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Index. 



Pigeons in the City, 168. 



Pigeons of Egypt, 328. 



Pigmy owl, 409. 



Pink monads and their enemies, 95. 



Planetary nebula, 141. 



Plants, respiration of, 480. 



Plastic wood, 318. 



Pointing of needles and pins by elec- 

 tricity, 78. 



Polar pack, length and width of, 342. 



Pontella brevicornis, 27. 



Pontella Wollastoni, 27. 



Pontellidse, 19. 



Popular microscope, 65. 



Posidonius, 49, 54. 



Potteries of the Romans in Britain, 456. 



Practical chemistry, 388. 



Preserving iron, 399. 



Preserving specimens of fungi, 48. 



Principle of heat, or " Phlogiston," 208. 



Probable inhabitants of the Polar 

 Eegions, 338. 



Progress of invention, 75, 142, 235, 

 318, 399. 



Properties of muscular tissue, 242. 



Public Schools, calendar for 1865, 228. 



Pump, simplification of, 78. 



Pycnogons, development of, 191. 



Railway over Mont Cenis, 142. 

 Rain, distribution of, over the British 



Isles during 1864, 387. 

 Respiratory diving apparatus, 79 

 Results of meteorological observations 



made at Kew Observatory, 264. 

 Resuscitation of snails, 321. 

 Retarded ebullition, boiler explosions, 



28. 

 River life on the Nile, 5. 

 River tank, brief history of, 38. 

 Rivers, how influenced by forests, 449. 

 Rhizopods, winter animalcules, 120. 

 Rock cut sepulchres, 6. 

 Rodents found in North-West America, 



111. 

 Roman buildings in the Isle of Wight, 



230. 

 Roman potteries, 456. 

 Roman remains at Andoversford, 392. 

 Roman remains at Winchester and 



Bishopstoke, 392. 

 Roman remains at Wetton, 391. 

 Roman settlement at Southfleet, 71. 

 Roman tiles at Berkeley, 312. 

 Roman villa in the Isle of Wight, 233. 

 Roman walled station at Larcay, 152. 

 Romer, a lunar ring mountain, 52. 

 Rooks in the City, 171. 

 Russian explorations, 334. 



Satin or shining bower bird, 102. 



Sea, phosphorescence of, 481. 



Sea and river-side rambles in Victoria, 

 387. 



Secchi and Herschel on the " willow 

 leaves " in the sun, 402. 



Secchi and Faye on the sun, observa- 

 tions by Chacornac, 272. 



Self-acting apparatus for steering, 236. 



Self-registering thermometer, 319. 



Serpentine marble of Tyree, 297. 



Shelve Hill, lead mine at, 471. 



Shooting stars, 211. 



Sidereal chromatics, 276, 468. 



Signs used by deaf and dumb persons, 

 453. 



Silicate of soda, action of, on cotton, 234. 



Siliceous valve of the Diatomacese, 93. 



Silurian system, 279. 



Siluridfe, nest-making fish, 261, 



Silvering mirrors, 239. 



Simple clock, 236. 



Simple forms of life, 198. 



Simple vegetable forms, 202. 



Simplified opthalraoscope, 242. 



Simplified pump, 237. 



Sirius, apparent diameter of, 81. 



Spectroscope and microscope, 482. 



Skull of the ou-ka-la, an American Ro- 

 dent, 114. 



Smith Sound route to the Pole, 344. 



Snails, resuscitation of, 321. 



Softening photographs, 239. 



Solar observations, 138. 



Solar disc, dark bodies on, 482. 



Soldiers, economic value of food for, 

 314. 



Sounds we canuot hear, 413. 



Source of theine, 402. 



Sparrows in the City, 169. 



Spectroscopes for direct vision, 444. 



Species of fungi, 47. 



Spheniscus demersus, 405. 



Spectroscopes, new, 401. 



Spectroscope burner, 82. 



Spectroscope and microscope combined, 

 322. 



Spontaneous generation, 482. 



Spontaneous generation, report on, 241 



Spots on the sun, 270, 272. 



Spotted bower bird, 103. 



Star colours, 274. 



Stars and nebulas, constitution of, 396. 



Star-fishes, to preserve, 480. 



Starlings, 174. 



Statoblasts, winter eggs of polyzoon, 84.. 



Steam and air engine, 80. 



Steel railway plates, 478. 



Stereoscopic maps of mountainous 

 countries, 235. 



Sticklebacks and other nest-making 

 fish, 259. 



