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Index. 



Combination of horse and steam power 

 for locomotives on ordinary roads, 

 151. 



Comet III., 1867, 479. 



Component parts of Para pottery bark, 

 51. | 



Conchoecia, 128. 



Conchoeciadse, 115, 128. 



Condensation of vapour, 333. 



Configuration of galactic nebula, 6. 



Conocbilus, 284. 



Constellation Lyra, 376. 



Constellation-seasons, 78. 



Constitution of sun and stars, 159. 



Contour and elevation of a country 

 affecting the quantity of rain, 336. 



Copernican theory, 318. 



Copernicus, 370. 



Copernicus, lunar, 274. 



Cosmical origin of shooting stars, 

 191. 



Cosmopolites of India, 18. 



Court of Exchequer, 297. 



Craters in the moon, 370. 



Crawling rotifers, 284. 



Cremation, 184, 344. 



Cross-fox fur, 358. 



Crustacea, 113. 



Cry of the barbet, 242. 



Crustacean fauna of the English lakes, 

 417. 



Cuirassiers rotifers, 288. 



Curassones, 245. 



Curiosities of sound, 42. 



Curious conformation of cliff architec- 

 ture, 32. 



Currency system of Japan, 17. 



Cuticle of the fish, 248. 



Cygni, 376. 



Cylindroleberis, 127. 



Cypridte, 114, 



Cypridinidse, 115, 127. 



Cvridopsis, 117. 



Cythere, 120. 



Cytherella, 129. 



Cytherellicte, 116, 129. 



Cytheridea, 114, 120, 122. 



Cytherideis, 125. 



Cytheropsis, 122. 



Cytheropteron, 124. 



Cytherura, 124. 



Dagger-blades in Derbyshire, 254. 



Dark tracts near Sinus iEstuum, 375. 



Darwinian theory of the transmutation 

 of species, 384. 



Davy's Lamp, 473. 



Day view of Venus with small tele- 

 scope, 399. 



Debra Tabor, Abyssinia, 231. 



Derbyshire grave-mounds, 180, 254, 

 342, 459. 



Difference in the quality of the flesh of 



a sea and fresh -water 'salmon, 109. 

 Digestive apparatus of rotifers, 294. 

 Digestive organs of annelids, 271. 

 Dingy shears moth, 328, 

 Discoveries of antiquities in Great 



Britain, 201. 

 Double stars, 375. 

 Doubts and facts concerning Linne, 



36. 

 Drawings of Mars, as seen through a 



telescope, 81. 

 Dress in olden times, 169. 

 Drinking cups, 260. 

 Dujardin's free swimmers, 287. 

 Dum-dum collection of fungi, 18. 



Earth-boeeb, 323. 



Eccentricity of the earth's orbit, 62. 



Echoes, 44. 



Economic production of formic ether 

 on the large scale, 74. 



Effect of temperature on metallic 

 bodies, 300. 



Efforts of human agency in modifying 

 the earth's surface, 66. 



Egg membrane or shell, 325. 



Egg3 of epiornis, 240. 



Eggs of insects, 32. 



Eggs of rotifers, 283. 



Egyptian land surveying, 480. 



Electric condition of different parts of 

 the earth, 154. 



Electric current, action on sensitive 

 plant, 146. 



Electrical countries, and their action 

 on the weather, 134, 411. 



Electricity and vegetation, 399. 



Electricity, application of, to sensitive 

 plants, 147. 



Electricity, new application of, 153. 



Electro-capillary current in plants, 400. 



Electro-magnetism applied to manu- 

 facture of iron, 151. 



Emerald volute moth, 329. 



Entomology. — Insects' eggs, their 

 structure, variety, and beauty, 321 ; 

 Lepidopterous, 321 ; care of insects 

 in depositing eggs, 321 ; cockroaches' 

 eggs, 322 ; ant eggs, 322 ; queen 

 bees' eggs, 322 ; silkworms' eggs, 

 322; goat moths' eggs, 322; Cole- 

 opterous insects' eggs, 322 ; burying 

 beetles' eggs, 322 ; Scaraboeida, 323; 

 earth borer, 323 ; formation of eggs, 

 chemical constituent of eggs, 324 ; 

 egg membrane shell, 325 ; Coccus 

 persica?, 326 ; Phryganea eggs, 326 ; 

 coccus eggs, 327 ; ova of crus- 

 taceans, 327 ; mottle umber moth, 

 327 ; magpie moths, 327 : thorn 

 moth, 327; etrawbelle moth, 328; 



