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BEPORT — 1877. 



Archer-Briggs (T. R.) on the roses of 

 the neighbourhood of Plymouth, 103. 



Arctic coal brought home by the late 

 expedition, T. Wills on the, 53. 



■ expedition, the post-tertiary fossils 



Jrocured in the late, by J. Gwyn 

 effteys ; with notes on some of the 

 recent or living niollusca from the 

 same expedition, 72. 



* , the recent, summary of the 



first reduction of the tidal observations 

 made by, by Prof. Haughton, 42. 



* regions, the fossil flora of the, 



Prof. Heer on the, 72; *106. 



Arkansas, U.S., the origin and antiquity 

 of the mounds of, Prof. J. W. Clarke 

 on, 67. 



Assimilation and metastasis, the use of 

 the terms, G. T. Bettany on, 107. 



of the laws of the United King- 

 dom, with especial reference to the 

 town laws of Scotland as to ruinous 

 buildings, Dr. W. N. Hancock on the, 

 179. 



Australia, Central, an account of tbe 

 latest expedition across, by W. H. 

 Tietkens, 150. 



Aviculopecten and other marine shells, 

 the occurrence of, in deposits asso- 

 ciated with seams of coal containing 

 salt water in the Ashby coalfield, 

 W. Molyneux on, 73. 



Axe valley, some palaeolithic imple- 

 ments found in the, J. Evans on, 116. 



Axis of the earth, the influence of the 

 position of land and sea upon a 

 shifting of the, A. W. Waters on, 

 77. 



*Aynsley (Capt.) on the experiments of 

 the Boiler Committee of the Admi- 

 ralty, 199. 



*Ayrton (W. E.) and J. Perry on the 

 viscosity of dielectrics, 33; *on the 

 contact theory of voltaic action, 33. 



*Banks of issue, rates of interest and, 

 A. Karoly on, 179. 



*Barff (Prof.) on the formation of the 

 black oxide of iron on iron surfaces, for 

 the prevention of corrosion, 50; *on 

 the preservation of iron, 199. 



Barham (Dr.) on some relations of sea 

 and land temperature in the south- 

 west of England, 38 ; *on flint flakes 

 from Cornwall and the Scilly Isles, 

 114. 



Barlow (W. H.) on the upward jets of 

 Niagara, 199. 



* Barometric pressure, the diurnal and 

 semidiurnal harmonic constituents of 



the variation of, Sir W. Thomson on, 

 43. 



Bartley (G. C. T.) on thrift as an ele- 

 ment of national strength, 162. 



Bashakard in Western Baluchistan, E. 

 A. Floyer on, 143. 



Bate (0. S.) on prehistoric remains on 

 Dartmoor, 114. 



Batten (J. H.) on the cultivation of tea 

 in the British Himalayan provinces of 

 Kumaon and Gurhwal, 163. 



*Beal (Rev. Prof.), exhibition and de- 

 scription of a soapstone image from 

 Pekin, 115. 



Beddoe (Dr. J.) on the Bulgarians, 115 ; 

 notes on the statistics of Victoria 

 (Australia), 163. 



Belgium, the Devonian system in Eng- 

 land and in, G. Dewalque on, 69. 



*Bell (Prof. G.) on recent experiments 

 in telephony, 201. 



♦Bellamy (G. D.) on the Plymouth 

 waterworks, 201. 



Bennett (Dr. G.) on the habits of the 

 pearly nautilus (Nautilus pompilius), 

 101. 



*Benzine derivatives, note on, by Dr. 

 Odling, 53. 



*Bergeron (C.) on the removal of sand- 

 bars at the mouth of harbours, 201. 



Bernoulli's numbers, the calculation of, 

 up to B fi2 , by means of Staudt's 

 theorem, Prof. J. C. Adams on, 8. 



Bettany (G. T.) on the structure and 

 development of the vertebrate skull, 

 106 ; on the use of the terms assimi- 

 lation and metastasis, 107. 



Bhawnpore, in India, a meteor which 

 passed over, in October 1873, Major 

 G. N. Money on, 31. 



Binaural audition, S. P. Thompson on, 

 37. 



Binocular and monocular vision, the 

 relative apparent brightness of objects 

 in, S. P. Thompson on, 32. 



* microscope for high powers, J. T. 



Taylor on a, -V2. 



Biological results of the North-German 

 exploring expedition, Dr. O. Finsch 

 on the, 101. 



Section, Address by J. Gwyn 



Jeffreys to the, 79. 

 *Black oxide of iron, the formation of, 

 on iron surfaces, for the prevention of 

 corrosion, Prof. Barff on, 50. 

 *Boiler Committee of the Admiralty, 

 the experiments of the, Capt. Aynsley 

 on, 199. 



Botly (W.) on agricultural statistics, 

 164. 



