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INDEX 



YNaliir,; Dec. 2, iSSo 



lueiit ill the Coal Bog near Bohoe, 47S ; Prof. Rolleston 

 on the Structure of Round and Long Barrows, 47S ; Miss 

 Buckland on Surgery and Superstition in Neolithic Tiai'is, 

 47S 

 Sectiott E (Geography). — The Royal Geographical Society's 

 East African Expedition, 479 ; Col. Tanner on the Dara 

 Nur and its Inhabitants, 479 ; the Galapagos Islands, by 

 Capt. Markham, 480 



"British Islands, A Short Geography of," by J. R. and Alice 

 S. Green, 119 



British Medical Association at Cambridge, 64, 372 ; Gold 

 Medal of, 299 



British Museum, Fresh Maps at the, 1S4 ; Report of the, 246 ; 

 the Electric Light at, 299 ; the Removal of the Natural 

 History Collections to South Kensington, 328 ; the Attend- 

 ants, Wm. Flinders Petrie, 338 ; Discussion in tlie House of 

 Commons on, 345 



British Wild Flowers, a New and Easy Method of Studying, by 

 Natural Analysis, F. A. Messer, 532 



British Columbia, the Trees of, 592 



Eroca (Paul), Obituary Notice of, 249 ; II. F. C. ten Kate on, 

 292 ; Proposed Erection of a Statue to, 299 



Brock (Dr. J.), Evolution of Dibranchiate Cephalopods, 277 



Brocken, Spectre of the, at Home, J. Innes Rogers, 559 



Bromine, Chlorine, and Iodine, Densities of at High Tempera- 

 tures, 27S 



Bronze Statuary and the Process of Electrodeposition, iS 



Bronze Implements, Discovery of in Sardinia, 540 



"Brook's Popular Botany," 347 



Broun (J. Allan), Pension to the Widow of, 22S 



Browne (Walter R.), Iron and Hydrogen, 242 



Brussels, International Exhibition at, 131, 34S ; Proposed Inter- 

 national Congress of Commerce and Industry at, 275 



Brutes, Intellect in, F. Lewis, 40; W. W. Nicholls, 265; 

 Rev. George Henslovv, 319; Surgeon-Major Curran, 339; 

 Henry MacCormack, 362 ; L. P. Gratacap, 40S ; Consul 

 E. L. Layard, 607 ; Prof. W. Whitman Bailey, 607 



Buchanan (J. Y.), Compressibility of Glass, 377 



Buchanan (J.), "Manual of the Indigenous Grasses cf New 

 Zealand," 532 



Buckland (Miss A. W.), on Surgery and Superstitions in Neo- 

 litHc Times, 478 



Buitenzorg, Java, Dr. M. Neuf, appointed Director of Botanical 

 Gardens of, 64 



Bulletin of the Torquay Botanical Club, 136 



Bulletin of the United States Geological and Geographical 

 Survey of the Territories, 161 



Bulletin de la Societe d'Anthropologie de Paris, 209, 331, 575 



Bulletin de 1' Academic Royale des Sciences de Belgique, 236, 

 257, 331. 455, 528, 552 



Bunbury (E. H.), " History of Ancient Geography," 333 ■ 



Bunsen Burner, New Form of, 302 



Burnham (S. W.), his Report on the Proposed Lick Observa- 

 tory, 515 



Buschmann (Dr.), Death of, 66 



Byerly (W. E.), Ditferential Calculus, 509 



Caddis-Flies, Monograph on, R. McLachlan, F.R.S., 314 

 Calantarients (Dr.), on Crystal Ice, 130 

 Calcareous Concretions in Timber, Dr. G. Bidie, 169 

 Cambier (M.) on Recent Earthquakes on Lake Tanganyika, 67 

 Cambridge: Proposed Admission of Women to Academic 



Degrees, 70 ; the University Commission, 623 

 Camelette (Ignazio), II Binomio di Newton, 583 

 Camps on the Malvern Hills, 2ii 

 " Camps in the Caribbees ; the Adventures of a Naturalist in the 



Lesser Antilles," F. A. Ober, 214 

 Cancri 60, Variability of, John Birmingham, 76 

 Cape Town Botanic Gardens, 517 



Capello (J.), Comparative Curves in Terrestrial Magnetism, 220 

 Capron (J. Hand), Storm Effects, 290; Inevitable Test for 



Aurora, 291 

 Carbon and Carbon Compounds, Prof. A. S. Herschel, 320 

 Carbon, Electrical Conductivity of, 544 

 Carbon, on the Spectra of the Compounds of, with Hydrogen 



and Nitrogen, Professors Liveing and Dewar, 620 

 Carbon Compouirds and the Refraction Equivalents, 279 

 Carbon Compounds, Chemistry of the, M. M. Pattison Muir, 



530 



Carbon Compounds and Phosphorescence, 543 



Carbonic Acid? does Chlorophyll Decompose, Dr.' J W. 

