[Nature, Dee. 1 8, 1SS4 



British Birds at the Natural History Museum, 491 



British Fungi, Flora of, Rev. J. Stevenson, 181 



British Government, the Distribution of Scientific Works Pub- 

 lished by the, Prof. V. Ball, F.R.S., 634 



British Isles, Temperature of Sea Round, 545 



"British Mining," Robert Hunt, 358 



British Mites, "The British Oribatidas," A. D. Michael, Sir 

 J. Lubbock, F.R.S., 141 



British Mosses, Synopsis of the, C. P. Hobkirk, J. G. Baker, 

 F.R.S., 582 



Broca (Paul), Proposed Monument to, S2 



Brook (Ge:>.), Trachinus vipcra, 71 



Brookes (W. K.), Is Salpa an Example of Alternation of Gene- 

 rations ?, 367 



Brorsen's Co. net of Short Period, 300, 397, 459 



Brown (E.), the Sky-Glows, 607 



Brown (J. Croumbie), Forestry, 309 ; Forests and Forestry of 

 Northern Russia and Lands Beyond, 535 



Brown (W. ), Instinct in Birds, 46 



Browne (Miss T. M.), the Sky-Glows, 537 



Browne (W. R.), Pyrometers, 366; Death of, 47S 



Bruel (M.), Death of, 21 



Brussels Museum and its Work, 201 



Buchan (Alexander), Meteorology of Ben Nevis, 336 



Bulletin de l'Academie Royale de Belgique, 94, 209, 459, 50S, 

 650 



Bulletin de l'Academie dcs Sciences de St. Petersbourg, 305 



Bulletin de la Societe d'Anthropologie de Paris, 160, 233, 650 



Bulletin de la Societe des Naturalistes de Moscou, 1SS3, 161, 

 627 



Bulletin of the United States National Museum, 287 



Bunge (Dr.), Revisiting the Place where the Adams Mammoth 

 was found, 130, 430 



Buonfanti's (Maurizio) Expedition across North Africa, Brief 

 Account of, 131 



Burder (Geo. F.), the Recent Eclipse of the Moon, 589 



Burmah : Education in British, 545 ; Progress of English in, 

 644 



Butterflies as Botanists, Dr. F. Muller, 240, 269 



Calabar, Rogozinski's Travels between Cameroon and, 109 

 Calculus, Integral, Elementary Treatise on, B. Williamson, 



F.R.S., 143 

 Calcutta Botanic Garden, 196 

 California, Stormy Winter in, 41 

 Callovian Rocks, Position of the, 154 

 Calvert (James Snowdon), Death of, 547 



Cambridge, Paleolithic Implements from, M. C. Hughes, 632 

 Cambridge Philosophical Society, 162, 187 

 Cameroon and Calabar, Rogozinski's Travels between, 109 

 Canada, Northern, Geology and Mineralogy of, Dr. R. Bell, 



228 

 Canada Pacific Railway, Geology of the Country Traversed by 



the, Principal Dawson, E. R. S., 95 

 Canadian Coals and Lignites, 154 

 Canadian Meteorological Service, 641 



Canadian North- West, Notes on the, Gerrard A. Kinahan, 340 

 Cane (Frank E.), Rainbow on Spray, 490 

 Cannibal Snake, a, John Fotheringham, 269 ; Dr. C. F. 



Crehore, 40S 

 Cape Heliometer, the, 459 



Capillary Constants of Liquids at their Boiling-Points, 618 

 Carnivorous Plant, a, Preying on Vertebrata, Prof. H. N. 



Moseley, F.R.S., 81 

 Carnivorous Plant, a, Commander A. Carpenter, 2S9 

 Carnivorous Wasp, 3S5 ; Rev. Geo. Henslow, 407 ; Rev. W. 



Clement Ley, 407 ; H. N. Dixon, 408 ; William White, 



40S ; Thomas Edward, 408 ; E. F. Bates, 408 

 Carpenter (Commander A.), a Carnivorous Plant, 2S9 

 Carpenter (Dr. Herbert), Anatomy of Crinoids, 82 

 Carpenter (L. G.), the Remarkable Sunsets, 32 

 Carpenter (William Lant), Report on Comparison between 



Apparent Inequalities of Short Period in Sunspot Areas and 



in Diurnal I emperature Ranges at Toronto and at Kew, 118 ; 



