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REPORT — 1860. 



Barometers, M. R. von Schlagintweit on 

 thermo-barometers compared with, at 

 great heights, 50. 

 Barometric pressure, Admiral FitzRoy on 



the areas or lines of, 41. 

 Barometric readings, M. R. von Schlagint- 

 weit on some results deduced from com- 

 parisons of the boiling-point with, 50. 

 Beale (Prof.) on the ultimate arrangement 



of nerves in muscular tissue, 125. 

 Becquerel (E.) on a pile with sulphate of 



lead, 59. 

 Beetles, mummy, J. O. Westwood on, 123. 

 Belcher (Capt. Sir E.) on the manufacture 

 of stone-hatchets, &c. by the Esqui- 

 maux, 154. 

 Berbers or Brabers of Morocco, E. Schla- 

 gintweit on the, 1 77. 

 Bernoulli's theory of gases as applied to 

 their internal friction, their diffusion, 

 and their conductivity for heat, on the 

 results of, 15. 

 Bile, Dr. Thudichum on the physiological 

 relations of the colouring matter of the, 

 147. 

 Binocular instruments, A. Claudet on the 



means of increasing the angle of, 61. 

 Bird (Dr.) on the deodorization of sewage, 



66. 

 Birt (W. R.) on the forms of certain lunar 

 craters indicative of the operation of a 

 peculiar degrading force, 34 ; on atmo- 

 spheric waves, 38. 

 Blackwall's (J.) work on British spiders, 



notice of, 120. 

 Blakeley (Capt.) on rifled cannon, 201. 

 Bland (The Hon. W.) on an atmotic ship, 



60. 

 Blast of very high temperature, E. Cow- 

 per on a new mode of obtaining a, 204. 

 Blenheim iron ore, E. Hull on the, 81. 

 Boats for inland navigation, Prof. Hen- 

 ■ nessy on, 212. 

 Boiler, cylindrical spiral, J. Elder on the, 



204. 

 Boilers, W. Froude on Giffard's injector 



for feeding, 211. 

 Bone and osseous grafts, M. Oilier on the 



artificial production of, 143. 

 Bone-caves near Tenby, Rev. G. N. 



Smith on three undescribed, 101. 

 Booth (Rev. Dr.) on the relations be- 

 tween hypeiconic sections and elliptic 

 integrals, 4 ; on a new general method 

 for establishing the theory of conic sec- 

 tions, 4 ; on an improved instrument 

 for describing spirals, 60 ; on the true 

 principles of an income tax, 184 ; on a 

 deep sea pressure gauge invented by 

 Mr. H. Johnson, 202. 



Boric triethide, a new organic compound, 



Dr. Frankland and B. Duppa on, 09. 

 Boron, Dr. Frankland on a new organic 

 compound containing, 69. 



Bose (C. Moritz Von), remarks on the 

 volume theory, 71. 



Brennecke (Dr.) on some solutions of the 

 problem of tactions of Apollonius of 

 Perga by modern geometry, 4. 



Brewster (Sir David) on some optical il- 

 lusions connected with the inversion of 

 perspective, 7 ; on the influence of 

 very small apertures on telescopic vision, 

 7 ; on microscopic vision, and a new 

 form of microscope, 8; on the decom- 

 posed glass found at Nineveh and other 

 places, 9 ; on a nail found in Kingoodie 

 quarry, 73. 



British coasts, J. M. Mitchell on the im- 

 portance of the herring fishery on the, 

 191. 



British Islands, Admiral FitzRoy on the 

 storms of the, 39. 



Brodie (Prof. B. C.) on the quantitative 

 esiimation of the peroxide of hydrogen, 

 66. 



Brodie (Rev. P. B.) on the stratigraphical 

 position of certain species of corals in 

 the lias, 73. 



Broun (John Allan) on results of obser- 

 vations in the Observatory of His High- 

 ness the Rajah of Travancore, 20 ; 

 on the diurnal variations of the mag- 

 netic declination at the magnetic equa- 

 tor, and the decennial period, 21 ; on 

 a new induction dip-circle, 23 ; on mag- 

 netic rocks in South India, 24 ; on a 

 magnetic survey of the west coast of 

 India, 27; on the velocity of earth- 

 quake shocks in the laterite of India, 74. 



Buccinum, J. Lubbock on the develop- 

 ment of, 139. 



Buckland (Frank T.) on the acclimatiza- 

 tion of animals, birds, &c, 113. 



Buckton (G. B.) on some reactions of 

 zinc-ethyl, 66. 



Caithness flagstones, Sir P. de M. G. 

 Egerton on a new form of ichthyolite 

 discovered by W. Peach in the, 78. 



Caithness (Earl of) on road locomotives, 

 204. 



Calc-spar, on rings seen in viewing a light 

 through fibrous specimens of, 19. 



Cambridge, Rev. J. B. P. Dennis on the 

 mode of flight of the Pterodactyles of 

 the coprolite bed near, 76. 



Camera, solar, A. Claudet on the prin- 

 ciples of the, 62. 



Canada, short notice of the progress of 



