INDEX. 



Phoenix dactylifera, 52. 



Plante, Gaston, on earth's Cosmical Elec 



tricity, 40-44. 

 on electrical storage, 42. 

 Plate of Rain -band, or watery vapour 



band spectra, 32, 33. 

 Porto Santo, 5. 



Portugal, suzerain power over Madeira, 56, 

 Portuguese, noble little nation, 64. 



servants in Madeira, 57. 

 Pressure and temperature, 9, 20, 21. 

 Psalm cvii., iv. 



Quinta do Corvalho, 8, 36, 67. 



R 



Rain -band, spectroscopic, II, 25-27, 32, 



33, 67-70, 74, 75, 77. 

 Rainfall at four stations, 24. 



depths of, Tables, 74-78. 

 Records of general science, 16. 

 Rocks of Madeira, Frontispiece, 4, 38. 



Siemens, Dr. C. W., on the conservation 

 of energy in the 

 sun, 48. 

 on watery vapour, 



49- 

 Werner, on the dust of the 



desert, 48. 

 Simoom, 34. 

 Sirocco, 34. 

 South African arid climate, and discussions 



on, 62. 



Sowing tree-seeds in untoward climates, 62. 

 Spanish Armada, 7, 55. 

 Stokes, Professor, on Aurora, 41, 43. 

 Strelitzia, 53. 

 Sun spots, 45-47. 



Tables of Meteorological Journals, 67 73. 

 - of Mean Meteorology, annual, of 



Stations, 74-78. 



Tebbutt's great comet, 47. 



Teneriffe, climate of, 29. 



dryness of Peak, above the clouds, 

 59- 



Thompson, Professor Silvanus, on elec- 

 tricity and magnetism, 41. 



Thomson's, Sir Wyville, Voyage of the 

 Challenger, 29, 30, 60. 



Til tree, or Laurus fattens, 7, 54. 



Trees the cause or the consequence of 

 watery vapour and rain ? 61, 62. 



Vega, Voyage of the, 46. 

 "Vinhaticos, tall," 7. 



W 



Watery vapour, n, 22, 23, 28, 56. 



of several islands, 27-29. 

 source of Madeira's abun- 

 dant, 30-32. 

 Western dry sides of southern hemisphere's 



sub-tropical continents, 62, 63. 

 White, Robert, sage writer on Madeira, 13, 



9, 53- 



Wind, direction of, at four stations, 24, 25, 

 -67-78. 



mean force of, at four stations, 24, 25. 

 Woodcuts of remarkable cloud, 37, 50. 



Year, Cycle of, 13, 20, 29, 74-78. 



Zargo, Joao Gonzalves, 5 6, 54. 



Printed by R. & R. CLARK, Edinburgh. 



