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Index 



Dr. John Lowe, 77 ; Birds and Poisonous Fruit, E. M. 

 Langley, 149 ; Howard Fox, 149 ; Atropa Belladonna and 

 Birds, 102 ; the Range of the Garefowl, Prof. Alfred Newton, 

 F.R.S., 125; a Shag's Meal, Prof J. Joly, F.R.S., 125 : 

 Birds of the British Isles, John Duncan, 148 ; the Alleged 

 Destruction of Swallows and Martins in Italy, Richard Bagot, 

 224; Prof. Henry H Giglioli, 340 ; the Decrease of Swallows 

 and Martins, J. Herbert Allchin, 271 ; the Great Catalogue 

 of Birds, 296 ; the Wanton Destruction of Rare Visitants to 

 our Shores, E. L. J. Ridsdale, 296 ; the British Museum 

 Catalogue of Birds, Prof. E. Ray Lankester, F.R.S., 318 ; 

 Notes on Cage Birds, W. T. Greene, 389 ; Wonders of the 

 Bird World, R. Bowdler Sharpe, 43S ; Birds, A. H. Evans, 

 529 ; the Wild Fowl of the United States and British Pos- 

 sessions, D. G. Elliot, 580 ; Flight of Birds, Prof. Maurice 

 F. Fitzgerald, 609 

 Birmingham, Geology of, Prof. Lapworth, F.R.S, 115 

 Bishop, (Mrs. Isabella), on the Mantzu of Western Sze-Chuan, 



163 

 Bittner (A. ), Fossil Fish Remains from Hallstatter Kalk, 397 

 Blaauw (F. E. ), Breeding of Weka Rail and Snow Goose, 527 

 Blackbirds and Wasps' Nests, A. Murray, 207 

 Blaine (Robert Gordon), Quick and Easy Methods of Calculat- 

 ing, 196 

 Blaise (E.C.), oa-dimethyl-glutaric Acid, 503 

 Elandford (Walter F. H.), Slow-growth of Wood-breeding 



Insects, 94 ; Larv* in Antelope Horns, 341 

 Blim (E. 1, Manual de I'Explorateur, 5 

 " Block " Signalling, Railway, James Pigg, 148 

 Blondlot (R.), Production of Electromotive Forces by Displace- 

 ment of Masses of Liquid of Different Conductivities under 

 Magnetic Action, 599 

 Blumenthal (F.), Sugar Formation from Egg Albumen, 288 

 BIyth (A.W.), Estimation of Nitrites and Nitrates by Ferrous 



Chloride, 430 ; the Physical Estimation of Boric Acid, 430 

 Boccara (Dr. N.), Velocity of Propagation of Hertzian Waves, 



301 

 Biicher (Prof. M. ), Singular Points of Linear Differential 



Equations with Real Coefficients, 575 

 Bode's Law and Witt's Planet "DO, Dr. William J. S. Lockyer, 



BoUettino della Societa Sismologica Italiana, 94, 166, 308, 

 405, 500 



Bolley (Mr.), Vitality of Typhoid Bacilli in Milk and Butter, 

 346 



Boltzmann (L.), Ratio of Two Specific Heats of Gases, 192 



Bombay, the Plague in, 593 



Bon (G. de). Transparency of Opaque Bodies for Luminous 

 Radiations of Great Wave-length, 359 



Bone (W. A.), New Method for preparing Unsymmetrical 

 Dimethyl and Trimethyl- Succinic Acids, 334 



Bones, Way in which they Break, Dr. Joseph Griffiths, 527 



Bonney (Prof. T. G., F.R.S. ), the Coral Boring at Funafuti, 

 29 ; Funafuti, or Three Months on a Coral Island, 554 ; 

 Chalk and Drift in Moen and Riigen, 551 



Book of the Master (the), W. Marsham Adams, 507 



Book-Worms, a Remedy for, J. Ewen Davidson, 126 ; Thomas 

 Steel, 439 



Bool (George), Elementary Mathematics, 294 



Bort (L. T. de), Three Unmanned Balloon .A.scents, 564 



Botany : a Manual of the Grasses of New South Wales, J. H. 

