INDEX 



Bees, Recent Researches on, 308 ; Habits of, by Sir John Lub. 

 bock, Bart., F.R.S., 40S ; Visiting Flowers, 189 



Beeton's " Science, Ait, and Literature," 201 



Beke (Dr.), Site of the true Mount Sinai, 312 



Belfast, Naturalists' Field Club, 4 ; Queen's College, 350 



Belgium, Academy of Sciences, 33, 394 ; Horticultural Society, 

 71 ; Science, 174, 42S, 452, 453, 493 



Bell (Alfred), Murchison Fund presented to, 354 



Bell (Thomas, F. R. S. ), "British Quadrupeds," 437 



Belt, (Thos., F.G.S.^, "The Naturalist in Nicaragua," 218, 

 469 



Bennett (A. W., F.L.S.), "How Flowers are Fertilised," 54 ; 

 Use of Terms in Cryptogamic Botany, 323 ; Fertilisation of 

 Funiariacex, 4S4 ; Pollen-grains in the Air, 485 



Bentham (Geo.), Address on Inauguration of Linnean Society's 

 Rooms, 30; his Resignation of the Presidency, 2S2, 331 



Berkeley (Rev. M. J., F.L.S.), Potato Disease, 1S3 ;" Weber- 

 bauer's " Fungi of North Germany," 200 



Bermuda, Botany of, 369 



Berthelot (M. ), New Remarks on the Chemical Elements, 231 



Biblical ArchcEology, Society of, 116, 215, 376, 476 



Bickmore (A. L., Ph.D.), Natural History Museum, New 

 York, 9 



Bigsby (Dr. J. J., F.R.S.), Murchison Medal awarded to, 353 



Binz (Prof.), Effects of Alcohol on Warm-blooded Animals 

 (Br.A.), 132 



Biology, Elementary, 43 



Birds and Agriculture, 232 



Birds, Flight of ; 5, 221, 242, 260, 301, 381, 390,403,422, 

 440 



Birds, Flowers of the Primrose destroyed by, 482, 509 



Birds, Mr. Garrod's New Classification of, 290 



Birkenhead Literary and Scientific Society, 152 



Birmingham Marine Excursion, 253 ; Natural History Society, 

 351 



Briggs (T. R. Archer), I'lowers of the Primrose destroyed liy 

 Birds, 509 



Black (W. J.), Rain-gauge at Sea, 63 



Black Rain, 43 



Blanford (W. T., F.G.S.), Glaciers in Hindostan, 63 



ISlanshard (C. T.), Evolution applied to the Chemical Ele- 

 ments, 6 



Blood-pressure in the Heart, 131 



Blyth (Edwd.), Obituary Notice of, 191 



Boston (U.S.), Natural History Society, 53,^176, 196, 2i;6, 

 391 



Botany ; Botanic Garden, Cambridge, 427 ; Botanical Collec- 

 tions, British Museum and Kew ; Report of Science Com- 

 mission, 397; Botanical Society, Edinburgh, 216; Jounmlof 

 Botany, 314, 474 ; "Botany of the Bible," by Frederic Ham- 

 ilton, loi ; Botany of Bermuda, 369; Botany of the Oi/Z/c-w^.v, 

 45°. 485 ;. Results of the Polaris Expedition, 405 ; " Botany, 

 Technical," by Dr. Julius Wiesner, 342 ; "Lindley's Treasury 

 of, Botany," by Dr. Lindley (new ed.) 300, 344; Mne 

 Disease, 427 ; Botany of Brisbane, 452 ; of Haarlem and 

 Carlsruhe, 428 



Bradley (S. I\I,, F.R.S. ), " Comparative Anatomy and Physi- 

 ology," 120 



Brain, Localisation of Cerebral Functions, 131 



Brazil, National Museums in, 463 



Bremen, Agricultural Exhibition, 373 



Brewer (W. H.), Herbert Spencer's " Sociology," 477 



Buffaloes slaughtered for their Hides, 373 



Brighton Aquarium, 113, 451 



Brisbane, Botany, 452 



British Association ; Report of Committee on Units, 18; Brad- 



^ fold Meeting, 34; Arctic Exploration, 37 



British Museum, its Administration, i, 26, 53, 103, 114, 272, 

 -77) 427) 5'2 ; Report of Science Commission, 397, 410 



Lrodie (Sir B. C. Bart., F.R.S.), Induction Tube of W. 



