(74 
Natural History and Ethnology, Recent 
Contributions to, in France, 575. 
Neanderthal, the Reputed Fossil Man 
of, 88. 
Skull, 758, 252. 
— Additional Notes on, 758. 
compared with that of the Chim- 
panzee, 96. 
Description of, 90. 
Huxley and Blake on, 92. 
Nebulew, Catalogue of, 107. 
Negro’s Place in Nature, 511. 
Negro, Larynx of, 750. 
Nemataphores in the Plumularian Zoo- _ 
phytes, 360. 
New Fixing Agent, 156. 
New Zealand Alps, 470. 
Newton, Mr. A., on Discovery of 
Mummy of Great Auk, 306. 
Nickies, M., on Wasium, 115-152. 
Nile, Changes in the Valley of, 293. 
Discovery, 469, 
Nitrogen, best Form in which it can be 
supplied as Manure, 288. 
Nova Scotia, Flora of Carboniferous 
Epoch of, 732. 
Nounvexy, Tuomas, on the History and 
Uses of the Ophthalmoscope, 422. 
Nores AND CORRESPONDENCE :— 
On the Highest Magnifying Power 
of the Microscope yet employed. 
By Lionel S. Beale, F.B.S., 
205. 
Scientific Education and Natural- 
History Science in the Kingdom 
of Italy. From D. T. Ansted, 
E.R.S., 206. 
Dahomey: Its People and Customs. 
By Jules Gérard, 209. 
List of the Gold Medallists of the 
United Kingdom, in connection 
with the Department of Science 
and Art, South Kensington, 211. 
Silvered Glass Telescopes, and Ce- 
lestial Photography in America, 
From Henry Draper, M.D., 381. 
The Brazilian Coal Fields. By 
Edward Hull, B.A., ¥.G.S., 387. 
Linseed and Malt as Cattle Food. 
J. Chalmers Morton, 390. 
A new Method of Nature Printing 
from Steel. Illustrated. H. C. 
Sorby, F.RS., 392. 
Recent Contributions’ to Natural 
History and Hthnology in France. 
1. Pasteur on Ferments; 2. 
Tremaux on the White and 
Black Races in Africa ; 3. Lartet 
and Christy on Pre-historic Hu- 
man Remains. By Th. Lacaze 
Rr 
Duthiers, 575. 
Index. 
[Oct., 
NoTEs AND CORRESPONDENCE, cont.— 
Improved Machinery for Boring 
Rocks. By George Low, 582. 
Additional Note on the Neander- 
thal Skull. By William Turner, 
M.B., 758. 
On the Septa and Siphuncles of 
Cephalopod Shells. By Harry 
Seeley, F.G.S., 760. 
On the Existence of the Reindeer 
and Aurochs in France during 
the Historic Period. By Rey. 
C. W. Kett, 762. 
The Gold Medallists of the Science 
Examinations (May, 1864), and 
Science Instruction by the State, 
763. 
O. 
Observations on the Variable Star 7 
Argus, 285. 
Oceanic Telegraphy, 36. 
Opuine, W., M.B., on the Proportional 
Numbers of the Elements, 642. 
Tables of Chemical Formula, &e. 
(Review), 380. 
—— Address as President of Section 
B, 742. 
Olivine in Meteorites, 747. 
Ophthalmoscope, History and Uses of, 
422. 
Optical Properties of Metals, 342. 
Orchids, Fertilization of, 110, 111. 
Ordnance Survey of Great Britain and 
Treland, 472. 
Organisms, on the Source of Living, 
598. 
ORIGINAL ARTICLES : 
Introduction.—Scientifie Survey, 1 
The Coal Resources of Great Bri- 
tain. By Edward Hull, B.A., 
E.GS., 24. 
Oceanic 'Telegraphy :— 
I. The Atlantic Deep-Sea Bed 
and its Denizens. By Dr. 
G. C. Wallich, F.L.S., 36. 
II. The Atlantie Cable and its 
Teachings. By William 
Crookes, F.R.S., 44. 
The late Earthquake, and Earth- 
quakes generally. By Robert 
Mallet, C.K, F.R.S., 53. 
Lighthouse Illumination by Mag- 
neto-Electricity. By Dr. J. H. 
Gladstone, F.R.S., 70. 
The Conservation of Force applied 
to Physiology. In Two Parts. 
By Dr. W. B. Carpenter, F.R.S. 
Part I. The Relations of Light 
