INDEX. 



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Bell (Sir I. Lowthian) on the proximate 

 constituents of the various kinds of 

 coal, 264. 



Bell (J.) on the prehistoric and ancient 

 remains of Glamorganshire, 544. 



Bell (J. M.), exhibition of pre-palseolithic 

 flints, 900. 



Ben Nevis, meteorological observations 

 on, report of the Committee for co- 

 operating with the Scottish Meteoro- 

 logical Society in making, 68. 



Bent (J. T.) on the ruins of Mashonaland 

 and the habits and customs of the 

 inhabitants, 538 ; the geography of the 

 Zimbabwe ruins in Mashonaland, 816 ; 

 the present inhabitants of Mashona- 

 land, and their origin, 900. 



Bevan (Eev. J. 0.), the better housing 

 of the wage-earning classes in rural 

 districts, 839. 



Bibliography of solution, sixth report on, 

 261. 



Bibliography of spectroscopy, fourth 

 report on, 192. 



Bidwell (S.) on electrolysis in its physical 

 and chemical bearings, 72. 



Biological Section, Address by Prof. W. 

 Kutherford to the, 728. 



*Birds, extinct, of New Zealand, a series 

 of, recently discovered, H. 0. Forbes 

 on, 760. 



•Bishop (Mrs.), travels in Lesser Thibet, 

 812. 



*Bismuth and copper, the electric con- 

 ductivity of, in magnetic fields, Dr. W. 

 Peddie on, 641. 



*Black Sea, the physical and biological 

 conditions of the, by M. N. AndresofI, 

 821. 



Blake (J. F.) on the still-possible Cam- 

 brian age of the Torridon sandstone, 

 713; on two tunnel sections in the 

 Cambrian of Carnarvonshire, 718. 



Blanford (Dr. W. T.) on the present state 

 of our knowledge of the zoologj' of the 

 Sandwich Islands, and on the steps 

 taken to investigate ascertained defi- 

 ciencies in the fauna, 355. 



Bloxam (G. W.) on the ruins of Mashona- 

 land and the habits and customs of 

 the inhabitants, 638 ; on the North- 

 western tribes of the Dominion of 

 Canada, 545 ; on the natives of India , 

 615; on the work of the anthropo- 

 metric laboratory, 618 ; *exhibitioQ of 

 the philograph, a simple apparatus for 

 the preparation of lecture diagrams, 

 914. 



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

 mill, 869. 



Blytt (Prof. A.) on some calcareous tufas 

 in Norway, 714. 



Bone (W. A.) and B. Lean, the explo.sion 

 of ethylene with less than its own 



volume of oxygen, 673 ; a new method 

 for measuring the pressure produced 

 in gaseous explosions, 684. 



Bone cave, a, in the Cambrian limestone 

 in Assynt, Sutherlandshire, B. N. Peach 

 and J. Home on, 720. 



Bonney (Prof. T. G.) on the work of the 

 Corresponding Societies Committee, 

 29 ; on the erratic blocks of England, 

 Wales, and Ireland, 267 ; on the col- 

 lection, preservation, and systematic 

 registration of photographs of geolo- 

 gical interest in the United Kingdom, 

 290 ; on the relation of the Bunter 

 pebbles of the Ecglish midlands to 

 those in the Old Red Sandstone con- 

 glomerates of Scotland, 719. 



Boron, atomic weight of, by Prof. W. 

 Ramsay and Emily Aston, 687. 



Botanical laboratory at Peradeniya, 

 Ceylon, sixth report on the steps taken 

 to establish a, 363 ; report to the Com- 

 mittee by Prof. J. B. Farmer, 364. 



*Botanical nomenclature, a proposed 

 reform in, by J. Britten, 780. 



*Botanists, a proposed world's congress 

 of, at Chicago in 1893, by Dr. J. C. 

 Arthur, 744. 



Botany and zoology of the West India 

 Islands, fifth report on the present 

 state of our knowledge of the, 353. 



Botbamley (C. H.) on the formation of 

 haloids from pure materials, 262. 



Bottomley (J. T.) on electrolysis in its 

 physical and chemical bearings, 72 ; 

 on standards for use in electrical 

 measurements, 132. 



Bourne (S.) on the teaching of science 

 in elementary schools, 368. 



Bower (Prof. F. O.) on the steps taken 

 to establish a botanical laboratory at 

 Peradeniya, Ceylon, 363; *on the mor- 

 phology of the spore-bearing members 

 in vascular cryptogams, 747. 



Brabrook (E. W.) on editing a new edi- 

 tion of ' Anthropological Notes and 

 Queries,' 537 ; on the organisation of 

 local anthropological research, 896. 



*Brain of an Australian, Prof. A. Mac- 

 alister on the, 911. 



Bramwell (Sir F. J.) on the advisability 

 and possibility of establishing obser- 

 vations upon the prevalence of earth 

 tremors, 343. 



Branly's, M.E., experiments on electrical 

 resistance, Dr. D. Turner on, 637. 



Brebner (G.) and Dr. D. H. Scott on 

 secondary tissues in monocotyledons, 

 744. 



British fossils, the registration of the 

 type specimens of, report on the best 

 methods for, 289. 



♦Britten (J.), a proposed reform in bo- 

 tanical nomenclature, 780. 



