[A'liture, Dec. 29, 1S81 



Barbarism and Civilisation in South Africa, 227 



Barfoed's (Dr. Chr. Tli.) Lehrbuch der organischen qualitativeti 



Analyse, 4 

 Barley Crops and Manures, 470 

 Barometer Pumps, James Johnstone, 79 

 Barometric Gradient and Wind, Rev. W. Clement Ley, 8 

 Barrett (Prof. W. F.), Mind- Reading versus Muscle-Reading, 



212, 236 

 Bashforth (Rev. F.), Tide-Predicting Machines, 53 

 Bedford College, Education at, 13 1 g 



Bees, Humble-, Bisected, T. Masheder, 33S ; Prof. Thos. McK. 



Hughes, F.R.S., 357; Edward Parfitt, 357 

 Belfast Naturalist Field Club, 40 



Belgian Academy of Sciences, Prize programme for 1882, 147 

 Bell (Prof. Alexander Graham), Production of Sound by Radiant 

 Energy, 42 ; upon a Modification of Wheatstone's Microphone 

 and its Applicability to Radiophonic Researches, 302 

 Beltrame (Prof. G), Work on the Denka Language, 314 

 Bengal Asiatic Society, 88 

 Ben Nevis Obser\'atory, 131, 201 

 Benzine, New Derivative of, 1 1 1 

 Berlin Geographical Society, 88 ; Zeitschrift, 364 ; Verhand- 



lungen, 364 

 Bernays (Dr. Jakob), Death of, 148 

 "Berries and Heaths of Rannoch," 355 

 Berwickshire Naturalists' Club, 226 

 Bessels' (Dr. Emil) Account of the Polaris Expedition, H. N, 



Moseley, F.R.S. , 194 

 Bettany (G. T.), First Lessons in Practicil Botany, 235 

 Bible and Science, T. Lauder Brunton, F.R.S., Geo. J. 



Romanes, F.R.S., 332 . r; 



Bibliography, Meteorological, A. Ramsay, S3 

 Biela's Comet in 1805, 178 



Billing (Dr. Archibald, F.R.S.), the Death of, 455 

 Biology. Biological Notes, 66, 202, 292, 388, 591 ; Studies in 

 Biology for New Zealand Students, F. W. Hutton, 188 ; Bio- 

 logical Station at Watson's Bay, 313 ; the Connection of the 

 Biological Sciences with Medicine, Prof. T. H. Huxley, 342 ; 

 Biology as an Academical Study, Prof. T. Jeffery Parker, 

 .543. 573 

 Bird (Chas,), Short Sketch of the Geology of Yorkshire, Geo- 

 logical Map of Yorkshire, 458 

 Birds of Ceylon, Capt. Vincent Legge, 3 ; a List of European 

 Birds, Henry E. Dresser ; Birds Singing during Thunder, J. 

 Shaw, loi ; Birds suffering from Cold, J. V. Sladek, 165 ; 

 British Museum Catalogue of Birds, 239 ; Migration of, W. 

 G. D. Scott, 274 ; Birds of the Solomon Islands, 277 ; De- 

 scent of Birds, W. A. Forbes, 380 

 Birdwood (Dr. G. C. M.), Honour of Knighthood conferred 



on, 475 

 Birmingham Natural History Society, 40, 264 

 Birmingham Philosophical Society, 610 



Birmingham (J.), Probably New and Variable Red Star, 164 ; 

 Notes of the Cuckoo, 165 ; New Red Variable, 285 ; Jupiter, 

 285 ; the Comet, 30S ; Red Stars, 532 

 Bisected Humble-Bees, T. Masheder, 335 ; Prof. Thos. McK. 



Hughes, F.R.S., 357 ; Edward Parfitt, 357 

 Bishop (W. I.), Re, Thomson Whyte, 211 ; Dr. W. B. 

 Carpenter, F.R.S., 188 ; and Dr. W. B. Carpenter, Geo. J. 

 Romanes, F.R.S., 211 

 Blackwall (John), Death of, 86 



Bleuler (E.), and K. Schmann, Zwangsmassige Lichtempfin- 

 dungen durch Schall und verwandte Erscheinungen auf dem 

 Gebiete der Anderen Sinnesempfindungen, 51 

 Blood of Insects, 388 



Blyth (Edward), Natural History of the Cranes, 77 

 Boat, Curious, 567 



Boddy (Evans Marlett), History of Salt, 123 

 Bodies, Buoyancy of, in Water, Dr. John Rae, F.R.S., 191; 



Dr. W. Curran, 166 

 Bolton's Microscopical Specimens, 147 

 Bombay Rainfall and Nile Floods, Morgan Brierley, 532 

 Bonney (Prof. T. G., F.R.S.), Geologist's Notes on the Royal 

 Academy, 85 ; the Life, and Selections from the Correspon- 

 dence of William Whewell, D.D., by Mrs. Stair Douglas, 147 

 Boutelle (Clarence M.), Optical Illusion, 191 

 ■' Book of the Beginnings," Gerald Massey, 49 

 Boracite, Experiments on, 112 

 Bordeaux, Phylloxera, Congress at, 565 ; Major General Mait- 



land, 589 

 Boston (U.S.), Society of Natural History, 88 



Botany: Text-Bo ik of Indian Botany, Morphological, Physiologi- 

 cal, and Systematic, W. H. Gregg, 188 ; Easy Lessons in Botany, 

 according to the requirements of the Revised Code, 1880, 2io ; 

