patmt, Junel\, 1SS5] 



Boletin de la Institucion libre de Ensenanza, Meteorological 

 Branch of the Observatory attached to, 349 



Boletin de la Academia Nacional de Ciencias, 419 



Bombyx mori, Morphology of, Dr. Tichomirow, 620 



Bonaparte (Trince Roland), the Population of Dutch Guiana, 

 469 



1 Ir. E. I, Ily-Maggots Feeding on Caterpillars, 29 



Bonney (Prof. T. G., F.R.S.), the Canadian Geological Survey, 

 265 ; Resignation of his Post as Secretary of the British 

 Association, 416 



Boomerang in India, Arthur Nicols, 389 



Borealis, Aurora, Dr. Sophus Tromholt, 128 



Borneo Coal-Fields, Rev. J. E. Tenison-Woods, 583 



" Bosnien, Land und Leute," Adolf Strausz, 192 



pvs primigenius, Jas. Backhouse, 482 



Boston Society of Natural History, New Arrangements of the 

 Library, 40 



Botany : Students' Guide to Systematic, Robert Bentley, 51 ; 

 Journal of Botany, 70 ; Bower and Vines's Practical Instruc- 

 tions in Botany, 136; Importance of Government Botanic 

 Gardens, 155; Botanical Record Club, 369; Facilities for 

 Botanical Research, 460 ; Botany of Jamaica, Mr. Morris, 

 53S (sir also Flora) 



Bottone (S. R,), the " Dynamo," how made and how used, 52 



jjonlders, Scotch, 395 



Bourke (Capt. J. G.), Snake Dance of the Moquis of Arizona, 

 E. B. Tylor, F.R.S., 429 



Bourne (Alfred Gibbs), Hydriform Phase of Lymnocodium 

 sowerbii, 107 



Bove (Lieut.), Second Expedition to Terra del Fuego, 138 

 ind Vines's Practical Instruction in Botany, 136 



Brakes, Continuous Automatic, S4 



Bramwell (Sir F., F.R.S.), on Recent Engineering Inventions, 

 240 ; Recent Engineering Patents, 420 



Brandy as a Fish Restorer, 350 



Bread, on the Healthy Manufacture of, Benjamin Ward Richard- 

 son, F.R.S., 148 



Breeding of the Quadrumana, Arthur Nicols, 54 



Brehm I >r. Alfred), Death of, 64 



" Brigades topographiques," Departure of Sixtien, 350 



Brisbane Botanic Gardens, 155 



British Association for the Advancement of Science, 37 ; Presi- 

 dents of Sections, 155 ; Visit to Canada, 249 ; British 

 Association and Local Societies, 482 



British Government, the Distribution of Scientific Works Pub- 

 lished by the, 7 



British Islands, Flora of the, Sir J. D. Hooker, 191 



British Museum : Lectures, H. Cecil on, 29S ; Catalogue of the 

 Fossil Mammalia in the British Museum, R. Lydekker, 597 ; 

