons 

 by Aluminic Chloride, 551 ; Prof. B. Warder on Computing 

 the Speed of Chemical Reactions, 551 ; P. M. Parsons or. 

 Manganese Bronze, 551 



Section C (Geology). — Opening Address by the President, Prof. 

 W. C. Williamson, LL.D., F.K.S., 503 ; James W. Davis, 

 F.S A., on some Fossil Fish Remains found in the Uppe: 

 Beds of the Yoredale Series at Leyburn in Yorkshire, 577 ; 

 James W. Davis, F.S. A., on the Occurrence of the Remains 

 of Labyrinthodonts in the Yoredale Rocks of Wensleydale, 

 578 ; G. H. Morton on the Section across the Trias recently 

 exposed by a Railway Excavation in Liverpool, 578 ; Mark 

 Stirrup on Recent Opinions on the Loess Deposits of the 

 Valley of the Rhine as Evidence of a "Great Post-Glacial 

 Flood," 578 ; Prof. Boyd Dawkins on Master Divisions of 

 the Tertiary Period, 578 ; H. G. Fordham on a Boulder 

 from the Chloritic Marl of Ashwell, Herts, 578 ; G. V. 

 Smith on the Further Discovery of Vertebrate Footprints 

 in the Penrith Sandstone, 578 ; Prof. T. G. Bonney, F.R.S., 

 on a Suppoed Case of Metamorphism in an Alpine Rock of 

 Carboniferous Age, 578 ; Prof. E. Hull, F.R.S., on the 

 Geological Age of the North Atlantic Ocean, 578; Rev. 

 A. Irving on Dyas versus Permian, 578; Rev. A. Irving 

 on the Coloration of some Sands, and the Cementation of 

 some Siliceous Sandstones, 579 ; Prof. T. G. Bonney, 

 F.R.S., on the Nagel Flue of the Rigi and Rossberg, 579; 

 C. E. De Ranee on Geological Sections within forty miles 

 Radius of Southport, 579; Prof. J. F. Blake on the Pre- 

 Cambrian Igneous Rocks of St. David's, 579 ; James 

 Thomson on a Coral Atoll on the Shore Line at Arvigland, 

 Dumfries, 579 ; G. P. Hughes on the Former Physical 

 Conditions of Glendale, Northumberland, 579 ; W. B. 

 Baily on Anthrocasaurus edgei, 579 ; W. T. Knowles on 

 Basalt apparently overlying Post- Glacial Beds, 579 ; Prin- 

 cipal Dawson on the Geological Relatives and Mcde of 

 Preservation of Ebzoon eanadense, 579 ; T. S. Diller on the 

 Topography and Geology of the Troad, 579 



Section D (Biology).— Opening Address by the President, Prof. 



E. Ray I.ankester, F.R.S., 517 

 Department of Anthropology.— Opening Address by William 



Pengelly, F.R S., 524 

 Department of Zoology and Botany.— Scott and Osborne on 

 the Origin and Development of the Rhinoceros Group, 

 579; Trof. Marshall on the Polymorphism of Alcyonaria, 



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