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THE VOYAGE OE H.M.S. CHALLENGER. 
Balleny Island, 416. 
Baltic Sea, 967. 
Bamboo Jew’s-harp, 662. 
Banana, 654. 
Banda Islands, 559, 561, 688, 692 ; 
Governor of, 566 ; history of, 562 ; 
Javanese music at, 567 ; mode of life 
at, 568 ; visited by Portuguese and 
Dutch, 562. 
Banda to Amboina, 573. 
Banda Sea, 736 ; deposit in, 560. 
Bandan, 561. 
Banka, Island, 605 ; Straits of, 647. 
Banksias, 178. 
Banton Island, 623. 
Bantoncillo, 624. 
Baobab tree, 189. 
Bara, laurelled, 211. 
Barbados, rock from, 227. 
Barclay, Sir Henry, 282. 
Barentsia bulbosa, 671. 
Barnacles, 169, 679. 
Barometer, Goldschmid’s, 27 ; marine, 42 ; 
mountain, 42. 
Barometric pressure, relation of, to lati- 
tude, 26. 
Barra Grande, 215 ; Brachyura at, 586. 
Barra Velha Point, 215. 
Barramunda, 456. 
Barreta do Arutu, 215. 
Barrier Reef of Australia, 519, 521. 
Barringtonia, 517, 566, 680. 
Barrois, J., 640. 
Bartema of Bologna, discovers Banda, 
561 ; visits Moluccas, 595. 
Basao Island, 697. 
Basilan Island, 656 ; Mohammedans at, 
658 ; Moro houses at, 659. 
Basilan Strait, 605, 618 ; tides in, 657. 
Bass Strait, 462, 587, 751. 
Bate, C. Spence, on the Macrura, 522, 1069, 
Bathyactis symmetrica, 161, 520, 738, 757, 
797. 
Bathybiaster, 611. 
Bathybius, xlv ; history of, 939. 
Bathycriaus, 306, 311, 313 ; B. aldrichi- 
anus, 308 ; B. campbellianus, 308 ; 
B. carpenteri, 308. 
Bathydoris abyssorum, 695, 775. 
Bathydorus, 451. 
Bathygorgia profunda, 691. 
Bathylagus atlanticus, 903. 
Bathynectes, 586 ; B. gracilis, 521. 
Bathyoncus mirabilis, 164. 
Bathyophis ferox, 171, 906. 
Bathyplax typhlus, 586. 
Bathypterois, description of, 217 ; B. longi- 
cauda, 804 ; B. longipes, 905. 
Bathyteutkis abyssicola, 272. 
Bathythrissa dorsalis, 745. 
Bathythrissidse, 907. 
Batian Islands, 593, 595, 597. 
Batrachostomus Septimus, 666. 
Bat, curious, 235. 
Bats, 536. 
Batu Goyang Island, 543. 
Bay of Biscay, xlviii, 941. 
Bay de l’Oiseau, 345. 
Beach Masters, 377. 
Beach, siliceous, at Somerset, 540. 
Beacon Tower on Raine Island, 528. 
“Beagle,” H.M.S., xxxviii, 868, 875, 885, 
886. 
Bean, 538. 
Beauchesne, M. de, 875. 
Beddard, F. E., on the Isopoda, 878. 
Bee-eater, 535. 
Beetles, 148. 
Behring Sea, 755. 
Bejaren Island, 604. 
Belcher, Sir E., 592. 
Belenogaster bidentatus, 490. 
Belknap, Capt. , 70, 71, 755. 
Bellingshausen, 415, 416. 
Bench marks, 25. 
Bennet, Dr., 455. 
Benodet Islands, 344. 
Benthaster, 615 ; B. wymlle-thomsoni, 757. 
Benthesicymus, 527 ; B. altus, 528. 
Benthodytes abyssicola, 833 ; B. mamil- 
lifera, 833 ; B. papillifera, 775 ; B. 
sanguinolenta, 833 ; B. selcnkiana, 
775 ; B. sordida, 833. 
Bergh, Dr. R., on the Nudibranchiata, 693. 
Bergh, Dr. R. S., 934. 
Berkeley Sound, Port Louis, 884. 
Bermuda, 136, 431, 483. 
Bermuda, diolian rocks at, 137 ; American 
plants at, 143 ; birds at, 144, 146 ; 
clayey matter found at, 141 ; Chal- 
lenger Bank at, 139; Columbine Bank 
at, 139 ; corals of, 145 ; not a coral 
atoll, 137; crabs at, 148; deposits off, 
135, 140; dredgings around, 135, 161; 
examination of bank at, 139 ; flora of, 
143, 943 ; insects at, 147 ; lagoons at, 
138 ; land surface of, 142 ; local sub- 
sidence at, 138 ; magnetic condition 
of, 140 ; Mollusca of, 148 ; reefs of, 
138 : scenery of, 142 ; situation of, 
141 ; soil of, 141. 
Bermuda to the Azores, 167. 
Bermuda to Halifax, 153. 
“Berwick,” the, 250. 
Beryx decadactylus, 745. 
Betceus truncatus, 526. 
Betliell, G. R., 19. 
Betsy Cove, 334, 338, 341. 
Betsy Cove, departure from, 335 ; gale in, 
353 ; soil deposits about, 338. 
“Bibb,” U.S.S., xlvi. 
Bibliography, 1053. 
Bibra, v., 973. 
Bicellaria infundibulata, 674 ; B. navicu- 
laris, 673 ; B. pectogemma, 673, 
Bicellariadse, 672. 
Bickmore, Mr., on ascent of Gunung Api, 
563. 
Biddulphia, 933. 
Bifaxaria abyssicola, 672, 758 ; B. loevis, 
669 ; B. minuta, 674 ; B. reticulata, 
673, 674. 
Bifaxariadee, 669, 672, 674, 675. 
Big Belly Bay, 343. 
Big Ben, 370, 374. 
Billard Island, 863. 
Biloculina, 842 ; B. depressa, 912. 
Bipinnaria, 219. 
Bird caught in spider’s web, 556. 
Bird Island, 184, 185, 532, 559 ; incrusta- 
tion on, 184. 
Bird Rock (St. Yincent), 183. 
Bird Rocks, 333, 342. 
Birds, struggle for existence amongst, 360. 
Birds, at Cape York, 534 ; at Raine Island, 
529 ; at Tahiti, 787 ; at Ternate, 598; 
at Tongatabu, 484. 
Birds of Paradise, 535, 549 ; Great, 545, 
550, 551 ; Papuan, 598 ; Red, 598. 
Birgus latro, 663. 
Bisayans, 658. 
Biscoe, 415, 416, 429. 
Blackbird, 365. 
Blackburne Shoal, 543. 
Black Cockatoo, 534. 
Black Headed Tern, 872. 
Black Island Peak, 863. 
Black Night Hawk, 359. 
Black Noddy, 928. 
Black Rat, 498. 
Black Sea, 967. 
Black Witch, 127. 
Blacks, see Aborigines. 
Blakan Ammara, 546. 
“Blake,” U.S.S., liv, 97, 153, 303, 311, 
895. 
Blatta, 148. 
“ Blenden Hall,” wreck of the, 248, 
256. 
Blennius, 187. 
Bligh’s Cap, 330, 333, 345. 
Blind, animals from the deep sea, 524; fish, 
521 ; Isopoda, 880. 
Block House, 870. 
Blowpipe apparatus, Plattner’s, 45. 
Blue Birds, 146. 
Blue Mountains, 459. 
Blue mud, description of, 917. 
Blue Rock Pigeons, 190. 
Bluff Point,. 336. 
