Index. 
763 
L AMSON Case, Lessons of the, 
225 
Law of Evolution ; is it general ? 1 
Light, Action of on Vegetation, 113 
— Influence of on Colouration of 
Animals, 652 
Lights, Magnetic, Straggling, 422 
Literature v. Science, 697 
M 
AGNETISM and Electricity, 238 
— Organic, Instructions in, by Miss 
L. Hunt, 356 
— Principles of, by C. Morris, 4, 68 
Mammoth, Extinction of in Siberia, 52 
Mars, twin canals on, 630 
Materialistic Definition of Insanity 
and Imbecility, 604 
Matter and Force, by Dr. Buchner, 
229 
Medical Principles, remarks on, 416 
Medicine, Advancement of by Re- 
search, 259, 497 
— German-English Dictionary of 
Words used in, 36 
— Men, our, Hints on, by H. Strick- 
land Constable, 682 
Mediterranean, age of, 114 
— not a distinct zoological province, 
112 
Mesmeric Experiments, danger of, 
183 
Mesmerism, on, by N. Gordon Munro, 
Metals, properties of, 738 
Micrographic Dictionary, 421 
Migration of Butterflies, 48 
Military Life and Sport in India, 91 
Mind-reading or Muscle-reading, 57 
Mind, Ruling, in the Natural and the 
Supernatural, 94 
Miscellaneous Collections, Smith- 
sonian, 418 
Monde, Animal, le, 554 
Monstrosities, Part played by the 
Amnion in the production of, 183 
Motion in Sound, Vibratory, 301 
Muscidas, Post-embryonic develop- 
ment of, 52 
N ATIONAL Progress, Scientific 
Basis of, by G. Gore, F.R.S., 
4i3 
Nature, Vignettes from, by Grant 
Allen, 546 
Naturalists’ Society, Bristol, Pro- 
ceedings of, 492 
Neptune, Two Planets beyond, by O. 
Reichenbach, 358 
Nervousness, American, by Dr. G. 
Beard, 32 
Newton’s Law of Gravitation, attempt 
to prove fornon-resistingmedium, 
304 
O CCULTISM reconsidered, 404, 
44i 
Organic Development, new FaCtor in, 
281 
Organism, what is an ? 656 
Organisms and minerals, distinction 
between, 148 
— Culmination of Solar Influence on, 
detected, 729 
— Living, Drawings and Descrip- 
tions of, 685 
— Meteoric, disproved, 115 
Osteology of American Tetraonidae, 99 
P AL7EONTOGRAPHICAL Soci- 
ety, by W. J. Harrison, F.G.S., 
595 
Palestine, Exploration of, 346 
Pebbles, Quartzite, in the Drift, by 
W. J. Harrison, F.G.S., 746 
“ Perfect Way, or the Finding of 
Christ,” 232 
Phenomena, Supernatural, explana- 
tion of, 692 
Philosophy of T. Carlyle, by Con- 
stance Arden, 313 
Phrenology and Animal Psychology, 
16 
Physics of the Earth’s Crust, 163,306 
— Solar, Applications of, by A. H. 
Swinton, 397 
Plants, DiCtionaiy of Popular Names 
of, 557 
Poison of Serpents, 214 
Poisons, Action of on Petals of Flowers, 
by A. A. Nesbit, F.C.S., 733 
Positivists hostile to Science, 376 
Possibilities, Agricultural, 525 
Potassium Permanganate, doubtful as 
antidote to Snake-poisons, 245 
Protoplasm, Reinke on, 247 
Psychical Research Society, Proceed- 
ings of, 676 
PterodaCtyles, their wings true organs 
of flight, 376 
Pyramid Problem, Solution of, 680 
R ATIONAL Materialistic Defini- 
tion of Insanity and Imbecility, 
604 
Records of Sport and Military Life in 
India, by Col. T. G. Fraser, 91 
