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Index 



Coloration of the Inside of the Mouth in Nestling Birds, 

 W. Ruskin Butterfield, 534 ; Field Book of Wild Birds 

 and their Music, F. Schuyler Mathews, 602 ; a Rare 

 Game Bird, John S. Sawbridge, bos; ; Sir Herbert Max- 

 well, Bart., F.R.S., 030 



Birth-rate, Decline of, 422 



Bissell (G. W.), Clays and Clay Industries of Iowa, 388 



Bjerrum (Neils), Determination of Oxygen in Sea-water, 

 "39 



Blaise (E. E.), the Acid 7-aldehvdes, 264 



Blanford (Dr. William Thomas, F.R.S.), Death and 

 Obituary Notice of, 202 



Blondlot (Prof. R.), a Collection of Papers communicated 

 to the Academy of Sciences, with Additional Notes and 

 Instructions for the Construction of Phosphorescent 

 Screens, 195 



Blyth (B. H.}, Rainfall of the Drainage Area of the Talla 

 Reservoir, 143 



Boine Snakes, the Rudimentary Hind Limbs of the, Frank 

 E. Beddard, F.R.S., 630 



Bond (Charles), . Sex-correlation and Disease, Deaf- 

 mutism, 332 



Bond (C. J.), Ascending Currents in Mucous Canals and 

 Gland Ducts, 331 



Bone (W. A.), Thermal Decomposition of Formaldehyde 

 and Acetaldehvdc, 141 



Bonney (Prof. f. G., F.R.S.), Chalk Masses in the Cliffs 

 near Cromer, S; Microscopic Structure of Minerals Form- 

 ing Serpentine, 215 



Bonola (Dr. Roberto), the Theorems of Padre Gerolamo 

 Sacchcri on the Sum of the Angles of a Triangle, 387 



Borrelly's Comet (1903 iv), the Motion of the fail of 

 Prof. Jaegermann, 135 



Botany : a Critical Revision of the Genus Eucalyptus, 

 J. H. .Maiden, 6; Eucalypts of the Blue Mountains' 

 N.S.W., J. H. .Maiden and R. H. Cambage, 312; Botany 

 of the Balearic Islands, J. W. White, 17 ; Undergrowth iii 

 Woods, P. Fliche, 23 ; Floral Diagram of the Crucifera;, 

 M. Gerber, 23 ; Chlorophyll Assimilation in Young 

 Shoots of Plants, Applications to the Vine, Ed. Griffon 

 23 ; a Gooseberry Mildew Introduced from the United 

 States into Ireland, E. S. Salmon, 40; New South Wale^ 

 Lmnean Society, 47, ,02, 312, 528, 5.53; Conditions of 

 Development of the Mycelium of Morchella, G. Fron, 

 47; " Flower-gardens" made by Ants in the Crowns of 

 Trees in Amazonia and Peru, E. Ule, 64; Regeneration 

 in Zamia, Dr. J. M. Coulter and M. A. Chrysler 6:; ■ 

 \egetationsbilder, 100; Linnean .Society, ii8,' ibo'- an 

 Indian (iarden, Mrs. Henry Cooper Eggar, Dr. Otto 

 Stapf, 125; Interesting Taxonomic Characters of the 

 Gymnospermous Genus Torreya, Dr. J. M. Coulter and 

 W. J. G. Land, 133; Effect of very Low Temperature 

 on Moist .Seeds, John Adams, 143; Constituents of the 

 Seeds of Hydnocarpus Wighliaria and of Hyilrwcarpiis 

 anthelmmtica, F. B. Power and M. Barroyvcliff 16= ■ 

 Constituents of the Seeds of Gynocardia odorala.F B 

 Power and .M. Barrowdiff, ibs ; Two Photographs of a 

 Palm, Corypha data. J. F. Waby, 166; Seed-bearing 

 Habit in the Lyginodendrea;, E. A. N. Arber, ib6 

 Abortive Development of the Pollen in Cross-bred' Sweet 

 Peas, R. P. Gregory, 1(16; Biochemie der Pflanzen Prof 

 hriedrich Czapek, F. Escombe, i6q ; StreifzUge an der 

 Riviera, Eduard Strasburger, Prof. G. H. Bryan F.R S 

 171 ; Handbuch der Heidekultur, Dr. P. Graebner i-^'- 

 Bacteriological Study of " Barszcz," M. Panek ' 182' 

 the Blackwood of Southern India, Two Species T e' 

 Bourdillon, 182 ; Possible Relationship between Bacteria 

 and the Gum of HaUca salignn. Dr. R. Greig Smith, 

 192 ; Origin of Natural Immunity towards the Putre- 

 factive Bacteria, Dr. R. Greig .Smith. 192; Probable 

 Bacterial Origin of the Gum of Linseed Mucilage, Dr 

 R. Greig Smith, 192; Amount of Variation obtained in 

 Cultivating a Five-rayed Form of Trifolium pratense 

 Miss T. Tammes, 205 ; the Parasitic Nature of the 

 Sandal-tree C'. A. Barber, 205; Action of Liquid Air 

 on the Life of the Seed, Paul Becquerel, 216; Botany 

 of Cook s First Voyage, Illustrations of Australian 

 Plants, Sir Joseph Banks, P.R.S., and Dr. D. Solander 

 221; Calcium O.xalate in the Eucalyptus Barks, Henry 

 G. Smith, 240; Poisonous Plants of all Countries A B 

 Smith, 243 ; Sugar-parasites, R. C. L. Perkins 254 • 



the Microsporangia of Lyginodendron, R. Kidston, 

 F.R.S., 2b2 ; Existence in the Black Elder of a Com- 

 pound furnishing Hydrocyanic Acid, M. Guignard, 2b3 ; 

 Hydrocyanic Glucoside in the Leaves of the Elder, Em. 

