338 Index. 
Colonisation, the Place and Power of Natural History in, 125 
Contractile Filament of Stamen in Thistles, 190 
Cribellites carbonarius, 303 
Davy, Dr John, on the Colour of the Salmon, 247 
on the Eggs of Birds, 249 
on the question, Is Oxide of Arsenic, being used in a very small 
quantity, injurious to Man? 43 
Diatoms from the South Pacific described and figured, 34, 181 
Dickson, Dr Alexander, Abstract of Cohn’s Observations on the Contractile 
Filaments of the Stamens in Thistles, 190 
Dredging Reports, 304, 305 
Drift-beds at Mundesley, Norfolk, by Professor Phillips, 300 
Earth-Currents during Magnetic Calms, 158 
Earthenware, on the Manufacture of, by C. T. Maling, 290 
Edmonds, R., on St Michael’s Mount and the Pheenicians, 173 
on the Bee-hive British Dwellings near Penzance, 187 ~ 
Eggs of Birds, Contents of, 249 
Electric Light, Illuminating power of, 384 
Electrical Standards, 288 
Equisetum, Canadian species of, by Professor Lawson, 324 
Fingers, Toes, and Phalanges in Man, Variation in the Number of, 83 
Fireball observed near Auchterarder, 160 
Fire-Clay Goods, on the Manufacture of, by J. Cowen, 289 
Firth of Forth, on the Evidence of the Rise of the Shores of, 161 
Flint Implements at St Acheul, by Professor Phillips, 299 
Flowering of Fruit-trees as in April 1868, 166 
Spring Plants in the Open Air in the Edinburgh Botanic Garden, 
168, 165, 324 
Foraminifera new to the British Seas, 305 
Forests, Great Mixed, of North America in connection with Climate, 244 
Fossil Arctic Shells in the Basin of the Forth, 148 
Glass, on the Manufacture of, by R. W. Swinburne, 290 
Greville, Dr, Description of New Genera and Species of Diatoms from the 
South Pacific, 34, 181 
Gun-Cotton, Report of Committee on, 291 
Hector, Dr James, Exploration of New Zealand, 168 
Herring, Trawling for, on the Coasts of Scotland, Report on, 112 
Howard, J. E., on the Bark. and Leaves of Cinchona Succirubra grown in 
India, 331 
Hurlburt, J. B., LL.D., on the Great Mixed Forests of North America in 
connection with Climate, 244 
Huxley, Professor, on Trawling for Herring in Scotland, 112 
Jardine, Sir William, Contribution to Ornithology, No. V., 146 
Kielder, Plants in the vicinity of, 328 
Kjerulf, Theodore, on the Phenomena of the Scratched Rock Surfaces, 1 
Lawson, Professor George, on Lemania variegata of Agardh, 30 
Lemania variegata of Agardh, described, 30 
Lichens, New British, by Rev. T. Salwey, B.D., 324 
Lightning, Effect of, on Nelson’s Monument, 152 
Lindsay, Dr W. Lauder, on the Place and Power of Natural History in Colo- 
nisation, 125 
Lucifer Matches, Experiments on, by Professor Abel, 291 
Lyell, Sir C., on the Drift-beds at St Acheul, 801 
Magnetic Changes and Earth-currents, 158 
Malay Archipelago, Physical Geography of, 307 
Man, Varieties of, in the Malay Archipelago, 317 
Maxwell, Lieut.-Colonel, on Trawling for Herring in Scotland, 112 
Military Budgets of English and French Armies for 1863-4, and statistically 
compared, by Colonel Sykes, 320 : 
