689 
INDEX. 
Elephant, Fossil 659 
Embryo, Anatomy of. By Dr. 
Banks 2^4 
Emerald, Colouring Matter of .. 129 
Enteric Fever 600 
Entozoa. By S. Cobbold, M.D. 214 
Eozoon Canadense not a Fossil .. 514 
,, in Britain 383 
Epidemics, their Origin and Dis- 
tribution 593 
Epsilon Piscium, Spectrum of. . . . 372 
Etna, Eruption of 381, 447, 515 
Eurypterus, Homologies of 114 
Explosive Substance, New 664 
Eye, the 394, 457, 497 
Ferns, British. By E. Newman 644 
Fevers 386, 600 
Fishes, Metamorphoses of 400 
Flies 270 
Flint Implements 516 
Flora of Australia 506 
Flowers 106, 238, 651 
Fluid Bearings 385 
Fontinalis Antipyretica 651 
Food 522, 523 
,, Dr. Lankester on 14 
Foraminifera. By W. C. William- 
son, F.R S I7l 
Formic Acid, Decomposition of . . 241 
Fossils, Prof. E,. Jones on 243 
„ _ 115, 659, 660 
Friction Brake 663 
Frost and Fire. By a Traveller. . 495 
Fruits, Gases exhaled by 107 
Fuel in Ireland, Supply of 246 
Fundus Oculi, how to Photograph 121 
Fungi as Agents in Production of 
Disease 119 
Galvanism, a Surgical Agent. ... 120 
Garden Plants, Origin of 193 
Gelatine, new Reactions of 658 
Geological Magazine 659 
Geology 113, 242, 245, 659 
,, Applications of 497 
Geology, Errors of. By J. Kelly 361 
„ Manual of 640 
Glaisher, Jas., on Balloon Ascents 403 
Glaucoma, Iridectomy in Cure of. . 123 
Gosse’s Year at the Shore 357 
Grindon, L. H., on British and 
Garden Botany 226 
Gulliver, Prof., on Raphides .... 568 
Gun-cotton.. ..112, 119, 239, 254, 657 
„ Engine 664 
Hail, Ammonia and Nitric Acids in 512 
Hart, Ernest, on the Eye 457 
Heat and Death, Waves of ... . 180 
,, Radiation of Dark Rays of 396 
Herschell’s Outlines of Astronomy 86 
Hicks, J. B., on the Difficulties in 
Identifying Algse 335 
Homes without Hands 501 
Hopkins on Teri'estrial Physics . . 359 
Human Race, Plurality of. By G. 
Pouchet 225 
Hunt, R., on Atlantic Telegraphy 543 
,, Physical Phenomena 
of other Worlds 311 
,, on the Source of Heat 
in Sun 145 
Huxley’s Atlas of Comparative 
Osteology 220 
Hydraulic Press 254 
Hydrogen, Electro-chemical Pro- 
perties of 397 
ICANTHINA, Structures in Seminal 
Fluid of 272 
Ice-cave Explorations 643 
India-rubber and Biscuit- ware. Dif- 
fusion of Gases through 535 
„ Oxidation of 377 
Influenza 603 
Insect Larva, Microscopic Ana- 
tomy of.- By E. Ray Lankester 605 
Insects, Nerves in Muscles of , . . . 273 
Intermittent Fountains 680 
Intestinal Worms, Sources of ... . 163 
Invertebrate Collection at British 
Museum 542 
Iodide of Potassium 667 
Irish Elk, Indentations on Bones of 116 
„ Limestone Caverns 513 
Iron, Cementation of 251 
,, Improved Form of 673 
,, into Steel, Conversion of .. 389 
,, in Water, Preservation of . . 251 
,, Method of Cooling 252 
,, Thin Plate of 389 
Jawbone of Red Deer 381 
Jaw, Upper, Development of ... . 123 
Jeaffreson’s Life of Robert Ste- 
phenson 221 
Jones, Prof., on the Oldest-Known 
Fossil 343 
Jupiter, Spectrum of. 134 
Kappa Cancri, Occultation of . . 504 
Kelly’s Errors of Geology 361 
Kidney, Malpighian, Tufts of ... . 248 
,, Operation of Alcohol on. . 120 
Kola-nut, Source of Theine 522 
Lake Basins. By Prof. Ansted 583 
Lankester, Dr., on Good Food . . 14 
,, on ipure Water 553 
,, E. Ray, on Microscopic 
Anatomy of Insect Larva 605 
Laryngoscope, Use of 353 
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