Index 



477 



croscope, 348 ; the feet of insects, 

 393 ; the eye and the microscope, 427. 



Midnight, birds which sing at, 19. 



Migration, 25 ; mysteries of, 25. 



Minerals, analysis of new, in the Exhi- 

 bition, 144. 



Minstrels of the summer, 18. 



Minute vertebrate, supposed, 471. 



Molluscoida, geneagenesis of, 104. 



Moon, the, 57, 461 ; Mr. Lassell and 

 the, 148 ; Delarue's photographs of 

 the, 148. 



Moonlight nights, birds which sing 

 during, 19. 



Moss destroyed by fungi, 9. 



Moth of Procession caterpillar, 127. 



Mouth of the lamprey, 414. 



Mursena fiuviatilis, the river muroena, 

 413, 



Mushroom sugar, 91. 



Music of birds, 20. 



Myrmidonia Haworthii, captured by the 

 Entomological Society, 61. 



Naphtha, 114. 



Natica monilifera, 81. 



Nature in So\ithern Peru, aspects of, 331. 



Naucrates, remora, or echeneis, popular 

 errors respecting, 412. 



Nebulae, 310 ; Gautier on, 418. 



Nectar in flowers, 92. 



Nectriamuscivora, spores of, 10. 



Neottia spiralis, 195. 



Nereis, annelid, 81. 



Nerve force, velocity of, 392. 



Nerves, distribution of, 148. 



Nerves, Claude Bernard on vascular and 

 calorific, 230. 



New Forest, birds in the, 19. 



New use of diamonds, 472. 



New Zealand, furs from, at the Exhi- 

 bition, 162. 



Nightingale ; is it merry or sad ? 22. 



Nightingales in suburban districts, 19. 



Nitrate of ammonia, production of, 68. 



Nitro-benzole, 114. 



Nolella stipata, 343. 



Nubia, filagree ornaments from, 65. 



Occt/ltations, 60, 139, 299, 376, 464. 



Oceanic hydrozoa, 362. 



Ophiolepis texturata, 78. 



Ophiucus, stars of, 56. 



Optical experiment, 148. 



Organization and life, 183. 



Origin of animals, 95. 



Orleans mode of making vinegar, 130. 



Ornithohtes in tertiary deposits, 314. 



Ornithological poverty of suburban dis- 

 tricts, supposed, 19. 



Orthagoriscus taken on the Eifeshire 

 coast, 86. 



Orthoptera eaten by Birds of Paradise, 



70. 

 Orycteropus Capensis, tooth of, 389. 

 Ossified synchondrosis of the skull of 



giraffe, 16. 

 Overland route from Pekin, 468. 

 Oviparous animals, eggs of, 96. 

 Oxygenized water, 68, 470. 

 Oxygen process, Webster's, 389. 

 Ozone produced by plants, 470. 



PAGtrRTJS Bernhardus, 78. 

 Parabolic illumination, 430. 

 Paradise, Birds of, 69 ; native method 

 of procuring them, 71 ; erroneous 

 statements respecting their geogra- 

 phical distribution, 71. 

 Paradisea apoda, 69. 

 Paradisea Papuana, at the Zoological 



Gardeus, 71. 

 Paradisea rubra, feathers of, 73. 

 Paradiseas, ornamental feathers of, 70. 

 Parasites, moss, 8. 

 Parasites of sunfish, 83. 

 Parasitic Crustacea, new group of, 67. 

 Parthenogenesis, a particular case of 



geneagenesis, 107. 

 Parthenogenesis, objections to, 105. 

 Peat as fuel, 400. 

 Pecten opercularis, 77. 

 Pekin, overland route from, 46S. 

 Periosteal aponeurotic matrix of the 



skull of giraffe, 17. 

 Periosteum, fowl with black, 472. 

 Peru, aspects of nature in Southern, 331. 

 Peru, table-land of, 336. 

 Peruvian bark-trees and their trans- 

 plantation, 452. 

 Peruvian bark, organic constituents of, 



456. 

 Phasmidas found in the stomach of Birds 



of Paradise, 70. 

 Phocidffi, 161. 



Phoccena communis, porpoise, 161. 

 Phosphorized copper and brass, 66. 

 Photographic transparency of bodies, 



309. 

 Photographic delineation of microscopic 



objects, 158. 

 Physalia pelagica, Portuguese man-of- 

 war, 234. 

 Physalia, structure and habits of, 362. 

 Picrate of aniline, 230. 

 Pigeon flying, 26. 

 Pigeon flying from balloon, 307. 

 Pinnotheres pisum (pea crab), 79. 

 Pipeclay used for the adulteration of 



honey, 95. 

 Planets, circumpolar, 390. 

 Planet, new, 311. 

 I Plants most attractive to bees, 93. 



