Index. 



whelk, 25 ; mya, 25 ; ear-shell, 25 ; 

 keyhole limpet, 25 ; siliquaria, 25 ; 

 lamp shells, 25 ; Waldheimia Aus- 

 tralis, 26 ; terebratula, 26 ; gastero- 

 pod, 26 ; rhynchonella, 26 ; lingula, 

 26; terebratula, 26; discina, 26; 

 wing shells, 27 ; nautilus, 27 ; argo- 

 nauta, 28 ; ianthina, 28 ; calamary, 

 28 ; spirula, 28 ; pearly nautilus, 29 ; 

 oysters on mangroves, 66 ; mam- 

 moth, and its epoch, 70 ; food of 

 heron, 79 ; caterpillars' eyes, 80 ; 

 glass-rope hyalonema, 81 ; hyalo- 

 nema Sieboldi, 81 ; spongicolse, 82 ; 

 pabjthoa, 84; Indian insects, 110; 

 flying bugs, 111 ; coleoptera, 111 ; 

 bulboceros, 112 ; cimicidse, 112 ; 

 hemiptera, 112 ; orthoptera, 112 ; 

 neuropteous insects, 112 ; black ants, 

 112 ; termites, 112 ; telerpeton elgi- 

 nense, 159 ; bee eggs and their pro- 

 ducts, 160; shell-fish, 162; sea 

 oysters, 162; scollops, 162; pec-tens, 

 162 ; sea-mussel, 162 ; cockles, 163 ; 

 clams, 163 ; gnathodon cuneatus, 

 163; razor fish, 163; patella, 163; 

 oyster-catcher, 163 ; haliotis, 163 ; 

 whelks, 163 ; buckies, 163 ; litorina 

 litorea, 164 ; amphibola, 164 ; land- 

 snails, 164 ; helix, 164 ; cuttle-fish, 

 164 ; sea hare, 166 ; gulls, 173 ; 

 birds' feathers, 174 ; rumination in 

 fish, 190 ; mammalia, 190 ; scarus, 

 191 ; fresh-water valved vaginieola, 

 205 ; birds of Norfolk, 235 ; British 

 fossil oxen, 238 ; gregarinse, 239 ; 

 tadpole, 239 ; polyps of hyalonema, 

 239 ; mammoth in bay of Tas, 240 ; 

 new oak-feeding silk-worm of China, 

 241 ; bombyx mori, 241 ; ailanthus 

 worm, 241 ; antheraa pernyi, 241 ; 

 chrysalis, 242 ; cocoons, 243 ; grubs, 

 243 ; parasites, 264 ; sun birds, 249 ; 

 cinnyris famosa, 249 ; cinnyris vio- 

 lacea, 249 ; melliphaga caff'er, 249 ; 

 gray finches, 249 ; acrsea horta, 249 ; 

 pyrameis cardui, 249 ; eagles, 251 ; 

 water fowls of Cape Colony, 254 ; 

 geese, 255 ; ducks, 255; graptolites, 

 283 ; hydrozoa, 285 ; trophosome, 

 286 ; polypary, 286 ; polypites, 286 ; 

 diplograpsus, 287 ; metiolites, 288 ; 

 phyllograptus, 288; slow incubating 

 silk moth eggs, 320 ; British wood- 

 peckers, 322 ; graptolites, 365 ; ras- 

 trites, 368 ; graptolithus, 368 ; cyr- 

 tograpsus, 369 ; didymograpsus, 369 ; 

 dichograpsus, 369 ; clodograpsus, 

 369 ; riendrop-aptus, 370 ; diplo- 

 grapsus, 370 ; climacograptus, 370 ; 

 metiolites, 370 ; dicranograptus, 371; 

 phyllograptus, 371; polyzoa, 373; 



hydrozoa, 373 ; mimetic butterflies, 

 399 ; birds' nests, 413 ; rooks, 416 ; 

 crows, 416 ; larks, 416 ; king-fishers, 

 416 ; swallow, 416 ; wren, 416 ; mag- 

 pie, 416; titmouse, 416; pigeons, 416; 

 caprimulgida?, 416 ; corixa merce- 

 naria, 467 ; Ehrenberg on hyalonema, 

 480. 



Nautilus, 28. 



Nebula?, 277, 384, 459. 



Necklaces, ancient, 4. 



Negative slip of screw propeller, 427. 



Neretidse, 24. 



Nest making of the woodpecker, 323. 



Nests of various birds, 415. 



Neuropterous insect, 112. 



New Zealand vegetable sheep, 128. 



Nilsson the Swedish naturalist, 372. 



Nimrocl collection of jewels, 3. 



Nineveh collection of jewelry, 3. 



Northern lights, 393. 



Norman church at St. Margaret' s-at- 

 Cliffe, 471. 



North-west peninsula of Iceland, 318. 



Notes on the crater Linne, 214. 



Notes on fossils recently obtained from 

 the Laurent ian rocks of Canada, 398. 



Note of woodpecker, 324. 



Notonecta, 469. 



November meteors, 320. 



Nudibranchiata, 19. 



Nunnery in Wiltshire, 356. 



Nutrition considered microscopically, 

 399 



Oak-feeding silkworm of China, 241. 



Oars, use of, 421. 



Objects, double stars, occultation, 459. 



Object-glasses, Wray's, 160. 



Occlusion of carbonic oxide, 458. 



Occlusion of gases, 452. 



Occlusion of hydrogen by meteoric 



iron, 397. 

 Occultations, 60, 151, 205, 283, 387, 



•467. 

 Ogygia buchii, 351. 

 Oil lamps for lighthouses, 332. 

 Oliva), 24. 



Onyeha, Blatta Byzantina, 165. 

 Opals of California, 480. 

 Operculated gasteropoda, 23. 

 Ophthalmic use of sulphate of soda, 



479. 

 Optical experiments, 140. 

 Orchard oriole's nest, 419. 

 Origin of solar spots, 445. 

 Orioles' nests, 420. 

 Orthoptera, 112. 



Osteo- plastic, or os-artificiel, 184. 

 " Othello and Desdemona," painted by 



Maclise, 359. 

 Oxen fossils, 238. 



