GENERAL INDEX. 
39 
Beryl, the temperature at which it is 
decolorised, J. Joly on, 1888, 684 
Bessel's functions, tables of, 1889, 28 
* -some formulae connected with, Dr. 
Meissel on, 1889, 498 
Bessemer process in South Staffordshire, 
W. Hutchinson on the basic, 1886, 593 
Bessemer (Henry) on the manufacture 
of cast steel, its progress, and employ¬ 
ment as a substitute for wrought iron, 
1865, 165 . ( Printed in extenso .) 
- on the use of steel for structural 
purposes, 1878, 157 
Bettany (G. T.) on the structure and 
development of the vertebrate skull, 
1877, 106 ; on the use of the terms 
assimilation and metastasis, 107 
Bevan (E. J.) and C. F. cross on cellu¬ 
lose and coal, 1881, 603 
-A. G. Green7 and C. F. Cross, the 
action of light upon the diazo-com- 
pounds of primuline and dehydro- 
thiotoluidine: a method of photographic 
dyeing and printing, 1890, 781 
-(Rev. J. O.), the education of pauper 
children, industrially and otherwise, 
1883, 629 
Bewley (T.) on a new plant-house, 1863, 
95 
Beyer (Charles F.) on steam-boiler explo¬ 
sions, 1870, 1 ; 1871, 166 ; 1872, 57 
Beynon (G. W.) on compensating-appa- 
ratus for distant signal-wires of rail¬ 
ways, 1874, 220 
* - (J. B.) on a hand-machine for 
shaping and finishing metal surfaces, 
1876, 219 
Bhawnpore, a meteor which passed over, 
Oct. 1873, Maj.G. N. Money on, 1877,31 
^Bhutan frontier, an expiring race on 
the, T. D. Beighton on, 1878, 591 
Bibliography of works on Dynamics, by A. 
Cayley, 1862, 245 
- of papers on the conduction of heat, 
by J. T. Dunn, 1881, 139 
- botanical and zoological works on 
the Lesser Antilles, Caribbee Islands, 
or Windward and Leeward, Islands, 
West Indies (Tobago to Porto Pico 
inclusive ), Botany, by W. B. Hemsley. 
Zoology, by D. Sharp, 1888, 438 
- of Palaeozoic and Mesozoic Polyzoa, 
published in Great Britain since 1.854, 
1883, 206; of Cretaceous and Tertiary 
Polyzoa, 1884, 214 
— of recent Polyzoa, 1885, 674 
-of North American geology, G. Iv. Gil¬ 
bert on a plan for the subject, 1884, 732 
- of certain groups of Invertebrata, 
report on a, 1884, 270 ; *1885, 1056 
-of meteorology and terrestrial mag¬ 
netism, compiled by the Signal Office, 
Washington, Prof. Cleveland Abbe on 
the, 1887, 593 
Bibliography of works referring to British 
mineral and thermal waters, by W. II. 
Dalton, 1888, 859 
- of works on the geology, mineralogy , 
and palaeontology of Staffordshire, 
Worcestershire, and Warwickshire, by 
W. Whitaker, 1885, 780 
- of works on the palaeontology of Ox¬ 
fordshire, of Berkshire, and of Bucking¬ 
hamshire, by W. Whitaker, 1882, 327 
-. of works on the mineralogy of Wales, 
to 1873, by W. Whitaker, 1880, 397 
- of works on coast-changes of England 
and Wales, by W. Whitaker, 1885, 442 
- of works referring to underground 
water, England and Wales, by W. 
Whitaker, 1887, 384 
-- of solution, report on the, 1887, 57 ; 
1888, 54; 1889, 53 ; 1890, 310 
- of spectroscopy , report on the, 1889, 
344 ; 1890, 261 
Bickerton (A. W.) on a new heat-engine, 
1870, 208 
Bickmore (A. S.) on the Jessop Collec¬ 
tion, to illustrate the forestry of the 
United States, in the New York Natural 
History Museum, 1884, 778 
Bidder (G. P.), Address to the Section 
of Mechanical Science, 1868, 180 
- on the stability, propulsion, and sea¬ 
going qualities of ships, 1869, 10 ; 1870, 
44 
Biddulpii (Col. R.) on the Yarkund mis¬ 
sion, 1874, 181 
j--[Gen. Sir R.] on Cyprus, 1889, 659 
Bidwell (E.) on the herds of wild cattle 
in Chartley Park and other parks in 
Great Britain, 1887, 135 
-(S.) on telegraphic photography, 
1881,777 
-on the sensitiveness to light of 
selenium and sulphur cells, 1885, 981 ; 
on the generation of a voltaic current 
by a sulphur cell with a solid electro¬ 
lyte, 982 
- on electrolysis in its physical and 
chemical bearings, 1886, 308 ; 1887, ; 
1888 , 339 ; 1889, 223 ; 1890, 138 
- on diathermancy and electrolytic 
conductivity, 1886, 309 
Bierens de Haan (Dr. D.) on a theorem 
in the integral calculus, 1867, 4 
Bifurcate stream at Glen Lednock Head, 
in Perthshire, Capt. T. P. White on a, 
1869, 172 
BiGGART (A. S.) on the Forth Bridge 
works, 1885, 873 
-the Forth Bridge works, 1887, 870 
Biggs (C. II. W.), middle-class schools as 
they are and as they ought to be, 1870, 
188 
* -on a new voltaic battery, 1876, 62 
-and W. W. Beaumont, secondary 
batteries and the economical genera- 
