INDEX. 
441 
Eighty-one ton Gun, the 
Electric Communications without 
Wires 
Electrical and Magnetic Measure- 
ment, Exercises in 
Electricity, Railway Travelling and 
Electro-conductibility of Pyrites... 
Elementary Botany 
Emissive Power of Leaves 
Ethyl Alcohol in Plants 
Experiments with Frozen Dynamite 
Extinct Animals of North America 
Fairy-rings, origin of 
Fermentation 
Fern Book, a popular 
Filters, Action of 
Five Senses of Man, the 
Flint Implements from the Brixham 
Cavern 
Flora, Cretaceous 
Floral ^Estivation 
Flower (Prof.), on the Extinct Ani- 
mals of North America 
Food and its Adulteration 
Forests, Influence of, on the Quan- 
tity of Rain 
Fossil Crustacean, new 
„ Fishes, American 
„ Trees, Scotch 
Galapagos Islands, Corals of the 
Gallium, new metal, the 
Galton (J. C.), in the wake of the 
“ Challenger ” 
Geographical Distribution of Ani- 
mals 
Geography 
Geological Science, the Record of 
,, Survey of the United 
States 305, 
Geology 104, 211, 326, 
,, of Croydon, Lecture on the 
,, of London and its neighbour- 
hood, Guide to the 
., of Victoria 310, 
Germination of the Spores of He- 
mileia Vastatrix 
Gibson’s “Religion and Science” 
Giraffe, Anatomy of the 
Glaciers of the North Slope of the 
Alps 
„ Recent and Extinct 
Glen Roy, Parallel Roads of. 
Graphite from Siberia 
Grasshoppers, Meteorological As- 
pects of the Flight of 
Great Divide, the 
Guadaloupe Island, Plants of 
PAGE 
Hadrosaurus, Query as to the 
Bones of the 212 
Haemoglobin, Spectroscopic reactions 
of, and its Derivatives 221 
Harting’s “ Rambles in Search of 
Shells ” 94 
Hassal’s “Food and its Adultera- 
tion ” 194 
Health, Public, effect of Water 
Supply on 31 
Hearing, the Physiology of 328 
Heat, and not Light, a Motive 
Power 128 
Heath’s “Fern Paradise” 415 
Heavens, the Three 201 
Heliostat, simple form of 334 
Hemileia Vastatrix, Germination of 
the Spores of 207 
Hermit Crabs, how they get posses- 
sion of their Shells 183 
Herschel, Caroline, Memoir of ... 200 
Heterogenesis, Practical Notes on 338 
Houghton’s “ Sketches of British 
Insects” 193 
Human Personality, what is the 
meaning of 389 
,, Race, Evolution of the, from 
Apes, &c 310 
Huxley’s “ Practical Instruction on 
Elementary Biology ” 84 
Hydrostatic Pressure in Vegetable 
Cells 206 
Ice in Newfoundland 428 
Ice-age in Great Britain 428 
Ice-making Machines 334 
Imitation Snow Crystals 333 
“Inflexible, ’’the, and her Armament 60 
Insecticides on the Phylloxera, 
Experiments as to 324 
Insects, Digestion of 222 
,, Respiration in 215 
Iowa Meteor, the great 330 
Ironclads, Circular 266 
Iron, Common and Magnetic, in the 
Atmosphere 221 
„ Form in which it exists in the 
Spleen 430 
Jtjpiter 99, 203, 318 
„ Motion of bright Spots on... 422 
Lamont’s “Yachting in the Arctic 
Seas” 200 
Lankester’s (Prof.) “History of 
Creation” 185 
Lardner’s “ Handbook of Astro- 
nomy” 96 
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241 
334 
310 
138 
221 
415 
207 
210 
436 
276 
206 
303 
415 
426 
309 
211 
46 
320 
276 
194 
221 
104 
327 
213 
223 
329 
1 
406 
325 
188 
418 
427 
96 
306 
416 
207 
90 
112 
427 
169 
375 
108 
112 
198 
205 
