Index. 



489 



annelids, 365 ; reproductive appa- 

 ratus of annelids, 368 ; classification 

 of annelids, 369 ; termites, or white 

 ants of India, 381; winged ants, 

 382 ; destroyers of white ants, 382 ; 

 skipping frog, 383 ; mollusks, 399 ; 

 new mudfish, 399 ; walrus, 400. 



Neptune grotto, 79. 



Nerve terminations of annelids, 368. 



Nervous system of rotifers, 295. 



Nervous system of annelids, 367. 



New crater Linne, 36. 



New islands in Kaimene group, 143. 



New planets, 320. 



Newton forgeries, 239, 400. 



Newton, Sir Isaac, 350. 



Newtonian theory of light,'139 



New Zealand mudfish, 399. 



Notes on star-streams, 1. 



Notodromas, 118. 



Notommata aurita, 288. 



Novel action of light, 308. 



November shooting stars, 190. 



Nutrient fluid, 92. 



Oak and beech ferns, 24. 

 Occultations, 60, 104, 223, 280, 381, 445. 

 (Ecistes, 284. 

 Old red sandstone cliffs of Forfarshire, 



27. 

 Old woman of spring, Indian bird, 242. 

 Oleaginous matter extracted by means 



of application of sulphuret of carbon, 



152. 

 Optical purposes, a new glass, 77. 

 Organic philosophy, 387. 

 Origin of Cheddar cliffs, 30. 

 Orioles, 245. 

 Ornaments, ancient, 310. 

 Ostracoda, synopsis of the recent 



British, 110. 

 Otter, 202. 



Outline lunar map, 155. 

 Ova of crustaceans, 327. 

 Ovovivaparous generation, 282. 

 Owls, 245. 



Oxidation, how affected, 90. 

 Ozone test, 399. 



Pagelltts centrodontus, 249, 252. 

 Paracypris, 118. 

 Paradoxostoma, 126. 

 Parallax of the sun, 480. 

 Para pottery tree, 49. 

 Paris Exhibition, notes of, 425. 

 Parrots and trogons, 246. 

 Pascal and Newton, 180. 

 Peculiar venation, 398. 

 Perca fluviatilis, 249. 

 Perch scales, 249. 



Perivisceral and circulatory system of 

 annelids, 272. 



Permian conglomerate, 30. 



Phallus truncatus, 21. 



Philodines, 284. 



Philomedes, 127. 



Philosophical instruments at Paris 

 Exhibition, 425. 



Phosphorescent compounds, 140. 



Phosphorus, substitute for, 474. 



Photographic mariners' compass, 155. 



Photographs of eminent medical men 

 of all countries, 386, 477. 



Photography, new application, 317. 



Photometer, 393. 



Phryganea eggs, 326. 



Physical characteristics of the different 

 continents, 64, 



Physical geography as a popular study, 

 61. 



Pigs of lead of Eoman manufacture, 

 342. 



Pitcher rotifer, 288. 



Plane of marine denudation, 30. 



Planets, new, 320. 



Plants, irritability of, 146. 



Plating and gilding improvements, 

 75. 



Pleistocene mammals of Great Britain, 

 201. 



Pliocene animal, 202. 



Podaxon carcinomahs, 21. 



Pogonorynche, 243. 



Poisonous action of carbonic acid gas, 

 89. 



Poisonous fish, 240. 



Polariscope object, 240. 



Polycopida?, li6, 129. . 



Polyarthra, 284. 



Pontocypris, 118. 



Pottery in Celtic grave-mounds, 260, 

 348. 



Pottery tree of Para, 49. 



Pre-historic mammalia, 403. 



Preservative compound, 316. 



Preservation of liquors containing al- 

 cohol, 153. 



Pretty experiment with water, 160. 



Printing on glass, 391. 

 Prismatic colours exhibited, by phos- 

 phorus, 138. [478. 

 Proceedings of learned societies, 395, 

 Process of production of rain, 333. 

 Progress of invention, 74, 150, 237, 



313, 391, 473. 

 Pseudocythere, 125. 

 Psilopogon, 243. 

 Pterodina rotifer, 288. 

 Ptolemaic theory, 318. 

 Puff-birds, 245. 

 Puss-moth, 328. 



Qjoatrefages, criticism of, 266. 

 Queen bee's eggs, 322. 



