Index. 



485 



New Student's Microscope, 398 ; 

 wire spring clip for microscopic 

 objects, 398 ; Mr. Pearson's photo- 

 micrographs, 400. 



Middle-class family life, 213. 



Migrations of animals, 46. 



Migrations of the eel, 103. 



Miocene plants, 91. 



Missionary work among the Kaffirs, 

 436. 



Modern jewellery and art, 7. 



Monads, 363. 



Mono-chromatic light, 163. 



Moults, 379. 



Movements of chameleon, 322. 



Mushrooms, black-spored, 32. 



Mushrooms, diseases, 34. 



Myxine, or borer, 106. 



Naked-throated, or Brazilian bell- 

 bird, 402. 



Natal, black population, 184. 



Natal elephants, 44. 



Natal Kaffirs,^289. 



Natural History, including Zo- 

 ology. — Animal life in South Africa, 

 42 ; elephants, 42 ; hippopotami, 

 44 ; rhinoceri, 44j antelopes, 45 ; 

 Buckland's Curiosities of Natural His- 

 tory, 45 ; migrations of animals, 46 ; 

 carnivora of iSouth Africa, 48 ; gossip 

 about fish, 99 ; Highland insects, 

 124; congelation and death of ani- 

 mals, 160 ; lineated pheasant of Bur- 

 mah, 170 ; capturing pheasants, 173 ; 

 the birds of Middlesex, 233 ; dino- 

 charis collinsii, 269 ; chameleon, 321 ; 

 head of chameleon, 321 ; movements 

 of chameleon, 322 ; colour of chame- 

 leon, 322 ; drinking habits of chame- 

 leon, 324 ; new charr from British 

 Columbia, 338 ; charr fishing, 339 ; 

 habits of North-western American 

 salmon, 345; plumage of birds, 377; 

 deep-sea life, 400 ; bell-birds of Ame- 

 rica, 401 ; cotiuga, 401 ; naked- 

 throated bird, 402 ; chasmorhynchus 

 priscus, 406 ; beetles, 409 ; bees and 

 ants, 414 ; origin of species by means 

 of natural selection, 477; poison in 

 whale fishing, 479. 



Nebula?, hypothesis of Laplace ex- 

 plained by Delaunay, 310. 



Nebular and stellar spectra, solar ob- 

 servation, red star, planets, 386. 



Nests of ants, 418. 



New charr from British Columbia, 338. 



New planets, 159. 



Ninety-first planet, 399. 



Norman Lockyer on the spectra of sun 

 spots, 479. 



Note of the bell-bird, 404. 



Notes on fungi, 32. 



Notes on the habits of some lepidop- 



terous larva?, 253. 

 November meteors, 373. 

 November meteors, maximum period 



of, 479. 

 November meteor-shower at Glasgow, 



459. 

 November shooting stars, 449. f 



Oaks, large British, 107. 

 Obscuration of a lunar crater, 444. 

 Oak-eggar moth, 127. 

 Obscurations of the sun, 223. 

 Observations on the changes of colour 



and modes of taking iood in the 



chameleon, 321. 

 Occultations, 149, 281, 293, 386. 

 Oil- beetles, 414. 



Ombrophy turn Peruvianum, 353. j 

 Orbit of Mars, 467. 

 Orchids, 84. 

 Organic substances and formations, 



298. 

 Orion nebula, 386. 



Origin of ancient faunas and floras, 88. 

 Origin of ^species by means of natural 



selection, 477. 

 Oxygen obtained from atmospheric air, 



238. 

 Oxygen in a different state in different 



peroxides, 76. 



Paper substitute for lint, 399. 



Palaeontology, 89. 



Parasitic beetles, 409. 



Parasitic crustacean, 160. 



Parasitical plants, 348. 



Pathmakers of the tropical forests, 44. 



Pepul, ficus religiosa, 115. 



Peripneumonia, of Africa, 46. 



Persistence of luminous impressions, 

 98. 



Peroxide of hydrogen, 75. 



Petasia moth, 127. 



Petroleum as fuel, 77. 



Phases in the developmental history of 

 infusorial, animal life, 356. 



Pheasant of Burmah, 170. 



Phosphorous, a metal, 236. 



Photography with dry plates, 156. 



Photography as a fine art, 19. 



Photographer's light, 399. 



Photographic prints, new mode of fix- 

 ing, 78. 



Photo-micrographs, 400. 



Photo-micrography, 41. 



Phyllorcoryne tamaicensis, 354. 



Pictures of Algeria, 5. 



Pipe fish, 104. 



