IV 



[Nature, A\'v. 15, 1877 



Bacteria, the Influence of Light upon the Development of, Dr. 

 Arthur Downes and T. P. Blunt, 218 



Balances, 557 



Balloons : the Balloon of the Paris Kxhibition, 279 ; in Japan, 

 297 ; Balloon Ascent by M. W. de Fonvielle, 557 



Baltic, Hydrographic Survey of the, 460 



Bamboo, Paper made from, 198 



Baptoritis adveniis. Discovery of, 336 



Barbot-de-Marny (Prof. N. P.), Death of, 31 



Barff (Prof. M. A.), Prevention of the Corrosion of Iron, 378 



Barlow and Laslett's Determination of Strength of Timber, 61 



Barometers, Artificial Flowers as, 54, 390 



Barrett (Prof. W. F. ), the Effect of Inaudible Vibrations upon 

 Sensitive Flames, 12 



" Barrows of Derbyshire," Rooke Pennington's, 416 



Basking .Shark, Prof. E. Perceval Wright, 61 ; Prof. Eocage, 61 



Bastian (Dr. II. Charlton, F.R.S.), the Commission of the 

 French Academy on the Pasteur-Bastian Experiments, 276 



Batalin (A.), " Mechanik der Bewegungen der Insektenfressen- 

 den Pflanzen," 359 



Batrachians, the Development of, 420 



Beetle, Rare Species of, 515 



Belgium, Geological Map ot, 51 



Bell (Prof. Graham), on Recent Experiments in Telephones, 3S3 



Belt (Thomas), Quartzite Implements at Brandon, loi ; Nectar- 

 Secreting Glands, 122; Antiquity of Man, 162; Protective 

 Colouring in Birds, 548 



Bennett (A. W.), Reproduction by Conjugation, 340 ; the 

 Sensitive Plant, 34S ; Thome's Text-Book of Botany, 453 



Bennett (Dr. George), the Australian Monotreme, 475 



Berg (C), European Plants in Buenos Ayres and Patagonia, 264 



Berlin ; Anthropological Society, 54 ; University, Statistics of, 

 154; Photographic Society, 257; Expulsion of Dr. Diihring 

 from the University, 259 ; Salaries of Professors at, 259 ; 

 Physiological Laboratories, 299 ; Geographical Society, 429 



Bermudas, Mr. Brown Goode's Collections from the, 152 



Bessels (Emil), Results of the Polaris Arctic Expedition, 358 



Bhawnepoor, Fall of a Meteor at, 375 



Bibliography of Science, 467, 530 



Bichromatic Battery, a New, 411 



Bicknell (Edward), Death of, 515 



Biel, Lake of. Implements from, 530 



Binary Stars, 256, 441, 477 ; a Centauri, 235, 522 



Biological Notes, 30, 146, 288, 364, 399, 504, 523 



Biology of Plants, Cohn's, 435 



Birds: Colour-Sense in, 83, 142, 163; Fish-eating, 399; Dr. 

 H. B. Mayer's New Work on, 399 ; Fertilisation of Flowers 

 by, A. H. Everett, 476 ; Sharpe's Catalogue of Birds in the 

 British Museum, 541 ; Protective Colouring in, Tliomas Belt, 

 548 ; the Towering of Wounded, Sir J. Fayrer, F. R.S., 550 



Birmingham ; Domestic Economy Congress at, 151, 216, 236; 

 Natural History Society, 237, 429 



Bischof's Spongy Iron Filters, 48 



Blue Gum Tree, 443, 558 



Blue Nile, De Cosson's Cradle of the, 226 



Blood, Copper in the, 30 ; Coagulation of, 504 



Blow-pipe Apparatus, Prize for, 32 



Bocage (Prof.), Basking Shark, 61 



Body-Cavity in the Head of Vertebrates, 399 



Bogdanoff (M,), Researches in the Aralo-Caspian Region, 41 1 



Bogen's Hygrometer and Siphon Barometer, 260 



Bohn (Dr. C), " Ergebnisse physikalischer Forschung," 430 



Bolides in France, 556 



Bone-Caves of Creswell Crags, 19 



"Bone-Caves and Barrows of Derbyshire," Pennington's, 416 



Bonney (Rev. T. G.), the Rocks of Charnwood Forest, 8 ; Ser- 

 pentme Rocks of the Lizard Districts, 135 



Boric Acid, 516 



Borodin (Prof.), on Respiration of Plants, 31 



Botany : of New Guinea, 31 ; Buckley's Botanical T.ables, 133 ; 

 Dr. Crespigny's " New London Flora," 338 ; Thome's Text- 

 Book of Botany, translated by A. W. Bennett, 453 



Boucard (A.), Ornithological Specimens from Costa Rica, 446, 

 521 



Boulders in Orkney and Shetland, David Milne Home, 476 



Boulger (G. S.), Proposed Flora of Gloucestershire, 351 



Brahe (Tycho), his Meteorological Journal, 89 ; the Portrait of, 

 Dr. Samuel Crompton, 501 



Brain, Prof. RoUeston on the Vascular Supply of the, 408 



Brakes, the Vacuum, 73 ; E. Woods, C.E., on Railway Brake?, 

 347 ; New Steam Brake, 390 



Branchipus, Fossil, in the Isle of Wight, 381 



Brazil: Emperor of, and Science, 72, 173 ; Geological and Geo- 

 graphical Survey of, 467, 4S8 



Brighton and Sussex Natural History .Society, 390 



Brisift^a, 249 



Bristol University College, 55, 198, 355 



British Associ.\tion : Plymouth Meeting, Officers, &c., 151 ; 

