Apparatus and chemicals for photographic development, 58
Archæologist’s outfit, 159
Archæology, article on, by D. G. Hogarth, 148-159;
Petrie’s “Methods and Aims,” reference to, 149, 158
Argentina, weather service of, 42
Arm, fracture of, treatment of, 288
Arts and sciences, native, 113;
queries on, 130
Asia, weather services of, list of, 42
Assmann’s aspiration psychrometer, 20
Atmosphere, humidity of, instruments for measuring, 18
Atmospheric conditions, ways in which a traveller may add to the
knowledge of, 1
Atmospheric phenomena, on recording observations of, 10
Atolls or coral-islands, on the formation of, 77
Australasia and Pacific, weather services of, list of, 43
Ball, J., Preparation of dried plants, 99
Barometer vernier, diagram showing how to read, 27
Barometers, 25;
aneroid barometer, 31;
Collie portable mercurial barometer, 29;
Fortin barometer, 26, rules for observing with, 27
Bartholomew’s “Atlas of Physical Geography,” vol. iii., Meteorology,
reference to, 37, 41
Bates, H. W., and W. R. Ogilvie-Grant, article on Natural History,
82-105
Baths, directions for giving an invalid, 271
Baths, cold, in Africa, dangers of, 168
Batrachians, naturalist’s outfit for preserving, 85
Beaufort’s scale of wind force, 4
Bed-sore, treatment of, 171
Beri-beri, 171
Bilharzia worm, 249
Birds, hints on collecting, 91;
instruments for skinning, 84
Blackham, “Primer of Tropical Hygiene,” 161
Blackwater fever, symptoms and treatment, 172
Bladder, inflammation of, 181
Blanford, H. F., portable thermometer screen devised by, 15
Blanford, W. T., and Prof. E. J. Garwood, article on Geology, 63-78
Bleeding or hæmorrhage, treatment of, 277
Blindness, night and snow, precautions against, 199
Blood-poisoning, treatment of, 280
Blow-pipe, reference to Plattner and Scheerer’s work on the use of, 67
Boating and Canoeing, note by J. Coles, 293-297
Boils, treatment of, 226
Bonacina, “Climatic Control,” 41
Bone objects of antiquity, on cleaning and conserving, 158
Bones of human limbs, on taking measurements of, 136
Botanical collecting, 99
Botanical seeds, on preserving, 102
Botanical specimens, on the selection of, 99;
conveyance of, to camp or station, 99;
drying press for, 100
Brain, concussion of the, symptoms and treatment, 179
Brazil, weather service of, 42
British Association manual “Notes and Queries on Anthropology,”
reference to, 106
British Central Africa, weather service of, 42
Broca’s scale of colours of native races, reference to, 108
Bronchitis, symptoms and treatment, 174
Bronze objects of antiquity, on cleaning and conserving, 157
Bruises, treatment of, 281
Bubonic plague, causes, symptoms and treatment, 215
Buchan, Dr. A., and Dr. A. J. Herbertson, “Atlas of Meteorology,”
reference to, 37, 41
Buffalo gnats, 195
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