50 
GENERAL INDEX. 
*Bovey Basin, South Devon, prehistoric 
remains in the deposits of the, W. 
Pengelly on, 1882, 607 
__Tracey, W. Pengelly on the source 
of the Miocene clays of, 1869, 99 
Bowater (H.) on Bowater’s patent for 
manufacturing railway axles, 1870, 210 
*Bowden (A.) on a new route to the 
source of the Niger, 1876, 181 
Bowditch (Prof. H. P.) on vaso-motor 
nerves, 1884, 776 
Bowdler (G. A.) on aerial navigation, 
1872, 241 
*Bowen (Sir George) on the advance of 
colonisation in N.E. Australia, 1864, 137 
Bower (F. 0.) on the relations of proto¬ 
plasm and cell-wall in the vegetable 
cell, 1883, 535 
___on the use of graphic representa¬ 
tions of life-histories in the teaching 
of botany, 1885, 1057 
__ on the researches on food-fishes and 
invertebrates at the St. Andrews marine 
laboratory, 1886, 268 
_on Humboldtia laurifolia as a myr- 
mekophilous plant, 1886, 699 ; on posi¬ 
tively geotropic shoots in Cordyline 
australis , ib. ; note on apospores in 
Polystichum angular e, var. pulcherri- 
mum, 700 
.- on the desirability of combined action 
for the translation of foreign memoirs, 
1887, 41 ; on the steps tahen for esta¬ 
blishing a botanical station at Pera- 
deniya , 1887, 96 ; 1888, 421 ; 1889, 
114 ; 1890, 470 
* _on flagella of Calamus, 1887,743; 
*on Cramer’s gemma borne by Tricho- 
manes alata, 761 
* _on the morphology of the pitcher 
of Nepenthes, 1888, 702 
* _the meristem of ferns as a study 
in phytogeny, 1889, 618 
_^notes' on Phylloglossum, 1890, 
867 ; * on the question of the phy¬ 
togeny of ferns, ib. 
Bowkett’s thermograph, W. Lant Car¬ 
penter on, 1881, 604 
Bowling Ironworks, J. Willcock on the 
history, progress, and description of 
the, 1873, 219 
Bowls’s barrow, the recent exploration of, 
W. Cunnington on, 1886, 841 
_crania and other bones from, Dr. J. 
G. Garson on, 1886, 841 
Bowman (Dr. F. H.), the chemistry of 
the cotton fibre, 1887, 641 
Bowman’s (H. T.) new method of taking 
photographs of microscopical objects, 
H. B. Brady on, 1875, 163 
*Bown’s tyre-fastening, B. Fothergill 
on, 1863, 192 
Bowring (Sir John) on a uniformity of 
weights and measures, 1866, 352 ; 1867, 
468 ; 1868 , 484 ; 1869, 308 ; 1870, 232 ; 
1871, 198 ; 1872, 25 
Bowring (Sir John) on productive labour 
in prisons, as associated with the re¬ 
formation of criminals, 1867, 135 
-- on the moral and pecuniary results 
of prison labour, 1868, 156 
--on the Devonshire Association for 
the Advancement of Science and Art, 
1869, 179 ; on penal law, as applied to 
prison discipline, 180 
-(J. C.) *on the direction of the elec¬ 
tric current, 1865, 28 ; *on the preserva¬ 
tion of the sheathing of ships, and ex¬ 
traction of silver from sea-water by 
means of electricity, ib. 
Bows, unusual coloured, observed in fogs. 
an account of, by P. Burton, 1884, 656 
Boycott (Dr.) on the method of making 
gold-assays, and of stating the results 
thereof, 1873, 219 ; 1874, 127 ; 1875, 
155 
Boyd (Edward F.) on ‘ the Wash,’ a re¬ 
markable denudation through a por¬ 
tion of the coal-field of Durham, 1863, 
89 
*-(Dr. R.) on the measurements of 
the head and weight of the brain in 
696 cases of insanity, 1864, 119 
-(T. J.) on educational hospital re¬ 
form, the scheme of the Edinburgh 
Merchant. Company, 1871, 202 
Boynton (T.) on an ancient sea-beack 
near Bridlington Quay, 1888, 328 : 
1889, 70 ; 1890, 375 
Boys (C. V.) on electric meters, 1882, 464 ; 
on the engine power meter, 672 
- on the work of the Differential Gra¬ 
vity Meter Committee, 1888, 72 
-(Rev. H. A.) on Greek meteorology, 
1872, 53 
Brabant, Dr. Phipson on the diluvial soil 
of, 1862, 53 
Brabrook (E. W.) on the preparation of 
brief forms of instructions for travel¬ 
lers, ethnologists, $c., 1873, 482 ; 1874, 
214 
-on the working of the Building- 
Societies’ Act (1874), 1875, 206 
- on the work of the Anthropometric 
Committee, 1878, 152 ; 1879, 175 ; 1880, 
120 ; 1881, 225 ; 1882, 278 ; 1883, 253 ; 
1884, 279 
-on a colour scale, 1878, 582 
- on obtaining photographs of the 
typical races in the British Isles, 1882, 
270 
- on the facial characteristics of the 
races and principal crosses in the 
British Isles, 1883, 306 ; 1884, 294 
Braby (Frederick) on extraction of am¬ 
monia from gas-liquor, 1869, 63 
Brace (Dr. De W. B.)on magnetic double 
circular refraction, 1885, 931 
