Index. 339 
Mitchell, Dr Arthur, Collection of Popular Weather Prognostics of Scotland, 
212 
M‘Nab, Mr James, Register of the Flowering of Spring Plants in the Open 
in the Edinburgh Botanic Garden, 168, 165, 324 
Moon, Researches on the, by Professor Phillips, 284 
Mosses of Fifeshire, by Charles Howie, 329 
Murphy, Joseph John, on Revolving Storms, 234 
Muscular Power, 194 
Musical Sounds produced by Carbon, 297 
Natural History, its Place and Power in Colonisation, 125 
Nature-printing, an Easy and Effective Style of, 164 
Negro, Physical and Mental Characters of, by Dr James Hunt, 315 
New Zealand, Exploration of, 168 
Nomenclature, Zoological, proposed Reform of, 260 
Nitrate of Amyle, Physiological properties of, by Dr B. W. Richardson, 311 
Noxious Gases and Vapours, mode of passing Unharmed through, by Dr 
White, 312 
Ophiolepis gracilis (Allra.), 150 
Ophiuridan, » New Fossil from Post-pliocene Strata of the Valley of the 
Forth, 149 : 
Orchids, Fertilisation of, 822 
Ornithology, Contribution to, 146 
Otago, noe Zealand, Place and Power of Natural History in the Colonisation 
of, 125 
Oxide of Arsenic, its Effects on Man when long used in a very small 
quantity, 43 
Pandanus odoratissimus in Flower in Edinburgh Botanic Garden, 162 
Peach, Charles W., on the Fossils of the Boulder-clay of Caithness, 195 
Phoenicians and St Michael’s Mount, 178 
Photoglyphic Engraving of Ferns, 326 
Plant-house at Rockville, Blackrock, near Dublin, 240 
Plants and Gases, reciprocal Action of, by R. Garner, 314 
——-—— in Coal, Nova Scotia, by Dr Dawson, 298 
Playfair, Huxley, and Maxwell, Report on the Operation of the Act relating 
to Trawling for Herring on the Coasts of Scotland, 112 
Polyzoa, New British, by J. Alder, 304 
Post-pliocene Fossils of Southern Norway, 1 
Printing Telegraph, 287 
Rogers, Professor W. B., on the Illuminating Power of the Electric Light, 334 
Royal Physical Society, Proceedings of, 159 
Society of Edinburgh, Proceedings of, 148 
Rumbling Bridge, Plants in the vicinity of, 827 
Salmon, Colour of, 247 
Sars, Professor, on the Post-pliocene Fossils of Southern Norway, 1 
Scientific Intelligence, 331 
Scott, John, on the Fertilisation of Orchids in the Royal Botanic Garden of 
Edinburgh, 322 
Scratched Rock Surfaces, 1 
Skull Forms, Ancient British, Illustrations of the Significance of, 51 
Smith, Dr Alexander, on a Fireball observed near Auchterarder, 160 
Smyth, Professor Piazzi, Note as to Lead from the Roof of part of Nelson’s 
Monument injured by Lightning on 4th February 1868, 152 
Societies, Proceedings of, 283 
St Acheul, Deposit of Gravel, Sand, and Loam, with Flint Implements, at, 299 
Star 95 Herculis, on the Changing Colours of, by Professor Piazzi Smyth, 285 
Stewart, Balfour, on Earth-Currents during Magnetic Calms, and their Con- 
nection with Magnetic Changes, 158 
Stirling, Mrs, of Kippenross, on an Easy and Effective Style of Nature- 
printing, 164 
