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Index 
Supplement to Nature, 
June 17, 1807 
479; High Temperature Action on Antimony Peroxide, 504 ; 
Separation of Chlorine and Bromine, 624 
Bauer (Dr. L. A.), Vertical Earth-Air Currents, 327 : 
Baumann (Dr. E. A. G.), Death of, 81; Obituary Notice 
of, 109 
Baur (Prof. Franz), Death of, 348 
Baxter (G. H.), Oyster Culture in Relation to Disease, 154 
Bazin Roller Boat, the, 109, 379 
Beal (W. J.), Grasses of North America, 557 
Bean (Tarlton H.), Oceanic Ichthyology, 560 
Beare (Prof. T. H.), the Value of the Steam Jacket, Experi- 
ment on Locomotive Engine, 44 
Beattie (Dr. J. C.), Electrification of Air by Rontgen Rays, 
199; on the Conductive Effect produced in Air by Rontgen 
Rays and by Ultra-Violet Light, 343; on Electrical Equili- 
brium between Uranium and an Insulated Metal in its 
Neighbourhood, 447; on Apparent and Real Diselectrifica- 
tion of Solid Dielectrics produced by Réntgen Rays and by 
Flames, 472; on the Influence of Rontgen Rays in respect to 
Electric Conduction through Air, Paraffin, and Glass, 498 
Beazley (C. R.), the Dawn of Modern Geography, 555 
Becker (G. F.), Rock Differentation, 308 
Becquerel (H.), Uranic Rays, 119, 454; Law of Discharge in 
Gas of Electrified Uranium, 599 
Beddoe (Dr. John), Selection in Man, 260 
Beecher (C. E.), Classification of Trilobites, 476 
Beensch (L.), Relation between Optically Active and Inactive 
Forms of Methylmannoside, 303 
Beer (Walter), Monier System of Construction, 278 
Bees : Drunken Habits of Humbie Bees, J. Ll. Williams, 300 ; 
Immunity from Bee Stings, T. A. G. Strickland, 397 
Beetroot Disease, the, Paul Vuillemin, 72 
Belgium Observatory Annual, 516 
Belopolsky (A.), the Spectroscopic Binary a! Geminorum, 352 
Bemmelen (A. A. Van), Death of, 348, 589 
Bendire (Major C. E.), Death of, 417 
Benham (Dr. W. B.), Morphology of the Cerebral Convolu- 
tions, with special reference to the Order of Primates, 619 
Bennett (A. R.), a Convection Scope and Calorimeter, 359 
Berget (Alphonse), Photographic Study of Expansion of 
Liquids, 71 
Bergonié (J.), Application of Radioscopy to Intrathoracic 
Lesions, 239 
Bermuda Islands, Suggested Reef-Boring at the, W. K. 
Morrison, 5; Suggested Reef-Boring at the Bermudas and 
elsewhere, W. Saville-Kent, ror ; Changes of Level in the, 
Prof. R. S. Tarr, 311; Rough Notes and Memoranda 
Relating to the Natural History of the Bermudas, J. L. 
Hurdis, 604 
Berry (Dr. Richard), the Czcal Foss, 238 
Berthelot (M.): Arabinose, 24; Estimation and Transforma- 
tions of Pyrophosphoric Acid, 95, 383 ; Helium, 311 ; Specific 
Heats of Elementary Gases, 311; Science et Morale, 337 5 
the Copper Age in Chaldea, 407; Electric Absorption of 
Nitrogen by Carbon Compounds, 503; Apparatus for Gas 
Recognition by Spectrum Analysis, 503 
Besson (A.): Action of Hydrogen Compounds on Thionyl 
Chlorides, 120 ; Action of Hydrogen Sulphide and Selenide 
on Phosphoryl Trichloride, 312; Pyrosulphuryl Chloride, 
431 3 Chlorobromides of Tin, 551; a New Oxide of Phos- 
phorus, 576 
Betche (E.), New Plants in New South Wales, 239 
Bevan (E. J.), Carbohydrates of Barley Straw, 93 
Bevan, Cross and, Cellulose: an Outline of the Chemistry of 
the Structural Elements of Plants with Reference to their 
Natural History and Industrial Uses, 241 
Bhaduri (Jyotibhushan), the Decomposition of Aqueous Sodium 
Hypochlorite Solutions at Boiling-Water Temperature, 84 
Bibliographies, Recent, 235 : 
Bickel (Adolph), Action of Bile on Nervous System, 551 
Bickerton (Prof. A. W.), Partial Impact of Celestial Bodies, 61 
Bidwell (Shelford, F.R.S.): Diselectrification by Phosphorus, 
6, 155 ; Subjective Colour Phenomena, 367 
Biedermann’s Electro- Physiologie, 99 
Biernacke (V.), Aluminium Amalgam, 92 
Big Game Preserve established in British Central Africa, 182 
Binary in Puppis, a New Spectroscopic, 137 
Binet (A.): Influence of Psychic Processes on Blood Pressure, 
264; Alterations of Personality, 389; Influence of Brain- 
Work on Blood-Pressure, 399; Influence of Music on 
Respiration, &c., 590 
Biology: Death of Dr. H. N. Martin, F.R.S., 113; Quiver 
Lake (Illinois) Biological Station, 81 ; Evolution and Phylo- 
geny of Gasteropod Molluscs, Prof. A. E. Verrill, 190; 
Biological Inaction of Rontgen Rays, Prof. Stefano Capra- 
nica, 326; La Déterminisme Biologique et la Personnalité 
Consciente, Felix le Dantec, 557 ; Deathand Obituary Notice 
of Edward Drinker Cope, 587; the ‘‘ Spinning” Activities 
of Protoplasm in Echinoderm Eggs, G. F. Andrews, 615 ; 
Marine Biology, the Opening Ceremony of the Gatty Marine 
Laboratory, University of St. Andrews, 43; Microscopic 
Marine Organisms in the Service of Hydrogranhy, Prof. P. 
