INDEX 
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Abnormaxitibs, Floral 302 
Absinthe, Effects of, on the System 317 
Acaleph, New 445 
Acti nometer, a Form of 215 
Adnation in the Coniferse 427 
Adulteration of Tobacco 84 
Aggregation of Blood-C()rpuscles in 
the Vessels in Fever 199 
Air, Chemistry of the 428 
„ Temperature of the 327 
Akazga and Strychnia Plants, Dif- 
ference between 182 
Alaska, Geology of. 309 
Alcohol, Secondary, New 89 
„ Supersaturation of Sugar 
Solutions in 306 
Alizarin, Artificial Preparation of... 305 
Alkalies in the Ash of Plants 424 
Alkaline Sulphates, Action of, when 
Injected into the Veins 197 
Alloys of Copper and Tin 204 
Alpina Tertiaries, Palaeontology of 
the 191 
Aluming, Sulphate of. Action of, on 
Turbid Water' 187 
Aluminum a Bell-metal 318 
American Coal Insects 310 
,, Grasshoppers 329 
,, Lepidoptera 329 
Amoebae, Free-swimming 333 
Amphibia, Lymphoid Organs of ... 110 
Analysis of Phloron 304 
,, of Sound and Colour 294 
Anatomist Decorated, an 317 
Anatomy, Comparative.... 106, 219, 327 
,, of a Mushroom 391 
,, Prof. Owen’s 67 
Anemometer, New 205 
Aneroid, Mr. Browning’s 444 
Animal Cell 106 
,, Life in Water 220 
Animals of the Bible 411 
Antidote to Phosphorus 188 
Apomorphia 429 
Apparatus for Exhibiting the Laws | 
of Wave Motion 93 i 
Arachis Hypogaea 302 | 
Arch, Concrete 195 > 
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Archaeology, Prehistoric 311 
Archipelago, East Indian 74 
„ the Malayan 286 
Architects, Errors of, as to Ventila- 
tion 201 
Are there any Fixed Stars ? 358 
Argo, the Nebula in 179 
Armour Plate 196 
,, Plates, Failure of a Pro- 
posed Plan for 319 
,, Plates, Eesistance of 315 
Artificial Ebony, Preparation of ... 306 
,, Light, Infiuence of, on 
Plants 302 
,, Preparation of Alizarin.. 305 
„ Production of Tartaric 
Acid 86 
„ Selection among Men ... 73 
„ Selection in Improving 
Corn 424 
Artistic Licence versus Photography 211 
Ashes of a Diseased Orange Tree... 86 
Aspidolite, Analysis of 438 
Assay of Silver in the Wet way 99, 202 
Aster Salignus, Distribution of 183 
Astronomer Eoyal (the) on the com- 
ing Transits 297 
Astronomical Tables 416 
Astronomy 79, 178, 296, 418 
Atlantic Sea-bottom 331 
Atmosphere, Sulphurous Acid in the 200 
Atropia, Morphia as an Antidote to 20 1 
Atropine, Physical Action of the ... 438 
Auditory Organ in Cephalophora, 
Eelation of, to the Nervous Gan- 
glia 107 
Aurora Borealis, Spectrum of the... 441 
Aurorae Boreal es 299 
Authors, Photographs of 212 
Bacteria in Glanders and Farcy... 94 
,, in the Protoplasm of 
Plants 185 
„ Natural Development of 166 
Balsenopterje, Anatomy of 446 
Balsam of Peru 308 
Bathybius, what is ? 350 
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