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Chacornac on Comets ■ 209 



A Strange Place tor Rotifers. By Henry J. Slack, F.G.S 211 



Family Life of the Middle Class . . . ' 213 



The Stone Age in China. By M. Chevreul 221 



Obscurations of the Sun. By M. Ed. Roche 223 



On the Form, Growth, and Construction of Shells. By the late Dr. 



S. P. "Woodward, F.G.S. With tivo Mates, one Coloured, and one Plain 241 

 Notes on the Habits of some Lepidopterous Larvje. By the Rev. D. 



C. Timins, M.A., M.E.S., Bond, et Oxon 253 



Iron and Steel in the Construction of Ships and Bridges, their Ad- 

 vantages and Disadvantages. By Professor McGauley 257 



DlNOCHARIS COLLINSII ; A RoTIFERON NEW TO SCIENCE. By PHILIP 



Henry Gosse, F.R.S. With a Coloured Plate 269 



From Kurrachee to Mooltan. By Franklin Fox 272 



Cometary Light — Nebulje — Occultations. By the Rev. T. W. Webb, 



A.M., F.E.A.S 281 



Wild Kaffir Life and Wild Kaffir Intelligence. By Robert James 



Mann, M.D., F.R.A.S ." 289 



Aids to Microscopic Inquiry. — No. VIII. — Organic Substances and 



Formations 298 



Results of Meteorological Observations Made at the Kew Observa- 

 tory. By G. M. Whipple 304 



The Nebular Hypothesis of Laplace explained by Delaunay 310 



Observations of the Changes oi Colour and Modes of taking Food in 



the Chameleon. By Jonathan Couch, F.L.S. With a Coloured Plate 321 

 On the Variations of certain Crustacea in Relation to the Theory of 



the Origin of Species by Natural Modification. By George S. 



Brady, M.R.C S., C.M.Z.S 327 



A New Charr from British Columbia. By JohnKeast Lord, F.Z.S.. . . 338 

 Parasitical Plants — Balanophoracea. By John R. Jackson. With a 



Tinted Plate 348 



Phases in the Developmental History of Infusorial Animal Life. By 



Jabez Hogg, F.L.S., F.R.M.S., etc 356 



The November Meteors. By Henry J. Slack, F.G.S 373 



Fatio on the Forms and Colours of Plumage 377 



Nebular and Stellar Spectra — Solar Observations — Red Star — ■ 



Planets— Occultations. By the Rev. T. W. Webb, A.M., F.R.A.S . . 386 

 On Silk Produced by Diurnal Lepidopteea. By Philip Henry Gosse, 



F.R.S 393 



The Bell-Birds of America. By P. L. Sclater, M.A, Ph. D., F.R.S. 



With a Coloured Plate 401 



Parasitic Beetles. By E. C. Rye 409 



Buddhism and its Legends 421 



Kaffir Promise and Capability. By Dr. Mann, F.R.A.S., F.R.G.S., 



F.E.S.L., etc. With a Tinted Plate 428 



Lunar Details — Occultations. By the Rev. T. W. Webb, A.M., F.R.A.S. 441 



Obscuration of a Lunar Crater. By W. R. Birt, F.R.S 444 



Schmidt on the Lunar Crater "Linne" and on the November Meteors 448 

 The November Shooting Stars. By the Hon. Mrs. Ward. With an 



Illustration 449 



