viii 
W. C. McIntosh, 468 ; Prof.W. A. Herdman, 387 ; Tornaria 
and Actinotrocha of the, J. T. Cunniogham, 361 
British Colonies and India, Iron-making Resources of, P. C. 
Gilchrist and Riley, 575 
British Empire, Statistics and Value of Coal Raised in, R. Meade, 
514 
British Isles: Past Geographical History of the, Prof. T. G. 
Bonney, F.R.S., 443; Bathy-hypsographical Map of, 506 
British Medical Association at Brighton, 274, 374 
British Museum : Modern Ethnography, 13 ; American Ethno- 
graphy at, 14; African Ethnography, 14; Fortescue’s New 
Catalogue (1880-1885), 15; Catalogue of Learned and 
Scientific Societies, 499 
Brogger (Prof. W. C.), Olenell Zone of North America, 164 ; 
Volcanic Rocks between Langesund in the Christiania Fjord 
and Lake Mjosen in Central Norway, 404 
Brooks (W. H.), Discovery of Two New Comets by, 40 
Brook’s Comet IIL, J. R. Hind, F.R.S., 436 
Brown (E.), Cloud Effect, 387 
Brown (Rey. G.), Papuans and Polynesians, 609 ; Life-History 
of a Savage, 609 
Brown-Séquard (M.), Causes of Rigor- Mortis, 636 
Brun (Prof.), Lightning Holes in the High Alps, 458 
Brunton (Dr. Thomas Lauder, F.R.S.), on the Connection 
between Chemical Constitution and Physiological Action, 375 ; 
Disorders of Digestion, 543 
Buchanan (John), a General ‘heorem in Electrostatic Induction, 
209 
Bucke (E. W.), on the Geysers of the Rotorua District, North 
Island of New Zealand, 512 
Buckland (Miss), American Shell-work, 187 
Buffalo Meeting of the American Association for the Advance- 
ment of Science, 299 
Bugio, M. C. Grabham, M.D., 538 
Bulletin de la Société d’ Anthropologie de Paris, 20, 185, 379 
Bulletin de Académie Royale de Belgique, 158, 208, 330, 379, 
562 
Bulletin de l’Académie des Sciences de St. Pétersbourg, 186 
Bulletin of the Geographical Society of Antwerp, 372 
Bulletin of the Italian Geographical Society, 248 
Bulletin de Ja Société des Naturalistes de Moscou, 85, 208 
Buoys and Beacons, Lighthouses and Light-Vessels, Sir J. N. 
Douglass, 502 
Burmah, Early Colonisation of, 627 
Busk (George, F.R.S.): Death of, 346; Obituary Notice of, 
Prof. Geo. J. Allman, F.R.S., 387 
Butler (A. G.), British Birds’ Eggs, 619 
Butterflies’ Wings, 266 
Butterflies of Kumaon, Himalayas, Mr. Doherty, 603 
Biittner (Dr.) the Congo Region, 399 
Butyl, Monochloracetate of, G. Gehring, 188 
Cadmium, the Ultra-Violet Spectrum of, Louis Bell, 208 
Cailletet (M. L.) and Dr. Mathias, Densities of Liquefied 
Gases, 139 
Calcutta Engineering Journals, 14 
California: Cretaceous Metamorphic Rocks in, G. F. Becker, 
80, 158; University of, Inaugural Address of President 
Holden, 632 
Callaway (Dr. Chas.), on some Derived Fragments in the Long- 
mynd and Newer Archzean Rocks of Shropshire, 258 ; Crys- 
talline Schists of Ireland, 515 
Cellulose, Occurrence of, in Tuberculosis, E, Freund, 581 
Caloric Capacity of Dissociable Gaseous Combinations, F. 
