INDEX II. 



237 



Archer (Prof. T. C.) on the changes pro- 

 duced in Lotus comiculatus by cultiva- 

 tion, 109. 



•Artificial alizarine, W. H. Perkins on, 

 Gl, 



stone. Rev. II. High ton on, and 



various kinds of silica, 60. 



Ascidians, A. Hancock on the larval 

 state of Molgula, with descriptions of 

 several new species of simple, 1 18. 



Ash-pit system of Manchester, Alderman 

 R. Rumney on the, 224. 



Atkinson (Edward) on the osteology of 

 Chlamydoiihorus truncatus, 110. 



Atmosphere, A. Buchan on the gTcat 

 movements of the, 169. 



, J. K. Laughton on the great cur- 

 rents of the, 170. 



Australian aborigines, C. S. Wake on the 

 physical and mental chai'acteristics of 

 the, lo7. 



languages, Dr. Bleek on the posi- 

 tion of the, 144. 



Avares; 11. H. Howorth on the, 152. 



Baker (Sir Samuel), letter from the 

 White Nile, 166. 



Ball (Prof. R. Stawell) on the small 

 oscillations of a particle and a rigid 

 body, 10. 



Barker (Dr. John) on the immersion 

 method of illumination of the micro- 

 scope, 39. 



* , note on Pleuronema doliarium, a 



new infusorium, 111. 



Barometric predictions of the weather, 

 F. Galton on, 31. 



Bastian (Dr. It. Charlton), a statement 

 in reply to the two objections of Prof. 

 Huxley relative to certain experiments, 

 120. 



*Baths and washhouses, J. Parry on, 

 197. 



Battery, constant, F. H. Varley on a, 26. 



Baxter (R. Dudley) on national debts, 

 187. 



Beaches, ancient and modern, W. Pen- 

 gelly on tlie, of Portland, 84. 



Beauty, F. J. Mott on the scientific value 

 of physical, 134. 



Becker (0.) on Famre's battery, 24. 



Beddoe (Dr. John) on the anthropology 

 of Lancashire, 143 ; on the Ottoman 

 Turks, 144. 



*Belcher (Admiral Sir E.) on the un- 

 protected state of Liverpool, 208. 



Belgium, Prof C. Malaise on the Silu- 

 rian formations of the centre of, 78. 



Beneden (Prof, van) sur les parasite3,ll 1. 



Bennett (iVlfred W.) on protandry and 



protogyny in British plants, 111 ; on 

 the theory of natural selection looked 

 at from a mathematical point of view, 

 130. 



Bickerton (A. W.) on a new heat-engine, 

 208. 



Biggs (C. H. W.), middle-class schools 

 as they are and as they ought to be, 

 188. 



Bilharzia, Dr. Cobbold on the embryonal 

 development of the hfematozoon, 135. 



Biological Section, Prof. Rolleston's Ad- 

 dress to the, 91. 



Birchall (Edwin) on some hybrid Sphin- 

 gidse and other Lepidoptera, 111. 



Bird (Henry) on the Steypireyor whale 

 of the Icelanders, 112.' 



Birt (W. R.) on the present state of the 

 question relative to lunar activity or 

 quiescence, 20. 



Bischof (Gustav) on a new system of 

 testing the quality of the malleable 

 metals and alloys, 209. 



Bleek (Dr.) on the position of the 

 Australian languages, 144. 



Blight, Di\ R. King on, in man and in 

 the animal and vegetable world, 141. 



Boiler-explosions, E. B. Marten on, 

 222. 



Bone-caves of the Wye, the Rev. W. S. 

 Svmonds on the physical geology of 

 the, 88. 



Bones of general par.alytics, J. Camp- 

 bell Brown on the chemical composi- 

 tion of the, 51. 



Boole's 'Laws of Thought,' the late R. 

 Leslie Ellis on, 12 ; Rev. R. Harley 

 on, 14. 



Botly (William) on the economy of 

 large and small farms, 188. 



Boulder-clays, Rev. J. Gunn on the 

 formation of, and alterations of level 

 of land and water, 72. 



Boulders, James Thomson on the occur- 

 rence of pebbles and, of granite in 

 schistose rocks in Islay, 88. 



Bowater (Alfred) on Bowater's patent 

 for manufacturing railway-axles, 210. 



Brackish-water Foraminifera, II. B. 

 Brady on, 113. 



Brady (Henry B.), notes on brackish- 

 water Foi-aminifera, 113. 



Brass, W. H. Walenn on the electro- 

 deposition of copper and, 67. 



•Bridges (F.), new views of craniology, 

 144. 



British tumuli, J. S. PlieniS on a recent 

 examination of, and monuments in the 

 Hebrides, and on the western coast of 

 Scotland, 155. 



