July 25, 1S84.] 



* KNOWLEDGE 



Corre^pondpnce— roH'ixMtft/. 

 Earthquake, the, 3U 

 liarthqvmkfs from thedisturbance of the subterranean 



water distribution, 357 

 Earth, the rotundity of the, 336 

 Earth-tremors, 335 



Edinhurtih lievietc, the, and Sir, Spencer, 167 

 Eflfett produced by urowiog a coloured hyacinth in 



darkaesi), the, 211 

 Examination of the after-glow, the, 29 

 Extraordinarily low barometer, the, 90 



False alarm, a, 331 



False perspettive, 357 



False suns (illustrated), 133, 170 



Falsifving history, 375 



Fear of the unfarailiur, 117 



Fellowship of learned so< ioties, the, 89, 168 



Figure conjuring, 3'.t0 



First iuventtir of the telephone, the, 153, 170, 191 



Flesh and vegetttble food. 33G 



Flight ofa missile, the, 1!U 



Flint-folk'3 flood, the, 4S3 



Fretful pjrcuj iue, the, 210 



Front-steerini,' tricycle, 464 



Fruit-trees in Ireland, 251, 273 



Ghostly garments, 212 



Ghostly visitants, 151. 212 



Ghosts and goblins, 33i 



Glacial period, man in the. 251, 306 



Glow, spectrum of the, 335 



Goodwin Sands, the. and Tenterden steeple, 296, 378 



Grace, soectrosoope bv, 117 



Grand Caiion, the, 376 



Gravity, the mystery of. 357, 423 



Green sun, the, 29j in Hankow, 191 



Hatlstoxes, organisms in (illustrated), 423 

 Hankow, the green sun in. 191 

 Happiness, the morality of, 211 

 Heights above ami the depths below, the, 90 

 Herschel, Sir J., and the comet of 1862, 314 



IsiAGnTAKT false perspective (illustrated), -123 



Impression of tricycle tvres. 296 



Infants, the senses in, 77. 211 



Infinitr, 211, 274 ; transformation of an old poem on, 



335 

 Insects, the preservation of, 422 

 Invention of the telephone, the, 170, IRl 

 Ireland, the real enemies of, 132 ; fruit-trees in, 251, 



273 ; see also 399 



Japaxbsb carving, specimen of, 353 

 Japanese figures, 358 

 Japanese superstitions, 400 



KiST>LT thought, a, 191 

 Krakatoa and the coffee-plant, 210 



Lat>t-bikds. 77 



Large meteor, the, 30 



Large scale, perpetual motion on the, 47 



Learned societies, the, fellowships of, 89, 168 



Light, the polarisation of, 77 



Lightning, s-ilent, 47 



Log of the Deluge year, 46t 



Mas. brain of, 413, 4(i3 



Man in the glacial period, 251, 316 



Meal-worms. 275 



Meteor, the large, 33 (illustrated), 151 



Meteoric dust. 190 



Migration, 151 



Migration of birds, the, 47, 91 



Missile, flight of a, 191 



Mock moons and mock suns, 171 



Moon, a page from the past history of the, 250 



Morality of happiness, the. 211 



Morality, scientific, 251, 3lti, 353 



Mystery of gravity, the, 357, 423 



Xatioxal tricycles, the, 296 



Xests in cages, 47 



New Prineipia, the, 132, 150. 163 



Noah, the rainbow of, 410. 434, 485 



Notes on spectroscopic observations of comet Pons, 



296 

 Numbers, property of, 424 



OccuLTATiox of Veuus. the, 314 



Odd coineidenc?. an. 334 



Odds, question in, 30 



On curious stones found in Switzerland, 170 



Optical illusion, a singular (illustrated), 170, 191 



Optical phenomenon, 251 



Organisms in hailstones (illustrated), 423 



Orthopic (true-visionl, 295 



Otto tricycle, the. 487 



Owen, Mr., and the Bach incident, 294 



Pagk from the past historv of the moon, a, 250 



Parks, tricvclists and the/232 



Patent Act', the. 423, 164 



Pease-pudding. 488 



