Index. 



479 



Song birds found near the dwellings of 



man, 20 ; call-notes of, what do they 



mean ? 21. 

 Species, De Candolle on, 471. 

 Spectrum analysis, Plucker on, 265. 

 Spheroidal liquids, temperature of, 



229. 

 Sphceria emperigonia, spores of, 9. 

 Spider, new, from Cochin China, 311. 

 Spiranthes autumnalis, ladies' tresses 



195. 

 Spontaneously inflammable gaseous 



compound of silicon and hydrogen, 



387. 

 Squills, 80. 



Storm of the 19th Feb., I860, 410. 

 Sugar as a polariscope object, 92. 

 Sulphuretted hydrogen, experiment 



with, 472. 

 Swallows hybernating under pools, 25- 

 Synchondrosial ossification of the skull 



of giraffe, 17. 

 Syrphido?, legs of, 397. 



Tapeworm:, 84 ; compound of several 



individuals, 83 ; different names of 



the, 85 ; organization of the, 86. 

 Tasmanian Court of the Exhibition, 161. 

 Taste iu art, 116. 

 Teeth of lamprey, 417. 

 Telegraphic wires, effects of auroras 



upon, 39. 

 Telescopes, new eyepiece for, 62. 

 Temperature and vegetation, 469. 

 Teredo, egg of, 99. 

 Terrestrial currents, 39. 

 Thallium, the new metal, 43. 

 Thermometer, a new application of 



the, 231. 

 Thrushes singing at night, 19. 

 Thunderstorms, 410. 

 Tipulse, claws of, 3y6. 

 Titan, transit of the shadow of, 52. 

 Tobacco smoking and Angina pectoris, 



66. 

 Tomopteris, annelid, 149. 

 Transformation of animals, 95. 

 Trichccephalos affinis (whip worm), 



325. 

 Triton, 79. 



Trochus, or " Top," 79. 

 Tropical sunset, 335. 

 Tubularia, development of, 392. 

 Turkey red extracted from Rubia Man- 



jista, 111. 



Turmeric used for the adulteration of 

 honey, 95. 



Eb. aster rubers, cross-fish, 80. 

 Utilization of waste tin plate, 65. 



Vacuo, burning gunpowder in, 228. 



Vanessa urtica, scales of, 433. 



Variable nebula?, 310. 



Vascular fasciculi, form of, in certain 

 British ferns, 468. 



Vegetable morphology, cm-ious illus- 

 tration of, 42. 



Vegetables, rapid growth in high lati- 

 tudes, 65. 



Vegetation and temperature, 469. 



Venus, the supposed satellite of, 469. 



Vertebrata, microscopic, 310. 



Vertebrate, supposed minute, 471. 



Vesuvius, Daubeny on the last erup- 

 tion of, 385. 



Vicuna, its introduction into Australia, 

 163. 



Vinegar making, new process of, 128. 



Vitellus of viviparous animals, 96. 



Volcanic hair, 472. 



Volvox globator, 351. 



Wagner's spot of eggs, 107. 



Warrington's portable microscope, 349. 



Water-ousel in the New Forest, 19. 



Water, oxygenized, 68, 470. 



Webster's oxygen process, 389. 



Whale fishery, 161. 



Whip-worms, 325. 



Wind, hourly movement of the, as re- 

 corded by Robinson's anemometer, 

 47, 49, 51, 293, 295, 297. 



Wood as fuel, 398. 



Worms, geneagenesis of, 104. 



Wrens singing at night, 19. 



Writing, size of microscopic, 470. 



Wroxeter, the distorted skulls of, 309. 



Xylophagous insects, 34. 



Yarrell's British fishes, cited on 

 Gymnetrus, 3. 



Zodiacal eight, 390. 

 Zoological Society, 387. 

 Zoology of the International Exhibi- 

 tion, 160. 

 Zooteira religata, 311. 



