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[Nature, Dec. 10, 1585 
Recent Connection, 560; Prof. Struthers, on the Tay Whale 
(Megapt:ra longimana) and other Whales Recently Obtained 
in the District, 560; Prof. lurner, on Sone Points in the 
Anatomy of Sowerby’s Whale, 560; Prof. Struthers, on the 
Cervical Vertebrae-of the Greenland Kizht Whale, 560; Prof. 
Struthers, on the Devel»pment of the Vertebrz of the 
Elephant, 560: Prof. >truthers, on the Development of the 
F ot of the Horse, 560; Prof. Cleland, on the Viscera of 
Gymnotus electricus, 561 ; Prof. Cleland, on the Spiracle of 
Fishes in its Relat on 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 
Evidence of Comparative Anatomy with rezard 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 Ovzonised Air upon Micro- 
Organisms 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 Chamezlon and 
its Affinities with the Dinosauria, 562; Prof. Hull, on the 
Origin of the Fishes of the Sea of Galilee, 563; Prof. 
McIntosh, on the St. Andrews Marine Laboratory, 563; Dr. 
Oscar Loew, on a Chemical Difference between Living and 
Dead Protoplasm, 563; Sidney Martin, on the Digestion of 
Proteids in Plants, 563; Prof. L. Radlkofer. on the Applica- 
fion 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 Formation of Starch in Plants 
under the Influence of the Electric Light, 563 ; Allen Harker, 
on the Coloration of the Anterior Segments of the Maldanida, 
564; Proposed Marine Stations on the Coast of the United 
Kingdom, 506 
Biondi (Prof.), Investigations on the Origin of the Spermato- 
zoids, 544 
Bird, the New, in Natal, J. E. Harting, 6 
Birds, Wingless, Dr. H. Woodward, F.R.S., 46 
* Birds of Lancashire,” F. S. Mitchell, 241 
Birds, Migratory, Early Departure from Sweden of, 427 
Birds, Asiatic, Hume Collection of, Dr. Albert Giinther, F.R.S., 
500 
Birds, 6n the Development of the Sternum in, Miss B. Lindsay, 
540 
Birkheck Institution, Opening of New Buildings, 230 
Bischoffsheim’s Floating Telescope Dome for Nice Observa- 
tory, 62 
Bickipuide Carbon, in Prisms, on the Use of, Experiments by 
the late Dr. Henry Draper, 272 
Bituminous Deposits of the Camama Basin of Bahia, Report on 
the, Cameron, 182 
Black (Dr. W. ].), Ozone at Sea, 416 
Black Dog (the Rock), Prof. T. G. Bonney, F.R.S., on Bastite- 
Serpentine and Troktolite in Aberdeenshire ; with a Note on 
the Rock of the Black Dog, 556 
Black Sea, Algology of the, Reinhardt, 570 
Black and White, Col. Wm. E. Warrand, 245 
Blackfoot Tribes, Report on, 531 
Blanchard (Dr. R.), Atavism in Man, 615 
Blanford (W. T., F.R.S.), Zoology of Dr. Riebeck’s ‘* Chitta- 
gong Hill Tribes *—the Gayal and Gaur, 243 
B aschko (Dr.), Sensitiveness of Hair, 24 ; Microscopic Prepa- 
raiion showing Absence of Cementing Substance between 
Epidermis and Cutis, 544 
Blast Furnac- Value of Coke, I. Lowthian Bell, 39 
Blast Furnaces fed with New Coal, the Recovery of Tar and 
_ Ammonia from, Wm. |ones, 430 
Blindne s, the Causes and the Prevention of, Dr. Ernst Fuchs, 
623 
Blumentritt (Prof.), on the Negritos of the Philippines, 232 
Bochefontaine’s Experiment on the Origin of Cholera, Trécul, 
+ 496 
Bohemia, Science in, 308 
3oiling- Point Data, Melting and, T. Carnelley, 364 
Boisbaudran (M. Lecog de) and W. Crookes, F.R.S., Radiant 
Matter Spectroscopy, 283 2 
Boissier (Idm<nd), Death and Obituary Notice of, 540 
Bokhara, Rev. Dr. Henry Lansdell on, 194 
Bolles (Arthur), Microtomist’s Vade-Mecum, Dr. E. Klein, 
F.R-S., 147 
Bolton (H. C.), Catalogue of Scientific Periodicals, 426 
Bolton (Prof.), Sonorous Sand, 400 
Roltzmann’s ‘heorem on the Kinetic Theory of Gases, 533 
Bombay, Meteorology of, 170 
Bombicci, Theoretical Views on the Detonation of Meteorites, 
633 
Bompas (George), ‘‘ Life of Frank Buckland,” Rev. W. 
