KNOWLEDGE . 



General— <ro n/Jnii«(l. 

 llow to ufo oureros (iUuatrat«d), 111, 119; Romp1< 



mcntary colouM. Ktl. (iltustrntodj 193,201 

 HiimanitT and natural hUtorv, 5 

 HunBarinn stAtc rnilvrajs, 325 

 lluxloy, Profo^or, on education, 125 

 llydrogon, nuvins for separation of, from a mixture ( 



TuPBRssiONH of AmcrJeft, bv Mr. Herbert Spencer, 1 

 Inliniry. a dream of. 2«2 

 Ink, formula for a ^ood and cheap kind, 2-U 

 International che^s (oumament, observntioi 

 Iron, effect of, on the surface of the earth in ( 

 with clcctricitv, 174 



11. Mr. Matthew Arnold c 

 chomistrj coli 



31.'i 



Iftoiah of Jeruiialc 



Jaoo, William. F.C.3., 

 Bait). 353. 385 



Jar Gould. Mr., and Xe 



Jefferies Ki hartl, h'lma 



Jupiter, the red spot on. 2i>;t 



Kbw QardenA, earlier opening of, lf>9 



Kiiiff, Mrs., on the divided skirt, 302 



KifowLGnnB, sonnet on, 2 



Land iunction proposed betweea Great Britain nn.l 

 Ireland, 392 



Lantern readings (review) . 373 



Laws of brinhtness, 3'11, 32 1, 311, 372 



Learning languages, 6G; the Hamiltonian system, S)i*, 

 146. 17(; 



Lecture experience, 31 



Lecture notes, 25, 49 



Lectures and the London papers, 217 ; neglect of, bv the 

 London press. 229 



Lectures at Brighton by Mr. Richard A. Proctor, 17:i 



LeicesttT, enthusiastic reception of Mr. Proctor at, IS 



Leopold Shakespeare, the (review), 209 



Leasepa, M. de, and the Sjihara sea-scheme, 21 » 



LevelHog action of mountains, 79 



Lewis, Dr. D., health of corseted women. fi9 



Libraries of Babylonia and Assvria, 131, 3j7 



Library of English literature. 209 



Life, evolution of (review), 119 



Life-saving vn railways, 10;* 



Light (review), 10 



Light given by a gas-flame, amount of, 171 



Lighting: the sides of steamships, 9S 



Lightning, curious effect of, 69 



Limits of telescopes. 376 



Liquids, on the spheroidal condition of. 257 



Lockyer, Mr. Norman, and Kvowledgb, 229 



Lopcal puzzle, a, 7, 26, 132, 198 



Loisettian school of memory, 156 



London frgs, composition of, 1 



Loss bv worn silver, 216 



Love dances of a king lory, 96 



Luck in chess, 313 



Luminous paint, directions for mnking, 2 



Lunar craters, imitations of the forms of, 110 



Lunar lessons. 335 



Magkbtism, Professor Hughes on, 339 



Marriage and the colour of women's hair, 33i) 



Marriages of first cousins, 357 



Mathematical Column :— notes on Euclid. 15. 28, -15 : 

 how to determine the attraction of a spherical shell 

 on an eitemtl particle, 60 ; a pretty problem, 76 ; 

 compound proportion, 93, 107; cfouble rule of 

 three, 93 ; easy lessons in the ditferential calculus, 

 169. 241; a mathematical letter, 133; absorption 

 of light by air, 213 : geometrical problems, intro- 

 duction, 332 ; construction, 31S ; analysis and 

 synthesis, 3Sl, (illustrated) 331, 3J7; see also 270, 

 301, 316 



M«y frosts and the moon, 296 



Messier (crater in the moon), 294 



Meteor, a strange. 64 



Meteorolo;,ncal otlice. the weather forecasts of the, 3m0 



Microbe of hen-cholera, 110 



Microphone, ingenious experiment with the, 174 



Microphonic action under the microscope. 230 



Microscope, plea«.ant hours with the, disease gertn'^. 

