[NatiiiL^JiniC), 1887 



Ball(Sir Robert S., F.R.S.), Astronomical Theory of the Great 



Ice Age, 53 

 Ballistic Galvanometer and Earth Inductor, Determination of 



Coefficients of Mutual Induction by means of the, R. H. M. 



Bosanquet, 478 

 Ballooning, War and, Eric S. Bruce, 259 

 Banbury, Remarkable Meteor near, 58 

 Bareggi (Dr.), Experiment on Rabies, 422 

 Barley, Examination of Specimens of Injured, Miss Ormerod's 



Observations on, 256 

 Barnaby (Sir Nathaniel), on the Connexion between the Royal 



Navy and the Merchant Service, 538 

 Barnard, Comets, 59 ; T. W. Backhouse, 54, 224 ; Prof. 



Cacciatore, iSi ; Dr. Wentworth Erck, 198 ; at Perihelion, 



Prof. A. Ricco, 296; Comet (1SS6/), 207 ; Dr. Oppenheim, 



85; Dr. Aug. Svedstrup, 134; Comet (1887 c). Prof. E. 



Weiss, 352 ; Dr. H. Oppenheim, 424 ; Comet (18871?'), Prof- 

 Boss, 424, 446 ; (Barnard 2), Discovery of a New Comet, 



402 ; Second Comet, John I. Plummer on, 583 ; Barnard's 



First and Second Comets 1887, 614 

 Barnard and Finlay, Comets, 17 

 Barograph, Dr. Sprung, 456 

 Barometer, on the Determination of the Air in the Vacuum of 



the, Dr. Pernet, 72 

 Barometer free of Air, New Method of Filling, 432 

 Barometers, Comparison of, Dr. Pernet, 600 

 Barometric Readings, Low, Henry F. Blanford, 344 

 Barometric Readings, Influence of Wind on, Prof. Cleveland 



Abbe, 29; G. J. Symonds, F.R.S., 53 

 Barrett (Prof. W. F.), Physical Properties of Manganese Steel, 



3" 

 Batavia, Zoological Station at, 376 

 Bateson (Anna) and Prof. Francis Darwin, F.R.S., on the 



Effect of certain Stimuli on Vegetable Tissues, 429 

 Bathy-orographical Chart of the Clyde Sea-Area, 334 

 Batten (Dr. Rayner W. ), Physical 'Training of Girls, 495 

 Battery, Water, Henry A. Rowland, 452 

 Bauxite Deposits in the South-East of France, on the Age of 



the, 383 ; M. L. Collot, 2SS 

 Beam -Trawling, Fishery Board of Scotland and, 257 

 Beaumont (W. Worby), Sounding a Crater, Fusion-Points, 



Pyrometers, and Seismometers, 296 

 Beaver stated to be extinct in Northern Norway, H2 

 Beckley (Mrs. E. M.), Hawaiian Fishing-Implements and 



Methods of Fishing, 327 

 Beclard (Prof.), Statistics of the Number of Female Medical 



Students in Paris, 306 ; Death of, 375 

 Becquerel (Edmond), Action of Manganese on Phosphorescent 



Quality of Carbonate of Lime, 168 

 Beds of Chert in the Carboniferous Limestone of Yorkshire, on 



the Character of the, Geo. J. Hinde, 582 

 Bee, Cell of the Honey-, Geometrical Construction, Prof. H. 



Hennessy, F.R. S., 502 

 Bee-hives discovered in a Gigantic Eucalyptus-Tree in Australia, 



423 

 Beeby (W. H. ), Flora of Shetland, 474 

 Beetle in Motion, the, 29 ; Prof. C. Lloyd Morgan, 7 ; A. 



Wilkins, 414 

 Beetroot, on the Destruction of Nematodes, 455 

 Beetroot-Sugar, Production of, in the U.S., 351 

 Begonia Veitcliii, Abnormal, 430 

 Beira Alta, Earthquake in District of, 59 

 Belgium, Ornithological Observations in, 423 

 Bell (Louis), on the Absolute Wave-length of Light, 524 

 Belladonna and Opium, Action of, in a Case of Acute Diabetes, 



407 

 Bengal, Eastern, Letters on Sport in, Frank B. Simson, 388 

 Bengalis, Use of, in the Geological Survey of India, H. B. 



