INDEX. 



937 



Oriental, note sur quelques, by Rev. 

 Abbe Laflamme, 810. 



Bate (C. Spence) on the geographical dis- 

 tribution of the macrurous Crustacea, 

 753. 



*Bateson (W.) on the presence in the 

 EnteropMUsta of a structure compar- 

 able with the notochord of the Chor- 

 data, 782. 



Beck (Mr.) on the determination of a 

 gauge for the manufacture of various 

 small screws, 287. 



Becker (Miss L.) on the teaching of 

 science in elementary schools, 283. 



Beddoe(Dr.)on the facial characteristics 

 of the races and principal crosses in 

 the British Isles, 21)4. 



Bell (Dr. R.), the forests of Canada, 856. 



Bemrose (J.) and Frof. G. P. Girdwood, 

 preliminary notes on a blue-colouring 

 matter found in certain wood under- 

 going decomposition in the forest, 

 689. 



BenNevis, meteorological observations on, 

 report of the Committee for co-operat- 

 ing with the Directors of the Ben Nevis 

 Observatory in making, 30. 



Bennett (A. W.) on a vegetable organism 

 which separates sulphur, 785. 



Bickmore (A. S.) on the Jessop Collec- 

 tion, to illustrate the forestry of the 

 United States, in the New York Natural 

 History Museum, 778. 



*Biliary concretions, Dr. G. Harley on 

 the, 783. 



Biological Section, Address by Prof. H. N. 

 Moseley to the, 746. 



Biram's anemometers attached to kite- 

 wires, an account of some preliminary 

 experiments with, by Prof. E. D. Archi- 

 bald, 639. 



Blackfeet, customs and religious rites of 

 the, by R. G. Haliburton, 920. 



Blackfeet Indians, the Chokitapia or, notes 

 on the astronomical customs and reli- 

 gious ideas of, by J. L'Heureux, 921. 



Blake (Prof. J. F.), first impressions of 

 some pre-Cambrian rocks of Canada, 

 728. 



Blanford (W. T.), Address by, to the 

 Geological Section, 691. 



Blood, the coagulation of, Prof. H. N. 

 Martin and W. H. Howell on, 774. 



Blood of Limulus j'oly^hemus, F. Gotch 

 and J. P. Laws on the, 774. 



Blue-colouring matter, a, found in certain 

 wood undergoing decomposition in 

 the forest, preliminary notes on, by 

 Prof. G. P. Girdwood and J. Bemrose, 

 689. 



*Bones and muscles, the comparative 

 variableness of, G. E. Dobson on, with 

 remarks on unity of type in variation 

 of the origin and insertion of certain 



muscles in species unconnected by 

 unity of descent, 767. 



Bonney (Prof. T. G ) on the erratic blocks 

 of England, Wales, and Ireland, 219; 

 on the Archaean rocks of Great Britain, 

 529. 



Borneo, North, by E. P. Gueritz, 805. 



Bonis (Dr. H.) on the inconveniences of 

 the present mode of quoting scientific 

 journals, 656. 



Bos primigenius, the direct descendants 

 of, in Great Britain, some observations 

 ou, by G. P. Hughes, 772. 



Bottomley (J. T.) on loss of heat by 

 radiation and connection as affected by 

 the dimensions of the cooling body, 

 and on cooling in vacuum, 623. 



Bourne (A. G.), report on the occupation 

 of the table at the zoological station 

 at Naples, 254. 



Bourne (S.) on the teaching of science in 

 elementary schools, 283 ; the inter- 

 dependence of the several portions of 

 the British Empire, 851. 



Bowditch (Prof. H. P.) on vaso-motor 

 nerves, 776. 



Bows, unusual coloured, observed in fogs, 

 an account of, by P. Burton, 656. 



Brabrook (Mr.) on the expenses of com- 

 pleting the preparation of the final 

 report of the Anthropometric Com- 

 mittee, 279 ; on the facial character- 

 istics of the races and principal crosses 

 in the British Isles, 294. 



Bramwell (Sir F. J.) on the determination 

 of a gauge for the manufacture of 

 various small screws, 287 ; on patent 

 legislation, 293; Address by, to the 

 Mechanical Section, 875. 



Brigg (J.) on the exploration of the Ray- 

 gill fissure in Lothersdale, Yorkshire, 

 240. 



British agriculture, the position and pro- 

 spects of, by Prof. W. Fream, 847. 



British and Canadian agriculture, by Prof. 

 J. P. Sheldon, 847. 



British Commercial Geographical Society, 

 the, about to be founded on the pro- 

 posal of Commr. V. Lovett Cameron, 

 808. 



British Empire, the, in North America and 

 in Australasia, by W. Westgarth, 835. 



, the interdependence of the several 



portions of the, by S. Bourne, 851. 



*Brown (Prof.) on the application of 

 scientific and practical arboriculture 

 in Canada, 855. 



Brown (Prof. Crum) on meteorological 

 observations on Ben Nevis, 36 ; on 

 chemical nomenclature, 39. 



Brown (G. C), the apatite deposits of the 

 province of Quebec, 716. 



Brown (Dr. J.) on the destruction of 

 town refuse, 896. 



