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INDEX 



Blanford (H. F.), Report on Indian Meteorology, 145 5 Mud 



Banks on Malabar Coast, 187 

 Blind Fish of the Mammoth Cave, 256 

 Blood Louse, 394 

 Boiling Lake in Dominica, 475 

 Boldoj a new tonic medicine, 36, 414 

 Bon (Dr. Gustave le), " La Vie," 2\(> 

 Bonney (Rev. T. G.), Ice Caves 327 

 Borneo, Birds of, 407 

 Borrelly's Comet, 1 1 5, 229 

 Boston (U.S.): Society of Natural History, 80, 180, 273; 



Academy of Natural Sciences, 419 

 Botany: Botanical Locality Record Club, 175; Botanical 

 rroblcms," by Prof. Cohn, 261 ; Botanical Magazine, 317 ; 

 " Botany for Home and School Use," by Frances A. Kitchener, 

 147 ; Botany in Queensland, 271 ; "Botany, Lessons in Ele- 

 mentary," 226 ; "Botany, Manual of," by K. BrowTi, M.A., 

 Ph.D., 345 ; Botany of Gal way Bay, 395 ; Botany, Systematic, 

 Mr. Bentham on, 254 

 Boltomley (J. T., M.A.), Logarithmic and Tngonometncal 



Tables, 424 

 Boxwood, 254 

 Brady (H. P., F.L.S.), Fliickiger and Hanburys " Pharmaco- 



graphia," 42 

 Bramwell (F. J., F.R.S.), Protection for Inventions, 141 

 Br.izil (Emperor ot), elected Member of the French Academy of 



Sciences, 356 

 Brazil, Observatory at Rio Janeiro. 395 

 Bright Colour in Animals, 148, 208 

 Brincklev's "Astronomy," by Stubbs and Briinnow, 83 

 British Museum, its Sanitary Condition, 174 

 Brooke (Victor), Fallow Deer in England in Pleistocene Times, 



210 

 Brown (Robt., M.A.), "The Races of Mankind, 12S ; 



" Manual of Botany," 345 

 Brunton(T. Lauder, F.R.S.), Indian Venomous Snakes, 377 

 Buchan (Ale.i.), Climate of Scotland, 329 

 Buchanan (Andrew, M.D.), " Circulation of the Blood," 1S4 

 Buchanan (J. Y.), Vertical Distribution of Temperature in the 



Ocean, 157 

 Burnham (S. W.), Antares, 405 

 Butter, Artificial, 76 



Calcutta, Botanic Gardens, 18, 295 



Cambridge : Science at, 17, 34, 35, 57, 92. "5- "j', 155. 196. 

 272, 294, 313, 333. 353. 373. 394, 4i3. 434, 474, 475. 5i5 ; 

 Philosophical Society, 140, 339, 400 

 Camels reared in Nevada (U.S.), 396 

 Cameron (Lieut.), his African Expedition, 153, 195; Map of 



Lake '''"ipanyika, 293 

 tsmpbell (Dr. A.), Obituary Notice of, 56 

 Camphor, Distillation of, 456 



Cana.la : Geological Discovery, 57 ; Science in, 414 

 Canada Rice, a new Material for Paper, 33 

 Caoutchouc, Cultivation of, 355, 395, 436 

 Carbon Cells and Plates for Galvanic Batteries, 8 

 Carnuba Root, 414 



Carpenter (W. B., M.D., F.R.S. ), "The Microscope and its 

 Revelations," 283 ; Soundings taken by H.M.S. Challenger, 

 297 

 Carrier Pigeons, 237 

 Carter (H. J.), Calcareous and Siliceous Remains in Marine 



Strata, 186 

 Case (F.), Softening of Iron Pyrites, 248, 269, 285 

 "Cave Hunting," by W. B^jyrt Dawkins, F.R.S., 302 

 Caves of Kentucky, 414 

 Caves, Settle, 304, 514 



Cedar, Florida, acclimatised in Bav.iria, 396 

 Ceylon, Forests of, 274 

 Challenger, Progress of the, 34, 57, 174, 177, 196 ; Notes by 



Prof. C. Wyville Thomson, F.R.S., 95, 116, 287 

 Chameleon Barometer, 307, 365 

 Chamois Shooting, 435 



Chappell (\V., F.S.A.), "History of Music," 123, 20S 

 Chemical Dictionary, by Dr. H. v. Fehling, 165 

 Chemistry: Chemical .Society, 34, 39, 78, 97, 119, 159, 239, 

 299. 336, 357, 379, 394, 416, 458, 500 ; Chemistry, Lectures 

 by Prof. Frankland, 497 ; " Chemistry, Physiological; Demon- 

 strations on," by S. \V. Muore, F.C..'^., 2S3 ; "Chemistry, 

 Practical,"by Frank Clowesi, K.5-C., 107 ; Chemistr)- of Cre- 

 mation, 33 



Chesil Bank, Origin of the, 386, 506 



Chester, Society of Natural Science, 322 



Chicago, Botanical Gardens at, 294 



China Expedition from Burmah through, 175, 209 



" Chinchon, Memoir of the Countess of," by C. K. Markl 



C.B., F.R.S., 383 

 Chinese Dwarf Trees, 475 



Chinese Grass Plant, 315 . . 



