INDEX TO VOLUME III. 



GENERAL. 

 Abet., Professor, and the raanufactare of dynamitp, 



183 

 Abuse of Evolution, 1<M 



Academr, the, and the Knowlrdgb Library Series, 79 

 Accumuliiitora, or secondary batteries, 2W 

 Acoustic experiment, *.M> 

 Ady, John Em-st, the great international fisheries 



exhibition. 319, 337; natural history department 



(illustrated), 351, 3^ 

 Ace of the Missouri, 3:i7 

 Allen, Grant, a naturalist*!) year, winter heliotrope, 



20; porse bloasoms, 40; the peewit cries, 61; 



willow catkins, 112; snow-drop and snow-flake, 113; 



char jump, 175; the ptarmigan, 2'>3; the marsh 



toari^old, 2U ; a peolo^cal excursion 2o9 ; two 



little creeniah flowers, Z76 ; the blackcap sings, 



303; among the grasses, 336; concerning bats, 



3«7 

 Amateur electrician, the, electrical measurement 



(illustrated), 70, 102, 206.238 ; the batteries, 323 

 America and protective tariffs, 215 

 Ancient bird traek^t. 3 



Annual summary of the Registrar-GenenU, 329 

 Anonvmuncule, oae of the word by Charles Reade, 



Answers to correspondents. 79 



Antique water conduit at Posilippo, 33 



Aqueduct of Betilienus at AllHri, 31 



Archa?oloi,'ical discoveries in Mexico, 120 



Archer Fish, the (illustra(od), 230 



Artistic and Literary Correspondence Society, 313 



Astronomv, some books on (review), 5*i 



Aurora, electrical nature of. 96; periods of the, 207 



Australia, flying foxes in, 279 



Australian ajits, 373 



Australian artesian welU, 96 



Austrian Government sanitary conocil and life-saving 



. 109 



Automatic clock at the Stock Exchange, 174 



BiBTXOSiA and Assyria, libraries of, 131, 3u7 



Baldness, 3r9 



Ballet-dancers and the electric li^ht, Gi 



Balloons as prerentive of collisions at sea during 

 fog, 230 



Belladonna, optical effects o', 63 



Bell, Sir Francis D., on the vitalitv of the people of 

 New Zealand, 18 



Bell Telephone, an improved, 213 



Belt case, the, 3 



Bessemer Eteel, statistics of, 112 



BSt«, remarks on the gender of, 392 



Birds, hovering of, 96 ; in cold weather, 131 



Birmingham, new railwav station at, 174 



Birth and growth of myth, 19, 51, 83, 129, 159, 2^1, 

 273, 320, 352. 3^7 



Bishop, Mr. Irring, and thought-reading wagers, 377 



Bishop Wtlberforce and his nickname, 13 



Blasphemous libel, the law of, 156 



Bodies, our, muscles, 8 ; life and work, 39 ; skull and 

 spine (illustrated), 67; the trunk and the limbs, 

 115; the processes and functions of the body, 144; 

 how the Dody'a duties are performed, 178; ab- 

 sorption and blood repair, 2<H ; the blood, 230- 

 the circulation of the blood, 2tX); the income ana 

 expenditure of the body, 3u6 



Bog, a moving, %•) 



Bombay hunt, the, and the Egrptian war, 2 



Borelly, M., discovery of a minor planet by, 298 



Bread and honev, 135 



Brightness, laws of, 30t. 321, 310, 372 



at, 173 



Briiith Workman, the. on temperance. 362 



Browning, John, noM-ltiea in tricycle«, 71; bicycles 

 and tricylea for 1883, 9^, 130, 176 ; two-speed 

 gearings, 205; how to use our eyes, 111,149; com- 

 plementary colours, 161, (illustrated) 193, 261 ; on 

 a tov tricvcle, 291; social tricycles, S6S 



Brfinn, the model theatre at. 2:30 



Brush dynamo-electric maclune (illustrated), 295 



Butterfly in winter, IS, 150 



Buying power of gold, 283 



Calipoesia tree, a, 2 



Cambridge and Oxford boat-race, the, 173 



Canon Farrar and astrology, 18 



Carte, Mr. D'Oyley, and easy egress to theatres, 18 



Cattle, imports of, 142 



Central telegraph ofBce, the, 220 



Chalk-boring at Boutbampton. 80 



Chemistry of cookery, the, 33; the boiling of water, 



65; cooking und'er water, 97, 128. 153, 191,218, 



246, 274, 30.^, (illustrated) 3M, 370 

 Chess, regarded as a home game, 363; remarks on the 



international toiiniament, 363 

 Chess Column : — game played in Sussex championship 



tournament, 1883, 94 ; game played between 



Messrs. Hoon and Tarrant, 124; what constitutes 



a stron^j player, 139 ; chess players usually 



distinguished for general mental ability, 186; 



