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GENERAL INDEX. 
measurable annual parallax, and its 
results, 654 
Ball [Sir R. S.], Address to the Section of 
Mathematical and Physical Science, 
1887, 569 
- on the desirability of introducing a 
uniform nomenclature for the funda¬ 
mental units of mechanics, 1888, 27 
-—— on the proposals of M. Tondini de 
Quarenglii relative to the unification of 
time, omd the adoption of a universal 
prime meridian , 1889, 49 
-(V.) on the new geological map of 
India, 1878, 532 ; on some objects of 
ethnological interest collected in India 
and its islands, 588 
-on the coal fields and coal produc¬ 
tion of India, 1879, 334 ; on the forms 
and geographical distribution of an¬ 
cient stone implements in India, 394 
-on the sources of the salt supply of 
India, 1882, 530 ; on the identification 
of certain ancient diamond mines in 
India, 625 
- on explorations in caves in the 
Carboniferous Limestone in the south of 
Ireland , 1883, 132 
■- on the mode of occurrence of 
precious stones and metals in India, 
1881, 731 ; on the identity of the 
animals and plants of India which are 
mentioned by the early Greek authors, 
762 
-- on the provincial museums of the 
United Kingdom , 1887, 97 ; 1888, 124 
Ballast-flora of the coasts of Durham 
and Northumberland, John Hogg on 
the, 1866, 74 
^Ballon, M. Janssen sur observations 
physiques en, 1871, 55 
Balloon ascents , meteorological observa¬ 
tions made in, 1861, 249 ; 1862, 376 ; 
1863, 426 ; 1861, 193 ; 1865, 145 ; 1866, 
367 
- navigation, Isaac Ashe on, 1862, 
2 7 
Ballot (Dr. Buys) on the importance of 
the Azores as a meteorological station, 
1871, 49 
Baluchistan, E. A. Floyer on Bashakard, 
in Western, 1877 143 
Bamber (Henry K.) on the water-sup¬ 
plies of Plymouth, Devonport, Exeter, 
and St. Thomas, 1869, 60 
*Bamfield (J.) on the spontaneous com¬ 
bustion of coal in ships, 1880, 696 
Banbridge, the meteorology at, for ten 
years, J. Smyth, jun., on, 1874, 39 
Banffshire, the flora of, R v. W. S. Bruce 
on, 1885, 1087 
-George Seton on the illegitimacy of, 
1871, 214 
fBangala, t he, a tribe on the Upper Congo, 
Capt. Coquilhat on, 1887, 798 
*Bangweolo lake and Dr. Livingstone, 
E. G. Ravenstein on, 1888, 745 
Bank of England, R. H. I. Palgrave on 
the relation of the banking reserve of 
the, to the current rate of interest, 
1873, 199 
-notes, one-pound, Prof. J. S. Nichol¬ 
son on, 1886, 766 
Banking law, a general, for the United 
Kingdom, W. Westgarth on, 1881, 751 
-modes of, in America, Manchooria, 
and China, Col. Sykes on, 1866, 134 
* - the mathematical theory of, F. Y. 
Edgeworth on, 1886, 777 
-statistics, W. Botly on, 1888, 760 
* -system of Canada, H. J. Hague on 
the, 1884, 868 
^'Bankruptcy in its economic bearings, 
J. Macdonell on, 1881, 765 
*Banks of issue, rates of interest and, 
A. K&roly on, 1877, 179 
*Banks (J.) on sewage purification and 
utilisation, 1876, 62 
Bann river, J. Smyth, jun., on the in¬ 
dustrial uses of the Upper , 1874, 139 
Bantu tribes living round Lake Nyassa in 
Eastern Central Africa, notes on some 
of the, by Dr. R. Laws, 1885, 1227 
Barber (C. A.) on the development of 
the bulb in Laminaria bulbosa, 1888, 
710 ; on Pachytheca , a Silurian alga of 
doubtful affinities, 711 
*Barff (F. S.) on the formation of the 
black oxide of iron on iron surfaces, for 
the prevention of corrosion, 1877, 50 ; 
*on the preservation of iron, 199 
Barham (Dr. C.) on some relations of 
sea and land temperature in the south¬ 
west of England, 1877, 38 ; *on flint 
flakes from Cornwall and the Scilly 
Isles, 114 
* - (Francis) on the alimentary cha¬ 
racter of nitrogen gas, 1864, 117 
‘ Barisal guns,’ the sounds known as the, 
occurring in the Gangetic delta, T. D. 
la Touche on, 1890, 800 
Barium as a cementing material in sand¬ 
stone, Prof. F. Clowes on, 1885, * 992 , 
1038 
- sulphate in water-box deposits 
from the Durham coal-mine waters 
and in Nottingham sandstone, Prof. 
F. Clowes on, 1889, 594 
Barkas (Aid. T. P.), notes on the nume¬ 
rous newly discovered fossil footprints 
in the Lower Carboniferous Sandstones 
of Northumberland, near Otterburn, 
1889, 565 
Barker (Dr. J.) on the immersion 
method of illumination of the micro¬ 
scope, 1870, 39 ; *note on Pleuronema 
doliarium, a new infusorium, 111 
Barlow (C.), the nem Tag viaduct, 1885, 
883 
