Ancestry of the Vertebrates, on the, Dr. Gaskell, 606; Prof.
W. F. R. Weldon, F.R.S., 606; Prof. C. S. Minot, 606; E.
W. MacBride, 606; Walter Garstang, 606; F. A. Bather,
606

Anchovy, on the Occurrence of the Pelagic Ova of the, off
Lytham, 296

Ancient British Interment in Somersetshire, on the Discovery of
an, F. T. Elworthy, 611

Anderson (T. D.), New Variable in Hercules, 327
Anderson (Dr.), on the Cause of Failure of Railway Rail, 608
André (G.), the Volatility of Lævulic Acid, 384; the Acid
Decomposition of Sugars, 639

André's Polar Expedition, 81

Andrews (T.), Microscopic Internal Flaws in Steel Axles, 159
Angelini (Dr. S.), Observations on Transparency of Waters of
Venetian Lagoon and Gulf of Gaeta, 352

Anglesey, Sir Archibald Geikie on some Rocks hitherto de-
scribed as Volcanic Aggregates in, 585

Angot (A.), the Paris Diurnal Rain-variation, 192; Wind-
velocity at Top of Eiffel Tower, 230; the Paris Tornado of
September 10, 1896, 520

Animals, Domesticated, Nathaniel Southgate Shaler, 220
Ankle-joint in Man, the, and the Inheritance of Acquired
Characters, Prof. Retzius, 162

Anthropology: Anthropological Institute, 71; Anthropology
of Australia, Prof. R. Semon, 135: Pithecanthropus erectus,
Dr. Dubois, 135; Dr. R. Martin, 135; L. Manouvrier, 135;
O. C. Marsh, 189; the Reason of Right-handedness, Dr. D.
G. Brinton, 230; Centralblatt für Anthropologie, 237; the
Novilara Necropolis, Dr. P. Orsi, 237; Comparison between
Mortalities of Yale Graduates in 1701-1744 and 1745-1762,
Prof. H. A. Newton, 254; the Metopic Suture, Dr. G.
Papillault, 254; the Structure of Man: an Index to his Past
History, Prof. R Wiedersheim, 291; Osteology of Pigmy
Peoples, Dr. R. Verneau, 325; Prehistoric Graves in Penn-
sylvania, 325; the Utility of Specific Characters, Prof. David
Wetterhahn, 342; Prof. E. R. Lankester, F. R.S., 365; the
Anthropology of British India, Edgar Thurston, 404; Ruined
Temples in Mashonaland, R. M. W. Swan, 424; the Khmer
of Kamboja, S. E. Peal, 461: the Ancient City of Coapan,
Honduras, Prof. F. W. Putnam, 480; Fossil Tridacnid Arm-
Rings in the Solomon Islands, Dr. Arthur Willey, 523; the
Bertillon System of Identification, Francis Galton, F. R.S.,
569; Human Evolution an Artificial Process, H. G. Wells,
589. See also Section H, British Association

Antarctic Exploration, Projects for, Dr. Hugh Robert Mill,

29

Anthrax disseminated by Horse-hair, Dr. Silberschmidt, 204
Antichrist Legend, the, W. Bousset, 491

Antitoxin Treatment of Diphtheria, the, Dr. Lennox Browne,
260

Antonovich (M. A.), Charles Darwin and his Theory, 101
Ants, Parasol, J. H. Hart, 526

Apollonius of Perga: Treatise on Conic Sections, 314
Appleyard (R.), Dielectrics, 93

Applied Mechanics, a Text-book of, Alexander Jamieson, 7
Aquatic Hymenoptera, Fred. Enock, 28

Arachnids: Habits and Distribution of Galeodes, Surgeon-
Major E. Cretin, 366; R. I. Pocock, 367
Aragonite, on the Effects of Solution on Organisms with, and on
those with Calcite Shells, Mr. Kendall, 587
Archæology: Rambles and Studies in Bosnia-Herzegovina and
Dalmatia, Robert Munro, Prof. W. Boyd Dawkins, F.R. S.,
78; Archæology of South-west Florida, Prof. F. N. Cushing,
230; the Reliquary, 237; the Novilara Necropolis, Dr. P.
Orsi, 237; Death of Prof. E. Curtius, 252; the British School
at Athens, 254; Archæological Studies in Mexico, Alfred P.
Maudsley, 274; Ruined Temples in Mashonaland, R. M. W.
Swan, 424; the Ancient City of Coapan, Honduras, Prof. F.
W. Putnam, 480; Prehistoric European Sculpture, Salomon
Reinach, 482

