INDEX. 



Brittleness of Human Bones, 487. 

 Brocken, Spectre of the, 103. 

 Bromley, 9.3. 

 Brown, J. C. : Schools of Forestry in 



Germany, 377. 

 Brown, R.: Our Earth and its Story, 159. 

 Brussels Exhibition, 408. 

 Buddhism, Mystical, 571. 

 Buildings, the Sanitary Registration of, 



175- 

 Bull Frog in India, Voracity of the, 421. 

 Bullet Probe, Telephonic, 320. 

 Buoj', Life, 430 ; Self-Luminous, 250. 

 Buoys, Electric Lighting of, 79. 

 Burmah, Snakes in, 612. 

 Burner, New Gas, 70, 118. 

 Burnet Moth, is it Protected ? 574. 

 Burnley, 45. 



Burscough Bridge Boring. C. Potter,404. 

 Bursting of Leaden Pipes by Frost, 109. 

 Butter, Detection of Margarine in, 4S7 ; 



Experiments on, 344 ; Milk and, Trees, 



540 ; Mice as, Testers, 36. 

 Butterflies, Distribution of the, of 



Southern Asia, Rev. Dr. Walker, 



261; the French Pyrenees, 133; 



Poisonous, 156. 

 Butterfly, Cabbage, in America, 349 ; 



Musical, 277. 

 Buzzard, the, 540. 



Cabbage Butterfly in America, 349. 



Cabs, Distc .e Register for, 286. 



Cadell, H. M. : Fossil Trees, 235 ; Geo- 

 logy of the Forth Bridge District, 425 ; 

 Researches in Mountain Building,26o. 



Cae G" n Cave. H. Hicks, 403 ; T. 

 McK. Hughes, 19. 



Calcisphcem, Occurrence of, in Glouces- 

 tershire, 593. 



Calculation, a Curiosity in, 46, 141. 



Calcutta, Progress of Botany in, 137. 



Calder, Dr. M. : Black Rat, 284. 



Calendar, Unification of the, 367. 



Cambrian and Associated Rocks in 

 North-west Carnarvonshire. Rev. J. 

 F. Blake, 66. 



Cambridge, 45, 71, 95, 119, 287, 455. •, 

 Head-growth of Students. F. Gal- 

 ton, 474. 



Camera Club, Photographic Congress 

 of the, 239, 306. 



Camera Lucida, Dumaige's, 570. 



Campbell, H. H. : The Discharge of 

 Rivers and Streams, 236. 



Canal Lock, 239. 



Canals, and Inland Navigation, 215 ; of 

 Mars, 7 ; Semi-circular. Prof. Crum 

 Brown, 211. 



Canary, Singing Hen, 309. 



Cancer Germ, 55. 



Candidates and Examiners, 400. 



Candlestick, 214 



Canine Teeth of Man, 465.* 



Cape Colony, Geography and Physicsl 

 Geography of, 186. 



Capillary attraction, Experiments in, 

 585.* 



Carbonic Acid Gas, Apparatus for Gene- 

 rating, 461.* 



Carbonic Acid, the Action of. Gas on 

 the Skin, 33S ; Heating Power of, in 

 Contact with the Skin, 8 ; Influence 

 of Sleep on the Quantity of. Exhaled, 

 S ; in School-rooms, 27 1 ; Suffocation 

 by, 175- 



Carbon, 286 ; Improvements in Isolat- 

 ing, from Soot, 239 ; Compound 

 Nature of, 55 ; the Colours of Some, 

 Compounds. Prof. Carnelley and J. 

 Alexander, 476. 



Carboniferous Limestone, Examination 

 of the Insoluble Residue, 210; Utili- 

 sation of Schists, 367. 



Carbons, 478 ; for Arc Lamps, 344 ; for 

 Electric Lighting, 56. 



Car Coupler, 23 ; Coupling, 598. 



Cardiff Naturalists' Society,g2. 



earlier, E.W.: Coagulation of Blood, 307. 



Carnelley, Prof, and J. Alexander : The 

 Colours of Some Carbon Compounds, 

 476 ; and Frew, Action of Water 

 on Lead, 93. 



CaroUna, Wild Ponies on the Southern 

 Coast of, 301. 



Carpentry Exhibition, 167. 



Carruthers, W. Journal of the Royal 

 Agricultural Society of England, 544. 



Carter, H. J., Vertebrate Remains in 

 Devonshire, 259. 



Cartridge, Gelatine Water, 154. 



Carus- Wilson, C. ; Grains of Sand, 68. 



Cast-iron Columns in Fires, 185 ; to 

 break, 391. 



Cat, Abnormal Colouration in a, 325. 



Caterpillars, the Plague of, 619 ; Pro- 

 cessionary, 371.* 



Cats Destroying Frogs, 165 ; v. Rabbits, 

 372. 



Cattle, Depreciation of, in France, 415 ; 

 Diseases of the Past Year, 74 ; Larvae 

 Dangerous to, 108. 



Caucasus, the, 237 ; the Peaks, Passes, 

 and Glaciers of the. D. W. Freshfield, 

 282. 



Cave Animals of North America, 156 ; 

 the Cae-Gwyn. T. Mc K. Hughes, 19. 