T. Cleve, 89 ; Recent Work on the Madreporarian Skeleton, 
Dr. Maria M. Ogilvie, 126; Biological Lectures delivered 
at the Marine Biological Laboratory at Wood’s Holl in the 
Summer Session of 1895, 170; Influence of Living Organ- 
isms on Oxygen and Carbonic Acid in Sea-Water, Marten 
Knudsen, 191; the Eggs of the Pearly Nautilus, Dr. A. 
Willey, 326; Embryonic Series of Bdellostomum, Bashford 
Dean, 371; the Green Pigment of Thalassema, Prof. Sher- 
rington and Dr. Noél Paton, 400; Marine Organisms and 
the Conditions of their Environment, Dr. John Murray, 
F.RS., 500; Coccospheres and Rhabdospheres, George 
Murray and V. H. Blackman, 510; the Twenty-fifth Anni- 
versary of the Foundation of the Naples Zoological Station, 
H. M. Vernon, 586 
Birds: Cat and Bird Stories, 100; Snow Buntings, J. R. 
Dakyns, IOI ; A-Birding on a Bronco, Florence A. Mer- 
riam, 387; the Flight of Gulls in the Wake of Steamers, 
F. W. Headley, 390; a Dictionary of Birds, Prof. Alfred 
Newton, F.R.S., 505 ; Early Arrival of the Swift, Prof. Alfred 
Newton, F.R.S., 508 
Bis an’s Ende der Welt !_ Astronomische Causerien, Prof. F. J. 
Studniéka, 532 
Bison, the European, Herr Buchener, 12 
Blackman (F. F.), Carbon Dioxide and Reduced Vitality in 
Plants, 526 
Blackman (W. H.), Coccospheres and Rhabdospheres, 510 
Blackmore (Edward), the British Mercantile Marine, 438 
Blaine (R. G.), Hydraulic Machinery, 556 
Blanc (G.), Action of Aluminium Chloride on Camphoric 
Anhydrides. 71, 4543 Isolauronolic Acid, 527 
Bland (W.), Notes of Lessons on Elementary Botany, 507 
Blandford (Mr.), Formalin as a Preventive of Mould, 142 
Bliss (J.), Immunity from Snake-bites, 486 
Bloch (A. M.), the Achromatometer, 96 
Blount (B.), and A. G. Bloxam, Chemistry for Engineers and 
Manufacturers, 267 
Boat, the Bazin Roller, 109, 379 
Bodenstein (Max), the Reversible Decomposition of Hydriodic 
Acid Gas, 401 
Bog-Slide of Knocknageeha, the, in the County of Kerry, 
Prof. Grenville A. J. Cole, 254 
Bog-Slides and Debacles, G. Henry Kinahan, 268 
Bohm (A.), Lehrbuch der Histologie der Menschen ein- 
schliesslich der Mikroskopischen Technik, 74 
Bohr (Christian), Absorption of Nitrogen by Blood, 431 
Bois-Reymond (Prof. Emil), Death of, 204; Obituary Notice 
of, Prof. J. Burdon-Sanderson, F.R.S., 230 
Bokorny (Dr.), the Nutrition of Green Plants, 351 
Bolam (Dr.), Electrolysis of Potassium Ethyl-Sulphone- Acetate, 
431 
Bolksttino della Societa Sismologica Italiana, 214, 476 
Bolton (H.), Mollusca from Lancashire Millstone Grit and 
Lower Coal Measures, 143 
Bombay, the Plague in, 159, 258, 496; Failure of Yersin 
Serum, 540 
Bombay, Fifty Years’ Meteorological Observations at, 234 
Bombycine Moths of America, North of Mexico, Monograph 
of the, A. S. Packard, 536 
Bone (W. A.), Direct Union of Carbon and Hydrogen, 93 
Bones, Sesamoid, F. J. Reid, 225 
Bonney (Prof. T. G., F.R.S.), Geological Note on Sections 
near Top of Furka Pass, 93; Sport in the Alps in the Past 
and Present, W. A. Baillie-Grohman, 102; Aus der Alpen, 
R. von Lendenfeld, 102 ; Chamounix and the Range of Mont 
Blanc, Edward Whymper, 102 ; Climbs in the New Zealand 
Alps, E. A. Fitzgerald, 102; Mountaineering and Explora- 
tion in the Japanese Alps, Rev. Walter Weston, 102; Report 
on the Coral Reef at Funafuti, 373; Pioneer Work in 
the New Zealand Alps, 458; Glaciers of North America, 
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