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FISHES. 



General: Confusion of Names, 205 ; Phosphorescence when Dead, 211; Re- 

 lationships, 261 ; Pectoral Fins, 261 ; Fishes of the British Museum, 206 ; of 

 Cuba, 211 ; of Algeria, 211 ; Change from Fresh Water to Salt, 265; Fossil, 

 in Wyoming, 248, New Jersey, 248 ; Killing, with Torpedoes, 267 ; Fun- 

 gus growth on, 267. Fish Culture : Stocking Rivers, 205, 265, 266 ; Food 

 of young Trout, 217, 350. Fisheries : Exposition at Naples, 347 ; Steam 

 in, 348 ; of Connecticut, 349. 



Special : Herring, Spawning of, 207 ; Food of, 208 ; Codfish, Tame, 212 ; 

 Stones in the Stomach of, 213 ; in Alaska, 259. Salmon, Kelts, 215 ; in Loch 

 Tay, 215 ; Land-locked, 216 ; in the British Provinces, 260 ; in the Hudson, 

 264; Salmon-fly, 263. Trout, Tailless, 217; Food of young, 217,350. 

 Sturgeon, 213. Lamprey, 213. Ganoid, 214. Gourami, 214. New Lophi- 

 oid, 214. Bluefish, 278. Pompano, 260. Horse-mackerel, 263. Black 

 - Bass, 264. Eyeless Fish, 266. 



INVERTEBRATES IN GENERAL. 



Fossil, 223 ; Injected with Silica, 225. 



MOLLUSKS. 



New Brachiopod, 223 ; European, 224 ; Color of Shells, 224 ; Muscular Fibre, 

 224 ; of Gulf of Suez, 274-; of Gaspe, 275 ; Oyster-fisheries in Germany, 270 ; 

 Enemies of Spat, 270. 



INSECTS. 

 Of Madeira, 218; in Salt Water, 269 ; in Hailstones, 217; Selection for Food 

 by Birds, 219; Fungus growth on, 221, 223 ; new Parasite of the Elephant, 

 221; Reduvius, 222; Cockroach, 222; Phylloxera, 222; White Ant, 269; 

 Cabbage Butterfly, 270. 



ARACHNIDS. 



Bites of Scorpions, 177. 



CRUSTACEANS. 



Changing from Salt Water to Fresh, 226 ; from the Gulf Stream, 276 ; new 

 Fossil, 228 ; Climbing Trees, 229 ; Feet of Trilobite, 228. 



RADIATES. 

 Rare Species, 225. 



PROTOZOA. 



Pelobius, a new Rhizopod, 230. 



H. BOTANY AND HORTICULTURE 279 



BOTANY. 



General : Effect of Trees on Climate-, 279 ; Spontaneous Forest Fires, 280 ; 

 Origin of Coal, 286 ; Drying Flowers, 293 ; Flowering of Plants, 311 ; Petri- 

 fied Forest in California, 102. 



Vegetable Physiology : Action of Light on Tissues, 290 ; of Heat and 

 Cold, 291, 297, 298 ; of Electricity, 296 ; of Illuminating Gas, 292 ; Circula- 

 tion of Plants, 291 ; Movements of Chlorophyl Grains, 295 ; Transpiration 

 of Leaves, 289, 295 ; Autumnal Change of the Color of Foliage, 294, 307 ; 

 Artificial Change of the Color of Flowers, 290, 296 ; Generation of Heat by 

 Fungi, 290 ; Growth in Solutions, 298 ; Lime in Water Plants. 312. 



Poisonous Plants: Manzanilla, 289. Diseases : Blight. 287, Coffee- 



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