Index. 



483 



Colloid diaphragms, new application of, 



475. 

 Cometary light, 281. 

 Comets, 209, 314. 

 Condenser, Ross's four-tenths, 59. 

 Confucius, passage from the life of, 221. 

 Congelation and death of animals, 160. 

 Conic sections, easy introduction to the 



higher treatises, 478. 

 Copepoda of mice, 333. 

 Copper sheathing for iron ships, 263. 

 Cork, new application of, 239. 

 Corynoaa, 354. 

 Cotingas, 401. 

 Couch's British fish, 99. 

 Crustacea, 327. 

 Crystallizing carbon, 160. 

 Curtis's process of photo-micrography, 



41. 

 Cypripediums, 82. 



Damping apparatus for copying, 77. 



Date stones, 231. 



Deceptive figures, 23. 



Deep sea life, 400. 



Developmental history of infusorial, 

 animal life, 356. 



Dhurmsalla meteoric shower, 78. 



Dialytic action of India-rubber and 

 metals on gases, 160. 



Diamond-work, 9. 



Diaphragm eye-piece, 319. 



Dictionary of science and art, 231. 



Dictionary of science, art, and litera- 

 ture, 316. 



Dinocharis Collinsii ; a rotiferon new 

 to science, 269. 



Disengagements of gases from their 

 supersaturated solutions, 479. 



Dissociation of gases at high tempera- 

 ture, 158. 



Double stars by Secchi, 399. 



Down, three sorts of, 377. 



Dragon-Hies, 128. 



Dr. Curtis's process of photo-micro- 

 graphy, 41. 



Drinking habits of chameleon, 324. 

 Dutch settlers in Natal, 186. 



Eabthqtjake in France, 319. 

 Economic production of aniline, 473. 

 Education of the Kaffirs, 296, 433. 

 Electricity, 231. 

 Electric-alarm, new, 237. 

 Electrical apparatus, new, 74. 

 Electrotype process, improved, 76. 

 Elementary treatise on physics, experi- 

 mental and applied, 233. 

 Elephants of South Africa, 42. 

 Enamelled feathers, 385. 

 Eocene flora, 93. 



Entomology. — Tsetse, 45 ; highland 

 insects, 124; butterflies of the high- 

 lands, 126; glory of Kent moth, 

 126 ; oak-eggar moth, 127 ; petasia 

 moth saw-fly, 128 ; wood ant, 128 ; 

 notes on the habits of some lepidop- 

 terous larvaa, 253 ; processionary 

 moth, 253 ; charaxes jasius, 255 ; 

 spider and earwigs, 319 ; worms and 

 insects generated by dead bodies, 

 356'; generation of insects, 357 ; silk 

 produced by diurnal lepidoptera, 393; 

 parasitic beetles, 409 ; coleoptera, 

 409 ; oil beetles, 414 ; bee parasites, 

 414 ; ants, 416 ; nest of ants, 418 ; 

 new glowworm, with two fires, 480. 



Epidermis, 248. 



Ethnology. — Algierenes, 2; lake 

 ■ dwellers in Switzerland, 149 ; Kaffirs 

 of Natal, 184, 289, 428 ; human re- 

 mains in the Rhine- valley, 399 ; 

 Kaffir promise and capability, 428. 



Excavations at Silchester, 395. 



Excavations at Sutton Hill, 226. 



Family life of the middle class, 213. 



Eatio on the forms and colours of plu- 

 mage, 377. 



Feathers, 381. 



Eicus, on the genus, 112. 



Eield adjustment for object-finding, 

 320. 



Eig trees, 116. 



Filagree work, 12. 



Fire-arms, application of a new prin- 

 ciple, 138. 



Fishing-nets and hooks of the lake- 

 dwellers, 150. 



Flint cores from the Indus, 320. 



Flora of Ireland, 202. 



Food of the lake-dwellers, 150. 



Force of the mental and moral correl- 

 lates, 229. 



Form, growth, and construction of 

 shells, 241. 



Four-tenths condenser, 59. 



Fraser river, 343. 



From Kurrachee to Mooltan, 272, 



Frozen fish of the Polar sea, 103. 



Fungi, notes on, 32. 



Fungus-feeding beetles, 134. 



Fungus in a tree, 80. 



Gas, peculiar disengagements of, 399. 



Gemmiparous animals, 376. 



Generation of insects, 357. 



Genus ficus, 112. 



Geology. — Surface geology of Cader 

 Idris, 27 ; bituminous deposits of the 

 Dead Sea asphalt, 64; calcareous 

 rock, 65 ; hypothetical continents, 



