826 index. December, 
Arsenic in dark water-colours, 586 
Arsenical wall-papers, poisoning by, 
. 3 8 9 
Articulate speech and Darwinism, 804 
Arum crinitum, observations on, 702 
“ Ascension, Six Months in”(review), 
134 
Astronomical Society, 816 
“ Astronomy, Navigation and Nauti- 
cal ” (review), 644 
Atlantis not a myth, 746 
“TUlas, Great, Journal of Tour in 
Morocco and the ” (review), 187 
Attwood, G. A., gold nugget from 
South America, 378 
Audiometer, 499 
Aurin, 200 
Aurunga and Daltonganj coal fields, 
712 
Ayrton, W. E., and Perry, Profs., a 
new theory of terrestrial magne- 
tism, 287 
— eledric lighting by incandescence, 
168 
— Ex-isothermal model of a cooling 
globe, 323 
Azam, Dr., double consciousness and 
scission of personality, 327 
B ACCHI, M., treatment] of bade- 
rihaemic disease, 762 
Bacillus subtilis, germs or spores of 
the, 513 
“ Bacon’s Novum Organum ” (re- 
view), 109 
Baderihaemic disease, treatment of, 
762 
Baird, S. F., “ Record of Science and 
Industry for 1878” (review), 649 
Balance, indudion, 509 
Ball, J., and J. D. Hooker, “Journal 
of a Tour in Morocco and the 
Great Atlas ” (review), 187 
— R. S., “ Mechanics ” (review), 646 
Ballooning in Ardic exploration, 163 
Bancel, M., and M. Husson, phos- 
phorescence of the flesh of the 
lobster, 454 
Band pattern in animals, 196, 496 
Barber, S., habits of animals in rela- 
tion to the weather, 728 
Barometric pressure, diurnal varia- 
tions of in the British Isles, 383 
Barrett, W. F., attempts to overcome 
the indudion clamour on tele- 
phones, 450 
Bateman, F., Darwinism and articu- 
late speech, 804 
Bates, H. W., geographical distribu- 
tion of inseds, 326 
Batteries, novel pump for lifting solu- 
tions out of, 51 1 
Battery, chloride of silver, eledric 
discharge of, 816 
— for the eledric light, new, 776 
— improvement in Bunsen’s, 394 
Baynes, R. E., “ Lessons in Thermo- 
dynamics” (review), 112 
Bazalgette, J., eledric light on the 
Thames Embankment, 455 
Beard, G. M., American nervousness, 
598 
“ jumpers ” or “ jumping French- 
men,” 247 
Becquerel, H., temporary magnetic 
proportions developed by induc- 
tion in certain specimens of 
nickel and cobalt, 265 
Beer, mannite in, 330 
Bees, parthenogenesis among, 262 
Belt, Thomas, obituary, 143 
Benzoic acid, artificial, from naphtha- 
lin, 330 
Benzol, 454 
Bergeret, M., and M. Moreau, remedy 
for the Peronospora infesting the 
lettuce, 388 
Bert, M., temperature of the brain, 327 
“ Bible, Music of the” (review), 757 
Bichromate of potash battery, con- 
stant, 202 
for preserving delicate ma- 
rine organisms, 328 
Billing, S., scientific materialism and 
ultimate conceptions, 661 
Biological department of the survey 
of the territories, 453 
— notes, 233, 262, 326, 388, 451, 512, 
585, 701, 761, 822 
“ Biological Leisure Time Studies ” 
(review), 131 
Birds, inseds, &c., efifed of the 
weather on, 453 
— nesting, 479 
— proteded from feather hunters, 262 
— transformation of the beak of cer- 
tain, 963 
“ Birds of the Colorado Valley ” (re- 
view), 369 
Black silks, weighting, 708, 767 
Blandford, W. T., and H. B. Medli- 
cott, “ Manual of the Geology of 
India” (review), 698 
Blonde race of mankind, origin of the, 
454 
Boiteau, M., adion of sulphide of car- 
bon upon the vine, 512 
Bolton, H. C., legends of sepulchral 
and perpetual lamps, 715 
Bombay Presidency, meteorology of, 
201 