Duhem, 435 
Calorimeter for Lecture Purposes, T. J. Baker, 509 
Cambrian System of North America, Classification of the, 
Chas. D. Walcott, 402 
Cambridge (Rev. O. P.), Scientific Results of Second Yarkand 
Mission, Dr. F. Stoliczka, 120 
Cambridge : Geological Museum, 130; University Press, New 
Publications, 530 
Cambridgeshire, Palzolithic Implements in, A. G. Wright, 521 
Cameron (Sir Chas. A.), History of the Royal College of Sur- 
geons in Ireland, 384 
Cameron (Donald), Aurora, 312 
Campbell (Sir George), Opening Address in Section H (Anthro- 
pology) at the British Association, 454 ; What is an Aryan ?, 
609 
Canada: Canadian Record of Science, 198 ; Tidal Observations 
in, 479; Canadian Salmor. at the Czlonial and Indian Ex- | 
INDEX 
[Valure, Dec. 2, 1886 
hibition, 501 ; Influence of Canadian Climate on Europeans, 
Prof. W. H. Hingston, M.D., 609 
| Canfield (Herr), Accommodation Apparatus of a Bird’s Eye, 
164 
Cape Breton Island, Novia Scotia, Geology of, Edwin Gilpin, 
258 
Cape Colony, Rainfall of the, T. Stewart, 573 
Cape of Good Hope, Official Hand-book, 1886, 77 
Capillaries of the Vitreous Body, the, Dr. Virchow, 236 
Capillary Attraction, Sir William Thomson, F.K.S., 270, 290, 
366 
Capron (J. Rand), a Plea for the Rain-Band, 382 
Caracas, Weather at, Dr. A. Ernst, 313 
Caraven-Cachin and Grand (MM.), Carmaux Coal-Measures, 
54° 
Carboniferous Limestone, Classification of, Hugh Miller, 515 
Carboniferous Limestone of North-West England and Belgium, 
Note on the Parallelism between the, L. G. de Koninck, 379 
Cardoza (Lieut.) and :Colonel Serpa-Pinto in African Lakes 
Region, 557 
Carey (Mr.) in Central Asia, 457 
Carib Antiquities, Otis T. Mason on, 39 
Carles (Mr.), on the Corea, 41 
Carmaux Coal-Measures, MM. Caraven-Cachin and Grand, 
54° 
Carmichael (Henry), an Application of the Copper Reduction- 
Test to the Quantitative Determination of Arsenic, 402 
Carnelly (Prof.), on the Air of Dwellings and Schools, and its 
Relation to Health, 510 
Carnot (M. Ad.), on the Separation of Antimony from Tin, 
332 
Carotine, A. Arnaud, 96 
Carp, German, Importation of, 603 
Carpenter (W. Lant), Position of Science in Colonial Education, 
174 
Carrot, Cholesterine in the, A. Arnaud, 163 
Carruthers (W., F.R.S.), Opening Address in Section D 
(Biology) at the British Association, 451 
Carstone, Lincolnshire, Notes on the Relations of the, A. 
Strahan, 258 
Carter (James), on the Decapod Crustaceans of the Oxford Clay, 
258 
Carter (W. A.), Frogs and Mice, 10g 
Carus (J. Victor), What is Histioderma ?, 76 
Cascade Anthracite Coal-Field of the Rocky Mountains, 
Canada, W. Hamilton Merritt, 259 
Case, a Singular, Prof. Henry H. Giglioli, 313 
Casella (L. M.), Altazimuth Anemometer, 95 
Castings, Indian, at the Colonial and Indian Exhibition, 92 
Catalogue of Miss North’s Paintings at Kew, W. B. Hemsley, 
A.L.S., 143 
Catchpool (E.), Physiological Selection, 571 ; Origin of Species, 
617 
Caucasus: Vegetable Zones of the, M. Smirnoff, 85; Fossil 
Cretaceans from the, P. J. Van Beneden, 208; Izvestia of 
the Caucasus Geographical Society, 604 
Caves near Rockhampton, Queensland, 109 
Caves of North Wales, Dr. H. Hicks, F.R.S., 480 
Celtic and German Designs on Runic Crosses, Prof. W. B. 
Dawkins, F.R.S., on, 608 
Centenary of New South Wales, Arrangements for, 434 
Cephalic Index, M. Topinard on the, 379 
Cereals, American, Chemical Composition and Physical Proper- 
ties of, 466 
Cereals of Prehistoric Times, W. T. T. Dyer, 545 
Cerebral Lobes, Study of Fish after Extraction of, M. Vulpian, 
612 
Cerium, Molybdate of, A. Cossa, 163 ; Colour of the Oxides of, 
and its Atomic Weight, H. Robinson, M.A., 511 
Cerura vinulz, W. White, 163 
Cesaro (M. F.), Arithmetical Events, 158 
Cetaceans (Fossil) from the Caucasus, P. J. Van Beneden, 208 
Ceylon: Dr. Trimen’s Report on the Botanic Gardens of, 60; 
Peculiar Sunrise Shadow of Adam’s Peak, Hon. Ralph 
Abercromby, 509 ; Flora of, H. Trimen, M.B., 537 
Challenger Expedition, Zoological Results of the, Prof. W. A. 
Herdman and Hjalmar Théel, 437 
Chandler (S. C.), on Stellar Photometry, 531; 10 Sagitta, 604 
Chantilly, Bequeathed to French Institute by Duc d’Aumale, 
577 
Chaperon (M. G.), Theory of Dissociation, 491 
