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Index. 



Bees, hermaphrodite, 3SS. 



Behistun, inscription of, 328. 



Belemnites, or thunderbolts, 229. 



Belladonna, effects of, 306. 



Big canon on the Colorado Biver, 310. 



Bilharzia hamiatobia, 462. 



Birds of Ailsa Craig, 114. 



Birds of Sikkim, 196. 



Bitumens, native, 88. 



Black caiion of the Colorado Biver, 

 312. 



Blackcock in Lapland, 375. 



Black Mountains, view from the, 316. 



Blondeau on acetification, 468. 



Blood, bacteriunis in the, 177 ; causes 

 of coagulation of, 227 ; corpuscles, 

 structure of, 68 ; important duties of, 

 105 ; of slug, colourless, 111. 



Blue cyanea, the, 149. 



Blue Isile, source of the, 47. 



Boletus, species of, described, 270. 



Bolides at Rhodes and dust shower, 228. 



Bolitos, 159. 



Botanizing at Oakshott Heath, 266. 



Botany. — Vaccinium vitis idsea, food 

 for Coleophora, 5 ; Larch, food for 

 tent-maker caterpillars, 5 ; Luzula, 

 Coleophora in seeds of, 6 ; Nostoc 

 pruniforme, botanic name of Ophry- 

 dium versatile, 25 ; the study of 

 mosses, 42 ; Cinchona bark from In- 

 dia, 65 ; Santalaesea, 75 ; the Phas- 

 cums, or earth mosses, 173 ; Minute 

 structure of the vinegar plant, 238 ; 

 the Dicranums, or fork-mosses, 248; 

 botanizing at Oakshott Heath, 266. 



Bothriocephalus, species of, 462. 



Bouquet of wine, 228. 



Brain of Bushwoman, and brains of 

 idiots, 387. 



Branchipus eximiis described, 217. 



Brass cells for mounting objects, 370. 



Bread from Pompeii, 226. 



British Association, 222, 303. 



British fishes, history of, 301. 



Bbitish Meteorological Society. — 

 Meteorological disturbances during 

 the storm of October, 30, 1863, 386. 



British star-fishes, 251. 



Bromine, preparation of, 304. 



Bruce, discoveries of, 47. 



Brutes, moral faculties of, 211. 



Bugula found at Llandudno, 12. 



Burton's, Captain, discoveries, 46. 



Bushwoman, brain of, 387. 



C\r.n Caradoc described, 397. 

 Calorie engines, 417. 

 Camphor pulsations, 17. 



Canons of the Colorado River, 309. 

 Capillary transpiration of gases, 416. 



Caradoc Club, 396. 



Carbon, an allotropic substance, 28. 



Carbonic acid, diffusive powers of, 415. 



Cardinas, Captain, travels of, 310. 



Castle, ruined, 461. 



Caterpillars, leaf-mining, 1. 



Cattle breeding, novelty in, 306. 



Cattle, number in Iceland and Den- 

 mark, 391. 



Cells, the functions of, 42. 



Cerasus lauro cerasus eaten by goats, 

 304. 



Cerebral development of animals, 214. 



Ceriornis Satyra (Homed Tragopan), 

 69, 195. 



Ceylon pearl fisheries, 418. 



Ceylon, Weddos or Widdos of, 464. 



Chanks preying upon oysters, 420. 



Chemical Society. — Synthesis, 65 ; a 

 curious case of electrolytic action, 

 144 ; vanadium in English pig-iron, 

 386. 



Chilian mountain system, 181. 



Chimpanzee, anatomy of, 225. 



Chlorine in animals, 304. 



Chrysanthemum parthenium, 268. 



Chrysaora, stinging powers of, 156. 



Church Stretton, description of, 396. 



Cidai'is, spines of, 229. 



Cinchona bark from India, 65. 



Circulation of Coleophora, 3 ; of slug, 

 105 ; organs of, described, 137. 



Cirrhigrade star-fishes described, 254. 



Cladocarpi, an artificial group of mosses, 

 43, 355. 



Clay, vanadic acid in, 432. 



Clays, formation of, 410. 



Cnida? of Medusas described, 156. 



Coal, depth of workings, 320 ; fields, 

 points of chief importance in, 31S ; 

 mines, exhaustion of, 222 ; supply 

 and waste of, 317 ; seams, number 

 and thickness of, 319 ; waste of in 

 households, 223; supply, further 

 note on the, 438. 



Coast line of the Lothians, elevation of, 

 305. 



Coinages of Judsea, 328, 412. 



Coleophora, or tent-makers, 1. 



Coleophora vitella making its case, 5. 



Colne oyster fishery, 424. 



Colorado River^ canons of the, 309. 



Colour, moonlight and, 127. 



Columnar basalt of Pouk Hdl, Staf- 

 fordsliire, 98. 



Comatula, British star-fish, 251. 



Comet V., 1863, 388. 



Comets whose orbits aro not calculated, 

 218, 381. 



Compressorium, a new reversible, 370; 

 Ross's new, 227. 



