Index. 



483 



Chimsera and the alepocephalus, 241. 

 Chlorine, simple mode of obtaining, 



310. 

 Cicada, new species from the Cascade 



Mountains, 428. 

 Clarification of water, 320. 

 Clepsydra for driving telescopes, 421. 

 Climates of the Pyrenees, 441. 

 Cloudiness in aquaria caused by deaths, 



265. 

 Cloud forms, 10. 

 Clouds, varieties of, 109. 

 Clusters and nebula?, 207. 

 Coal fields, our future, 435. 

 Coal measures beneath the red rocks of 



the Midland Counties, 236. 

 Coast warnings, 331. 

 Cocaine, 232 



Collins' dissecting microscope, 80. 

 Colours of stars, 33. 

 Comets, 125, 224, 305, 379. 

 Comet's tail, earth in it, 480. 

 Comparative geography, 60. 

 Composition of waters of the Black 



Sea, 414. 

 Condenser, Highley's, 368. 

 Cones of Welwitschia, 427. 

 Consumption, cure of, 64, 159. 

 Consumption by inoculation, 479. 

 Contrasts of reflective power, 32. 

 Coprolites, water-worn pebbles, 37. 

 Coralline crag-pit, 39. 

 Cornish barrows, 71. 

 Corona?, 140. 

 Corynactis viridis, 263. 

 Cosmical relations of the lunar apsides, 



62. 

 Crag district, excursion to, 33. 

 Crag shells, 35. 

 Crimea, mud volcanoes and salt lakes, 



409. 

 Crimson star, 133. 

 Cromlechs and Druidical circles, 73. 

 Crossbill, common, change in the. 



plumage, 188. 

 Crossbill, remarks on their breeding 



and other habits, 188. 

 Crustacea, shield -bearing, 321. 

 Cryopborus, instrument for converting 



gases into liquids, 103. 

 Curiosities of motion, 266. 

 Cutting the diamond, 220. 

 Cyclones, 329. 



Davaine on vinegar eels, 206. 

 Declination of the magnet, 14. 

 Declination of magnetometer, 17. 

 Decomposition of sulphurous acid gas, 



310. 

 Deep tanks, deep delusions, 260. 

 Delesseria sanguinea, 259. 



Diamonds, 219. 



Diamonds, origin of, 156. 



Diarrhoea and cholera, 390. 



Diatomacea? occurring in the neigh- 

 bourhood of Hull, 63. 



Dictionary of Science, Literature, and 

 Art, 59, 147, 389. 



Dimorphism in mites, 399. 



Discoveries in Madagascar, 476. 



Dumb-bell nebula, 209. 



Double stars, 207, 292. 



Double stars in Sagittarius, 297, 



Drift-beds of the Valley of the Somme, 

 351. 



Dry fog of July, 1863, 239. 



Early puberty, 400. 



Earth in the comet's tail, 480. 



Earthquakes in the Pyrenees, 441. 



Economic extraction of vegetable oils, 

 470. 



Electric currents detected by new appa- 

 ratus, 27. 



Electric light, applicability of, to light- 

 houses, 472. 



Electric properties of mineral waters, 

 160. 



Electricity cause of animal colour, 153. 



Electricity, novel application of, 230. 



Elements of physics and natural philo- 

 sophy, 390. 



Elms, to preserve from insects, 239. 



Embryology, 328. 



Enamelled silver, 155. 



Engehnann on double stars, 133. 



Engraving, new method, 64. 



Enterprise and adventure, 61. 



Entomological Society, proceedings of, 

 319,396. 



Entomology. — Light organs of glow- 

 worms, 160 ; reasonable conduct of a 

 spider, 239 ; preserving elms from 

 insects, 239; acclimatization of 

 British insects in Canada, 398; vege- 

 table parasites, 397 ; dimorphism of 

 mites, 399 ; fossil insects in Devonian 

 strata of North America, 319 ; new 

 species of cicada, 428. 



Epidemics and epizootics, 284. 



Equilibrium and repose, 342. 



Equuleus, a little asterism, 299. 



Eskimo land, races of, 76. 



Etching in relief, 154. 



Ethnology. — Races of Eskimo land, 

 variations of human muscles, 320 ; 

 Anthropological Beview, 60; An- 

 thropological Society, 76. 



Eurypterids, a section of Crustacea, 324. 



Evaporation by mechanical means, 232. 



Excavations at Silchester, 151. 



Excursion to the Crag district, 33. 