 Bourquelot and Em. Danjou, 264 ; Nature of the Hydro- 

 cyanic Glucoside of the Black Elder, L. Guignard and 

 J. Houdas, 336; the Botanical Congress at \'ienna. Dr. 

 A. B. Rendle, 272 ; Death of Charles Moore, 275 ; 

 "Brusca," a Disease of the Olive, Prof. Cuboni, 276; 

 Diseases of Citrous Plants and Fruits caused by the 

 Fungus Colletolricliiiin glocosporioides, P. H. Rolfs, 

 277; the Law of Biogenesis that " Ontogeny Repeats 

 Phylogeny," G. H. Shull, 278; Perception in Plants, 

 Prof. L. Kny, 278 ; Comparative Study of the Dominant 

 Phanerogamic and Higher Cryptogamic Flora of Aquatic 

 Habit, George West, 286 ; Supply of Water to Leaves on 

 a Dead Branch, Prof. H. H. Dixon, 288; on the Develop- 

 ment of Green Plants in Light in the Complete Absence 

 of Carbon Dio.xide and in an Artificial Soil Containing 

 Amides, Jules Lefevre, 312; the Native Flora of New 

 South Wales, R. H. Cambage, 312 ; Death of H. Lamb, 

 325 ; Death of Prof. L. Errera, 347 ; Obituary Notice of. 

 Prof. Jean Massart, 537; Experiments with Plants, Dr. 

 W. J. \. Osterhout, 3b4 ; Sterigmatocystis nigra and 

 Oxalic Acid, P. G. Charpentier, 392, 480; Pure Culture 

 of Green Plants in a Confined Atmosphere in Presence 

 of Organic Substances, M. Molliard, 424 ; How to Know 

 W'ild Fruits, a Guide to Plants when not in Flower by 

 Means of Fruit and Leaf, Maude Gridley Peterson, 428 ; 

 Toxic Effect of Heat on Stems, Prof. H. H. Dixon, 435 ; 

 Cause of Accumulation of Starch in Bruised Apples, 

 G. W'arcollier, 452 ; Trees, H. Marshall Ward, 482 ; 

 Hydrocyanic Acid obtained from Gooseberry Leaves, L. 

 Guignard, 504; Fungal Diseases on Cauliflowers, Dr. 

 H. von Schrenck and G. G. Hedgrock, 51b; Influence 

 of the Eclipse of August 30 on Plants, Ed. Bureau, 528 ; 

 Death and Obituary Notice of H. T. Tisdall, 538 ; New 

 Gladiolus from Victoria Falls, 539 ; Vegetation of Open 

 Bay Islands, New Zealand, Dr. L. Cockayne, 540 ; Notes on 

 the Drawings for Sowerby's " English Botany," F. N. A. 

 Garry, 556 ; Thorns merely Xerophytic Structures, Dr. 

 L. Cockayne, 565 ; Prof. G. Haberlandt's Investigations 

 on the Sense-organs of Plants, G. C. Nuttall, 565 ; 

 .Sensibility of the Chlorophyll Apparatus in Ombrophobe 

 and Ombrophile Plants, \V. Lubimenko, 57b ; Cytology 

 of Apogamy and Apospory, Miss L. Digby, b23 ; Sam- 

 bunigrin, Em. Bourquelot and Em. Danjou, b24 ; the 

 Mechanics of the Ascent of Sap in Trees, Prof. J. 

 Larmor, Sec.R.S., at Royal Society, 644; Development 

 of Amylase during the Germination of .Seeds, Jean 

 Effront, 648 ; Das Pflanzenreich, Supp. to October 19, 

 ix ; see also British Association 



Boudouard (O.), High Temperature Measurements, 293 ; 

 Influence of Water Vapour on the Reduction of Carbon 

 Dioxide by Carbon, 33b 



Boule (Marcellin), on the Origin of Eoliths, 438, 635 ; 

 Machine-made Eoliths, 538 



Boulenger (G. A., F.R.S., V.P.Z.S.), Opening Address in 

 Section D at the Meeting of the British Association in 

 South Africa, the Distribution of African Fresh-water 

 Fishes, 413 



Boulenger (Dr. G. S.), Hemichordata, Ascidians and 

 Amphioxus. Fishes, 103 



Boulouch (R.), Sub-iodide of Phosphorus and its Part in 

 .inotropic Transformation of Phosphorus, 33b 



Boulud (.M.), Distribution of Sugary Substances in Blood 

 between the Plasma and the Corpuscles, 311 



Bourdillon (T. E.), the Blackwood of Southern India, Two 

 Species, 182 



Bourget (M.), French Observations of the Total Solar 

 Eclipse, ;i8 



Bourne (A. A.), a First .Algebra, 393 



Bourquelot (Em.), Hydrocyanic Glucoside in the Leaves 

 of the Elder, 2b4 : Sambunigrin, b24 



Booty (E.), Passage of Electricity through Gaseous Layers 

 of Great Thickness, 3bo 



Bouveault (M.), Action of Sodium on the Esters of the 

 Fatty Acids, 192 



Boxall (George E.), the Evolution of the World and of 

 Man, 150 



Boyce (Rubert, F.R.S.), Report on the Sanitation and 



