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Index. 
on Frogs, 772. Its Action on the 
Individual System, 774. Its 
Action on Mammalia, 777. 
Berthelot’sExperiment on theTenacity 
of Water, by MrH, Creelman, 546. 
Biology. — A Synthetic Outline of the 
History of, by Mr P. Geddes, 904. 
Bipartite Functions, by Dr Thomas 
Muir, 114. 
Bisulphide of Carbon Prisms, by Dr 
Daniel Draper, 266. 
Blood. — Duration of the Life of Bed 
Blood Corpuscles, by William 
Hunter, M.D., 849. 
Blvth (Mr A. Wynter). — The Distri- 
bution and Significance of Micro- 
Organisms in Water, 485. 
Blyth (Professor James). — The Abso- 
lute Determination of the Strength 
of an Electric Current by means of 
the Balance, 650. 
Bowman (F. H.), D.Sc., on some 
Yariationsin the Structure of Wool 
and other allied Fibres, 657. 
Brook (Mr George), F.L.S.— The For- 
mation of Germinal Layers in 
Teleostei, 590. 
Broom (Mr B.) on the Volume of 
Mixed Liquids, 172. 
Brown (Professor Crum) on the 
Hexagonal System in Crystallo- 
graphy, 118. 
• on a Case of Interlacing 
Surfaces, 382. 
on a Model of the Half-Twist 
Surface, 513. 
on the Belation between the 
Densities and the Atomic Weights 
of the Elements, 530. 
Bromides, Chlorides, and Iodides. See 
Barlow (Mr John James). 
Buchan (Alexander), M.A. — The 
Meteorology of Ben Nevis, 843. 
Statement on presenting the 
Keith Prize to Mr John Aitken, 784. 
Buchanan (Mr J. Y.) on the Dis- 
tribution of Temperature in Loch 
Lomond during the Autumn of 
1885, 403. 
on Oceanic Shoals discovered 
in the S.S. “Dacia,” in October 
1883, 428. 
Buist (Dr J. B.) — The Life- History of 
the Micro-Organisms associated 
with Variola and Vaccinia, 603. 
Cadmium, Peroxide of, 146. 
Caledonia (New), its Cobalt and 
NickelOres, by Mr J. B. Beadman,65. 
Cephalopod Liver, and its Identity 
as a true Pancreas, by Dr A. B. 
Griffiths, 120. 
Chlorides, Bromides, and Iodides. 
See Barlow (Mr John James). 
Chlorophyll from the Deep Sea, by 
Professor W. W. Hartley, 130. 
Chromomictors, by Mr John Aitken, 
122. Bed, Green, and Violet will 
produce White, and all possible 
Colours, but no combination of 
Colours will produce Bed, Green, 
or Violet, 126. 
Chromotrope. See Chromomictor. 
Chrystal (Professor) on the Hessian, 
172. 
Circulants. — On Detached Theorems 
on Circulants, by Dr Thomas Muir, 
172. 
Clarkson (Mr B. D. ), Ellis (Mr B. ), 
and Bainy (Mr H.), on the Field 
of a Helmholtz Tangent Galvano- 
meter, 523. 
Clarkson (B. D.), B.Sc., and Bainy 
(Harry), M.A., on Alterations in 
the Electric conducting Power of 
Alloys at their Melting Point, 686. 
Clerk-Maxwell (Professor). — Note on 
a Theorem of Clerk - Maxwell, by 
Professor Tait, 21. 
Cobalt and Nickel Ores of New 
Caledonia, by Mr J. B. Beadman, 65. 
Colliding Spheres, by Professor Tait, 
527, 537, 621, 655, 857. 
Colours of Thin Plates, by Lord 
Bayleigh, 931. 
Compressibility of Water. — On an 
Improved Method of Measuring 
Compressibility , by Professor Tait, 4. 
Effect of Temperature on the 
Compressibility of Water, 120. 
Effect of Pressure on the Tem- 
perature of the Minimum Compres- 
sibility of Water, 155. 
Condensation - Nucleus. — On the 
Necessity for a Condensation- 
Nucleus, by Professor Tait, 78. 
Continents, their Drainage Areas, by 
Mr John Murray, 770. 
Coral Atolls and Barrier Beefs, 
Theories of their Formation, by 
John Murray, Ph.D. , 199. 
Coral Islands, Formation of, by Dr 
H. B. Guppy, 199. 
Coral Beefs of the Solomon Islands, 
by H. B. Guppy, M.B., 857. 
Coronae and Halos seen from Ben 
Nevis Observatory, by Mr Omond, 
500. 
Creelman (Mr H. G.) and Crocket 
(Mr J.) — Thermal Effects produced 
in Solids and Liquids by sudden 
large Changes of Pressure, 311. 
Crocket (Mr J.) See Creelman (Mr 
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