KNOWLEDGE ♦ 



Miscellaneous — continued. 

 Kexch, Jack, allusion to, 2^19 



Lake dwellings at Suresnea, discovery of, 2-i3 

 Largest locomotive in the world, the, 341 

 Lead-smelting in Cyprus, 288 

 Life of the Edison lamp, iJ03 

 Light and anthracene, 203 

 Literary scheme, a novel, 92 

 Locomotive, the largest in the world, 344 

 Locomotives, average distances run by, in different 



parts of Europe, 26 

 Lon-est bridge in the world, the, 20 

 Luminosity of heated gases, 51 



Mags^tism, critical points in, 155 



Manchester ship canal, the, 157 



Mastodon, the extinction of the, 330 



Meteorite, a carbonaceous, 134 



Mills, electrin lighting in, 314 



Mitchell library, Glasgow, statistics of the, 218 



Monolith, a monster one at Tiahuanaco, Bolivia, 331 



Moimtaiu railway, a new, 203 



National Health Society, the, 35i, 376 



Navvies, North American Indians as railway, 205 



New selenium cell, a. 300 



Newspaper science, 76 



Nevada, the human footprints in, 154 



Nickel, improved preparation of, 138 



North American Vidians as railway navvies, 205 



Novel literary scheme, 92 



OcrDBS, Utah, electric light in, 359 

 Oregon, a railroad in, 4-1 

 Organic compounds in the sun, 248 

 Overhead wires in the United States, 26 



PArEB, cross-ties, 24 



Paper trade, statistics of the, 141 



Piunic parties, electricity for, 241 



Pictorial World, purchase of the, by Messrs. H. Clay, 



Sons, & Tavlor, 124 

 Pilsen Joel and general Electric Light Company, 



Limited, 174 

 Pilsen lamp, reference to the, 92 

 Pittsburgh, tunnel under the city of, 364 

 Pleiad, the lost, remarks on, 2^4 

 Plumian professorship of astronomy, Cambridge, note 



on the, 381 

 Poetry, observations on, 231 

 Powder magazine fired by lightning, 12 

 Psychical research, the society for, 353 

 Punctuation and compositors, 235 



Raixwat servants and their capacity to distinguisli 



colours, 165 

 Rheostat, M. Trouv^^'s invention, 236 

 Risin'' of the heavenly bodies, remarks on the, 367 

 Roman tUe, a cat upon a, 389 



Safety in the house, 354 



Scientific hallucinations and emotional truths, 317 



Selenium cell, a new, 300 



Shakespeare, blank verse of, 264 



Ship assurance, alleged unfair dealing in, 108 



Small-wheeled tricycles, 241 



Snake, a Cyprus, 253 



Soap-bubble colours on glass, how produced, 103 



Society for psychical research, the, 353 



Speed of worlang on submarine cables, 298 



Spencer, Herbert, 163 



Sport and science, 150 



Startling scientific statement, a, 276 



Students of science and the religious question, 279 



Submarine cables, speed of working on, 293 



Son and tire, fallacy regarding the, 294 



Sun, organic compounds in the, 346 



Sun-spots, 70 



Sunday Lecture Society, the, 257 



Tay Bridge, the ruins of the, 108 

 Telegraphing Chinese, 307 



Telephone during the Java earthquake, the, 361 



Telephone, the lirst inventor of, 315 



Telephone wires and the pubUc, 124 



Telephones of the worid, the, 285 



Telescope, a cheap and good kind, 12 



Theism and evolution, Mr. Darwin on, 276 



Thunderstorm at Bournemouth, 361 



Thunderstorm in the Jura, 124 



Tires, proportion of breakage of on German railways 



155 

 Tobacco smoke, analysis of, 43 

 Tricycle saddle, a new, 74 

 Truth stranger than fiction, 236 

 Tunnel under the city of Pittsburgh, the, 364 



Victor Emmanuel gallery, the, 361 



"Washington boulder, dimensions of, 150 



"Washington monument, the, 150 



Watch-spring, dissolving a, 367 



"Water, organic impurity in metropolitan, 76 



"Westinghouse brake, good services of the, 273 



"Wetting coal, effect of, 246 



"White glass under the inllueuce of luminous rays, 7 



Whitman, Walt, science and poetry, 167 



World, the telephones of the, 285 



ILLUSTRATIONS. 



