♦ KNO\VLEDGE ♦ 



Vll 



Correspondence — continued. 

 Doubling of population, capital, &c., 263, 309, 351 

 Dress reform, 30, 61, 77 

 Drowning, obscure causes of death by, 309 

 Dull hearing and the microphone, 339 



" EittLT Man in Britain," 201 



Earth-shine, 61 



Earth-worm, the common, is it luminous? 263 



Egyptians, height of the ancient, 112 



Enigma, an, 45 



Eruption in the Sunda Straits, the, 365 



Extracts from " Early Man in Britain," 261 



Extraordinary sunsets, the, 364 



Fekdiko chamEclcons, 367 



Fiction, truth stranger than, 352 



Figure-conjuring, 61, 169 



Figure-magic, 262, 381 



Find at Blackfriars, a, 397 



Flat earth theory, the, 295 



Flight of missiles, 44, 141 



Floating docks and iron ships, 142 



Flowers, colours of, 158, 190 



Flowers, light from, 123, 174 



Franklin, Dr., magic square of squares, 233 



GALLEY-head light, the height of the, 158 



Geuealoftical puzzle, 13 ; answer to, 29 



Geometrical and real perspertive, 60 



Ginger-beer plant, 45, 142, 174 



Girth and the parcel post, 109 



Glass, the storm, 263 



Gnat poison, 125 



Greatest content of a parcel which can be sent bvpost, 



159 

 Great sea wave, 365 

 Green sun in India, the, 293, 247, 323 

 Growth of nail, the, 397 



Hangman, the, 278 



Heavy fall in barometers, 283 



Height of the ancient Egyptians, 142 



Uerschell, Sir William, alleged loss of an eye by, 219 ; 