Archives of Clinical Skiagraphy, 17

Arcidiacono (S.), Eruption Phenomena in Sicily and Adjacent
Islands, September-December 1895, 68; the Syracuse Earth-
quake of April 13, 1895, 525

Artesian Leakage, the alleged, J. P. Thomson, 156
Arctica: Andre's Polar Expedition, 81; Arctic Hail and
Thunderstorms, H. Harries, 215; Glacial Geology of Arctic
Europe, II., Colonel H. W. Feilden and Prof. T. G. Bonney,
F.R S., 263; the Conway Spitzbergen Expedition, 324, 401;

Trevor-Battye, 543; Dr. Nansen's Polar Expedition, 374;
the Ice-Voyage of the Fram, Captain Sverdrup, 430; the
Arctic Record of 1896, Dr. H. R. Mill, 392; Submarine
Range in Davis Strait, 400; Return of Mr. Jackson's Expedi-
tion, 445; Suggested Submarine Boat Expedition to North
Pole, G. L. Pence, 519; Return of the Peary Greenland
Expedition, 524

Argentina, the Extinct Vertebrates of, R. Lydekker, F. R.S., 86
Argon, Combination with Water of, P. Villard, 432

Argon of Fire-Damp, the Nitrogen and, Th. Schloesing, jun.,
336, 359

Argon and Helium, Inactivity of, Prof. William Ramsay,
F.R.S., and Dr. J. N. Collie, 143; Homogeneity of, Prof.
W. Ramsay and Dr. J. N. Collie, 336, 406, 546
Arloing (S.), Bactericidal Power of Blood Serum, 192
Armstrong (Dr. H. E., F.R.S.), Purification of Sulphur, 225;
Frank Campbell's Theory of National and International
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Arnaud (A.), Transformation of Tariric and Stearoleic Acids
into Stearic Acid, 47

Arnold (W.), Röntgen Rays as Detectors of Food Adulteration,
356; Luminosity of Solids under Röntgen Rays, 356
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Arsonval (A. d'), Physiological and Therapeutic Action of High
Frequency Currents, 264

Arthur (Prof. J. C.), the Germination of Cockle-bur Seeds, 34
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Asconidæ, Development of Leucosolenea variabilis and other, E.
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Ashworth (J. H.), Tubers of Anthrocerus tuberosus, 591
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Hedin, 550

Asteroids, Mass of the, G. Ravené, 206

Astronomy: Daylight Meteor, April 12, C. E. Stromeyer, 9;
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Meteor, C. H. H. Walker, 271; November Meteors, G.
Johnstone Stoney, 301; W. F. Denning, 623; Horary
Variation of Meteors, G. C. Bompas, 296; Meteor Trails,
354; Meteors transiting the Solar and Lunar Discs, 449;
Our Astronomical Column, 17, 35, 63, 84, 108, 137, 158, 185,
206, 231, 256, 280, 301, 327, 354, 374, 403, 426, 448, 487,
519, 526, 551, 579, 599, 632; Comet Swift, 1896, 7, 137 ;
Dr. Schorr, 35; the Planet Mercury, 17, 84; New Divisions
of Saturn's Rings, M. Flammarion, 17; the Planet Saturn,
Prof. Barnard, 327; Determination of the General Brightness
of the Corona, Joseph Lunt, 17; Inclinational Terms in
Moon's Coordinates, P. H. Cowell, 22; the Astronomy of
Milton's "Paradise Lost," Thomas N. Orchard, W. T.
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Bassett (Prof. J. S.), Slavery in North Carolina, 157

Bather (F. A.), on the Ancestry of the Vertebrates, 606; on
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Battelli (Prof. A.), Experiments on Röntgen Rays, 62;
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Battelli (F.), Action of various Substances on Movements of
Stomach, 239

Bauer (Dr. L. A.), the Notation of Terrestrial Magnetic
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Bauschinger (Dr.), Search Ephemeris for Comet, 1889, V.,
Brooks, 84

