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Index. 



Auroral arcli of March 20th, 1865, as 



seen in Ireland, 377, 382. 

 Auroral arches, 176. 

 Australian satin bird, 102. 

 Australian lyre bird, 14. 

 Axolotls in Paris, 402. 



Bareows and cairns in Scotland, 312. 



Bears of the Himalaya, 429. 



Biela's comet, 81. 



Birds of London, 167. 



Blackbirds, 173. 



Black partridge, 233. 



Boiler explosions, 28. 



Bond's discovery in the Orion Nebula, 

 241. 



Botany. — Vegetable hybrids, 11 ; ger- 

 mination of fern spores, 32 ; notes 

 on fungi, 45, 163, 349 ; fossil equise- 

 tum in gneiss, 242 ; age of chestnut 

 and oak trees, 357; the genus Arau- 

 caria, 417; influence of forests on 

 climate, 448. 



Bower of the satin bird, 102. 



Bradwell, its antiquities, 152. 



Brief history of a river tank, 38. 



British oceanic entomostraca, 18. 



Browning's spectroscope burner, 82. 



Building in Chester, 152. 



Bunsen battery improved, 238. 



Cesium, the new metal, 80. 



Calanidse, 19. 



Calanus Clausii, 25. 



Calanus anglicus, 25. 



Calcareous skeleton or shell of Eozoon, 

 291. 



Caloric engine, 238. 



Cambrian strata, 281. 



Canadian naturali~st and geologist, 388. 



Capacity of animals for domestication, 

 393. 



Capillary attraction, application of, 476. 



Caravan of Hadjis, 251. 



Cellular physiology, 199. 



Cementation, new method of, 318. 



Cetochilus septentrionalis, 24. 



Chalk districts of England, 315. 



Chemical and physical constitution of 

 the stars and nebulae, 396. 



Chemical Society, 234. 



Chemistry. — Ketarded ebullition, 28 ; 

 uric acid and its derivatives, 108 ; 

 mode of determining atomic weights, 

 157 ; physiological effects of carbonic 

 acid, 157 ; action of silicate of soda 

 on cotton, 234 ; dissociation of sul- 

 phurous acid, 240 ; diffusion of cry- 

 stallized substances through the body, 

 241 ; modified sulphur, 241 ; action 

 of sea-water on metals, 313 ; com- 



position of nitrogen, 320 ; solution of 

 aniline colours, 321 ; chemical con- 

 stitution of stars and nebula?, 396 ; 

 waterproofing by paraffine, 399 ; pre- 

 servation of iron by phosphorus, 400 ; 

 liquefied hydrochloric acid gas, 473 ; 

 new constant .battery, 475 ; purifica- 

 tion by electricity, 476 ; reproduction 

 of drawings by action of mercury on 

 a silvered plate, 476 ; erasine, 477 ; 

 properties of nitric acid, 480. 



Chester, its antiquities, 152. 



Chestnut tree, age of, 357, 358. 



Chilian pines, 417. 



Chilukweyuk river, North American 

 scenery of, 111. 



Chloride of silver applied to photo- 

 graphy, 400. 



Chloride of aluminium, 80. 



Ohromatium found nearHighgate Arch- 

 way, 99. 



Cladocera, 19. 



Climate, how influenced by forests, 448. 



Climate on the Nile, 10. 



Clock, simple, 236. 



Clovelly, scenes and characteristics of, 

 437. 



Coffee, use of, in cretinism, 402. 



Colours of Cor Caroli, 398. 



Colour of the stars, 274, 467. 



Colours seen clearly at a distance, 438. 



Comet, Biela's, 81. 



Commercial habits of Hadjis, 250. 



Conscription in Egypt, 326. 



Constant battery, 475. 



Construction of a reflecting telescope, 

 368. 



Convent dwelling Dervishes, 247. 



Copepoda, 19. 



Copying crystals, new method, 144. 



Cor Caroli, colours of, 398. 



Cornea of the insect eye, objects viewed 

 throxtgh the, 356. 



Corycseus anglicus, 24. 



Cosmogony, or principles of terrestrial 

 physics, 227. 



Cost of living in Sweden, 306. 



Cottages in Egypt, 327. 



Cotton seed oil, 80. 



Crannoges, or lake habitations, 311. 



Crisian sea, light streaks in the, 322. 



Cristatella mucedo, 83. 



Crocodiles in the Nile, 7. 



Crystals, microscopic, 108. 



Crystal patterns on glass and porcelain, 

 79. 



Crystals, resemblance of, to lower 

 forms of vegetable life, 109. 



Dactxlopus tisboides, stromii, etc., 22. 

 "Dancing Dervishes, 245. 