Oxford f. Cambridge, 186; endgame from actual 



play, 200 ; Edgar Allan Poa on chess players, 2^8 ; 



the international chess tournament, 212, 2'yi, */71, 



281, 301, 317, 33;J, 319, 365. 3-»2, 397 ; the 



Viryanagram tournament, 365; au international 



tournament in Germanv, 397 ; see also 16, 39, 46, 



61, 78, 103. 15^*, 171,213 

 Chinese cabinet ministers and the comet, 31 

 Church of England Guild of St. Matthew, and 



blasphemous libel, 187 

 " Clerk" or "dark," 95 

 Clocks and watches (review), 16 1 

 Clodd, Edward, the birth and growth of mvth, 19, 51, 



83. 131, 159, 234, 273. 320, 352, 387 

 Coal output in Ohio, 47; coal-loading andthe electric 



light, 155 

 Colliers, geology among the, 323 

 Collisions at sea during fog, 103; collisions and the 



Society of Arts, 230 

 Comet, the great, of 1S^2 (illustrated), 1*47, 165, 195; 



as observed in Tasmania, 2U 

 Cometic collision with the sun. Professor Young on a, 



79 

 Comets, tails of, 72, (illustrated) 100; Mr A. Davis 



on the formation of the tail, 239; see also 292 

 Comma, improper uses of the, 376 

 Commercial products of the sea (review), 361 

 Continental floods, effects of, 33 

 Cookery, the chemistry of, 33 ; the boiling of wate.', 



65; cooking under water, 97, 12^, 158, 191, 218, 



246, 274, 3)8, (illustrated) 311, 370 

 Corpulence, 73, S7. 118 

 Corseted women, health of, 69 

 Cost of telegrams, 183 

 Cremation. 311 



Crystal Pala«je district gas company, 1 13 

 Crystal Palace electric and gas exhibition, 8t, 



(illustrated) 196; final notice, 2^4 

 DABwixanJ a future state of existence, 17; his theory 



of ancestral derivation, 03 

 Death at theplav, 297 

 Death of worlds," 263 

 Deep-sea fish, a new (illustrated), 250 

 Depopulation of the llighlands, 31 

 Diokens, Charles, and compositors' punctuation, 376 

 Discoveries at Tel-el- .\Iaskhuta, 145 

 Dirided skirt, the, 362 

 Dolphin at the Untjhton Aquarium, 360 

 Dream of infinity, 262 

 Dynamite, account of, 173 



Eahthslip near Fort de I'Ecluse, near Genera, 43 

 Earth, sun-views of the (illustrated), 25, 55, 117, 1S3, 



2:J7, 310, 375, 393 

 Earth, the past of the (review), 344 

 Edison incandescent lamp, the, 95 

 Edison lamps in America and Europe, 113 

 Edison svstem in Paris, 216 

 Editorial gossip, remarks on, 29^ 

 Education, Professor Iluxlev on, 125 

 Edwards, Amelia B., was Ra neses II. the Pharaoh of 



the oppression? Tel el-Ma'^khuta v. the Raamses 



of the Bible, 21 (conclusion), 36; discoveries at 



Tel-el-Maskhuta, 113 

 Edwards, Miss, and the Pharioh of the oppression, 17 

 Edwin Drood, iienounneni of, 32 

 Egyptian eiploratiou committee and Mifs A. B. 



