INDEX TO VOL. I. 



GENERAL. 

 ACTlsirsi, » metal found in white zinc pigment, 227 

 Address lo " Our Header'," 3 



Alien, Gr»nt :— The ori|!>u of Buttercurs, 85 ; wh«t 

 is a grape? 1*>2; a winter weed, 217; hyacinth 

 bulbs, 261 ; our Bocestors, the 8ton« age men, 351 ; 

 our ancestors, the Cells, 402, 130 ; the beetle's 

 ciew of life, 508 ; llbe Teutons, 660 

 Amalgams, 497 



Amateur electrician, the. 511 (i lustrated), 568, 619 

 Amphorte at Pompeii, 169 

 Ancestor*, onr, 351. 402. 430. 650 

 Ancient Kgjpiians, we'e the/ acquainted with the 



earth's movements ? 379 

 Anec'otes of dogs. 138 

 Animal oolcnis. philosophy of, 21, 44 



,, vaccination, 439 

 Animals, change of habit in, 429 

 „ colours of, 193, 224 



intelli-eno- of, 28, 46, 69, 108, 177, 196, 245, 

 251 , 269, 28«, 361 , 3S0 

 Antiquity ot man in u estern Europe, 463 

 Aqua ammoniie. explosion of, 32'^ 

 Astronomy, Newoomb's Popular, 423 

 Authors and Publishers (review), 72 

 BiDOON. biogrsphv of a. 381 

 Babylonian discoveries, 268 



sun. worship. 174 

 Ball, Dr., Astronomer Royal for Ireland : — Birth of 

 the moon by tidal evolution, part i., 331 ; part li., 

 362; part in, f'lture of the earth and moon, 420 

 Barrett, W. F., F.R.S.E., ProfesKor of Experimental 

 Physios in the Koyal College of SeiBnoe, Dublin :— 

 Bote on ihe spheroidal state, 169 

 Baiendell, Joseph. F.R.A S. ;— The Great Pyramid 

 measures aud the diameiers aud distances of the 

 SUB, earth, and moon, 50 

 Beckett, Sir Edmund, on the laws of nature (re- 

 view), 338 

 Beer, fermentation in, 257 

 Bees, are ihey s nuisance? 237 

 Beetle's view of life. 608 

 Betting and mathematics, 132 

 Birds, intelligence in, 499 



,, with tcetli, 30 

 Birmingham and Midland Institute, egotistical remi- 

 niscences of the, ,('.; annivereary meeting, 81 

 Biting, relative to snakes, 367 

 Blooo. malanai organisms in the,379 

 Blowpipe chemistry, easy lessons in, 137, 295,359, 



423, 471 

 Body, the human (review), 50 

 Roiling spring. 169 



Brain troubles, 25, 45, 90. 175, 262, 291, 357, 427, 495 

 „ aud ils function, the (review), 378 

 „ aud skull (illustrated), 359 

 Brealhini!, 1»2 

 British ferns (review). HI 



Brothers, A., F.R.A.S. :— Photography for amateurs, 



400; part ii., 466; part iii , 494 ; part iv., 647 ; 



