INDEX. 



619 



Mite, cheese, 457, 



flour, 459. 



Mollusca, 411. 



Monads, 299. 



Moss-agates, 289. 



Mosses, 205. 



Moths and butterflies, 489. 



Mulder on the vegetable cell, 180. 



Muscular fibre, 557. 



Mycoderma aceti, 188. 



NAILS, the, 541. 



Naviculae, 312. 



Nemeritidae, 439. 



Nerves, 560. 



Newport on moths, 492. 



Newt, 587. 



Nicols' prism, 146. 



Nitella, 220. 



Nobert's ruled lines on glass, 54. 



Noctilucamiliaris, 298. 



Notamia busaria, 392. 



Notommata aurita, 337. 



Or-JECT-GLASSRS, 81. 



Loss's, 55. 



Objects, Shadbolt on collecting, 133. 



mounting and preserving, 105. 



Boys on mounting, 109. 



salt-water specimens, 267. 



Onion, section of, 234. 



< ;>hiuridae, 386. 



Oaborne, Rev.S. G., on air fungi, 185. 



on closterium lunula, 198. 



Oscillatoria, 177. 



Ostracoda, 432. 



Owen, Professor, on animalcules, 328. 



on microscopic investigation, 565. 



Oyster, 416. 

 fry, 431. 



PARABOLIC REFLECTORS, 78. 

 Parasites, 450. 



from cat, 454. 



from dog, 454. 



from eagle, 463. 



from fowl, 460. 



from hornbill, 462. 



from human being, 457. 



from pheasant, 46U. 



from pigeon, 463. 



from sheep, 455. 



from swallow, 459. 



from turkey, 460. 



from vulture, 463. 



Pear, section of, 234. 

 Pearls, 417. 



artificial, 418. 



Pediculi, 460. 

 Pennatuladae, 372. 



phosphorea, 384. 



Pholas dactylus, 415. 

 Photography applied to microscope, 170 

 Phryganeidae, 488. 

 Pigment cells, 540. 



Pinna ingens, section of, 385. 



Planariae, 440. 



Plants, cellular tissue of, 228. 



circulation in, 216. 



crystals in, 234. 



fossil, 256. 



lactiferous tissue of, 220. 



lice, 497. 



pollen grains, 255. 



pollen and seeds from, 255. 



preparation of tissues, 253. 



raphides in, 233. 



sections of, 254. 



silica in, 236. 



silkeous cuticle of, 235. 



starch in, 237. 



starch of potato, 243. 



structure of, 174. 



vascular tissue of, 249. 



vital characteristics, 175. 



Pleurosigmata, 312. 



Plumularia, 359. 



Podura plumbea, 512. 



Polarisation of light as applied to the 



microscope, 142. 

 Polyzoa, 389. 



Polygastrica of Ehrenberg, 292. 

 polyommatus argiolus, 493. 

 polypifera, 342. 

 Polythalamia, 269. 

 Pontia brassica, 494. 

 porifera, 342. 

 Potato, disease of, 243. 

 Preparation of insects, 517. 

 Preparing sections of bone, 100. 

 Preservation of algae, 1 13. 



zoophytes, 408. 



Prism, Dujardin's, 68. 

 Proteus, the, 266. 

 Protococcus pluvialis, 190. 

 Protozoa, 263. 

 Pteropoda, 416. 



QUEKETT, Edwin, on the vascular 



tissue of plants, 249. 

 Professor, on the advantages of 



polarised light, 164. 



on raphides in plants, 229. 



on the structure of bone, 574. 



dissecting microscop?, 38. 



KALFS,Mr., on desmidiaceae, 194. 



Raphides in plants, 235. 



Read's, Rev. J. B., background illu- 

 minator,^!. 



Reagents, effects of, 586. 



Redfern, Dr., on naviculae, 319. 



Reflector, parabolic, 78. 



Shadbolt's, Mr., 80. 



Rhinoceros horn, 585. 



Rhizopoda, 265. 



Robinson, Mr., on pholas, 415. 



Roget, Dr., on tubularidae, 354. 



Rainey, Mr., on the artificial formation 

 of crystals, &c. page 606. 