Abdomen of a bee, sketch of an, 267 

 Actinia bellis (sea daisy), 2; figures of, 187 

 Actinospherium Eichhornii, figure of (Fisheries 



Exhibition), 41 

 Agglomerate, the (electric battery) , 132 

 Alyasum hair, white (under the microscope), 104 

 Amateur electrician, the, diagram of batteries, 333 

 Aristarchus and Herodotus (formations in the moon), 



122 

 Armatui'e, the, of the Brush dynamo-electric machine, 



24 

 Ascones and Leucones, diagrams, showing the 



structures of, 119 

 Asteroids, paths of the, 291 



Bee, abdomen of a, 267; fore-leg ol a, 267 



Bee, tip of the tongue of a, 217 



" Bottle," bichromate battery, figure of the, 273 



British Isles, France, &c., as seen from the sun in 



Avinter, 376 

 Biirgin dynamo-electric machine, four figures of the, 



390, 391 



Cahxation, the white (sea anemone), figures of, 89 



" Carrier," the (tricycle), 274 



Commercial sponge, the, 88 



Copernicus (ring-plain, with peaks in the moon), 86 



Curious phenomenon in the sky, sketch of a, 173 



Dahlia anemone, natural size, 305 

 Dahlia, the sea (sea anemone), 22 

 Drosera rotundifolia (under the microscope) , 104 



Earth, pretty proofs of the rotundity of the, 148 

 Earth, sun-views of the, 57, 121, 185,'245, 321, 377 

 Eclipse of last May, the, 363 

 Eratosthenes (one of the lunar Apennines) , 56 

 Esequibo Indian women, showing deficient bridge of 

 nose, want of waist, &c., 169 



Facvl.t: on limb of the sun, 179 

 Filtre rapide (Maignen's), sectional views of, 179 

 Flight of a vertical missile, diagram illustrative of, 10 

 Fuller cell, diagram showing the construction of a, 376 



Gassendi (mountain in the moon), 87 

 Girl, portraits of, at different a; 



the facial and cerebral regions, 137 

 Globigerina ooze, figure of (the Fisheries Exhibition), 8 

 Grantia compressa (a calcareous sponge), 124 

 " Gravity" Leclauch6 battery, 132 



Harvest moon, the, 156, KM 



Uedychium Gardnerianum, sketches showing the 



growth of pollen tubes in, lti3 

 Heritiera, minor (under the microscope), 104 

 Herodotus and Aristarchus (formations in the moon), 



123 

 Heteromita, figures illustrating the spores and the 



young of the (pleasant hours with the microscope) , 



18 

 Honey-bee, mouth organs of, 217 

 House-flies under the microscope, 71 

 Hull-down ship, view of a, 219 



lyniAK charm, sketch of, 183 



Lancelbt fish, the, 343 



Luehatze negro woman, profile of, showing deficient 

 nose and chin, 16S 



Nbgho, face of. showing flat nose, 168 

 Niagara, the whirlpool rapids, 153 

 Niagara falls, rapids and whirlpool, 72, 73 

 Nights ^vith a three-inch telescope, diagrams illus- 

 trative of, 258 



Obang-octang, sections of the skulls of, 136 



Pahasftic anemone, the, 259 



Paths of the asteroids, 291 



Polycy3tina(*'Barbadoes earth, "Fisheries Exhibition), 



40 

 Pons-Brooks, diagram of the comet of, 334 

 Pretty proofs of the earth's rottmdity, diagrams 



iflustrating, 275, 304 



Eadiolabia, drawings from living specimens of (the 



Fisheries Exhibition), 8 

 Rain-band spectroscope, figures illustrative of, 229,230 

 Rhabdoliths, figures of (the Fisheries Exhibition), 9 

 Rotundity of the earth, diagrams showing the, 68, 69, 



84, 85, 100,116, 117 



Satanta, portrait of late chief of the Kiowas (Texas), 

 169 



Saturn, view of, through a three-inch telescope, 319 ; 

 diagram showing motion of satellites of, 320 ; view 

 of, on November 23, 18S3, 366 



Saw-fly, the outer saw of a, 317 



Sea anemones, figures of, 89 



ShoebiU, the, 105 



Sponge, outer surface of, 88 ; diagram showing the de- 

 velopment of a, 123 



Spongiila fluriatilis, diagram of, 149 



Spongilla, hypothetical section ofa, 149 



Star-nosed mole, the, 343 



Sting of a bee, 317 



Stinging-nettle hair, under the microscope, 104 



Stm, spots on the, 178 ; diagram, 248 



Sun-views of Great Britain, three figures of, 184 



Sun-views of the earth, 57, 121, 185, 245, 321, 377 



Sweet-briar root, under the microscope, 104 



Thaites water at Richmond, diagrams of animal and 

 vegetable productions contained in, 180 



Three-inch telescope, nights with a, diagrams illus- 

 trative of, 258 



Totem, sketch of one from Western Indian tribes, 

 U.S.A., 183 



"Traveller," the (tricycle), 274 



Troglodytes, two figures of (sea anemones), 244 



Tubular live-box, parts of a (to show the actions of 

 insects), 368 



Tycho (crater in the moon), 56 



Vast sun-spots, photographs of, 200, 201 

 Venus 's flower-basket, siliceous skeleton of, 83 



Wasp, tongue of, 217 



Water from cistern, diagrams of diagnosis in, 180 



Whirlpool rapids, the Niagara (illustrated), 153 



Zinc plate for a Leclanchc cell, 132 



