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Index. 
Beknottedness. See Knots. 
Bennett (Professor John Hughes), 
Obituary Notice of, 15. 
Bifilar Magnetometer, 402. 
Biliary Secretion, The, with refer- 
ence to the Action of Cholagogues, 
by Professor Rutherford and M. 
Vignal, 334, 718. 
Binocular Vision of Colour, 654. 
Blackie (Professor) on the Origin of 
Language, 98. 
Is the Gaelic Ossian a Trans- 
lation from the English ? 151. 
on Gladstone’s Theory of 
Colour-Sense in Homer, 533. 
Blaikie (J. Adrian), Action of Heat on 
some Salts of Trimethyl-Sulphine, 
565, 712. 
Blair (Dr), his “Scientific Aphorisms ” 
in connection with the Ultra- 
Mundane particles of Le Sage, 415. 
Blyth (James) substitutes Copper- 
Plate, Wood, India-rubber, &c., 
for the Iron Disc of Telephone, 
535. 
his experiments with the 
Telephone, 553. 
An Account of some Experi- 
ments on the Telephone and Micro- 
phone, 711. 
Boron, Adamantine, 721. 
Boulder Committee, Third Report of, 
by D. Milne Home, Esq., 170. 
Fourth Report of, by D. Milne 
Home, Esq., 660. 
Bow (R. H.) on the Splitting up of 
Electric Currents and the founding 
thereon of a Sounder to call atten- 
tion from one Telephone to another, 
707. 
Brongniart (Adolphe Theodore), Obit- 
uary Notice of, 229. 
Broun (J. A.) on the Decennial Period 
in Diurnal Oscillation of Magnetic 
Needles, and of the Sun Spot Area, 
155. 
on the Bifilar Magnetometer, 
402. 
Brown (Professor Crum) awarded 
the Keith Prize for the biennial 
period 1873-75, for “ Researches on 
the Sense of Rotation and on the 
Semi-Circular Canals of the Inter- 
nal Ear,” 153, 231. 
on the Action of Sulphuretted 
Hydrogen on the Hydrate and 
Carbonate of Trimethyl-Sulphine, 
319. 
Brown (Professor Crum) on the Action 
of Heat on some Salts of Trimethyl- 
Sulphine, 565. 
— on the Action of Heat on some 
Salts of Trimethyl-Sulphine, 712. 
his Apparatus for producing 
Vowel Sounds, 723. 
on Certain Effects of Periodic 
Variation of Intensity of a Musical 
Note, 736. 
Bryce (David), ObituaryNoticeof,216. 
Bryce (Dr James), Obituary Notice of, 
by his son, Professor Bryce, Oxford, 
514. 
Bryce (Professor) contributes Obitu- 
ary Notice of his Father, Dr James 
Bryce, 514. 
Buchan (Alexander), M.A., on the 
Annual Periods of Thunder (with 
Lightning), Lightning (only), Hail 
and Snow, at Oxford, 135. 
on a Peculiarity of the Diurnal 
Hygrometric Curve at Geneva, 304. 
Presentation of the Makdou- 
gall-Brisbane Prize to, 319, 486. 
on the Diurnal Oscillations of 
the Barometer, 410. 
Report of the Deputation to 
Upsala, 521. 
Note on a White Sunbow, 546. 
Buchanan (J. Y.) on the Specific 
Gravity of Ocean Water, 283. 
on the Manganese Nodules 
found on the Bed of the Ocean, 287. 
on the Air Dissolved in Sea- 
Water, 412. 
Burton (Captain), Volcanic Eruptions 
of Iceland in 1874 and 1875. 
Calculus of Operations, Certain For- 
mulae in, by Professor Stokes, 101. 
Canon of Sines for each 2000th part 
of the Quadrant to 33 places, and 
true to the 30th Figure, by E. Sang, 
536. 
Cayley (Professor) on a Problem of 
Arrangements, 338, 402. 
— on Mr Muir’s Solution of a 
“ Problem of Arrangement,” 402. 
Centrifugal Force as producing Rigi- 
dity, 73. 
Cetacea, On the Placentation of, by 
Professor Turner, 103. 
Charcoal, Thermo-Electric Properties 
of, 579. 
Chemical Combinations, 537. 
Cholagogues. See Biliary Secretion. 
Christison (J.), Note on a White 
Sunbow, 545. 
