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INDEX. 
PAGE 
Muscles of larvfe, disappearance 
of the, in the pupse of Dipterous 
Insects 191 
Musical pitch 185 
‘ My Garden Wild, and what I 
grew there ’ 348 
Myxomycetes or Mycetozoa: ani- 
mals or plants? 97 
Natural History of British Fishes 169 
Nature’s Hygiene 164 
Nautical Almanac for 1884 68 
Newfoundland Banks, GiantSquids 
on the 190 
North American Rhizopods 356 
,, ,, Seals 59 
Olfactory organs of Insects 372 
Organs of Taste in Fishes 189 
Ova in the Hydroids, origin of the 370 
Ozone as a cause of the luminosity 
of Phosphorus 364 
„ liquefaction of, andits colour 
in the gaseous state 78 
Paleontology 82, 178, 272, 365 
Parallax of a and (3 Centauri 177 
,, of the Star Piazzi III. 242 177 
Patterson’s ‘ Birds, Fishes, and 
Cetacea, commonly frequenting 
Belfast Lough ’ 59 
Pechiile’s Comet 176 
Peckhamite 86 
Pennatulidae, classification of the . 95 
Permanence of Continents 117 
Philosophical Chemistry 165 
Phosphorus, ozone as a cause of 
the luminosity of 364 
Photophone, the 88 
Physics 87, 183, 280, 369 
Planet Jupiter in Oct. and Nov., 
Plant Life 170 
Plants, flowering, the oldest 366 
„ growth of 71 
,, power of movement in 170, 193 
Plumosite in the Isle of Man 279 
Poetry of Astronomy 66 
* Polar Reconnaissance ’ 161 
Popular Lectures on Scientific 
Subjects 163 
Prawn, fresh- water mud-eating ... 330 
Proctor’s ‘ Poetry of Astronomy ’ . 66 
Proteaceae, the 276 
Pupse of Dipterous Insects, dis- 
appearance of the muscles of 
larvae in the 191 
Puy-de-Dome, ancient eruptive 
rocks of the 182 
Pycnogonidae, Deep-sea 377 
PAGE 
Quaternary Human Remains at 
Nice 172 
Ralfe’s ‘Demonstration in Phy- 
siological and Pathological Che- 
mistry’ ! 165 
Rays, paired Fins of 287' 
Red Felspar of the Granite from 
Lyme, Conn 87 
Regelation, the phenomenon of ... 184 
Reptiles and Batrachians 180 
,, Triassic, South Africa ... 178 
Reviews of Books ... 50, 160, 257, 346 
Rever, Monograph on Tin 269 
Rhizopods, food for Fishes 376 
,, North American 356 
Rocks, Jurassic, of England and 
France 274 
Roe-Deer, former Existence of, in 
England 136 
Rosenthal’s ‘ General Physiology 
of Muscles and Nerves ’ 260 
Rotatory magnetic polarization in 
gases 92 
Scientific Results of the Voyage 
of the Challenger ... 50 
,, Subjects, Popular Lec- 
tures on 168 
„ Summary 68, 172, 271, 358 
,, Teaching 248 
Seals, North American 59 
Seaweeds, American 346 
Semper’s ‘ Natural Conditions of . 
Existence as they effect Animal 
Life’ 160 
Sharks, paired Fins of 287 
Sight 267 
Silurian Plant Remains 273 
Smit’s Contributions to the Know- 
ledge of the Hottentots 147 
Snake, cretaceous 85 
Solar Parallax, recent determina- 
tion of the 358- 
Sound, Velocity of, in Gases 91 
South African Triassic Reptiles... 178 
Southwell’s ‘ Seals and Whales of 
the British Seas ’ 355 
Spirifer lsevis, &c 82 
Spirit of Nature, the 262 
Spodumene and the results of its 
alteration 85 
Spring Flowers, Colours of 309 
Squids, giant, on the Newfound- 
land Banks 198 
Stag Beetle, Anatomy of the 14 
Star Piazzi III. 242, Parallax of 
the 177 
Stars, Cape Catalogue of. 361 
Steam and the Steam-engine 166 
Stoicism 169 
Stone, W., on Scientific Teaching 248 
