iv Contents. 



PAGE. 



The Natterjack Toad in Ireland. By the Hon. Mrs. Ward. With a 



Coloured Plate 237 



PhOTOGEAPHIC PEOCESSES. By J. W. M'&AULEY 233 



A Cheap Obskbyatoey. By Feedeeick Bled. With Illustrations 241 



Ctcads. By John E. Jackson. With a Tinted Plate 246 



Discovery of Poison Obgans in Fishes. Communicated by Henby 



"Woodward, F.Z.S , 253 



Mosses to be Found in Mat — Coed-Mosses and Apple-Mosses. By M. 



G-. Campbell ' 258 



Moleculae Motions in Living Bodies. By Henet J. Slack, F.G-.S. ... 269 

 The Phosphates used in Ageicultuee. By De. T. L. Phipson, F.C.S., 



London 273 



Snow Cetstals. By E. J. Lowe, Esq., F.R.A.S. With Illustrations 279 



Results oe Meteorological Obseevations Made at the Kew Obseb- 



yatoey. By G. M. Whipple 284 



Star-Following with Table Stands. By Rev. E. L. Beethon, M.A.... 290 

 Solae Observation. Transit oe Jupiter's Satellites. By the Eev. 



T. W. Webb, M.A., F.RA.S 292 



The Caddis-wobm and its Houses. By Elizabeth Maet Smee. With 



a Coloured Plate 307 



Kew Obseevatoet 318 



The Eaeth as seen from the Moon 324 



Recent Microscopic Literature 328 



Exogenous Seeds and Fern Spores. By R. Dawson, M.B. London. 



With a Tinted Plate 333 



Star Following. By Rev. E. L. Berthon, M.A. With an Illustration 338 



A Supposed New Acineta. By H. J. Slack, F.G-.S. With an Illustration 340 



Gautiek on the Physical Constitution oe the Sun 345 



The Didunculus, or Little Dodo. By W. B. Tegetmeier 346 



Recreations in Natural History 351 



The Functions of Art '. 356 



Neighbourhood of the Lunar Spot, Mare Crisium. Jupiter's Satel- 

 lites. Occultations. By the Rev. T. W. Webb, M.A., F.R.A.S... 359 

 Comets. An Account of all the Comets whose Orbits have not 



been Calculated. By G-. F. Chambebs 218,373 



On the Heeeing. By W. Newton Maccaetney, Coe. Sec. GJ.S. ... 368 

 The Natueal History oe the Hairy-backed Animalcules (Ch^tono- 



tid-e). By Philip Henry Gosse, F.R.S. With Two Plates 387 



The Four-Horned Teunk Fish : a Native of England. By Jonathan 



Couch, F.L.S., etc 407 



The Side-Feuiting Mosses. By M. G. Campbell. With an Illustration... 410 



Facts about Iron 419 



The Remarkable Weather of the Early Summer of 1864, at the 

 Highfield House Observatoey. By E. J. Lowe, Esq., F.R.A.S., 



etc 425 



Magnus on the Condensation of Vapoues 432 



Solae Obseuvation. Coloubs of Stabs. Constitution of Nebula. 

 Transits of Jupiter's Satellites. By the Rev. T. W. Webb, 



A.M., F.RA.S 434 



The Romsey Observatory. By the Rev. E. L. Berthon. With Illus- 

 trations 445 



On the Origin of the Light of the Sun and Stars. By Balfour 



8tewart, M.A., F.R.S 448 



Literary Notices 375, 455 



Proceedings of Leaened Societies 62, 141, 221, 299, 380, 457 



Notes and Memoranda 64, 145, 225, 304, 383, 465 



