INDEX. 



529 



Bourne (S.) on the decay in the export 

 trade of the United Kingdom, 470. 



Brabrook (Mr.) on the work of the 

 Anthropometric Committee, 175. 



Braham (P.) on large crystals of mercury 

 sulphate, 293 ; description of a glass 

 burette for collecting, measuring, and 

 discharging gas over mercury, 325. 



Brahmaputra river, the upper course of 

 the, C. E. D. Black on, 433. 



*Brain-growth, the influence of domes- 

 tication on, W. F. C. Browne on, 404. 



Brakes, the effect of, on railway trains, 

 general results of experiments on fric- 

 tion at high velocities made in order 

 to ascertain, by D. Galton, 508. 



Bramwell (F. J.) on the elasticity of 

 wires, 33 ; on instruments for mea- 

 suring the speed of ships, 210; on 

 patent legislation, 223. 



♦Breary (F. W.) on flight and its imita- 

 tions, 292. 



Brooke (C.) on observations of luminous 

 meteors during the year 1878-79, 76. 



Brown (J. T.), a historical sketch of the 

 various vapour density methods, 304. 



Brown (S.), three months in Cyprus, 450. 



♦Browne (W. F. C.) on the influence of 

 domestication on brain-growth, 404. 



Brunei (H. M.) on instruments for mea- 

 suring the speed of ships, 210. 



Burette, a glass, for collecting, measuring, 

 and discharging gas over mercury, de- 

 scription of, by P. Braham, 325. 



Burton (F. M.) on the Keuper beds be- 

 tween Retford and Gainsborough, 336 ; 

 on a northerly extension of the Rhaetic 

 beds at Gainsborough, 337. 



Bushire, a journey by land from Bagdad 

 to, by W. S. Blunt, 440. 



Busk (G.) on the exploration of Kent's 

 Cavern, 140 ; on the exploration of cer- 

 tain caves in Borneo, 149. 



Buxton (D.) on the 'German' speech 

 and lip reading system of teaching 

 the deaf, 474. 



Cagots, Dr. D. H. Tuke on the, 379. 

 Cameron (Commr. V. L.) on the manners 



and customs of the people of Urua, 



Central Africa, 392 ; *on the Euphrates 



Valley railway, 440. 

 Campbell (Sir G.) on the work of the 



Anthropometric Committee, 175. 

 Campbell (Major) on the Shorawak 



valley and the Toba plateau, 447. 

 Candahar, new routes to, Capt. T. H. 



Holdich on, 447. 

 Capacity of a certain condenser, C. 



Hockin on the, and on the value of 



V, 285. 

 Carbonate of lime, the deposit of, at 



Hierapolis, in Anatolia, Dr. Phen6 on, 



344. 



1879. 



Carboniferous polyzoa and palaeocorynse, 

 G. R. Vine on, 350. 



Carbutt (E. H.) on patent legislation, 223. 



Carpenter (Dr.) on the occupation of a 

 table at the zoological station at 

 Naples, 165. 



Carpenter (P. H.) on the nomenclature 

 of the plates of the Crinoidal calyx, 

 333 ; on the nervous system of Co-ma- 

 tula, 418. 



Cayley (Prof.) on the progress of the 

 chief branches of mathematics and 

 physics, 37 ; on mathematical tables, 

 46 ; on the calculation of tables of 

 the fundamental invariants of alge- 

 braic forms, 66. 



Celt, an elaborately finished, found on 

 the moors near Marsden, J. W. Davis 

 on, 395. 



Cephalopoda, the homologies of the, 

 J. F. Blake on, 376. 



Checking calculations, a method of, 

 W. H. Walenn on, 271. 



♦Chemical Section, Prof. J. Dewar's 

 Address to the, 293. 



Chico in Southern Patagonia, the dis- 

 covery of the sources of the, Don R. 

 Lista on, 436. 



Chipped flints, the discovery of certain 

 pockets of, beneath the peat on the 

 Yorkshire moors, near Halifax, J. W. 

 Davis on, 395. 



Circulation of the underground waters 

 in the Jurassic, New Red Sandstone, 

 and Permian formations of England, 

 and the quantity and character of the 

 waters supplied to various towns and 

 districts from these formations, fifth 

 report on the, 155. 



Clarke (Hyde) on the Yarra and the 

 languages of Australia in connection 

 with those of the Mozambique and 

 Portuguese Africa, 381 ; on High 

 Africa as the centre of a white race, 

 402 ; on credit as an asset of a state, 469. 



*Claypole (E. W.) on a fossil tree from 

 the Upper Silurian of Ohio, 343. 



Clifton (Prof. R. B.) on the progress of 

 the chief branches of mathematics and 

 physics, 37. 



Close (Rev. M.) on the Tertiary (Miocene) 

 flora, &c, of the basalt of the North 

 of Ireland, 162. 



Close time for the protection of in- 

 digenous animals, report on the pos- 

 sibility of establishing a, 165. 



Coal fields and coal production of India, 

 V. Ball on the, 334. 



Coccosteus, the occurrence of a fish 

 allied to the, in a bed of Devonian 

 limestone near Chudleigh, J. E. Lee on, 

 332. 



Collins (J. H.) on the geological age of 

 the rocks of West Cornwall, 347. 



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