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♦ KNOWLEDGE ♦ 



[July 3, 1885. 



Reviews — conf'mued. 

 Vaccinatiow, the storv of a great delusion, by William 



White, 34 ' 



Vegetable and animiil life on our plobe, origin and 



reproduction of, by T. Spencer, 483 

 Voice, the, and etimulanta. by Lennox Browne, 377 

 Voice, the traiuing of a child's, by Emil Behuke and 



Lennox Browno, ;i77 

 Voyager's companion and adviser, by Henry J. 



Webber, 4S1 



Wab, state measures for prevention of, 33 

 Watch and clock-making, by David Glasgow, 2<U 

 Watches of the night, in the, by Mrs. Horace Dobell, 



420 

 Water, air, and ether, wave of translation in the 



oceans of, by John Scott Russell, 55 

 Water-colours, aiivanced studies of llower-painting in, 



by Ada Hanbury and others, 441 

 Water-colours, catalogue of Royal Society of Painters 



in, 441 

 Water, filtration of, and preventible diseases, by P. 



A. Maignen. Ill 

 Waterside sketches, by " Redspinner," 26f> 

 Weather and the moon, bv Walter L. Browne, 377 

 *' What the boy thought," 213 

 Wood-carving, edited by F. Miller, 213 

 Working-drawings, practical problems and lines for, 



48') 

 World's history, outline of the, by Edgar Sanderson, 



397 



Zoology, elementarv teit-book of, by Dr. C. Claus, 

 201 



CORRESPONDENCE. 



Adultkbation of drugs, the, 420 



America— and elsewhere, poliiics in, 17 



" Animals of the past and present," 554 



Anorthoscope, the, 115 



Answers to correspondents, 18, 38, 53, 96, 116, 138, 



160, 181, 203, 2i5, 246, 269, 291, 314. 334, 357, 330, 



401, 122, 415. 407, 490, 513, 533, 555 

 Argument, the philosophy of, 224 

 Atoms, the theory of, 34, 63, 94, 137 

 Atwood's machine, 290, 313 

 Automaton, a human, 95, 158 



BAWKBrPTCiEs in l^vSl, 71 



Beast-language, 4 6 



Beauty, evolution of the sense of, 401, 4-14 



Beauty, Hogarth on, 3!3, 333 



Bees and the colour of llowers, 333, 356 



Blood, the circulation of the, and Shakespeare, 115 



Body and mind, 114, 15li, 157. 173, 485 



Brain and mind, 113, 157, 202 (see also " the 

 Psychology of instinct," *' Omnipotence and free- 

 will," &o.) 



Brain, our dual, 17, 19, 74, 95, 114, 137, 158, 245, 239, 

 311, 466 



Brain, size of, and intellect, 332, 379 



Brilliant glow at midnight, 529 



Bubbles in a bath, &.c., 332 



Cambleopabd or Camelopard ? 333 



Chances, the doctrine of, 181, 225 



Charnwood forest, the geology of, 533 



Chromatics, the new, 224 



Chronometer-balance, a new (illustrated), 489 



Clock-face, a new, 95 



Clothes, the need for, 159, 2i3, 290 (see also " the 



Tone of Controversy," and *' the Xaked Truth "J 

 Coinage, a new decimal, 57 

 Coincidence, a, 415 

 Coins, wear of silver, 2G9 

 Colour, effects of, upon temperament, 401 

 Conception and images, 411; and sensation, 433 

 Consciousness, double, .'ill 

 Controversy, the tone of, 216 (see also " the Need for 



Clothes ") 

 Cookery for schools, 159 

 Correspondents, answers to, 13, 38, 58, 96, 116, 138, 



160, 181, 203, 225, 246, 269, 291, 314, 334, 357, 330, 



401, 422. 445, 467, 490, 513, 533 

 Cosmical movements, 512 

 CroU and the beginning of life, 179 

 Cromlech'!, 37, 64, 115 

 Crystal soda, the manufactore of, 421 

 Cuckoos, 512 



Dabttinism, conventional, 466, 487; ia it doubtful? 



