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INDEX. 



Aquatic articulates, experiments on, 292. 

 Aqueous solutions of sliellac, 555. 

 Archaeological Association, the British, 671. 

 Convention of Brussels, 276. 

 Arciic Committee in Great Britain, 225. 

 exploration, Ix. 

 plants from Polaris Bay, 378. 

 temperatures, discordance in, 66. 

 Argelauder, Prof., 3G. 

 Argentine Kepublic, meteorology in the, 



78. 

 Argo, nebula of, Ixx. 

 Argus, nebula in, 30. 

 Argyleshire, the ship, in a typhoon, 105. 

 Aristolochia root, 631. 

 Armadillos, extinct giant, 802. 

 Army Medical Museum, 665. 



Signal Ottice, xxviii., xxix. 

 Arnold, Mr. J, B., 435. 

 Aronheim, Mr., xl. 

 Arrowsmith, John, 631. 

 Arsenic in the air of rooms, 647. 



in wall papers, 643. 

 Arsenical colors, detection of, 641. 

 Artificial alizariue, 582. 



tibrine, 642. 

 Art-models by machine, 611. 

 Artus, Prof., 474, 602. 

 Ascent of Mount Meiggs, 22S. 

 Ascherson, Dr., Ixxiv. 

 Ash-colored turkeys, 411. 

 Asphyxia, artificial respiration in, 620. 

 Asphyxiator, vermin, 394. 

 Asselin, Mr., 598. 



Assyrian and Egyptian texts, translations 

 of, 310. 

 tradition of the deluge, 274. 

 Asteroid No. 134, 49. 

 Asteroids, new, 7. 



and faint variable stars, 60. 

 Astronomical cable communications, 37. 



discovery, important, 25. 

 Astronomy and mathematics, 1. 

 Atkins, Mr., cxvi., 436, 437, 443, 444. 

 Atlantic cables, injury to, by animals, 529. 



Ocean, storm charts of the, 123. 

 Atmosphere, organic matter in the, 381. 

 Atmospheric electricity, 113. 



source of, S3, 114. 

 pressure and growth of 

 plants, 372. 

 Atomic theory of Mr. Challis, 169. 

 Atropine in the plant, 360. 

 Atterberg, Mr., xxxviii. 

 Attfield, Prof., 585. 

 Aubert, Dr., xlii., 271, 474. 

 Aurora, new theory of the, 12. 



ttie, of 1872 and ground currents, 

 13. 

 Auroras, solar spots, and magnetism, 46, 47. 



study of, xxxvi. 

 Austerlitz, Mr., 580. 

 Australia, explorations in, 231. 

 Iron in, 211. 

 telegraph to, 125. 

 tin (iiscovered in, 191. 

 Austria, prehistoric mound in, 277. 

 Auwers, Dr., xx., xxi., 22, 25. 

 Awenarius, Prof., 636. 



B. 



Babinet, Louis, 681. 



Bache fund, the, 662. 



Back, Admiral Sir George, 226. 



Bacteria, Cohn on, 373. 



pigments from, 269. 

 Baer, Mr., cxi. 

 Baeyer, Mr., 91. 

 Bagster & Sons, Messrs., 311. 

 Bailee, Mr., 121. 

 Bailey, Mr., 338. 

 Baily,Mr.,121. 

 Baird, Prof. S. F., xxx., lix., xci., cxiv., 239, 



320, 437, 442, 444, 464, 660. 

 Bajault & Eoche, Messrs., xliii. 

 Baker, Capt. Edward, 261. 



Dr. J. G., civ. 



guano, 387. 



Major E.M., 233. 



Sir Samuel, Ixxiv. 

 Balard, Mr., 116. 

 Balbiani, Mr., xc. 

 Balfour, Mr. F.M.,xc. 

 Balloon ascension, scientific, 95, 96. 



voyages, long, 534. 

 Ballooning, xxxiii. 



and meteorology, 124. 

 Bannister, Mr. Henry, 200. 

 Barbadoes rain-fall and the sugar crop, 108. 

 Bardou lens, 153. 



Bar-iron, from phosphureted cast, 514. 

 Barlow, Major J. W., report of, 232. 



Ml-., 541. 

 Barnum, Mr., 338. 

 Barometer, a new, 116. 



and terrestrial magnetism, 149. 

 semidiurnal variation, 103. 

 Barometric determination of altitudes, 91. 

 Barrett, Mr., xxxvii. 

 Barrows, Mr. S. J., 261. 

 Barthelemy, Mr., 165. 

 Bartlett, Mr. Ixxxviii., 284. 

 Bartram, Mrt John, 348. 

 Baryta, sulphate of, 602. 

 Basarow, Mr., xl. 

 Basking shark, food of, 328i 

 Bass, striped, cxviii. 



hatching of, 450. 

 Bastaert, Mr., 577. 

 Bastian, Dr., Ixxiv., 299. 

 Batesou,Mr.,394. 

 Bathybius, 216, 269. 

 Batrachians, blood corpuscles of, 325. 

 Batty, Mr. Joseph H., 251. 

 Bauer, Mr., 192. 

 Baux, Mr. Alphonse, Ixxvii. 

 Beardslee, Capt. L. A., lix. 

 Beccari, Mr., Ixxi. 

 Beccaria, Mr., 114. 

 Bechamp, Mr., 484. 

 Bechler, Mr. G. K., 251. 

 Becquerel, Mr., 125, 140, 381. 

 Becquerel's electro-capillary pile, 125, 

 Beds, travelers', 469. 

 Beer, preventing acidification of, 482. 



without hops, 482. 

 Behrens, Dr., 595. 

 Beke, Dr., Ixxii., 234. 

 Belgium, fossil duck in, 303. 

 Belknap, Commander, Ix., 256. 

 Bell, Mr. Charles, 464. 

 Mr. R., 236. 

 Prof., Ixvii. 

 Belladonna against physostigma, 631. 

 Benavides, Mr. F., 491. 

 Bennett, Mr. Alfred, 353. 



Mr. A. W., 293, 373. 

 Mr. C.W.,lxviii. 



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