Index. 



471 



Intelligence in the honey bee, 462. 

 Iodide of potassium a test for ozone,160. 

 Iron, facts about, 419. 

 Iron girders, Fairburn on, 304. 

 Ironwork at Nineveh, 420. 

 Isothecium alopecurum (moss), 418. 



Kew Observatory, 318. 



Lacustrine dwellings, 175. 



Lake dwellings in Asia, 179. 



Lake habitations of Switzerland, an- 

 cient, 170. 



Larval reproduction in insects, 306. 



Lavas, action of, on gases, 216. 



Lead rings for microscope slides, 66. 



Light, constancy of solar, 129 j of me- 

 teors, 130. 



Light of stars compared, 385. 



Light of the sun and stars, origin of 

 the, 448. 



Litnapontia slug found on salt marshes, 

 34. 



Limax marginatus, teeth of, 71. 



Limestone, discovery of fish in, 380. 



Linaria pusilla (redpole), 24. 



Lingula flags, new fossils from the, 299. 



Linnean Society.— On the pheno- 

 mena of variation as illustrated by 

 the Malayan Papilionidre, 300. 



Living bodies,molecular motions in,269. 



Liverpool, explosion at, 66. 



Lobsters, artificial breeding of, 355. 



London Institution. — Sources of the 

 Nile, 63. 



London Microscopical Society. — 

 On white blood corpuscles, 64. 



London, birds in the suburbs of, 17. 



Longevity, effects of open-air exercise 

 on, 221. 



Loxia chloris (greenfinch), 24. 



Luminosity of different bodies, 65. 



Lunar craters, recently named, 64. 



Lunatic asylums, remedial treatment 

 in, 133. 



Lunar influence on the weather, 378. 



Macrozamia spiralis, nuts of, 251. 



Magnetographs at Kew, 322. 



Magnetic experiments, new, 460. 



Magnetic needle, observations made at 

 Kew, 323. 



Magnus on the condensation of va- 

 pours, 432. 



Malvern Hills, geological structure of 

 the, 462. 



Mammalian remains near Thame, 381. 



Manchester Philosophical So- 

 ciety. — On the amount of carbonic 

 acid existing in the air of Manchester, 

 141 ; preparation of calcium, 221. 



Manchester, carbonic acid in the air of, 



141. 

 Manuring, when first understood, 273. 

 Meat, preservation of, 146, 301. 

 Mechanical effects of gun cotton, 457. 

 Medicine, archives of, 375. 

 Metals at high temperature, permea- 

 bility of, 226. 

 Memory, loss of, 66. 

 Mendoza, earthquake at, 85. 

 Meteorological observations made at 



Kew Observatory, 40, 284. 

 Meteors, light and heat of, 130. 

 Mesozoic strata, succession of British, 



222. 

 Microscopy. — Lead rings for slides, 66 ; 



microscopical soiree at Apothecaries' 



Hall, 463. 

 Microscopic soiree at Apothecaries' 



Hall, 463. 

 Microscope, Collins' binocular, 225. 

 Microscope, a windfall for the, 13. 

 Microscopic literature, recent, 328. 

 Microcoleus anguiformis in salt 



marshes, 29. 

 Midnight sun, 95. 

 Milan, strange weather fact at, 66. 

 Millepora reticulata (fungus), 2. 

 Minie rifles, 116. 

 Minstrels of the winter, 17. 

 Mistletoe near London, 19. 

 Missel thrush, 19. 

 Molecular motions in living bodies, 



269. 

 Mollusca, dentition of British, 67. 

 Mollusca, cultivation of, 354. 

 Mollusca, obtaining palates of, 305. 

 Mollusks, anchoring, 215. 

 Moon, temperature and climate of the, 



459 ; earth as seen from, 324. 

 Moon, 193 ; index map of the, 190. 

 Mocn, possible action of the, 226. 

 Motacilla troglodytes (wren), 22. 

 Moth of the ordeal bean, 385. 

 Motion, laws of, exhibited by fire-arms, 



113. 

 Motion, heat considered as a mode of, 



52. 

 Moss, favourite habitats of, 268. 

 Mosses found in May, 258. 

 Mosses, the extinguisher, 207. 

 Mosses — Anacatypta and Pottia, 8. 

 Mosses — Grimmia and Schistidium, 



106. 

 Mosses, the side fruiting, 410. 

 Mount Chamblon, ancient dwellings 



of, 178. 

 Mountain finch, 24. 



Mounting in Canada balsam, 331. ] 

 Mountain linnet in winter, 24. 

 Mounting, new table for, 64. 



