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Index. 



Geological position of Eozoon, 278. 



Geology and history, 388. 



Geology. — Fossils of Gibraltar, 234 ; 

 fossil Equisetumin gneiss, 212 ; his- 

 tory of Eozoon Canadense, 278 ; chalk 

 districts of England, 315 ; formaiion 

 of English Channel, 473 ; Weald and 

 Med way deposits, 474. 



Germination of fern spores, 32. 



Gesture language, 451. 



Gesture language used by savages, 455. 



Glanis, a nest-making fish, 261. 



Glaucidium gnoma, 409. 



Gneiss, fossil Equisetum in, 242. 



Gold currency in India, 252. 



Gold fish in tanks, 42. 



Grey partridge, 223. 



Habits of infusoria, 119. 



Habits of the Ou-ka-la, 116. 



Hadji pilgrims, 248. 



Hail storm, great, 481. 



Harmonious maxims of science and 



religion, 149. 

 Harpacticiis chelifer, 23. 

 Harpaetidse, 19. 

 Hassars, nest-making fish, 262. 

 Heat and light, experimental proof of 



the identity of, 321. 

 Heat, application of, in mining, 477. 

 Heat considered as a mode of motion, 



229. 

 Hersilia apodiformis, 23. 

 Himalaya Mountain, bears of, 429. 

 Homes without Hands, 227, 389. 

 How to use the barometer, 389. 

 Huggins on the Orion Nebula, 161. 

 Human Toice, compass of, 415. 

 Huronian strata, 281. 

 Hybrids, vegetable, aud their progeny, 



11. 

 Hydrochloric acid gas, 473. 

 Hygrometer, 402. 

 Hystero-demonopathy in Savoy, 374. 



Ichthyophorba denticornis, hamata, 



etc., 91, 26. 

 Infusoria, natural history of, 118. 

 Insect metallurgists, 241. 

 Instinct of birds, 221. 

 Intere.ting discovery made at JSTorth- 



wich, 72. 

 Inventive drawing, 149. 

 Invisible radiation of electric light, 161. 

 Iron, new mode of preserving, 399. 



Jackass penguin, 405. 



Jaquard loom, improvement of, 239. 



Kaleidoscope, the diffraction, 127. 

 Kane's, Dr., expedition, 336. 



Kew Observatory meteorological obser- 

 vations, 58. 

 Kilns of the Roman potteries, 458. 

 King parrot, 103. 

 King penguin, history of, 403. 



Lacus Somniorum, 52. 

 Langton Wold, tumulus at, 472. 

 Language expressed by gestures and 



words, 451. 

 Latitudes attained by Dutch -whalers, 



333. 

 Lead mine at Shelve Hill, 471. 

 Leg of the ostrich, 320. 

 Le Monnier, 53. 



Lepidoptera feeding on ferns, 178. 

 Lepiota, fungi with universal veil, 165. 

 Lie berk uhn, new, 482. 

 Life conditions in other worlds, 87, 197. 

 Light streaks in the Crisian sea, 322. 

 Lime light, 147. 



Lines of dislocation in the sun, 273. 

 Liquefied gases, 473. 

 Literary notices, 227. 

 Lithic acid, process of obtaining uric 



or, 108. 

 London birds, 167. 

 Lucifer matches, 145. 

 Lunar Arctic Kegion, 49. 

 Lunar Taurus and Argieus, occupations, 



255. 

 Lyre bird, Australian, 14. 



Magnesium light applied to medicine, 

 239. 



Magnesium wire, 148. 



Magnet, electro, 82. 



Magnetism, new soui'ce of, 477. 



Man considered socially, and morally, 

 388. 



Manchester Philosophical Society, 235. 



Mare Frigoris, 49. 



Marine tanks, 45. 



Mars, its atmosphere, 88. 



Mars, Professor Phillips on, 162. 



Mendicant Dervishes, 246. 



Metallic coating, so as to produce a 

 white surface, 145. 



Meteoric astronomy, 208. 



Meteorites, 217. 



Meteorological observations made at 

 Kew Observatory, 58. 



Meteor observed at sea, 159. 



Meteors, 209. 



MiCEOScopr. — Popular microscope, 

 65 ; cells for mounting objects, 82 ; 

 Cristatella mucedo, 83 ; transmitted 

 illumination and structure of diatom 

 valve, 93 ; pink monads, 95 ; micro- 

 scopic crystals, 108 ; animalcules in 

 winter, 118 ; development of pycno- 