 Popular Papers on the Phenomena of Plant Life, 2io; First 

 Lessons in Practical, G. T. Bettany, 235 ; Botany for Schools 

 and Science Classes, W. J. Browne, 235 ; Practical Botany 

 for Elementary Students, D. Houston, 283 

 Brain : a Journal of Neurology, 46 

 Brearey (Fred. W.), on Artificial Flight, 466 

 Brewing in Japan, Prof. R. W. Atkinson, 509 

 Brierley (Morgan), Bombay Rainfall and Nile Floods, 532 

 British Association: Meeting at York, 146; Proposed 

 Meeting in America, 1883, 16 ; Preliminary Arrangements, 

 176, 385 ; Opening of, 431 ; the History and Work of the 

 Association, 401 ; Inaugural Address of the President, Sir 

 John Lubbock, D.C.L., LL.D., F.R.S., 402; New 

 Officers, &c. , 432 ; the Loan Collection of Scientific Appa- 

 ratus, 432 ; Excursions, &c., 432 : Grants, 433 ; the 

 Foreign Visitors, 461, 492 ; Report of the Committee 

 appointed for the Purpose of Investigating the Method of 

 Determining the Specific Refraction of Solids from their 

 Solutions, 462 ; Report of Committee on Meteoric Dust, 

 462 ; Report of Committee on Underground Water Supply, 

 462 ; Report on the Earthquakes of Japan, 462 ; Report 

 of the Committee on Fossil Polyzoa, 463 ; Report of the 

 Committee on Erratic Blocks. 463 ; Report on the Thermal 

 Conductivity of Certain Rocks, 463 ; Report of the Com- 

 mittee on Tidal Observations in the English Channel and 

 the North Sea, 487 ; Report of the Committee for Under- 

 ground Temperature, 487 ; Report of Committee on Mathe- 

 matical Tables, 488 ; Report of Committee for Investigation 

 of Timor-lant, 488 ; Report of Committee on Natural 

 History of Socotra, 488 ; Report on Caves and Kitchen- 

 Middens at Cappagh, Co. Waterford, 48S ; Report on the 

 Zoological Station at Naples, 488 ; Report of the Committee 

 on Rudimentary Science Education, 488 ; Origin and 

 Functions of the, E. W. Harcourt, 510 

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

 the President, Sir William Thomson, F.R.S., 433; on the 

 Possibility of the Existence of Intra-Mercurial Planets, by 

 Prof. Balfour Stewart, F.R.S., 463; the Photographic 

 Spectrum of Comet B 1 88 1, by Dr. W. Huggins, F.R.S., 

 464 ; the Electrical Discharge through Colza Oil, Dr. A. 

 Macfarlane, 465 ; on the Electric Conductivity and Dichroic 

 Absorption of Tourmaline, Prof. Silvanus Thompson, 465 

 on the Application of Electricity to the Localisation of a 

 Bullet in a Wound, W. H. Preece, 465 ; on the General 

 Coincident between Sun-Spot Activity and Terrestrial Mag- 

 netic Disturbance, Rev. T. Hewlett, 465 ; on Artificial 

 Flight, by Frederick W. Brearey, 466 ; on the Arrestation 

 of Infusorial Life, by Prof. Tyndall, F.R.S., 466; the Sun- 

 Spot Period and Planetary Tides in the Solar Atmosphere, 

 by F. B. Edmonds. 466 ; on a New lutegi-ating Anemo- 

 meter, by H, S. Hele Shaw and Dr. Wilson, 467 ; on a 

 Universal Sunshine Recorder, by G. M. Whipple, 467 ; on 

 the Calibration of Mercurial Thermometers by Bessei's 

 method, by Prof. Rucker, 467 ; on the Economy of Metal 

 in Conductors of Electricity, by Sir William Thomson, 

 F.R.S., 489; Illuminating Powers of Incandescent Vacuum 

 Lamps with Measured Potentials and Measured Currents, 

 Sir William Thomson and J. T. Bottomley, 490; an 

 Analysis of Relationships, Dr. A. Macfarlane, 491 ; on a 

 Microscope with Arrangements for Illuminating the Sub- 

 Stage, by E. Crossley, 491 ; Observations of Atmospheric 

 Electricity at Kew Observatory during 1880, G. M. 

 Whipple, 491 ; on Prof. Phillips' Rainfall Observations 

 made upon York Minster, G. J. Symons, F.R.S., 491 ; 

 on some of Bell and Tainter's Recent Researches and their 

 Consequences, W. Lant Carpenter, 491 ; on Magnetic Dis- 

 turbances, Prof W. G. Adams, F.R.S., 492 

 Section B (Chemical Science). — Opening Address by the Presi- 

 sident. Prof. A. W. Williamson, F.R.S., 413 ; on a Pro- 

 cess for Utilising Waste Products and Economising Fuel in 

 the Extraction of Copper, J. Dixon, 467 ; on the Chemical 

 Action lietween Solids, Prof. Thorpe, F.R.S., 467 ; Metal- 

 lic Compounds containing Bivalent Hydrocarbon Radicals, 

 J. Sakurai, 467 ; on the Siliceous and other Hot Springs in 

 the Volcanic District of New Zealand, W. Lant Carpenter, 



467 ; Note on the Chrome Iron Ore of Japan, Dr. I)ivers, 



468 ; on the Oxides of Manganese, V. H. Veley, 468 ; on 

 the Inferences deducible from High Molecular Weights as 



