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INDEX. 
PAGE 
Acacia, Sensitiveness in the 272 
Acceleration of Gravity for Tokio, 
Japan 284 
Accidental double Refraction 190 
Acid Reaction of Cryolite 175 
Acoustical Shadow of a Circular 
Disk 283 
Alcohol, presence of, in Animal 
Tissues 85 
,, Production of, by an 
Electric Current 366 
Amblygonite 91 
Amoeba Blattae 291 
Animal Kingdom, Law of Asso- 
ciation in the 30 
„ Tissues, presence of Alco- 
hol in 85 
Animals, Intellect in 162 
Ansted’s ‘ Natural History Ram- 
bles : in Search of Minerals ’ . . . 354 
Anthropology 357 
Aphides, Reproduction of 381 
Archaeopteryx macrura 178 
Arctic Expedition, the last 73 
Argentine Republic, Notes on the 1 
Argillornis longipennis 90 
Arsenic Oxides, Poisonous Charac- 
ter of 174 
Artificial Diamonds 136 
,, Formation of the Diamond 280 
,, Formation of Scorodite ... 281 
,, Production of Manganese 
Bioxide 172 
Asosan, a large Crater in Japan.. 336 
Astronomy 78, 167, 266, 358 
,, Record of the Progress 
of, during 1879 360 
Atmospheric Polarization 186 
Aqueous Solutions, Thermo-electric 
behaviour of, with Mercurial 
Electrodes 184 
August Meteors 322 
Barometer, Glycerine 190 
Barytic Felspar, new 183 
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Basic Copper Sulphate, new 183 
Biological Atlas 160 
Bird’s ‘ Lecture Notes on Physics’ 74 
Birdwood’s ‘ Industrial Arts of 
India’ 343 
Blake, Rev. J. F., on Portland 
Building Stone 205 
Bohemian Geology 277 
,, Permian Amphibia 88 
Books, Reviews of... 61, 156, 254, 346 
Botany 172, 272, 364 
„ for Children 161 
,, Text-book of 256 
Brady’s ‘ British Copepoda ’ 259 
Braithwaite’s 4 British Moss-Flora ’ 263 
Branchiosaurus 88 
British Copepoda 259 
,, Marine Polyzoa 156 
,, Mosses 263 
„ Plants 74 
,, Secondary Comatulas 89 
Butler’s 4 Evolution, Old and New ’ 72 
Camera lucida, Silver films in 
the 281 
Carbon Disulphide, action of Phos- 
phonium Iodide on 273 
Carbonic Acid Explosion in a Coal- 
mine 174 
Carpenter, P. H., on Feather-stars 193 
Carr’s 4 Pure and Applied Mathe- 
matics ’ 341 
Cast-iron Magnets 4 185 
Chalk Flints 87 
Cephalopoda, Fossil 369 
Chamaeleons 97 
Chelonia, Fossil 276 
Chemistry 83, 172, 273, 365 
,, New, a Development of 
the Old Ill 
Chloric Hydride and Phosphoric 
Hydride, compound of 365 
Chromatics, Modem 75 
Circular Disk, Acoustical Shadow 
of a 283 
