INDEX. 
247 
Crystals of snow, 93. 
Cumberland, rain in, 84. 
DAISY, opening of the, 224. 
closing in rain, 225. 
Darwin, Mr., cited, 237-240. 
Dead-nettle, structure of the, 229, 
230. 
Deltas, 119. 
Deposition of mud, 119. 
Dew, how formed, 86. 
artificial, 87. 
Distillation of water from sea, 96. 
Drones, slaughter of, 215. 
EAR, construction of the, 141. 
stones, 143. 
Earth, its size compared to the 
sun, 29. 
Earth-pillars, picture of, 106. 
Earth's state if there were no sun, 
28. 
Echoes, 138, 139. 
Eggs, laying of queen-bee, 21 1. 
Enemies of bees, 217. 
of plants, 226 
Equisetum, or horse-tail, 185. 
Erratic blocks, 127. 
Ether, waves of the, 35, 85. 
Eustachian tube, 142. 
Evaporation from rivers and seas, 
80. 
Evening primrose, insects visit- 
ing, 224. 
Eye, light- waves entering, 38-42. 
FAIRIES, or forces of nature, 6-12. 
Fairy "Life," 173. 
Fairy-tales and science, 2. 
Flowers bright to attract insects, 
223. 
times of opening of, 224. 
Food of a plant, 159. 
Frost bursting water-pipes, 95. 
breaking up the fields, 124. 
GANGES DELTA, 119. 
Gas, definition of a, 15. 
in coal, 190. 
Gay-Lussac's balloon ascent, 62. 
Geikie, Mr., cited, 122. 
Geneva, mud in lake of, 126. 
Geranium, fertilization of, 227, 
sylvaticum, 228. 
of the garden, 229. 
Glacial Period, 128. 
Glaciers, 98, 124. 
blocks carried by, 127. 
Glaisher's balloon ascent, 62, 66. 
God in nature, 25. 
Graphite, hardened by pressure, 
190. 
Grass, dew forming on, 86. 
Gravesend, mud-banks at, 1 19. 
Gravitation and its work, 8, 12. 
Great Dismal Swamp, America, 
1 86. 
Greenland, glaciers of, 124. 
snow-fields of, 97. 
: vapour carried from, 82. 
Gulf of Mexico, vapour carried up 
from, 82. 
i 
j HAILSTONES, how formed, 88. 
I Hard water, 99. 
Hartshorn, spirits of, 58. 
Heat, a fairy force, 8. 
cut off by water-vapour, 85. 
