INDEX, 



349 



Himalayas, glaciers of. 219 



Hindoo astronomy, ancient . .... 7 



Hogs-hair, targets 63 



Human remains in the drift 231 



Humming-bird's nests, material of . . 203 



Ice, action of on Alpine peaks .... 214 



" artificial manufacture of 193 



Illinois, change in the prairies of . . 250 



Illumination, electric 90 



India, pestilence in ......... li-8 



India-rubber, breech-piece for cannon 00 



Indium, a new metal . . 174 



Infants, mental condition of 2(30 



Infusoria, instinct in 293 



" Injector of solids" 80 



Insects, leaden bullets injured by . . 295 

 " noxious, destruction of ... 305 



sleep of 279 



Insect-vision 27-i 



Instinct in infusorial animals . . . .293 



Iron and steel, Bessemer's 178 



" protection from rust 23 



" Russia sheet 22 



Iron-clad ships and batteries 70 



" " inaction, recent experience 



with 74 



Iron-clads, sheathing for 74 



Islands, coral, formation of . > . . .243 

 Ivory, artificial 45 



Jamaica, tertiary shells of 24 > 



Lactation, abnormal 294 



Lathing, wire 20 



Lead-pipes, tinned, action of . . . .194 

 Level, " slope," new instrument. . . 30 



Liebig's theory of food 207 



Life, essential features of 356 



" marine, at great depths 274 



" plan for prolonging 294 



Light, comparative of the sun and 



stars 97 



composition of white 105 



curious, refraction of 130 



speculations on the 



nature of 106 



figures 102 



" invisibility of direct 10" 



new "air" 28 



new method of propagating . 1U8 



" velocity of .125 



Lightning-conductors, efficacy of. . . 91 

 Limestones, crystalline, production 



of. 249 



Liquid, of great density, new . . . .191 

 Liquids, effects of intense heat on . . 142 

 Lizards, flying of the mesozoic period 216 



Locomotion, mechanism of 293 



London, sewage of 10 



Looking-glasses, repairing the silver- 

 ing of 25 



Madder, curious experiments with. . 

 Magnesium, new facts respecting . . 177 

 Magnetic, disturbances, nature of 



forces producing 94 



Magnetism and terrestrial temper- 

 atures 



vegetation 



Maine, tin -ore in 



Malay archipelago, geography of. 



30 



Mammoth remains in Siberian ice . . 219 



Man, antiquity of 232,233 



" on the Andaman Islands .... 291 



Mars, island in a sea on 328 



" researches on 326 



" snow on the surface of .... 32G 



Marriages of consanguinity 261 



Matter, igneous condition of .... 145 

 >peculative ideas respecting 172 

 Medicines, action of on the mental 



faculties 207 



taste of, how to disguise . 193 

 Medical science, relations of scien- 

 tific researches to 105 



[Men, typical races of 289 



Mercuric methyle, a new liquid . . . 191 

 Metals, change by irregular cooling 1 . 144 



new . 174 



Meteorites, notes on 248 



structure of, molecular . 243 



Meteoric iron from Arizona 248 



Meteorological phenomena, explana- 

 tion of certain . . 141 

 " science, recent . . 7 



Mica-schist, origin and alterations of 240 

 Microscope, use of magenta dye for 



the 192 



Mind, action of different medicines 



on 207 



Mineral statistics of Great Britain for 



1802 244 



Miniature, new kind of 124 



Monitor vessels, iron-clad. . . ... 72 



Moscow, curious geodetic phenomena 



near 84 



Moths, why fly into the flame of a 



candle 277 



Mountains, formation of 211 



highest in the United 



States 252 



on the moon 329 



Moon and thunder-storms 92 



" recent researches on the . . . 328 

 " " " on the figure 



of. . . 150, 157 



Moon's disc, depressions in the . . . 330 

 Mummies of the Swiss Glaciers . . . 217 



Mummy-wheat 309 



Muscle, electric-conductivity of ... 93 



Muscles in plants 304 



Musical instruments, manufacture of 



strings for 32 



Musket barrels, how straightened . . 27 



Nails, maleable iron 24 



Nebula?, variability of 317 



Nerves, new views on the functions 



of 206 



New Zealand, gigantic birds of . . .244 

 Nile, discovery of the source of . . . 336 

 Nitrogen, absorption of by vegeta- 

 tion 201 



allotropic states of .... 136 

 Nitro-benzole, poisonous action of. 11*2 



Nurse and nurseling 259 



Nyauza, Lake 



Obituary for 1863 343 



92 j Ocean life at great depths 274 



92 " pressure of 155 



243 | Odors of precious stones 245 



338 -, Optical illusion, curious 109 



