INDEX. 



903 



Badger (E. W.) on the disappearance of 

 native plants from their local habitats, 

 435. 



•Bahrein Islands in the Persian Gulf, 

 J. T. Hent on the, 668. 



Baker (B.) on the development of 

 graphic methods in mechanical 

 science, 322. 



♦Baker (J. G.), the occurrence of Are- 

 naria inirvcgica in Yorkshire, 618. 



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

 establishing a botanical station at 

 Peradeniya, Ceylon, 114. 



Ball (Mr.) on our present knowledge of 

 the flora of China, 112. 



Ball (Sir R. S.) on the proposals of M. 

 Tondini de Quarenghi relative to the 

 unification of time, and the adoption 

 of a universal prime meridian, 49. 



Bandaisan eruption, the, Japan, July 

 1888, by C. M. Smith, 564. 



Barium sulphate in water-box deposits 

 from the Durham coal-mine waters 

 and in Nottingham sandstone, Prof. 

 F. Clowes on, 594. 



Barkas (Aid. T. P.), notes on the nume- 

 rous newly discovered fossil footprints 

 on the lower carboniferous sandstones 

 of Northumberland near Otterburn, 

 565. 



Barrett (Prof.) on the molecular pheno- 

 mena connected ■with the magnetisa- 

 tion of iron, 33 ; on recalescence in 

 iron, 518. 



Barrington (R. M.) on making a digest 

 of the observations on the migration of 

 birds, 114. 



Basset (A. B.) on the extension and 

 bending of cylindrical shells, 499. 



Batalha-Reis (J.), Portuguese explora- 

 tions in Austral Africa during the 

 nineteenth century, 663. 



Bates (H. W.) on the geography and 

 geology of the Atlas ranges in the 

 Empire of Morocco, 165. 



Bauerman (H.) on the volcanic pheno- 

 mena of Vesuvius and its neighbour- 

 hood, 283. 



•Beardmore (E.), anthropological notes 

 collected at Mowat, Daudai, New 

 Guinea, 786. 



Becker (Miss L.) on the teaching of 

 science in elementary schools, 131. 



*Beddard (F. E.) on the caeca of a tina- 

 mou, 616 ; contributions to our know- 

 ledge of the fresh-water annelids, ib. 



Beddoe (Dr. J.) on the effects of different 

 occupations and employments on the 

 physical development of the human 

 body, 186 ; on editing a new edition 

 of 'Anthropological Notes and Queries,' 

 ib. ; observations on the natural colour 

 of the skin in certain Oriental races, 

 787. 



Bedson (Prof. P. P.), the manufacture of 

 aluminium from cryolite, 535. 



Beech, the ethnological significance of 

 the, by Rev. Canon I. Taylor, 782. 



*Belemnites from Luckmanicr, exhibi- 

 tion of specimens of, by W. \V. Watts, 

 671. 



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

 Wexford, 92. 



Bell (Sir L.), Address to the Chemical 

 Section by, 521 ; *bl£ist- furnace prac- 

 tice, 746. 



Bell (Col. JI. S.) on the great Central 

 Asian trade route from Peking to Kulja 

 and Semirechensk, and to Yarkand and 

 India, 660. 



Bells, the tones of, Lord Rayleigb on, 

 491. 



Ben Nevis, meteorological observations 

 on, report of the Committee for co- 

 operating with the Scottish Meteoro- 

 logical Society in making, 315. 



Bennett (A. W.), the antherozoids of 

 cryptogams, 619 ; a hybrid desmid, 

 620. 



Bent (J. T.) on the nomad tribes of Asia 

 Minor, 176 ; *on the Bahrein Islands 

 in the Persian Gulf, 668. 



Benzoquinone, the reaction of, with 

 potassium cyanide, S. A. Sworn on, 

 546. 



♦Bessel's functions, some formuhe 

 connected with. Dr. Meissel on, 

 498. 



Bibliography of solution, third report on 

 the, 53. 



Bibliography of spectroscopy, report on 

 the 344. 



*Biddulph (Gen. Sir R.), Cyprus, 659. 



Bidwell (S.) on electrolysis in its phj'sical 

 and chemical bearings, 223. 



Binomial theorem, simplified proofs 

 (after Euler) of the, (i.) for any posi- 

 tive fractional exponent ; (ii.) for any 

 negative exponent, by T. Woodcock, 

 501. 



Biological Section, Address by Prof. 

 J. S. B. Sanderson, to the, 604. 



Black bulb thermometer in vacuo. Prof. 

 H. McLeod on the, 505. 



♦Blast-furnace practice, by Sir L. Bell, 

 746. 



Bloxam (G. W.) on the nomad tribes of 

 Asia Minor, 176 ; on the effects of dif- 

 ferent occupations and emplojTnents 

 on the physical development of the 

 human body, 186 ; on the anthro- 

 pological measurements taken at Bath, 

 423 ; on the North-wustcrn tribes of 

 the dominion of Canada, 797. 



Blyth (Prof. J.) on a new form of current- 

 weigher, 511. 



Boas (Dr. F.) on the Indians of British 

 Columbia, 801. 



