INDEX. 



Abnormal memory, 211. 

 Accessible approaches to the Pole, 3-40. 

 Achromatic microscope, the Beck, 386. 

 Achromatic telescope, 179. 

 Acoustic telegraph, 79. 

 Actinia found at Clovelly, 441. 

 Action of sea-water on metals, 313. 

 Action of Venus on the Sun, 240. 

 Adjusting transits, new method of, 



316. 

 Adaptation of photography to wood 



engraving, 235. 

 Aerolites, falls of, 210, 216. 

 African or occidental negro, 393. 

 Agaricus, genus of, 47. 

 Agarics, ringless or excentric, 349. 

 Age at which the moon can be seen, 



240. 

 Aids to micro3cooic inquiry, No. 5, 



198. 

 Alloxantine acid, 109. 

 Alteutha bopyroides, 24. 

 Alteutha depressa, 23. 



Aluminium bronze axis, 316. 



Aluminium bronze, 14S. 



Amanita, dangerous fungi, 164. 



Ammonia, production of a vacuum by 

 means of, 237. 



Anatomy of the invertebrata, 98. 



Anglo-Saxon antiquities, 70. 



Aniline colours, aqueous solution of, 

 321. 



Animal life in other worlds, 91. 



Animalcules, 201. 



Animalcules in the winter, 118. 



Anomalocera Patersonii, 19, 26. 



Anthea cereus, 154. 



Anthropological Eeview, 228. 



Antipathies of dogs, 82. 



Antiquities of Hoy lake, 390. 



Antozone, 239. 



Aplodontia leporina, a rodent of North 

 America, 111. 



Apparent diameter of Sirius, 81. 



Appearance of new stars, 133. 



Application of compressed air to weav- 

 ing, 75 



Apterodytes Pennantii, 403. 



Aqueous solution of aniline colours, 

 321. 

 VOL. VII. — NO. VI. 



Arauciria, species of, 417. 



Arcii^ologf. — Smith's " Collectanea 

 Autiqua," 69 ; Anglo-Saxon burial, 

 70 ; Eoman potteries on the Med way, 

 70; excavations at Silchester, 71; 

 Roman salt works in Cheshire, 72 ; 

 the Deva of the Romans at Chester, 



152 ; Roman coins found at Jublains, 



153 ; Roman buildings in the Isle of 

 Wight, 230 ; tobacco pipes of seven- 

 teenth century, 232 ; kitchen-mid- 

 dens at Newhaven, 233 ; craunogs of 

 Scottish lakes, 233, 311 ; Roman 

 villa in the Isle of Wight, 233 ; 

 treasure trove, 307 ; Hoylake anti- 

 quities, 390 ; discoveries at Wetton, 

 Somersetshire, 391 ; Eoman potteries 

 at Durobrivoe, 456 ; Anglo-Saxon 

 masonry at Bosham, 471 ; Roman 

 lead-mine at Shelve Hill, 471 : tumu- 

 lus at Langton Wold, 472. 



Arctic expeditions, 348. 



Art subjects and their treatment, 359. 



Artificial islands, or crannogs in Scot- 

 land, 233. 



Arlis, the labours of, in archaeology, 

 457. 



Astronomy. — Astronomical notes for 

 observers, 49, 133, 179, 255, 467; 

 Lunar arctic region, Mare ITrigoris, 

 etc., 49 ; occultaiion of spectrum of 

 a fixed star, 74 ; diameter of Sirius, 

 81 ; Biela's comet, 81 ; life conditions 

 in other worlds, 87, 197; stool for 

 observations, 160 ; sun spots, 161 ; 

 Orion nebula, 161, 241 ; planet Mars, 

 162; auroral arches, 176, 377, 382; 

 achromatic telescope, 179 ; meteoric 

 astronomy, 208 ; age at which moon 

 can be seen, 240, 480 ; constitution 

 of the sun, 270 ; Dr. Draper's tele-, 

 scope, 36S ; disc of planet Venus, 

 401 ; colours of stars, 467 ; double 

 stars, 4S0 ; passage of dark body 

 across the sun, 482. 



Astronomy, meteoric, 20S. 



Astronomical notes, 133. 



Astronomical register, 228. 



Atmospheres of the planets, 88. 



Atomic weight of an element, 157. 

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