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Index. 



Gourd monstrosities, 448. 



Graham's recent discoveries, 452. 



Graptolites, their structure and syste- 

 matic position, 283, 365. 



Graptolitus scalaris, 284. 



Grates of coals to warn mariner, 326. 



Great black woodpecker, 325. 



Great cluster in Libra, 459. 



Great cluster Toucani, 464. 



Great globular cluster &> Cent auri, 461. 



Great spiral nebula, 280. 



Great spotted woodpecker, 322. 



Greek coins found at Gurnard Bay, 154. 



Greenwich observatory motor clock, 

 480. 



Green Woodpecker, 322. 



Gregarinse in chignons, 239. 



Gregariniferous parasites, 239. 



Gulls' feathers, 173. 



Gun cotton stability, 399. 



Habits of green woodpecker, 322. 



Hairy woodpecker, 325. 



Haliotis, 163. 



Handbook of astronomy, 317. 



Handbook of meteorology, 478. 



Hart's " Barbarossa submitting to the 

 Pope," 362. 



Heat, irregularities of, 125. 



Heron, food of, 79. 



Highland lass reading, 363. 



Helicidce, 20. 



Heliochromy on paper, 229. 



Heliophotography , 431 . 



Helix aspersa, garden snail, 19. 



Herculis juvenis engraved on a sap- 

 phire, 401. 



Hermit crabs, 24. 



Hero's engine, 427. 



Home after victory, 363. 



Homo-chromoscope, 389. 



Hookscapes, 362. 



Houses of Parliament clock, 480. 



House visitants, Indian insects, 110. 



Huggins on the spectrum of Mars, 319. 



Humidity of English climate, 121. 



Huygenian lenses, 438. 



Huygens, lunar, 383. 



Hyalonema, Ehrenberg on, 480. 



Hyalonema, glass rope, 81. 



Hyalonema, polyps of, 239. 



Hydrogen, penetration of, 456. 



Hydrozoa, 373. 



Iceland, north-west peninsula, 319. 

 Igneous rocks, 220. 

 Implements of ancient jewellers, 8. 

 Importance of lighthouses, 325. 

 Indian insects, house visitants, 110. 

 Ingot of lead from Linlcy, 354. 

 Inlaid stones, 8. 

 Inlaid silver, 183. 



Insects, Indian, 110. 



Insects in Mexico, 467. 



Instinct and reason, 413. 



Intaglios in the Blacas collection, 407. 



Iron produced from copper ore, 230. 



Isochimenal, 117. 



Isotherm of London, 116. 



Isotheral of London, 118. 



Ivory, fossil, 72. 



Japanese inventions, 83. 

 Japanese specimens of glass rope, 85. 

 Jewel of Poly crates, 402* 

 Jewelry, ancient, 1. 

 Julius Caesar engraved on ajacynth,407. 

 Jupiter's satellites, simultaneous con- 

 cealment of, 79. 



Kandelia, mangrove, 68. 

 Kingfisher's feathers, 236. 

 Kingfisher's nests, 416. 

 King's Council, 96. 

 Kites, flight of, 377. 



Lae:e Vogelsolei, 253. 



Lamellicorn beetles, 112. 



Lamps for lighthouses, 326. 



Lamps, new, 399. 



Lamp shells, 25. 



Larks nests, 416. 



Larva? of Corethia plumicornis, 476. 



Law of alternation and periodicity, 19. 



Law of libel, 105. 



Leaves and flowers of the vegetable 

 sheep, 133. 



Lenses for lighthouses, 326. 



Lesser spotted woodpecker, 324. 



Libration in latitude and longitude, 

 general results of, 271. 



Libra, great cluster in, 459. 



Life history of a group of solar spots, 

 441. 



Life-sized heads by Mrs. Cameron, 32. 



Lighthouses using electric, light, 325. 



Light : its influence, 318. 



Light spots in the lunar night — the 

 crater Linne, occultations, 51. 



Lingula, 26. 



Lingula flags, 349. 



Linnsean spelling, 365. 



Linne, 281. 



Linne crater, 58, 215, 480. 



Linne, Schmidt on, 152. * 



Literary notices, 77, 157, 231, 317, 477. 



Litorina litorea, 164. 



Living mollusk, 24. 



Llandeilo rocks, 348. 



Llandovery, 353. 



Low barometer due to absolute diffe- 

 rence of level, 347. 



Low barometer of the Antartic tempe- 

 rate zone, 334. 



