Index. 



469 



Comets, the orbits of which, have not 

 been calculated, 131, 298, 373. 



Comet I., 1864, 144. 



Comparative Anatomy, Elements of, re- 

 view, 362. 



Compounds of silver and gold for 

 photography, 215. 



Constructing geological models, 190. 



Conversion of heat into motion, 164. 



Copper smelting, improvement in, 304. 



Corona Borealis, stars of, 58. 



Corpulence and drinking, 65. 



Craigiehill, archaeological discovery at, 

 375. 



Cranial proportions, to ascertain, 64. 



Creation, changes in plan of, possible, 

 12. 



Cremation practised in Britain, 119. 



Cretaceous rocks, fossils of, 23. 



Crinoids, physiology of, 1. 



Crustacea, place of, in zoology, 369. 



Crystalline substances for micro-polari- 

 scope, 440. 



Crystallization, experiments in, 267. 



Crystallizations, formation and charac- 

 ters of, 43. 



Crystals for the micro-polariscope, 437. 



Curious physical experiment, 146. 



Curassow hawk of Honduras, 308. 



Cyathus striatus, 254. 



Cystopus, relations of, 32. 



Daguerreotype photography, 291 

 Daguerreotype, principle of, 291. 

 Dahome, kingdom of, 381. 

 Dahomey, ethnology of, 222. 

 Decay of species, 304. 

 Decay of wood carvings, 352. 

 Delta of the Amazon, 224. 

 Density of materials, effect of ignition 



on, 381. 

 Deterioration of photographs, 296 

 Devonian rocks, fossils of, 18. 

 Diadem spider, habits of, 285. 

 Dialysis, detection of poisons by, 304. 

 Digestive organs of swan mussel, 68. 

 Disease caused by bacteriums, 146. 

 Diseases common to mountain districts, 



385. 

 Dissociation of carbonic oxide, 465. 

 Distoma militare, multiplication of, 193. 

 Do bacteriums cause disease ? 146, 225. 

 Do bees know their keepers ? 96. 

 Domestication of animals in middle 



ages, 318. 

 Don's thread moss, 159. 

 Double stars, 58, 343. 

 Double stars, studies of, 343. 

 Double stars, colours of, indicative of 



their chemical constituents, 397. 

 Drinking and corpulence, 65. 



Duration of twilight, 305. v 

 Dyticus marginalis, 422. 



Early hill settlement in Scotland, 374. 



Earth and planets, atmosphere of, 465. 



Earthquake at Lewes, 146. 



Ebullition, phenomena of, 169. 



Echinoderms, Pentacrinus caput me- 

 dusae, 1. 



Echinodermata, place of, in zoology, 

 367. 



Education of girls, review, 379. 



Effects of elevation on health, 385. 



Eighty-first planet, 305. 



Elementary bodies, combining propor- 

 tions of, 221. 



Empiricism, danger of, in zoological 

 classification, 362. 



Endosmose in vital phenomena, 79. 



Entomology. — Formation of cells of 

 bees, 63 ; instincts and habits of bee3 

 94 ; hermaphrodite bees, 145 ; Ephe 

 merae, species and characters of, 147 

 respiratory nerves of insects, 225 

 habits of the diadem spider, 285 

 Bombyx Fauvetti, a new silkworm 

 305 ; Leptalis, Ithomia, and Me 

 thona, mimetic relations of, 307 

 Pelopoeus Madraspatanus, habits of, 

 314 ; parasites of the cockroach, 337 

 insects that attack wood carving, 352 

 Dyticus marginalis, history of, 422. 



Entozoa, history of, 190. 



Eozoon canadense, 460 



Epeira diadema, 285. 



Ephemera, the May-fly, 147. 



Ethnology. — Bone deposits of rein- 

 deer period in France, 62 ; modes of 

 measuring the skull, 64 ; human 

 fossils from Moulin Quignon, 144 ; 

 ethnology of Dahomey, 222, 381 ; 

 slave trade of Zambesi, 302 ; prse- 

 historic remains in Caithness, 456, 

 461 ; Malays of Puloweh, 463 ; see 

 also Aechzeologia. 



Ethnology of Dahomey, 222. 



Exosmose in vital phenomena, 79. 



Experiments on crystallization, 267. 



Experiment on forcible air currents,14S. 



Experiment on the faculties of the 

 bee, 100 



Explorations in Central Asia, 62. 



Faiehead, Ireland, coast of, 185. 

 Fermentation of wines, 306. 

 Fish, destruction of, by Dyticus mar- 

 ginalis, 422. 

 Fission of animalcules, 66. 

 Fitzroy, Admiral, on the weather, 103. 

 Flourides in a crystalline state, 43. 

 Fluids, passage of, through tubes, 78. 