Primary Education at the Health Exhibition, 218 ; Technical 



School Education at the Health Exhibition, 244 



Casey (John, F.R. S.), the First Six Books of the Elements of 



Euclid, 606 

 Castelli (Fra Teramo), Curious MS. of, 569 

 Caucasian Geographical Society, 396 

 Cauterisation in China, 324 

 Cayley (Prof., F.R.S.), awarded the First De Morgan Gold 



Medal, 179; the De Morgan Memorial Medal, 640 

 Cecil (Henry), Fireball, 289 

 Celestial Motion, a Handy Book of Astronomy, W. T. Lynn, 



606 

 Centaurus, Ptolemy's 30th of, 346 

 Central Asia and Tertiary Botany, 430 

 Central Institution for Technical Education, Contributions to, 



129, 198 ; Programme, 476 

 Ceylon : Ibn Batuta's Travels to, 132 ; Insect Pests in, 615; 



W. L. Distant, 634 ; Public Instruction in, 641 

 Chadwick (H. C), Pjdalirius minutus, 385 

 Chalk and the "Origin and Distribution of Deep-Sea De- 

 posits," J. Starkie Gardner, 192, 264 ; Dr. J. Gwyn Jeffreys, 



F.R. S., 215 

 Challenger Reports, 533 

 Chambers's Vestiges of Creation, Dr. G. J. Romanes, F. R.S. , 



Chemistry : a Manual of, H. Watts, 357 ; Arithmetical 

 Chemistry, C. J. Woodward, 4 ; Experimental, J. E. Rey- 

 nolds, 4; Facts around us, C. L. Morgan, 51; Chemical 

 Analysis as Applied to the Examination of Pharmaceutical 

 Chemicals, Hoffmann and Poiver, 51 ; Chemical Analysis for 

 Schools, A. H. Scott White, 51 ; the Discovery of the 

 Periodic Law, by John A. R. Newlands, 51 ; Recent 

 Chemistry, 51 ; Prof. Ramsay's Experimental Proofs of 

 Chemical Theory for Beginners, 51 ; Chemical Society, 71, 

 119, 187; Roscoe and Schorlemmer's Chemistry, Dr. H. 

 Watts, 75; Chemical Notes, 84, 616; Numerical Exercises 

 in Chemistry, T. Hands, 239; Chimie Elementara, Prof. 

 Licherdopol, 239 ; Chemical Research in England, Dr. 

 Perkin, 246 ; Raoul Jagnaux's " Traite Pratique d'Analyses 

 Chimiques et d'Essais Industriels," 311 ; Relations between 

 Composition and Structure of Chemical Compounds, 616 



Chester Society of Natural Science, 547 



Chierchia (G.) and Dr. Albert Giinther, F.R.S., Voyage of the 

 Vittor Pisani, 365 



China : Early Culture in, 276 ; Mercury in Chinese Alchemy, 

 299; Cauterisation and Acupuncture in China, 324 ; Mining 

 in, 430 : Chinese Diet, Dress, and Dwellings, 458 ; Chinese 

 and Japanese Plants in Normandy, 431 ; Stone Hatchets in, 

 Rev. Dr. Joseph Edkins, 515 ; the Connection between 

 Chinese Music, Weights, and Measures, 565 ; Chinese Geo- 

 graphical Orthography, 592 ; Chinese Notions of Immortality, 

 642 



Chlorophyll, Dr. Hansen, C. A. MacMunn, 224 



Cholera: Award to Dr. Koch, 63; Cholera at Toulon, 213; 

 the Cholera Germ, 237, 263 ; Henry B. Baker, 407 ; Com- 

 mission to Inquire into Cholera in India, 323; "Commi- 

 shaped Bacillus " alleged to be the Cause of Cholera, Timothy 

 Richards Lewis, 513 ; Cholera Poison, 557 ; Report of Five 

 French Physicians on, 545 ;. in India and China, 546, 566 ; 

 the Epidemic of 1S84, 629 



Christiani (Prof.), Physiology of the Brain, 260 



Christie (W. H. M., F.R.S.), Shifting of the Earth's Axis, 

 536 



Cinclus (Dipper) Ancestor of, Dr. C. C. Abbott, 30 



Circular Rainbow seen from Hill top, E. L. Layard, 361 ; 

 W. L. Goodwin, 465; W. P. Marshall, 5S4 ; W. Symons, 

 607 



City Companies Commission, 222 



City and Guilds of London Institute, 377 



Clark (Edwin), Rotating Thermometers, 32 



Clark (J. Edmund), the Earthquake of April 22, 1SS4, 19; Sky- 

 Glows, 488, 607 



Clark's (Latimer) Mercurous Sulphate Cell, 56S 



Clarke (Dr. Hyde), Animal Intelligence, 561 



Classical Studies at Athens, Report of the School of, 108 



Clay, Pipe-, A. Hale, 4S9 



Clymenias, on Asiatic Slope of Ural, 495 



Coals, Canadian, and Lignites, 154 



Cobalt Chloride, Hydration of, Potilitzin on, 84 



Coburg, Germany, and Russia, Forests in, 515 



Cochin China, Excursions et Reconnaissances, 299 



