INDEX 
PAGE 
Abdominal Antennae of Insects ... 227 
Abnormal Potato, An 202 
“Aboriginal Tribes of the Nilgiri 
Hills” 190 
Accidental Ponntain, Temporary ... 335 
Acetic Acid, Production of 203 
Acid and Salt, Unequal Loss of, 
near the Poles of a Battery 444 
Acid nature of Organic Matters in 
Eiver Water 87 
Acids, Strong, Filtration of 87 
Adding Machine 211 
Aeroconiscope 220 
Agriculture and Geology 92 
Air, Dust in the Ill 
Alcedmidae, Monograph of the 304 
Alcohol, Action of, on the Body ... 213 
„ Chloroform from 317 
Algelira and Trigonometry, Ele- 
ments of 190 
Alkaloid from Cinchona Bark 205 
Alloy of Lead and Platinum 105 
Alloys, Copper and Manganese ... 104 
American Compass Plant 85 
„ Fishes, New 226 
„ Journal of Microscopy... 220 
Ammonium Amalgam, Compound 433 
Amorphous Sulphur 203 
Amygdaline in Vetch 204 
Analysis of Birmingham Water ... 88 
Anatomy of the Ciliary Muscle ... 331 
,, of the Panda 114 
Aneurism of the Aorta, Electro- 
Puncture in 329 
Animal Kingdom, The 185 
Animals, Detecting the Blood of... 98 
„ Habitations of 179 
,, Silicification of 338 
Anthracene, DeriTatives of 92 
Anthracite Coal Trade of Pennsyl- 
vania 440 
Anthropological and Ethnological 
Societies, Fusion of the 214 
Arches of Timber and Iron 97 
Archimedian Screw for Lifting 
Water 212 
Arctic Ice, Physics in 335 
PAGE 
Argus, Observations of 427 
Artificial Light for Photographic 
Enlargements 221 
Asteroid, Discovery of Another ... 429 
Astronomy 78, 192, 305, 400, 424 
„ Popular 297 
Atchley’s “ Civil Engineers’ Price 
Book” 190 
Atomicities, Examination of the 
Doctrine of 206 
Attractions caused by Vibrations 
of the Air 334 
Aurora Borealis, Spectrum of the... 224 
Australian Silk 338 
Automatic Spectroscope 80, 81 
„ ,, Double, 
with Compound Prisms 307 
“ Aymara Indians of Bolivia and 
Peru” 190 
Barrett’s “ New View of Causa- 
tion ” 421 
Bartley’s (G. C. T.) “ Schools for 
the People” 187 
Bastian’s “ Modes of Origin of 
Lowest Organisms ” 416 
Bat, Excrements of the 317 
Batrachia, Cranium in 116 
Bats, Egyptian, Excrements of ... 91 
„ of the Present and of the Mam- 
moth Periods 437 
Beale, Dr. L., a “ Baly ” Medallist 439 
Bear Island, Carboniferous Flora of 93 
Bears,., British 241 
Beet-root Sugar in Ireland 319 
Beginning, The 295 
Benson’s “ Manual of Colour ” 301 
Bessemer Flame, The 222 
Bible, The Truth of the 72 
Binary Stars, Orbits of the 311 
Birds, Venezuelan, Collection of ... 116 
Bischoflf, M. G., in a Scotch Chair 316 
Blanchard’s “ Transformation of 
Insects ” 67 
Bleaching Diatomacese 333 
„ Powder, Alcohol from ... 317 
