GENERAL INDEX. 
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Biological Section, Addresses by the 
Presidents of the :— 
Southport, Prof. E. Ray Lankester, 
1883, 512 
Montreal, Prof. H. N. Moseley, 1884, 
746 
Aberdeen, Prof. W. C. McIntosh, 
1885, 1043 
Birmingham, W. Carruthers, 1886, 
679 
Manchester, Prof. A. Newton, 1887, 
726 
Bath, W. T. Thiselton-Dyer, 1888, 
686 
Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Prof. J. S. 
Burdon Sanderson, 1889, 604 
Leeds, Prof. A. Milnes Marshall, 
1890, 826 
Biological Association laboratory at Ply¬ 
mouth , the marine , report on mailing 
arrangements for assisting, 1887, 59 ; 
1888, 94 ; *1889, 642 ; 1890, 444 
- station, a marine, at Granton, 
Scotland, report on the establishment 
of, 1885, 474 
- stations, marine, on the coast of the 
United Kingdom , report on promoting 
the establishment of, 1885, 480 
Biology, the application of, to economics, 
P. Geddes on, 1885, 1166 
* -a re-arrangement of the divisions 
of, D. McAlpine on, 1886, 708 
* -systematic, E. Ray Lankester on 
English nomenclature in, 1874, 137 
*Biquadratique binaire, sur les faisceaux 
de forme, ayant une meme Jacobienne, 
par Cyparissos Stephanos, 1881, 534 
Biram’s anemometers attached to kite- 
wires, an account of some preliminary 
experiments with, by Prof. E. D. Archi¬ 
bald, 1884, 639 
Biechall (E.) on some hybrid Sphingiclas 
and other Lepidoptera, 1870, 111 
*Bircli-tree, Dr. Jordan on an abnor¬ 
mal growth of a bud of a, 1865, 82 
Bird (Alfred) on the purification of 
terrestrial drinking waters with neu¬ 
tral sulphate of alumina, 1866, 33 
* -(Dr. Henry) on the utilisation of 
sewage, 1864, 24 ; on the human bones 
found in tumuli situated on the Cottes- 
wold hills, 137 
* -on the utilisation of sewage, as 
conducted at Stroud, and on the 
growth of the sewage plant, 1865, 28 
-on the Steypireyor whale of the 
Icelanders, 1870, 112 
- (Dr. James) on the vital and sani¬ 
tary statistics of our European army 
in India, compared with those of the 
French army under like conditions of 
climate and locality, 1863, 151 
Birds, blastoderm in the ova of, B. T. 
Lowne on the ciliated condition of the 
inner layer of the, and in the omphalo¬ 
mesenteric vessels, 1871, * 140 , 242 
Birds, classification of, P. L. Sclater 
on the, 1880, 606 
-eggs of, Dr. John Davy on the, 
3863, 112 
* -eggs of British, C. O. Groom-Napier 
on the cause of the variation in the, 
1866, 77 
-egg-shell of: is the carbonate of 
lime in the, in a crystalline or amor¬ 
phous state ? by Dr. John Davy, 1866, 
89 
-shell of the egg of, Dr. G. Ogilvie on 
the adaptation of the, to the function 
of respiration, 1867, 102 
-of Europe, legislative protection to 
the, C. O. Groom-Napier on, 1875, 217 
* -flight of, Prof. F. Guthrie on the, 
1874, 22 
-food of, C. Ottley Groom on the, 
3 864, 95 
-foot of, and on the use of the ser¬ 
rated claw, P. M. C. Kermocle on the, 
1881, 670 
--- fungi within the thorax of living, 
Dr. J. Murie on the development of, 
1871, 129 
-Jurassic, and their allies, Prof. O. C. 
Marsh on, 1881, 661 
-limbs: Charles Martins sur une 
comparaison des membres pelviens et 
tlioraciques chez Thomme, les mam- 
miferes, les oiseaux, et les reptiles, 
deduite de la torsion de l’humerus, 
1867, 158 
-in museums, Thomas J. Moore on 
some improved methods of displaying, 
1865, 92 
- of the Mascarene Islands , report on 
extinct, 1866, 401 ; 1867, 287 ; 1872, 23 
--- migration of, and Messrs. Brown 
and Cordeaux’s method of obtaining 
systematic observations of the same 
at lighthouses and lightships, A. New¬ 
ton on, 1880, 605 
- the migration of, report on, 1881, 
189 ; 1882, 283 ; 1883, 229 ; 1884, 
266 ; 1885, 685 ; 1886, 264 ; 1887, 
70 ; 1888, 146 ; 1889, 114 ; 1890, 464 
-migratory, of the North of England, 
T. Lister on, 1874, 137 
-migratory, some of our, as first seen 
in Aberdeenshire, J. Taylor on, 1885, 
1098 
-and birds’ nests : A. R. Wallace on 
their plumage, or the relation between 
sexual differences of colour and the 
mode of nidification in, 1867, 97 
- on the protection of, 1869, 91 ; 
utility of, 92 ; food of, 93 ; on the de¬ 
struction of insects by, 95 
* -raptorial, of Scotland, Prof. J. 
Duns on the rarer, 1871, 132 
