INDEX. 



Atmospheric Break, 358 ; Electricity, 



Dr. Marcet, 320. 

 Atoms and Molecules, 123. 

 Attwood, G. : Auriferous Tracts of 



Mysore, 592. 

 Auditaries and Visuaries, 607. 

 Auk's Egg, a Great, 325 ; the Great, 



59* 



Auriferous Tracts of Mysore, 592. 



Aurora Borealis and Magnetic Perturba- 

 tions, 165, 236; Origin of the, 583. 



AustraHa, the Rabbit Plague in, 613. 



AustraUan Mammals, 588 ; Rubies, 319. 



Austria, White-Lead Industry of, 318. 



Autobiography of an Acorn. J. Crow- 

 ther, 88. 



Automatic Addition, 22 ; Fire Extin- 

 guisher, 23 ; Temperature Regulator, 

 I S3.* 215 ; Valve, 262. 



Aveling, Rev. F. W. : Elementary Trea- 

 tise on Light and Heat, 135. 



Aviary, An Open, 108. 



Ayres, A. : Compressed Oil Gas and its 

 Applications, 380. 



Babylonians, Social Condition of the, 

 594, 616. 



Bacteria in Ice, 391 ; Lectures on. A. de 

 Bary, 63 ; Luminous, 85 ; Sulphur, 

 222. 



Bacteriological Water Test, 52. 



Bacteriology, 448 ; Manual of. E. M. 

 Crookshank, 15. 



Bacterium Laininarice, Evolutionary 

 Cycle of, 247. 



Badger Not Harmless, 421. 



Bagshot-beds, Stratigraphy of the. A. 

 Irving, 1 1 5. 



Baku Naphtha Springs, 390. 



Ballast Bag of the Seal. Dr. A. J. 

 Harrison, 92. 



Baldness, Increase in, 199. 



Bambridge, E.: Miner's Safety Lamp, GS. 



Ball, Prof. V. : Eroded Agate Pebbles 

 from the Soudan, 354 ; Fragments of 

 Granite and Other Rocks Found 

 Imbedded in Carboniferous Lime- 

 stones, 355. 



Ball, Sir R. S. : Comets, 91, 114 ; Great 

 Planets, 114; Moon, 42; Small 

 Planets, 42; Stars, 114; Sun, 42; Time 

 and Tide, 20 ; Unseen Universe, 139 ; 

 Visible Stars, 92, 139. 



Balloon, Meteorological Observations in 

 a, 606. 



Balls, Apparatus for Cleaning Tennis, 

 334 ; Lake, in South Uist, 18. 



Baltic, Temperature of the, 8. 



Barcelona Exhibition, 24, 287, 335. 



Barlow, W. : The Horizontal Move- 

 ments of Rocks, 449. 



Barnacles, Electric Removal of, 103. 



Barometer, Cause of the Diurnal Oscil- 

 lation of the. R. Lawson, 18; Influ- 

 ence of the Moon on the, 56. 



Barrier Reefs and Lagoons, Formation 

 of, 613. 



Bary, Anton de, 121 ; Lectures on Bac- 

 teria, 63. 



Bath,''Portable, igo ; Vapour, 310. 



Bath, W. H. : Ants, Bees, Dragon Flies, 

 Earwigs, Crickets, and Flies, 39. 



Bathymetrical Survey of the Perthshire 

 Locks. J. S. G. Wilson, 260. 



Batrachian LarvEe, Adhesion Organs of, 

 205. 



Bayonets, Effects of, on Rifle Firing, 46. 



Bear, Black, of America, 204.* 



Bearings, Special Metal for, 78. 



Beauty, Sense of, in Birds, 588. 



Beavers as Dam-Builders, 131* ; a 

 Village of, 348. 



Bed and Bedstead, 334. 



Bee-Hives, 70. 



Bee Larvae, Food of, 540. 



Beetle, Screeching Water, 262, 382. 



Beet-Root, Nematodes of, 469. 



Beevor, Dr., and Prof. Horsley : Motor 

 Functions of Certain Cranial Nerves, 

 569. 



Belgian Exhibition, Telephones at the, 

 98. 



Belgium, 93. 



Bellis annua, 356. 



Belonostomus cinctus, the Mandible of, 

 209. 



Bellotas, 117. 



Beluchistan Petroleum Wells, 65. 



Bench Cavern, Discoveries in, 189. 



Benevolent Society of St. Patrick, 238. 



Bennie, J. : The Redemption of Sand- 

 stone Quarries, 572. 



Ben Nevis, Thunderstorm on the Top 

 of, 584. 



Benzine, 127. 



Berlin, The Telephone in, 439. 



Bernard, Telephone to St., 7. 



Bert, Paul. : First Year of Scientific 

 Knowledge, 87. 



Bessbrook and Newry Tramway. E. 

 Hopkinson, 19. 



Bethlehem, Star of, 93. 



Bethnal Green, Free Library, 335 ; 

 Lectures at, 14 ; Museum, 143 ; Uni- 

 versity Extension Lectures at, 311. 



Betose, Production of, 535. 



Bicarbonate of Soda in Milk, 343. 



Bicentenary of Newton's " Principia," 



385. 



