Berlin : African Exploration Society, 134, 3S3 ; German Chemi- 

 cal Society, 1 98 



Berwickshire Naturalists' Club, 330 



Bethnal Green Museum, Col. Lane Fox's Anthropological Col- 

 lection, 232 



Bettany (G. T. ), Biology at Cambridge, 53 



Bezold (Prof. W. von), "The Science of Painting," 221 



Bibliography of Science, 508 



Binz (Prof.), Hay Fever, 26 



Biology : at Cambridge, 53 ; Bibliography of, 50S [S^ri British 

 Association, Sec. D) 



Birch (Dr. Samuel), International Congress of Orientalists, 419 



Birds, Boddaert's Catalogue of, 123 



Birds, Flight of, 147, 263, 518 



Birds, Flowers destroyed by, 6, 24 



"Birds in the British Museum," Catalogue by R. Bowdler 

 Sharpe, 195, 37S 



Bird-, Migration of, 415, 459, 520 



" Birds of North America," by Dr. Theodore Jasper, 212 



Birkbeck Literary and Scientific Institution, 252, 511 



Birminghim : Proposed Aquarium, 93 ; Free Library, 93 ; 

 Statue of Dr. Priestley, 213 



Birmingham and Midland Institute, 407 



Blackburn (Joseph), Supernumerary Rainbows, 503 



Blood, Transfusion of, 1 73 



Boddaert's Catalogue of Birds, 123 



Boisbaudran (Lecoq de), " Spectres Lumineux," 396 



Bonney (Rev. T. G.), The Glacial Period, 44, 62, 85, 105 



Borrelly's Comet, 267, 2S7, 336 



Boston (U.S.), Society of Natural History, 78, u8, 277 



Botanical Congress at Florence, 74 



Botanico-Geological Excursion into the Grampians, 90 



Botany : " Natural Oiders of the Vegeable Kingdom," by Prof. 

 Oliver, F.R.S., 222 ; " Manual of Biitish Botany," by C. C. 

 Babington. M.A., F.R.S., 242 ; Respiration and Nutrition in 

 Plants, 427; Systematic Botany (Br. A.), 433; "Flora of 

 Dorsetshire;" "Flora of Settle in Craven,'' 459 ; Bibliography 

 of Botany, 510 (&v British Association, Sec. D) 



Boulder Committee of Br. A., Report, 388 



Boulger (G. S.), Colour in Flowers not due to Insects, 520 



Brahara (Philip, F.C.S.), Experiments on Light (Br. A.), 389 



Braham and Gatehouse (Messrs.), Dissociation' of Nitric Acid 

 (Br. A.), 452 



Brain (The), Localisation of its Function-, by Dr. Brown- 

 Sequard, 45, 245, 250 



Brain (The) and Auditory Capsule (Br. A.), 412 



Breslau : Population and Health, 154, 236 ; Scientific Congress, 

 416 



Bridlington : Proposed Aquarium, 152 ; "Crag" Beds (Br. A.), 

 412 



Bri-tol College of Science and Literature, 93, 134 



British Association : Meeting at Belfast — Preliminary Ar- 

 rangements, 193, 230, 293 ; Officers of Sections, 194, 230 ; 

 Room for Specimens and Apparatus, 263, 3S0 ; Inaugural 

 Address by Prof. Tyndall, D.C.L , F.R.S., President, 309; 

 Financial Statement, 336 ; Recommendations of the Com- 

 mittee, Grants, 361. Reports — Rainfall (1873-74), 342 ; 

 Dredging, Coast of Durham and North Yorkshire, 343 ; 

 Mathematical Tables, 372 ; Nomenclature of Dynamical and 

 Electrical Units, 372 ; Siemens' Pyrometer, 372 ; Tables of 

 Wave Numbers, 373 ; Sub-Wealden Exploration, 273 ; In- 

 fluence of Forests on Rain, 373 ; Thermal Conductivities of 

 Rocks, 386 ; Progress of Chemistry, 3S7 ; Exploration of 

 Victoria Cave, Settle, 3S7 ; Boulder Committee, 388 ; Close 

 Time Committee, 388 ; Teaching of Physics in Schools, 410 ; 

 Luminous Meteors, 430 ; Isomeric Cresols, 431 ; Utilisation 

 of Sewage, 431 ; Classification of Labyrinthodonta, 449 

 Section A {^Mathematical and Physical Scwnce). — Officers, 194; 

 Opening Address Iiy the Rev. Prof. J. H. Jellett, M.A., 

 M.R.I.A, 319; Grants, 361 ; Perturbations of the Com- 

 pass by the Rolling of the .Ship, by .Sir Wm. Thomson, 

 388 ; Spectrum of Coggia's Comet, by Dr. Huggins ; Ex- 

 ptriments on Light, by P. Braham, F.C.S., 389; Kirch- 

 hoff's Rules for Electric Circuits, by Prof. Clerk-Maxwell, 

 F.R. S. ; Sun-spot and Atmospheric Ozone, by T. Mofiatt, 

 M.D. ; Charts on Gnomonic Projection, by J. G. Morrison, 

 411 ; Construction of a perfectly Achromatic Telescope, by 

 Prof. G. G. Stokes ; Periodicity of Cyclones, Rainfall, and 

 Sun-spots, by C. Meldrum, 431 ; Photographic Operations 

 in Transit of Venus, by Capt. Abney, R.E., 449 ; Anemo- 



meter for Wind on the Coast, by Dr. De la Rue, F.R.S., 

 450; Kinetic P^nergy, by J. Purser, M.R.I.A., 450; 

