692 
POPULAE SCIENCE EE VIEW. 
Skulls of Man and Anthropoid Ape 270 
Sloth, Cervical Vertebrae of. 402 
Small-pox 595 
Smoke-rings, Production of 137 
Snowberry, Common Abnormal 
Structure of 506 
Solar Camera, Improved 131 
„ Eclipses 103 
„ Spots, Penumbrae 369 
Soup for Children. By Liebig .. 157 
Spear, J., on the Metric System 54 
Species, Variation of 269 
Specific Heats, Causes of Error in 
determining 137 
Spectra of Nebulae 504 
Spectro-microscope 670 
Spectroscope, Mechanism of .... 536 
Spectrum of the Electric Spark. . 681 
Spencer’s Principles of Biology . . 222 
Spermatozoids, Varieties of 374 
Spiders, Circulation of Blood in. . 541 
Spleen, Functions of. 388 
Sponges. By P. Paterson 302 
,, Phenomena during 
Death of 143 
Spongiadae, British Monograph of 217 
SEar, Nebulous 370 
Starchy Matter in Liver 521 
Stars, Double 103 
Steam 119, 254, 664 
,, Boilers, Wear and Tear of 518 
Steering Apparatus, Automatic .. 519 
Stephenson, Sobert, Life of .... 221 
Stimulants, Dr. Anstie on .... 77, 89 
Subterranean Exploration, Narra- 
tive of. By Pev. J. F. Browne 643 
Sulphate of Copper, Arborization 
Produced by 510 
Sulphide of Carbon from Coal Gas, 
Pemoval of. 378 
Sulphur Gold Ores, Treatment of 526 
Sulphuretted Hydrogen, Action of 
on the System 520 
Sun, Source of Heat in 145 
„ the 102, 137, 649 
,, Spots 100, 503, 505 
Sun’s Surface, Meteors on 231 
Super-fsetation 523 
Sweating Sickness 603 
Target Ships 663 
Tasmanite 257 
Telegraph Cables 678 
Telegraphy, Novel Method of . . . . 680 
Telescopes 103, 232, 373, 648 
Temperature, Perturbations of . . 679 
Thallium, Alcohols of 240 
Therapeutics, Practical Manual of 500 
Thermometer, Self- Registering . . 232 
,, Elements, New 537 
,, Spectrometer 136 
Timbs’s Year-book of Facts .... 499 
I Tissues 521-4 
' Tobacco 124, 248, 363, 656 
i Tonics, Dr. Divers on 437 
Train Signalling 275 
Transit Observations 101 
„ Roots, Bearings of 648 
Trigonometrical Survey of India, 
! Employment of Pendulum in . . 137 
Truffle, New British 376 
I Typhoid Fever 600 
i Typhus Fever 597 
I Vegetable Oils, Oxidation of . . 658 
I Venezuelan Medicinal Plants .... 653 
! Vibriones 269 
Vinegar-eel, Origin of the 684 
,, Plant, Structure of .... 508 
j Volcanic District of Chili 661 
j Voltaic Pile, Action of Sulphur in 538 
j Vorticellidae, Circulation in 274 
Walker, C. V., on Train Signal- 
I ing 275 
Waring’s Manual of Practical 
i Therapeutics 500 
I Warm-blooded Animals, Pestora- 
j ' tion to Life in 665 
I Water, Ebullition of. 679 
„ Pure, Dr. Lankester on . . 553 
Way, M., on English Agriculture 104 
Whales, Bones of 270 
Wheatstone’s Thermo-electric Bat- 
tery 682 
Whitebait. By the Editor 477 
Williamson, W. C., on Foramini- 
fera 171 
Wine 242, 365, 637, 654 
Wire Popes 663 
„ Spring Clip 670 
Wood, fossil 660 
,, Fuel, Consumption of .... 672 
Worlds, Physical Phenomena of 
other. By R. Hunt 311 
Year-book OF Facts. By John 
Timbs 499 
Yellow Fever 600 
Zinc, New Process of Manufacture 
I of. 526 
,, Philosophy of. ByA.de 
Quatrefages 634 
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