see also 233, 277 

 Uigh-wheeled tricycles r. low wheels, 206 

 Hull-down ship, a (illustrated), 219, 232 

 •• Humble soldiers," the, 208 



iLLUKiNATiorr, different degrees of, 158 



India, perforated stones in, 322, 367 



India, the green sun in, 293 



Insanity and crime, 278 



Internal parasites, 294 



Iron ships and floating docks, 142 



Is the Bun green ? 351 



Jack Keich, 262 



Jupiter, the satelHtes of, 337 



Jupiter without satellites, 323 



KKTcn, Jack, 262 



Krakatoa, sound waves from, 323 



Lake wave, a strange, 395 



Lancashire, strange sunrise and sunset effects in, 363 



Large and small wheels for tricycles, 277 



Large meteor, a, 368, 396 



Large sun-spot, 29, 60, 9 1, 278 



Large p. small wheels, 339 



Light from flowers, 125, 174 



Lightning, silent, 381 



Luminosity in plants and animals, 263, 3S1 



Luminous bettle, a, 367 



Luminous ring, 141 



Lunar photography for small telescopes, 396 



Lunar shadows, 365 



Magic square, a complete, 61, 125, 234 

 Man, palKolithii-, 261 

 ■' Masner," origin of the word, 366 

 Mechanical puzzle, a, 61 

 Meteor, a large, 366, 397 

 Meteorites, organic matter in, 263 

 Mirrophone, the, and dull hearing, 339 

 Missiles, flight of, 44 

 Moon, surface of tlie, 248 

 Moon, sunset on the, 159 

 IMoon, the motions of the, 365 

 Moonlight ascent in a balloon, 322 

 Mud.guards for tricycles, 294 

 Myth, birth and growth of, 333 



NAit, the growth of the, 397 

 Naked-eye spot, 207 

 New moon on Saturday, 293 

 Numbers, property of,' 263 



OnsciHE causes of death bv drowning, 309 



Oldest historical tree, tile, '78 



Omnicvcle, the, 397 



Owl, the barn, 261, 278 



Optical phenomenon, 174 



Ordnance nmp mensurements, 30M, 337 



Organic matter in meteorites, 263 



1'al.*;olithic man, 261 

 Parcel post problem, 126 

 I'orch, showers of, 396 

 Perforated stones in India, 322 367 



erved in, 141 

 19: the kilt, 61 



Phenomenon, a curious (iUustrated) , 173, 207, 219, 293, 

 3 i2, 337, 338, 396: observed in railway travelling, 

 141 



Plants and animals, luminosity in, 263, 308 



Pons, the comet of, 232 



Population and capital, &c., doubling of, 262 



Postage stamp forgeries, 337 



Prescribing for cholera, 109 



Printers and punctuation, 157 



Probabilities, a problem in, 61 



Problem in probabiUties, a, 61 



Property of numbers, 263 



Punctuation and printers, 158 



Rabbit, skull of a, 174 

 Railway travelling, phe 

 Rainbow, a brilliant, 293 

 Rational dress, 13 ; for n 

 Reducing fat, 168 

 Ring, a luminous, 1 H 



SiTELiiTBs of Jupiter, the, 337 



Saturday, a new moon on, 293 



Saturn (illustrated) , 366 



Sea wave, a great, 365 



Severe weather in November, 1883, 323, 352 



Shakespearean insects, 366 



Ship, hull-down, 233 



Ship struck by lightning, a, 396 



Showers of perch, 396 



Silent lightning, 308, 381 



Singular numerical property, 142 



Singular phenomenon, a, 60, 32i, 337, 338, 396 



Skull of a rabbit, 174 



Skyers (cricket) 61 



Small telescopes, lunar, photography for, 396 



Small wheels for tricycles, 248 



Small wheels r. large wheels, 158, 173, 233 



Sociables, convertible, 366 



Softening water, 232, 310 



Sound waves from Krakatoa, 323 



Squirrel, curious structure of the, 126 



Storm glass, the, 263, 310, 338 



Stormy petrel, 173 



Strange coincidences, 351 



Strange lake wave, 395 



Strange sea creatures, 322 



Strange sunrise and sunset effects in Lancashire, 385 



Sun and planet bicyi-Ie, the, 207, 219 



Sun, the, is it green ? 351 



Sunda Straits, the eruption in the, 365 



Sunset on the moon, 159 



Sunsets, extraordinary, the, 364, 395, 396 ; and blue 



moon, 380 

 Sunspot, a large, 29, 60, 94 (illustrated), 248, 278; 



green and blue, 247 ; and comets, 380 

 Surface of the eyes, how to see the, 30 

 Surface of the moon, 248 



Theee times greater than, 309 



Totemism, 219 



Total abstinence, 294 



Tree, the oldest historical, 78 



Tricycle wheels, 218 



Tric'ycles, 352, 397 



Tricycles, mud-guards for, 291 



Tricycles, small wheels for, 173 ; large and small 



wheels for, 276 

 TricycUng in winter, 366 

 Truth stranger than Action, 352 



Vketicai, missile, flight of a, 141 

 Visual phenomenon, 19t> 

 Vortex-atom theory, the, 110 



Waet charming, 125, 142, 190, 263 



■\Varts, 45 



Water, the softening of, 232 



Weather forecasts, 338; how to make them, 366 



Wheels, large c, small, 339 



Winter, tricycling in, 366 



REVIEWS. 



Book of the Tournament, the, 334, 36", 382 



Chess problems, one hundred. By the Kev. A. 



CjTil Pearson, M.A. Civil Serrice Printing 



Company, 325 

 Christmas works, various publishers, 307 



E.VEBGY in nature ; a course of six lectures upon the 

 forces of nature and their mutual relations, 

 delivered under the auspices of the tJilihrist 

 educational trust. By W. L. Carpenter. Messrs. 

 Cassell ct Co., London, 359 



E\olution and natural theology. By W. F. Kirby, of 

 the British Museum. W. Swan Sonnenschein, 

 & Co., 334 



How to use our eves. By John Browning, F.R.A.S. 