Perpetual motion on the large scale, 29, 47 



Perspective ot a cube, 400 ; see also 469 



Phenomenal voice, a, 359, 377 



Phenomenon, strange, 30, 60, 170, 171, 232 



Planetary curiosity, a, 77 



Planetiirv motions and the coDservation of enei^, 232 



Polarisation of light, the, 77 



Pons, eomet of, 76, 335 



Ponsbrook, the comet of, 14 



Porcupine, the fretful, 210 



Potato in Ireland, the, 315 ; and fruit-trees in, 335 



Presentiments and strange dreams, 219 



Preserving inserts, 122 



Prineipia, the New, 132. 150, 163 



Properlv of numbers, 42J 



*' Puir"*Dogirie, 376, 40 J 



Pyramid, the Great, 169 



QcBSTioN in odds, 30 



Rainbow of Noah, the, 410, 431, 485 



Ked glare, 104, lol 



Rel skies in America, 15 



Red skv-glow, the, 76 



Red sunsets at the Cape. 231 



Recalled impressions. 39S 



Recent earthquake, the, 4-13 



Remarkable fulfilment of a dream, 350 



Remarkable sunsets, the. li 



Rotundity of the earth, the, 336 



Ruskin, Mr., on modern storm-clouds, 104 



Saturn, 14 



Savage chromatics, 487 



Schmidt, lunar map by, 357 



Science of the dav, the, 29 



Scientific morality. 251. 31B. 358 



Senses in infants, the. 77, 211 



Sent to the lx)ttom, 463 



Severed head, ihe, can it think ? 357 ; see also 496 



Silent li,'^htning. 47 



Singular and sad coincidence. 37" 



Singular optical illusion, a (illustrated), 170 



Skv-glow, the. 47, 117 



Solar spots, 274 



Solution of cribba^e problems, the, 91 



Sound, the transmission of, 4'TO 



Sparkbrook, National, the. 191 



Spectroscope by Grace, 117 



Spectroscopic observations of comet Pons, notes on. 



296 

 Spectrum of the glow, 335 

 Spencer, Mr., and the Edinburgh Beviev^ 167 

 Sporting problem, a, 359 

 Squinting. 424 

 Strange coincidence, a. 30 ; s<*e also 212, 293, 315, S34, 



356, 376, 401, 422, 44.'?, 485 

 Strange dream, a, 170; abstract of, 170: see also 232, 



249, 393 

 Strange fish. 211 

 Strange incident, a, 336 

 Strange phenomenon, 30. 60. 170, 171, 232 

 Strange re>uscitation, 118. 231 

 Strange sunsets in Australia. 47 

 Sun, day-glow around the, 210 

 Sun, the colour of the, 29 

 Sun, the green, 29 

 Sunset-glow. 29. 335 

 Sun-spot (illustrated), 421 

 Sunsets, extraordinary, the, 14 

 Supematuralism. 249 

 Super-position, 399 

 Switzerland, on curious stones found in, 170 



Tamf, unconfined robins, 101 



Taurus and Orion, double stars in (illustrated), 14 



Telephone, the first inventor of the, 152. 170. 191 



Tenterden steeple and Goodwin Sands, 296, 378 



Thumb weakness, 353 



Tricycle, catching a ball, a, 378 



Tricvcle problem, an unsolved, 252, 357 : see also 290 



336 

 Tricycles, two-track machines, 393 

 Tricycle wheels. 60 

 Tricycling uphill, 113 

 Tricyclists and the parks. 232 

 Transmission of sound, the, 400 

 "Twinkle, twinkle, littl.* star" (authorship of the 



lines commencing), 296; see also 335, 373, 421 

 Tyres, impression of tricycle, 296 



rsTAiriLiAR, fear of the, 117 

 Unsolved tricycle problem, an, 252 



VALrE of the pieces at chess, 232 

 Variable and red stars in Cvgnus, 14 

 Vegetable and flesh food, 336 

 Vegetable diet, 211 

 Venns, the occultation of, 314 

 Vision, 232, 295, 357 



Wild fuchsia. 191 

 Winter, bicvcles in. 30 

 Wolfson r. Birley, 317 

 Works on botany, 150, 400 



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