Bazin (M.), Distribution of Velocities in Tubes, 144

Beasley (Mr. H. C.), on Foot-prints from the Trias in the
Neighbourhood of Liverpool, 586

Beaulard (F.), Non-Refractibility of X-rays by Potassium,
359

Beaumont (Mr.), on the Cause of Failure of Railway Rails,
607

Becquerel and Lippmann's Colour Photographs, Prof. R.
Meldola, F.R.S., 28; C. H. Bothamly, 77

Becquerel's Colour Photographs, Captain W. de W. Abney,
F.R.S., 125

Becquerel (H.), Emission of New Radiation by Metallic
Uranium, 94

Beddoe (Dr. John, F.R.S.), Complexion and Disease, 260;
Manx Anthropology, 609

Bedell (Dr. F.), the Principles of the Transformer, 545

Bedford (Rev. W. K. R.), on some Old Tapestry Maps of Parts
of England, 588

Beecher (C. E.), the Morphology of Triarthus, 45

Bell (Prof. Alexander Graham), Experiments in Mechanical
Flight, 80

Bell (A.), on the Tertiary Deposits of North Manxland, 586
Belopolsky (Dr.), the System of Castor, 63

Benesch (Herr F.), Pauling's New Method of Drawing Relief
Maps, 352

Benham (Dr. W. B.), the Blood of Magelona, 142; Fission in
Nemertines, 142

Bennett (Alfred W.), Hydrodictyon reticulatum, 172
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Berlin Physical Society, 95, 120

Berlin Physiological Society, 120

Bernard (H. M.), British Museum Catalogue of Corals, 593
Berthelot (M.), Cyanic Acid, 384; the Volatility of Lævulic
Acid, 384; the Abandoned Copper Mines of Sinai, 432, 447;
Explosive Properties of Acetylene, 591; the Acid Decom-
position of Sugars, 639

Bertillon Criminal Identification System in Ceylon, the, 518
Bertillon System of Identification, the, Francis Galton, F. R.S.,
569

Bertillon (Alphonse), Signaletic Instructions, Francis Galton,
F.R.S., 569

Berton (F.), Action of Röntgen Rays on Diphtheritic Bacillus,
287

Bertrand (G.), Oxidation of Aromatic Polyphenols, 95; New
Soluble Oxidising Vegetable Ferment, 119; Simultaneous
Presence of Laccase and Tyrosinase in Mushroom Sugar, 520
Bertrand (J.), Maxwell and the Kinetic Theory of Gases, 106
Besson (A.), Action of Gaseous Hydrogen Iodide and
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Besson (M.), Thiophosphoryl Chlorobromide, 63
Bevan (E. J.), Constitution of Cereal Celluloses, 46
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Bishops and Science, our, Rev. J. F. Heyes, 77
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Blandford (W. F. H.), Variations in Heliconius Butterfly, 161;
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Blanford (Dr. W. T., F.R.S.), the Ancient Geography of
Gondwana Land, 373; the Great Rift Valley, Dr. J. W.
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Blood-Brotherhood, G. Archdall Reid, 77

Blount (Bertram), Chemistry for Engineers and Manufacturers,
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Blown-out Shots and Coal Mine Explosions, 576

Bloxam (A. G.), Chemistry for Engineers and Manufacturers,
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Blue Sun, Prof. H. Mohn, 483

Boas's (Dr. J. E. V.) Text-book of Zoology, 491

Bodö, the Total Solar Eclipse at, Dr. A. Brester, jun., 390
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Boedtker (E.), Action of Aluminium Chloride on Benzene con-
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Bois (Dr. du), Magnetising and Hysteresis of various kinds of
Steel and Iron, 95: Röntgen Rays and Polarisation, 166
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Boltzmann (Prof.), Zermelo and the Kinetic Theory of Gases,
106

Bompas (G. C.), Horary Variation of Meteors, 296

Boaney (Prof. T. G., F. R.S.), Glacial Geology of Arctic Europe,
II., 263

Bordas (L.), Sub-intestinal Nervous System of Platyphyllum
giganteum, 616

Bordas (M.), the Freezing-Point of Milk, 456

Boring a Coral Reef at Funafuti, W. W. Watts, 201

Borings: Mr. Morton on a Boring near Altcar and another
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Bosc (M.), Stability of Blood rendered incoagulable by Extract
of the Leech, 520

