INDEX. 
441 
PAGE 
Plants, Spontaneous Movements in 368 
„ Mimicry in 1 
„ of Oregon 198 
„ the Bee as a Fertiliser of... 222 
Pneumatic Despatch 96 
Pollen, Foreign, Action of, on the 
Fruit of Fertilised Plants 308 
Polyzoa, Australian 221 
Pompeii, Dinners of 210 
Pond Life, Marvels of 71 
Popular History of British Insects 69 
Potassium, Method of Obtaining... 419 
Potatoes, Machine for Estimating 
Starch in 202 
Poultry, Profitable and Ornamental 73 
Prestwich (J.) on the Probable 
Existence of Coal-Measures in 
the South-East of England 225 
Primordial Fauna in Nevada 205 
“Principles of Geology,” Lyell’s... 178 
Prize for the Best Essay on Sugar- 
making 201 
,, for London Microscopists ... 215 
Proctor (E. A.) on the Eclipse of 
Dec. 12, 1871 136 
,, ,, on Solar Promi- 
nences 43 
Proctor’s (E. A.) News from the 
Stars 381 
„ “ Chart of the Northern 
Hemisphere” 300 
„ “ Essays on Astronomy ” 298 
,, “ New Star- Atlas ” 183 
Projectile Forces in Nature, Ex- 
istence of. 302 
Psychic Force and Psychic Media, 
by J. P. Earwaker 32 
Pus, Chemical Composition of 325 
Quarterly Metallurgical Eeport. . . 102 
Eadcliffe’s “ Dynamics of Nerve 
and Muscle” 66 
Eadiant Heat 297 
Eain and Air 292 
Eainfall, Eeport on 431 
Ealstonite, a new Fluoride 102 
Eanunculus Ehomboideus, Double 
Flowers of 418 
Beade’s “ Martyrdom of Man” ... 412 
Eecent Microscopy, by II. J. Slack 1 1 
Eeflex Illuminator, Wenham’s Im- 
proved 327 
Eeptiles, Delation of Orders of, to 
Strata 91 
Eesults of the Coal Commission ... 91 
Beviews of Books 66, 177, 288, 405 
Eheumatism in Whales 432 
Ehinoceros, Asiatic 432 j 
PAGE 
Eichardson (Dr.) on the Physiolo- 
gical Position of Alehohol 154 
Eobinson’s “Flint’s Fancies and 
Facts” 78 
Eocks, Contortion of, Experimental 
Eesearches on the 21 
„ the Testimony of the 302 
„ Value of Lithology in deter- 
mining the Age of 204 
Eocky Mountains, Geology of the 91 
Eonald’s “ Description of an Elec- 
tric Telegraph” 78 
Eoyal Astronomical Society 191 
,, Institution, History of the... 72 
Eudimentary Magnetism 190 
Eue, Oil of 87 
St. Gothard Eailway 95 
Salt-Lake City, Geology of 91 
Sauropus Unguifer 318 
Scales on the Body of Culex 106 
Scheller’s “ Spectrum Analysis” ... 185 
Science and Industry for 1871, 
Eecord of 413 
Scientific Enquiry, Manual of 75 
„ Summary ...79, 191, 303, 414 
Scorpio Italieus, Embryology of ... Ill 
Scrope’s “ Volcanoes” 177 
Sea-Side, Half-Hours at the 411 
Sea-Water, Carbonic Acid in 313 
Seeds, Dispersion of, by the Wind 308 
,, Sculpture of 83 
Seismograph, New 331 
Serous Exudations, Paralbumen in 201 
Shells, Camerated, the Structure of 113 
Silica, Injection of Crinoids by ... 89 
Silvester’s “ Discovery of the Nature 
of the Spleen” 78 
Singing Flame, Barry’s, Improve- 
ment in 331 
Siphon Eecorder, the 358 
Skunk, Anatomy of the 110 
Slack (H.J.) on Eecent Microscopy 11 
,, „ on the Nature of 
Sponges 167 
Slack’s “Marvels of Pond Life” ... 71 
Small-pox, New Eemedy for 209 
„ Eemarks on 187 
Smith’s (E. A.) “Air and Eain” ... 292 
Smithsonian Eeport, the 408 
Soda, Substitute for, in Washing 
Linen 315 
Solar Corona 80 414 
,, Eclipse of December 22, 1870 189 
,, Outburst 80 
,, Photosphere, Temperature of 
the 193 
„ Prominences 193 
,, ,, Strange News 
about, by E. A. Proctor 43 
