Nature, June ci, 1887] 



Bois (H. dii), Earthquakes, 8 

 Bolivia, Thoiiai-'s Exploration of, 231 

 Bollettino of tlie Italian Geographical Society, 403, 446 

 Bolton (Sir Francis), Death of, 255 

 Bolton (Thomas), Civil List Pension to, 204 

 Bombay, Technical School at, 206 



Bonney (Prof T. G., F.R.S.): Volcanic Dust from New Zealand, 



56 ; Volcanic Eruption in Niua-Fu Friendly Islands, 127 ; 



Notes on the Structure and Relations of some of the Older 



Rocks of Brittany, 550 ; Oldhamia, 581 



Bornstein (Prof.), Investigations into Thunderstorms of July 



1884, 24 

 Borodin (M. Alexander), Death of, 473 

 Borzi, (Prof A.), Nostoc cUipsosporiim, 594 

 Bosanquet (R. H. M.), Determination of Coefficients of Mutual 

 Induction, by means of the Ballistic Galvanometer and Earth 

 Inductor, 478 

 Boscovich (Father), Centenary of the Death of, 375 

 Boss (Prof), Comet 1887 </ (Barnard, February 15), 424, 446 

 Botany : Unpublished Drawings by G. J. Camelli, 34 ; British 

 Fungi, Hynienomycetes, Rev. John Stevenson, 4 ; Autumnal 

 Flowering, Dr. Maxwell T. Masters, it ; Botanical Lecture 

 Experiment, Prof. Bayley Balfour, 126; Rogcria longijlora, 158 ; 

 Entyloma Ranunculi, Prof H. M. Ward, 166 ; Hermann's 

 " Ceylon Herbarium " and Linnfeus's " Flora Zeylanica, " Dr. 

 H. Trimen, 166 ; Narcissi, G. Maw, l66 ; Botany of the 

 Afghan Delimitation Commission, W. Botting Hemsley, 173 ; 

