452 
INDEX. 
PAGE 
Segmental Organ in the Endoproct 
Bryozoa 335 
Self-fertilization of Plants 1 
Self-luminous Clock Dials 215 
Sensitive Organs in the Flowers of 
Asclepiads 89 
Serpents, Venom of 219 
Sewage Poisoning 193 
Shetland Isles, Glaciation of the 320 
Shoolbred’s “Electric Lighting”... 300 
Short Period Comet, Tempers 87 
Silicates, containing Fluorine 434 
Silicic Acid, Crystallization of 90 
Silurian Area near Cardiff 321 
„ Fossils of Girvan 67 
„ Land-plants 96 
,, Rocks in the London Area 279 
Simian Characters in Negro Brains 308 
Skeleton, Vertebrate 445 
Skin in the Lower Animals, effects 
of Varnishing the 110 
Solar Eclipse, Total, Photographs 
of 85 
,, Parallax deduced from Ob- 
servation of Mars 419 
Sonometer, the 328 
Sorby ^(H. C.) tfn the Structure 
and Origin of Limestones 134 
Sounds, Loud, Velocity of 218 
Spectra, Influence of Pressure on 328 
„ of Organic Substances, 
Absorption 204 
Spectrometer, new Form of 437 
Spectrum of Brorsen’s Comet 311 
Sphenodon, Habits of 446 
Sphygmophone, the 330 
Sponge-borings in Marble 112 
Stamens, Irritable or Sensitive ... 313 
Starch, Transformation of, into 
Dextrose 315 
Steam Engine and Railways 73 
Stonesfield Mammals 208 
Stone, Age of, in China 413 
Stone (W. H.) on the Collapse of 
the Electric Light 155 
- „ „ on the Electric 
Light 25 
Storm, the Birth, Life, and Death 
of a 243 
Strange Mistake, a 199 
Submerged Forest in Bombay Is- 
land 207 
Sugar, Conversion of, into Alcohol 199 
Sulphide of Carbon, Electromag- 
netic Rotation of the Plane of 
Polarization in 218 
Sulphuret of Carbon for killing In- 
sects 332 
Sun, Oxygen in the 308 
Sun-spots and Commercial Panics 88 
Swedish Minerals 435 
Syenite, Liquid Carbonic Acid in 101 
PAGE 
Tait’s “ Lectures on Physical 
Science” 77 
Tarns, the Origin of 51 
Telephone, the 75 
Telescope, the most powerful in 
existence 385 
Temperatures, mean, British 39 
Tempel’s Short Period Comet 87 
Tertiary Fossils of Chili 317 
Thermo-Electricity, Light from ... 438 
Thurston’s “ History of the Growth 
of the Steam Engine ” 73 
Tidal Theory of the Evolution of 
the Satellites 419 
Tin, grey modification of 425 
Titaniferous Chrysolite 326 
Toothless Ichthyosaurs 205 
Topaz, Liquids enclosed in the cavi- 
ties of. 202 
Trees 78 
Trees and Ferns 307 
Triassic Reptile, gigantic 206 
Trichinae in the Hippopotamus ... 333 
Tyndall’s “Fragments of Science” 302 
Ultramarines, Organic formation 
of..... 314 
Ultra-Violet Radiations, absorp- 
tions of 436 
United States Surveys 182 
Upper Cretaceous Floras 55 
Uralium 424 
Varnishing the Skin in the Lower 
Animals, Effects of 110 
Venom of Serpents 219 
Vertebrate Skeleton 445 
Victoria, the Zoology of 176 
Viper and Hedgehog 446 
Volcanic Products at the Bottom of 
the Pacific 430 
Volcanoes, Mud 431 
Ward (Rev. J. C.) on the Origin of 
Tarns 51 
Water Drops, Influence of Elec- 
tricity on Colliding ... 327 
Watts’s Dictionary of Chemistry. . . 174 
Whiteave’s “ Mesozoic Fossils ”... 411 
Wind at Sea, Velocity of the 439 
Wisdom-Teeth and the Evolution 
of Man 83 
Woodland Trees 78 
0 
Yorkshire, West, Geology of. 69 
Yttrium Group of Metals 203 
Zoology 110, 220, 331, 443 
,, of Victoria 176 
