INDEX. 



Abbeville jaw, the, 457. 

 Acanthopterygii or perches, 253. 

 Acephalous animals, 67. 

 Achlya prolifera on dead salamander, 



148. 

 Achlya spores, 148. 

 Acineta, a supposed new, 340. 

 Aerial Navigation Society, 146. 

 Aerolites with low velocities, 123. 

 Agaricus, genera resembling, 2. 

 Agriculture, phosphates used in, 273. 

 Agriculture, principles of, 379. 

 Air of Manchester, carbonic acid in 



the, 141. 

 Air, ozone produced by agitation of 



the, 305. 

 Albumenized paper and glass, 234. 

 Albumen process, toning bath for, 385. 

 Alderia modesta found on salt marshes, 



34. 

 Alvan Clark on the sun and stars, 465. 

 Amphipodous crustaceans, 30. 

 Amplification, best mode of obtaining, 



329. 

 Anabas, the climbing, 145. 

 Anacalypta mosses, 8. 

 Anacharis, the, in flower, 466. 

 Anaesthetics, new, 305. 

 Anchoring mollusks, 215. 

 Ancient habitations in Anglesea, 224. 

 Andes, new pass over the, 383. 

 Angle of aperture, advantages of, 329. 

 Anglesea, ancient habitations in, 224, 

 Aniline yellow, and aniline blue, 145. 

 Animal creation, power of God in, 



456. 

 Animalcules, escape of, from freezing 



to death, 53. 

 Animalcules, natural history of hairy 



backed, 387. 

 Animals, grafting, 385. 

 Annelids, enmity between Corophium 



and, 29. 

 Anthropological Society. — The 



theory of natural selection as applied 



to the human races, 223. 

 Antozone, ozone and, 306. 

 Ants, white, in St. Helena, 62. 

 Aphanomyces spores, 149. 

 Apple mosses, 258. 



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Archaeological Institute. — Ancient 

 habitations in Anglesea, 224. 



Archives of medicine, 375. 



Are different bodies luminous at the 

 same temperature? 65. 



Arenarise found in salt marshes, 27. 



Armadillidium, habits of, 31. 



Armstrong guns, 119. 



Art, the functions of, 356. 



Artificial islands in Irish lakes, 171. 



Artificial rainbow, 146. 



Artillery experiments, 113. 



Ascent of Mr. Glashier, 66. 



Ascobolus, beautiful species of, 1. 



Asplanchna, voracity of the, 182. 



Aster tripolium, 27. 



Astronomical soiree, 464. 



Astronomy. — We never see the stars, 

 47 ; clusters and nebulae, 54 : double 

 star, 58 ; the great nebula in Orion, 

 58 ; comparison of sun and stars, 60; 

 occultation, 62 ; the midnight sun, 

 95 ; aerolites with low velocities, 

 123 ; constancy of solar light and 

 heat, 129 ; clusters and nebulae, 138; 

 double stars, 138 ; occultations, 140; 

 shooting stars in the two hemi- 

 spheres, 145 ; the moon, 193 ; 

 planets of the month, 206 ; double 

 star, 206 ; occultations, 206 ; star- 

 following with table stands, 290 ; 

 solar observation, 292 ; transits of 

 Jupiter's satellites, 299 ; the earth 

 as seen from the moon, 324 ; star- 

 following, 338 ; Gautier on the phy- 

 sical constitution of the sun, 345 ; 

 neighbourhood of the lunar spot, 

 Mare crisium, 359 ; transits of Jupi- 

 ter's satellites, 368 ; occultations, 

 368 ; solar observation, 434 ; colours 

 of stars, 436; constitution of nebula?, 

 443; transits of Jupiter's satellites, 

 443 ; Romsey Observatory, 445. 



Astronomy, outlines of, 455. 



Atmosphere, our, and the ether of 

 space, 211. 



Atriplex, species of, on salt marshes, 

 27. 



Aurotype, the, 237. 



Australia, ethnology of, 141. 



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