7 6 4 
INDEX. 
Popular Lectures on Scientific Sub- 
jects, by Professor H. Helmholtz, 
161 
Popular Science Monthly, 614 
Process, vital, characteristics of, 56 
Protoplasm, composition of, 182 
Psychology, Comparative, 25 
Ptomaines and Snake-poisons, 734 
Songs and Sonnets of Spring Time, 
by Miss C. C. Naden, 495 
Sounds, Vocal, 624 
Species, the Human, by A. de Quatre- 
fages, 745 
Spheres, Evolution of, by C. Morris, 
121 
Spon’s Encyclopaedia of Industrial 
Arts and Manufactures, 617 
J^ADIOGRAPH and its uses, 218 
Rhinoceros Merckii in Siberia, 56 
Roorkee Hydraulic Experiments, by 
Capt. Allan Cunningham, R.E., 
554 
Royal Historical and Archaeological 
Association of Ireland, 236 
— Society of New South Wales, 
Proceedings of, 610 
of Tasmania, Proceedings of, 
618 
of Victoria, Transactions and 
Proceedings of, 165 
(^ANITARY conditions, 367 
— Reform and its Vagaries, 474 
Science in the Witness-box, 53 
— progress of, 425 
— Teaching of in Public Elementary 
Schools, by W. J. Harrison, 
F.G.S., 751 
Scottish Meteorological Society, Jour- 
nal of, 166 
Seismograph, New, by A. H. Swin* 
ton, 754 
Sensation, transfer of, 540 
Sexes, Materialistic Origin of, by A. 
Dewar, 33 
Sexual Distinctions and Resemblances, 
741 
Shams, Chemical, byj. Hepburn Da- 
vidson, 237, 469 
Siberia, climate of in epoch of Mam- 
moth, 119 
— in Europe, by H. Seebohm, F.L.S., 
38 
Sight, an exposition of the principles 
of Monocular and Binocular, by 
Prof. Jos. Le Conte, 353 
Simulation of Animals to Plants, 
*75 
Small-pox, epidemic, 177 
Smithsonian Institution, Annual Re- 
port of, 550 
Solar Physics, probable extension of, 
by A. H. Swinton, 481 
— System, Evolution of, by C. Morris, 
258 
T ABLES for Analysis of Simple 
Salts, by H. Vinter, M.A , 163 
Tail, external, in human species, 118 
Tasmania, Royal Society of, Proceed- 
ings, 618 
Tauferer Valley, Lepidoptera of, by 
Prof. J. Weiler, 168 
Temperature of the Head, Researches 
on, by J. S. Lombard, M.D., 299 
Trichinae and their Distribution, 665 
U NITED States Commission on 
Fish and Fisheries, 231 
Department of Agriculture, 
Entomologists’ Report, by J. H. 
Comstock, 238 
Survey of Territories, 48, 113, 
361 
V ACCINATION Question recon- 
sidered, 646 
Ventilation of Dwelling-houses and 
Utilisation of Waste Heat, by F. 
Edwards, jun., 294 
Victoria, Royal Society of, Trans- 
actions and Proceedings, 165 
— Reports of Mining Surveyors and 
Registrars, 167 
Vine, a sanitary agent, 118 
Vivisection, benefits from, 178 
— Case, the recent, 727 
— its Opponents, by W. Jensen, 154 
Vocabulary, Technical, English- 
French, by Dr. Wershoven, 684 
Volcanoes, what they are and what 
they teach, by J. W. Judd, F.R.S., 
607 
W EATHER of 1880, by E. Maw- 
ley, F.M.S., 301 
Weather-wisdom and the Harvest, 569 
Weights and Measures Question re- 
considered, 342 
Weltgangen und Polarismus, Princip 
des, by Dr. E. Mielke, 750 
Wool identified by inseCts in it, 55 
Works, Collected, of J. McCullagh, 
by J. H. Jellett, B.D., and S. 
Haughton, M.D., 300 
World, the Occult, by A. P. Sinnett, 
493 