 Nicol's Prisms, by W. Ladd, 451 



Section B (Chemical Science). — Officers, 194 ; Opening Ad- 

 dress by Prof. A. Crum Brown, M.D., F.R.S. E., F.C.S., 

 337 ; Grants, 361 ; Chemical Composition of Jute Fibre, 

 by Prof. Hodges ; High Pressures, by Dr. Andrews, 

 F.R.S ; Latent Heat of Liquefied Gases, by J. Dewar, 

 F.R.S. E. ; Spontaneous Generation, by Dr. Debus, F.R.S. ; 

 Phosphoric Acid, by Mr. Ogilvie, 389 ; Improved Filter 

 Pump, by W. Jesse Lovett ; Sulphur-Urea, by Prof Emer- 

 son Reynolds ; Action of Carbonic Acid and Cyanogen on 

 Oxide of Iron, by Lowthian Bell, F.R.S. ; Electrotypic 

 Experiments on IVIeta'.lic Chlorides, by Dr. Gladstone, 

 F.R.S., and Mr. Tribe; Composition of certain kinds 

 of Food, by W. J. Cooper, 390 ; Opium Derivations, by 

 Dr. Wright ; Phenomenon in Boring a Well, by Dr. An- 

 drews ; Reaction of Hydrogen, Peroxide, &c., by Mr. 

 Fairley ; General Equations of Chemical Decompositon, by 

 Prof Clifford, F.R.S. ; Cyanogen in Commercial Bromine, 

 by Dr. T. L. Phipson ; Sesqui-Sulphide of Iron, by Dr. 

 Phipson ; Chlor.- Bromides and Brom Iodides of the 

 Olefines, by Prof. Maxwell Simpson. F.R.S., 432 ; Specific 

 Volumes of Liquids, by Prof. Thorpe ; Dissociation of 

 Nitric Acid, by Messrs. Braham and Gatehouse ; Piocess 

 of Fossilisation, by Dr. Carpenter, F.R.S. ; Abnormal 

 Chloride?, by Prof. Roscoe, F.R.S., 452 



Section C (Geology). — Officers, 194 ; Opening Address by Prof. 

 Edw. Hull, F.R.S., 324; Grants, 361; Silicified Wood 

 from the Rocky Mountains, 390 ; Microzoa in Chalk Flints, 

 by Jos. Wright ; Polyzoa from Silurian Rocks, by Prof. H. 

 A. Nicholson; "Crag" Bed of Bridlington, by J. Gwyn 

 Jeffreys, F.R.S., 412; Tyrone Coal-field, by Mr. Hard- 

 man, 432 



Scc/ion D (Biology). — Ofl5cers, 194 ; Opening Address by 

 Prof. Peter Redfern, M.D., 327 ; Grants, 361 



Department of Anatomy and Physiology. — Brain and Auditory 

 Capsule, by Prof Cfeland, 412 ; The Iguanodon, by B. 

 Waterhouse Hawkins ; Development of Sharks, by Mr. 

 Balfour ; Tongue of the Ant-eater, by Prof. Macalister ; 

 Columella aims in Amphibia, by Prof. Huxley ; the Eye 

 of Cephalopoda, by E. Ray Lankester ; Effects of Ozone, 

 by Prof Redfern, 413 ; Wild Flowers and Insects, by Sir 

 J. Lubbock, Bart., F.R.S., 402, 422. 



Department 0/ Zoology and Botany. — British MoUusca, by J. 

 Gwyn Jeffreys, F.R.S.; Distribution of Cassowaries, by P. L. 

 Sclater ; Potato Disease, by J. Torbitt ; Eozoon canadense, 

 by Dr. Carpenter, 390 ; Alga from Jersey, by Dr. Williams ; 

 Indian Ampelide*, by Prof. Lawson ; Tiee-ferns, by D. 

 Moore ; Mosses of the North of Ireland, by S, A. Stewart ; 

 Abnormal Daisy, by Prof. Dickson ; Systematic Botany, 

 by G. Bentham, F. R. S. ; Pollen-grains, by A. W. Bennett, 

 433 ; External Shell of MoUusca, by E. R. Lankester, 452 ; 

 English Nomenclature in Biology, by E. R. Lankester, 



453 

 Section E (Geography). — Officers, 194; Opening Address by 

 Major Wilson, R. E., 339 ; Grant to Palestine Exploration 

 Fund, 361 

 Section F (Statistics and Economic Science). — Officers, 194; 



Grant, 361 

 Section G (Mechanical Science). — Officers, 194 ; Grant for 

 Measuring Speed ol Ships, 361 ; Opening Address by Prof. 

 James Thompson, LL.D., 390 

 British Museum : Zoological Curatorship, 273 ; Sharpe's 



" Catalogue of Birds," 195, 378 

 Bromide Plates for Photography, 281 

 Bromine, Commercial, Cyanogen in (Br. A.), 432 

 Brown (Prof. A. Crum), Opening Address in Sec. B, Br. A., 



337 

 Brown (Robert), and Sprengel, on the Structure of Plants, 161 

 Brown-Sequard (Dr.), Functions of the Brain, 45 

 Bruce-Clarke (W.), Pala^otherium magnum, 124 

 Brussels, Royal Academy of Sciences, 407, 434 

 Burat (Amcdce), " Geology and Agriculture," 458 

 Burnham (S. W.), Lakes with Two Outfalls, 124 

 Burnley Grammar School, 134 

 "Butterflies of North America," by W. II. Edwards, 231 



Cable-laying, Ajipliances on board the Faraday, 64 

 Caen Ac.idcmy of Science, 213 



