Index. 



485 



English prose composition, 478. 



Engraved gems, 403. 



Engraving on steel, 396. 



Entomology. — Eyes of caterpillars, 80; 

 Indian insects, 110; flying bugs, 111 ; 

 coleoptera, 111 ; cicindelas, 112 ; bul- 

 boceros, 112 ; hemiptera, 112 ; redu- 

 vius, 112 ; orthoptera, 112 ; neurop- 

 terous, 112 ; ant lion, 112 ; black ant, 

 112 ; termites, 112 ; mimetic but- 

 terflies, 399 ; corixa mercenaria, 467. 



Eozoon, new specimens, 398. 



Epilepsy, bromide of potassium, 479. 



Eratosthenes crater, 370. 



Eruption lunar, 216. 



Eulima, 19. 



Excavations at Wroxeter, 395. 



Expansive effects due to liberation of 

 heat as vapour is condensed, 341. 



Exposition Universeile, Archaeological 

 part, 472. 



Expulsive effects due to vapour raised 

 from southern oceans, 341. 



External ornamentation of shells, 18. 



Evaporation of water, 342. 



Eyes of caterpillars, 80. 



Fatio on feathers, their decoloration, 



172. 

 Fauna and flora found at Wirtemberg, 



451. 

 Faye on the sun's rotation, 159. 

 Feathers, Fatio on, 172. 

 Feathering oars, 422. 

 Felspathic ashes, 352. 

 Fern monstrosities, 447. 

 Filagree, origin of, 6. 

 First annual report of the Aeronautical 



Society, 374. 

 Fish, rumination in, 190. 

 Fixing fresco paintings, 410. 

 Floating shells, 27. 

 Flowers of South Africa, 253. 

 Flying bugs, 111. 

 Flying machines, 374. 

 Food of heron, 79. 

 Forged antiquities, 307. 

 Forest frequenters, 321. 

 Forged flint implements, 225. 

 Form, growth, and construction of 



shells, 18. 

 Form of graptolite, 289. 

 Formation of crystals, 63. 

 Fossils, 350. 



Fossil flora of Greenland, 61. 

 Fossils in Shropshire, 189. 

 Fossil ivory, 72. 

 Fossils obtained from laurcntian rocks, 



398. 

 Fossd oxen, 238. 



French lighthouse engineers, 330. 

 Fresco painting, 409. 



Fresh notes on the crater Linne, and 

 supposed lunar eruptions, 215. 



Fresh-water valved vaginicola, 205. 



Friction of celestial bodies and ether, 80. 



Frith's " King Charles Second's last 

 Sunday," 360. 



Fuze for mining, 156. 



Galvanic battery, new, 156. 



Galvanic battery, simple forms of, 63. 



Garden snail, 19. 



Gastrochoena, 18. 



Gaseous nebula in hydra, 278. 



Gases, occulsion of, 452. 



Gasteropod, 26. 



Gauging the light of spots on the 

 moon, and checking additions, 79. 



Geese and duck shooting in Gape 

 Colony, 254. 



Geological Society, 159, 238, 398. 



Geology — Coal mines of the United 

 States, 34 ; bituminous coal, 35 ; an- 

 thracite coal-field, 35 ; Schuylkill 

 district, 36 ; Swatara, 36 ; conglome- 

 rate, 37; limestones, 37 ; silurian,37; 

 Devonian formations, 37 ; Susque- 

 hannah district, 38 ; Geological So- 

 ciety, 159 ; telerpeton elginense, 159 ; 

 mineral wealth of Shropshire, 185 ; 

 geology of S hropshire, 186 ; lauren- 

 tian rocks, 186; sandstone strata, 186; 

 fossils, 187 ; conglomerate, 187 ; 

 Stiperstone range, 188 ; quartzose, 

 188 ; Llandeilo formation, 189 ; vol- 

 canic and plutonic rocks, 220 ; igneous 

 rocks, 220 ; fossil Crustacea, 233 ; 

 Geology and Genesis, 233 ; geology 

 for general readers, 235 ; Geological 

 Society, 238 ; fossil oxen, 238; silurian 

 life, 240 ; Stiperstone range, 348 ; 

 Llandeilo rocks, 348 ; lower silurian 

 rocks, 348 ; geological phenomena, 

 349 ; lingula flags, 350 ; felspathic 

 aglomerates, 350 ; ogygia buchii, 351 ; 

 organic remains, 351 ; shale and grit, 

 352 ; Caradoc and Bala beds, 352; lead 

 ingot, 354 ; Geological Society, new 

 specimens eozoon, 398 ; fossils ob- 

 tained from laurentian rocks of 

 Canada, 398 ; opals of California, 480. 



Geology for general readers, 235. 



Geology of Shropshire, 186. 



Gibbus lyonetti, 20. 



Gilding porcelain, 312. 



Glass rope hyalonema, 81. 



Glazing of porcelain, 396. 



Globular cluster ca Centauri, 461. 



Gnaphalium, 129. 



Golden-winged woodpecker, 325. 



Gold plate and inlaying, 8. 



Goodall's " Kachel," 364. 



Gould's " Birds of Europe," 322. 