part y., 669 ; part vi., 585 ; part vii., 602 ; part 



viii., 821 



Browning, John, Vice-President of the Tricycle 



Association :— Tricycles in 18»2, 397, 450 

 Buckland, Miss A. W. :— Tr.e Wyandotte Indians, 



158 ; Charles Darwin, 571 

 Buny, an electric, 213 

 Buttercups, origin of, 65 

 ButterQies and moths. 606, (illustrated) 624 

 CiiAiO •• Painter, " lh2 

 Cambridge and Oxford rowing styles, 633 

 Campbell, J. K. •.— Tbe principle of the vernier, 224 

 Canals on the Planet Mars. 619 

 Carbon, static caloric of, 237 

 Carnivorous parrot, the, 381, 471 

 Carpenter, Dr. W. B., F.B.8.:— The relation of food 

 to muscular work, 6 ; part ii., 23 ; on the conser- 

 vation of solar energy. 417 

 Cassiopeia, new star in, 227 



Celestial objects for common telescopes (review) . 359 

 i-elu, the, 403 



ChaloeiJony. as containing a liquid, 4S4 

 Change of habit in animals, 429 

 Chanie), a ride across the (review), 6«S 



Charbon, preventive inoculations of, 483 



Chess Column, 19; Mephisto's notes, 20; general 

 hints. 41; giving odds of queen, 41 ; two knights* 

 defence, 63, lOJ, 216, 269; Mephisto, an "end 

 game." 82; knights* opening, 82; game played 

 at Leamington meeting. Oct., 1887, 127 ; game 

 between Mr. Barnes and Mr. Gunaberg. 170; 

 chess by correspondence, 396 ; the Giuoco piano, 

 4-11 ; Lowenthn'. problem tonrney, 461 ; the 

 southern cross, 663; Vienna international tourna- 

 ment. 614. 633 ; also see 239, 2>-'2, 308, 330, 360, 

 369. 415, 485. 605, 525, 642. 680, 697 



Chloroforming during sleep, 3116 



Clodd, Edward :— Dreams, 107 ; part ii., 130 ; the 

 antiquity of man in Western Europe, 463 ; 

 part ii., 667 



Coal and iron industries of Great Britain, new work 

 on, 328 



Cod-sonnda and scientiflo privilege, 477, 620 



"Cold-catching," 280 



Cold week in May, the, 620 



Collisions at sea, 610 



Colour, curiosities of, 603 

 „ of Bunlieht, 18 



Colours of animals, 183, 224 



Comets (illustrated), 8, 26; comets' tails, 48. (iUustrs. 

 ted) 86; the destroyed comet (illustrated), 135; 

 the menacing comet, 3'20 ; (illustrated) 310, 311 ; 