 Draper, 29 



Carboniferous Forest at Oldham, Jas. Nield, 30 



Caribbean Sea, 242 



Caribbees, Camps in the, the Adventures of a Naturalist in the 

 Lesser Antilles, F. A. Ober, 214 



Carlisle, Royal Agricultural Society at, 253, 275 



Carmichael (Prof.) on the Vibration^ of a Flame, iS 



Carnelley (Dr. Thos.), Conditions Necessary for the Existence 

 of Matter in the Liquid State, 434 ; Existence of Ice at High 

 Temperatures, 434, 510; Ice under Pressure, 583 



Carnivorous Wasps, 31 



Carpenter (Dr. W. B., F.R.S.), Ocean Circulation, 217 



Carr (G. S.), Synopsis of Elementary Results in Pure and 

 Applied INIathematics, 582 



"Carriage, the Waiting," W. M. F. Petrie, 534 



Cassel, General Meeting of the German Geometrical Society at, 

 16 



Caves in South of Ireland, 445 



Caverns, Discovery of Natural, in the Neighbourhood of West 

 Harptree, 204 



Celestial Object, a Novel, Prof. E. C. Pickering, 4S3 



Celluloid, 370 



Centrifugal Machine for Schools, 375 



Cephalopods, Dibranchiate, Evolution of. Dr. J. Brock on, 277 



Ceraski's New Variable Star, 616; Prof. E. C. Pickering, 603 ; 

 Geo. Knott, 603 



Cerium, the Specific Weight of, S42 



"Ceylon Coffee Soils and Manures; Report to the Ceylon 

 Coffee Planters' Association," John Hughes, 144 



Chalets, Swiss, Rev. Geo. Henslow, 534 ; H. N. Moseley, 559 



Chamblandes, Canton Vaud, Discovery of Walled Tombs at, 40 



Champagne, the manufacture of, 397! 



Champlain Iron Region, New Mineral from the, 27S 



Chantrell (J. F.), Algie, 3S2 



Chappell (\Vm., F.S.A.), Protection against Mosquitos, Flies, 

 and Blight, 11 



Charnay (M. Desire), Exploration of the Ancient Remains of 

 Mexico, 42 



Chatel, Fascination, 4S4 



Chemistry : Wurtz's Elements of Modern Chemistry, 8 ; 

 Chemical Society, 21, 47, 139, 162, 211 ; Grants from Re- 

 search Fund of, 22S ; Cheaiical Notes, 27S, 349, 342, 617 ; 

 Chemical Dynamics, M. M. Pattison Muir, 285 ; Tilden's 

 Qualitative Analysis, 360 ; Agricultural Chemistry, Dr. J. H. 

 Gilbert, 472, 497, 523 ; "Miller's Chemistry of the Carbon 

 Compounds," M. M. Pattison Muir, 530 ; Prof. II. E. Arm- 

 strong-, F.R.S., on the same, 559 ; Recent Chemical Research, 

 M. M. Pattison Muir, 608 



Cherbourg, Balloon Ascent at, 398 



Chicago Observatory, 301 



Chimborazo, E. Whymper's Ascent of, 19 



China, Easton's Journey in the North- West of, 41 ; Chinese 

 Alligators, 112; Rainfall of Southern China, 431 ; Chinese 

 Geographical Names, 618 



Chlorine, Bromine, and Iodine, Densities of, at High Tempera- 

 tures, 273 



Chlorophyll, does it decompose Carbonic Acid? Dr. J. W. 

 Draper, 29 



Chlorophyllan, Hoppe-Seyler on, 279 



Christie (W. H. M.), Spectrum of Ilartwig's Comet, 557 



Chrystal (Prof. G.), Experiments with the Wire Telephone on 

 strongly magnetic Metals, 16S, 303 



Church (Prof. A. H.), Leclures on Agricultural Cliemistry, 275 ; 

 Agricultural Chemistry, 300 



Church (John A.), Subterranean Kaolinisation, 317 



Ciamician (G.), Spectroscopic Investigations, 575 



Ciliated Plant, a New Green, 521 



Cinchona Cultivation, 56S, 592 



Cirencester, Royal Agricultural College, Establishment of Two 

 Scholarships, 185 



Citric Acid from Glycerin, Grimaux and Adam, 349, 567, 585 



City and Guilds of London Institute, 17, 44, 183 



Clarens, Remarkable Electrical Phenomenon at, 204 



Clark (Lieut. J. W.), Utricularia, 318 



Clav, London,' Diatoms in the, W. H. Shrubsole, 221 



Claypole (Prof. E. W.), Stags' Horns, 146 ; Minerva Ornaments, 



riiffird (Prof. W. K., F.R.S.), Energy and Force, 122 