511,553; the weak point of, 531 

 Death-watch, the, 351 



Decapitation, movement of head after, 246 

 •'De Gustibus" (illustrated), 422, 489,533 (see also 



*' Taste in Desitrn ") 

 Dermestes lardarius, the, 533 

 Design, taste in (illustrated), 355, 421, 439, 633 

 Development, 466, 1m7, 511 

 Dickens's story left half told, 16, 159 

 Double-consciousness, 511 

 Drugs, the adulteration of, 420 

 " Dry-eartli " system, the, 291, 334, 379 

 Dual brain, our, 17, 18, 74, 95, 114, 137, 153, 245, 239, 



Sll. 466 

 Duck, oil-glands of the, 533 

 Dynamics, Williamson's and Tarliton's, 29 >, 313 



Eabth and the moon, past and future of the, 510, 55 



Earthquake in England, an, 74 



" Ease 'er — stop 'er ! " 512 



Eclipsed moon, ruddy appearance of the, 400, 465, 



509, 553 (see also " Lunar Glow ") 

 Egoism, theism, and cosmism, 2J3 (see also '* The 



Sentient World," " Falbtcy of Materialism," 



*' Hylo-idealism," " Mind and Matter," &c.) 

 Electroplating, 74 



Eliot, George (criticisms on) , 467, 488, 530 

 English language, purity of the, 512 

 Evolution, 511, 530; Mr. Thomas's and Darwin's, 551 ; 



versxs natural selection,^ 178, 225, 289, 460, 437 



(see also " development ") 

 Eye-opener, an, 465 

 Eye the only colour-box, 17 



Flatland, a question from, 115, 137 

 Floating dome of the Nice Observatory, 510 

 Flowers, the colours of, and beea, 333, 356 

 Friction, 138, 159 

 "Fullioside," 401 



Gas-burnbb, a self-lighting, 38 

 Generic images, 438 

 Gesture-language, 466 

 Glow, brilliant, at midnight, 529 



Haeckel on mind, 553 



Head, growth of the, 245; movement of, after decapi- 

 tation, 246 



Hogarth on beauty (illustrated), 313, 333 



Human automaton, a, 95, 158 



Hydraulic l-. " dry-earth " systems, 379 



Hydrophobia in winter, 246 



Hvlo-ideabsm, 158, 22J, 421 (see also " The Sentient 

 World," "Matter," " Fwllacy of Materialism," 

 " Egoism, Theism, and Cosmism," &c.) 



Hylo-phenomenology i\ ontology, 158, 223, 421 (see 

 also as above) 



Idealism, 530 



Idio-centricism, 421 



Images and conceptions, 414, 483 



Immortality, is it a fiction ? 510 ; and memory, 530 



Infinite, great, and small, 510, 553 



Infinity, 312 (see also *' Ultra-gas ") 



Inscribed rocks (illustrated), 131, 215, 332, 379 



Instinct or reason H 51 1 



Instinct, the psychology of, 113, 157,202,312 (see also 

 "Brain and Mind," •* Omnipotence and free- 

 will," &c.) 



Intellect and size of brain, 332, 379 



lutellect, the, in instinct and reason, 312, 



Intellectual capacity of woman, the, 379 



Invention, what is an, 37 



Jewish 

 Jupiter 8 



marriages with Christians, the fertility of, 245 

 8 IV'th satellite, d^rk transit of, 378, 420 



KiNNS, Mr., to oblige, 16 



Knowledge, the scope of, 4-15 ; what may be got from, 

 333 



Language, the use of bad, 354 



Language, tiiought and, 137, 158, 420, 466 



Left-handedness, 289 



Life in other worlds, -443 



Lite, the beginnmg of, and CroU, 179 



Lunar glow, 221, 553 (see also " Ruddy Eclipsed 



Moon") 

 Lunes, 552 



Maebiage of Jews with Christians, the fertility of, 

 215 



Mars, the theory of life in, 413 



Materialism, the fallacy of, 179, 223, 268 (see also 

 " The Sentient World," " Hylo-idealism," &c.) 



Matter, 33, 57, od, 94, 157 ; the end of, and the begin- 

 ning of mind, 114, 115, 158, 178-9, 223, 268, 312, 

 355, 401, 421 (see also "The Sentient World," 

 " Hylo-idealism," &.c.) 



Matter requiring reflection, 401, 444, 610, 553 



Matter, the immanence of life in, 553 



Mean-time, sundials for, 224, 290, 465 



Memories, early, 530 



Memory and immortality, 530 



Meteors, observations of, 332, 378 



Midnight, brilliant glow at, 529 



Mind and body, 114, 156-7, 178, 188; and brain, 157, 

 202 (see also " Psychology and instinct," *' Omni- 

 potence and free-will ") 



Mind, Ha=<kel on, 553 



Miad, the beginning of, and the end of matter, 114, 

 158, 178, K12, 355 (see also "The theory of 

 atoms," •'Sentient world," " Hvlo-idealism," 

 &c.) 



