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Index. 



Wray's object glasses, 160 ; lunar 

 delineation, 195 ; lunar Aristillus 

 and Autolycus, 195 ; occultations, 

 205; Biela's comet, 208 ; fresh notes 

 on crater Linne and supposed lunar 



i eruptions, 215 ; Mare Serenitatis, 

 217 ; products of volcanic action, 

 218 ; mud volcano in moon, 221 ; 

 Secchi on Linne, 222 ; descriptive 

 astronomy, 231 ; shadow during solar 

 eclipse, 237 ; photographing the 

 moon, 239 ; solar eclipse, March 6, 

 240 ; lunar perspective, 267 ; Rhseti- 

 cus, true form, 267 ; lunar crater, 

 Plato, 273 ; red star, 275 j double 

 stars, 277 ; nebulas, 277 ; gaseous 

 nebulae in Hydra, 278 ; great spiral 

 nebula, 280; Linne, 282; Aristo- 

 teles, 282 ; occultations, 283 ; Hand- 

 book of Astronomy, 317 ; Huggins 

 on the spectrum of Mars, 319 ; 

 Browning's sun-screen, 319 ; No- 

 vember meteors, 320 ; lunar Apen- 

 nines, 379 ; Hadley, 382 ; Aratus, 

 382 ; Huygens, 383 ; clusters and 

 nebulas, 384 ; Canes Venatici, 384 ; 

 nebula of Andromeda, 386 ; occul- 

 tation, 387 ; moon colours, 388 ; 

 Linne, 388 ; homochromoscope, 389 ; 

 probable connection of shooting stars 

 with comets, 390; Biela's comet, 391 ; 

 sun viewing and drawing, 429 ; 

 " willow-leaf " and " rice-grain," 

 430 ; darkened shutter for viewing 

 the sun by projection on a screen, 

 432 ; measuring spots on the sun, 

 434 ; solar diameter, 437 : Huygenian 

 lenses, 438 ; life-bistory of a group of 

 sun-spots, 441 ; crystallization, 445 ; 

 clusters and nebula?, 459 ; great clus- 

 ter Libra, 459 ; Serpens, 460; a> Cen- 

 tauri, 461 ; colour of stellar clusters, 

 463 ; Toucani, 464 ; double stars, 

 466 ; occultations, 467 ; crater Linne, 

 480. 



Atmospheric phenomenon, 335. 



Auriculida, 24. 



Autolycus and Aristillus (lunar), 195. 



Bain's kloof, 252. 



Bala beds, 352. 



Baltimore oriole's nest, 419. 



Barker's mill, 427. 



Barlow lens, 179. 



Barometer of Antarctic temperate zone, 



334. 

 Barometric pressure increase, 335. 

 Barrande on the graptolites, 366. 

 Barrels, new mode of constructing, 226. 

 Baryta-water for wall-painting, 412. 

 Bichloride of platinum, 181. 

 Biela's comet, 208, 391. 



Blacas, collection of antiquities, 401. 



Binocular microscope, 476. 



Bird's eggs and their products, 160. 



Birds of Europe— Gould's, 322. 



Bird's-nests, philosophy of, 413. 



Birds of Norfolk, 235. 



Bivalve mollusca, 163. » 



Boiling water in rotation, 160. 



Bombyx Cynthia, 241. 



Bone-caves of Craven, 76. 



Bones and reindeer horn found at Wir- 

 temberg, 450. 



Borax used by jewellers, 5. 



Botanical origin of wheat, 262. 



Botany — Fossil forest of Atanakerdluk, 

 61 ; fossil flora, 61 ; four species of 

 oaks, 61 ; mangrove and its allies, 65; 

 rhizophora, 65 ; roots of mangroves, 

 66 ; banyan fig-tree, 67 ; red man- 

 grove, 67 ; ceriops, 68 ; kandelia, 68 ; 

 brugueira, 68; Garden Oracle and 

 Floricultural Year-book, 77; vege- 

 table sheep of New Zealand, 128 ; 

 compositse, 128 ; Tasmanian dog- 

 wood, 128 ; common aster, 128 ; 

 musk wood, 128 ; raoulia, 128 ; 

 haastia pulvinaris, 129 ; gnaphalium, 



129 ; helichrysum, 129 ; raoulia Aus- 

 tralis, 129 ; raoulia tenuicaulis, 130 ; 

 raoulia haastii, 130 ; raoulia Munroi, 



130 ; raoulia subulata, 130 ; raoulia 

 eximia, 3 30; raoulia Hectori, 131; ra- 

 oulia glabra, 131 ; raoulia subsericea, 

 131 ; raoulia grandiflora, 131 ; ra- 

 oulia mammillaris, 132 ; raoulia bry- 

 oides, 132 ; leaves and flowers of vege- 

 table sheep, 133 ; oaks of China,242 ; 

 trees of the Paarl, 247 ; vineyards of 

 the Paarl, 247 ; flowers of the Paarl 

 247 ; Cape Colony flowers and trees 

 247 ; sugar bush, (proteanana?), 249 

 wild sacha, 249 ; grey lichens, 250 

 waggon-boem, 251 ; silver-trees, 251 



. oaks at Bain's Kloof, 252 ; prionium 

 palmita, 252 ; Cape bulbs, 253 

 African tulip, 253 ; ixias and gladio 

 las, 253 ; trumpet lily, 253 ; blood 

 flowers, 256 ; Watsonia angusta 

 256 ; tonka bean, 256 ; aponogeton 

 distachyon, 256; wild olive, 256 

 botanical origin of wheat* 262 

 triticum vulgare, 263 ; segilops 

 ovata, 263 ; ccgilops triticoides, 263 

 potatoes, 266 ; vegetable monstrosi 

 ties, 446 ; poppy, curious anomaly, 

 447 ; fern variations, 447 ; gourds, 



447 ; pumpkins, 448 ; Datura tatula 



448 ; weakness of wheat stems, 479. 

 Brachiopoda, 26. 



British fossil oxen, 238. 



British woodpeckers, 321. 



Bromide of potassium in epilepsy, 479 



