576 
INDEX. 
Scientific Ardtic investigation, funda- 
mental principles of, 416 
“ Shells, Land and Fresh Water, 
Rambles in Search of ” (review), 
Shells of birds eggs, colouring of, 78 
Sidereal Astronomy, 44 
Siegburgite, a new fossil resin, 281 
Silkworm’s eggs, accelerating the 
hatching of, 143 
Silver and gold in carboniferous lime- 
stone in Walton, 212 
“ Smithsonian Institute, Annual Re- 
port of” (review), 127, 387 
Smyth, R. B., catalogue of rocks, 
minerals, and fossils, 284 
Solutions,, saline, adtion of on sugar- 
beet, 432 
Sorby, H. C., colouring of the shells 
of birds’ eggs, 78 
— new method of measuring the 
absorption bands in spedtra, 138 
— critical point in consolidation of 
granite, 564 
Sound refledtion, 420 
Spedtra, new method of measuring, 
absorption bands in, 138 
Stage, new Liverpool landing, 140 
Stainer, J., “ Dictionary of Musical 
Terms ” (review), 275 
Staining and mounting wood, 285 
“ State of the Medical Profession in 
Great Britain and Ireland,” by 
William Dale (review), 532 
“ Steel and Iron, High Antiquity of” 
(review), 270 
Stewart, B., measuring the diredt 
heat of the sun, 422 
Stiles, M. H., staining and mounting 
wood, 285 
Stoddart, Mr., gold and silver in 
carboniferous limestone at Wal- 
ton, 282 
Stokes, G., phenomena of metallic 
refledtion, 560 
Struver, Prof., gustaldite, new 
mineral, 281 
Sugar, beet, adtion of saline solutions 
on, 432 
Sun, measuring the diredt heat of the, 
422 
“ OpABLES, Nautical and Mathe- 
•1 matical, for the use of Stu- 
dents, Seamen, Mathematicians, 
&c.” (review), 392 
Tait, P. G., on force, 551 
Tangent galvanometer, refledting, 
420 
Tecali, onyx of, examination of, 430 
! Odtober, 
“ Terms, Musical Dictionary of” (re- 
view), 275 
Terquem, M., apparatus for perforat- 
ing glass with eledtric spark, 
142 
Test plates, method employed by 
Nobert in ruling, 562 
“ Text-book of Zoology, Introduc- 
tory ” (review), 114 
“ Theory of Heat ” (review), 109 
“ Thermo-Dynamic Phenomena ” (re- 
view), 260 
Thompson, S. P., experiments on 
etheric force, 419 
Thomson, Sir William, physical con- 
dition of the earth, 556 
Tissues, staining with dyes, 137 
“ Treatise on Physics, Elementary, 
Experimental, and Applied ” (re- 
view), IIO 
Trunnin and Terquem, MM., ap- 
paratus for perforating glass with 
eledtric spark, 142 
U LRICH, G. H. F., and F. W. 
Hutton, “ Geology of Otago ” 
(review), 392 
“ United States, cholera epidemic of 
1873 in the” (review), 389 
orus, com- 
, traced 
through sedimentary rocks, 
282 
“Variation of Animals and Plants 
under Domestication ” (review), 
384 
Vegetarianism, the great dietetic re- 
form, 14 
“Vidtoria Institute, Annual Report 
of” (review), 125 
Virson, Dr., accelerating the hatch- 
ing of silkworm’s eggs, 143 
Vivisedtion, 317 
W AHL, W. H., infusorial earth 
and its uses, 336 
Ward, J. C., results of investigation 
in Lake distridl, 283 
Warren, G. R., “ Important Physical 
Features in the Valley of the 
Minnesota River ” (review), 271 
Water front of New York, 141 
Water supply, scheme of, 305 
Watts, H., “ Dictionary of Chemistry 
and the Allied Branches of Other 
Sciences ” (review), 113 
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