468 



Index. 



Automatic weighing at the Koyal Mint, 



72. 

 Azimuth of the sun, explanation of an, 



168. 



Baeogbapk at T\evr, 323. 



Barometers, testing, 320. 



Bartratnia pomiformis and other species 

 of apple moss, 263. 



Batraehospermum, specimen of, 13. 



Beale on blood corpuscles, 65. 



Belgian aerolites, 123. 



Birds gregarious in winter, 20. 



Birds in suburbs of London, 17. 



Blood corpuscles, Beale on, 05. 



Blood corpuscles, shape of, 273. 



Blood corpuscles, white, 6k 



Blood, entozoa in human, 142. 



Blood, germinal matter in the, 272. 



Blue, aniline, 115. 



Boletus, genera resembling, 2. 



Bolide of May 14th, 466. 



Bones found in Swiss lakes, 175* 



Bones imported for manure, 275. 



Botany. — A new British fundus, 1; 

 the mosses .Anaealvpta and Pottia, 8; 

 mosses Grimmia and Schistidinm, 

 106 ; the extinguisher mofses, 207 ; 

 cveads, 246 ; mosses to be found in 

 May, cord mosses apple mosses, 

 25S ; lemons or. elementary botany, 

 378 ; the side-fruiting mosses, 410. 



Bowenia spectabilis, 2 1!). 



Bows and arrows inconvenient in war, 

 114. 



Brain, how it does its work, 136. 



Bright'- di ea i-. use of electricity in, 465. 



British fungus, a new, 1. 



British mollusca, dentition of, 07. 



Bronze age, antiquity of tho, 177. 



Bronze coins, weights and dimensions 

 of, 7.S. 



BruniqueL human fossils found at, 66, 



Brusiquel, human remains in the 

 cavern of, 468 



Bufo calamita (natterjack) in Ireland, 

 227. 



BjfHus of mussel, importance of, 216. 



CAnnis worm, the, and its houses, 



B07. 

 Oaddii flics, eggs of, lfi. 

 irds, ourious, lit. 

 Calcium, preparation <>f. 221. 

 Calssnaa Hieobariea (Niecbar pigeon), 



846. 

 datatype, 284. 



da b»l«am, for mounting, 330. 

 Cape de la BTeve, electrical light at, L46. 

 Carbon modifies tlio character of iron, 



421. 



Carbon process in photography, 237. 



Carbonic acid in the air of Manchester, 

 141. 



Carinaria shells, high price of, 215. 



Case hardening by arsenic, 424. 



Cases of the Caddis worm, 307. 



Cast, iron, 422 ; mending broken, 423. 



Catylissotype, the, 238. 



Catoscopium nigritum (moss), 267. 



Cercaria podura, 388. 



Cercopitheeus fuliginosus, entozoa in 

 blood of, 143. 



Cerebellum, functions of the, 384. 



Chpctonotus, description of the genus, 

 390. 



Chaetonotidfc, natural history of, 387. 



Cheap observatory, 241. 



China rose near London, 19. 



Chironomus plumosus, 15. 



Chiton discrepans, dentition of, 70. 



Chrysotype, 237. 



Ciliary stomach currents of Asplanchna, 

 184. 



Cinclus aquaticus (water blackbird), 19. 



Circulation, viewing a tadpole, 3S6. 



Clavaria vermicularis (fungus), 2. 



Climbing anabas, 113. 



Climaeium dendroides (moss), 418. 



Climate of the moon, 10'.). 



Clupea harengus (herring), 868. 



Codfish and other enemies of herrings, 

 370. 



Colours of stars, 436. 



Collodion process, moist, 235 ; dry, 236. 



Collins' binocular microscope, 225. 



Comets IV. nnd V., 1863,' common 

 origin of, 304. 



Comets whose orbits have not been cal- 

 culated, 218, 373. 



Comets' tails, deviation of, 465. 



Condensation of vapours, 482. 



Confervas in ice, 61. 



Conferva, molecular motion in, 271. 



Conns gloria-maris shells, high price 



Of, 216. 

 Coins, weights and dimensions of 



British, 78 

 Copan, ruins of, 38. 

 ( Jopper coinage, old, 78. 

 Coprolites, a source of phosphate of 



lime, 270. 



1 1, of the West Indies, 380. 

 Cord in. 



Corophium longicorne in salt marshes, 



29. 

 Cothurnian, 840. 

 ( Irangon \ ulgnrie (common shrimp), 32. 



Cray-flab, artificial br ling of, 355. 



( 'rime, insanity and, 131. 



Crithmum maritimuna (samphire)* 26. 



Crocodile, great, of the Oolite, 385. 



