INDEX. 
397 
Digestion and Development, Insect, 144. 
Digestive Apparatus of (Spiders, 199. 
Dinamoeba, Feeding of, 216. 
Discharge, Electric, in Gases, the Com- 
pound Microscope applied to the Ex- 
amination of, 287. 
Disease, Splenic, Bacteria as Parasites 
in, 87. 
, the Germ Theory of, 221. 
Diseases, Typhoid and other Enteric, 
on the Detection of Toxic Matter 
connected with, 33. 
Double Kefraction, the Microscope ap- 
plied to the Phenomena of, 276. 
Dry V. Immersion Objectives, 154. 
E. 
Echinodermata and Turbellaria, Ani- 
mals parasitic on, on the Ortlio- 
nectida, a new Class of, 23. 
Electric Discharge in Gases, the Com- 
pound Microscope applied to the 
Examination of, 287. 
Embryology of Sponges, the, 263. 
Embryo of Terebella, Wartelia wrongly 
considered as the, 355. 
England, on the Present Condition of 
Microscojiy in, 121. 
English Microscopes, the Fine Adjust- 
ment of, 205. 
Enteric, Typhoid, and other Diseases, 
oil the Detection of Toxic Matter 
connected with, 33. 
Eozoon, Palaeozoic Fossils mineralized 
with Silicates, in illustration of, 219. 
Escape of small Animals from Aquaria, 
280. 
Excursion, Marine, of the Birmingham 
Microscopical Society, 287. 
Exhalation and Inhalation of Aqueous 
Vapours by the Leaves, part played 
by the Stomata in the, 334. 
Exo-skeleton in “ Keptilia,” a Contri- 
bution to the Histology of the, 233. 
Eyes of Insects, 225. 
F. 
Feeding of Dinamoeba, on the, 216. 
Fermentation, Alcoholic, 270. 
, Intracellular, 23. 
Fertilization of Meyenia erecta. Mecha- 
nism for the, 363. 
Fibrin, Blood, Formation of, 24. 
Field, a new, for the Microscopist 
(the Flagellate Protozoa), 151. 
Filaria Bancroft!, the Life-History of, 
376. 
Fine Adjustment of English Micro- 
scopes, 205. 
Fissiparous and Gemmiparous Eepro- 
duction of the Noctilucaj, the, 331. 
Flagella of Bacterium termo, on the 
Measurement of the Diameter of the, 
169. 
Flagellate Protozoa, the, a new Field 
for the Microscopist, 151. 
Fluid Mounting, 283. 
Focussing under Water, Protecting Cap 
for, 283. 
Food, Apparent discriminative power 
in the selection of, by a Heliozoon, 
215. 
Foraminifera and Polycystina of the 
North Polar Expedition of 1875-76, 
194. 
Foreign IMicroscopy, 23. 
Fossil Reptile (Megalosaurus Buck- 
landii). Bone of, 35. 
Spider, 26. 
Fossils called “ Granicones,” on the, 
233. 
, Palfeozoic, mineralized with Sili- 
cates, in illustration of Eozoon, 219. 
Freezing Methods, Application of, to 
the Microscopic Examination of the 
Brain, 358. 
French view of the Binocular Micro- 
scope, 149. 
Frog, Amphiuma tridactylum, and 
Man, the Structure of the Coloured 
Blood-corpuscles of, 57, 97. 
Plate, Improved Form of, 298. 
Fungi, the Inversion of Sugar by, 24. 
Fungus of the Maple (Ehytisma aceri- 
num), 265. 
G. 
Gases, Electric Discharge in, the Com- 
pound Microscope applied to the 
Examination of, 287. 
Gemmiparous and Fissiparous Repro- 
duction of the Noctilucae, 331. 
Geneva, Lake of, on an Ostracode Crus- 
tacean of a new Genus (Acanthopus) 
met with in the, 80. 
Germ Hypothesis of Putrefaction, the, 
373. 
Theory of Disease, the, 221. 
Germinab Matter of the Air, Schulze’s 
Mode of Intercepting the, 206. 
Glands, Cutaneous, 344. 
Glass, Optical Constants of. Influence 
of Temperature on the, 283. 
Glyciphagus plumiger, 209. 
Gold Method, on the, 250. 
“ Granicones,” on the Fossils called, 233. 
Gulf Stream, Hydroida of the, 223. 
H. 
Hairs, on the Visibility aud Optical 
Aspects of, viewed from a Distance, 
318. 
Haliphysema Tumanowiczii not a 
Sponge, 261. 
Heliozoon, Apparent discriminative 
power in the selection of Food bv 
a, 215. 
