Index. 



473 



Procyon, companion of, 304. 

 Projectiles, guns and, 113. 

 Pteraspis, discovery of the scales of, 222. 

 Pulse, action of tobacco on the, 466. 

 Pythium spores, 149. 



Rainbow, artificial,146. 



Recreations in natural history, 351. 



Redpoles in Stepney, 24. 



Red rock at Hunstanton, 300. 



Registration of the movements of 

 wind, 126. 



Regulus aurocapillus (gold crowned 

 wren), 22. 



Reindeer period, sculpture of the, 304. 



Responsibility defined by English law, 

 133. 



Rhizina undulata (fungus), 1. 



Rhizopods, variations in, 304. 



Rice grains on the sun, 305. 



Rifles, 115. 



Robin singing in winter, 21. 



Romsey Observatory, the, 445. 



Rose book, 456. 



Round projectiles not the best, 115. 



Royal Geographical Society. — A 

 new discovered low pass over the 

 Andes in Chili, 383. 



Royal Society. — Human remains in 

 the Cavern of Bruniqucl, 463. 



Royal Institution. — The discrimi- 

 nation of organic bodies by their 



i optical properties, 223 ; recent dis- 

 coveries respecting the properties of 

 gun-cotton, 302; properties of the 

 new metal Indium, 381 ; on the 

 mechanical effects of gun-cotton 

 457 ; temperature and climate of the 

 moon, 459 ; new magnetic experi- 

 ments, 460. 



Royal Medical and CnnuiKGiCAL 

 Society. — Entozoa, in the human 

 blood, 112. 



Ruins at Mendozn, 85. 



Ruins of Copan, 38. 



Salt marshes and their inhabitants, 26. 

 Salvin's photographs of Copan, 39. 

 Salicornia herbaeea in salt marshes, 26. 

 Saprolegnia, spores of, 148. 

 Saxby's weather system, 378. 

 Saprolegnia ferax, various forms of. 147. 

 Schistidium (moss) species of, 112. 

 Science, foundations of physical, 185. 

 Sciences, classification of the, 37'J. 

 Sculpture of tho reindeer period in 



France, 304. 

 Sea lavender, habitat of the, 27. 

 Sea catch fly on salt marshes, 27. 

 Seed, description of a perfect, 333. 

 Seeds, exogenous, 333. 



Shells found at Stroud, 381. 



Shell mounds on the Danish coast, 171. 



Shots, penetrating power of, 120. 



Shot stars, 13. 



Shooting stars at Rome, 211. 



Shooting stars in the two hemispheres, 



145. 

 Shrimp, opposum, 33. 

 Sbrimps in brackish water, 32. 

 Silene maritima (sea catchfly), 27. 

 Silktail, 24. 



Silk, probable new source of, 143. 

 Silk-producing insects, 352. 

 Silkworms, diseases of, 352. 

 Silkworms of the oak, 384. 

 Silicious springs in the Nevada terri- 

 tory, 299. 

 Silver, action of light on the salt of, 151. 

 Sdver, automatic weighing of, 72. 

 Silver coins, weights and dimensions 



of, 78. 

 Sirius, companions of, 384. 

 Sirius, Struve on the companion of, 465. 

 Snow fall and wind storms, 65. 

 Snow in May, 1864, 425. 

 Snow crystals, 279. 

 Snowflake, 24. 

 Society oi? Arts — -Few method of 



preserving meat, 301. 

 Society of Arts. — New method of 



preserving meat, 301. 

 Soils, ingredients of, 274. 

 Sohr spots, 345. 



Solar light and heat, constancy of, 129. 

 Solar observation, 292. 

 Sources of the Nile, 63 ; 378. 

 Sparassis crispa (beauliful fungus), 1. ^ 

 Spectrum analysis with reference to the 



stars, 50. 

 Sphseroina, species of, 31. 

 Spiders, industrial education of, 146. 

 Spiders making carpets, 353. 

 Spirulina, oscillation of, 29. 

 Spontaneous Generation Committee, 



145, 

 Sponge spicules, 66. 

 Spores, active, 148. 

 Spots on the sun, 450. 

 St. Helena, white ants in, 62. 

 Starch a test for ozone, 160. 

 Stangeria paradoxa, seeds of, 248. 

 Stark's Anacalypta moss, 8. 

 Stars, shooting, in tho two hemispheres, 



145. 

 Star following with table stands, 290. 

 Star-following, 338. 

 Stars, Alvan Clark on the, 465. 

 Stars, colours of, 436. 

 Stars, comparing the light of, 385. 

 Stars, origin of the light of the, 448. 

 Stars, we nerer see the, 47. 



