INDEX. 



785 



Binodal quartics, a class of, Prof. R. W. 



Geneso on, 538. 

 Biological Section, Address by Dr. Owen 



to the, 651. 

 Birds, the foot of, P. M. C. Kermode on, 

 and on the use of the serrated claw, 

 670. 



, the migration of, report on, 189. 



which have bred in the Barnsley 



and South Yorkshire district, T. Lister 

 on the, 670. 

 Blanford (W. T.), the Great Plain of 

 Northern India not an old sea-basin, 

 638 ; on our present knowledge of the 

 fauna inhabiting British India and its 

 dependencies, 677. 

 Blastoidea,the structureand classification 



of the, P. H. Carpenter on, 634. 

 Blowing wells near Northallerton, the, T. 

 Fairley on, 544 ; analyses of the water 

 and gas therefrom, by T. Fairley, 601. 

 Blowpipe analysis, Lieut. -Col. Pioss on a 



new system of, 598. 

 Bloxam (G. W.) and C. Roberts on the 

 physical characters and proportions of 

 the Zulus, 702. 

 Bonney (Prof. T. G.)on the erratic blocks 



of England, Wales, and Ireland, 204. 

 Botany of Madagascar, J. G. Baker on 



the, 663. 

 Botly (W), agricultural statistics and 



prospects, 750. 

 Bottomley (J. T.) and Prof. Sir Wm. 

 Thomson on the illuminating powers 

 of incandescent vacuum lamps with 

 measured potentials and measured cur- 

 rents, 559. 

 ♦Bourne (F. S. A.), a journey to the Im- 

 perial mausolea east of Peking, 746. 

 Bourne (S.) on the manner in which 

 rudimentary science should be taught, 

 and how examinations should be held 

 . therein, in elementary schools, 148 ; on 

 the present appropriation of wages and 

 other sources of income, 272. 

 Bowkett's thermograph, W. Lant Car- 

 penter on, 604. 

 Brabrook (Mr.) on the work of the 



Anthropometric Committee, 225. 

 Braham (P.) on the production of crystals 

 by the action of metals in carbon 

 disulphide in sealed tubes, 589. 

 Bramwell (Sir F. J.) on patent legisla- 

 tion, 222 ; on some of the developments 

 of mechanical engineering during the 

 last half-century, 494 ; *on the Society 

 of Arts Patent Bill, 780. 

 Brearey (F. W.) on artificial flight, 545 

 Brewing in Japan, Prof. R. W. Atkinson 



on, 585. 

 Bridlington and Dimlington glacial shell- 

 beds, G. W. Lamplugh on the, 616. 

 British commerce, the progress of, in a 

 generation, E. J. Watherston on, 763. 



1881. 3 K 



♦British shipping and the tonnage laws, 



Capt. B. Pim on, 780. 

 Brittain (Mr.) on the present appropria- 

 tion of wages and other sources of 



income, 272. 

 *Bronze implements, certain discoveries 



of, in and about Leeds, J. Holmes on, 



703. 

 Bronze socketed spears, exhibition of 



four, probably ancient, from China, by 



Prof. T. McK. Hughes, 701. 

 Brown (F. D.) on molecular attraction, 



592. 

 Brown (J.) on a new electrometer, and 



some preliminary experiments on vol- 

 taic action, 562. 

 Brown (J. A. H.) on the migration of 



birds, 189. 

 Buchan (A.) *on the isothermals of the 



British Isles, 544 ; *on the diurnal 



period of hailstorms, ib. 

 Buchanan (J. Y.) on manganese nodules, 



and their occurrence on the sea-bottom, 



583. 

 Buckland (Miss A. W.), notes on the 



geographical distribution of mankind, 



695. 

 Busk (G.) on the use of the chitinous 



elements or appendages of the cheilo- 



stomatous polyzoa in the diagnosis of 



species, 662. 



Calibration of mercurial thermometers 

 by Bessel's method. Profs. T. E. Thorpe 

 and A. W. Riicker on the, 540. 



Cambrian beds of the British Isles, ob- 

 servations on the two types of (the 

 Caledonian and Hiberno- Cambrian), 

 and the conditions under which they 

 were respectively deposited, by Prof. 

 E. Hull, 642. 



Cameron (A. G.) on the subsidences above 

 the Permian limestone between Hartle- 

 pool and Ripon, 617. 



♦Cameron (Commander) on a recent 

 visit to the gold mines of the West 

 Coast of Africa, 747. 



Campbell (Sir G.) on the work of the 

 Anthropometric Committee, 225. 



Capillary action, surface-tension and, 

 Prof. b. Reynolds on, 624. 



Carbon cells for galvanic batteries, an 

 easy method of making, W. Symons 

 on, 557. 



Carbutt (E. H.) on patent legislation, 222. 



Carpenter (Dr.) on the Scottish zoological 

 station, 177 ; on the occupation of a 

 table at the zoological station at 

 Naples, 178. 



Carpenter (P. H.) on the structure and 

 classification of the Blastoidea, 634; 

 on the characters of the ' Lansdown 

 encrinite' (Millericrinus Prattii, Orai/ 

 sjj.'), 635; on some permanent larval 



