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Dewalque on the Devonian System in England and Belgium, 

 379 ; A. Champernowne on the Succession of the Pala'ozoic 

 Deposits of South Devon, 379 ; S. R. Patlison on the Car- 

 boniferous Coast Line of North Cornwall, 379 ; R. N. 

 Worth on the Paleontology of Plymouth, 3S0 ; R. A. C. 

 Godsvin-Austen, F.R.S., on the Geological Significance of 

 the Result of the Boring at Messrs. Meux's Brewery, Totten- 

 ham Court Road, 3S0 ; H. C. Sorby, F.R.S., on a New 

 Method of Studying the Optical Characters of Minerals, 

 3S0 ; C. Le Neve Foster on the "Great Flat Lode" South 

 of Redruth and Camborne, 3S1 ; G. H. Morton on the 

 Carboniferous Limestone and Millstone Grit in the Country 

 around Llangollen, 381 ; Henry ^Yoodward, F.R.S., on 

 the Occurrence of Branchipiis or Chirocephalus in a Fossil 

 State in the Upper part of the Fluvio-Marine Series at 

 Gurnet and Thorness Bays, Isle of Wight, 381 ; T. Plunkett 

 on the Exploration of some Caves in Fermanagh, 405 ; Prof. 

 J. W. Clarke on the Mounds of Arkansas, U.S., 406 ; W. 

 Gunn on the Finding of Silurian Rocks in Teesdale, 406 ; 

 C. E. De Ranee on Post-Glacial Deposits in Lancashire, 

 406 ; A. W. Waters on the Influence of the Positions of 

 Land and Sea upon a shifting of the Axis of the Earth, 406 ; 

 A. J. Mott on Carbons in the Crusts of the Earth, 406 ; 

 G. A. Lebour on Pebbles in the Carboniferous Shales of 

 Westmoreland, 406 ; G. A. Lebour on the Age of the 

 Cheviot Rocks, 406 

 Section D {Biology). — Opening Address by the President, 



J. Gwyn Jeffreys, LL.D., F.R.S., 323 

 Departnicnt of Anthropology. — Address by Francis Galton, 

 F.R.S., 344; Prof RoUeston on the Fauna and Flora of 

 Prehistoric Times, 408 ; Miss Buckland on the Stimulants 

 of Ancient and Modern Savages, 408 ; Dr. Beddoe on the 

 Bulgarians, 408 

 Dtpail7>unt of Anatomy and Physiology. — Address by Prof. 

 Macalister, 406 ; Prof. Ilaughton on the Best Possible 

 Number of Limbs for an Animal, 407 ; Rev. W. II. 

 Dallinger on the Life History of the Simplest Organisms, 

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

 40S ; G. T. Bettany on the Vertebrate Skull, 408 

 Department of Zoology and Botany. — Mr. McLachlan on the 

 Colorado Beetle, 408 ; Prof. McNab on the Movement of 

 Water in Plants, 409 

 Section E (Geography). — Lieut. Kitchener on the Line of 

 Levels from the Mediterranean to the Sea of Galilee, 409 ; 

 Commander Cameron on the Exploration of Africa, 409 ; 

 W. H. Tietkens on the Latest Exploring Expedition across 

 Australia, 409 

 Section G (Afeckanical Science). — Abstract of the Opening 

 Address of the President, E. Woods, C.E., 347; Prof. 

 Reynolds on Compound Turbines, 3S2 ; Pi-of. Reynolds on 

 the Difference of the Steeiing of Steamers with the Screw 

 Reversed wlien under Full Way, and when Moving Slowly, 

 3S2 ; William FrouJe, I'. R.S., on the Resistance of Ships, 

 3S2 ; Capt. Douglas Galton on the Elevated Railway of 

 New York, 382 ; Sir Wm. Thomson on the Importance of 

 giving a Distinctive Character to the Needles Light, 382 ; 

 J. N. Douglas on the Eddystone Lighthouse, 383 ; Prof. 

 Graham Bell on Recent Experiments in Telephones, 3S3 

 British Flora, the Future of Our, J. Shaw, 550 

 British Medical Association, 296 ; Meeting at Manchester, 327 

 British Museum, Sharpe's Catalogue of Birds in the, 541 

 Britten (James), "Popular British Fungi," 519 

 Broca (M.), Fossil Human Races of Western Europe, 383 

 Broun (Alexander), Proposed Statue to, 296 

 Broun (J. Allan, F. R. S.), the Decennial Period of Magnetic 

 Variations, and of Sun-spot Frequency, 62 ; Rainfall and 

 Sun-spots, 25 1 ; Rainfall in South India, 333 ; Reports of 

 the Mauritius Observatory. 337 

 Brown (F. D. ), Physical Properties of Homologues and Isomers, 



175 

 Brown (J. C, LL.D.), the Schools of Forestry in Europe, 41 

 Bruijn's (Herr) Expedition to New Guinea, 446 

 Bryce (Dr. James), Death of, 236 

 Bubbles : W. Noel Hartley on the Constant Vibrations of, 34 ; 