Monoliths, inscriptions on (illustrated), 181, 245, 332, 

 379 



Moon and the earth, past and future of the, 510, 

 552 



Moon, the ruddy eclipsed 400, 485, 509, 553 



*' Mystery of Edwin Drood," the, 16, 159 



Myth, the Origin of, 37, 91, 159 



Naked truth, the, 290 (see also "Clothes, the need 

 for ") 



OBacuBUU facere per obscurius, 91i 

 Observatory at Nice, floating dome of the, 510 



Oil-glands of the duck, 533 



Omnipotence and free will, 2t2 (see also " Peychology 

 of Instinct," " Brain and Mind," 4c.) 



Pabadox, a, 533 



Parhelion, b78 



Parrot, a carnivorous, -W 



Phosphorescence, 533 



Pboto-miingraphy, 181 



Phreno-cosmism and realism, 203 (see also Hylo- 

 idealism," &c.) 



Plants, the growth of, 263; the natural conversion 

 and extinction of, 333 



Politics in America— and elsewhere, 17 



Prehistoric sepulture, 37, 71, 115 



Psychologicdl research, the Society for, 75 



Peychologvof instinc% the, 113. 157, 302 (see also 

 " Omnipotence and free-will," " Bram and 

 mind," jcc.) 



Punctuation and printers' errors, 512 



" Pure well of English undefiled," the, 512 



Rainfall, 355 



Kellection, 553 



Religion and Knoiclcdge, 4-15 



Rocks, inscriptions on (illustrated), 181, 245, 332, 379 



Euddy moon, the, during eelip;e, 4*30, 465, 5i:9, 553 



Salamandbes, 268 



Sea-serpent, the (illustrated), 555 



Sensation and conception, 488 



Sentient world, the, 57, 115 (See also *' Matter," 



" Hylo-idealism," &c.) 

 Sepulture, prehistoric, 37, 74, 115 

 Shakespeare and the circulation of the V.ood, 115 

 Silver L-oins, the wear of, 269 

 Skin, cooling action of the, 332 

 Sky and weather, -141 

 Soda, manufacture of crystal, 421 

 Solar halo, 415 

 Spirit and body, 157 

 Spirited appeal, a, 75 

 Sun, a central, the existence of, 332 

 Sundials for mean-time, 224, 290, 465 

 Sunspot, the recent great, 57, (illustrated) 553 



Taste in design (iUastrated), 355,421,439,533 (see 

 also *' De Gustibus ") 



Tea, the effect of, 18 



Temperament, the eSect of colour on, 401 



Termites. 203, 225, 465 ; and natural selection, 554 



Thermo-Chemistrv, 181 



Thought and language, 137, 153, 420, 466 



Tiiought— is it an Entity? 433, 530 (see also "Body 

 and Mind," "Psychology of Instinct," "Omni- 

 potence and Free-will," &c.) 



Thought-reading, 422, 487, 511, 531 



Time-keeping of the future, a new clock-face for, 95 ; 

 a suggestion respecting, 269 



Tripe and onions, are these objective or subjective? 

 312, 355 (see also "Matter," "Hylo-idealism," 

 &c.) 



Tricycles, the merits of tandem, 355, 445 



Ultba-gas, 269, 465, 437, 531 (see also "Infinity") 

 Universe exterior to ourselves, the existence of, 268, 



312 

 Universe, the scientific rationale of the, 421 



Vegetables r. meat, 13, 115 

 Vital force, 529 

 Vivisection, 239, 355 



Wave measurement, 398, 443 



Weather, the sky and, 444; foreeastiog the, ISO 



Weights and measures act, the, 57 



" What man has done," 180 



Woman's intellectual capacity, 379 



Worlds, Hfe in other, 413 



Zodiacal light, the, 17 



MISCELLANEA. 



Academy, royal, rejected paintings at the, 93 



Acrostic loto, an instructive game, 35 



Aerolite, death caused by, 198 



Aeronsutical exhibition, an, 136 



Air laden with bacteria, 240 



Air, purer, and more light, 76 



Alltany, Duchess of, portraits of, 267 



Ah-yf, burning of the, 54 



Alexandra palace, re-opening of the, 292 



Ammoniaphone concert, an, 527 



Ancient monuments, papers on, 403 



Anthracite coal-trade in the United States, 395 



Anthropological institute, meetings of the, 183, 238, 

 403, 432 



Arts, society of : awards of, 267 ; results of examina- 

 tions, 478 



Asbestos fireproof paint, note on, 551 



Aurora borealis : fine display of, 241 ; issue of work 

 on, 357 



Australasia in 1833, population of, 133 



Bactehia in the air, development of, 340 

 Balloon, captive, at Suakim, 310 

 Belgian iron, cheap conveyance of, 113 

 Bennet-Maekay cables, the, 96 



