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INDEX. 
PAGE 
Comet, Hartwig’s 69 
,, Pechule’s 176 
„ Swift’s 70, 176 
Comets’ Tails, the formation of... 327 
Constitution of the Earth 165 
Continents, Permanence of.; 117 
Contributions to the knowledge of 
the Hottentot Race 147 
Cretaceous Snake 85 
Crinum, leaves of, elongated spiral 
cells in the 178 
Crustacea, Abyssal, of the West 
Indies 186 
Cryohydrates, Guthrie’s 80 
Cuttlefish, Japanese, gigantic 189 
,, Ink of the 373 
Cystic worm, new form of 92 
Darwin’s ‘ Power of Movement in 
Plants’ 170 
Deep-sea Pycnogonidse 377 
Denning, W.F., on the Centenary 
of the Discovery 
of Uranus 207 
, , on the Planet J upi- 
ter in Oct. and 
Nov. 1880 1 
Diatoms, markings of 178 
Dictionary, Micrographic 352 
„ of Chemistry 350 
Dinosaurs, classification of 272 
Dipterous Insects, pupas of, dis- 
appearance of the muscles of 
larvae in the 191 
Discomedusae, the 93 
Dufour, Prof. C., on the Retreat 
of the European Glaciers 317 
Dynamical Energy , Electrical Stor- 
age of 280 
Dynamo-Electric Machines 89 
Eared Seals, geographical distri- 
bution of the 371 
Earth, Constitution of the 165 
Easy Lessons in Botany 170 
Eden’s ‘ Africa, seen through its 
Explorers ’ 168 
Egg-cases and Young of the Man- 
tida3 375 
Electrical Storage of Dynamical 
Energy 280 
Electricity 169 
„ the Storage of 320 
Electric conductivity of Carbon ... 88 
„ Lights, incandescent ... 89 
„ Osmose, influence of Vol- 
taic Currents on the 183 
Elongated Spiral Cells in the 
Leaves of Crinum 178 
Encke’s Comet 361 
Englypha Alveolata, division of... 376 
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Eozoic and Lower Palaeozoic Rocks 
of the British Isles, Classifica- 
tion of the 280 
Epicureanism 169 
Eruptive Rocks, ancient, of the 
Puy-de-Dome. 182 
European Glaciers, Retreat of the 317 
Evers’ ‘ Steam and the Steam- 
engine’ 166 
Explosions, conditions attending 81 
Exner, Prof. S., on the mode of 
action of Facetted Eyes 337 
Extension of the Milky Way, sus- 
pected 177 
Extinct British Animals 166 
Eye-like Spots in Fishes 221 
Eyes, Facetted, mode of action of 337 
Faye, M., on the formation of the 
Tails of Comets 327 
Faye’s Comet 71 
Felspar, red, of the Granite from 
Lyme, Conn 87 
Fins, paired, of Sharks and Rays 287 
Fire-extinction 81 
Fishes, British, Natural History of 169 
,, Eye-like Spots in 221 
,, Food for 376 
,, Organs of Taste in 189 
,, some facts about 40 
Fish, mortality of, in the Gulf of 
Mexico 374 
Fitzgerald’s Magneto-Electric Ma- 
chines 89 
Floating Germs 354 
Flowering Plants, the oldest 366 
Flowers, Spring Colours of 309 
Fog 27 
‘ Gardens of the Sun ’ 65 
Gardner, J. Starkie, on the Perma- 
nence of Continents 117 
Gases, rotary magnetic polariza- 
tion in 92 
,, Thermic and optical beha- 
viour of 88 
,, velocity of sound in 91 
Geniculated Zircons 280 
Geological deposits, abnormal, in 
the Bristol district 83 
Geologists’ Note-book 268 
Geology 82, 178, 272, 365 
,, Glasgow 353 
,, of the Cape Verde Islands 181 
Geometry, practical 58 
Germination, influence of light 
upon 77 
Germs, Floating 354 
Giant Squids on the Newfoundland 
Banks 190 
Glaciers, European, retreat of the 317 
Glasgow Geology 353 