Chisholm (H. W.), International Metric Commission, 54; 



Annual Report as Warden of the Standards, 270 

 Cholera, Microscopical Researches on, 444 

 Cinchona Bark, Trade in, 373 

 Civil Engineers' Institute, 79, I74. 196, 240, 299, 246, 339, 



459. 



"Civilisation, Origin of," by Sir J. Lubbock, Barl., M.I'., 



F.R.S., 401 

 Classification of the Animal Kingdom, lOi 

 Cleland (John, M.D., F.R.S.), "Animal Physiology,' 504 

 Clerk-Maxwell (Prof., F.R.S.), Dynamical Evidence ot the 



Molecular Constitution of Bodies, 357, 374 

 Clock Movement, Inventor of its application to Equatorial 1 clc- 



scopes, 166 , „ , ^, . 



Clock, New Standard Sidereal, at the Royal Observaloiy, 



Greenwich, 431 . ^ , - , 



Clothworkers' Company, Science Exhibitions at Cambndge, 34, 



456 

 Clowes (Frank, B.Sc), " Practical Chemistry, 10; 

 Coal in New South Wales, 136 ; American, 36 

 Coal Ashes, Diatomacea: in, 475 



Cobbold (Dr. T. S., F.K.S.), Lewis on Hfematozoa, 363 

 Cocoa Cultivation, 216 

 Ccelometer, the, 17 

 Coffee Plant, Disease in the, 475 

 Coggia's Comet, 238, 295 

 Cohn (Prof ), " Botanical Problems, 261 

 Colorado Beetle, 355, 476 

 Colorado, Survey of, 154 

 Cold, its effects on Railway Axles, 195 

 Cole (Sir Henry, KC.B.), appointed Commander of the Bath, 



412 

 College of Surgeons, Casts of the Brain, 235 

 Colour, Bright, in Animals, 148, 208 

 Colour in Flowers, 28, 47 

 Coloured Shadows, 406 

 Columnar Formation in Mud Banks, 2S5 

 Comber (Thos.), Insects and Colour in Flowers, 47 

 Comets : Borrelly's, 115, 229 ; Winnecke's, 228, 295, 30S, 349, 



47-, ; Coggia's, 238, 205 ; Encke's, 134, 169, 287, 294, 30S, 



328,365, 387; Halley's, 270, 286; Comet of 1766, 489; 



Comet of 1 81 2, 446 ; C"met of 1840, 407 

 Comets, Guillemin on, 196 



" Cone (The) and its Sections," by S. A. Renshaw, 404 

 Cook, Captain, Monument to his Memory, 153 

 Cooke (Dr. M. C), Gums and Resins in India Museum, 252 ; 



Pollen Grains, 307 

 Copal Trees of Zanzibar, 414 

 Coral Reefs, 456 



Cornu (M. A.), Velocity of Light and Sun's Parallax, 274 

 Costa Rica, Survey of, 333 

 Cousin Marriages, 406 

 Cremation, Cliemisiry of, 33 

 Crookes (Wm., F.R.S.), his Radiometer, 494 

 Cryptogamic Society, Scottish, 497 

 Crvstallography, Prof. Maskelyne's Lectures, 34, 56 

 Crystal Palace School of Art, Science, and Literature, 57 

 Cry.stals, Morphology of, 1S7 

 Cruelty, Psychology of, 149 

 Ctenophorje, f,mbryology of the, 76 

 Cunningham, (D.D., M.B.), Fungi in Opium Blight, 424: 



Microscopical Researches on Cholera, 444 

 Currents in Air and Sea, 186 

 Cuttell, Mr., and Section Cutting, 167 

 Cyclones, 317 



Dalton's First Table of Atomic Weights,' 52 

 Darwin (Chas., F.R.S.), " Descent of Man," 305 

 Darwin (George), Endowment of Research, 27 ; Cousin Mar- 

 riages, 406 

 "Darwinism,'' by Oscar Schmidt, 267 



Dawkins (Prof. W. Boyd, F.R.S.), Northern Range of Fallow 

 Deer, 112, 226; "Cave Hunting," 302 



