GENERAL INDEX. 
61 
the supposed lost language and anti¬ 
quity of, 1875, 176 
Bury (H.) on the early stages in the de¬ 
velopment of Antedon rosacea , 1887, 735 
-(Rev. W.), poor-law administration, 
1889, 715 
Busacott (Rev. A.) on the present ex¬ 
tent of slavery and the slave trade, 
with a reference to the progress of 
abolition since the American war, 1876, 
196 
Bushire, a journey by land from Bagdad 
to, by W. S. Blunt, 1879, 440 
Bushman researches of Dr. W. H. Bleek, 
Hyde Clarke on the report concerning, 
1873, 142 
*Bushmen crania, Professor G. Rolleston 
on, 1880, 631 
Busk (Prof. G.) on the opening of a cist 
of the Stone Age near Moray Firth, 
1862, 146 
- on a very ancient human cranium 
from Gibraltar, 1863, 91 
- on exploring Kent's Cavern , Devon¬ 
shire, 1867, 24 ; 1868, 45 ; 1869, 189 ; 
1870, 16 ; 1871, 1 ; 1872, 28 ; 1873, 
198 ; 1874, 1 ; 1875, 1 ; 1876, 1 ; 1877, 
1 ; 1878, 124 ; 1879, 140 ; 1880, 62 
- on the exploration of the Settle 
Caves , 1876, 115 ; 1877, 215 ; 1878, 377 
- on the examination of two caves 
near Tenby ,1878, 209 
- on the exploration of certain caves in 
Borneo , 1879, 149 
-on the use of the chitinous elements 
or appendages of the Cheilostomatous 
Polyzoa in the diagnosis of species, 
1881, 662 
-and W. Boyd Dawkins on the dis¬ 
covery of platycnemic men in Denbigh¬ 
shire, 1870, 148 
Bustard Great, H. Stevenson on the ex¬ 
tinction of the, in Norfolk and Suffolk, 
1868, hi 
Bute Docks, Cardiff, J. McConnochie on 
the, 1880, 692 
^Butler (G. G.) on pictorial aid to geo¬ 
graphical teaching, 1880, 660 
-(G. W.) on the occupation of the 
table at the zoological station at 
Naples , 1890, 451 
'•^Butterflies and moths, O. Groom-Napier 
on the food and economical value of 
British, 1866, 76 
Butterfly, A. R. Wallace on reversed 
sexual characters in a, 1866, 79 
Button (E.), explorations in the gold 
region of the Limpopo, 1872, 208 
Button-holes, J. M. Clements on a ma¬ 
chine for stitching, 1865, 176 
Buxbaumia aplaylla , Prof. M. A. Lawson 
on the discovery of, near London, 1868, 
104 
Buxton (D.) on the ‘ German ’ speech 
and lip-reading system of teaching the 
deaf, 1879, 474 
Buys-Ballot (Prof.) on the system of 
forecasting the weather pursued in 
Holland, 1863, 20 
*-on the method adopted at Utrecht 
in discussing meteorological observa¬ 
tions, 1866, 16 
- on comparing and reducing magnetic 
observations , 1887, 323 , 324 
Byerley (I.), preliminary report of 
the dredging committee for the Mersey 
and Dee , 1861, 188 
Bykowski (Gryf Jaxa de) on a through 
railway route to India, via Russia and 
the Oxus valley, 1872, 209 
Byrne (Very Rev. J.) on the develop¬ 
ment of the powers of thought in 
vertebrate animals in connection with 
the development of their brain, 1874 , 
x 3 8 
-(Oliver) on dual arithmetic, 1865, 6 
Byrne’s compound plate pneumatic bat¬ 
tery, W. Ladd on, 1878, 448 
Byrom (J. R.), the fauna and flora of the 
Ashton-under-Lyne district, 1883, 541 
Cables, see Telegraph cables 
Cadastral Survey of India, Lt.-Col. W. 
Barron on the, 1885, 1128 
Cadell (H. M.), recent advances in West 
Lothian geology, 1885, 1037 
Cae Gwyn bone-cave, North Wales, Dr. 
H. Hicks on the, 1885, 1021 . (See Caves 
of North Males') 
* Ccvsalpinece, the morphology of some, 
Prof. Hartog on, 1887, 763 
*Ca 3 sar's account of Britain and its in¬ 
habitants, J. Crawfurd on, 1866, 107 
*Cagayan Sulu Island, Capt. Chimmo on, 
1871 ,176 
Cagots, Dr. D. H. Tuke on the, 1879, 379 
Cail (Richard) on Cail’s lock salmon- 
pass or swimming-stair, 1372, 135 
Cain, the descendants of, C. S. Wake on, 
1883, 563 
Cain (J. C.) and Dr. G. H. Bailey, a 
method of quantitative analysis, 1890, 
772 
Caine (Rev. W.) on ten years’ statistics of 
the mortality amongst the orphan 
children taken under the care of the 
Dublin Protestant orphan societies, 
1861, 208 
- on the free licensing system in 
Liverpool during the last four years, 
1866, 124 
- on the increase of drunkenness 
among the working-classes, and the 
causes of it, 1874, 193 
Caird (A. M‘Neel) on some special evils 
of the Scottish poor-law, 1876, 197 
