iv INDEX 
Bessemer (Mr.), his Saloon Steamer for the Channel Passage, 
41 
Biblical Archzeology, Society of, 87 
Biela’s Comet, 163 
‘Bird Life,” by Dr. Brehm, translated by Labouchere and 
Jesse, 121 
Birds: Yarrell’s “ British Birds,” by Newton, 461 
“ Birds (British), Handbook of,” by J. E. Hartwig, F.L,S., 
IOI 
Birds, Instinct of Tumbler Pigeons, 387, 417; Ceylon Pigeon 
Express, 351 ; Destruction of Rare, 464 
Birds, Fossil, in Kansas, 310 
‘* Birds of Egypt, Handbook to the,” 178 
Birmingham and Midland Institute, 53 
Birmingham School Natural [History Society, 269 
Black (W. J.), Gauges for Ocean Rainfall, 202 
Blake (Prof. Jas.), Supposed new Marine Animal, 67 
Blind Fish of the Wyandotte Cave, 12 
Blue Colour of Sky and Water, 132 
Bolton Literary and Scientific Society, 15 
Bombay, Grant Medical College, 269 
Bordeaux, Science at, 190; Scientific Association, 70 
Borlase (W. C., B.A.), “ Sepulchral Monuments of Cornwall,” 
337, 378 
Borneo, Cave-deposits, 461 
Boston (U.S.), Academy of Arts and Sciences, 214 ; the Great 
Fire, 215, 230 
“ Botanists’ Pocket Book,” by W. R, Hayward, 360 
Botany : Notes in Lisbon, 229; Professorship at Caracas Uni- 
yersity, Botanic Garden, Liege, 351; ‘‘ The Useful Plants of 
India,” by Col. H. Drury, 340; Dr. H. Airy on Leaf- 
Arrangement, 341, 403, 442; Edinburgh Botanical Society, 
Fertilisation of Grasses, 391 ; Botany in Belgium, 334 
Bowring (Sir John), Obituary Notice of, 70 
Braun (Dr. A.), Darwinism, 5 
Breslau, Silesian Society for National Culture, 137, 158, 162 
cai las F.R.A.S.), Italian Report on the Eclipse of 1870, 
30) 
Brewer (W. H.), Sense of Smell in Animals, 360, 410; Mau- 
pertuis on Natural Selection, 402 
Bright Lines in the Solar Spectrum, Prof. C. A. Young on, 17 
Brighton Aquarium, 169, 209, 231, 362, 451 
Brighton, Geology of, 395 
Bristol, Meteors at, 85, 322 
Bristow (H. W., F.R.S.), ‘‘ Table of British Strata,” 452 
British Association ; Arrangements for 1873, 88 
British Museum, Herbarium, 5, 26, 45, 103 ; Memorial to Mr. 
Gladstone, 212; his Reply, 243; Prof. Dyer on, 243 
Broca (Paul), Troglodytes of the Vézére, 305, 326, 366, 426 
Brockbank (W., F.G.S.), Glacial Action in the Furness Dis- 
trict, 374 
Brodie (Sir B. C., Bart., F.R.S.), Scientific Research and Uni- 
versity Endowments, 97 
Brough (the late J. C.), Subscription for his Family, 35, 470 
Brown Institution, 369 
Brunton (T. L., M.D.), “ Physiological Chemistry,” 441 
Buchan (Alex., M.A.), Rainfall and Temperature of North 
Western Europe, 245 
Buckland (A. W.), Perception in Fowls, 444 
Buckton (G. B., F.R.S.), Reason or Instinct ? 47 
Buenos Ayres, Burmeister’s Annals of the Public Museum, 240 
Burder (Dr. G. F.), Rainbows on Blue Sky, 68 ; Twinkling of 
the Stars, 222,°262 
Burmeister (G., M.D.), “‘ Annales del Museo Publico de Buenos 
Ayres,” 240 
Burwash (N.), Zlephas Americanus in Canada, 47 
Butterflies, Perception in, 444 
Butterflies of North America, 412 
Butterfly-hunting at Panama, 311 
Cacciatore (Prof. Cav. G.), Report on the Eclipse of 1870, 308 
California: Aquarium at San Francisco, 151 ; Academy of Sci- 
ences, 256, 476, 490; Agassiz Institute, 189 
Cambridge, Science at, 14, 53, 88, 110, 169, 189, 190, 209, 
249, 250, 251, 268, 289, 311, 331, 349, 369, 391, 411, 432, 
451, 470; Cambridge Scholarships and Examinations in 
Science, 229; Philosophical Society, 20, 75, 155, 374, 474 
Cambridge (U.S.), Museum of Comparative Zoology, 471 
‘Canada, Post-pliocene Geology of,” by J. W. Dawson, LL.D., 
240 
