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HARDWICKE'S SCIENCE-GOSSIP INDEX. 



MISCELLANEOUS {continued). 



Rev. C. A., x. 191 ; Kingsley, Rev. 



ChaB., xi. 64; Lankester, Dr., x. 277 ; 



Lord, ix. 16; Montagne, Dr., ii. 42; 



Jlunn, Major, ix. 275; Newman, E., 



xii. 185 ; Rennie, Professor, iv. 47 ; 



Scott, George, F.S.A., xi. 20; Sillimaii, 



Professor, i. 24 ; Tucker, j E., iv. 95 ; 



"Walker, James, Mossley, operative 



botanist, xii. 18 

 Insulator, new, ii. 95 

 Ipswich Science-Gossip Society, v. 214 ; 



ix. 22 ; x. 45 

 Ireland : "West of, sketches in the, viii. 



83, 172 ; ix. 7, 148 ; xi. 83, 97, 127, 227, 



247, 261, 271, 279 

 Irish natural history, popular notions of, 



xii. 166 



JEWS, and prehistoric Irish, xii. 55 

 Journals, Transatlantic, v. 181 



KLEPTOMANIA, i. 194 

 Knowledge, no, without work, i. 46 



LABELS, coloured, iii. 239, 263 

 Lantern, Bridgeman triple, x. 281 

 Laudanum, a species of dew, i. 139 

 Lewe3 and East Sussex Natural History 



and Microscopical Society, xii. 186 

 Life, origin of, xii. 183 

 Light : absorbed by air, ii. 134 ; at bottom 



of sea, ix. 65 ; for drawing, more, v. 165 ; 



in ocean, i. 261 

 Lightning, struck by, iii. 165 ; xi. 286 

 Lime, deposit of, in boilers, vi. 281 

 Liverpool Literary and Philosophical 



8ociety, proceedings of, x. 238 

 Localities, misleading, vi. 214 

 London, food of, iv. 212 

 Longevity: amongst mountains, xii. 261 ; 



in valley of the Usk, xi. 211 

 Lumpers and splitters, i. 73 

 Lunar rainbow, xi. 45 

 Lunatics and the moon, viii. 117, 163, 190 



MAD STONES, folklore of, vii. 213 ; viii. 



20 

 Maelstrom, iii. 215, 263 ; iv. 45 

 Man and animals, iv. 209 

 Manchester Literary and Philological 



Society, i. 46 

 Mankind, unity of, iii. 110, 152, 173, 



245, 267 ; iv. 6, 34 

 Meerschaum, iii. 143, 165 

 Merops, the fabled, i. 63 

 Midnight sky, vi. 57 

 Mirage, iii. 191 

 Misprints, vii. 21 

 Moon : harvest, iii. 215, 263 ; history of, 



xii. 15 ; its influence on lunatics, viii. 



117, 1H3, 190 ; mountains of, i. 249 

 Moonshine, ix. 211 

 Movable table, vii. 115 

 Mountain-climbing, or up-hill work, iii. 



Mummy, Chinese, vi. 123 

 Museum curiosities, iv. 283 



NAMES, pronunciation of, xii. 282 

 Natural history, popular, books, xii. 17 ; 

 notes, xii. 191 ; for rustics, viii. 253, 



MISCELLANEOUS (continued). 



282; societies, xi. 113, 141, 162, 163. 



186 ; societies, union of, ix. 65, 89 ; 



specimens, transmission by post, vii. 



191, 215, 235, 259 ; study of, iii. 73, 99; 



utility of study of, x. 202 

 Notes of the season, co. Antrim, v. 167 

 Numbers, governing, ii. 238 



OBSERVATIONS : immediate record of, 



ii. 172 ; Venus, ii. 110 

 Ocean : coloured tracts of, ii. 281 ; of fire, 



iii. 161 

 Oil, bituminous, i. 210 

 Optic nerve, x. 64 

 Optical effect, curious, iv. 191 

 Optical query, ix. 20, 70, 85, 86, 110 

 Optics, ix. 20, 70 

 Oxyhydrogen lanterns, xi. 22 

 Ozone in atmosphere, ii. 134 



PARIS Exhibition, voice from the, iii. 97 

 Parlour science, i. 118 

 Pearls, pathology of, ix. 8] 

 Periodic phenomena, ii. 49 

 Petroleum, uses of, ii. 90 

 Phosphor-stone, i 44 

 Photo-engraving process, new, ii. 210 

 Photographers, necessary warning to, ii. 



259 

 Photographic : apparatus, miniature for 



tourists, vi. 212 ; process, new, ii. 259 

 Photographing the Pyramids, ii. 164 

 Photographs : of natural objects, to 



colour, iv. 224; permanence of, ii. 