Attraction and Repulsion of, by Heat, 34 

 Buchan (Alex.), the Indian Famine and Meteorology, 425 

 Buckingham (C. P.), "Differential and Integral Calculus," 21 

 Buckley's Botanical Tables, 133 



Buenos Ayres and Patagonia, European Plants in, 264 

 Buffalo Society of Natural Sciences, Bu'letin of, 259 

 Bulletin de TAcaJ^mie R^yale dfs Sciences c'e Belgique, 39: 



Bunsen (Ernest de), Astronomical Symbolism in the East, 25S 

 Burbidge (F. W.), "Cultivated Plants," 60 

 Burmeister (Prof), Works on the Argentine Republic, 395 

 Butler (A. G.), Bulletin of United States Geological Survey, 437 



Calcutta: New Zoological^Gardens at, 28 ; Sun-Spots and Rain- 

 fall of, 267 

 Calderon (Don Salvador), Vertebrated Fishes of Spain, 140 

 Calico Printing, Henry Cecil, 207, 228, 248 

 Cambridge : the Universities Bill, i ; L^ niversity Intelligence, 33, 

 54, 74, 94, 133, 172; Philosophical Society, 76, 155; Report 

 of the Botanic Gardens, 1 14 

 Cameron (Commander), on the Exploration of Africa, 409 

 Campanularije, Luminous, 30 



Canada : Geological Survey of, 40, 235 ; Drought in, 26S 

 Candles, Action of Sea- Water upon. Prof. Gladstone, 377 

 Caoutchouc, the Heat Conductivity of, 257 

 Cape Town, the South African Museum, 47 

 Cape Astronomical Results for 1874, 169 

 Capercailzie in Northumberland, 2S8 

 Carbon of Plants, the Source of, 210 

 Carbons, the Source and Functions of, in the Crust of the Earth, 



A. J. Mott, 406 

 Carbonic Acid, Amount in the Air, 73 



Carbonic Acid Liquid, in Rocks and Minerals, W. N. Hartley, 371 

 Carbonic Anhydride, the Critical Point of ihe, R. Girnett, 23 

 Carboniferous Group, on a Middle, Prof E. Hull, F. R. S., 35 

 Carboniferous Flara of Central France, by M. Grand' Eury, 



Prof. W. C. WUliamson, F.R.S., 13S 

 Carboniferous Coast-Line of North Cornwall, 379 

 Carnivorous Plant, a Tasmanian, 3 1 

 Carpenter (Dr. Philip P.), Obituary Notice 0', 84 

 Carpenter (Dr. W. B., F.R.S.), the Radiometer and its Lessons, 



544 ; i\Ir. Wallace and Reichenb-ich's Odyle, 546 

 Carrier Pigeons, 556 

 Cartridges, Singular Accident with, 237 

 Cast Iron, Floating, W.J. Millar, 23 

 Caterpillars, J. A. Osborne, 502 



Cave Dwellings and Cliff Houses, Models, at Kensington, 389 

 Cave-Men of Western Europe, 53 

 Caves : Discovery of Implements, &c , at Kief, 132 ; in Ireland, 



Exploration of, 318, 405 

 Caxton Exhibition, 177, 213 

 Cecchi (Father), Seismograph, 17 

 Cecil (Henry), Printing and Calico Printing, 207, 228, 248; 



.Sense Perception of Electricity, 549 

 Centroids, Prof. A. B. W. Kennedy, 48 

 Century of Discovery, 284 

 Ccratophylliim ilcnicrsiiin, Movements of, 554 

 Cerebral Centres, Localisation of, 336 



Ceylon : Patenas in. Rev. R. Abbay, 42 ; Colombo Museum, 

 352 ; Restoration of the Ancient Tank System of Irrigation, 

 Rev. R. Abbay, 509 

 Challenger Collections, 1 1 7 



"Challenger-Briefe," Dr. R. von Willemoes-Suhm's, 556 

 Chamberlain (Mr.), on Local Museums, 221 

 Chambers (Charles, F.R.S.), Magnetic Induction and Observa- 

 tions of the Earth's Magnetic Force, 376 

 Charlemagne College, Paris, 173 

 Charlesworth (Mr.), Boring Power of Magilus, 523 

 Charnwood Forest : the Rocks of, 8, 199 

 Cheetah, a New, 147 



Chemical Action, lOffect of Pressure on, 255 

 Chemical Compounds, the Spectra of. Dr. Arthur Schuster, 193 

 Chemical Dynamics, C. R. Alder Wright and C. P. Luff, 377 

 Chemical Elements and their Compounds, the Spectra of, 531 

 "Chemical Handicraft," J. J. Griffin, 2S5 

 Chemical Notes, 167, 254, 442 

 "Chemical Physics," by N. N. Lubasin, 140 

 Chemical Society, 31, 34, 75, 134, 199 ; Research Fund Grants, 



215 

 Chemistry of the Grape, 71 

 Chemistry, Technological, Dr. Jul. Post, 83 

 Chester Society of Natural Science, 313, 557 

 Cheviot Rocks, Note on the Age of the, 406 

 "China," von Richthofen's, 2o5 

 Chloride of Cobalt, Barometer Flowers of, 390 

 Chlorophyll in Conifera", 71 



Chromatic Aberration of the Eye, S. P. Thompson, 84 

 Chromium and Manganese Compounds, 254 

 Chronometers of Switzerland, 369 