Tuckwell, 385 
Bonatelli (Signor), the Unthinkable, 120 
Bonney (Prof. T. G., F.R.S.), the Diorite of Little Knott, 189 ; 
on Bastite-Serpentine and ‘Troktolite in Aberdeenshire, 
with a Note on the Rock of the Black Dog, 556; Preliminary 
Note on some Traverses of the Crystalline District of the 
Central Alps, 557 
Boosé (J. R.), Colonial Public Libraries, 183 
Boring, Deep, at Richmond, Surrey, Notes on, Prof. Judd, 
F.R.S., and C. Homersham, 310 
Borneo, British, Gold in, 161 ; Mirerals of, 161 
Botany : and the Afghan Boundary Commission, 35 ; Staminody 
of Petals, 53; the Chair of Botany at Glasgow University, 
61 ; a Course of Practical Instruction in Botany, F. O. Bower 
and Sydney H. Vines, 73; Bower and Vines’s Work on 
Phanerogamee-Pteridophyta, 73; Antwerp International 
Botanical and Horticultural Congress, 182; Text-Book of 
General Botany, Dr. W. J. Behrens, 193; Dr. W. J. 
Behrens’s Microscopical Investigation of Vegetable Sub- 
stances, 193; Food-llants used by the Katchin Tartars of 
Minusinsk, 208 ; a Specific Subject of Instruction in Public 
Elementary Schools, Vincent T. Murché, 222; Dr. Trimen’s 
Catalogue of the Flowering Plants and Ferns of Ceylon, 354 3 
International Botanical and Horticultural Congress, Antwerp, 
1885, Prof. W. McNab, F.R.S., 416; Botany in South Aus- 
tralia, 462 ; on the Use of Graphic Representations of Life- 
Histories in the Teachings of Botany, Prof. Bower, 562; 
Botanical Gardens in Java, Dr. Sydney J. Hickson, 576; 
Botanical Exploration of the Chilian Andes, 601 ; Thomas 
Hick on the Caulotaxis of British Fumariacez, 614; Botani- 
cal Exchange Club, 635 
Bothnia, Rapid Fall of Water in Gulf of, 515 
Bottomley (J. T.), Electric Re istance of Platinoid, 166; Cool- 
ing of Wires in Air and Vacuum, 536 
Bouquet (M.), Death of, 493 
Boulenger (Geo. Albert), Catalogue of Lizards in the British 
Museum, 49 
Boulger (G. S.), ‘‘ Epping Forest,” Edward North Buxton, 28 
Bower (F. O.), and Sydney H. Vines, ‘‘ A Course of Practical 
Instruction in Botany,” 73; on the Use of Graphic Repre- 
sentations of Life-Histories in the Teaching of Botany, 562 
Bowman (Dr. F. H.), ‘‘ The Structure of the Wool Fibre in 
its Relation to the Use of Wool for Technical Purposes,” 266 
Boyd (Thomas), Death of, 357 
Boys (C. V.), the Slide Rule, 627 
Bozward (J. LI.), a White Swallow, 523 
Brachytarsus, Undescribed Species of, 6 
Brain, Evidence of Comparative Anatomy with Regard to 
Localisation of Function in the Cortex of the, Alex. Hill, 561 
Brain, Motor-Centres of the, and the Mechanism of the Will, 
Victor Horsley, 377 
Brain- Weight, Dr. P. Rey, 615 
Brain, Size of, in Extinct Animals, Prof. O. C. Marsh, 562 
Bramwell (Sir F.), the Training of the Civil Engineer, 11 
Brault (Lieut. L.), Death of, 426 
Brazil: Kepczt on the Bituminous Deposits of the Camama 
Basin of Bahia, Cameron, 182; Geographical Society of Rio 
de Janeiro, 356; the Races of Brazil, 408 
‘€ Breccia Gashes ” near Sunderland, 559 
Breidden Hills, the Geology of the, W. W. Watts, 310 
Bremen Geographical Society, 233 
3rewer (Dr. T. M.), ‘* Water-Birds of North America,” 521 
Bridye, Forth, Benjamin Baker, 430 
Brieger (Prof.), on the Ptomaines, 239 
Briggs (Mary), a White Swallow, 500 
Bristol Naturalists’ Society, 463 
Bristol, the Chair of Physics and Engineering at University 
College, 514 
BRITISH ASSOCIATION : Meeting at Aberdeen, 10, 437 ; Officers, 
&c., 10, 34, 61, 110, 298, 352, 400; Arrangements in Sec- 
