545 
INDEX. 
Acoustics, Zantedeschi’s disco- 
veries in 267 
Actinism 268, 443 
Africa, Equatorial, West Coast 
of, by the Editor 100 
Africa, Diseases Prevalent in.... 103 
,, Mineral Products of . . . . 107 
„ Natives, Character of . . 104 
,, Seasons 103 
„ Zoology and Botany. . . . 106 
Agricultural Implement Depart- 
ment in the Great Exhibition, 
by Howard Peed 407 
Animalcule, Bell-flower, by the 
Editor 145 
Animalcule, Builder, by P. H. 
Gosse 474 
Animalcule, Crown (Stephano- 
ceros Eichhornii), by P. H. 
Gosse 26 
Animalcules, Wheel 158 
Ansted, D. T., on Artificial Light 80 
Ansted, on Caverns and their 
Contents 135, 450 
Arsenic 385 
Artificial Light, by D. T. 
Ansted, F.R.S 80 
Artificial Precious Stones, by 
W. G. Howgrave 332 
Asbestos, Use of, in Paper-making 387 
Ashe, Isaac, on the Human Heart 350 
Astronomy (Scientific Retrospect) 
248, 379, 511 
Astronomy, Handbook of, by G. 
E. Chambers (Review) 507 
Astronomy of the Ancients, A 
Survey of the, by Sir G. C. 
Lewis (Review) 509 
Astronomy, Popular, by O. M. 
Mitchell (Review) 506 
Astronomy, Primitive, by the 
Editor 426 
Astronomy, Pythagorean or Phi- 
lolaic system of 434 
Atkinson’s British Birds’ Eggs and 
Nests (Review) 121 
Atmosphere, Optical Pheno- 
mena of, by G. F. Cham- 
bers 216 
Bell-Flower Animalcule 145 
Bessemer’s Process of Producing 
Iron 73 
Bevan, G. P., on the English 
California 444 
Boner, on “ Forest Creatures ” 
(Review) i 245 
Books, Reviews of, 116, 232, 370, 506 
Botany (Summary of Progress), 271, 515 
,, Structural, Manual of 
(Review) 376 
Bowman’s Practical Chemistry 
(Review) 121 
Breath of Life, by W. Crookes, 
F.C.S 91 
Breen, James, on the Great Comet 
of 1861 Ill 
Breen, J., on the Sun and Solar 
Phenomena 299 
Bridges, Britannia and Conway, 
by W. C. Unwin 416 
British and Foreign Plants, Ma- 
nual of (Review) 377 
British Poisonous Plants (Review) 375 
Buckman, James, F.L.S., on Corn 9 
,, „ on Grass 186 
Builder Animalcule, by P. H. 
Gosse 474 
Candle, Chemical History of a, 
by Prof. Faraday (Review) .... 120 
Carbolic Acid, useful properties of 387 
Caverns and their Contents, by 
Caverns, Granite and Porphyry . . 136 
,, in the Channel Islands, 
136, et seq. 
,, Limestone 141 
,, Slate and Sandstone .... 140 
,, Stalactite 143 
Cell, the Difference between a 
Plant- and an Animal- 145 
Cenis, Mount, Tunnel through . . 394 
Cereal Grasses, the 10 
Chambers, G. F., on the Optical 
Phenomena of the Atmosphere. 216 
Chambers’s Handbook of Astro- 
nomy (Review) 507 
Charcoal, Use of, in destroying 
Organic Impurities 388 
Chemical History of a Candle, by 
Prof. Faraday (Review) 120 
Chemical Rays 268 
Chemistry, Progress of. . 252, 382, 517 
