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Index. 



Statice limonium (sea lavender), 27. 

 Statistical Society. — Effects of 



open-air exercise on longevity, 221. 

 Steel, 421. 



Stereum, a genus of fungi, 2. 

 Sticklebacks, curious habits of, 4. 

 Stomach currents of the asplanchna, 



182. 

 Stone age, antiquity of the, 177. 

 Storm-cock, habits of the, 20. 

 Storms and snow fall, 65. 

 Struve on the companion of Sirius, 465. 

 Sulphate of ammonia for manure, 274. 

 Sun, Alvan Clark on the, 465. 

 Sun, origin of the light of the, 448. 

 Sun, spots on the, 450. 

 Sun, surface of the, 383. 

 Sun, the midnight, 95. 

 Sun, willow leaves on the, 305. 

 Sun, physical constitution of the, 345, 

 Surgical accident, a strange, 306. 

 Surface of the sun, 383. 

 Swiss rifles, 116. 

 Switzerland, ancient lake habitations 



of, 170. 

 Syria, flint implements from, 306. 



Table for heating slides, new, 64. 

 Tablestands, star-following with, 290 

 Tadpole circulation, viewing, 386. 

 Taphrocampa, description of the genus, 



404. 

 Teeth of gasteropods, 67. 

 Telescope stands, importance of good, 



339. 

 Temperature and climate of the moon, 



459. 

 Temple Anecdotes, 456. 

 Terebratulidffl (lamp shells), 216. 

 Thalassophryne reticulata, poison 



organs of, 256. 

 Thelephora, a genus of fungi, 2. 

 Thermometer, to construct a, 321. 

 Thrift, where it best flourishes, 27. 

 Tinea punctata a silk-spinner, 353. 

 Toad, natterjack, in Ireland, 227. 

 Tobacco, its action on the pulse, 466. 

 Toning-bath for albumen process, 385. 

 Trachinus vipera (sting-fish), 253. 

 Trawl fishing, destruction caused by, 



371. 

 Tremella nostoc, 13. 

 Trochus, dentition of, 69. 

 Trunk-fish, the four horned, 407. 

 Turbanella, description of the genus, 



402. 

 Turbellaria, generic distinctions of, 388. 

 Turdus pilaris (fieldfare thrush), 23. 

 Turdus viflcivorous (missel thrush), 20. 



TJkivbbbax science, essays on, 378. 



Utilization of Minute Life, 325. 



Vapoubs, condensation of, 432. 



Variation, phenomena of, 300. 



Variations in difflugian rhizopods, 

 304. 



Varieties of man in the Indian Archi- 

 pelago, 141. 



Varnish for microscopic objects, 332. 



Vaucheria found on salt marshes, 27. 



Veins, injection of oxygen into, 146. 



Venus as a crescent, seeing, 305. 



Vial's process of engraving, 226. 



Vision, differences of, 48. 



Vital power, on deficiency of, in dis- 

 ease, 375. 



Voracity of the asplanchna, 182. 



Vortex worms, description of, 388. 



Wasps, habits of, 465. 



Wasps' nests, artificial modification of, 



462. 

 Wasps' nests, curious collection of, 143. 

 Water blackbird, 19. 

 Water, molecular motion in, 271. 

 Water- ousel a favourite cage-bird, 19. 

 Waxed paper, to prepare, 235. 

 Weather fact at Milan, strange, 66. 

 Weather, lunar influence on the, 378. 

 Weather, remarkable, of 1864, 425. 

 Weather system, Saxby's, 378. 

 Weevers, peculiarity in dorsal fin of, 



254. 

 Weighing machines used at the Mint, 



72. 

 White ants in St. Helena, introduction 



of, 62. 

 Whitworth rifles, 116. 

 Willow leaves on the sun,'305. 

 Wilts, flint implements, 222. 

 Wind and its direction, 125. 

 Wind storms, 65. 

 Wind, hourly movement of the, 41, 



285. 

 Windfall for the microscope, 13. 

 Winter, minstrels of the, 17. 

 Witch-butter, 13. 

 Woodlark singing in winter, 21. 

 Works of art in Danish peat- mosses, 



171. 

 Wren singing in winter, 21. 



Yellow aniline, 145. 



Zamia tenuis, starch from, 252. 



Zinco-photography, 239. 



Zoology. — Observations on the throe 

 spined stickleback, 4 ; on the her- 

 ring, 368 ; history of the hairy- 

 backed animalcules, 387. 



Zonitea cellarius, teeth of, 71* 



