Index. 



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Qr/iCKioCK, natural history of, 375. 



Rain, solid matter in, 228. 



Ralph Fitch, the London pearl mer- 

 chant, 418. 



Rangoon tar, 89. 



Reason and instinct, 211. 



Recreations, arithmetical, 353. 



Respiration of coleophora, 3 ; of ru- 

 minants, 147 ; of slug, 105. 



Reversible compressorium, a new, 370. 



Rhizopods, the amoeban, 466 ; Mr. H. 

 J. Carter on, 307. 



Rhodes, earthquakes at, 227. 



Robertson's, Mr., preparation of cos- 

 sus, 3. 



Rocks, principal varieties of, 409. 



Rocky Mountains, precipices in the, 

 310. 



Ross's new compressorium, 227. 



Royal Society, 463. 



Royal Society op Literature. — 

 Ancient knowledge of African 

 lakes, 464. 



Ruined abbeys and castles of Great 

 Britain and Ireland, 461. 



Ruminants, respiration of, 147. 



Sabella, tubes of, 11. 



Sagina procumbens, 269. 



Salix prostrata, 276. 



Samaritans, faith of the, 333. 



Sandal-wood and its commercial im- 

 portance, 73. 



Sander's- wood, ancient name for sandal- 

 wood, 77. 



Sandstone, metamorphosed, 412. 



Sandwich Islands, sandal-wood in the, 

 78. 



Sand-grouse, the new British, 197. 



Santalum album, seed of, 74. 



Scales of the eel, how to obtain, 428. 



Scarborough, the zoologist at, 84. 



Scenery of the Colorado River, 310. 



Schistocarpi, an order of mosses, 43. 



Scientific researches and medical 

 science, 303. 



Scutellaria minor, 274. 



Sea-weed a constituent of coal, 317. 



Seismographic map of the world, 360. 



Seismology, 299. 



Seleucidse, the, 333. 



Senecio sylvaticus, mountain ground- 

 sel, 269. 



Seraphim and its allies, 229. 



Serpents' skins, sugarlrom, 226. 



Sertularia, sparks emitted from, 16. 



Severn Valley Club, 396. 



Shakespeare's shekels of gold, 331. 



Shale, metamorphosed, 412. 



Shekels, the first Jewish, 328, 442. 



Sheep-tick, 439. 



Shells and corals of Jamaica, 65. 



Shooting stars, atmospheric currents 



and, 666 ; of August 10th, 1863, 386. 

 Showers of stones, 162 ; of dust, 228. 

 Siberian jay in Lapland, 375. 

 Silurian system, fossils, 398. 

 Simon Maccabaus, coins of the reign 



of, 328. 

 Sirius, distance of, 467. 

 Skin of the mole, peculiarities of, 21. 

 Skins, method of preserving, 24. 

 Slate, metamorphosed, 412. 

 Sledging, 374. 

 Slug, lungs, heart, and blood-vessels of 



the, 105. 

 Smoke-rings of Vesuvius, 326. 

 Snout of mole, mobility of the, 21. 

 Snow bunting in Lapland, 376. 

 Snowy mountain peaks in Tropical 



Africa, 385. 

 Social Science Congress.— Alleged 



elevation of the coast line of the 



Lothians, 305. 

 Solaster papposa (common sun-star), 



251. 

 Solid bodies, putrefaction of, 103. 

 Solitude, 115. 



Soorum, an enemy to oysters, 420. 

 Soudley, quarries of, 398. 

 Sources of the Nile, 46. 

 Species, change of habit in, 388. 

 Spectral analysis, Volpicelh on, 308. 

 Spectroscope, the Gassiot, 67. 

 Speke's, Captain, discoveries, 46. 

 Spergula saginoides, 269. 

 Spleen, caused by infusoria, 177- 

 Spontaneous generation controversy, 



466. 

 Spores, differences between moss and 



fern, 43. 

 Spouting wells of Canada, 89. 

 Stars, clusters of, and nebulae, 56 ; 



cluster in Perseus, 256, 352 ; double, 



in Cassiopese and Ophiuchi, 193 ; 



falling, 156; method of observing 



variable, 303. 

 Star-fishes, the British, 251. 

 Steam engines, loss of heat in, 417. 

 Stenopteryx, or swallow-fly, 439. 

 Storm of October 30th, 1863, 386 ; of 



2nd and 3rd December, 1863, 468. 

 Strata, faults and the dip of, 321 ; of 



the globe, concussions in the, 301. 

 Sugar from serpents' skins, 226. 

 Sula alba (solan goose), 118. 

 Sulphur, an allotropic substance, 28. 

 Sulphuric acid in photogen oils, 93. 

 Summer near the North Pole, 376. 

 Sunlight illumination for the micro- 

 scope, 307. 



