INDEX. 
459 
Shelley’s “Workshop Appliances” 
Sierras, Ancient Griaciers of the ... 
Ships’ Compasses 
Silicified Plants of the Coal-measure 
Silk-dyeing 
Skull of a Dentigerous Bird 
Sky, Blue Colour of 
Slack (H. J.) on Curiosities of Vege- 
table Morphology 
Sleep, Causation of 
Smith's “ Foods ” 
Snake-bird, Brain of 
Snakes of India 
,, Poisonous 
Soap, Eesin in 
Sodium, Action of, on Aniline 
Solar Cyclones 
,, Eclipse, Oudeman’s Photo- 
graphs of the 
,, Prominences, Obserrations of 
Spectral Illuminator 
Spectroscope, Pocket 
Spectrum Analysis, Peculiarities of 
,, of Chlorophyll 
„ of Lightning 
,, of the Aurora Borealis, 
106, 
Sphseroma, Sexes of 
Spiders, Trap-door 
Spinal Cord, Action of Certain Sub- 
stances on the 
Spontaneous Generation, a Fact 
against 
„ ,, Experi- 
ments on 
Starch; can Infants Digest it ? 
Steam Traction on Eoads 
Steamships for the Channel Passage 
Stearine Candles, Paraffin in 
Steel and Iron, Soldering 
,, Manufacture, Improvement in 
Stone Implements 
,, Wear of. 
Stone-age Homestead, Eelics of a... 
Structure, Lady Investigators into 
Sugar-forming Powers of Liver, 
Chemistry of the 
Sulphur, Action of, on Arsenic 
„ in Water, Action of, on 
Iron Pipes 
Sulphuric Acid, Action of, on Iron 
and Steel 
Sun-spot Observations 
Symond’s “Eecords of the Eocks” 
Tachymeter, a 
Tattooed Man 
Taylor’s “ Geological Stories ” 
“ “ Half-hours in the Green 
Lanes ” 
PAGE 
Telegraphing, New Mpde of 106 
Telescope, Companion to the 293 
Temperatures, Measuring, by Elec- 
tricity 106 
Therapeutics of Diabetes Mellitus. . . 83 
Thread Hilaria Anhinga Worm in 
Brain of Snake-bird 109 
Timbs’ “ Year-book of Facts ” 199 
Tinoeeras anceps 94 
Tissues in the Living State, Mode 
of Observing 443 
Tolies’ New Wet-objective -Vth ... 103 
Torpedoes 169 
Torrey, Dr., Death of 42o 
Traction Engine, Novel 315 
Transit of Venus, American Prepa- 
rations for Observing 300 
Trap-door Spiders 193 
Travelling Birds 82 
Triferrous Phosphate, to Prepare... 430 
Trimen (H.) on Parasitism in Flow- 
ering Plants 225 
Trimmerellids 94 
Tyndall’s American Lectures 402 
„ Gift to the Americans ... 213 
„ Deception on Eeturn from 
America 220 
Typhoid Fever 215 
United States Naval Observa- 
tory 295 
Vegetable Morphology, curiosities 
of 150 
Venus, Arrangements for Observing 
Transit of 419 
,, Transits of 200, 299 
„ Transit of, in 1874 295 
„ „ in 1882 422 
Vesuvius and its Last Eruption ... 77 
,, Eruption of. Effect on 
Plants 88 
Volcano of Kilanea 211 
,, of Mokuaweoweo 96 
Volcanoes of Hawaii 432 
Voyage of the Challenger Ill 
Ward’s “Elementary Geology” ... 81 
Washington Observations for 1870 294 
Water-currents, Boussinesq’s Essay 
on 328 
Water ; is it an Electrolyte ? 90 
,, Supply to the Vienna Exhi- 
bition 220 
Wave-lengths of Sound in Gases ... 326 
Webb (Eev. T. W.) on How to 
Sketch the Moon ! 234 
page 
410 
315 
331 
307 
430 
431 
327 
150 
83 
292 
109 
222 
46 
93 
209 
330 
420 
' 202 
329 
105 
331 
445 
219 
, 327 
334 
193 
437 
441 
448 
320 
97 
1 
93 
440 
98 
293 
219 
313 
100 
309 
310 
441 
308 
303 
79 
326 
449 
193 
404 