Bose (Prof. J. Chunder), on an Apparatus for Studying the
Properties of Electric Waves, 567

Bosnia-Herzegovina and Dalmatia, Rambles and Studies in,
Robert Munro, Prof. W. Boyd Dawkins, F.R.S., 78
Bost (W. D. A), the Spontaneous Combustion of Charcoal,
577

Botany Magical Growth of Plants, W. R. M. Semple, 8;
Linnean Society, 23, 190; Death of R. P. Delavay, 33;
the alleged Development of Yeast Cells from Moulds, Messrs.
Klöcker and Schiönning 33; the germination of Cockle-bur
Seeds, Prof. J. C. Arthur, 34; Nuclear Division in Spores of
Fegatella conica, Prof. J. B. Farmer, 38; Cocoa: all about
it, 50; Index Kewensis Plantarum Phanerogamarum Sump-
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Gardens, Calcutta, 98; the Philippine Island Bean, 106;
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Effect of Röntgen Rays on Oat-Germination, A. Schober,
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New Soluble Oxidising Vegetable Ferment, G. Bertrand,
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Proterandry in Palm, J. Daveau, 157; Osmotic Pressures in
Leaf-Cells, Henry Dixon, 167: Monographie der Gattung
Euphrasia, Dr. R. von Wettstein, W. Botting Hemsley, F. R.S.,
169; Die Protrophie, eine neue lebensgemeinschaft in ihren
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Erigeron strigosus, Thomas Meehan, 240; Extraction of
Chlorophyll by Benzol, Dr. J. A. Keller, 240; Origin of
Australian Vegetation, Henry Deane, 253; Digestion in Car-
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Vegetable Digestion, V. Poulet, 384; the Running-out" of
Peas, 279; Fertilisation and Spore-Segmentation in Fucus,
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near Krasnoyarsk (Siberia), M. Prein, 311; the Displace-
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F.R.S., 341; the Mandrake, Kumagusa Minakata, 343;
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of Myrica nagi Bark, A. G. Perkin and J. J. Hummel, 408;
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for Beginners, H. Edmonds, 412; English Weeds as Pasture-
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549; Manual of Botany, Prof. J. R. Green, F.R.S., 570;
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Botany, Dr. Max Westermaier, 594; Death of Dr. H.
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629. See also Section K, British Association
Bothamly (C.H.), Becquerel and Lippmann's Colour Photo-
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Bott (Samuel), Text-book of Physical Exercises, 341

Bougault (J.), Action of Chloride of Sulphur on Penta-Erythrite,
312

Boulenger (George Albert), Catalogue of the Snakes in the
British Museum (Natural History), 266

Bouny (M.), Measurements of Work in Driving Bicycle, 192;
Control of Results obtained by Dynamometric Pedal of
Bicycle, 239

Bourquelot (E.), Action of Soluble Oxidising Mushroom
Ferment on Naphthols, 456

Bourot (M.), Digestibility of Cocoa-Butter and ordinary Butter,
639

Bousset (W.) the Antichrist Legend, 491

Bouveault (L.), Action of Ethyl-oxalyl Chloride on Aromatic
Hydrocarbons in presence of Aluminium Chloride, 71, 119;
Action of Hydrazine on Glycoxylic Acids, 216; New Method
of Preparing Aromatic Aldehydes, 239

Boxall (G. E.), the Reclamation of the Australian Deserts, 41
Boyce (Prof.), on the Bacteriology of the Oyster, 635

Boys (Prof. C. V., F. R.S.), Geometric Wall Brackets and Steady
Blocks, 37

Bradshaw (Dr. T.), on the Behaviour of Litmus in Amphoteric
Solutions, 584

Branch (C. W.), Foreign Snails in West Indies, 392
Branson's (Messrs. Reynolds and) New X-ray Meter, 62
Bread from Screened Flour, Food-Values of, A. Girard, 167,
192

Bread-making, a Text-book of the Science and Art of, William
Jago, 51
Breckenridge (J. E.), the Separation of Potassium and Sodium,
639

Brehm (Alfred Edmund), from North Pole to Equator, 194
Bremen Climate and Sunspots, 572

Brester (Dr. A. jun.), the Total Solar Eclipse at Bodö, 390
Brewer (W. H.), Earth Tremors and Sounds produced by
Niagara Falls, 155