 7, 34, 82, 114, 163, 19J, 219, 245, 238, (illustrated* 

 322, 358, 383 



Middlesbrough, the electric light in. 31 



Mineral oil spring, discoverv of, in Flintshire, 61 



Mineral waters (review), 345 



Mines, respiration in, 216 



Misletoe, spelling of, 18. 32, 59 



Missouri, age of the, 327 



Monkey, intelligence of a, 109 



Monotremes, remarks on. 64 



Mont Credo, slipping of the sides of, 79 



Moon, the, has it an atmosphere? 10 ; the moon and 

 May frosts. 29i; as seen through a three-inch 

 telescope (illustrated), 222, 265, 291, 326, 390 



Moving bog, a, 80 



Moving dune, a. 126 



Moving sand-hill, a. 63 



Music for the homo, 157 



Myth, the birlh and growth of, 19, 51, 83, 129, 159, 

 234, 273, 320, 352, 33" 



Nat, the naturalist (revicv), 10 



National street railway association in America, 30 



Natural laws. 18f> 



Natural philojophy, treatise bv Sir W. Thomson and 

 Professor Tail. 2 U 



Naturalist, year of a. winter heliotrope, 20; gorse 

 blossoms, 49 ; the peewit cries, 81 ; snow-drop and 

 snow-flake, 143 ; t-har-jnmp. 175 ; the ptarmigan, 

 203; the marsh ni'trigold. 231; a geological ex- 

 cursion, 259; two little greenish flowers, 276 ; the 



blaokoup 8iD((8, 303; among the gnuei, 33d; 



conoetmng bats, 367 

 Natural, the, in the spiritual (review). 312 

 New xhip canal between the Baltic and the North Sea, 



6!» 



New skirt, the. 102, 220 



Newspaper cuttings, fmbscribing for, 313 



Newspaper science, 2jI 



New York morality and Mr. Jay Qoutd, Oi 



Nights with a three-inch tele«cope (illuHtrated), 39; 

 the moon in a, 222, 265, 294. 326, 390 



Nitro-glTcerine, its discovery, 173 



-Vobel, Alfred, and the origin of dynamite, 173 



Noble, William. Saturn's ringfl, 118 



Novelist, the value of the, 2 



Oil, discovery of, in Flintshire, Qi 



Oldest tree in the worid, the, 31 



On a toy tricycle, 290 



Optical effects of belladonna, 68 



Optical experiment, an, 73 



Organic chemistry (review), 315 



Our bodies, muscles. 8 ; life and work. 39 ; skull and 

 spine (illustrated), 67; the tnink and limbs, 115; 

 the processes and functions of the body, 141; how 

 the body's duties are performed, 178; absorption 

 a d blood repair, 204; the blood, 236; circulation 

 of the blood, 260; the income and expeuditure 

 of the body, 306 



Our chemistry column, sea salt, 353; the halogen^, 

 3S5 



Our food supply, dependen-^e on foreign sources, 142 



Oxv-hydrogen lantern, the use of, forbidden in tin 

 Brighton Pavilion, 376 



Palmtbri, Professor, and new process for silvering 

 glass, 230 



Paper-pulp rails as a substitute for steel, 188 



Paper railway wheel*', 95 



Paradise fish; the (illustrated), 291 



Paradox comer :— A theory of Mercury, 12,28; is it 

 possible to grow giants? 58; the solar system all 

 equally illuminated by the sun, 92; flat earth c. 

 globe, 154, (illustrated) 184, 19S, 211 



Paradoiers. strange wavs of, 201 



Paradoxical philosophy (review), 313 



ParafEne in basaltic rock, 216 



Parasites in the human body, 156 



Past, the, of our earth (review), 344 



Peace-offering, a, 189 



Penny readings, poems for (review), 343 



Periods of the aurora, 207 



Personal, 2S7 



Petroleum in the Argentine Republic, 230 



Phosphorus bronze a^ a conductor of electricity, 63 



Photographing the solar corona, 4 



Phrlloiera, a remedy for, 31 



Physical optics (review), 10 



" Pickwick " in phonographic shorthand, 244 



Plants, effects of electric light on. 110 



Pleasant hours with the microscope, disease gerni^, 

 7. 34, 82, 114, lt53, 190, 219, 245, 283, (illastrate.l) 

