394 



INDEX. 



Geometry, early development of, 



154 



Glacial epoch, 119 

 proofs of, 120 

 striae, height of, 126 

 probable antiquity of, 130 

 Glass-blowing very unhealthy, 



855 

 Gloucester epidemic due to in- 



sanitation, 277 

 Gold, the struggle for, 371 



is not wealth, 372 

 Goldson, William, on small-pox 



after vaccination in 1804, 220 

 Great Western, first ocean steam- 

 ship, 8 

 Great powers, plunder of the 



earth by, 374 

 Greed, the demon of, 343 

 Gregory, Prof., on clairvoyance, 



201 

 Guy, Dr., figures alone can prove 



value of vaccination, 235 



II 



Hall, Dr. Marshall, on painless 

 operations undej mesmerism, 

 208 



Hamilton, Sir William, an oppo- 

 nent of phrenology, 178 



Harrison, Fred., condemns mod- 

 ern society, 366 



Hart, Mr. E., on small-pox at 

 Ceara, 301 



Harvesting machine, 14 



Heat, mechanical equivalent of, 

 51 



effect of total absence of, 58 

 only known sources of, 106 



Helium, discovery of, 44 



Herschel, Sir J., opposed evolu- 

 tion, 138 



Hogg, Mrs., on fur-pullers' lives, 

 353 



Hollander, Dr. Bernard, on 

 Ferrier's confirmation of phre- 

 nology, 186 



Horse, early use of, 6 



Hospital statistics prove vaccina- 

 tion to be useless, 242 



Houdin convinced of clairvoy- 

 ance, 204 



Humphrey, Prof. G. M. , on cor- 

 respondence of brain with 

 skull, 192 



Humanity, true, is increasing, 

 380 



Huxley on phrenology, 182 



on misery and its causes, 358 



Hypnotism, opposition to, 194 



Ice, properties of, 55 

 Ice-age, period of, 128, 129 

 Ice-sheets in the British Isles, 

 126 



in .North America, 127 

 India, our rule of, 339 



evils of our government of, 



376 

 Infant mortality in London and 



England, 273 



Inoculation, diseases which pre- 

 vented successful, 216 

 Insane, improved treatment of, 



327 



Insanity, increase of, 360 

 Ireland, imperfect vaccination 

 in, 258 



compared with Army and 

 Navy, 283 



Jenner awarded 10,000. 218 

 20,000 voted by House of 



Commons in 1807, 222 

 Jenner's Inquiry, 215 

 Joule, measurement of mechani- 

 cal equivalent of heat, 52 

 Jupiter, fifth satellite of, 96 

 Jura, erratic blocks on, 124 



K 



Kent's cavern, flint weapons in, 

 132 



Kirchoff s discovery of spectrum 

 analysis, 43 



Krakatoa, red sky after eruption 

 of, 75 



L 



Labor-saving machinery, 12 



Labor, organization of, neces- 

 sary, 383 



