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INDEX 
[ Nature, Dec. 10, 1885 ° 
561; Prof. Cleland, on the Spiracle of Fishes in its Relation 
to the Head, as Developed -in the Higher Vertebrates, 
561; D. J. Hamilton, Is the Commissural Theory of the 
Corpus Callosum Correct ?, 561; Alex. Hill, on the Evi- 
dence of Comparative Anatomy with Regard to Localisa- 
tion of Function in the Cortex of the Brain, 561; Prof. 
M’Kendrick, on the Action of Cold on Microphytes, 561 ; 
J. J. Coleman, on the Action of Ozonised Air upon Micro- 
Organi-ms and Albumen in Solution, 561 ; Prof. Bower, on 
the Use of Graphic Representations of Life-Histories in 
the Teaching of Botany, 562; Prof. J. Berry Haycraft, on 
a New Theory of the Sense of Taste, 562 ; Francis Day, on 
the Hybridisation of Salmonidz at Howietoun, 562; A. 
Hosie, on Chinese Insect White Wax, 562; Prof. O. C. 
Marsh, on the Size of the Brain in Extinct Animals, 562 ; 
D’Arcy W, Thompson, on the Systematic Position of the 
Chameleon and its Affinities with the Dinosauria, 562; 
Prof. Hull, on the Origin of the Fishes of the Sea of Gali- 
lee, 563; Prof. McIntosh, on the St. Andrews Marine 
Laboratory, 563 ; Dr. Oscar Loew, on a Chemical Differ- 
ence between Living and Dead Protoplasm, 563; Sidney 
Martin, on the Digestion of Proteids in Plants, 563 ; Prof. 
L. Radlkofer, on the Application of the Anatomical Method 
to the determination of the Materials of the Linnean and 
Old Herbaria, 563; M. Ward, Notes on Experiments as 
to the Formaticn of Starch in Plants under the Influence 
of the Electric Light, 563; Allen Harker, on the Colora- 
tion of the Anterior Segments of the Maldanide, 564 
Section £ (Geoyraphy).—Opening Address by the President, 
Gen, J. T. Walker, F.R.S., 48; Major F. Bailey, on the 
Indian Forest School, 564; A. Hosie, on Journeyings in 
South-Western China, 564; Admiral Sir Erasmus Om- 
manney, F R.S, Antarctic Discovery, 565 ; Cope White- 
house, on Projected Restoration of the Reian Meeris, and 
the Province, Lake, and Canals ascribed to the Patriarch 
Joseph, 565; E. G. Ravenstein, on Batho-llypsographical 
Maps, with Special Reference to a Combination of the 
Ordnance and Admiralty Surveys, 565; H. A. Webster, 
What has been done for the Geography of Scotland, and 
wiat remains to be done, 565; John Rae, F.R.S., a 
Word or Two on the Best and Safest Route by which to 
Attain a High Northern Latitude, 566 
Secon G (Akechanical Sceunce).—Opening Address by the 
President, B. Baker, M.Inst.C.E., 488 
Sction 11 (Anthzopology).—Opening Address by the President, 
Francis Galton, F.R.S., 507; Prof. W. Turner, on the 
Index of the Pelvic Brim as a Basis of Classification, 586 ; 
W. F. Stanley, on a Portable Scale of Proportions of the 
Human Body, 586; J. Theodore Bent, on Insular Greek 
Customs, 587; Gen. Pitt-Rivers, on the Preservation of 
Ancient Monuments, 587 ; Miss A. W. Buckland, on Ameri- 
can Shell- Work and its Affinities, 587; E. F. im Thurn, on 
the Red Men abvut Roraimain British Guiana, 587; J. W. 
Crombie, on a Game with a History, 587; George Camp- 
bell, on the Rule of the Road from an Anthropological 
Point of View, 587; Jeanie M. Laing, on the Modes of 
Grinding and Drying Corn in Old Times, 587; A. J. 
Evans, on the Flint-Knappers’ Art in Albania, 588; W. M. 
Flinders Petrie, on the Discovery of Naukratis, 588 ; 
Thomas Wilson, on a New Man of Mentone, 588; Dr. 
RK. Munro, on the Archaeological Importance of Ancient 
British Lake Dwellings, and their Relation to Analogous 
Remains in Europe, 588; Prof. D. J. Cunningham, on 
Certain Points of Comparison between the Chimpanzee and 
Man, 588; Dr. J. G. Garson, on Abnormal and Arrested 
Development as an Induction of Evolutionary History, 
589 ; Dr. Robert Laws, on the Manners and Customs of 
the Bantu Tribes of Lake Nyassa, 589; E. H. Man, on 
the Nicobar Islanders, 589 
British birds, History of, William Yarrell’s, New Edition, 363 
Kritish Dairy Farming, James Long, Prof. John Wrightson, 571 
British Islands, on the tvainfall of the, A. Buchan, 536 
British Fumariaceze, the Caulotaxis of, Thomas Hick, 614 
British Medical As ociation, 299 
British Museum: Catalogue of Lizards in the, Geo. Albert 
Boulenger, 49 ; Catalogue of Fossil Mammalia in the, Part 1, 
Richard Lydekker, 53; Part 1, the Reviewer, 78; Mr. Allan 
Hume’s Ornithological Collection (India) presented to the, 
327 ; a Guide to the. Universal Gallery of the (Natural Tis- 
tory), L. Fletcher, 364 : 
‘*Broca ” Prize, the, 165 
‘‘Bronn’s Classen und Ordnungen des Thierreichs,” Prof. 