164, 188 ; tinting by lithography, ii. 210 

 Photography, ii. 86, 164, 188, 210, 236, 



259 ; and anatomy, ii. 188 ; at British 



Association, ii. 236; curious fact in, ii. 



188 ; Woodbury process, ii. 210 

 Pictures, mode of looking at, x. 97, 141, 



143 f 



Plaster casts, ii. 22, 71 

 Popular science lectures, illustrations, xi. 



277 

 Post, how to send objects through the, 



ix. 214, 262, 283 

 Present and past, i. 187 

 Principles, importance of definite, ii. 201 

 Proverbs, origin of, i. 46 

 Punch : the alcoholic compound called, v. 



215; a, for "Aunt Judy," iv. 165 



QUERIES, budget of, vii. 143, 166, 167 



RAIN : inch of, i. 119; yellow, vii. 189 



Rainbows, x. 10 



Register ! register ! advice to collectors, 



iv. 119 

 Remedies, strange, i. 85 



SACKBUT, vi. 71, 89, 95 



Sandblast, x. 41, 88 



Saturday Half-holiday Guide, ix. 159 



Sex, signs used to denote, ix. 261, 278 



Scepticism, modern, vii. 225 



Science : dependency of, ii. 135 ; -gossip, 

 ii. 1 ; justice's, viii. 70; natural teach- 

 ings of, ii. 251 ; Bchools, plea for, v. 95 ; 

 in tenth and twelfth centuries, viii. 1 



Scientific: education, viii. 149; guide- 



MISCELLANEOUS (continued). 



books, viii. 142, 188; knowledge, 



value of, iii. 142 ; literature, index to, 



i. 113 ; terms, French dictionary of, iv. 



118 

 Scotland and uniform, viii. 46, 95 

 Short-commons, i. 49 

 Size, comparative increase in, i. 206 

 Sky, colour of, ii. 134 

 Sleep, cause of, vii. 119 

 Smell, remarkable sense of in a lady, 



ix. 94 

 Smoke from steamboats, ix. 215 

 Snow: red, vii. 43; in summer, v. 166; 



under the, ii. 25 

 Societies : proceedings of, i. 22, 46, 70 ; 



xii. 21, 40, 87, 136, 138, 160, 183, 184, 



185, 209, 233; provincial, viii. 160, 185, 



278 ; x. 209 

 Solar spots, ii. 94; and spectrum, viii. 20 

 Sounding apparatus, vi. 189 ; vii. 117, 137 

 Speech, irrationale of, i. 65 

 Spring, ii. 97 ; of water, remarkable, in 



Texas, vii. 69 

 Stains in mortar or cement, remedy asked 



and given, vii. 283 ; viii. 23 

 Starch, ii. 34 

 Stars: shooting, ii. 274; showers of, iii. 



45 

 Stereoscope, new panoramic, iv. 142 

 StockiDgs, electric, vi. 45, 69 

 Stones : polishing, ix. 9, 68 ; throbbing, 



vi. 142 

 Storm-glasses, iv, 93, 117, 143, 167; 



viii. 168 

 Storms in November, iv. 47, 70 

 Stutterers, numerous, on the frontiers, i. 



136 

 Sun : fuel of, vi. 101 ; spots and spectrum 



of, viii. 20 

 Sunlight, monochromatic, ix. 15 



TEMPERATURE, iv. 22, 45, 191, 240 

 Temperatures, high, ii. 188 

 Thermometer : fall of, iv. 22, 45 ; im- 

 proved, iv. 22 

 Thunderbolts, viii. 252 

 Toothache, cures for, v. 2^3; xi. IIS 

 Travellers, tales of, iii. 25 



VAN RHEDE, tomb of, i. 44 



WASTE, products of, viii. 131 



Waterton's process, iii. 68, 95, 96 



Water, expansion of, in freezing, xi. 94 



Watford Natural History Society, xi. 

 113 



Weather : variable, v. 189 ; wise, iii. 166 



White, Gilbert, of Selborne, xi. 257 ; 

 xii. 23 



Who are you ? iii. 281 



Wilderness, at home in the, iii. 122 



Will-o' -the- Wisp, v. 60, 95 



Windows, slit, xi. 228 ; xii. 45 



Whooping-cough: cure for, v. 161; pre- 

 ventive for, v. 263 



Woolhope Club, v. 225 



"Work, winter, iii. 1 



YEAST in media free from oxygen, xi. 64 

 ZOOLOGICAL problems, ix. 160, 211, 237 



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