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Index. 



Atlantic cable, experiments on, 223. 

 Atmospheric air produced by synthesis, 



429. 

 Atmospheric resistance to motion, 46. 

 Atomic combination, 430. 

 Attacotti, an ancient British people, 



457. 

 Attempts to foretell weather, 103. 

 Attraction of moisture by surfaces, 76. 

 Australian bush, adventure in, 263. 

 Australian parrakeets, 307. 



Bactebitjms and disease, 225. 



Baetis, a genus of Ephemeridse, 152. 



Balcony observatory, 278. 



Barometer, Browning's aneroid, 38. 



Barrow digging in Yorkshire and 

 Scotland, 300. 



Basalt, characters of, 181. 



Bath, archaeological explorations at, 

 217. 



Bath, British Association at, 219. 



Beale's preparation for microscope, 327. 



Bee, cells of, variously formed, 63. 



Bee keeping, 281. 



Bees, habits and instincts of, 94. 



Bees, hermaphrodite, 145. 



Belfast Lough, geology of, 176. 



Berkleian theory disproved, 138. 



Berthon telescope-stand, 203. 



Betelgeux, spectrum of, 395. 



Bhotan rhinoceros, 170. 



Blatta orientalis, parasites of, 337. 



Bodo blattae, a parasite of the cock- 

 roach, 338. 



Bombyx Atlas, 305. 



Bombyx Fauvetii, new silkworm, 305. 



Bone deposits in South of France, 62. 



Botany. — Resting-spores of fungi, 31 ; 

 growth of spirogyra, 66 ; mosses of 

 the genus bryum, 155 ; fungi of the 

 genera sphcerobolus and ascobolus ; 

 252 ; Jungermannia, 330 ; Arctic and 

 Alpine vegetation, 384. 



Bottom ice, formation of, 405. 



Brachiopoda, place of, in zoology, 366. 



Breaks in the order of geologic history, 

 24. 



British Columbia, new route to, 224, 

 462. 



Brooke on deep objectives, 51. 



Browning's aneroid barometer, 38. 



Bryum, a genus of mosses, 155. 



Butterflies of South America, 311. 



Caithness, prehistoric remains at, 4G1. 



Caithness, kitchen middens of, 456. 



Camera obscura for the microscope, 

 386. 



Cannibalism once prevalent in Scot- 

 land, 456. 



Canoe, ancient, found in Ireland, 376. 



Capacity of surfaces for electrical 

 charges, 145. 



Caplin, habits of, 386. 



Capsule of Bryum intermedium, 156. 



Carbon, properties of, 429. 



Carbonic oxide, dissociation of, 465. 



Carboniferous rocks, order of, 19. 



Carboniferous strata, reptiles of, 459. 



Carvings, wood, decay of, 352. 



Castle Howard, one month at, 300. 



Cat, the, in the middle ages, 324. 



Cavia Australis, 418. 



Celestial chemistry, 108, 238, 303, 346, 

 387. 



Cells of bees, formation of, 63. 



Cemetery, Anglo-Saxon, at Sarr, 300. 



Chedworth Wood, Gloucestershire, 

 Roman villa of, 458. 



Chemical composition, character of, 

 429. 



Chemistet. — Crystallizing actions, 43, 

 267, 437 ; capillary and surface 

 actions, 75 ; effects of santonine, 88; 

 heat and organization, 163 ; com- 

 bining proportions of elementary 

 bodies, 221 ; utilization of sewage, 

 222 ; alkaloids of opium, 225 

 analysis of the human breath, 226 

 photographic processes, 291 ; de 

 tectioa of poisons by dialysis, 304 

 effects of ignition on materials, 3S1 

 magnesium light, 384 ; arsenical 

 pigments and health, 385 ; celestial 

 chemistry, 387 ; polariscope crystals, 

 437 ; carbonate of magnesia and 

 iron in a meteorite, 464; flow of 

 solids under pressure, 464 ; thallic 

 alcohols, 465 ; dissociation of car- 

 bonic oxide, 465. 



Chlorate of potash, crystals of, 439. 



Ciliarv motion mechanically considered, 

 48/ 



Circulation of blood in swan mussel, 70. 



Citric acid, crystals of, 441. 



Classification in zoology, 362. 



Cloe, a genus of Ephememkr, 152. 



Club-fruited thread moss, 157. 



Clusters and nebula?, 209. 



Cockroach, parasites of, 337. 



Ccenis, a genus of Ephemeridre, 152. 



Cohesion of solid3and liquids, 76. 



Coin, tests of value of, 82. 



Comatula rosacea, 8. 



Coloured vision caused by santonine, 88. 



Colours not attractive to bees, 100. 



Colours of stars, 58, 108. 



Colours of the stars, origin of, 396. 



Columbia, new route to, 462. 



Coincidences, how to be valued and 

 reasoned upon, 106. 



