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Index. 



Fly-fishing and the Ephemera, 148. 

 Forged antiquities, 877. 

 Formation of bottom ice, 405. 

 Fossil stone implements in India, 145. 

 Fossiliferous deposits of Lingula flags, 



16. 

 Fountain, sun, 306. 

 Fox, a pet in the middle ages, 324. 

 Frauenhofer, biography of, 452. 

 Frondose Jungermannia, 336. 

 Functions and organs, how related, 385. 

 Fungi, resting spores of, 31. 



Gases, spectra of, 402. 



Gems of Lough Eeagh, 177. 



Generative organs of swan mussel, 71. 



Geology. — The stalked crinoids of 

 limestone rocks, 1 ; missing chapters 

 of geological history, 12 ; caverns of 

 the valley of the Vezere, etc., south 

 of France, 62 ; glaciers in Scotland, 

 63 ; discovery of recent moa, 143 ; 

 human fossils, 144; igneous rocks 

 and volcanoes of Ireland, 174 ; Lyell 

 on the Bath waters, 219 ; Delta of 

 the Amazons, 224; influence of water 

 and ice in forming the physical fea- 

 tures of the earth, 354 ; the thick 

 coal of South Staffordshire, 412 ; 

 reptiles of carboniferous strata, 459 ; 

 organic remains of Laurentian rocks, 

 459 ; geology of Otago, 460 ; exca- 

 vation of lake-basins in New Zea- 

 land, 461. 



Geological models, construction of, 199. 



Geological record, imperfection of, 12. 



Germination of animals and plants, 192. 



Giant's causeway, 175. 



Glacial period in Europe, 219. 



Glaciers in south of Scotland, 62. 



Glaciers, probable origin of, 44. 



Glaciers, their motions and effects, 355. 



Glenariff, scenery of, 186. 



Gneiss deposits in Scotland, 16. 



Gold coin of Henry III., 269. 



Gold, fineness of, for coinage, 86. 



Gold at Otago, 460. 



Gold, reduction of, from quartz, 304. 



Gordius orientalis, a parasite of the 

 cockroach, 342. 



Gravitation as illustrative of micro- 

 scopy, 44. 



Great water-beetle, 422. 



Green-drake flies, 148. 



Gregorina blattrc, a parasite of the 

 cockroach, 339. 



Growth of spirogyra, GQ. 



Habits of the caplin, 386. 

 Habits of diadem spider, 285. 

 Heat a mode of motion, 163. 



Heat and organization, 163. 



Hearing, faculty of, in aquatic mol- 

 luscs, 74. 



Heliconidse, species in America, 311. 



Helminths, classes of, 191. 



Henry Till., his debasement of the 

 coinage, 269. 



Herapathite, crystals of, 441. 



Hercules, constellation of, 117. 



Hermaphrodite bees, 145. 



Herschel's (Sir J.) catalogue of nebulce 

 and star clusters, 349. 



Herschel's catalogue of nebulee, 446. 



High powers in microscopy, 128. 



Honey harvest, easy way of taking, 102. 



Honey-sucker of the Moluccas, 310. 



Hot springs, plants of, 167. 



Huggins' researches on astral che- 

 mistry, 388. 



Human breath, analysis of, 226. 



Human fossils from Moulin Q.uignon, 

 144. 



Hyelaphus porcinus, the hog-deer, 172. 



Hybernation, note on, 384. 



Ibtctee Americanus, 308. 



Ice, bottom, how found, 405. 



Ice, influence of, on physical features of 

 the earth, 354. 



Igneous action in carboniferous era, 413. 



Igneous and diluvial agencies in modi- 

 fying the aspects of the globe, 354. 



Ignition, effect of, on density, 381. 



Ignition of gases by platinum, 77. 



Imitative birds and insects, 307. 



Inaccuracies of Times' Bee Master, 282. 



Indian building insect, 314. 



Indian rhinoceros, L70. 



Influence of water and ice in forming 

 the physical features of the earth, 354. 



Infusoria in intestines of cockroach, 340. 



Infusoria, place of, in zoology, 365. 



Insane, treatment of, 305. 



Insects, respiratory nerves of, 225. 



Insects, physiology of, 426. 



Instincts and habits of bees, 94. . 



Intelligence of honey bee, 99. 



Intestinal canal of Dyticus marginalis, 

 425. 



Intestinal worms, 190. 



Iodide of quinine, crystals of, 111. 



Irish volcanoes, 174. 



Iron and magnesia in meteorite of Or- 

 gueil, 464. 



Ithomia, Ilerdina and Flora, 312. 



Joannes Diaconus quoted, 325 

 Jewry wall, Leicester, excavations at, 



375, 458. 

 Jungermannia bidentata, heterophylla, 



setacea, tricophylla, Mackaii, calyp- 