Medlicott, 472 

 Ben Nevis Observatory, 517 ; Amount of the Rainfall at, 257 ; 



Rainband Observations at the, A. Rankin, 588 

 Benn (T. G.), the CUmate of Carlisle, 95 

 Bennett (Alfred W. ), Genetic Affinities and Classification of the 



Algse, 478 

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

 Bentley (Prof ), Manual of Botany, 350 

 Benzenoid Compounds, Henry Armstrong, F. R. S., 407 

 Beresofsky (M.), MM. Potanin, Skassy, and. Return of, from 



their Expedition to China and Mongolia, 309 

 Beri-beri, the Disease, 206 



Berlin : Academy of Sciences, Grants for Zoological Research, 

 473 ; Proceedings of .\nthropological Society, 496 : Chemical 

 Society of, 552; Opening of Ethnological Society, 180; 

 Geographical Society, 60 ; Verhandlungen of the, 520 ; 

 Meteorological Society of, 24, 71, 360, 455 ; Physical Society 

 of, 24, 72, 264, 336, 408, 432, 456, 552, 600 ; Physiological 

 Society, 264, 383, 455, 480, 504, 551, 576 

 Bert (Paul) : Obituary Notice of, 54 ; Proposed Memorial of, 84 ; 

 First Year of Scientific Knowledge, 221 ; One of his Last 

 Letters, 255 

 Berthelot (M. ) : on Ammoniaco-Magnesian Phosphate, 119 ; on 

 the Direct Fixation of the Gaseous Nitrogen of the Atmosphere 

 by Vegetable Soils, 335 

 Berthelot and Andre, the Decomposition of Bicarbonate of Am- 

 monia by Water, and Diffusion of its Components through 

 Atmosphere, 23 

 Bialoveski (A.), Ice-Period on the Altai Range, 513 

 Bianchi (V.), the Avifauna of the Western Spurs of the Pamir 



Plateau, 328 

 Bicarbonate of Soda, Production of, 624 



Bichloride of Copper, Combination of Orthotoluidine and, 3S3 

 Bichromate of Soda Cell, 3S1 



Bicycles and Tricycles for the Year 1886, H. H. Griffen, 52 

 Bidwell (Shelford) : Electrical Resistance of Suspended Copper 

 and Iron Wires, 526; Lecture Experiment in Self-induction, 

 526 

 Bigourdan (M.), Minor Planet No. 265, 474 

 Bilobites, Striated, 407 



Binary Stars : 7 Coronas Australis, II. C. Wilson, 17 ; SEquulei, 

 401 ; Orbit of the Binary Star 14 («') Orionis, J. E. Gore, 

 569 ; Brightness and Mass of Binary Stars, W. H. S. Monck, 

 402 

 Biology : Proposed Biological Societies for London and Liver- 

 pool, 180; W. Baldwin Spencer appointed to the Melbourne 

 LTniversity Chair of, 280 ; General Biology, W. T. Sedgwick 

 and Edmund B. Wilson, 413; Injurious Fungi in California, 

 521 ; Fertilisation of Cassia marilandica, 521; Variations in 

 the Nerve-Supply of the Lumbricales Muscles in the Hand 

 and Foot, with some Observations on the Perforating Fle.Kors, 

 521 ; Biological Notes, 521 ; Elementary Practical Biology — • 

 Vegetable, Thos. W. Shore, 556 

 Birch (G. J.), on a Perspective Microscope, 35S 

 Bird (Charles), Lecture Notes and Problems on Sound, Light, 



and Heat, 52 

 Birds : Siberian, presented by Mr. Seebohm to Natural History 

 Museum, 15 : Dispersion of Plants by Birds, D. Morris, 151 ; 

 Birds of Suffolk, Dr. Churchill Babington, 193 ; the Gould 

 Collection of Australian Birds at Philadelphia, 204 ; the Birds 

 of Central Asia, 204 ; Types of Birds in the Vienna Natural 

 History Museum, 204 ; Arctic Species of, Henry Seebohm 

 on, 256 ; Morphology of. Prof. W. K. Parker, F.R.S., 331 ; 

 Mechanism of the Flight of Birds, studied by Chrono- 

 photography, M. Marey, 335 ; Morphology of the Wings of, 

 599 ; Movement of a Bird's Wing, represented according 

 to the Three Dimensions of Space, M. Marey, 3S2 ; Birds' 

 Nests and Eggs, H. Seebohm, 236 

 Birmingliam, Mason Science College, 494 

 Birnbaum (Dr.), Death of, 444 

 Birth-rate, on the Decline of, in France, 357 

 Bischoffsheim Observatory, the Great Refracting Telescope of 



the, 84 

 Bishop's Ring in Colorado, Disappearance of, G. H. Stone, 



581 

 Black (Dr. W. J.), Ozone Papers in Towns, 76 

 Blake (Dr. James), on the Connexion between Chemical Con- 

 stitution and Physiological Action, 6 

 Blanford (Henry F.), Low Barometric Readings, 344 

 Blaschko (Dr.), Stracture of the Epidermis, 551 

 Blastoidea, the, Robert Etheridge and P. Herbert Carpenter, 



267 

 Blight and Mildew on Fruit in the U.S., 422 

 Blomefield (L.), Vitality of Seeds, 463 

 Blood, Influence of Extremes of Temperature on the Colour of 



the, 576 

 Blue Hill Meteorological Observatoiy, U.S., 472 

 Boas (Dr. Franz), Indian Tribes of British Columbia, 56S 

 Boehmer (G. H.), Norse Naval Architecture, 445 

 Bohemia, Nationalities of, 518 



Boileau (Major-Gen. J. T., F.R.S.), Death of, 57, 84 ; Proposed 

 Memorial to, 84 



