GENERAL INDEX. 



QtiADBANT, the, i. 105 

 Quadrats, xi. 5 

 Quadragesima, vii. 19 

 Quadratures, vii. 44 

 Quadrumana, viii. 62 

 Queen's ware, ii. 142 

 Queen bee, x. 179 

 Querenne's hydrometer, vi. 108 

 Quinquagesima Sunday, vii. 19 

 Quintilis, v. 150 



RADIATION of heat, vi. 148 



Railways, ii. 37 ; iii. 6 



Rain, i. 74 ; iii. 94 



Rain- water, ii. 103 



Raphael, ii. 135 



Reading and correcting, xi. 7 



Reaumur, vi. 155 ; viii. 133 



Reflector, vii. 121 ; ix. 34 



Refracting power, vii. 101 



Refraction, vii. 89 



Relay magnets, iv. 7 



Reoscope, or Reometer, iii. 195 



Reporters, xi. 30 



Reporting, rapid, iv. 94 



Republican bird, viii. 152 



Respiration, xii. 149 



Resurrection, vii. 9 



Reticulipora, xi. 67 



Retina, the, i. 89 ; ib. 203 ; v. 52 



Rhine, system of the, xii. 16 



Ring, mountains of the moon, iii. 47 



Riobamba, iv. 153 



River-navigation, ii. 20 



River-water, ii. 103 



Rivers, ii. 44 ; ix. 136 



Roads, iii. 18 



Robbia, Lucca della, ii. 133 



Robinson Crusoe, v. 116 



Rock-salt, xi. 85 



Rocks, xi. 117; ib. 42-6 



Roemer, i. 197 



Rogation, vii. 19 



Roman time. v. 149 ; vi. 4 



Romas, x. 180 



Rome, vii. 6 



Romulus, v. 149 



Rooms, ventilation of, ii. 15 



Rosse, Lord, vi. 57 



Rotifer, animalcule called, vi. 201 



Russia, iii. 19 ; v. 173 ; xii. 91 



Rutherford's thermometer, vi. 157 



SAFETY-LAMP, iv. 188 

 Saggers, ii. 132 

 Saints' days, vii. 4 

 Salmon and perch, xii. 113 

 Salses, xi. 115 

 Salt, vi. 202 



glaze, ii. 140 



Samos, ii. 120 



Sanctorius, i. 123 



Sanguineous corpuscles, vi. 100 



Santorin, isle of, xi. 104 



Satellites, i. 63 



Saturn, i. 30 



Satyr, ix. 91 



Sauer, M., i. 117 



Savannahs, the, ix. 117 



Scales, microscopic, vi. 52 



Scavenging, iii. 5 



Schmidt, M., i. 53 



Schnorr's white earth, ii. 153 



Schiibler, M., i. 74 



Science, iv. 146 ; ix. 193 



Scientific discovery, iv. 208 



Scotland, travelling in, iii. 25 



Screw-propellers, x. 158 ; ib. 165 



Sea, the, xi. 118 



Seasons, the, i. 5 ; v. 153 ; vii. 7 



Seaward's slides, v. 26 



Seleno-graphical discoveries, iii. 46 



Semiramis, iii. 19 



Septuagesima Sunday, vii. 19 



Seven, number, v. 143 



Sevres, ii. 159 



Sewers, iii. 5 



Sexagesima Sunday, vii. 19 



Sexes, proportion of the, viii. 70 



Sextilis, v. 150 



Sexton beetle, viii. 136 



Sforza II., ii. 82 



Shaffner, M., iv. 126 



Shakspeare, iii. 118 ; ix. 203 



Shell of the earth, iv.147 



Shell-fish, i. 123 



Shooting stars, i. 141 



Short sight, v. 198 



Shortest day, ix. 170 



Sidereal day, v. 127 



Siemen's instrument, iv. 26 



Sight, v. 94 



Silica, ii. 141 



Silurian period, xi. 76 



Silver fish or silver lady, vi. 62 



Silvia sutoria, viii. 148 



Simplonj Mount, iii. 23 



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