Capron (J. Rand), Spectra of Aurora and Zodiacal Light, 182, 
201 
Carruthers (Wm., F.R.S.), Our National Herbarium, 26, 103 
Cassiterides, Origin of the Name, 68, 104 
Catlin (George), Obituary Notice of, 222 
Cats: Sense of Smell, 303, 322; Perception, 360; Inherited 
Instinct, 371; Sociability, 425 ; Polydactylous, from Cook- 
ham-Dean, 323 ; White Toms, 464, 
Cave-deposits of Borneo, 461 
Cayley (Prof.), Presentation Portrait of, 349 
Celtic Society, 75 
Ceylon, Science in, 42 ; Pigeon Express, 351 ; Land Planarians, 
353 
Challenger, H.M. Ship: Accounts of Voyage, 109, 117, 131, 
231, 430, 471; her Scientific Orders, 191, 252; Report by 
Prof. W. Thomson, F.R.S., 385 
Charing Cross Hospi'al, 15, 54, 123, 168 
Charterhouse Science-Classes, 425 
Chemical Society, 39, 75, 134, 175, 231, 235, 295, 335, 373, 
415, 454, 494 
**Chemical Technology, Handbook of,” by R. Wagner, Ph. D., 4 
‘‘ Chemistry, Inorganic,” by Geo. Wilson, M.D., 441 
‘Chemistry, Manual of,” by Fownes, revised by H. Watts, 
F.R.S., 179 
‘Chemistry, Organic,” by W. G. Valentin, F.C.S, 160 
‘Chemistry, the Birth of,” by G, F. Rodwell, F.C.S., 36, 9o, 
104, 206, 285, 393, 492 
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Chester, Society of Natural Science, 55 ; Science at, 432 
China, Science in, 35 
Chisholm (H. W.), International Metric Commission, 197, 
327 ne 2 
Chromusphere, (New Method of viewing the), 313 
Circular Spraybows, 46 
Civil Engineers, Institution of, 16, 210, 255, 455, 474 
Clarke (Hyde), The Phoenician Vademecum, 462; Earthquake 
Waves, 463 
Clarke (Prof. F. L.), the Hawaiian Volcano, Mauna Loa, 124 
“Clematis as a Garden Flower,” by T. Moore, F,.L.S., and 
G. Jackman, F.R.H.S., 102 
Clerk-Maxwell (Prof. J.), Action at a Distance, 323, 341; 
“ Electricity and Magnetism,” 478 
Clifford (Prof. W. K.), Kant’s Antinomies, 262, 282, 302 
Clifton College, 54, 151 
Climate of Alabama, 231 
Clouds ; ‘‘ Forms of Water,” by Prof. J. Tyndall, F.R.S., 400 
Coal: Rise in Price of, 267; in Bagdad, 332; in Central Asia, 
349; in Peru, 311; in Western Yunan, 317; Prizes for 
Economy in its Use, 150, 451 : 
Coal Question, Sir W. Armstrong, C.B., on the, 270, 291 ~ 
“ Coal-fields of Great Britain,” by E. Hull, M.A., F.R.S., 319 
Coal-fields, Scottish, 14 ; of Victoria, 200 
Coffin (Prof.), Obituary Notice of, 350% 
Cohn (Prof, Ferdinand), Lecture on the Progress of Natural 
Science, 137, 158, 162; ‘‘ Beitrage zur Biologie der Pflanzen,” 
300 
Cole (H., C.B.), his intended Resignation, 230 
College of Surgeons, 14, 289, 310; Hunterian Lectures, 289, 
310, 330, 348, 364, 388, 408, 428 
Colloids, Diosmotic properties of, 152 
Collyer (R. H., M.D.), *‘ Exalted States of the Nervous Sys- 
tem,” 360 
Colorado River, 290 
Coloured Stars about Kappa Crucis, 130 
Cometary Star-Shower, 77 
Comets, their Tails, 105 ; and Meteors, Connection between, 468 
Contagious Diseases, 283 
Cook (Captain), his South Polar Explorations, 22, 139 
Cooke (E. W., R.A.), ‘‘ Grotesque Animals,” 280 
Cope (Prof. E. D.), Wyandotte Cave and its Fauna, 11; Pro- 
boscidians of Wyoming, 471 
“Corals and Coral Islands,” by Jas, D. Dana, LL.D., 119, 423 
Cornu (M.), Growth and Migrations of Helminths, 265 ; Geo- 
detic Operations iu Algeria, 450 
“ Cornwall, Sepulchral Monuments of,” by W. C. Borlase, B.A., 
337, 378 ‘ 
Corona Line, Prof. C. A. Young on the, 28 
Cotopaxi, Ascent of the Great Volcano, 449 
Cowell (Sir J.), Fire-ball near Slough, 146 
Cox (E. W., Serjeant-at-Law), Animal Instincts, 424 
Crabs, Perception in, 424 
