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Baillie (Dr. T. C.), Electrica! Engineering, vol. i., 586 
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Baker (A. C.), Woolly Aphid of the Apple, 687 
Baker (Prof. H. B.), British Supply of Drugs and Fine 
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Baker (Prof. H. F.), Linear 
Astronomical Interest, 500 
Baker (Dr. S. M.) and Miss M. H. Bohling, Brown Sea- 
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Baker (1. J.), Bronzing Processes suitable for Brass and 
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Baker (I. Thorne), Industrial Uses of Radium, 272 
Baker (Prof. W. C.), a Simple Direct Method for the Radius 
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Baker (W. M.) and A. A. Bourne, a Shilling Arithmetic, 
Differential Equations of 
558 
Baldwin (Prof. J. Mark), appointed Herbert Spencer lec- 
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Balfour (Prof. Bayley) and W. W. Smith, Moultonia, 403 
Ball (Rev. Dr. C. J.), the Resurrection of Baylon, 292 
Balleine (Capt. C. F.), [Obituary], 543 
Balleine (Capt. C. F.), bequest to Exeter College, Oxford, 
692 
Balls (W. L.), the Development and Properties of Raw 
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Bannermann (Surgeon-Genl. W. B.), Knowledge of Biology, 
51 
Baracchi (P. H.), demand for an Australian Solar Observa- 
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Barber (Dr. C. A.), Sugar and the Sugar-Cane, 52 
Barcroft (J.) and T. Kato, Effect of Functional Activity, 25 
Barger (Prof. G.), the Simpler Natural Bases, 116 
Barker (A. H.), Heating and Ventilation, 331 
Barkla (Prof. C. G.), X-Ray Fluorescence and the Quantum 
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Barkla (Prof. C. G.) and Dr. G. A. Carse, Notes on Prac- 
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Barlow (A. E.), Corundum, 688 
Bardswell (Dr. N. D.), awarded the Weber-Parkes prize of 
the Royal College of Physicians, 649 
Barnaby (Sir N.), [Obituary], 433 : 
Barnard (Prof. E. E.), a Mistaken Butterfly, 174; a Singular 
Dark Marking on the Sky, 637; Photographs of the 
Millky Way and of Comets, 485; the Great Aurora of 
June 16, 1915, 536, 703; the Nebulous Region near 
Omicron Persei, 548 
Barnard (J. E.), Roéntgen Rays in Microscopic Work, 155 
Barnard (S.) and J. M. Child, Elements of Geometry, parts 
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Barnes (Prof. J.), a Continuous Spectrum in the Ultra- 
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Barringer (H.), Evolution of the Oil-tank Ship, 404 
Bartholomew (Dr. J. G.), an Atlas of Economic Geography, 
476 
Baskerville (Prof. C.), Rate of Evaporation of Ether from 
Oils, 443 
Bassler (Dr. R_ S.), Geologic History of the Appalachian 
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Bastian (Dr. Charlton), the Use of Tyrosine, 460, 537 
Batabyal (B. C.), Dakshindar, a Godling of the Sunderbuns, 
529 
Bates (S. J.), Osmotic Pressure of the Ions, etc., of Salts 
in Aqueous Solution, 553 
Bather (Dr. F. A.), Inexact Analogies in Biology, 178; the 
Rules of Zoological Nomenclature, 118 
Baxendell (J.), Report of the Fernley Observatory for 1914, 
627 
Baxter (Miss E.) and Miss L. Rintoul, Scottish Ornithology 
in 1914, 711 
Baxter (Miss M.), appointed demonstrator in physics at 
Bedford College, 692 
Baylis (H. A.), Instructions for Collectors: Worms, 546 
Beam (Dr. W.), Applicability of Papyrus to Paper Manu- 
facture, 548; Tests for Hashish, 548 
Beam (Dr. W.) and G. A. Freak, Improved Haemin Test 
for Blood, 518 
Bean (W. J.), the Arboretum at Tortworth Court, 710 
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Beard (E.) and W. Cramer, Surface Tension and Ferment 