 the Specttitor'9 comet, 404 ; the comet of tlie 

 SatarJii;/ Review, 450 : the comet, 608 



Conic sections, an instrnment for dravring the (illus- 

 trated! , 160 



Consumption (review), 546 



Copying drawings, 637 



Crete, labyrinth at, 189 



Crustaceans and light, 306 



Crystnl Palace electrical exhibition, 318, 335, 354, 372, 

 401, 135. 447, 493, 651 



Crystals, 683 ; (illustrated) 601 



Cultivated fields, 173 



Daffodil, the first, 443 



Darwin, Charles R., 618. 671 



Distracted attention, 176 



Dog, Niagara Falls safely descended by a, 574 



Dogs, intelligence of, 341 



DoUsnd's sidereal watch, 183 



Draper, Dr. J. W. (with a portrait), 263 



Dreams, 107, 130 



Dress, modern, 464 



Duchess of Connaught, illness of, 451 



Dunman, Mr. Thomas, 614, 630 



EiBlH and mnon, future of the, 420 

 ,, tremors, ISl 



K. C. :— New mode of growing plants, 51 



Ejho sign, the, 427 



Eclipse, the, 663 (illustrated); see also, 619 



Edwards, Amelia B., the Pyramid of Meydoom, 



Effluvia and health. 295 



Egotistical reminiscences of Birmingham and Mid- 

 land Institute. 16 

 Egyptians and the movement of earth in apace, 470 

 Electric fire alarms, 1129 



„ lighting and fire risks, 629 

 „ telegraph, the, 198, 607 

 Electrical generators, 611, 568 



„ machine, a simple, 189 

 Electrician, the amateur (illustrated), 511, 568, 619 

 Electro-magnetic repulsion. 629 

 I „ „ theory of light, 130 



Electricity and magnetism (review), 377 

 Elements, the so-caUed, 161 

 I Klephants, 514 

 I Engineering, 629 



English as the speech of tbe future, 139 

 Equinoxes, precession of the, 218, 312 

 Excessive drinking in Russia, 189 

 Eve, the, and the microscope, 311 

 i Fairt folk-lore of Shetland, 510 

 I Fallacies about lock, 322, 311, 353 

 1 Faure accumulator, 158 



Fermentation in beer, 257 

 i Ferns, British (revie.v), 111 

 Fields, onr, 85 

 Fiji Islands, the, 31 



Fire alarms, electric, 629 



„ risks and electric liehti.ng, 629 



Fish sounds, 295, 380, 429 

 Fleas, the use of, 295 



Floors, a new plan to deaden them, 640 



Flowers in May, 688 



Fluids, properties and motions of (review), 634 



Focal length of deep convex lenses, measurement of, 

 005 



Fog-bow before sunrise, 393 



Food we eat, the (review), 338 

 „ its relation to muscular work, 5, 26 



Foot-racing, development in, .'i71 



Fossils in meteoric stones, 227 



Foster, Thomas, illusions, 10 ; 'part ii., 70 ; seeing 

 through the hand, an optical illusion. 244 ; illu- 

 sions of motion and strobic circles, 121 



Found links, 195 223, 288, 164, 488, 632 



Future of knowledge, the, 663 



Gas, manufacture of from wood, 348 



Oeikie, James, LL.D., F.B.S., natural rubbish heap; 

 318 



Geometrical problem, a pretty, 380 



„ exercises for beginners (review), 377 



Germs of disease and death, 67, 89 



Ghosts, 269 



Glass, new variety of, 213 



Glories of the starlit heavens, 607 



Glycerine leather polish, 348 



Granville, Dr. J. Mortimer, breathing, 132 



Grape, what it is, 162 



Gray on Anatomy, 640 



Green-beam paper, the, 496. fiol 



Green light : is it made by the laminous mixture ol 

 blue and yellow ? 496 



Growing plants, new mode of, 51 



Hair turning white, -439 



Hanlan and Trickett, 570 



He«lth studies (review), 60 



Healthiest cities, the six American, 169 



Heliometers, novel, 393 



Hemispheres, the two (review), 470 



Hieroglyphic inscriptions of the Sakara pyramids. 111 



Higgins, tbe Rev. Henry H., chalcedony containing 

 Liquid with a movable bubble, 151 



Hints to local meteorological observers, 137 



Holophote, an electric, 337 



Honolulu, signal station at, 199 



House martin, intelligence of, 289 



Howie, Dr. Muir, the effects of tobacco, part )., 292 ; 

 part ii., 313 



Human body, the (review), 50 



Huxley, Professor, on science and culture (review), 

 622 



Hyacinth bulbs, 261 



ICEBBBOS, 637 



Illusions (illustrated), 10; (illustrated) 70; of motion 



and strobic circles, 421 

 Impaired memory, '15, 90 

 Inoigo, artificial, 270 

 Infinities around us, 663 

 Intelligence in animals. 29, 46, 69, 108, 177, 196, 245, 



261, 269, 289, 361, 380 

 Irritability, 496 



Jacko : a baboon's biography, 381 

 Jago, William, F.C.S., Assoc. Inst. Chem., crystals, 



593 ; part ii., (iOl 

 Jelly-fish. 499 



Jupiter, changes on the surface of, 382 

 KsowLRDOB, the future of, 663 

 Lauson case, the, 558 

 Landauer's blowpipe analysis (review), 339 

 Land and water, 609 

 Laws of nature, 339 

 Life, duration of, 228 

 Light, electro-magnetic theory of, 430 

 London fog, earliest date of, 306 

 Luck, trusting to, 39 

 Lungs, capacity of, 327 



Lynd, W., the'Fanie accumulator, 168 ; the electno 



telegraph, 19S ; the battery, 313 ; the wires and 



insulators, 371 , circuits and galvanometers, 607 



Maoio wheel (illustrated), 179, (illustrated), 198, 



(illustrated), 247 

 Magnetic storm, the recent, 629 



