Index. 



483 



Bronze dagger, ancient, 393. 



Bronze object, ancient, 472. 



Bronze implements found inFrance,394. 



Browning's sun-screen, 319. 



Browning's telescopes, 176. 



Brugueira, 68. 



Buckie, 163. 



Bulboceros, 112. 



Bulmius, 24. 



Burning the dead, 309. 



Butterflies, mimetic, 399. 



Cab of Delacroix, 151. 



Caged woodpecker, 323. 



Calamary, 28. 



Calderon's Home after Victory, 363. 



Cameo of the Emperor Augustus in 

 the Blacas Collection, 401. 



Cameo, finest known, 406. 



Cameo of the monks of St. Alban's, 405. 



Candles, Ancient Eoman, 355. 



Canes Venatici, 384. 



Canon Green well's researches, 393. 



Cape Colony, an eight days' ramble. 

 246. 



Caprimulgidce nests, 416. 



Caradoc beds, 352. 



Carter's sheep, 364. 



Cassella's embossing self-recording ane- 

 mometer, 320. 



Cassini, lunar, 147. 



Caterpillars' eyes, 80. 



Cave Treveneage, the, 74. 



Celtic foundry of the Bronze age, 394. 



Cell formations, experiments on, 244, 



Cemeteries at Wroxeter, 309. 



Centauri cluster, 461. 



Centre of gravity, 346. 



Ceriops (mangrove), 68. 



Cerithium telescopium, 171. 



Chasing in ancient jewelry, 6. 



Chemical aids to art, 180," 409. 



Chemistry.— Formation of crystals, 

 63 ; galvanic battery, 63 ; photo- 

 graphy under water, 64 ; petroleum 

 lamps, 64 ; petroleum in Italy, 80 

 molecular force in liquids, 80 ; gal 

 vanic battery, 156; electrical ma 

 chine, 156; Plateau's liquid, 160 

 boiling water in rotation, 160 ; che 

 mical aids to art, 180; platinum 

 180 ; chemical test or re-agent, 180 

 bichloride of platinum, 181 ; plati 

 nizing process, 182 ; osteoplastic 

 184; oxide of zinc, 185; oxyhydro 

 gen lime light, 226; preservative 

 coatings for metals, 227 ; now process 

 for obtaining oxygen of chlorine, 229 ; 

 heliochromy, 229 ; production of iron 

 and copper ore, 230 ; action of 

 quinine on the nerves, 240; new 

 source of the tanning principle, 310 ; 



peculiar application of electricity, 

 311 ; application of sulphuret of 

 carbon to the preparation of per- 

 fumes, 312 ; application of air charged 

 with composite vapours, 314; new 

 application of photography, 314 ; 

 reinforcement of photographic nega- 

 tives, 314; estimation of silex of 

 wheat, 315 ; sensitive litmus paper, 

 315 ; new apparatus for condensing 

 light, 396 ; economic mode of reduc- 

 ing light, 397 ; protection of armour 

 plates from corrosion, 397 ; occlusion 

 of hydrogen by meteoric iron, 397 ; 

 stability of gun cotton, 399 ; chemical 

 aids to art, 409 ; size used in dis- 

 temper and fresco painting, 409 ; 

 stereochromy, 409 ; lime or baryta 

 water, 410 ; silicious bloom, 410 ; 

 copal process, 412 ; Graham's re- 

 searches into the diffusion of gases, 

 452 ; absorption and dialytic sepa- 

 ration of gases by colloid septa, 452 ; 

 occlusion of gases, 452 ; Torricellian 

 vacuum, 453 ; Sprengel's mercurial 

 exhauster, 453 ; penetration of India- 

 rubber by gases, 454 ; passage of 

 gases through platinum, 455 ; occlu- 

 sion of carbonic acid gas, 458 ; eco- 

 nomic production of oxygen for 

 industrial purposes, 474 ; utilization 

 of electric light, 475 ; chlorophyll, 

 480. 



Cholera and diarrhoea, 157. 



Chlorine or oxygen, new process for 

 obtaining, 229. 



Christy's Reliquice Aquitanicce i shells 

 figured in, 167. 



Cicindelas, Indian insects, 112. 



Circulation of air, 340. 



Civil law, 101. 



Chlorophyll, notes on, 480. 



Clavagella, 18. 



Clearing of ships from bilge water or 

 leakage, 474. 



Climacograptus, 370. 



Climate of Great Britain, 113. 



Clock of Houses of Parliament, 480. 



Clodograpsus, 369. 



Cluster, Centauri, 461. 



Clusters and nebulao, 384. 



Clusters and nebuloo, southern, 4j«). 



Cluster in Libra, 459. 



Cluster, Toucani, 461. 



Coal-fields of United States, 34. 



Cockles, 163. 



Cocoons, 243. 



Coinage of Great Britain, 10. 



Coleoptera, Indian insects, 111. 



Cole's marine painting, 364. 



Colossus of Rhodes, 325. 



Colours for fresco painting, 409. 



