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their Iberian relations, Hyde Clarke 
on, 1882, 604 
British agriculture, the position and 
prospects of, Prof. W. Fream on, 
1884, 847 
--Association Catalogue of Stars, the 
Rev. R. Main on the, 1869, 19 
-- Lieut.-Col. Strange on the 
duty of the, with respect to the distri¬ 
bution of its funds, 1872, 63 
- standards of electrical resist¬ 
ance , 1862, 125 ; 1863, m ; 1864,345 ; 
1865, 308 ; 1867, 474 ; 1869, 434 ; 1870, 
142 
--- units of electrical resistance , 
results of a comparison of the, by Cl. 
Chrystal and S. A. Sounder, 1876, 13 
-standard gauge for small 
screws, E. Rigg on the, 1885, 1203 
-standard screw gauge, W. H. 
Preece on the, 1887, 884 
-and Canadian agriculture, by Prof. 
J. P. Sheldon, 1884, 847 
■- Columbia, Viscount Milton and Dr. 
Cheadle on an expedition across the 
Rocky Mountains into, 1864, 141 
-P. N. Compton on the coast of, 
1867, 114 
-D. R. King on the natives of 
Vancouver’s Island and, 1869, 225 
• -sketch of the geology of, by 
G. M. Dawson, 1880, 588 
- the ethnology and the Indians of, 
see ‘North-western Tribes’ 
- commerce, the progress of, in a 
generation, E. J. Watherston on, 1881, 
763 
- Empire in North America and in 
Australasia, W.Westgarth on the, 1884, 
835 
-the interdependence of the 
several portions of the, S. Bourne on, 
1884, 851 
- fossil corals, Dr. P. Martin Duncan 
on, 1868 ,171 ; 1869, 150 ; 1871, 116 ; list 
of TeHiary and Secondary, 1869, 168 
* -Guiana, W. Harper on the natives 
of, 1876, 165 
-Islands, Rev. J. Brodie on recent 
geological changes in the, 1868, 60 
-Isles, Dr. J. H. Gladstone on the 
distribution of fog around the, 1861, 
57 
- G. J. Symons on the rainfall 
in the , 1862, 293 ; 1864, 367 ; 1865, 
192 ; Report, 1866, 281 ; 1868, 432 ; 
1870, 170 ; 1871, 98 ; 1872, 176 ; 1873, 
257 ; 1874, 75 ; 1875, 91 ; 1876, 172 
-G. M. Whipple on the passage 
of squalls across the, 1873, 44 
-- the relations between the geo¬ 
logical constitution and the magnetic 
state of the, Profs. A. W. Rucker and 
T. E. Thorpe on, 1889, 586 
British marine fauna, and flora, definition 
of the area of the, report on the, 1887, 95 
■-- mineral and thermal maters, a list 
of works referring to, by W. H. Dalton, 
i 888 , 859 
- Museum, Andrew Murray on the 
future administration of the Natural 
History Collections in the, 1867, 94 
* -navy, Captain B. Pirn on, 1883, 657 
-race in Australia, Dr. MacLaurin 
on, 1889, 786 
* - shipping and the tonnage laws, 
Captain B. Pirn on, 1881, 780 
* -standard of value, the, D. Horton 
on, 1885, 1172 
* - tumuli and monuments in the 
Hebrides and on the western coast of 
Scotland, J. S. Phene on a recent 
examination of, with suggestive infer¬ 
ences, 1870, 237 
*Brittain (D. VV.) on the development 
of Cysticercus, 1864, 191 
-(W. H.) on the present appropriation 
of wages and sources of income, 1880, 
318 ; 1881, 272 
*Brittany, Lower, Dr. P. Broca on the 
anthropology of, 1866, 96 
-denudation of Western, G. A. Lebour 
on the, 1869, 95 
-granites of Lower, G. A. Lebour on 
some, 1869, 96 
Brixham, W. Pengelly on a new bone- 
cave at, 1861, 123 
* - Cavern, W. Pengelly on a recent 
notice of, 1875, 177 
-Bench Cavern, recent researches in, 
by W. Pengelly, 1887, 710 
Broads of East Norfolk, R. B. Grantham 
on the, having reference to the water- 
supply, stowage, and drainage, 1868, 
191 
*Broca (Dr. P.) on the anthropology of 
Lower Brittany, 1866, 96 
* -on the seat and faculty of articu¬ 
late languages, 1868, 120 
Brockenhurst bed, the outcrop of the, 
near Lyndhurst, E. B. Tawney on, 
1882, 540 
Brodie (Sir Benjamin C.) on scientific 
evidence in courts of law, 1866, 456 
-(Rev. James) on the physical con¬ 
dition of the earth in the earlier epochs 
of its history, 1863, 67 
-on recent geological changes in the 
British Islands, 1868, 60 
-on the action of ice in what is 
usually termed the Glacial Period, 
1875, 63 
-(Rev. P. B.) on two outliers of Lias 
in S. Warwickshire, and on the presence 
of the Rlimtic bone-bed at Knowle, its 
furthest northern extension hitherto 
recognised in that county, 1864, 52 
-on a section of Lower Lias at Har- 
