INDEX. 
691 
Orchids, Abnormal 235 
Orchis, Mascula, with double 
Flowers 650 
Ordnance and Targets 666 
Ores, Improved Method of Crush- 
ing 126 
Organic Substances in Water .... 109 
Orion, Nebula of 101 
Ostrich’s Leg, Muscular Mechanism 
of the 682 
Ovardotomy, M. Kseberld on ... . 123 
Oxy-hydrogen Light 534 
Oyster Liquor, Composition of . . 540 
Paleontology 659 
Parasite, Composition of 130 
Patterson, K., on Sponges 302 
Peat, Decomposing by Potash. . . . 252 
Philosopher, Autobiography of a 90 
Photographip Exhibitions .... 130, 676 
,, Plates, Wavy Lines 
on 678 
Photography 130, 258, 261, 622, 674, 677 
Photosphere, Sun’s 369 
Physics, Terrestrial 359 
Physiology, Manual of 487 
Pile-houses, Pre-historic 382 
Piria, Signor, Death of 655 
Pisciculture in Brussels 141 
Planets, New 100, 232, 504 
Plant-cells, Amseba-like Move- 
ments of 652 
,, crystals. By Prof. Gulliver 568 
,, New Irish 233 
Plants. . . . 113, 239, 244, 374, 375, 507 
,, Fertilization in 424 
Plesiosaurus, New Species of ... . 116 
Plumbago Crucibles, Purification of 125 
Pollux, Analysis of, from Elba . . 129 
Positive Proofs, Washing 394 
Potamogelin Nitens 653 
Potash 647 
Pouchet, G., on the Plurality of 
the Human Race 225 
Pre-historic Times. By Sir J. Lub- 
bock 491 
Prideaux, T. Symes, on Railway 
Communication 468 
Printing, New Method of 393 
Pseudoscopic Vision through Prisms 537 
Pulmonifera, Anatomy of the. ... 683 
Pump, New 664 
Pus, Blue Colouring Matter in . . 250 
Quateenary Formation 113 
Quatrefages’ Philosophy of Zoology 634 
Quekett Microscopical Club 670 
Quercus Sessili-flora and Q. Pedun- 
culata. Difference between .... 107 
Raia Batis, Development of ... . 273 
Railway Communication. By T. 
S. Prideaux 468 
Ranunculus versus Cantharides . . 120 
Raphides. By Prof. Gulliver. ... 568 
,, as Diagnostic 235, 651 
Red Coral. By the Editor 67 
Red-deer Fossil, New Species of 117 
Relapsing Fever *. 599 
Remittant Fevers 602 
Renal Diseases 521 
Respirator, Galibert’s 527 
Retina in Whale, Granular Layer of 247 
Reviews of Books 86, 214, 353, 487, 634 
Rhinoceros Hermitaechus, Skull of 244 
,, Leptorhinus, SkuU of 660 
Rhone Glacier, the Ancient .... 662 
Richardson, B. W., on Tobacco . . 363 
,, on Waves of 
Heat and Waves of Death .... 180 
Rifled Guns, Trial of 384 
Rock-boring Machinery 518 
Rocks, Breaking, by Fire 526 
Rosaceae, Staminal Arrangements 
of the 653 
Rosaniline, New Yellow Colouring 
for 512 
“ Royal Sovereign,” The 118 
Ruminantia, Re-distribution of 
Genera 141 
Safety-Lamp, New 390 
Sahara, Oases of 115 
Sandwich Islands, Mining Survey 
of 126 
Santonine, Action of Light on . . 108 
Scandinavian Lakes, Glacial Epoch 
in 272 
Scarlet Fever 596 
Scientific Summary 100, 228, 367, 
502, 646 
Sclera, Use of Term 123 
Screw-propeller 664 
Sea-water, Action of, on Metals 
and Alloys 525 
„ Shells. By J. G. Jeffreys . . 642 
Seismometer 681 
Sepia, Dry and Fossil 513 
Sewage, Utilization of 230, 367 
Sheen, J. R., on Wines 365 
Ships, Extraordinary. By S. J. 
Mackie I 
„ Strains of 253 
Shooting Stars, Radiant Points of 372 
Shore, Year at the. By P. H. ^ 
Gosse, F.R.S 357 
Sigillaria, External Form of .... 374 
Sirius 368 
Skin Diseases. By Dr. T. Fox .. 223 
,, of Reptiles in Fossil State 243 
Simpson Type 533 
Skull Mounds, Contents of, at 
Keiss 245 
