INDEX. 



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Baker (B.) on the endurance of metals 

 under repeated and varying stresses, 

 and the proper working stresses on 

 railway bridges, &c., 424. 

 Balfour (Prof. B.) on the steps taken for 

 establishing a botanical station at 

 Peradeniya, 96 ; *on a point in the 

 morphology of Viola tricolor, 763. 

 Ball (Mr.) on our present knowledge of 

 the flora of China, 94. 



Ball (Prof. Sir R. S.), Address to the 

 Mathematical and Physical Section by, 

 669. 



Ball (Prof. V.) on the provincial museums 

 of the United Kingdom, 97. 



*Bangala, the, a tribe op the Upper 

 Congo, by Capt. Coquilhat, 798. 



Barlow (C.) on the endurance of metals 

 under repeated and varying stresses, 

 and the proper working stresses on 

 railway bridges, &c., 424. 



Barlow (W. H.) on the endurance of 

 metals under repeated and varying 

 stresses, and the proper working 

 stresses on railway bridges, &c., 424. 



Barrett (Prof. W. F.)on the physical pro- 

 perties of a nearly non-magnetisable 

 (manganese) steel, 610. 



Barrington (R. M.) on the migration of 

 birds, 70. 



Bateman (A. E.), the statistics of our 

 foreign trade, and what they tell us, 

 848. 



Bates (H. W.) on the depth of perma- 

 nently frozen soil in the Polar regions, 

 152 ; on the combination of the Ord- 

 nance and Admiralty surveys, and the 

 production of a bathy-hypsographieal 

 map of the British Islands, 160. 



Bathy-hypsographical map of the British 

 Islands, final report on the combina- 

 tion of the Ordnance and Admiralty 

 surveys and the production of a, 160. 



*Bathy-orographical map of Scotland, 

 Dr. H. R Mill on a, 804. 



Bauerman (H.) on the volcanic pheno- 

 mena of Vesuvius and its neighbour- 

 hood, 226. 



Bean, the nitrogenous nutrition of the. 

 Dr. S. H. Vine on, 741. 



Becker (Miss L.) on the teaching of 

 science in elementary schools, 163. 



Beddard (F. E.), note on a point in the 

 structure of Fratemda arctica, 771 ; 

 on the development of the ovum in 

 £hcdrilus, ib. 



Beddoe (Dr.) on the preparation of anew 

 edition of 'Anthropological Notes and 

 Queries,' 172. 



Beer, a new and rapid method of testing. 

 Dr. W. Bott on, 660. 



Bell (A.) on the ' manure ' gravels of 

 Wexford, 209. 



Bell (Prof. F. J.), a forgotten species of 



Perijjatvs, 769; a note on the relations 

 of helminth parasites to grouse disease, 

 770. 

 Bell (L.), recent determinations of abso- 

 lute wave-lengths, 584. 

 Bell (R. G.), the pliocene beds of St. 



Erth, Cornwall, 718. 

 *Ben Nevis, a peculiarity of the cyclonic 

 winds of, R. T. Omond on, 595. 



, meteorological observations on, 



report of the Committee for co-oper- 

 ating with the Scottish Meteorological 



Society in making, 34. 



, the hygrometry of, H. N. Dickson 



on, 594. 

 Ben Nevis Observatory, the thermal 



windrose at, A. Rankin on, 595. 

 Bench Cavern, Brixham, Devon, recent 



researches in, by W. Pengelly, 710. 

 Benham (Dr. W. B.), recent researches 



on earthworms, 749. 

 *Bennettites, the type of a new group 



between angiosperms and gymno- 



sperms. Count Solms-Laubach on, 761. 

 Bent (Mr.), report on the ancient marble 



commerce of Thasos, 201. 

 ♦Benzene, the action of nitric acid on, a 



study of, by Prof. L. Meyer, 653. 

 Bernthsen (Prof.) on methylene blue and 



methylene red, 645. 

 Bidwell (E.) on the herds of wild cattle 



in Chartley Park and other parks in 



Great Britain, 135. 

 Bidwell (S.) on electrolysis in its physical 



and chemical bearings, 336. 

 Biggart (A. S.), the Forth Bridge works, 



870. 

 Biggs (C. H. W.) and W. H. Snell, dis- 

 tribution by transformers and alternate 



current machines, 878. 

 Bilbao, the iron mines of, by J. Head, 



861. 

 ♦Bimetallism, J. Nicholson on, 852. 

 ' Bi-metallists ' and ' mono-metallists,' 



E. Atkinson on, 849. 

 Binder (Dr.) and Dr. Noelting on the 



constitution of the mixed diazoamido- 



compounds, 643. 

 Biological Section, Address by Prof. A. 



Newton to the, 726. 

 Blackfoot tribes, report on the, by Rev. 



E. F. Wilson, 183 ; notes thereon, by 



H. Hale, 197. 

 Blake (Prof. J. F.) on the microscopical 



examination of the older rocks of 



Anglesey, 230 ; on a star-fish from the 



Yorkshire lias, 716. 

 Blanford (Dr. W. T.) on the fossil plants 



of the tertiary and secondary beds of 



the United Kingdom, 229. 

 Bloxam (G. W.) on the North-westera 



tribes of the dominion of Canada, 173 ; 



on the prehistoric race in the Greek 



islands, 200 ; on racial photographs 



