Index. 



491 



Storm on Nevada de Toluca, 134. 



Strait of Cheddar, 31. 



Stratigraphical structure of Cheddar 

 cliffs, 34. 



Straw- belle moth, 328. 



Stream formations, 8. 



Streams and cascades of Glen Clova, 23. 



Streams of light in the milky way, 12. 



Structure and manner of growth of 

 the scales of fishes, 246. 



Structure of insects' eggs, 321. 



Structure of the annelids, with a criti- 

 cism on Quatrefages, 266, 365. 



Study of costume, 167. 



Substitution of an electric current for 

 a fulminate with fire-arms, 237. 



Sugar birds, 245. 



Sulphuric acid formed by a mollusk,319. 



Superheaated steam, improved appli- 

 cation of, 150. 



Supposition of life in the moon nega- 

 tived, 55. 



Swallow prominent, 328. 



Swallows, 245. 



Swifts, 245. 



Swimming rotifers, 284. 



Symon's Monthly Meteorological Mag- 

 azine, 157. 



Synopsis of the recent British Os- 

 tracoda, 110. 



Systolides, rotifers, 284. 



Teeth of mammalia, 202. 

 Teguments and muscular apparatus of 



annelids, 269. 

 Terebella, 272. 



Termites, or white ants in India, 381. 

 Terrestrial climates, 63. 

 Test in cases of suspected poisoning, 90. 

 Tetricus, coins of, 313. 

 The 92nd planet, 159. 

 Theories of Copernicus and Ptolemy, 



317. 

 Theodore II., 229. 

 Thickness of meteoric stream, 198. 

 Thorn moth, 327. 

 Thrushes, 245. 

 Tinamous, 245. 

 Toucans, 245. 

 Trachyphoni barbet, 243. 

 Trachyphonus margaritatus, 244. 

 Trade and currency of Japan, 14. 

 Trade winds, 339. 

 Transfer of the custody of standards, 



297. 

 Transformation in coinage, 353. 

 Transits of Jupiter's satellites, 222, 



280, 381, 444. 

 Transmission of musical sounds, 46. 

 Treatise on punctuation and on other 



matters relating to correct writing 



and printing, 79. 



Triarthra, 284. 

 Triesnecker, region of, 102. 

 Trigla cuculus, 252. 

 Trigla piper, 250. 

 Tubulated syphon, 391. 

 Tumulus at Thruxton, 149. 

 Tycoon councils, 14. 

 Tyndall's Lectures on Sound, 42. 



Undulating- railways, 394. 

 Urns, 202. 

 Utricles, 207. 

 Utricularia, 207. 



Utilization of woollen and other rags, 

 237. 



Valley of the Somme, 395. 



Vapour, causes of the condensation of, 



334. 

 Variety of conditions and influences 



being essential to progress of civil- 



zation, 65. 

 Vegetation and electricity, 399. 

 Velocity of sound, 45. 

 Venus, day view of, 399. 

 Venus' flower-basket, 161. 

 Verification of sextants, 158. 

 Vesuvius, eruption of, 480. 

 Via Lactea, 4. 



Vibrations of columns of sounds, 46. 

 Visit to Glen Clova, 22. 

 Vitrified forts, Forfar, 28. 

 Volcanic action, formation of, 143. 

 Volcanic action in the Azores, 79. 

 Volvaria sub-genus of Agaricus, 18. 

 Voracity of the salmon, 106. 



Walrus at Zoological Gardens, 400. 



"Water marks in Cheddar caves, 33. 



Warden of the Mint, 351. 



Warden of the Standards, 298. 



Wave-movements of sound, 43. 



Weight of Jupiter and size, 145. 



Weights Standard, 297. 



White ants of India, 381. 



White ant destroyers, 382. 



White butterfly, 330. 



Wigmore Abbey, 150. 



Wild boar, 202. 



Wind cliff, Cheddar, 31. 



Winds, differences in the, 335. 



Winged ants, 382. 



Wolf, 202. 



Wolf on Linne, 40. 



Wright on the Milky Way, 3. 



Xestolebeeis, 123. 



Yorkshire barrows, 310. 



Zone of Erastosthenes, 275. 

 Zygodactyle birds, 241. 



