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Index. 



444 ; Schmidt on the lunar crater 

 "Linne" and November meteors, 

 448 ; celestial perspective, 451 ; No- 

 vember meteor shower at Glasgow, 

 459 ; spectra of meteors, 465 ; planet 

 Mars, 466; orbit of Mars, 467; 

 seasons of Mars, 471 ; Norman 

 Lockyer on the spectra of sun 

 spots, 479 ; maximum period of 

 November meteors, 479 ; Bootis 

 and Aquarii, Secchi's measures, 

 480. 



Balance and scales, ancient, 225. 



Balanophoracse, 348. 



Banyan-tree, 113,, 



Bee parasites, 414. 



Beetles, 130. 



Beetles or coleoptera, 409. 



Bell-birds of America, 401. 



Benedicite, or Song of the Three Chil- 

 dren, 476. 



Birds of Middlesex, 233. 



Bitumen on the Dead Sea., 63. 



Black population of the British Colony 

 of Natal, 184. 



Black wood, Forest of Kinloch, 125. 



Bleaching process, new, 157. 



Bolide at Yichy, 239. 



Bootis and Aquarii, Secchi's measures, 

 480. 



Botany. — Notes on fungi, 32 ; blackish 

 purple or brown-spored mushrooms, 

 32 ; mushroom diseases, 34 ; size 

 and life of a mammoth tree, 79 

 fungus in a tree, 80 ; ladies' slippers 

 . 81 ; cypripedium, species of, 84 

 Miocene plants, 91 ; Eocene flora 

 93 ; large British oaks, 107 ; Bryng 

 ■wyn oak, 108 ; G-olynos oak, 109 

 genus Hens, 112 ; banyan tree, 113 

 pepul, 115 ; India-rubber tree, 116 

 fig tree, 117 ; sycamore tree, 118 

 plants found in the lake-dwellings 

 151 ; flora of Ireland, 202 ; Hiber 

 nian plants, 203 ; wayside flora 

 232 ; medical properties of the teazle 

 239 ; apple congress, 240 ; para 

 sitical plants, 348 ; rhizomes of para 

 sitical plants, 349. 



British Columbia eharr-fishing, 339. 



Bronze work of lake dwellings, 154. 



Brown-spored mushrooms, 32. 



Browning's spectroscope, 161. 



Bryngwyn oak, 108. 



Buckland's Curiosities of Natural His 

 tory, 45. 



Buddhist astronomy, 426. 



Buddhism and its legends, 421. 



Burmah pheasants, 170. 



Butterflies of the Highlands, 126. 



Cades Idris, ascent of, 27. - 



Canoe, found in Whettall Moss, 72. 



Caoutchouc tree, 116. 



Cape Colony elephants, 44. 



Capturing pheasants, 173. 



Carnivora, South Africa, 48. 



Cathedral of Eouen, 394. 



Celestial perspective, 451. 



Cellulose, 301. 



Cerebric acid, 300. 



Chacornac on comets, 209. ■ 



Chacornac's solar theories, 15. 



Chameleon, 321. 



Charaxes jasius, 255. 



Charles Waterton, 227. 



Charr-fishing, 339. 



Charr from British Columbia, 338. 



Chart of the characteristic British ter- 

 tiary fossils, 316. 



Chasmorhynchus priscus, 406. 



Chemical materials of man, 298. 



Chemical poisoning, 239. 



Chemistry. — New electrical apparatus, 

 74 ; peroxide of hydrogen, 75 ; oxy- 

 gen in a different state in different 

 peroxides, 76 ; electrotype process, 

 76 ; purification of water, 77 ; pe- 

 troleum as fuel, 77 ; utilizing com- 

 bustible fluids as fuel, 78 ; iodine 

 dissolves gold, 79 ; new bleaching 

 process, 157 ; substitute for sodium 

 amalgam in metallurgical operations, 

 157 ; dissociation of gases at high 

 temperatures, 158 ; dialytic action 

 of India-rubber and metals on gases, 

 160 ; crystallizing carbon, 160 ; elec- 

 tricity, 231 ; magnesium and its 

 salts as illuminating agents, 234 ; 

 amorphous phosphorous, capable of 

 crystallization, 236 ; electric alarm, 

 237 ; thermo-electric properties of 

 iron, 238 ; oxygen obtained from 

 atmospheric air, 238 ; substitute for 

 amalgamated zinc in the galvanic 

 battery, 238 ; chemical poisoning, 

 239 ; peculiar disengagements of 

 gas, 399 ; economic production of 

 aniline, 473 ; delicate test for acids, 

 473 ; simple mode of rendering 

 resins soluble, 474 ; precipitation of 

 metals from their solutions by mag- 

 nesium, 474 ; colloid diaphragms, 

 475 ; heat, elementary treatise on, 

 478 ; disengagements of gases from 

 their supersaturated solutions, 479. 



China, 6tone age, 221. 



Cholera mist, 240. 



Climate of Algeria, 4. 



Coleoptera or wood-feeder, 12^. 



Colonial life in Algiers. I, 



Colour of chameleon, 322. 