Edwards, 141 

 Electric illumination (review), 71 

 Electrician, the amateur, electrical measurement 



(iUnstrated), 70, 102, 206, 239 ; the batteries, 323 

 Electric light companies. 35 ; the effect of the light on 



plants, 110 ; the electric light (renew), 378 

 Electrical experiments, 197 ; the electrical light in 



surgical diagnosis (illustrated), 281 

 Elementary teachers, blunders of, 203 

 Elements of weather-knowledge (review), 165 

 Elliott, G. W., the Warner observatory (illustrated), 



232 

 Elm colliery, Flintshire, discovery of a spring of 



mineral oil at. 6t 

 Elm-leaf beetle, hibernation of the, 110 



Elphinstone and Vincent dynamo-machine, ©rperirae'ila 

 with the, 197 



Energy, 193 



Engineering and metal trades* exhibition, the, 142 



Engineering geology (review), 311 



English sea-nide health resorts, laud and sea-winds, 

 217 



Etchings of Mr. Whistler, 208 



Etna, 142 



European mineral waters (review), 313 



Evolution, abuse or, livt; evolution of life (review), 

 119 



Eyes (il'ustrated), how to use them. 111, 149 ; comple- 

 mentary colours 161, (illustrated) 193, 261 



FaCB of the sky, Jan. 5 to Jan. 19, 11; Jan. 19 to 

 Feb. 2, 42; Feb. 2 to Feb. 16, 75; Feb. 16 to 

 March 2, IOj ; March 2 to March 16, 131 ; March 



16 to March 3), 160 ; March 30 to April 13, 197 ; 

 Aprill3 toApril27, 236; April 27 to May 11, 252; 

 May 11 to May 3i. 282; May 25 to June 8, 3 2; 

 June 8 to June 22. 3t6 : June 22 to July 6, 379 



Faith, science as an aid to (review), 3oO 



Fellowship of learned 8ocietie<8, 43 



Ferns, where to find them (review) , 311 



Finns, the savage state of, 155 



First cousin marriages, 357 



Fish, a queer, 1 10 ; a new deep-eea species (illustrated), 



250 

 Fisheries exhibition, the great international, 319; 



introductory, 337 ; natural history department 



(illustrated), 354, 3'^9 

 Flying foxes in Australia, 279 

 Forettry, the Journal of, 2 44 

 Foreets, wa^te of, 119 

 Foster, Thomas, a theory of Mercury, 12, 3S; and 



home music, 157 

 Fotherunll. Percival A., F.R.A.3., cremation, 341 

 Founding a town in one night, 61 

 Freeman, E. A., LL.D., "clerk" or "dark." 85 

 Freethinker prosecution, remarks on the, 156 

 Frost, its effects on stone, 1 

 Frostless winter, cost of a, 1 13 

 Galaxy, star-clouds in our, 351 

 Gastroscope, view of application of the (illustrated), 



2S1 

 General Assembly Hall, Edinburgh, and its new 



lightning conductor, 229 

 Geological excursion, a, 259 

 Geologv of the Isle of Man (illustrated). 277; a field 



geology (renew), 311 ; a-noag the colliers, 323 

 Gigantic birds of a remote geolo^^ical period, 2 

 Glasgow Herald, the, and Mr. Proctor, 376 

 Gold in Victoria, 80 ; the buying power of, 293 

 Goschen, George J., the bnving power of L'old, 283 

 Great Britain, sun-views of"{illustrated), 3 »0 

 Great comet, the. of 1893, 127, (illustrated) 147, 160, 



(illustrated) 195 

 Great international fisheries exhibition, the, 319; 



(introductoryt , ;137 ; natural history department 



(illustrated), 351, 339 

 Great Pyramid, rerie'-v of Mr. Proctor's work on. 



17 ; was the principal pyramid designed for a 

 tomb? 392 



Great sun spots, 54 



Great telescope, a, 356 



Greek, the study of, 34i 



Grensted, Fred. F., comets' taiU, 73 



Guidance for youth (reriew), 3U 



Hampden, Mr., and his theory of the earth's flatness, 



95, 151, (illustrated) 181 ; his denunciatory 



articles, 18^ ; his treatment in Ksowlbdob, 201 

 Harding, Martin J., butterflies in winter, 150 

 Harrison, W. Jerome, F.G.S., the geology of the Isle 



of Man (illustrated), 277 

 Hariland, Alfred, M.Ii.C.S., English seaside health 



resorts, land and sea wind*, 217 

 Hawthorne, Mr. Julian, 32 

 Health of corseted women, 69 

 Health resorts, English seaside, land and aea winds, 



247 

 Heavenly bodies, the (review). 361 

 Herbert Spencer in America, 97 

 Highlands, depopulation of, 31 

 Hogs, how they destroy pine forests, 47 

 Holborn Viaduct, the lighting of, 95 

 Holme^", Prof. "Wendefl, on his eiporiences as ao 



author, 47 

 Home music, 157 

 Honey and bread, 13j 



House of Commons and the electric li^ht, 215 

 Hovering of birds, 96 



