INDEX 
Acalephje in a Fossil State 97 
Acari, Development of, in Potatoes 117 
Acarns in the Pigeon 115 
Acetic Acid, Detection of Free Sul- 
phuric Acid in 92 
Acetylene, Description of 318 
Acidity, Blue Litmus-paper a Test for 9 1 
Aconitine, Action of 104 
Acoustic Sand-figures, their Appli- 
cation to determine Velocity of 
Sound, &c Ill 
Adiantum Capillus-Junonis 450 
Africa (South), Dinosaurian Rep- 
tiles of. 96 
African Discoveries. By P. P. Du 
Chaillu 185 
Agouti (The Crested) 349 
Agriculture.. 79 
Air (compressed), Action of, on the 
Circulation and Respiration 331 
Air-pump, the Accoucheur’s 
„ Microscopist’s 226 
Algae, Diagnosis of. 90 
„ Distinction of Species 199 
„ Growth of. By J. Braxton 
Hicks 1 
Alkalies, Pure Caustic, Preparation of 90 
Alkaline Sulphides, Electrolysis of 319 
Alloys (Japanese), their Nature and 
Nomenclature 337 
Alum Crystals, how to cover Flowers 
with 321 
Aluminium Bronze in Machinery ... 471 
Amazon, Fishes of... 235 
„ Valley 460 
America, Glacial Period in 210 
American Naturalist 440 
Ammonites Transversarius, Zone of 462 
Amphioxus lanceolatus, Develop- 
ment of 237 
Anaesthetic (New ?), Impurities of 455 
Analysis (Qualitative), New Method 458 
Anencephalic Monsters, Production 
of. 101 
Aniline Colours from Flesh 321 
Animal Tissues, Formation of Cells 
in 221 
Annelids, Boring of 488 
Aphyllostachys -451 
Araliacise, Vascular System of 314 
Archaeological Congress, Interna- 
tional 323 
Arithmetic Simplified 439 
Armour Plates, Solid and Laminated 466 
Arnott, N., Arithmetic Simplified... 439 
Astronomical Heterodoxy 429 
„ Society, Memoirs of 442 
Astronomy 80, 196, 309, 
„ French Academy’s Prize 
for 
„ Popular 
Atmospheric Electricity 
Attfield, J., Paraffin Lamps and 
their Dangers 
Australia, Bismuth in 
„ Salmon in 
Australian Timber Boring Insect, 
Tomicus monographus 
Baird, W., Freshwater Entomos- 
traca 
Banca, Tin Mines of 
Barometer (Aneroid), Behaviour of 
Barrett, W. F., on Sensitive Flames 
Bate, Spence, the Date of Flint 
Flakes of Devon and Cornwall... 
Bees, Production of Male and 
Worker 
Belgian Bone Caves and Rev. W. 
S. Symonds 
Bile, Secretion of, increased by 
Mercury 
Birds, Movement of Flight in 
Birds’ Nests, Artificial 
,, and Plumage 
Bismuth, Action of, on Phosphoric 
Acid 
,, in Australia 
Bisulphide of Carbon in Coal Gas 
Bituminous Gneiss, Deposit of. 
Black Spine, Analysis for 
Blanford, H., Report on the Cal- 
cutta Cyclone 
Blast Furnace 
Blood, Action of Hydrosulphuric 
Acid on 
,, Coagulation of 
„ Corpuscles of the Two-toed 
Sloth 
„ Crystals of, in Leukamia ... 
„ Disks, Mammalian 
„ Poisoning after Surgical 
Operations 
„ Quantity of Red Globules in 
Blower (A Rotary) 
Blowpipe Reaction of Manganese 
and Chlorate of Potass 
Boilers, Anticru station of 
Bone- Caves of Belgium 
Bones (a Book on) 
Borneo, Nature of Earth eaten by 
the People of 
Boronatrocalcite, Composition of . . . 
Botanical Congress (International) 
441 
190 
198 
307 
475 
167 
336 
353 
349 
42 
323 
442 
154 
169 
236 
211 
468 
350 
114 
488 
202 
336 
348 
322 
472 
306 
473 
331 
470 
350 
332 
487 
219 
220 
336 
458 
473 
460 
74 
31S 
216 
450 
