INDEX. 



Absorption of obscure heat, 240. 



Abyssinian expedition, 227. 



Action of electric current on the Mi- 

 mosa pudica, 146. 



Action of green light on plants, 240. 



Active wheel cilia, 290. 



Africa, eastern coast, 229. 



Agaricus, 20. 



Agricultural implements found in 

 Prance, 236. 



Agricultural products of Abyssinia, 233. 



Air columns, 46. 



Air-vesicles of Bladderworts, utricu- 

 laria, 207. 



Alchemilla alpina, 25. 



Aluminium bronze, 152. 



Amiens gravel, 395. 



Ammodytes tobianus, 252. 



Anatomy of thysanura, 239. 



Ancient ornaments, 310. 



Andromeda, 379. 



Anemometer, new, 392. 



Anglo-Saxon remains, 459. 



Animal life in Himalayas, 132. 



Animal oxidation, 88. 



Annelids, structure of, 266, 365. 



Annuloida, 296. 



Antiquarian relic at Andover, 310. 



Ant's eggs, 322. 



Apennines, lunar, 274. 



Aphrodita aculeata, 272. 



Arbroath Abbey, 26. 



AscHiEOiiOGi-iA. — Archaeological asso- 

 ciated bodies, 148 ; tumulus at 

 Thruxton, 149 ; Roman pottery at 

 Thruxton, 149 ; excavations at 

 Wroxeter, 149 ; Roman city of Tlri- 

 conium, 149 ; Wigmore Abbey, 150; 

 grave-mounds of Derbyshire, 180, 

 254, 342, 459 ; Celtic period, 181 ; 

 barrows, 182; sepulchral urns, 185, 

 344 ; stone cists, 186 ; chambered 

 tumuli, 187 ; Blackmore Museum, 

 233 ; Roman lead mining, Roman 

 work, 234 ; Stonehenge, 235 ; stones 

 of Stenness, 235 ; Roman town in 

 Prance, 233 ; agricultural imple- 

 ments, 236 ; sepulchral interments, 

 236 ; sepulchral deposits of Roman 

 period, 236 ; flint implements, 254 ; 

 arrow and spear-heads and dagger- 

 blades, 254; flint knives, 256; stone 

 implements, 256; jet articles, an- 

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cient, 257 ; bone implements, 258 ; 

 bronze implement, 258 ; skeletons, 

 258 ; bronze daggers, 259 ; pottery, 

 Celtic, 260, 348 ; cinerary urns, 260 ; 

 food vessels, 260 ; drinking cups, 

 260 ; incense cups, 260 ; sepulchral 

 urn, 261 ; Roman station at Vin- 

 domis, 310 ; Yorkshire barrows, 



310 ; skeletons in Yorkshire, 310 ; 

 bronze ornaments, 310 ; armlets 

 and necklaces, 311 ; Roman road, 



311 ; Roman antiquities, 311'; 

 Cheshire archaeological produce, 



312 ; flint implements, 312 ; Ro- 

 man coins, 312 ; Saxon beads, 

 312 ; excavations at Wroxeter, 312 ; 

 Birmingham of Roman Britain, 

 312 ; intaglio, 312 ; Roman coins, 



313 ; coins of Tetricus, 313 ; Roman 

 roads, 342 ; pigs of lead, 342 ; armour 

 in tumuli, 344 ; ornaments in bronze, 

 iron, and silver, 345 ; iron knives, 

 345 ; coins in Derbyshire, 347 ; 

 beads, 348 ; Roman pottery, 348 ; 

 Roman cemeteries, 349 ; Roman 

 Salopian ware, 350. 



Arctic fox, 364. 



Ariadeeus, second great cleft, 96. 



Arid countries prevent rain, 337. 



Armlets, and necklaces, 311. 



Armour interred with skeletons in tu- 

 muli, 344. 



Arrow and spear-heads, and dagger- 

 blades, 254, 460. 



Arthropodes, 270. 



Asplanchna, 287. 



Astronomy. — Notes on star streams, 

 1 ; milky way, 1 ; section of galactic 

 nebula, 4 ; stream formations, 8 ; 

 clustering in the milky way, 10 ; rolls 

 of stars, 11 ; streams of light, 12 ; 

 stippling, 12 ; doubts and facts con- 

 cerning Linne, 36 ; new crater, 36 ; 

 shallow crater, 37; observations on 

 Linne, 39 ; Wolf on Linne, 40 ; 

 Mare Vaporum and the lunar clefts, 

 52 ; cracks or rills, 52 ; supposition 

 of life in Moon negatived, 55 ; 

 absence of noticeable atmosphere in 

 the Moon, 55 ; meteoric appearances, 

 80 ; Mars during the late opposition, 

 81 : colours of Mars, 82 ; undis- 

 covered satellite, 85 j lunar clefts, 



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