36 
GENERAL INDEX. 
837 ; on human bones discovered by 
Gen. Pitt-Rivers at Woodcuts, Rother- 
ley, See., S 39 
Beddoe (Dr. J.), observations on the 
natural colour of the skin in certain 
Oriental races, 1889, 787 
^Bedfordshire, J. F. Walker on a phos- 
phatic deposit in the Lower Green 
Sand of, 1866, 45 
- J. F. Walker on the Lower Green 
Sand of, 1866, 67 
Bedson (Prof. P. P.) on the method of 
determining the specific refraction of 
solids from tlieir solutions, 1881, 155 
- on photographing hydrogen and 
chlorine bulbs by aid of the flash of 
light which caused their explosion, 
1888, 633 
-the manufacture of: aluminium from 
cryolite, 1889, 535 
Beech, the ethnological significance of 
the, Rev. Canon I. Taylor on, 1889, 782 
*Beedy (Miss) on reform in the work of 
the medical profession, 1871, 192 
Beer duty, the influences of the, H. 
Stopes on, 1882, 638 
—— testing, Dr. W. Bott on a new and 
rapid method of, 1887, 660 
*Bees and ants, recent observations on 
the habits and instincts of, by Sir J. 
Lubbock, 1885, 1056 
* -and wasps, solitary, the instincts 
of, Sir J. Lubbock on, 1888, 706 
Bees’ wax and lead chloride, the electrical 
properties of, Profs. J. Perry and W. 
E. Aju'ton on, 1878, 497 
Begg (A.), the Canadian Pacific Railway, 
1886, 727 
Beggiatoa alba , Prof. W. Hillhouse on the 
cultivation of, 1886, 701 
*Behieb (Dr.) on the generation of 
wfliite blood-corpuscles, 1868, 112 
Behbexs (J.) on the economic effects of 
combinations of labourers and capi¬ 
talists, 1871, 266 ; 1875, 146 
*Beighton (T. D.) on an expiring race 
on the Bhutan frontier, 1878, 591 
Beke (Dr. C. T.) on the mountains form¬ 
ing the eastern side of the basin of the 
Nile, and the origin of the designation 
* Mountains of the Moon ’ as applied to 
them, 1861 , 184 ; on a volcanic eruption 
on the coast of Abyssinia, 1 S 6 
- a journey to Harran in Padan-Aram, 
and thence over Mount Gilead into the 
Promised Land, 1862, 141 
-on the island of St. John, in the Red 
Sea (the Ophiodes of Strabo), 1866, 50 ; 
on the lake Kura of Arabian geogra¬ 
phers and cartographers, 104 ; on the 
possibility of turning the waters of the 
Nile into the Red Sea, 105 
*-on a canal to unite the Upper 
Nile and Red Sea, 1869, 159 
Beke (Dr. C. T.) on the true position 
and physical characters of Mount 
Sinai, 1873, 161 
Belchee (Adm. Sir E.) on the glacial 
movements noticed in the vicinity of 
Mount St. Elias, on the N.W. coast of 
America, 1861, 186 
- on a spirit-level telescope for ob¬ 
serving altitudes and obtaining lati¬ 
tudes independently of natural or 
artificial horizons, 1863, 170 ; on an 
improved caisson gate, ib .: on a 
mode of rendering timber-built ships 
impregnable and unsinkable under 
moderate crew-power, as in leaky 
vessels, 171 
-on improvements in the defence of 
ships of war, 1864, 184 
* -on stone implements of Esquimaux, 
1866, 94 ; *on the application of the 
expansive power of moistened veget¬ 
able matter to the raising of weights, 
140 
-on methods for testing the speed of 
vessels over the measured mile, 1867, 
T r* "> 
--- on tidal observations, 1868, 489 ; 
1870, 120 
* -on stone implements from Rangoon, 
1869, 129 ; *on the distribution of heat 
on the sea-surface throughout the 
globe, 159 ; *on a navigable floating 
dock, 209 
-on the unprotected state of Liver¬ 
pool, 1870, 208 
- (R. B.) on disturbance of the 
weather by artificial influences, espe¬ 
cially battles, military manoeuvres, 
great explosions, and conflagrations, 
1874, 36 
*Belemnites from Luckmanier, exhibi¬ 
tion of specimens of, by W. W. Watts, 
1889, 571 
Belfast, Dr. Andrews on the composition 
of an inflammable gas issuing from 
below the silt-bed in, 1874, 50 
-- harbour, T. It. Salmond on the r 
1874, 118 
Belgian bone-caves, C. C. Blake on a 
human jaw from the, 1866, 95 
Belgium, the Silurian formations of the 
centre of, Prof. C. Malaise on, 1870, 7 $ 
- the Devonian system in England 
and in, G. Dewalque on, 1877, 69 
Bell, G. H. Bryan on the pulsations of a 
rotating, 1890, 743 
Bell (Alfred) on some molluscan fauna 
of the Red Crag, 1868, 59 
- fossil Tertiary Polyzoa of the higher 
zones, and note on the scarcity of Eocene 
Polyzoa, 1885, 666 
- on the 1 manure 5 gravels of Wexford , 
1887, 209 ; 1888, 133 ; 1889 , 92 ; 1890, 
410 