 Hume Collection expected at the, 610 ; the Staff of the Zoo- 

 logical Department of the, 610 



Brittany, Prehistoric Smithy discovered in, 136 



Brock (Geo.), the Five-Bearded Rockling, 70 



Brockhurst (W.), Seeding Power of Double Daffodils, 118 

 redk. J.). Rainfall of 1884, 56 



Brown (E.), the Aurora?, 458 



Brown (J. Croumbie), "Forestry in the Mining Districts of 

 the Ural Mountains in Eastern Russia," 124 



Brown (M. Walton), "On the Observation of Earthshakes or 

 Tremours in order to Foretell the Issue of Sudden Outbursts 

 of Firedamp," "A Theory of Mine Ventilation," 312 



Blown Prof. Crum), Hexagonal System of Crystallography, 



54 r > 

 Brown (Prof. W. G.), Sky-Glows, 5 ; Iridescent Clouds, 315 

 Brussels: African Natural History Museum, 7; the Spanish 



Earthquake Felt in, 249 

 Bryn Mawr College, 255 



Bryozoa, Australian Fossil Chilostomatous, A. W. Waters, 475 

 Buchanan (J.), Campbell Island and its Flora, 23 

 Buckland Museum Collection at the Inventions Exhibition, 587 

 Buckman (James), Death of, 89 



1 (G. B., F.R.S.)i Civilisation and Eyesight, 407 

 Budden (W.)i Government Scientific Books, 81 

 Buddhist Theory of Evolution, J. Starkie Gardner, 55 

 Bulletin de I'Academie Royale de Belgique, 258, 422, 592 

 Bulletin de I'Academie des Sciences de St. Petersbourg, 423 

 Bulletin of the Essex Institute, 418 

 Bulletin de la Societe d'Anthropologie de Paris, 257 

 Bulletin de la Societe de Geographie, 1 1 8, 280 

 Bulletin de la Societe Geographique de Belgique, 323 



Bulletin de la Societe des Naturalistes de Moscou, 25S 



Bulman (G. W.), Bees and Flowers, 409 



Burch (Geo. J.), Some Experiments on Flame, 272 



Busch (Prof.). Illustration of the Laws of Ossification, 547 



Bushe (Col. C. K.), Human Hibernation, 482 



Busk (Geo., F.R.S.), Zoology of the Voyage of H.M.S. Chal- 

 lenger, Report on the Polyzoa, 146 



Busk'(IO, Hibernation, 317 



Butterflies of Europe, Henry Lang, M.D., R. McLachlan, 

 F.R.S., 122 



Buysman (Dr. M.), Influence of Direct Sunlight on Vegeta- 

 tion, 324 



Bywater (Rev. M. J.), a Cannibal Snake, 264 



( h i- Bug of Ceylon, Dr. Henry Trimen, 172 



Caillaud (Romanet de), on Tonquin, 138 



Caiman-Brae, Carribean Sea, Underground Noises heard at, 



on August 26, 1883, Dr. F. A. Forel, 483 

 Calculating Machines, Joseph Edmondson, 570 

 Calculus, Differential, for Beginners, Alex. Knox, 527 

 Caldwell, Ceradotus Embryos, 236 



California, Discovery of Ancient Tattooing Instruments in, 299 

 Californian Migrants, 2S0 

 Callaway (C), the Granitic and Schistose Rocks of Donegal, 



546 

 Cambon (M.), Pumice from Krakatoa found in Madagascar, 



611 

 Cambridge : Philosophical Society, 16, 403, 451, 499, 572 ; 



Natural Science at, 107; Dr. G. J. Romanes, F.R.S., 



appointed Rede Lecturer at, 277 

 Camera Obscura in Torpedo Work, 389 

 Cameron (A. G.), Fuller's Earth as a Filter, 389 

 Cameron's (W.), Map of the Malay Peninsula, 300 

 Campbell (John Francis), Death of, 394 

 Campbell Island and its Flora, J. Buchanan, 23 

 Canada: Visit of the British Association to, 249; Meteorology 



in, 250 ; Bell Telephone Patent Void in the Dominion of, 



347 ; Ethnological Work included in the Geological Survey 



Publications of, 34S ; Weather in, 537 ; Trof. T. G. Bonney, 



F.R.S., on the Canadian Geological Survey, 265 ; Canadian 



Salmon and Sea Water, 370 

 Canal Commission, Krao, 323 

 Cancri, Variable Star S, 419 

 Cannibal Snake, Rev. Edward F. Taylor, 264 ; Rev. M. J. 



Bywater, 264 

 Canoe Voyage (Proposed) on the Australian Rivers, 205 

 Cantoni (Prof. G. ), Agrarian Meteorology, 618 

 Cape, Early Astronomical Expeditions to the, 370 

 Capellini (G. ), a Fossil Ziphioid, 618 

 Capillary Coefficients of Liquid Carbon Compounds, Schiff and 



Traube's Experiments on the, 204 

 Capillary Vessels, Blood-pressure in, Prof. Du Bois-Reymond's 



Method of Determining, 212 

 Caporali (Prof.), Psychogenesis, 64; La Nuova Scienza, 394 

 Capron (J. Rand), Civilisation and Eyesight, 359 

 Capsules, Supra Renal Effect of Removal of, Prof. G. Tizzioni, 



619 

 Carbon Compounds (Liquid), Schiff and Traube's Experiments 



on the Capillary Coefficients of, 224 

 Carex, New Zealand Species of, T. F. Cheeseman, 23 

 Carnivora, Natural History Sketches among the Wild and 



Domesticated, Arthur Nicols, 240 

 Carpenter (Dr. W. B., F. R.S.), Pentacrinoid Stage of Antrdon 



rosaeeus, 27 ; Human Hibernation, 408 

 Carpenter (Herbert), Report on the Stalked Crinoidea collected 



during the Challenger Expedition, 573 

 Carpentry, Elementary Principles of, Thomas Tredgold, 525 

 Carracciolo Expedition, the, Commander de Amezaga's Collec- 

 tion, 64 

 Carter (R. Brudenell), Civilisation and Eyesight, 386 

 Cartilage in Invertebrates, Chemical Composition of the. Dr. 



Halliburton, 283 

 Casein, I )r. Weyl on, 404 

 Casey (Lieut.), on Stenini, 250 

 Catalogue of Earthquakes, Jos. P. O'Reilly, 351 

 Cataracts on the Parana River, 66 



Catchpool (Edmund), an Unnoticed Factor in Evolution, 4 

 Caterpillars : Fly Maggots Feeding on, Dr. E. Bonavia, 29 ; 

 -R. McLachlan,' F.R.S.,54; F. W. Elliot, 54; F.N.Pierce, 



82 ; J. H. A.Jenner, 103 