 Maiden, 5 » Myrmecophilous Plants, with Extra-Nuptial 

 Nectaries, by Prof. F. Delpino, 15 ; Bird-pollinated Flowers, 

 Dr. F. Johow, 15 ; Germination Changes in Fatty Seeds, L. 

 Maquenne, 24 ; the Transport of Wine Yeasts, J. A. 

 Cordier, 24 ; a Text-book of General Botany, Carlton C. 

 Curtis, 28 ; .Soluble Proteo-Hydrolytic Ferment in Mush- 

 rooms, E. Bourquelot and H. Herissey, 47 ; Synopsis 

 Characeartim europearum. Dr. Walter Migula, H. and J. 

 Groves, 74 ; Two New Eucalypti, R. T. Baker, 96 ; New 

 Eucalyptus Oil, Messrs. Baker and Smith, 143 ; New 

 South Wales Linnean Society, 96, 143 ; Constitution of Peat, 

 B. Renault, 119; Botany of Interior West Australia, S. Le 

 M. Moore, 141; Influence of Anaesthetics on Formation of 

 Chlorophyll, E. C. Teodoresco and H. Coupin, 143 ; Variations 

 in Flowers of AnguiUaria dioica, C. T. Musson, 143 ; 

 Fossil Plants for Students of Botany and Geology, A. C. 

 Seward, F.R.S., 146; Elective Absorption of some Minerals 

 by Plants, E. Demoussy, 168 ; Chlorophyll Assimilation in 

 Terrestrial Orchids, Ed. Griffon, 16S ; Curiosities of Orchid 



Breeding, C. C. Hurst, 17S; New British Orchid (Cruenta), 

 H. Goss, 278 ; Deutscher Botaniker-Kalender fiir 1899, 

 P. Sydow, 174 ; Elementary Botany, G. F. Atkinson, 

 198; Economic Botany in Nyasa Land, 211 ; Nitragin and 

 Nodules of Leguminous Plants, Maria Dawson, 214; the 

 Contagium of Tobacco Spot Disease, Prof. Beyerinck, 

 216 ; Conspectul Florei Roumaniei, Dr. D. Grecescu, Dr. 

 O. Stapf, 221 ; Gesammelte Botanische Mittheilungen, S. 

 Schwendener, 245 ; Bacillus of Sweet Corn Disease, Dr. 

 Erwin F. Smith, 256 ; the Late Dr. George James All- 

 man as a Botanist, Prof. George lames AUman, F.R.S., 

 Prof. G. B. Howes, F.R.S., 269 ;' Nucleus in Veast-Cells, 

 H. Wager, 278 ; Symbolce Antillan;i; : seu Fundamenta 

 Florae Indice Occidentalis, Ignatius Urban, 294 ; Experi- 

 ments on the Autumn Colouring of Plants, E. Overton, 

 296 ; Inulin, Dr. H. Fischer, 302 ; Botany of Altai 

 Mountains, H. J. Elwes, F.R.S., 310; Moisture in Sunlit 

 and Shaded Parts of same Plant, Daniel Berthelot, 311 ; 

 Pollen-Formation and Chromatic Reduction in Nais inajor^ 

 L. Guignard, 335 ; Relations between Intensity of Green 

 Coloration of Leaves and As.similation by Chlorophyll, 

 Ed. Griffon, 335 ; Colouring of Plants, May Rathbone, 

 342 ; Truffle Cultivation in France, M. Larbaletrier, 346 ; 

 Death of Prof. T. Caruel, 346 ; Death of Dr. G. Gibelli, 346 ; 

