INDEX. 



865 



♦Benzoic acid, some decompositions of, 

 Prof. Odling on, 599. 



Bidwell (S.)on electrolj'sis in its physical 

 and chemical bearings, 308 ; on diather- 

 mancy and electrolytic couductivitj-, 

 309. 



Bilobites, Prof. T. McK. Hughes on, 653. 



Biological Section, Address by W. Carru- 

 thers to the, 679. 



*Biology, a re-arrangement of the divi- 

 sions of, by D. McAlpine, 708. 



*Birmingham, the water supply of, by 

 C, B. Mathews, 817. 



Birmingham, Tame, and Eea district 

 drainage, W. Till on the, 499. 



Birmingham canal, the, by E. B. Marten, 

 772. 



Birmingham compressed-air power 

 scheme, the, by J. Sturgeon, 822. 



Birmingham district, the geology of the, 

 Prof. C. Lapworth on, 621. 



*Black (C. E. D.) on the Afghan frontier, 

 734. 



* Blackpool electric tramwaj-, M. H. 

 Smith on the, 810. 



Blake (Dr. J.) on the connection between 

 molecular structure and biological 

 action, 687. 



Blake (Prof. J. F.), introduction to the 

 monian system of rocks, 669 ; on the 

 igneous rocks of Llyn Padarn, Yr Eifl, 

 and Boduan, lb. 



Blanford (Dr. W. T.) on the fossil plants 

 of the tertiary and secondarj'' beds of 

 the United Kingdom, 241 ; notes on a 

 smoothed and striated boulder from a 

 pre-tertiary deposit in the Punjab salt 

 range, 630. 



Bloxam (G-. W.) on the prehistoric race in 

 the Greek islands, 284 ; on the North- 

 western tribes of the dominion of 

 Canada, 285. 



Blyth (Prof. J.) on a new form of cur- 

 rent-weigher for the absolute determi- 

 nation of the strength of an electric 

 current, 521 ; exhibition and descrip- 

 tion of Miller's portable torsion mag- 

 netic meter, 556. 



Boarding-out as a method of pauper edu- 

 cation and a check on hereditary 

 pauperism, by Miss W. L. Hall, 753. 



Boiler explosions, by E. B. Marten, 823. 



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

 of England, "Wales, and Ireland, 223 ; 

 Address to the Geological Section by, 

 601. 



*Bore, a natural, velocity of advance of, 

 by Sir W. Thomson, 547. 



* , a standing, artificial production 



and maintenance of, by Sir W. Thom- 

 son, 547. 



Borneo, British North, by W. B. Pryer, 

 733. 



Bottomley (J. T.) on electrolysis in its 

 1886. 



physical and chemical bearings, 308 ; a 

 mercurial air-pump,, 519 ; on secular 

 experiments in Glasgow on the elasti- 

 city of wires, 537 ; Sir W. Thomson's 

 improved Wheatstone's rheostat, 547 ; 

 description of experiments for deter- 

 mining the electric resistance of metals 

 at high temperatures, 548. 



Boulder, a smoothed and striated, from a 

 pre-tertiary deposit in the Punjab salt 

 range. Dr. W. T. Blanford on, 630. 



Bourne (S.) on the teaching of science 

 in elementary schools, 278. 



Bouty (E.), criticism of Prof. Kohlrausch's 

 memoir, 339 ; sur la polarisation des 

 electrodes et sur la conductibilite des 

 liquides, 348 ; sur la conductibilite 

 61ectrique des dissolutions salines trfes 

 etendues, 350 ; on mechanical and 

 thermal efEects accompanying electro- 

 lysis, 357. 



and M. Foussereau on the employ- 

 ment of alternating currents for mea- 

 suring liquid resistances, 356. 



Bovey (Prof. H. T.) on promoting tidal 

 observations in Canada, 150. 



Bower (Prof. F. 0.) on the researches on 

 food-tishes and invertebrates at the 

 St. Andrews marine laboratory, 268 ; on 

 Humboldtia laurifoUa as a myrineko- 

 philous plant, 699 ; on positively geo- 

 tropic shoots in Cordyl'me anstralis, 

 ib. : note on apospores in Polystichum 

 angulare, va.T. jiulcherrimiim, 700. 



Bowls's barrow, the recent exploration 

 of, by W. Cunnington, 841. 



, crania and other bones from, by 



Dr. J. G. Garson, 841. 



♦Brain of an aboriginal Australian, Prof. 

 Macalister on the, 692. 



Bramwell (Sir F. J.) on the endurance of 

 metals under repeated and varj'ing 

 stresses, and the proper working stresses 

 on railway bridges, Sec, 284. 



Brodie (Rev. P. B.) on the discovery of 

 fossil fish in the new red sandstone 

 (Upper Keuper) in Warwickshire, 629; 

 on the range, extent, and fossils of the 

 rhaetic formation in Warwickshire, ib. 



Bromine, the action of, on the trichloride 

 of phosphorus, A. L. Stern on, 577. 



Brown (Prof. Crum) on meteorological 

 observations on Ben Nevis, 58; on 

 electrolysis in its physical and chemical 

 bearings, 308. 



Brown (Rev. G.) *New Britain, 731; 

 Papuans and Polynesians, 842 ; the life 

 history of a savage, 844. 



Buchan (A.) on meteorological observa- 

 tions on Ben Nevis, 58 ; on the depth 

 of the permanently frozen soil in the 

 Polar regions, 271 ; on the combination 

 of the Ordnance and Admiralty sur- 

 veys, and the production of a bathy- 



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