Caves and their Contents, 571. 



Cay, W. D. : Construction of Marine 

 Works with Concrete Bags, 67. 



Cement, Influence of Sugar upon, 56. 



Celluloid for Coating Ships, 78. 



Chair of Darwinism in Paris, 73. 



Chance, A. M. : Recovery of Sulphur 

 from Alkali Waste, 260. 



Challenger Meteorological Observations, 

 488 ; the late. Expedition, 55. 



Characteristics of Deep-Sea Fishes, 181. 



Charcoal, Absorbent Qualities of, 418. 



Chelsea and Pimlico, Proposed Techni- 

 cal Institute in, 407. 



Chemistry, Experimental, Professor 

 Emerson Reynolds, 40 ; and Heat. 

 R. G. Durrant, 41 ; Students' Hand- 

 book of H. Leicester Greville, 87. 



Cheshire, Sparrow Ravages in, 276. 



China, Anaesthetics in, 602 ; Inundation 

 in, 74 ; Meteorology of South-Eastern, 

 in 1886, W. Doberch, 426. 



Chinese Anesthetic, 295 ; Kites, 99,* 

 123* ; Wall, 247. 



Clilainydophorus T7-iincatus, 396.* 



Chlamydosaurus Kingii, 106.* 



Chloroform, Discovery of, 607. 



Chlorophyll, on the Function of, 223. 



Chondrenchelys Problemalicus, 234. 



Christmas Island, 61. 



Chromatophores, 318. 



Chromomictor, the New, 27,* 57.* 



Chronographs, Dial for, 125.* 



Church, A. H. : Colour, 63 ; Occurrence 

 of Aluminium in Plants, 212. 



Cicada, A Blistering, 301. 



Cider Culture in France, 309 ; Preserva- 

 tion of, 7. 



Cigarette Heart, 343 ; Papers, 95. 



Cinder Sifter and Housemaid's Box, 47. 



Circle Problem, 549, 598, 621, 



Circulating Air, 622. 



City and Guilds of London Institute, 21 ; 

 Central College, 48, 479. 



City Artesian Well Boring, 418. 



Cities, Death Rate in Great, 305. 



Civil and Mechanical Engineers Society, 

 45. 187- 



Clam, the Little Neck Hard Shell, 613. 



Claypole, E. W. Eccentricity Theory of 

 Glacial Cold v. the Facts, 332. 



Cleaning Brass, 30. 



Clerkenwell and the Public Libraries 



Act, 121. 



Cleveland Institution'of Engineers, 280; 

 Proceedings of the, 614. 



Climate of Europe, Permanence of the 

 296. 



Climatological Encyclopaedia, 352. 



Clock, Self- Winding, 23. 



Clodd, E. The Story of Creation, 207. 



Cloudiness of the Sky and the Product 

 of the Land, 390. 



Cloudland in Folk Lore and in Science. 

 R. Abercromby, 66. 



Cloud Measurement, Some Methods of. 

 Nils Ekholm, 210. 



Clouds, Iridescent, 326 ; What Winds 

 Bring, 141 ; Why do. Float ? 9. 



Coal, Utilisation of, Slack, 238 ; Tar, Its 

 Derivations and Products, 189. 



Cobra Poison, 322. 



Cod-Liver Oil, New Falsification of, 487, 



Coffee, Fraudulent Colouring of, 151 ; 

 Strainer, 262. 



Coin, Contamination of Current, 80. 



Coinage, Jubilee, 22. 



Cold Season, the, 353. 



Cole, G. A. J. Tachylyte, 259. 



Coleoptera, Great Collection of, 295. 



College Examinations, 141 ; Hall, 2S0 ; 

 of State Medicine, 433. 



Colliery Explosions, 367. 



Collins, D. L. A Few Words on Port- 

 land Cement, 615. 



Collins, J. H. The Sudbury Copper 

 Deposits, 592. 



Cologne, Horticultural Exhibition at,359. 



Colouration ot Butterflies, 213. 



Coloured Words, 173, 261. 



Colourimeter, 215. 



Colouring Matter, of " Blue John." A. 

 N. Tate, 404; Green, of Plants, 85. 



Colour. A. H. Church, 63 ; Blindness, a 

 Brain Affection, 198 ; of the Eyes, 

 298 ; Preserving the Natural, of 

 Flowers, 392 ; Sense of Animals, 69. 



Colours, Artists', 161 ; of Flowers, 80 ; 

 of Lakes, 319 ; Sensitiveness of the 

 Eye for Different, 199. 



Comets, Influence of, upon Tempera- 

 ture, 415 ; New, 199, 223, 393* ; Sir 

 R. S. Ball, 91, 1 14 ; Superstitions Con- 

 cerning, 296. 



Commission Internationaledu M^tre,407. 



Commonhealth, the. B. W. Richard- 

 son, 159. 



Compass, Correction of the Ship's, 18. 



Concrete, Construction of Marine Works 

 with, Bags. W. C. Cay, 67 ; Effects of 

 Sea Water on Portland. H. Faija, 

 2S5 ; Insulating, 344 ; Resistance of, 

 to Shell-Fire, 463, 