 Four hundred and twenty Ears from One Grain of South 

 African Wheat, Dr. F. H. Bowman, 359 ; the Permanent 

 lioot-Sheaths of Potttedcria crassipes, Charles Bailey, 359 ; 

 Doubling in Plants, Rev. G. Henslow, 37S ; Hessian Fly in 

 United States, Prof. H. Osbotn, 378 ; Sketch of the Evolu- 

 tion of our Native Fruits, L. H. Bailey, 387 ; Internal 

 Remedy against Beech Parasite Cryptoaxius fagi, John 

 Shortt, 397 ; Journal of Botany, 405, 500 ; the Genus Nana- 

 iintrium, E. S. Salmon, 406 ; the Production of Apospory by 

 Environment in Athyriiiin Filix-foeinina, F. W. Stansfield, 

 406 ; Dante and the Action of Light upon Plants, Prof. Italo 

 Giglioli, 417 ; Death and Obituary Notice of the Rev. 

 W. Colenso, F.R.S., 420; Structure of Vegetable Cell- 

 Wall, W. Rothert, 422 ; Bacterial Diseases of Potatoes, Emile 

 Laurent, 472 ; Medical Works of the Fourteenth Century, 

 together with a List of Plants recorded in Contemporary 

 Writings, with their Identification, Rev. Prof. G. Henslow, 

 483 ; Barnes' Plant Life, Prof. C. R. Barnes, 487 ; the 

 Reviewer, 4S7 ; Fertilisation of Glaiix niarilitiia, Edward 

 Step, 500 ; an Elementary Text-Book of Botany, Sidney H. 

 Vines, F.R.S., 509; Death of M. Naudin, 515; Matoiiia 

 pectinata, A. C. Seward, F.R.S., 525; Impregnation in 

 Gingko biloha. Prof. Hiras, 544 ; Impregnation in 

 Cycas revoluta. Prof Ikeno, 544 ; the Geographical Distri- 

 bution of Fissideits, E. S. Salmon, 544 ; Fertilisation of 

 Araiijta albens. Dr. John Lowe, 551 ; Antheroids|and Double 

 Sexual Copulation in Angiosperms, L. Guignard, 575 ; Insects 

 and Flowers, Prof. F. Plateau, 613 



Bottazzi (Dr. Filippo), Chimica Fisiologica per uso dei Medici 

 e degli Studenti, 267 



Bouchard (Ch.), Cryoscopy of Urine, 287 



Boudouard (O.), Decomposition of Carbon Monoxide in pre- 

 sence of Ferric Oxide, 288 ; Decomposition of Carbon 

 Monoxide in presence of Metallic Oxides, 359 



Boulenger (G. A., F.R.S.), Zoology of Egypt, Volume First, 

 John Anderson, F.R.S., 195 



Bourne (Dr.), Impracticability of destroying Prickly-Pear with 

 Cochineal Insect, 82 



Bourquelot (E.), Soluble Proteo-Hydrolytic Ferment in Mush- 

 rooms, 47 



Boutan (Louis), Instantaneous Submarine Photography, 72 



Boutroux (Leon), Oxidation Products of Oxygluconic Acid, 240 



Bower (Prof. F. O., F.R.S.), Opening Address in Section K of 

 the British Association, 66, 88, 112 



Bowhill (Thomas), Manual of Bacteriological Technique and 

 Special Bacteriology, 197 



Bowman (Dr. F. H.), Four Hundred and Twenty Ears from 

 One Grain of South African Wheat, 359 



Boyce (Prof. Rubert), Oysters and Disease, 305 



Brain-Machine, the, Albert Wilson, 316 



Bramley-Moore (Leslie), Inheritance of Fecundity in Thorough- 

 bred Race-Horses, 239 



Bramly (E.), Radio-conductors with Gold and Platinum Filings, 

 240 ; the Absorption of Hertzian Waves by non-Metallic 

 Bodies, 575 



Breath-Figure of Spider's Web, Oswald H. Latter, 55 



