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Index. 



88 : new parasitic Crustacea, 160 ; 

 British tertiary fossils, 316 ; varia- 

 tions of Crustacea, 327 ; remains of 

 Dinosaurian reptiles, 396 ; rocks of 

 Devon and Somerset, 397 : geology 

 of the Parana, 480. 



Geological society, 396, 397. 



Glashier's blue mist, 365. 



Glass, improvement of, for optical pur- 

 poses, 237. 



Glass rope of the Hyalonema, 320, 399. 



Glory of Kent moth, 126. 



Glow-worm, new, with two fires, 480. 



Goldsmith's work in the time of Queen 

 Elizabeth, 10. 



Golynos oak, 109. 



Gurnards, 101. 



Gossip about fish, 99. 



Gotama Buddha, 422. 



Government of Kaffirs, 290. 



Habits of K"orth-western American 



salmon, 345. 

 Habits of lepidopterous larvas, 253. 

 Head of the chameleon, 321. 

 Heat, elementary treatise, 478. 

 *' Heavens, the," new edition, 400. 

 Helosis Guyanensis, 355. 

 Herbage of South Africa, A .1. 

 Hibernian plants, 203. 

 Highland fauna, 130. 

 Highland insects, 124. 

 Hippopotami, 44. 

 Hotels of Algiers, 2. 

 Human remains in the Ehine valley, 



399. 

 Hunting at Algeria, 4. 

 Hunting in South Africa, 43. 

 Hydra, 371. 



Eypsonieter, improvement of, 234. 

 Hypothetical continents, 88. 



Ichthyoie-s,, 100. 



Iconoscope, 479. 



Implements of the lake-dwellers, 152. 



Increase of sun's mass, effects of, 79. 



India-rubber trees, 116. 



Infusorial animal life, 356. 



Insect life in the Highlands, 125. 



Iodine dissolves gold. 79. 



Iron manufacture, 259. 



Iron and steel in the construction of 



ships and bridges, 257. 

 Iron-work of lake-dwellers, 155. 

 Italian and French architecture, 176. 



Jewellery, modern, 7. 



Jewellery work of 18th century, 11. 



Journey from London to Algiers, 1. 



Kaffir huts, 291 



Kaffir families, 292. 



Kaffir food, 293. 



Kafiir labourers, 431. 



Kaffir life and intelligence, 289. 



Kaffirs of Natal, 189. 



Kaffir promise and capability, 428. 



Ketchup, mushroom, 35. 



Kurrachee to Mooltan, 272. 



Ladies' slippers, 81. 



Lake-basins of Cader Idris, 29. 



Lake-dwellers of Switzerland, 149. 



Lampreys, 105. 



Laplace's Nebular hypothesis, 310. 



Large British oaks, 107. 



Lartet on the asphalt of the Dead 



Sea, 62. 

 Lepidopterous larvge, 253. 

 Light of nebula?, 318. 

 Lightning, strange effect of, 80. 

 Liueatcd pheasant of Burmah, 170. 

 Literary Notices, 227, 315, 476. 

 Lunar crater, 444. 

 Lunar crater " Linne," 448. 

 Lunar details, occultations, 441. 



Magnesium and its salts as illuminating 

 agents, 234. 



Magnetic action of the moon, 160. 



Mahometan worship, 2. 



Mammalia, 95, 100. 



Mammoth tree, size and life of, 79. 



Mare serenitatis, 444. 



Marine worm, new, 78. 



Mars, 466. 



Marriages among the Kaffirs, 295. 



Material of meteors, 168. 



Maximum period of November meteors, 

 479. 



Measuring small intervals and counting 

 meteors, 398. 



Medical properties of the teazle, 239. 



Mediaeval works of London, 176. 



Metallic film spectacles, 320. 



Metallurgical operations, substitute for 

 sodium amalgam, 157. 



Meteors in November, 373. 



Meteor shower, 38. 



Meteor shower at Glasgow, 459. 



Meteor spectroscope, 162. 



Meteorological observations at Kew 

 Observatory, 66, 304. 



Microscopic inquiry, 298. 



Microscopical Society of London, 317. 



Microscopy. — Dr. Curtis's process 

 of photo-micrography, 41 ; Boss's 

 four-tenths condenser, 59; aids to 

 microscopic inquiry, No. Till., or- 

 ganic substances and formations, 298; 

 Microscopical Society, 317; Koyal 

 Microscopical Society, 397 ; How's 



