INDEX II. 



197 



Balatta and other gums, Dr. R. Riddell 

 on, as a substitute for gutta percha, 

 87. 



Balfour (Prof.) on some rare Scotch 

 plants, 86. 



*Barham (Francis) on the alimentary 

 character of nitrogen gas, 117. 



Barlow (Peter W.) on the power re- 

 quired to overcome the vis inertias of 

 railway trains, 184. 



*Barrett (A.) on the South Wales mi- 

 neral basin, 50. 



Barrow, C. Spence Bate on an ancient 

 Cornish, 88. 



Bastian (Dr. A.) on the ethnology of 

 Cambodia, 136. 



Bate (C. Spence) on a human skull and 

 the bones of animals found with pot- 

 tery in a kj okkenmodden on the coast 

 of "Cornwall, 88 ; on an ancient Cor- 

 nish barrow, 88, 



Bates (H. W.) on the Delta of the Ama- 

 zons, 137. 



Bath, Rev. L. Jenyns on the temperature 

 and rainfall at, 17. 



, Dr. Daubeny on the thermal waters 



of, 26. 



, J. E. Daniel on the Mollusca of, 93. 



-, R. T. Gore on the mortality of the 



city of, 167 



Bath waters, Prof. Roscoe on the exist- 

 ence of lithium, strontium, and copper 

 in the, 41. 



Beck (Richard), observations on the spin- 

 nerets of spiders, 88. 



•Beddoe (Dr. B.) on the testimony of 

 local phenomena to the permanence of 

 type, 89. 



Belcher ^Admiral Sir E.) on improve- 

 ments m the defence of ships of war, 

 184. 



Bennett (Dr. J. Hughes) on the physio- 

 logical aspect of the sewerage ques- 

 tion, 117; on Marey's new sphygmo- 

 graph, 119. 



*Bird (Dr. Henry) on the utilization of 

 sewage, 24 ; on the human bones found 

 in tumuli situated on the Cotteswold 

 hills, 137. 



Bird (Dr. W.) on a new method of de- 

 tecting arsenic, antimony, sulphur, and 

 phosphorus, by their hydrogen com- 

 pounds, when in mixed gases, 31. 



Birds, C. Ottley Groom on the food of, 

 95. 



Birmingham, Dr. T. L. Phipson on the 

 black stones which fell from the at- 

 mosphere at, in 1858, 37. 



Birt (W. R.) on methods of detecting 

 changes on the moon's surface, 4. 



•Bituminous substances, Dr. T. Ander- 

 son on, 24. 



Blood-corpuscle, Dr. Edwards Crisp on 

 the size of the, in relation to the size 

 of the animal, its swiftness and powers 

 of endurance, 121. 



Bokhara, M. Alexander Ilippius on Rus- 

 sian trade -with, 145. 



Bone breccia ^^'ith flints in Lebanon, the 

 Rev. H. B. Tristram on a, 72. 



Boulder-clay and drift of Scarborough 

 and E. Yorkshire, John Leckenby on 

 the, 58. 



of Caithness, C. W. Peach's addi- 

 tional list of fossils from the, 61. 



*Bowen (Sir George) on the advance of 

 colonization in N. E. Australia, 137. 



*Boyd (Dr. R.) on the measurements of 

 the head and weight of the brain in 

 696 cases of insanity, 119. 



Bradford-on- Avon Union, W. Gee on the 

 mode adopted at the, for the utiliza- 

 tion of sewage, 28. 



Brady (H. B.) on the Foraminifera of the 

 middle and upper lias of Somerset- 

 shire, 50. 



Bristol, Henry W. Bristow on the Rhaetic 

 (or Penarth) beds of the neighbourhood 

 of, 50. 



Bristol coal-field, W. Sanders on a geo- 

 logical map of the, 68. 



, statistics relative to the, by Handel 



Corsham, 164. 



Bristow (Hemy W.) on the Rhsetic (or 

 Penarth) beds of the neighbourhood of 

 Bristol and the S. W. of England, 50. 



British Columbia, Viscount Milton and 

 Dr. Cheadle on an expedition across 

 the Roclcy Mountains into, 141. 



Brodie (Rev. P. B.) on two outliers of 

 lias in S. Warwickshire, and on the 

 presence of the Rhaetic bone-bed at 

 Knowle, its furthest northern exten- 

 sion hitherto recognized in that coimtj', 

 52. 



Bronze age of society, John Crawfurd on 

 the supposed, 143. 



Brown (Samuel) on the rates of mortality 

 and marriage among.st Europeans in 

 India, 163. 



Browne (Rev. C. F.) on the formation and 

 condition of the ice in certain ice-caves 

 of the Jura, Vosgian Jura, Dauphine, 

 and Savoy, 52. 

 Browne (Rev. G.) on the prismatic for- 

 mation of ice in certain ice-caves and 

 glaciers, 24. 

 Browning (J.) on a new form of spec- 

 troscope in which direct vision is ob- 

 tained with a single prism, 9. 



