INDEX. 
443 
PAGE 
Plum-trees, the Black Knot of 322 
Poisonous Dye in Wines 430 
Poles, Climate of the 105 
Popoftkas, or Circular Ironclads ... 266 
Popular Conchology 94 
„ Natural History 193 
,. Optics 91 
Pouchet’s “ Universe ” 95 
Preece (W.) on Railway Travelling 
and Electricity 138 
Proctor (R.A.) on Astronomy in 
America 351 
Proctor’s Science By-ways” 93 
Public Health, Effect of Water- 
Supply on 31 
Pyrites, Electro-con ductibility of... 221 
Pythium Equiseti 321 
Radiometers, Experiments with 
128, 435 
Railway Travelling and Electricity 138 
Rain, Influence of Eorests on the 
Quantity of. 221 
Redwood Trees, Colossal 209 
Re-foresting in France 189 
Religion and Science 90 
Reliquiae Aquitanicse 89 
Reproduction of Mushrooms 69 
Reptiles and Mammals, Relations 
between 326 
Respiration in Insects 215 
Reviews of Books 84, 185, 299, 406 
Rhea Americana, new Taenia from 336 
Roscoelite a Vanadium Mineral ... 431 
Royal Society’s Medal to Mr. 
Cicookes 210 
Salts, Gyratory Movements of in 
Water A 220 
Samarskite in America 216 
Saturn 103, 318 
„ Rings of 422 
Saxifraga tridactylines, Leaf-glands 
of. 217 
Schutzenberger “ On Fermentation ” 303 
Science and Religion 90 
Science By-ways 93 
„ the Warfare of 414 
Scientific Apparatus at South Ken- 
sington, Loan Collection of 311 
„ Summary ... 98, 202, 315, 420 
Scotch Fossil Trees 213 
Sea-sickness, Cure for 107 
Seeds, how long they preserve their 
Vitality 206 
„ Hygroscopic Mechanism by 
which they bury themselves 424 
Self-acting Latch, Browning’s 106 
Shell-mounds of Florida ■ 417 
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Shells, Rambles in Search of 94 
Siberia, Graphite from 108 
Slack (H. J.) on Matter and Life .. 149 
Smith (W.G.) on the Reproduction 
of Mushrooms 69 
Snakes that eat Snakes 335 
Snow-Crystals, Imitation 833 
Solar Dark Line 1474, Duplicity 
of the 423 
„ Rays, utilising the 218 
Sound Attractions 436 
Spectroscopic Reactions of Haemo- 
globin and its Derivatives 221 
Spectrum, Ultra-Violet of the, Ex- 
periments on the Ill 
Spontaneous Generation, Experi- 
ments on 113 
,, ,, a reputed Feature 
of 338 
Starch, Formation of, in Chloro- 
phyll-grains 205 
Stars and Nebulae 319 
„ Double and Variable 203 
Stepanovsky Graphite, Analysis of 109 
Stomata in Plants, Functions of 
the 208 
Strychnia, Effect of, on Medusae ... 221 
Sugar, Beet, Experiments on the ... 323 
Sugar, Crystallisation of, Circum- 
stances which affect the 210 
Sulphuric Anhydride, Manufacture 
of .“. 323 
Sulphur in Coal Gas 324 
Sun, the 98, 202, 315 
Symonds (Rev. W. S.) on Glaciers, 
Recent and Extinct 169 
Tjenia, New, from Rhea Ameri- 
cana 336 
Tape -worms 92 
Taylor’s “ Notes on Collecting 
Natural History Objects” 302 
Tea, Quantity of Tannin in 103 
Telegraphy 310 
“ The Garden,” Botanical News- 
paper 207 
Time and Time-tellers 97 
Topley (W.) on Water Supply and 
Public Health 31 
Tree-frog, singular Custom of a ... 335 
Trilobite, new 328 
Tyndall (Prof.) on the Parallel 
Roads of Glen Roy 375 
,, Experiments on Spon- 
taneous Generation 113 
Typhoid Germs, the Filtration of... 328 
Ultra-Violet of the Spectrum, 
Experiments on the Ill 
