Algæ, 24, 25 Absence of, below 200 fathoms, 21
_Amblyomma hebræum_ conveys the heartwater disease in sheep, 172, 173
America, Distribution of malaria in, 132 Gifts of the Universities of, 185
_Anopheles_, 144, 145 _bifurcatus_, 147 does not fly far by itself, 161 Eggs of, 148 Larvæ of, 148 Life-history of, 148, 149 _maculipennis (claviger)_, 147, 148 Male, 149 _nigerrimus_, 158 _nigripes_, 147 Position of, 159 Pupæ of, 148
Anthrax, 120, 121 produced by _Bacillus anthracis_, 121 _Appendicularia_, 39
_Argas persicus_ conveys the chicken disease of Brazil, 173
Austen, Map of the geographical distribution of the tsetse fly by, 166 Mortality amongst the horses in the Abyssinian campaign caused by the tsetse fly, 166 On the distribution of the fly, 176
Australia, Distribution of malaria in, 132
_Bacillus anthracis_, Behaviour and life-history of, 121 susceptible to variations of temperature, 121 _butyricus_, 110 _typhosus_, 178
Bateson, W., Materials for the study of variation, 74 Researches on Mendel’s law, 211
_Bathochordæus charon_, named by Chun, 39
_Bathysaurus_, Blackness of the mouth of, 37
Battipaglia, malarious district of, 151, 152
Berlin, University of, State endowments of the, 185
Besançon, 102, 106 Royal College of Franche-Comté, 104
Bidder, G. P., Experiments with weighted bottles on the intensity of fishing, 61
Biffen, Mr., Discovery that susceptibility to rust in wheat is Mendelian, 211
Bos, Ritzema, Experiments of in-breeding with rats, 92
Bouché, Description of the larva of the house-fly, 174
British sea-fisheries. _See_ Sea-Fisheries, British
Bruce, Colonel D.: Female tsetse fly does not lay eggs, 166
Buchanan, John Y., of the _Challenger_, 21
Cable, Recovery of the, by Fleeming Jenkin, 22
Cable-laying: Survey by Lieutenant Berryman, of the _Arctic_, 21 by Captain Pullen, of the _Cyclops_, 21 by Dr. Wallich, in the _Bulldog_, 21
Cæsar, Julius, and British pearls, 5 Favourite horse was polydactylous, 84