CONTENTS. 



PAGE 



Algiers as a Winter Residence. By M. Bet ham Edwards. With a 



Coloured Plate 1 



Modern Jewellery and Art. By William Duthie 7 



Chacornac's Solar Theories 15 



Photography as a Fine Art 19 



Deceptive Figures ; with Remarks on Saturn's " Square-shouldered" 



Phase. By E. A. Proctor, B.A., F.R.A.S 23 



Ascent op Cader Idris. By D. Mackintosh, F.G.S. With a Coloured 



Plate 27 



Notes on Fungi.— No. VI. By the Eev. M. J. Berkeley, M.A., F.L.S. . 32 



The Coming Meteor Shower. — The Spectra of Meteors 38 



Dr. Curtis's Process of Photo-Micography. By E. L. Maddox, M.D. 41 



Animal Life in South Africa. By |H. Chichester,, Esq 42 



The Planet Saturn {Continued). By the Eev. T. W. Webb, A.M., F.E.A.S. 49 



Boss's Four-Tenths Condenser 59 



Lartet on the Asphalt of the Bead Sea 62 



Results of Meteorological Observations made at the Kew Obser- 

 vatory. By G. M. Whipple 66 



Ladies' Slippers. By Shirley Hibberd. With Coloured Plate of Cypri- 



pedium Veitchianum 81 



Hypothetical Continents. By H. M. Jenkins, F.G.S 88 



The Persistence of Luminous Impressions. By the Abbe Laborde . . 98 



Gossip about Fish 99 



Large British Oaks 107 



On the Genus Ficus. By John R. Jackson. With a Tinted Plate .... 112 



Red Stars „ 119 



Highland Insects. By E. C. Rye 124 



Plans for Improving London 136 



The Planet Saturn {Continued). By the Rev. T. W. Webb, A.M., F.R.A.S. 142 



The Lake-Dwellers of Switzerland 149 



Prismatic Spectra of the August Meteors, 1866. By A. S. Herschel. 



With a Coloured Plate 161 



The Lineated Pheasant of Burmah. By Captain R. C. Beavan .... 170 



The Street Architecture of London 174 



The Black Population of the British Colony of Natal, South 



Africa. By James Mann, M.D., F.R.A.S. With a Tinted Plate. . . 184 



The Planet Saturn {Continued). By Rev. T. W. Webb, A.M., F.R.A.S. 194 



The Flora of , Ireland 202 



