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ployment of women and tlie educa- 

 tion of girls, 201. 



Beddoe (Dr. J.) on the anthropology of 

 the Merse, 147 ; on degeneration of 

 race in Britain, 148. 



Beneden (Prof. Van) sur les Chauves- 

 souris de I'epoque du mammouth et 

 de I'epoque actuelle, 135. 



Binary quautic,Prof. Cayley on the num- 

 ber of covariants of a, 9. 



Biological Section, Dr. Allen Thomson's 

 Address to the, 114. 



Birds, Dr. J. Murie on the development 

 of fungi within the thorax of living, 

 129. 



, B. T. Lowne on the ciliated con- 

 dition of the inner layer of the blasto- 

 derm in the ova of, and in the om- 

 phalo-niesenteric vessels, 140, 242. 



Bischof (Gustav) on the examination 

 of water for sanitaiy purposes, 67. 



Blake (Dr. Carter) and Dr. Chamock 

 on the physical, mental, and philolo- 

 gical characteristics of the Wallons, 

 148. 



Blake (Eev. J. F.) on the Yorkshire 

 lias and the distribution of its ammo- 

 nites, 90. 



Blastoderm in the ova of birds, B. T. 

 Lowne on the ciliated condition of 

 the inner layer of the, 140, 242. 



*Bleaching-powder, H. Deacon on Dea- 

 con's chlorine process as applied to 

 the manufacture of, on the larger scale, 

 69. 



Blood, Prof. A. Buchanan on the pres- 

 sm-e of the atmosphere as an auxiliary 

 force in carrying on the circulation of 

 the, 137. 



* , Dr. A. Gamgee on the magnetic 



and diamagnetic properties of the, 138. 



Bloxam (Thomas) on the influence of 

 clean and unclean surfaces in voltaic 

 action, 47. 



Bones and flints found in the caves at 

 Mentone and the adjacent railway- 

 cutting, M. Moggridge on the, 155. 



and flints found in a cave at Oban, 



Prof. Tiurner on human and animal, 

 160. 



Botly (William) on land-tenure, 202. 



Boidder-clays, Rev. J. Gmin on the 

 agency of the alternate elevation and 

 subsidence of the land in the forma- 

 tion of, 100. 



di-ift, Sir R. Griffith on the, and 



Esker hills of Ii-eland, 98. 



Boulders, D. Milne Home on the con- 

 servation of, 107. 



Boyd (Thomas J.) on educational hos- 



pital reform ; the scheme of the Edin- 

 burgh Merchant Company, 202. 



Braham (Philip) on a set of lenses for 

 the accurate correction of visual de- 

 fect, 37 ; on the crystallization of me- 

 tals by electricity, 67; on an appa- 

 ratus for working torpedoes, 220. 



*Brains of insane people, Dr. Tuke and 

 Prof. Rutherforcf on morbid appear- 

 ances noticed in the, 144. 



Bramwell (J. F.), account of some ex- 

 periments upon a " Carr Disintegra- 

 tor " at work at Messrs. Gibson and 

 Walker's flour-miUs, 229. 



Brine (Captain L.) on the ruined cities 

 of Central America, 75. 



Britain, Dr. Beddoe on degeneration of 

 race in, 148. 



, J. S. Plien^ on some indications 



of the manners and customs of the 

 early inhabitants of, 159. 



Bromine, Dr. Andrews on the action of 

 heat on, 66. 



Brown (Dr. A.) on the mean tempera- 

 ture of Arbroath, 60. 



*Brown (Dr. A. B.) on a direct-acting 

 combined steam and hydraidic crane, 

 231. 



Brown (Dr. J.) on the Silurian rocks of 

 the south of Scotland, 93 ; on the Up- 

 per Silurian rocks of the Pentland 

 Ilills and Lesmahago, 93. 



Brovpn (Dr. Robert), geological notes on 

 the Noursoak peninsula and Disco 

 Island in North Greenland, 94 ; on 

 the flora of Greenland, 128 ; on the 

 geographical distribution of the floras 

 of North-west America, 128 ; on the 

 interior of Greenland, 175. 



Brown (Samuel) on the measurement 

 of man and his faculties, 210. 



*Brown (the Rev. Thomas) on speci- 

 mens of fossil wood from the base of 

 the Lower Carboniferous rocks at 

 Langton, Berwickshire, 128. 



*Bryce (Dr.) on certain fossils from the 

 Durine limestone, N.W. Sutherland, 

 94. 



Buchan (Alexander) on the rainfall of 

 Scotland, 232. _ 



* on the rainfall of the northern 



hemisphere in July, as contrasted with 

 that of January, with remarks on at- 

 mospheric circulation, 232 ; on the 

 great heat of August 2nd-4th, 1868, 

 232. 



Buchanan (Prof. A.) on the pressure of 

 the atmosphere as an auxiliary force 

 in carrving on the circulation of the 

 blood, 137. 



