770 
Index, 
Beknottedness, Measurement of, by Pro- 
fessor Tait, 48. 
Beltram’s Pseudo - spherical Triangle, 
663. 
Beluga Whale, its Anatomy, by Pro- 
fessor Morrison Watson and Alfred 
H. Young, 112. 
Benzoate of Trimethyl-sulphine, 54. 
Bernard (Claude), Obituary Notice 
of, 6. 
Bessel’s Functions applied to Determi- 
nation of Motion of Columnar Vor- 
tices, by Sir William Thomson, 446, 
455. 
Biangles, Congruent when their Angles 
are equal, 654, 656. 
Biotite, 64. 
Birch (De Burgh) on the Constitution of 
Adult Bone-Matrix and the Func- 
tions of Osteoblasts, 666. 
on Subepipliysal Bone Growth 
and Bone Resorption, 706. 
Blackie (Professor) on Professor 
Geddes’s Theory of the “ Iliad,” 
103. 
Blackwood (John), Obituary Notice of, 
329. 
Blaikie (Dr J. Adrian) on a Crystalline 
Compound formed in Water contain- 
ing Sulphuretted Hydrogen and Mer- 
captan, 87. 
and Professor Crum Brown on 
the Action of Heat on the Salts of 
Trimethyl-sulphine, 53, 253. 
Comparison of the Salts of 
Diethylmethyl-sulphine and Ethyl- 
methylethyl-sulphine, 254. 
Blyth (James, M.A.), Notes on some 
Experiments with the Telephone, 45. 
on Transmission of Sound by 
Loose Electrical Contact, 272. 
on Currents produced by Fric- 
tion between Conducting Substances, 
and on a New Form of Telephone 
Receiver, 548. 
Note on the Wire Telephone as 
a Transmitter, 730. 
Bone Matrix, its Constitution, by Dr De 
Burgh Birch, 666. 
Bone Growth and Bone Resorption, by 
Dr De Burgh Birch, 706. 
Boron, Graphitoid and Nitride of, by Dr 
R. Sydney Marsden, 733. 
Boulders. — Fifth Report of the Boulder 
Committee, 113 ; Boulders in Island 
of Iona, 113 ; in Island of Tiree, 114 ; 
in Island of Coll, 116 ; in Island of 
Staffa, 120 ; in Island of Barra, 122 ; 
in Island of South Uist, 126 ; in 
Island of Canna, 132 ; in Island of 
Harris, 133 ; at Road from Tarbert 
to Stornoway, 136 ; in north part of 
Lewis, 138 ; in Oban and its neigh- 
bourhood, 152 ; at Loch Creran, 159 ; 
at Glencoe, 161 ; at Gairloch, 166 ; 
at Loch Maree, 168 ; at Strathglass 
and Glen Urquhart, 173 ; at Fort 
Augustus, 174 ; at Ben Nevis, 175 ; 
at Eoligarry in Barry, 177. Trans- 
portation of Rocks found on south 
Shores of Moray Firth, 178 ; Granite 
of Dirrie More, 178 : Loch Ness 
Granite, 179 ; Liver-coloured Con- 
glomerate, 180 ; the Granite of Strath- 
errick, 181 ; the Gneiss of Strath - 
errick and the Monaghlea Mountains, 
182 ; the Kinsteary Granite, 184 ; 
Boulders and Drift on the Pentland 
Hills, 186 ; Drift and Glacial Pheno- 
mena on the Pentland Hills, 187 ; 
Striae and Boulders there, 189 ; 
Boulders at Hare Hill, Black Hill, 
South Burn, Harbour Hill, Logan 
House, Eight Mile Burn, Scald Law, 
and Allermuir, 190-192. 
Boulders. — Sixth Report of the Boulder 
Committee, 577 ; Boulders in Argyle- 
shire, 577 — (1) at Southend, Cantyre, 
578, 633; Campbelltown, 579 ; (2) 
Loch Lomond, 589 ; (3) Loch Long 
and Gareloch, 580, 633; (4) Loch 
Fyne, 581, 633 ; (5, 6, and 7) Loch 
Gair and Loch Awe, 582, 633, 634 ; 
(8) Ardrishaig, 586 ; (9) Loch Killes- 
port, 578 ; (10) Loch Swin, 589 ; 
also at Colonsay, 608, 626 ; North 
Uist, 608, 626 ; Harris, 609, 627 ; 
LochTarbet, 609, 626; Glen Scramble, 
609 ; Scalpa Island, 609, 627 ; Shiant 
Islands, 610, 627 ; Skye, 611, 627 ; 
Loch Torridon and Loch Maree, 612 ; 
Black Mount District, 613, 629 ; 
Loch Creran, 615, 630 ; Glencoe 
District, 618, 631 ; at Meall Dearg, 
632. Boulders in Berwickshire — (1) 
Ay ton, 591 ; (2) Coldingham, 591 ; 
(3) Chirnside, 591 ; (4) Blackadder, 
591 ; (5) Hutton, 592 ; (6) Stitchell 
Craggs, Baillie Knowe, Cowden- 
knowes, Smailholin, Hume Castle 
Craggs, 592. Boulders in Buteshire 
— (1) Arran, 593 ; (2, 3, 4) Corrie ; 
(5) Loch Ranza, 597 ; (6) Ailsa Craig, 
597 ; Lamlash Bay and Millport, 
597 ; Cumbrae, 598. Boulders in 
East Lothian and Mid-Lothian — 
At the Pentlands, Habbie’s How, 
Lammermuirs, Moorfoot, Inchkeith, 
600 ; at Kaims and Dalmahoy, 601 ; 
Kirkcudbrightshire, 601 ; Peebles 