Biliousness. A. E. Bridger, 112. 



Billiard Cue, 70. 



Bird, a Rare, in Cumberland, 180. 



Bird, C. : Lecture Notes and Problems 

 on Sound, Light, and Heat, 112. 



Bird Stories, Old and New. H. Weir, 

 87. 



Birds, British, 260 ; Death of. Along 

 Telegraph Wires, 61 ; Extinct North 

 American, 301 ; Herons Preying on, 

 181 ; Instinct of, 372 ; Intelligence of, 

 69 ; Local Modifications in the Plu- 

 mage and Eggs of, 444 ; Longevity of, 

 12 ; Mechanism of the Flight of, 28" ; 

 Migration of, 180, 301 ; of Paradise, 

 35* ; Return of, of Passage, 421 ; 

 Wanton Slaughter of, 156; Winter 

 Diet of, 132. 



Birds' Nests, Edible, 61, 84. 



Birmingham and Midland Institute, 45, 

 67,92. 



Birmingham, 93. 



Bison, Extinction of the, 155. 



Bitterling and its Eggs, 201 .* 



Blackbird, Habits of the, 156. 



Blackburn Technical School, 478. 



Blacking, Liquid, 2S5. 



Black Rain, 103 ; Snow, 3S1. 



Blake, Rev. J. F. : Cambrian and Asso- 

 ciated Rocks in North-west Carnar- 

 vonshire, 66 ; Monian System, 307. 



Blasting Agents, Modern. F.T. Shand, 



260. 

 Blindness, Colour, a Brain Affection, 198. 



Blizzard, How a, Kills, 319. 



Blood, Coagulation of, 307 ; in the Brain 



During Sleep, 247 ; Showers of, 350. 

 Blow-Holes in Steel, 70. 

 " Blue John," Colouring Matter of, 404. 

 Boat, Submarine, 416. 

 Boiler Feeders. S. IJoulding, 425 ; Fluid, 



286; Gas-heated Circulating, 171*; 



Hot Water, 214. 

 BoHde, Detonating, G. J. Symoricf-S, 

 Bolt, Self-Locking, 310. 

 Bombay Technical Institute, 191. 

 Bonavia, Dr. : Fertilisation of Tigridia 



and Hippeasirum, 475. 

 Bones, Brittleness of Human, 487. 

 Bonney, Professor: Water Supply of 



London, 128. 

 Book-covers, 334. 



Books, Effect of Electric Light on, 22. 

 Boomerang, Problem of the, 167. 

 Boot Cleaning Machine, 94 ; Soles, 358. 

 Boots, Drying Damp, 453. 

 Bore-Hole at Seaton Carew, 320. 

 Boric and Salicylic Acids, 7. 

 Borings in the Nile Delta, 7. 

 Bosanquet, Bernard : Philosophical im- 

 portance of a True Theory of Identity, 



141. 

 Botany, Lectures on, 383 ; Professorship 



of, at Edinburgh, 215 ; Progress of, 



in Calcutta, 137 ; Teaching Elemen- 

 tary, in Schools, 175. 

 Bottomley, J. T.: Flint Glass Globes, 90. 

 Bottom Waves, 223. ^ 



Bottone, S. R. : Electrical nstrument 



Making, 327. 

 Boulder, Large Greenstone. T. Mellard 



Reade, 308. 

 Boulders in Coal Seams, 438, 4S_. 

 Boulding, S. : Boiler Feeders, 425. 

 Bourne, E. D., Boys' Games, 328 ; Girls' 



Games, 328. 

 Bournemouth Society of Natural 



Science, 68. 

 Boxwood Blocks, Etching on, 333. 

 Boyd Dawkins, Professor W., Ailurtis 



angUcus, 186. 

 Boys, a Good Thing for, 161. - 

 Boys' Games. E. D. Bourne, 328. 

 Boys, C. v., Radiomicrometer, 403, 490. 

 Bradford, 21; Naturalists' Society, 282, 



474 ; Scientific Association, 260. 

 Brain, Blood in the. During Sleep, 247. 

 Branchiomma, Structure of the Eye in 



a, 205. 

 Brandy Trade, Frauds in the, 223. 

 Brass, Cleaning, 30 ; Malleable, 160. 

 Bread, Whole-Meal, 434. 

 Brewing, School of, in Paris, 69. 

 Bricks, EiTect of the Atmosphere on, 262. 

 Bricklaying in Winter, 74. 

 Brido-e, Niagara Suspension, 69 ; over 



the Kooghly, iSg ; Proposed High 



Level for Amsterdam, 579.* 

 Bridger, A. E., Biliousness, 112. 

 Brightmore, A. W. Experiments on Iron 



and Steel and Riveted Joints, 189. 

 Brighton Beach Hotel, Moving, 343. 

 Brilliant, the Largest in the World, 34. 

 Bristol Engineering Society, 167 ; Pro- 

 ceedings of the, Naturalists' Society, 

 64, 92. 

 British and Atlantic Weather. R. H. 

 Scott, 209 ; Birds. G. Field, 260 ; 

 Lichens, 476 ; Reading Room of the 

 Museum, 79. 

 British Association, 311, 455. 



