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INDEX. 



[Oftober, 



Haughton, S., on animal mechanics, 



397 

 Heat, electrical equivalent of, 277 



— force, and chemical change, re- 



lations between, 77 



— regulator, 115 



Heisch, C, organic matter in water, 



127 

 Hennah, T. H., photographs, 274 

 Henwood, W. J., on metalliferous 



deposits and on subterranean 



temperature, 390 

 Highton, Rev. H., on relations be-- 



tween chemical change, heat, and 



force, 77 

 Hsematite ores, 539 



— iron ore, distribution of, 390 

 Hofmann, Dr., a page of scientific 



history, 145 



— test for chloroform, 127 



— tinctorial power of aniline dyes, 



128 

 Hopkinson, J., on Mr. Highton's 



electrical equivalent of heat, 277 

 Huggins, Dr., on a new force, 347 



— registering spectroscope, 272 

 Hunt, J., Diamonds in New South 



Wales, 131 

 Hunt, R., mineral statistics, 135 

 Huxley, Professor, on high power 



definition, 114 

 Hydrochloric acid, arseniferous, 551 



ICE, lasting properties of, 114 

 Illumination of microscopic ob- 

 jects, 273 



Indigo, solvents for, 404 



Induction-coil, large, 558 



International Exhibition, scientific 

 inventions at the, 562 



" Introduction to the Study of In- 

 organic Chemistry" (review), 262 



" Introductory Text-book of Zoology" 

 (review), 370 



Iodine, dichroism of, 552 



Iridosmine, fusion of, 115 



Iron and brass uniting, 547 



" Iron and Heat " (review), 378 



Iron and steel, effect of cold on, 288 



Institute, 289 



— burnt, 391 



— deposition of on poles of a magnet, 



122 



— manufacture of in the haematite 



district, 540 



— ore, haematite, distribution of, 390 



— ores, reduction of, 137 

 smelting, 290 



— permanent way for railways, 293 



— Russian sheet, 540 



— Sherman process for purifying, 391 



Iron smelting, chemical phenomena 



of, 289 

 — water pipes, protection of, 411 

 Irrigation, theory of, 35 



JADE, or nephrite, 543 

 Jones, T. R., "General Outline 

 of the Organisation of the Animal 

 Kingdom " (review), 254 

 Joule, Dr., effect of cold on iron, 289 

 Jousset, Dr., venom of scorpion, 128 



KENNGOTT, Professor, micro- 

 scopic examination of obsidian, 

 132 

 Kent's Cavern exploration, 295 

 Kistnah viaduct, 394 

 Klein, Dr., electrolytic iron, 128 

 Knowles, Sir C. F., on screw pro- 

 pellers, 394 

 Kundt, A., boiling of liquids, 115 



LACQUER, Chinese, 130 

 Lamp, microscopic, 275 



Lang, F. H., mounting diatoms, 276 



Lantern, vertical, 560 



Laughton, Mr., physical geography, 

 124 



Lead smelting furnace, 138 



Leaves, transportation of aqueous 

 vapour by, 296 



Leeds, Professor, American corre- 

 spondence, 558 



" Lessons in Elementary Physics " 

 (review), 261 



Light, action of on colours of insects, 

 414 



salts of silver, 413 



— electric in war, in 



— printing, dawn of, 297 



" Light Science for Leisure Hours " 



(review), 378 

 Lightning, effects of, 115 



— spectrum of, 553 



Lime, carbonate of, crystalline form 

 of, 132 



— light for microscopical illumination, 



553 



Lindsay, Lord, new experiments in 

 diamagnetism, 120 



Lines in glass, optical appearance of, 

 419 



Lint, microscopic examination of, 112 



Lithia minerals, testing in spectro- 

 scope, 407 



Lowne, B. T., spontaneous genera- 

 tion, 113 



Lyell, Sir Charles, " The Student's 

 Elements of Geology " (review), 

 256 