 323. 353, 333 



Pneumatic tubes at Philadelphia, 80 



Poems for penny readings (review), 345 



Popular astronomy (review), 225 



Practical geometry (review), 266 



Prayer and weather, 177 



Prayers, profanity of some, 125 



Preece, Mr. "W. H., on electrical exhibitions, 1 



Prevost, Dr.. bread and honey, 135 



Pritchard, the Kev. Charles," and the study of Greek, 

 344 



Proctor. Bichard A., the Belt case, 3 ; a logical puzzle. 

 7, 132 ; notes on Euclid. 15, 45 ; sun-views of the 

 earth {illustratedj. 24, 55, 117, 181, 237, 310, 375; 

 lecture notes, 25, 41; stays and strength, 50, 85; 

 some books on astronomy, 56 ; Sydney and Sunday 

 lecturing, 57 ; learning languages, 66; the Hamil- 

 tonian system, 99, 146, 176 ; study of logic, 71 ; the 

 vast and the minute (review). 83 ; double rule of 

 three, 93; collision at sea during fog, 103; the 

 abuse of evolution, ln4; clocks and watches 

 (review), 161; easy lessons in the differential 

 calculus, 169, 241 ; prayer and weather, 177; 

 natural laws, a peace-offering, 1S9 ; sun-worship, 

 204; absorption of light by air. 213 ; lectures and 

 the London papers, 217 ; popular astronomy, 225 ; 

 social dynamite, 244; study and stimulant (review), 

 252; the death of worlds. 263 ; personal. 287; the 

 laws of brightness. 305, 324. 3W, 372 ; geometrical 

 problems, introduction, 332; construction, 343; 

 analysis and synthesis, 364, 381 . 397 ; lunar lessons, 

 335; the post of our earth (review), 344; star- 

 clouds in our galaxy, 351 : science as an aid to 

 faith (renew) , 3G0 : the origin of whales, 369; Mr. 

 Proctor and the provincial press, 377 ; the recent 

 solar clipse, 334 



Professor Hughes on magnetism. 330 



Protective inoculation of animals, 32 



Puddling furnaces in the United Kingdom in 1832, 230 



Purifying air for breathing, 216 



Qfbbb fisih, a, 110 



Quincey, De, a dream of infinity, after Richter, 262 



Railways in the United States, 32; railway invest- 

 ments in the United Kingdom, 48; extension of 

 railways in America, 64 ; their construction in the 

 United States. 174 



Riiinbow visible after sunset, 298 



Rameses II., was he the Pharaoh of the oppression ? 

 Tel-el- Maskhuta e. the Raamses of the Bible, 21 ; 

 conclusion, 36 



Bonyard, A. C, on the fornution of comets' tuU 



(illustrated), 100, 21)2 

 Rational dross, 329 

 Iteccnt solar eclipse, the, 38* 

 Bed spot on Jupiter, 293 

 Religion and men of s*-ience, 187 

 Respiration in mines, 210 

 R'-viewing, remarks on, 313 

 Rimington, E.C., secondary batteries or accamulators, 



2-tS: energy, 192 

 Rings of Saturn, 113 



Romanes, Dr., and Professor Asa Gray, 109 

 Royal Aquarium electric exhibition, the. 146; the 



Royal Aquarium Company and electrical exhibi- 

 tors, 173 

 Russia, electric lighting in, 150 

 Salmox, Dr. D. J£,, on the microbe of hen cholera, 



110 

 Salt, the history of (review), 226 

 Samoyedes, the, 155 

 Sand-^lunes, 179 

 Saturn, rings of. 118 

 Savage, the Kev. Minot J., Herbert Spencer in 



America, 97 

 Schalensteine, topographical charts in Switzerland, 120 

 Scheibler, Professor, and his patenta for sugar making,! 