,^ Siemens, 308; Synthesis of Formic Aldehyde, 315 



' Brontotheridje," a new family of Fossil Mammals, 227 



Ijroim(J. A., F.R.S.), Sun Spots and Terrestrial Magnetism, 



3rown (Robt., M.A., Ph.D.), " Tlie Races of Mankind," 279 

 J;rown Institution, Lectures by Dr. Burdon Sanderson, 92 

 J runton (Dr.), Elfecls ot Alcohol on Warm-blooded Animals 



(br. A.), 132 ; Poison oi Indian Snakes, 294 

 liuchan (Ale.x.), Simultaneous Meteorological Observations, 

 3t3 



Buck (E.G.), Optical Phenomenon, 183 

 Budd (W., M.D., F.R.S)., " Typhoid Fever," 280 

 Buller (Dr. Walker L.), Nalliis modcstiis, 5 

 Busk (Prof.Geo., F.R.S.), Human bone in the Settle Cave, 14, 

 70, 156 



California, Academy of Sciences, 35 1 



Callard (T. K.), Stalagmitic Deposits. 171 



Calvert (Dr. Grace, F.R.S.), Obituary Notice of, 16 



Cambridge; Science at, 16, 33, 53, 71, 92, 131, 151, 171, 272, 

 292, 350, 372, 411, 427, 511 ; Scholarships and Examinations 

 for Natural .Science, 209 ; Cavendish Laboratory, Jesus Col- 

 lege, 410; Philosophical Society, 96 ; Omithologicil Collec- 

 tion, 312; Rede Lecturer, Sir Samuel Baker, 229; Physiology, 

 297 ; Natural Science Club, 213 



Cambridge (U.S.) Zoological Museum, 389 



Cameron (Lieut.), African Search Expedition, 318, 363 



Canadian Cieological Survey, 213 



Carpenter (Dr. W. B., F.R.S.), Ocean Currents, 423 ; Swiney 

 lectures, 590 ; Eozoon canadense, 491 



Carpenter (Dr. W. Lant), Specific Gravity of Sea-water, 

 2S2 



Carpenter (Jas., F.R.A.S.), "The Moon, as a Planet, aWorll, 

 and a Satellite," 358 



Carrier Pigeons utilised in Paris, 373 



Casella (Louis P.), Casella-Miller Thermometer, 5, 41, 62, 

 102 



Caspian Sea, Fish of tiie, 171 



Cathcart (Lor 1), his Prize for Essays on Potato Disease, 161 



Cavendish Laboratory, Jesus College, Cambridge, 410 



Caveat Settle, Human Remains, 14, 70, 156 



Cave at St. Asaph, 156 



Celestial Chemistry, J. N. Lockyer, F.R.S., on, 411, 429 



Cephalopoda, Gigantic, 332, 430 ; Ink of the Cuttle-fish, 363 



Cerebral Functions, Localisation of the, 131 



Challenger Expedition ; Notes from the, 92, 182, 304, 410, 423 ; 

 Botany of Bermuda, 369 ; of Fernando Noronha. 388 ; of St. 

 Vincent and Cape de Verde Islands, 450 ; of Tristan 

 d'Acunha, 485 



Chambers (Coote M.), Stick- fish and Habits of Sea-pens, 13 



Charter House, Science Lecture at, 247 



Chemistry : " Chemical Analysis, Quantitative," by T. E. Thorpe, 

 Ph.D., 26; New Remarks on Chemical Elements, 231 ; Che- 

 mical Equilibrium, 195 ; Chemical Society, 32, 36, 76, 115, 155, 

 235. 295, 335, 375, 415, 455, 494; Journal, Abstracts of 

 Original Foreign Papers, 377; "Analytical Chemistry," by 

 Pink and Webster, 27S ; Celestial Chemistry, by J. N. 

 Lockyer, F.R.S., 411, 429; "Elements of Chemistry," by 

 W. A. Miller, M.D., LL.D., 380 ; Industrial Chemistry, 

 370; "Inorganic Chemistry," by R. Meldola, 280; "Intro- 

 duction to Chemistry," by Rev. A. Rigg, 342 ; Practical 

 Continental Chemistry, 1 13 ; Text Book by IVI. Chrestomanos, 

 Athens, 29S ; " Laboratory Guide," by A. II. Church, RLA., 

 420 



Cheshire, Ornithology of, 132 



Chisholm (H. W. ), Weighing and Measuring, and Standards of 

 Weight and Measure, 47, 87 ; Ancient Egyptian Balances, 

 122 ; Lavoisier's Work in the foundation of the Metric System, 

 185 ■ 



Chisholm (Mrs.), "Perils in the Polar Seas," 241 



Chrestomanos (Prof.) ; " Text-Book of Chemistry," 29S 



Christie (A. C. ), Lakes with two Outfalls, 485, 500 



Chudleigh (Augustine), Garrod's Theory of Nerve Force, 163 



Church (Arthur Herbert, M.A.), "The Laboratory Guide," 

 420 



Cincinnati Observatory, 93 



Civil Engineers, Institution of, 17, 135, 172, 355 



Clark (J. Edmund), Meteor Shower at Heidelberg, 143 



Clarke (W. Bruce), Stalagmitic Deposits, 171 



Clerk-Maxwell (Prof.), his Laboratory at Cambridge, 297 



Clifton College .Scientific Society, 391 



Climate of .Scotland, Change in the, 72, 156 



Clock, Elecirical, for London, 351 



"Clouds, Classification of," by Prof. A. Poey, 163 



Coal, Appliances for its Economic Consmnpiion, 273 



Cobliold ( r. S., F.R.S.), "Internal Paraaies of Domesticated 



Animals," 4 

 Cold Treatment of Gases, 42 

 Cullege of Physicians, 16 

 College of Surgeons, 54, 397 [ 