Biitschli, Prof. E. Ray Lankester, 145 
Brookville, Indiana, Natural History Society of, 208 
Brown (Prof. Crum), the Kinetic Theory of Gases, 352, 533 
Brown (E.), Wild Bees, 6 
Brown-Sequard (Dr.), Anzesthesia unattended by Sleep, 1443 
Biennial Prize of Paris Academy of Sciences awarded to, 208 
Browning (Robert) as a Scientific Poet, Edward Berdoe, 36 
Bree. (Eric S.), Application of Electric Lighting to Balloons, 
27 
Brunton (Dr. T. Lauder, F.R.S.), ‘* Text-Book of Pharmaco- 
logy, Therapeutics, Prof. Arthur 
Gamgee, F.R.S., 337 
Brussels, Exhibition of Plans, &c., connected with Inland Navi- 
gation at, 35 
Brussels Railway Congress, the, 401 
Buchan (A.), on the Meteorology of Ben Nevis, 536; on the 
Rainfall of the British Islands, 536 % 
Buchanan (J.), Thermo-Electric Position of Carbon, 263 
British New Guinea, ‘‘ Torresia,’’ a Proposed Name for, 357. 
“* British Rainfall for 1884,” G, J. Symons, 463 
and Materia Medica,” 
Buchanan (J. Y.), Observations of the Temperature of the Sea 
and Air made during a Voyage from England to the River 
Plate in the s.s. Letbnz/z, 126 
Buckland (A. W.), on American Shell-Work and its Affinities, 
587 
Buckland (Frank), Life of, Geo. Bompas, Rev. W. Tuckwell, 
385 
3 
Buckton (G. B., F.R.S.), Notes. on the Action of the Wims- 
hurst Induction Machine, 51 
Buildings, Earthquake-, Prof. Wm. Muir, 245; D, A. Steven- 
son, 316 
Bulletin de l’Académie Royale de Belgique, 68, 189, 358, 568 
Bulletin of the Bussey Institution, Prof. John Wnghtson, 195 
Bulletin of the Philosophical Society of Washington, 358 
Bulletin de la Société d’Anthropologie de Paris, 68, 165, 166, 
615 
Bulletin de la Société des Naturalistes.de Moscou, 44 
Buonfanti’s (Marquis), Journey across Alrica, 357; Death cf, 
76 
Baes on the Cultrre of Edelweiss in Great Britain, 208 
Burder (Geo. F.), Red Rays after Sunset, 466 
Bureau, Scientifique Central N éeriandais, 428 
Bureaus, Scientific, of the U.S. Government, Co-ordination of 
the, 317 
Burial-Grounds, Prehistoric, T. A. Archer, 548 
Burmah, Italian Scientific Expedition to, 87 
“Burnett Lectures, Second Course. On Light.as,a Means of 
Investigation,” Prof. G. G. Stokes, F.R,S., Prof. P. G, Tait, 
361 
Busch (Prof.), Anomalies in Human Teeth, 71 
Bu:sey Institution, Bulletin of the, Prof. John Wrightson, 195 
Butleroff (Prof.), on the Phenomena of Isomerism, 87 
Butschli’s ‘‘ Protozoa,” Prof. E. Ray Lankester, F.R.S., 145 
Buxton (Edward North), ‘‘ Epping Forest,” G. S. Boulger, 28 
Cables, Chain, and Chains, Thos. W. Traill, 572 
Ceecilians, Development of the, 526 
Caillaud (Romanet du), Life 
Cevallos, 83 
Cailletet (M. L.), New Process of Liquefying Oxygen, 584 
Calcutta, Earthquake in, 254, 279 
California, Fourth Annual Keport of the State Mineralogist of, 
H. G. Hanks, 100 
Calladon (Prof.), a Remarkable Atmospheric Phenomenon in 
Switzerland, 426 
Calorimeter, on a New and Simple Form of, Prof. W. F. 
Barrett, 538 
Cambodians at Paris, Arrival for Study of Thirteen Young, 636 
Cambrelent (M.), the Sand-hills of Gascony, 375 
Cambridge Observatory, 253 
Cawelopardi, Double-Star 19 (Hev.), 183 ; 
Camerano (Lorenzo), Colours of Arctic and Alpine Animals, 77 
Cameron (J. M.), Report on the Bituminous Deposits of the 
Camamu Basin of Bahia, 182 : : 
Campbell (George, M.P.), on the Rule of the Road, from an 
Anthropological Point of View, 587 ‘ ¥ 
and Travels of Ordsiiez de 
