INDEX II. 



271 



Atmospheric movements, on the effects of 

 the earth's rotation on, 41. 



Atmospheric waves, on, 50. 



Australia, on a gold nugget from, S5 ; on 

 the skull of a wombat from the bone- 

 caves of, 152; on the aboriginals of, 

 18G. 



Aytoun (Robert) on a safety cage for 

 miners, 228. 



Baily (VV. H.) on tertiary fossils of India, 

 97; on Sphenopteris Hookeri, a new 

 fossil fern from the upper old red sand- 

 stone formation at Kiltorkan Hill, in 

 the county of Kilkenny, 98. 



Bain (Donald) on harbours of refuge, 

 229. 



Balten (A.) on a boat-lowering apparatus, 

 229. 



Banchory, on the birds of, 142. 



Barlee (George), list of marine polyzoa 

 collected by, in Shetland and the Ork- 

 neys, 144. 



Barometer, on the semidiurnal and an- 

 nual variations of the, 43 ; on the diur- 

 nal variation of the, 50. 



Basaltic formations in Northumberland, 

 on some, 108. 



Bateman (J. F.), description of the Glas- 

 gow waterworks, with photographic 

 illustrations taken at various stages of 

 the work, 229 ; on an artesian well in 

 the new red sandstone at the Wolver- 

 hampton waterworks, ib. 



Beattie (William) on a bone-cave near 

 Montrose, 99. 



Beck (Joseph) on producing the idea of 

 distance in the stereoscope, 61. 



Becquerel's phosphoroscope, on, 62. 



Bees, on the angles of dock-gates, and the 

 cells of, 10. 



Bennett (Dr. G.) on some uses to which 

 the nuts of the vegetable ivory palm 

 (Phytelephas macrocarpa) is applied, 

 130; on the structure of the nerve- 

 tubes, 265 ; on the origin of morbid 

 growths with reference to the connec- 

 tive-tissue theory, ib. ; on the mole- 

 cular theory of organization, ib. 



Berkeleyan hypothesis, second physiolo- 

 gical attempt to unravel some of the 

 perplexities of the, 1G0. 



Bialloblotzky (M. F.) on the different 

 points of fusion to be observed in the 

 constituents of granite, 68 ; on granite, 

 100. 



Binney (Mr.) on the solubility of bone- 

 earth from various sources in solutions 

 of chloride of ammonium and common 

 salt, 66. 



Birds: — of Banchory, 142; of Paradise, 

 on several species of, 118; on some new 

 species of, 119; list of the, of the N. of 

 Scotland, with their distribution, 150. 



Birt (W. R.) on the mid-day illumination 

 of the lunar craters, Gcminus, Burck- 

 hardt, and Bernoulli, 30. 



Boat-lowering apparatus, on a, 229 ; on 

 models of, 244. 



Boats, on Indian river tow, 235 ; on a 

 mode for suspending, disconnecting, 

 and hoisting, 245. 



Bode (Baron de) on the country to the 

 west of the Caspian Sea, 177. 



Bodies, on a system of moving, 43. 



Bogota, on the engines of the, 231. 



Boilers, on an automatic injector for feed- 

 ing, 237. 



Bollaert (W.) on the geography of South- 

 ern Peru, 177. 



Bombaceae, on some peculiarities of the, of 

 Western India, 132. 



Bone-cave near Montrose, on a, 99. 



Bone-earth, on the solubility of, 66. 



Botany, 126, 130, 265. 



Bothwell (G. B.) on the manufactures 

 and trade of Aberdeen, 200. 



Black (Dr.) on coal at Ambisheg, Isle of 

 Bute, 100. 



Bleeker (Dr.), descriptions of genera of 

 fish of Java, 144. 



Brachiopoda, on the physiology of the 

 pallial sinus system of, 170, 265. 



Brady (A.) on the elephant remains at 

 Ilford, 130. 



Braemar, remarkable plants found in, 

 133. 



Brazier (James S.) on the action of con- 

 centrated sulphuric acid on cubebin in 

 relation to the test for strychnine by bi- 

 chromate of potash and sulphuric acid, 

 256 ; on dugong oil, ib. ; on distilled 

 water, ib.; laboratory memoranda, 257. 



Breadalbane, on the rocks and minerals 

 in the property of the Marquis of, 125. 



Bread-making, on a new mode of, 76. 



Brewster (Sir D.) on a new species of 

 double refraction, 10; on the decom- 

 posed glass found at Nineveh and other 

 places, 11 ; on Sir Christopher Wren's 

 cipher, containing three methods of 

 finding the longitude, 34 ; on a horse- 

 shoe nail found in the red sandstone of 

 Kingoodie, 101 ; on the connexion be- 

 tween the solar spots and magnetic 

 disturbances, 245 ; on a remarkable 

 specimen of chalcedony, belonging to 

 Miss Campbell, and exhibiting a per- 

 fectly distinct and well-drawn land- 

 scape, ib. 



