386 
INDEX, 
PAGE 
Mines, New Instrument for the 
Detection of Inflammable Gas 
in 375 
Moon, Secular Acceleration of the 
mean motion of the... 79, 358 
,, supposed Changes on the... 170 
Mosses, British 263 
Mound-builders 257 
Mountains, Formation of 86 
Muir, M. M. Pattison, on the New 
Chemistry, as a Development of 
the Old Ill 
Musical Pitch, History of 188 
Natural History Rambles 262 
Nature, the Supernatural in 344 
Nebula in the Pleiades 169 
New Zealand Zoology 261 
Nicholson’s ‘ Manual of Paleonto- 
logy’ 61 
, , ‘ Tabulate Corals of the 
Paleozoic Period ’ 63 
Nmols’ ‘ Chapters from the Phy- 
sical History of the Earth ’ 165 
Norwegium 173 
November Meteors 81 
Oak-bark, Tannic Acid of 366 
Occultation of a Star by Jupiter... 167 
Optical Power of Spectroscope !... 92 
Oxidation of Formic and Oxalic 
Acids by Ammonium - copper 
Oxide 85 
Oxland, Charles, on the Argentine 
Republic 1 
Oysters, Development of 95 
Ozone, Formation of 365 
Palaeontology 86, 176, 275 
,, Manual of 61 
Parasites, Infusoria as 293 
Pascoe’s ‘Zoological Classification ’ 257 
Penning’s ‘ Text-book of Field 
Geology’ 166 
Permian Amphibia, Bohemian .". . 88 
Perrier, M., on the Law of Asso- 
ciation in the Animal Kingdom 30 
Phosphonium Iodide, action of, on 
Carbon Disulphide 273 
Phosphoric Hydride and Chloric 
Hydride, compound of 365 
Photometric Researches on 
Coloured Flames 91 
Photophone, Selenium and the ... 376 
Physics 91, 184, 281, 373 
,, Lecture Notes on 74 
Planetary Nebulas, New 79, 364 
Planets, brightness and dimen- 
sions of the Satellites of 362 
„ Ultra-Neptunian ... 267, 363 
Plants, British 74 
„ Climbing 213 
PAGE 
Plants used in making Curare ... 172 
Pleiades, Nebula in the 169 
Pneumatic Clocks 373 
Poisonous Character of Arsenic 
Oxides 174 
Ponds and Ditches 262 
Popular Geology 165 
Portland Building Stone 205 
Potassium Permanganate, action 
of, on Potassium Cyanide 175 
Prantl’s ‘ Text-book of Botany ’ . . . 256 
Pre-Cambrian Rocks in the Scot- 
tish Highlands .... 275 
Proctor’s ‘ Rough Ways made 
Smooth’.. 68 
Prosopistoma 292 
Reviews of Books... 61, 156, 254, 346 
Reynolds’ ‘ Supernatural in Na- 
ture ’ 344 
Rhizopods, Fresh- water 346 
Rimmer’s ‘ Land and Fresh-water 
Shells’ 345 
Rocks, Metamorphism of 230 
,, of the South of Ireland, 
Correlation of the, with 
those of other districts... 181 
,, Pre- Cambrian, in the Scot- 
tish Highlands 275 
Rood’s ‘ Modern Chromatics ’ 75 
Rotation under the Earth’s Mag- 
netic Influence 288 
Rough Ways made Smooth. 68 
Rudler, F. W., on Artificial Dia- 
monds 136 
Salireton 365 
Samarskite, new elements found in 273 
Satellites of Mars 82 
,, of the Planets, bright- 
ness and dimensions of 362 
Saturn 362 
Scandium 83 
Scientific Summary 78, 167, 266, 357 
Scorodite, Artificial Formation of 
the 281 
Secondary Comatulae, British 89 
Secular Acceleration of the Mean 
Motion of the Moon 79, 358 
Seeley, Prof. H. G., on the Dino- 
sauria 44 
Selenium and the Photophone ... 376 
Sensitiveness in the Acacia 272 
Shells, Land and Fresh- water ... 345 
Siberia 65 
Siemens’ Differential Electric lamp 191 
Silicium Hydride 174 
Silver films in the Camera Lucida 281 
„ Trioxide 364 
Siren, new form of 285 
Smith’s ‘ British Plants ’ 73 
Solar Parallax 266 
