640 



INDEX. 



Insects, Darwinian idea of origin of, 



2C5. 



grape-vine, remedies against, 393. 



report on Massachusetts, for 1S71, 



377. 



Insoluble matter in animal membranes, 



279. 

 International congress of anthropology, 



293. 

 Iodide of copper and mercury, 492. 

 Iodine as a disinfectant, 572. 



green for dyeing alpaca, 510. 

 Ipecacuanha ju croup, 5S2. 

 Iridium, etc., and mercurial vapor, 102. 

 Iron, antiquity of, 477. 

 burned, 85. 

 carbonate of, 454. 

 combustibility of, 109. 

 deposited by electricity, 84. 

 in Greenland, 134. 

 in the blood, 314. 

 pure wrought, 4S9. 

 Russia sheet, 477. 

 rust, fire caused by, 466. 

 sand on the Pacific coast, 133. 

 sulphate of, as manure, 393. 

 tools, prevention of rust on, 373. 

 upon zinc, 529. 

 use of tinned scraps of, 537. 

 wire, rupture by a blow of, 475. 

 Isatis tinctoria, 510. 

 Italian spectroscopists' society, 3. 

 Italy, fossil monkey from, 239. 



J. 



Jackman, Mr. J. A., 609. 

 Jackson, Dr. Samuel, 620. 

 Jacobsen, Dr. Oscar, 5S, 190. 

 Jaculus hudsonius, 241. 

 Jamin, Dr., 5S8. 

 Jamracb,Mr.,217, 246. 

 Jannsen, Mr., 4, 18. 

 Janthina prolongata, 510. 

 Japan, exhibition of curiosities in, 614. 

 explorations in, 165. 

 shipwreck of the bark, 613. 

 Japanese, educational movement among 

 the, 233. 

 felt, 528. 



junk stranded on the Aleutian 

 Islands, 232. 

 Jardin des Plantes, new building for the, 



597. 

 Jeannel, Dr., 451. 

 Jeffreys, Mr. Gwyn, 154, 1S2, 304. 

 Jeitteles, Professor, 317. 

 Jelly-fish, preservation of, 290. 

 Jenkins, Mr., 562. 

 Jenner, Dr., 249. 

 Jensen, Captain J., 147. 

 Jerdon, Dr. Thomas C, 620. 

 Jerusalem, explorations about, 230 

 Jevons, Professor, 475. 

 Joannides, Mr., 394. 

 Johannesen, Mr., 145. 

 Johnson, Captain Niles, 172. 

 Captain P. C, 204. 

 Mr., 204. 

 Jones, Mr. J. Matthew, 137, 260. 

 Jordan, Dr., 582. 

 Jourdain, Mr., 257. 

 Journal of the Anthropological Institute 



of New York, 236. 

 Joy, Professor, 573, 



Juglans regia, 512. 

 Julianite, a new mineral, 116. 



K. 



Kaiser, Professor, 620. 

 Kansas, birds of, 321. 

 Keeuan's boiler coating, 476. 

 Keith, Mr., 537. 

 Kennedy, Lieutenant, 204. 

 Kerosene, inexplosive, 48S. 



lamps, how to extinguish, 449. 

 report on, 450. 

 Kerner, Mr., 276. 

 Kessler, Mr. Charles, 620. 

 Keswick, England, fish-breeding at, 414. 

 Kew Gardens in 1871, 340. 

 Kid Gloves, cleaning, 467. 

 Kiersch, Dr., 431. 

 King-crab not a crust icean, 268. 

 King, Dr., 595. 



Mr. Clarence, 127, 173. 



Mr. John, 620. 



penguins in the Zoological Gardens, 

 249. 

 Kirke,Dr.,178. 

 Kirkwood, Professor Daniel, on comets 



and meteorites, 27. 

 Klebs, Professor, 3S5. 

 Klebsch, Mr., 620. 

 Klein, Dr. E.,568. 

 Klemm, Dr. Gustavus, 232. 

 Klinkerfues, Dr.,489. 

 Klippart, Mr. J. II., 126. 

 Koldewey, Captain, 184, 450. 

 Kowalevsky, Mr., 271. 

 Krantz, Dr. Augustus, 621. 

 Krecke, Mr., 79. 

 Krippendorf, Mr., 495. 

 Kropp, Captain W., 64. 

 Kutzner,Dr. J.G., 621 



Labbe, Mr., 556. 

 Labels on bottles, 458. 

 La Condamine, Mr., 155. 

 Lacquer from collodium, 522. 

 Lakes, fresh-water, 120. 

 Lacustrine remains on Lake Leman, 224. 

 villages on Lake Bienne, 223. 

 Lalande, Mr., 227. 

 Lamont, Mr., 145. 

 Lamp, new safety, 547. 

 Lamp-lighter, galvanic, 489. 

 Lampyrus, 113, 335. 

 Lancaster, Mr. E. Ray, 27S. 

 Lane, Professor J. H., 605. 

 Langford, Governor, 125, 199. 

 Lansing, Rev. Dr., 230. 

 Lapham, Professor, 61. 

 La Place, Mr., 33. 

 Laugier, Mr., 615, 621. 

 Laures, Dr., 588. 

 Laurus nobilis, 593. 

 Lavas, temperature of, 122. 

 Law of Professor Valson, 102. 

 Lawes, Mr. John B., 357. 

 Lawes's experimental farm, 357. 

 Lawrence, Mr. George, 181. 

 Lawson, Dr. Henry, 565. 

 Laycock, Professor, 237. 

 Le Conte, Dr., 300. 

 Le Juge, Dr., 263. 



Le Roy's non-conducting composition, 474. 

 Le Verrier, Professor, 9. 