Bricard (R.), a Self-registering Thermometer Balance, 23
Brinton (Dr. D. G.), the Reason of Right-handedness, 230
BRITISH ASSOCIATION: Meeting at Liverpool, 462; Local
Arrangements, Prof. W. A. Herdman, F. R.S., 199, 367,
416, 492, 547; Inaugural Address by Sir Joseph Lister,
F. R.S., President, 463

Section A (Mathematics and Physics)-Opening Address by
Prof. J. J. Thomson, F. R.S. (President of the Section),
471; Report of the Committee on the Establishment of a
National Physical Laboratory, Sir Douglas Galton, 565;
Röntgen Rays and Allied Phenomena, Prof. P. Lenard, Sir
George Stokes, Prof. Fitzgerald, Prof. J. J. Thomson, and
E. Rutherford, 565; Prof. Ayrton, 566; Prof. Rücker on
Measurement of Transparency of Glass and Porcelain to
Röntgen Rays, 566; Lord Kelvin on Measurements of
Electric Currents through Air at different Densities down to
one five-millionth of the Density of ordinary Air, 566; Dr.
F. T. Trouton, on the Results of Experiments on the
Duration of X-radiation at each Spark, made by rotating a
Wheel between the Discharge Tube and a Sensitive Plate,
566; Prof. S. P. Thompson, on the Relation between
Kathode Rays, X-rays, and Becquerel's Rays, 566; M.
Birkeland's Recent Observations of Discontinuous Line
Spectrum of Kathode Rays, produced by Magnetic De-
flection, 566; Prof. S. P. Thompson on Hyper-phos
phorescence, 566; Lord Kelvin on the Molecular
Dynamics of Hydrogen Gas, Oxygen Gas, Ozone, Peroxide
of Hydrogen, Vapour of Water, Liquid Water, Ice, and
Quartz Crystal, 566; Mr. E. Rutherford on a Method of
Detecting Electro-Magnetic Waves, 567; Prof. J. Chunder
Bose on an Apparatus for Studying the Properties of
Electric Waves, 567; Mr. A. W. Clayden's Report on the
Application of Photography to the Elucidation of Meteoro-
logical Phenomena, 567; Reports submitted by the Com-
on Electrolysis and the Electrical Standards
Committee, 567; Mr. W. N. Shaw on the Total Heat of