 the Honzo Dsufu work on Botany, 204 ; Native Plants of 

 South Australia, 205 ; Botanical Federation in the West 

 Indies, D. Morris, 248 ; Baron von Mueller on the Acacias 

 (Wattles) of Australia, 282; Hand-book of the British Flora, 

 Geo. Bentham, F. R.S., 341 ; the Crocus, Geo. Maw, 

 348 ; Manual of Botany, Prof. Bentley, 350 ; Report on the 

 Botanical Garden, Sahaninpur, Mr. Duthie, 356 ; Botanical 

 Discoveries in the Tombs of Egypt, 405 ; Blight and Mildew 

 in the U.S., 422 ; Begonia Vcitchii abnormal, 430 ; Lemons 

 irregularly developed, 430 ; Primula imperialis, 430 ; Wild 

 White Daffodil, 430 ; Addition of a Commercial Laboratory 

 to the Botanical Museum of Hamburg, 473 ; Dr. Urban's 

 Proposed Botanical Investigation of the Higher Mountains of 

 St. Domingo, 494 ; Thos. Moore's Botanical Collections 

 acquired for the Herbarium, Kew Gardens, 495 ; on some Ob- 

 servations on Pala^obotany in Goebel's " Outlines of Classifica- 

 tion and Special Morphology of Plants," Prof W, C. William- 

 son, F.R.S., 535 ; Botajiic Garden of Glasgow, 545 ; Hand- 

 book of Practical Botany for the Botanical Laboratory and 

 Private Student, Prof E. Strasburger, 556 ; on the Term 

 " Latex" in, M. A. Trecul, 600 

 Bouinais (A.) and A. Paulus, La France en Indo-Chine, 



221 

 Bourgeois (M. L. ), Preparation of a Silicostannate of Lime 



corresponding to .Sphene, 335 

 Bourne (G. C), Anatomy of the Madreporian Coral Fungia, 



404 

 Boys (C. Vernon) : Preliminary Note on the Radio-Micrometer, 

 549 ; on the Production, Preparation, and Properties of the 

 Finest Fibres, 575 

 Brain : Prof T. Jeffery Parker, 208 ; on the Nomenclature of 

 the. Dr. Wilder, 255 ; Functional Topography of the. Prof 

 Ferrier, F. R. S., 453 

 Braun (Dr. C. ) : Kalocsa Observatory, 59 ; Sunspot Observations 



in Hungary, A. M. Gierke, 227 

 Brazil : Longitudes in. Admiral E. Mouchez, 100 ; the Birds of, 



204 

 Bredichin (Prof. Th.), Tails of the Comets of 1SS6, 474 

 Bright (Sir Chas. T.), Electric Telegraph, 282 

 Brines, on Ice and, J. Y. Buchanan, 608 

 Bristol University College, Reduction of the Salaries of the 



Professors, 326 ; Albert Fry on, 345 

 Britain, Natural History, its Rise and Progress in, Prof. Alleyne 



Nicholson, 148 

 Britain, South-East, on the Establishment of the Roman 



Dominion in. Sir G. B. Airy, F.R.S., 562 

 British Association and Local Scientific Societies, 78 ; Principal 



Officers for the Manchester Meeting, 471 

 British Columbia, Indian Tribes of. Dr. Franz Boas, 568 

 British Flora, Hand-book of the, Geo. Bentham, F.R.S., 341 

 British Fossils, Catalogue of, Prof Morris's, 158 

 British Fungi, Hymenomycetes, Rev. John Stevenson, 4 

 British Fungi, Text-book of, W. D. Hay, 364 



British International Polar Expeditions, 147 



British Islands, Coleoptera of the. Rev. W. W. Fowler, 531 



British Medical Journal, Dr. Rayner W. Batten on Physical 

 Training of Girls, 495 



British Museum, Catalogue of Fossil Mammalia in the. Rich. 

 Lydekker, 532 



British Stalk-eyed Crustacea and Spiders, F. A. A. Skuse, 532 



Brittany, Notes on the Structure and Relations of some of the 

 Older Rocks of, Prof T. G. Bonney, F.R.S., 550 



Broeck (E. Van den) and A. Rutot, Observations nouvelles 

 sur le Tufeau de Ciply and sur le Cretace superieur du 

 Hainault, 317 



Brooks, Comet (1887 b). Dr. Rud. Spitaler, 352, 424, 496 



Brouardel (M. J.), elected Dean by the Medical School of Paris, 

 422 



Brown (J.), Theory of Voltaic Action, 142 



Brown (J. Allen), Discovery of Palceolithic Workshop Floor of 

 Drift Period near Ealing, 189 ; Palaeolithic Man in North- 

 west Middlesex, 554 



Brown-Sequard (Dr.), Experimental Researches connected with 

 Cerebral Functions, 47 ; elected President of the Society of 

 Biology, Paris, 544 



Bruce (Eric S.), War and Ballooning, 259 



Brunton (T. L.auder, M. D. , F. R. S. ): Action of Caffein and Theine 

 upon Voluntary Muscle, 599 ; and J. Theodore Cash, Con- 

 tributions to our Knowledge of the Connexion between 

 Chemical Constitution and Physiological Action, Preliminary 

 Communication on the Action of certain Aromatic Bodies, 



599 



Brushes, on Two Jade-handled, Prof J. P. O'Reilly, 318 



Brydges (Rev. Thos.), Curious Subdivision of Colour among the 

 People of Onisin, 283 



Buchanan (J. Y.) : Similarities in the Physical Geography of the 

 Great Oceans, 33, 76 ; on the Distribution of the Tempera- 

 ture in the Antarctic Ocean, 516 ; on Ice and Brines, 608 



Buckland Museum, Fish-Hatching at, 400 



Buckton (G. B., F.R.S.), Notes on the Recent Swarming of 

 Aphides, 15 



Budden (Dr. E.), To prove that only One Parallel can be 

 drawn from a given Point to a given Straight Line, 92 ; 

 Prof O. Henrici, F.R.S., 100 



Buildings Bill, Sanitai-y Registration of, 282 



Bulletin de 1' Academic des Sciences de St. Petersbourg, 286, 



310, 356 

 Bulletin of the Belgian Natural History Museum, 423 

 Bulletin de I'Academie Royale de Belgique, 404 

 Bulletin of the Paris Geographical Society, 353 

 Bulletins de la Societe d' Anthropologic de Paris, 286 

 Bulletins des Sciences Mathematiques, 452 

 Bunge (Dr.), Success of his Expedition, 309 

 Burch (Dr. Geo. J.), Further Experiments on Flame, 165 

 Burgess (William), Red Worm, 445 

 Burmah, Lower and Upper, Resources of, 378 

 Butler (Philip J.), Lung-Sick, 54 

 Butterflies of India, Lionel de Niceville, H. J. Elwes, 436 



Cacciatore (Prof.), Barnard's Comet, 181 



Caddy (Mrs. Florence), Through the Fields with Linnaeus, 579 



Cadmium, Chloride of, 551 



Cascilians, Classification of the, 280 



Caffein, Action of, and Theine upon Voluntary Muscle, T. 

 Lauder Brunton, F.R. S., 599 



Cairo: Earthquake at, 112; Walks in. Major E. T. Plunkett, 

 256 



Calcium, Phosphorescence of the Sulphuret of, 455 



Caldwell (W. H.), Embryology of Monotremata and Marsu- 

 pialia, 524 



Calendar and General Directory of the Science and Art Depart- 

 ment, 320 



Calico-Printing, the Palissy of, the Life and Labours of John 

 Mercer, F.R.S., Edward A. Parnell, Prof T.E.Thorpe, 

 F.R.S., 145 



California : Injurious Fungi in. Prof. W. G. Farlow, 521 ; 

 Floods in Southern, 376 ; Aboriginal Art in California and 

 Queen Charlotte's Island, Dr. W. J. Hofirnan, 285 



Calorimetric Bomb and Measurement of Heats of Combustion, 



Calorimetric Studies on Sick Children, 528 