 Proposed Programme, Excursions, &c., 169; Preliminary 

 Arrangements, 197 ; the Daily Programme, 216 ; the new 

 Assistant Secretary, 295 ; General Arrangements, 249, 341, 

 370; Daily Arr.angements, Excursions, &c., 301, 302; Sir 

 SVilliam Thomson's Pianoforte Wire-sounding Apparatus, 

 301 ; his Compass, 301 ; Inaugural Address of the Pre- 

 sident, Prof. Allen Thomson, M.D., F.R.S., 302; Report 

 of the Committee appointed to consider what Effect Revers- 

 ing of the Screw had on the Steering of a Steamer under 

 Full Way, 370 ; Report of the Committee for commencing 

 Secular Experiments on the Elasticity of Wires, 371 ; Re- 

 port of the Committee on Luminous Meteors, 371 ; Report 

 of the Committee appointed to consider the Ordnance 

 Datum Level, 371 ; R;port on the Conditions under which 

 Liquid Carbonic Acid exists in Rock and Minerals, by W. 

 Noel Hartley, F. R. S.E., 371 ; Report on some Double 

 Compounds of Nickel and Cobalt, by J. M. Thomson, 372 ; 

 Report of the Committee for Exploring Kent's Cavern, 272 ; 

 Report of the Committee for Assisting in the Exploration 

 of the Victoria Cave, 373 ; Report of the Committee for 

 Investigating the Circulation of Underground Waters in the 

 New Red .Sandstone and Permian Formations of England, 

 374 ; Report on the South-West Lancashire Wells, 374 ; 

 Report of the Committee on establishing a Close Time for 

 Indigenous Animals, 404 

 Seclion A {MatJiematical and Physical). — Opening Address of 

 the President, Prof. G. Carey Foster, F.R.S., 311 ; Prof. 

 Osborne Reynolds, F.R.S., on the Rate of Progression 

 of Groups of Waves, and the Rate at which Energy is 

 transmitted by Waves, 343 ; Silvanus P. Thompson on the 

 Relative Apparent Brightness of Objects in Binocular 

 and Monocular Vision, 374 ; C. Meldrum on Diurnal 

 Variation of the Barometer and Wind in Mauritius, 375 ; 

 Major G. Noel Money's Account of a Meteor which passed 

 over Bhawnepoor, in India, 375 ; T. T. P. Bruce Warren 

 on the Determination of Temperature Coefficients for insu- 

 Liting Envelopes, 375 ; J. A. Ewing and J. G. Macgregor 

 on the Volumes of Solutions, 376 ; Charles Chambers, 

 F. R.S,, on Magnetic Induction as affecting Observations 

 of the Intensity of the Horizontal Component of the Earth's 

 Magnetic Force, 376; Prof. S. Ilaughton, F.R.S., onthe 

 Tidal Observations made in the recent Arctic Expedition, 

 405 ; Sir William Thomson, F.R.S., and Capt. Evans, on 

 the Tides of Port Louis and Freemantle, 405. 

 Section B (Chemical AAv^a-).— Opening Address by the 

 President, Prof. Abel, F.R.S., 314; James Mactear on a 

 New Mechanical Furnace used in the Alkali Manufacture, 

 and for Calcining Purposes Generally, 377 ; James Mactear 

 on an Improved System of Alkali Manufacture, 377 ; James 

 Mactear on the regeneration of the Sulphur employed in 

 the Alkali Manufacture, 377 ; W. II. Watson on the 

 Action of Various Fatty Oils upon Copper, 377 ; Prof. 

 Gladstone, F.R.S., on Changes in Candles produced by 

 Long Exposure to Sea-Water, 377 ; C. R. Alder Wright 

 and A. P. Luff on Chemical Dynamics, 377 ; T. Wills on 

 the Coal brought Home by the late Arctic Expedition, 377 ; 

 C. T. Kingzett on Hederic Acid and Resin of Scammony, 

 378 ; C. T. Kingzett and M. Zingler on Albumen of Com- 

 merce, 378 ; Dr. Paul and C. T. Kingzett on Alkaloids 

 from Japanese Aconite, 37S ; C. R. Alder and A. P. Luff's 

 Further Researches on Aconite Alkaloids, 378 ; Dr. John 

 Watts on Pyrocatechin as a Derivative of Certain Varieties 

 of Tannic Acid, 3 78 ; Prof. Barff on the Formation of the 

 Black Oxide of Iron on Iron Surfaces for the Prevention of 

 Corrosion, 378. 

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

 Pengelly, F.R.S., F.G.S., 318; Dr. J. Gwyn Jeffreys, 

 F.R.S., on the Post-Tertiary Fossils procured in the late 

 Arctic Expedition, with Notes on some of the Recent or 

 Living MoUusca from the same Expedition, 378 ; W. 

 Pengelly, F. R. S. , on the Geology of the Coast from the Rame 

 Head to the Bolt Tail, 378; J. H. Collins on the Drift of 

 Plymouth Hoe, 379 ; H. B. Woodward on the Devonian 

 Rocks near Newton Abbot and Torquay, 379 ; Prof. G. 



