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Index. 



Hairless men of Australia, 393. 



Haunts of the condor, 278. 



Heart, movements of, 84. 



Heliochromy, 163. 



Heliography, 243. 



Heterogenesis, theory of, 91. 



Himantidium undulatum in brooks, 196. 



Hind's variable nebula, 244, 401. 



Hippocampus, habits of, 469. 



Historical tests of the permanency of 

 species, 254. 



Hive bee and its congeners, 166. 



Homoeopathic medicines and the spec- 

 troscope, 404. 



Homomorphism as a basis of classifica- 

 tion, 249. 



Horned animals, curious points in their 

 history, 258. 



Houses with one chimney, 83. 



Hurricane of May 1862, 436. 



Hyaena cave at Wookey Hole, Somerset, 

 152. 



Hylaosira delicatula on marine algae, 195. 



Hybrids, fertility of, 160. 



Hybrid hares and duck, 255. 



Ice-worn rocks of Scotland, 236. 



Icthyology, studies of, 223. 



Idol head of the Jivaros, 135. 



Ignition-gas engine, invention of, 20. 



Incubation of the python, 237. 



Industry, new temple of, 212. 



Infusoria, experiments on production of, 

 87, 463. 



Infusorial life, conditions of, 85. 



Injection of the eye of the cod-fish, 203. 



Improvement in kelp manufacture, 402. 



Insect destroyer, 401. 



Insect vision and sleep, 102. 



Insects, nerves of, 241. 



Insects, varieties of, artificially produced, 

 76. 



International Exhibition. — Architec- 

 ture and decorations, 212 ; Exhibition 

 tactics, 375 ; machinery, 421 ; miscel- 

 laneous gleanings, 398. 



Intra- Mercurial planets, 162. 



Iodine, effects of, on tin, 164. 



Jenyns's memoir of Henslow, 459. 

 Jivaros, idol of, 135. 

 Jottings on copper, 67. 

 Jupiter, satellites of, 232. 



Kilimandjaro, ascent of, 154. 



Land animals of the coal measures, 163. 

 Lead mines of the Romans, 307. 

 Leeches, 402. 

 Lepidosiren, 322. 



Leporines produced at Zoological Gar- 

 dens, 255. 



Licmophora flabellata in salt lagoons, 195. 



Life, infusorial, 85. 



Life changes on the globe, 325. 



Light, influence of, in the generation of 



infusoria, 90 ; dispersion of, 82. 

 Liver entozoon of cattle, 115. 

 Locomotive engines, four-cylinder, 423. 

 Logwood as a disinfectant, 483. 

 Lophius piscatrix, 353. 



Machine-tools at International Exhibi- 

 tion, 423. 



Machinery at Great Exhibition, 421. 



Man, fossil remains of, 157. 



Mangold-wurzel fly, 82. 



Markings on diatoms, 404. 



Marsupials, Linnaean arrangement of, 247. 



Mechanical powers analyzed, 11. 



Mediaeval customs, 139. 



Mediaeval England, 137. 



Melicerta, relations of, to Limnias, 50. 



Melosira nummuloides and Borrerii, 193. 



Mesozoic life in Australia, 483. 



Metallic earths, Davy's researches on, 17S. 



Metallurgy of the Eomans, 296. 



Metallurgy. — Jottings on copper, 67 ; 

 aluminium, 176; fusibility of iron, 240; 

 Roman mining, 295 ; Australian gold, 

 321 ; electro-plating, 339 ; new alloys, 

 403 ; diffusion, 481. 



Meteorology. — Progress, 4 ; Hadleian 

 theory of winds, 244 ; observations at 

 Kew, 309 ; atmospheric perturbations, 

 368 ; hail and snow, 428 ; hurricane 

 of May, 1862, 436 ; soap-bubbles and 

 meteorology, 484. 



Meteors, observed heights of, 217. 



Mexican civilization, 210. 



Microscopy. — Cephalosiphon limnias, 

 49, 234 ; parasites, 24, 199, 347 ; po- 

 lariscope objects, 82, 174, 401, 404 ; 

 universal achromatic microscope, 83 j 

 application of microscope to the art of 

 design, 111 ; shell of cuttle-fish, 174 ; 

 hunting for diatoms, 190; eye of cod- 

 fish, 199 ; microscopic writing, 324 ; 

 silkworm disease, 401 ; diatom cysts, 

 402 ; amoeboid bodies, 403 ; markings 

 on diatoms, 404 ; Entomostraca, 446 ; 

 infusorial life, 85, 463 ; museum mi- 

 croscope, 398. 



Microscope, use of, in design, 111. 



Microscopic writing, 324. 



Milk, physiological effects of, 160. 



Mint, consolidation of English, 410. 



Mints, origin of, 407. 



Molecular repulsion, 287. 



Money and moneycrs, 405. 



Monographs, zoological, 263. 



Mordants, action of, 475. 



Mountain barometer, 484. 



Museum microscope, 398. 