mittee

Water, 567 Mr. E. H. Griffiths on a Special Form of
Resistance Box, 567; Profs. Elster and Geitel, Investiga-
tions as to the Cause of the Surface Colourisation of
Colourless Salts (KCl, NaCl) by the Kathode Rays, dis-
covered by Goldstein, 567; Mr. J. Burke on Change of
Absorption accompanying Fluorescence, 567; Lord Kelvin,
Magnus Maclean, and Alexander Galt on the Communica-
tion of Electricity from Electrified Steam to Air, 622
Section B (Chemistry).-Opening Address by Dr. Ludwig
Mond, F. R.S. (President of the Section), 475; Prof. H. B.
Dixon, E. II. Strange, and E. Graham on Reflected Waves
in the Explosion of Gases, 583; Dr. J. H. Gladstone and
Mr. W. Hibbert on the Contrast between the Action of
Metals and their Salts on Ordinary Light and on the New
Rays, 583; Prof. F. Clowes on the Limiting Explosive
Proportions of Acetylene, and Detection and Measurement
of this Gas in the Air, 583; Dr. A. W. Titherley on the
Amides of the Alkali Metals and some of their Derivatives,
584; Prof. Oscar Liebreich on Diminution of Chemical
Action due to Limitations of Space, 584; Dr. Wildermann
on the Velocity of Reactions before Perfect Equilibrium
takes place, 584; Dr. J. Bradshaw on the Behaviour of
Litmus in Amphoteric Solutions, 584; Messrs. A. G.
Green and A. Wahl on the Constitution of Sun Yellow or
Curcumine and allied Colouring Matters, 584; Dr. F. E.
Francis on Abnormalties in the Behaviour of Ortho-deri-
vatives of Orthamido-, and Orthonitro-benzylamine, 584;
Mr. W. Newton on Nitrates: their Occurrence and Manu-
facture, 584; Prof. Ramsay on the very Remarkable and
Abnormal Properties of Helium, 584; Dr. F. Hurter on
the Manufacture of Chlorine by means of Nitric Acid, 584;
Prof. J. Dewar on Low Temperature Research, 584; Dr.
J. Haldane on his Calorimetric Method of Estimating
small amounts of Carbon Monoxide in the Air, 584; Sir
H. E. Roscoe on Chemical Education in England and
Germany, 585; Science Teaching in Elementary Schools,
585; Report of the Committee on the Constituents of
Barley Straw, 585; Proximate Constituents of Coal, 585;
on Quantitative Methods of Electrolysis, 585
Section C (Geology)-Opening Address by J. E. Marr,
F.R.S. (President of the Section), 494; Sir W. Dawson
on pre-Cambrian Fossils, 585; Dr. G. F. Matthews on the
Larval Characters of Entromostraca, Brachiopods, and
Trilobites in those Faunas which preceded that of Para-
doxides, 585; Sir Archibald Geikie on some Rocks
hitherto described as Volcanic Agglomerates in Anglesey,
585; Mr. Greenly on the Quartzite Lenticles, 585; Mr.
W. W. Watts on Ancient Rocks in Charnwood Forest,
585; Messrs. Howard and Small on the Rocks of Skomer
Island, 585; Prof. Boyd Dawkins on the Geology of the
Isle of Man, 586; Mr. Garwood's Report on the Work on
Carboniferous Zones, 586; Mr. H. C. Beasley on Foot-
prints from the Trias in the Neighbourhood of Liverpool,
586; Mr. Morton on a Boring near Altcar and another
Boring on the West of Bidston Hill, 586; Mr. Montagu
Browne on the True Bone-bed of Aust Cliff and the
Pullastra arenicola Bed which occurs above it, 586; Mr.
H. B. Woodward's Notes on Sections along the London
Extension of the Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire
Railway, 586; Glacial Geology, 586; Mr. A. Bell on the
Tertiary Deposits of North Manxland, 586; Mr. Kendal
on certain River Valleys in Yorkshire which have changed
their direction in part since the Glacial Period, 586; Mr.
Kendal and Mr. Lomas on the Glacial Phenomena of the
Clwyd Valley, 586; Dr. Callaway on the Superficial
Deposits of Shropshire, 586; Mr. Clement Reid on the
Paleolithic Deposits of Hoxne, 586; Prof. Hull on the
Great Uplift of the West Indian Islands, 586; Mr. Mellard
Reade on the Evidence of Land Oscillation near Liverpool,
587; Mr. Morton on the Sea-coast of Wirral, 587; Prof.
Seeley on a Skull of Diademodon brought from Wonder
Boom, 587; Dr. Johnston-Lavis on the Interpretation
placed by Messrs. Weed and Pirsson in an Igneous Mass in
the Highwood Mountains, Montana, 587; Physical and
Dynamical Geology, 587; Mr. Kendal on the Effects of
Solution on Organisms with Aragonite and on those with
Calcite Shells, 587; Prof. Milne on his Seismological
Observations during the Year in the Isle of Wight, 587
Section D (Zoology)-Opening Address by Prof. E. B. Poul-
ton, F.R.S. (President of the Section), 500, R. T. Günther

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on Roman Oyster Culture, 605; Walter Garstang on Utility
of Specific Character in Crabs, 605; Dr. C. H. Hurst, 605;
Rev. T. R. R. Stebbing, 605; Prof. C. L. Morgan on Neo-
Lamarckism, 605; F. Enock on Life-History of Tiger-
Beetle, 605; J. W. Woodall on Dannevig's Flodevigen
Salt-water Fish Hatchery, 605; Dr. J. Hjort, 605; Rev.
Canon Tristram on Bird Migration, 606; Dr. Gaskell on the
Ancestry of the Vertebrates ;Prof. W. F. R. Weldon, F. R.S.,
606; Prof. C. S. Minot, 606; E. W. McBride, 606;
Walter Garstang, 606; F. A. Bather, 606; Prof. C. S.
Minot on the Theory of Panplasm, 606; E. W. McBride
on Value of Morphological Methods in Zoology, 606; F.
A. Bather, 606; A. T. Masterman on Phoronis, 607; E.
W. McBride, 607; A. T. Masterman on some Effects of
Pelagic Spawning on the Life-Histories of Marine Fishes,
607.

