614 



Index to Vol. IV. 



[Oct., 



N. 



Natrolite, on Certain Phenomena ob- 

 served in, 273. 



Nerve Structure and Force, 145. 



Nervous Action, Wave-lengths of the 

 Transmission of, 292. 



Newton, Prof. A., Keport on Didine 

 Birds of the Mascarene Islands, 578. 



Nicol's Prisms, Corrections for, 27 7. 



Nitrous Oxide, Action of, on the Human 

 System, 291. 



Nitzsch's Ptervlographv, 444. 



Noad. Dr., Student's Text-book of Elec- 

 tricity, 131. 



Noctilucse, Description of, 502. 



Noctiluca miliaris, Structure of, 155. 



North Wales, Ice-marks in, 33. 



0. 



Oldham. Dr., FJ*.S., Geologv of India, 



572. 

 Original Articles : — 



Sir Charles Lyell and Modern 

 Geology, 1. 



On the ignigenous Rocks near 

 Montbrison. With Reference to 

 the Antiquity of the Volcanoes of 

 Central France. BvC.Daubcnv, 

 M.D., F.R.S., 19. 



The Means of Transit in India, 22. 



Ice-marks in Noith Wales. With 

 a Sketch of Glacial Theories and 

 Controversies. Bv A. R. Wallace, 

 F.R.G.S., &c n 33. 



The Future WaUr-suppIv of Lon- 

 don. Bv Edward Hull, B.A., 

 F.G.S., 51. 



Richardson's Ether Spray and Pain- 

 less Operations. 58. 



The Meteorological Department of 

 the Board of Trade, 63. 



The Public Health. The East 

 End of London. By Edwin 

 Lankester. M.D.. F.R.S., 65. 



The Natural History of Pratas 

 Island, in the China Sea. By 

 Dr. C Collingwood, 145. 



Nerve Structure and Force. Bv 

 Holmes Coote, F.R.C.S., 153. 



The Polynesians and their Mi sta- 

 tions. " Bv Alfred R. Wallace. 

 F.R.G.S.."&c, 161. 



Louis Figuier, 166. 



The Ventilation of Coal-mines. By 

 R.bert Hunt, F.R.S., ISO. 



Belgian Competition in the Bon 

 Manufacture. Bv Bernhard 

 Samuelson, M.P., 197. 



Original Articles, continued. — 



Manchester : its Sanitary and So- 

 cial State and its Corporate Ru- 

 lers. By George Grt aves. Con- 

 sulting Mcdicaf Officer, Chorlton 

 Union Hospital. &c, 200. 

 The Artizans' and Labourers' 



Dwellings Bill, 211. 

 The Water-supply of London, and 

 the Cholera. Bv E. Frankland, 

 Ph.D.. F.E.S., 313. 

 Mr. Jukes and the Geological 



Society, 329. 

 Food as a Motive Power. Bv 

 C. W. Heaton, Professor of Che- 

 mistry, 334. 

 Lijrht and Darkness. Wiuslow on 

 Light.— Johnson the Blind. 344. 

 The Systematic Study of Annciids, 



350. 

 On the Application of Sewage to 



the Soil, 357. 

 The Progress of Science Alar ad, 



361. 

 Creation bv Law. Bv A. R. ^ al- 



lace, F.Z.S., kc. 471. 

 International Exhibitions. Bv F. C. 



Dun vers, M.S.E., 488. 

 On the Luminosity of the Sea. By 



C. Collingwood,' M. A., &c, 500. 

 Our Field Clubs : their Aims. Ob- 

 jects, and Work, 508. 

 Otago, Gold and Gems from, 425. 

 Oxalic and other Acids, Synthesis of, 



393. 

 Oxus, Survey of the Delta of, 407. 

 Oxvsren. Cheap Mode3 of Prepaiing, 



2*40. 

 Ozone, 101. 



Action of, upon Protoxide of 



Thallium, 552. 

 Density of, 392. 



Palaeontology. Indian. 537. 



Paraffin, Detection of Bee's Wax, 397. 



Paris, the Railway round, 401. 



Partzit^, 416. 



Pebrine. or Silk-worm Disease, 110. 



Percentage Test, Sir C. Lyells, 5. 



Peiigord and the adjoining Provinces, 



Archaeology of, 79. 

 Petroleum. Apparatus for Testing, 100. 

 Pettkoite, 545. 

 Phosphates, Mineral, in Cereals, Cotton, 



&c. Solubility of, in Water, 3l>8. 400. 

 Phvsics. 129. 277. 42S. r,o'\ 

 Physiology, 137, 291. 446, 558. 

 Plants, Colouring Matter of, 388. 

 a >.ew Arrangement o£ : 



