GENERAL INDEX. 



Heavens, the, i. Ill ; vii. 146 



Hebrew Scriptures, x. 2 



Hecla, Mount, ii. 85 



Hegira, era of the Mahometans, vii. 

 56 



Hellenic peninsula, ix. 156 



Hemispheres, iii. 57 



Henderson's observations at the Cape, 

 vii. 181 



Henley's magnetic telegraph, iv. 58 



Herculaneum and Pompeii, xi. 100 



Hermes Trismegistos, v. 155 



Herschel, Sir J., i. 57 ; ib. 67 ; xi. 

 205 



Sir W., i. 206 ; vi. 57 



Highton's improvements in tele- 

 graphs, iii. 135 



Himalayas, the, v. 105; ix. 181 



Hind, Mr., vi. 166 ; vii. 202 



Historical dates, v. 164 



Hive, bee, x. 25 



Hoar-frost, iii. 93 



Homer, ii. 116 ; ib. 120 



Horological commutator, iii. 188 ; iv. 

 96 



Horse, the, viii. 157 



Horseshoe magnet, iii. 208 ; iv. 2 



Horsley, Bishop, i. 73 



Hour-glass, vi. 4 



Hours, v. 118 



Huber, x. 4 ; ib. 45 



Hudson, steam navigation on the, ii. 

 21 ; x. 114 



Human body, the, i. 93 ; viii. 83 



knowledge, iii. 59 



race, viii. 83 



Humble bees, x. 44 



Humboldt, iv. 153 



Hundsruck, xi. 5 



Hurricanes, iii. 77 



Huygen, M., on Saturn, i. 51 



Hyades and the Pleiades, vii. 164 



Hyaloid capsule, v. 53 



Hydrogen, ii. 194 



Hydrometer, vi. 108 



Hydrometric indicator, x. 137 



Hygienic conditions, viii. 76 



Hylseosaurus, the, xi. 61 



ICE, artificial, iii. 93 

 Icebergs, iii. 78 

 Ice-fields, iii. 78 

 Iceland, vi. 155 



Ichneumon, viii. 135 



Ichthyosaurus, xi. 61 ; xii. 75 



Ides, v. 153 



Ignis fatuus, ii. 199 



Iguanodon, the, xi. 61 



Illumination, ii. 201 ; v. 64 ; ix. 47 



Imposing, xi. 7 



Incandescence, vi. 147 



Incubation, i. 123 



India, iii. 173 ; ix. 156 ; xi. 92 



Indiction, vii. 20 



Infantile organs, viii. 71 



Ink-bottle, pneumatic, v. 107 



Insects, vi. 62 ; x. 5, 86, 131 



Instinct, viii. 114 



Intelligence, viii. 117 



Inventions, neglect of, iv. 9 



Iris, the, v. 52 



Irregular reflection, vii. 60 



Islands, volcanic, iv. 175 



Isochronism of the pendulum, vi. 9 



Isothermal lines, iii. 68 



Italian pottery, ii. 133 



time, v. 120 



Itch insect, the, vi. 95 



JACK O'LANTHORN, ii. 199 

 Jamaica, earthquake at, iv. 162 

 Januarius, St., v. 173 

 January, v. 150 

 Jet d'eau, near Calais, iv. 168 

 Johnston's physical Maps, ix. 185 

 Journalism, iii. 15 

 Julian calendar, v. 159 



period, vii. 24 , 



Julius Caesar and Napoleon, v. 160 

 Juno, Harding's discovery of, vi. 165 

 Jupiter, L 28 ; ib. 37 ; ii. 68 



Serapis, xi. 93 



Jurassic age, xii. 66 

 period, xii. 7 7 



KALEIDOSCOPE, v. 205 

 Kaolin, ii. 130 ; ib. 165 

 Kase, grotto of Bertrich, xi. 79 

 Kater, Captain, vi. 5 

 Kepler, ii. 67 

 Key commutator, iii. 187 

 Knuckles, the, v. 153 



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