Section E (Geography)-G. F. Scott Elliot on the Influence
of African Climate and Vegetation on Civilisation, 587; Sir
Charles Wilson on the Geography of the Egyptian Sudan,
588; H. S. Cowper on a Journey in the Tarhuna and
M'Salata Districts of Tripoli, 588; Rev. W. K. R. Bed-
ford on some Old Tapestry Maps of Parts of England, 588;
Mr. Vaughan Cornish on the Formation and Distribution of
Sand-dunes, 588; G. G. Chisholm on the Relativity of Geo-
graphical Advantages, 589

Section G (Mechanical Science)-Opening Address by Sir
Douglas Fox (President of the Section), 510; Mr. Beau-
mont on Cause of Failure of Railway Rail, 607; Prof.
Unwin, 608; Mr. Johnson, 608; Dr. Anderson, 608; Sir
Douglas Fox, 608; Prof. Hele-Shaw, 608: Mr. Spooner,
608; W. H. Wheeler, Report on Effect of Wind and
Atmospheric Pressure on Tides, 608; A. J. Maginnis on
Coal Consumption in British North Atlantic Mail Service,
608; Colonel Watkin's Photographic Method of Comparing
Screw-Gauges, 608; Price's Microscopical Method of Com-
paring Screw-Guages, 608; Report on Small Screw-Gauges,
609; W. H. Preece on Tests of Glow-lamps, 609; Prof.
Ayrton, 609

Section H (Anthropology)-Opening Address by Arthur J.
Evans (President of the Section), The Eastern Question
in Anthropology, 527; Mr. A. W. Moore and Dr. J.
Beddoe on Manx Anthropology, 609; Dr. D. Hepburn on
the Trini Femur, 610; G. Lawrence Gomme on the
Method of Determining the Value of Folk-Lore as Ethno-
logical Data, 610; C. H. Read on a Proposed Ethnological
Bureau, 610; Dr. J. H. Gladstone on Prehistoric Metal
Implements, 610; Dr. Munro, 610; Prof. Ridgeway on the
Starting Point of the Iron Age in Europe, 610; Dr. Munro
and Prof. Boyd Dawkins on the Glastonbury Lake Village,
610; Prof. Ridgeway on the Mykenæan Age, 610; Dr. O.
Montelius on Pre-classical Chronology in Greece and Italy,
611; Prof. Petrie on Iron Tools discovered in Egypt, 611;
Arthur J. Evans on Pillar and Tree Worship in Mykenæan
Greece, 611; G. Coffey on the Relation of the Stone Carv-
ings of the Tumuli of New Grange, Dowth, and Loughcrew to
Scandinavian Art, 611; Graf von Pfeil on the Duk-duk
and other Customs as Forms of Expression of the Melane-
sian's Intellectual Life, 611; F. T. Elworthy on the Dis-
covery of an Ancient British Interment in Somersetshire,
611

Section I (Physiology)—Opening Address by W. H. Gaskell,
F.R.S. (President of the Section), The Origin of Verte.
brates, 551; Prof. Kendrick on the Application of Phono-
graph to Sound-Analysis, 633; Prof. Macallum on a means
of detecting Difference between Organic and Inorganic
Salts of Iron, 633; Dr. Marcet on Types of Human
Respiration, 633; Prof. Lorrain Smith and Westbrook on
Febrile Reaction on Inoculation with certain Bacilli, 633;
Prof. Thompson on Physiological Effects of Vein-injected
Pepsin, 633; Dr. J. L. Bunch on Intestinal Nerves, 634;
Dr. Grünbaum on Effect of Peritonitis on Peristalsis, 634;
Dr. Pavy on the Glucoid Constitution of Proteid, 634;
Prof. Gotch on Time Relations of a Single Nerve-Cell, 634;
Prof. Minot on a New Microtome, 634; Prof. Waller on
Conditions Modifying Electrical Response of Isolated Nerve,
634; Dr. Mann on Nerve Cells, 634; Dr. Buchanan on
Cell Granulation, 634; Prof. Paul on some Points in Dental
Histology, 635; Dr. E. Stevenson on Effect on Eye-Move-
ments of Destruction of Ear, 635; Prof. Haycraft on
Flicker Photometry, 635; Prof. Allen on Physical Basis of