 Messrs. Chatto i Windus, London, 359 



MlEACLEs. a review of Hume and Huxley on. By 

 Sir Edmund Beckett. London Society for Pro- 

 moting Christian Knowledge, 307 



OiTB hundred chess problems. By the Eev. A. Oyri^ 

 Pearson, M.A. Civil Serrice Printing Company, 



sins : being personal impressions of 

 the people and institutions of the United States. 

 By W. E. Adams. Walter Scott, London, 190 



Teibes on my frontier : an Indian naturalist's foreign 

 policy. 'By E. H. A., with illustrations by F. C. 



MISCELLANEOUS. 



Accidents from lightning at Cyprus, 361 



Agnosticism, Professor Huxley on, 317 



Air, daily mean motion of the, 58 



American telegraph system, the, 203 



Ancient monuments of Egypt, the, 261 



Aniline colours and their inlluence on health, 336 



Anthracene and light, 203 



Asking and answering, 285 



Astronomical Alderman, the (Horace Smith's), 286 



Atoms, the size of, 76 



Aurora (illnstrated), electric light in, 359 



Australasian statistics, 109 



Autumn leaves, facsimile representations of, 131 



Bbdfobd college, London, 317 



Bcrthold, Consul, and his free railway pass, 26 



Blackwood, diaries of, 370 



Blake, Dr. L. J., on evaporation and electricitv, 213 



Blank verse, observations on, 264 



Bournemouth, thunderstorm at, 361 



British Association, the, what constitutes membership 



of, 294 

 Bumham beeches, 213 



Cable for Cochin China, a, 137 



Caoutchouc, new source of, 154 



Carbonaceous meteorite, a, 134 



Cementing rubber or gutta-percha to metal, 91 



Chinese telegraphing, 307 



Careless crossing of railways in America, 268 



Coal boring in China, 238 



Cocliin China, a cable for, 157 



Colours, capacity to distinguish in railway servants. 



163 

 Critical points in magnetism, 155 

 Cyprus, accidents from lightning at, 361 

 Cyprus, lead-smelting in, 288 

 Cyprus snake, a, 232 



Daewin, Mr., on theism and evolution, 276 

 Deity, observations on the, 279 

 Delo's, results of excavations in the island of, 157 

 Doctors, proportion of, to the population, 260 

 Dynamite struck by lightning, 165 



Edison electric light, the, 60 



Edison lamp, life of the, 202 



Edison svstem in the House of Commons, 211 



Egypt, the ancient monuments of, 261 



Electricity and evaporation, 213 



Electric lighting at mills, 214 



Emotional truths and scientific hallucinations, 317 



Evaporation and electricitv, 213 



Exeter Literary Societv. 265 



Extinction of tne mastodon, 330 



Fiction, truth stranger than, 286 

 First inventor of the telephone, the, 315 

 Fiske, John, on Herbert Spencer, 162 

 Fiske, John, on inscrutable power, 167 

 Floating domes for telescopes, 42 

 Forth Bridge, the, 12 



Oeemix imperial telegraph department, items in the 



cost of, 3 

 Olenisla, Forfarshire, remarkable phenomenon in, 



38 

 Gnostics aud agnostics, remarks concerning, 310 

 Gold production in Russia, 55 

 Granite, the largest isolated piece known in the world, 



ISO 

 Great sea wave, the, 393 



HiMnrBo tramwav, llangeless-wheel cars on the, 74 



Heated gases, the "luminosity of, 51 



Heath, fern-portfolio of Mr", 317 



Heath, Mr. F. O., on Bnruham Beeches, 213 



Herbert .Spcni-er, 162 



Highest bridge in the world, the, 20 



House of Commons, the Edison system in the, 214 



House, safety in the, 351 



How a locomotive was raised from a river, 26 



Human footprints in Nevada, 151 



Uumher, Marriott, & Cooper, action against, patent 



llydrauhc lifts, fatal accidents from, 200 



iKBiFFEBENTisM, observstions on, 311 

 Insulating wires, 151 



Jack Ketch, observations on, 220 

 Japanese miners, some curious customs of. 306 

 Java disturbance, the phvsical results of the. 379 

 Java earthquake, the telephone during the, 361 