 Science, the true position of, regarding supernatural 



religion, 109; as an aid to faith (review), 3tK) 

 Scientifac men and religious tests, 96 

 8ea, coTimercial products cf the (review), 361 

 Sea salt, our chemistry coldmn, 353 

 rtea-9 rpent, reference to tbe, 110 

 Secondary batreries or aci^nmulators, 213 

 Shilling, purcha-ing power of the, 188 

 Ship canal betweeu D.iMin and Galway, 73 

 Stiipwrecks, statistics uf. 05 

 Siamese monkey, behaviour of a, 109 



Silv. 



. 2:J0 



Simon, Dr. Collins, a strange theory of, 213 



Simoom and dust storms, 215 



Skirt, the new, 162, 220 



SsY, face of the, Jan. 5 to Jan. 19, 11; Jan. 1ft to 

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

 March 2, 105 ; March 2 to March 16, 13i ; March 

 ItJ to March 3 >, 166 ; March 30 to April 13, 197 ; 

 April 13 to April 23, 226 ; April 27 to May 1 1 . 252 ; 

 M iy 11 to May 25, 232 ; Mav 25 to Juiie 8. 312 ; 

 June 8 to June 22, 346 ; June' 23 to July 6. 379 



Slack, Henry J., F.G.3., pleasant hours with the 

 microscope, disease germs, 7, 34, 82, 114, 163, 19t>, 

 219, ?45, 238, (illustrated) 322, 358. 383 



Slingo, W., the central telegraph office, 220; news- 

 paper scienc-*, 2U ; Professor llughea on mag< 

 netiam, 3J9 



Slipping of locomotive wheels, prevention of, 171 



Snake poisons (review), 232 



Social dynamite, 244 



Society of Arts and collisions at sea, 230 r 



Solar corona, photographing the, 4 



Solar eclipse, observation at San Francisco, 377 ; the 



Sparling, Mr. Henry, sonnet on Kxowlkdgb by, 2 



Spencer, Mr. Herbert, impression'* of America, 4l 



Spheroidal condition of liquid-'. 257 



Spirit of turpentine from sawdust, SO 



Spiritual, the natural in the (review), 313 



Squirrel problem, tbe, 141 



Standard wire gauge and the Wolverhampton Cbamber 



of Commerce, S\) 

 Star -clouds in our galaxy, 351 

 Statistics, the trne use of, 18 

 Stays and statues, 23; in relation to strength 50, S^ ; 



in reference to Mr. Richard A. Proctor, 313 

 Steel ships, tonnage of those built in 1332, 155 

 St. Gothard Railway and the Italian tiade, 80; St. 



Gothard Tunneland France. 174 

 Stinging tree, a. 126 

 Stokes, Dr., of Cambridge, 63 

 Storm, prediction of a, 141 



still J 



203 



Stroh, Mr., and microphonic action. 233 



Study and stimulant (review), 252 



Sugar, new patents for making, 1 



Sulphate of copper as a disinfectant, 47 



Suez Canal, the, 93 



Sunday Society, the, 163 



Sun-god, the. and the ancient Egvptian reli,non. 1 11 



Sun-views of the earth (illustrated), 24, 55, 117, HO, 

 237, 310, 375. 390 



Sun-worship, 204 



Suppression of blasphemous literature, the proposed, 

 156 



Swan United ElectricLight Company and the Russian 

 Government, 112 



Switzerland, topographical stones in, 123 



Sydney and Sunday lecturing, 57 



Svmon, Dr. Collins, orthography of the name of, 293 



Tab, how to remove it from the hands. 64 



Telegraph wire struck by lightning, 230 



Tcl-el-Maskhuta discoveries at, 14-5 



Telephone for railway purposes. 32 ; in connect ion with 

 metropolitan fires, 47 ; accident with a. at Svdnev, 

 New aouth "Wales, 96; anew kindof (iilustfated), 

 113 



Telescopes, the limits of, 376 



Terrible storm, prediction of, 43 



Thames Embankment, the, ISl 



Theatres, easy egress to, 13 



Thomson, Sir N., experiments of, with sunlight, moon- 

 light, and candlelight, 47 



