INDEX. 



The names of new genera and species are printed in italics. 



Abdominal vein, abnormality in, 96 

 Acacia glandulicarpa, 173 

 Acrotreta, occurrence of, 1 15 

 A. antipodum, 145, PI. XXVI. 

 Akiana, 130, PI. XXII. 

 Allen, N. C. B., 142 

 Alowga, 134, PI. XXIV. 

 Ama, 132, 133, PI. XXIII. 

 Annual rings, influence of age on, 2 

 Apo, 133, PI. XXIII. 

 Apples, oxidases in, 20 

 Area trapezia, 11 

 Archer, Ellinor, 96 

 Aropa, 131, PI. XXII. 

 Atundi, 129, PI. XXII. 

 Australian string figures, 121 



how made, 122 



forms of, 123 seq., and Plates 

 XX to XXIV. 

 Auto, 131, PI. XXII. 

 ^rays, magnetic deflection of, 142 

 Balanus, 11 

 Bankivia fasciata, 11 

 Banksia, 13 



Barbed spears, 125, PI. XX. 

 Bitter pit, browning of, 20 



cause of, 15 

 Bittium cerithium, 12 

 Brachydontes erosus, 30 



hirsutus, 30 



rostratus, 30 

 Brown fleck, 17 

 Bythinella nigris, 9 

 Calcium, estimation of small amounts 



of, 137 

 Calcium tartrate, bye-product in 



sugar production, 203 

 Canoe, 131, PL XXII. 

 Carbon dioxide, action of on chloro- 

 phyll, 179 



influence of temperature on, 184 



influence of absence and presence 

 of, 191 

 Carboxidasp enzyme, 208 

 Cardium cygnorum, 27 

 Carotin, 178 



oxidation of, 188 



amount in etiolated seedlings, 

 194 



Cetacean tooth, new type of, 149 



structura of, 150 

 Chapman, F., 4, 32. 145, 149 

 Chiloglottis diphylla, 140 

 formicifera, 140 

 Gunnii, 140 

 Muelleri, 140 

 Pescottiana, 140 

 trapeziformis, 140 

 trilabra, 140 



Pescottiana, 139, PI. XXV. 

 Chlorophyll, 178 



action of carbon; dioxide on, 179 

 decomposition of in darkness, 



195 

 precnrsors of, 193 

 regeneration of, 193, 206 

 spontaneous decomposition of, 

 192 

 Chlorophyllot^en, 193 

 Corroboree, 129, PI. XXII. 

 Cough, 129, PI. XXII. 

 Crane, 127, PI. XXI. 

 Crayfish, 134, PL, XXIV. 

 Crowea exalata, 173 

 Cymatium spengleri, 11 

 Cynosurus echinatus, 173 

 Cyperus luciduss, 13 

 Cythere crispata, 10 

 Diala lauta, 8 

 pulchra, 2- 

 varia, 23 

 Diamond, mode of use of in ruling, 



49, 86 

 Diastatic action, influence of pres- 

 sure on. Id 

 Diffraction gratings, dividing engine 



for, 44, Plates VI.-XVII. 

 Dividing engine, 44 

 diamond, 86 

 driving of, 50 

 housing of, 53 

 mechanism of, 45-49 

 ratchet head, 75 

 screw, 56 

 grinding of, 61 

 adjusting and testing of, 71 

 thrust plate, 81 

 Dog's tail grass, rough, 173 