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Beech (W. H.), Ancient Pottery in the Kikuyu Country, 124 
Beal (C. H.), an Earthquake near Los Angeles, 439; the 
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Beale (Sir W. P.). an Amateur’s Introduction to Crystallo- 
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Bechterew (Prof. W. von), Objektive Psychologie oder Psy- 
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142 
Beddard (Dr. F. E.), the Sperm Whale, 546 
Beetham (B.), Nests of Buff-backed Herons, 185 
Beilby (Dr. G. T.), Chemical Engineering, 573 
Bell (A. Graham), Science and Food-Supply, 618 
Bellingham and Stanley, New Saccharimeter, 602 
Belot (M.) and M. Ménard, Use of Coolidge Tube, 195 
Bemporad (A.), Abnormal Variability of Mira Ceti, 405 
Benham (C. E.), the Electric Dry Pile, 588 
Benoit-Bazille (M.J, the Making of Anti-typhoid Vaccine, 458 
Benson (W. N.), Geology and Petrology of the Great Ser- 
pentine-belt of N.S.W., part iv., 665 
Berget (A.), Capillary Constant of Sea-water, 389 
Berget (Prof. A.), the Earth: its Life and Death, translated 
by E. W. Barlow, 478 
Bergonié (J.), Magnetic Projectiles, 27, 105, 364 
Beringer (J. J.), Cassiterite in Cornish mill products, 363 ; 
(Death], 122; [Obituary], 152 
Berkeley (The Earl of), a Neglected Correction in Osmotics, 
34; Osmotics, 317 
Berry (E. W.), Upper Cretaceous and Eocene Floras of 
South Carolina and Georgia, 355 
Berry (H. F.), a History of the Royal Dublin Society, 454 
Berthelot (D.), Calculation of the Despretz-Trouton Con- 
stant, 363; Photochemical Reactions, 195 
Bertin (L. E.), Increase of Velocity or Range of Submarines, 
195; Transport of Marine Mines by Currents, 27 
Bessey (Profs. C. E. and E. A.), Essentials of College 
Botany, 421 
Bessey (Prof. C E.) [Obituary], 43 
Best (E.), Origin of Culture, 14 
Betim (A.), a Laver of Euxenite in Brazil, 721 
Bezzi (Prof. M.), the Syrphidz of the Ethiopian Region 
based on Material in the Collection of the British 
Museum (Natural History), 584 
Bigourdan (G.), Instrumental Undulations of Images, 195; 
Scintillation and Undulations, 279; Scintillation and 
Instrumental Undulations of Celestial Images, 306; the 
Constellations, 218; Examination of Mirrors and Ob- 
jectives, 218- the Scintillation of Stars. 601 
Billings (Dr. F.), Lane Medical Lectures, 692 
Bion (H. S.), [Death], <43 ; [Obituary], 567 
Blair (D.), the Master-Key : a New Philosophy, 3 
Blair (K. G.), Emission of Light among Insects, 569 
Blaithwayt (T. B.), the “Green Ray” at Sunset, 204 
Blatter (Prof. E.), the Flora of Aden, 187 
Blegvad (H.), Food, etc., of Invertebrate Animals at the 
Sea Bottom in Danish Waters, 526 
Blount (B.), Cotton as a High Explosive, 591 
Blumberg (H.), the Factorisation of Various Types of Ex- 
pression, 552 
Bodroux (F.), Preparation of Hydrocarbons, 694 
Bordas (F.), Sanitation of the Camps and Battlefields, 474 
Bordas (F.) and S. Bruére, the Phenomena of Putrefaction, 
529, 581 
Bonnheim (A.), Gift to the University of California, 471 
Bohr (Dr. N.), the Spectra of Hydrogen and Helium, 6 
Bogitch (B.), Superficial Deformations of Steels, 474 
Bone (Prof. W. A.), Prof. H. L. Callendar, and H. J. 
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Bose (Prof. J. M.), Motion of a Plane-Kite, 682 
Bosler (J.), Rotation of Solar Corona, 195, 217 
Bost (W. D. Ashton), Wood-charcoal, 177 
Boswell (P. G. H.), Lower Eocene Deposits, 167 
Bottlinger (K. F.), Hy Line in Stellar Spectra, 99 
Bouchet (L.), Electric Pressures, 279; Wulcanised India- 
rubber, 27 
Bougault (J.), the Dioxytriazines, 335 
Boule (M.), the Piltdown Skull, 460 
Boulenger (E. G.), Reptiles and Batrachians, 143 
Boulenger (Dr. G. A.), Catalogue of the Fresh-Water 
Fishes of Africa in the British Museum (Natural His- 
