241; zygodactyle birds, 241; Buc-
conidae, 241; blue-cheeked barbet,
241; blue-throated barbet, 242; cry
of the barbet, 242; Bassunt Bari,
242; "old woman of spring," 242;
nest of barbet, 242; African barbets,
243; trachyphoric barbet, 243; ha-
bits of trachy form, 243; American
barbets, 244; native country of dif
ferent birds, 245; Pselopogon, 243;
Megatorhynchus, 243; Megatoma
Asiatica, 243; Barbatula, 243; gym-
nobucco, 243; Lamodon, 243; Capi-
tonidæ, 243; Pogonorynchi, 243;
Barbatul, 243; Trachyphonus mar-
garitatus, 244; humming-birds, 245;
toucans, motinots, puff birds, Curas-
sows tinamous, 245; bee-eaters, horn-
bills, rollers, sugar birds, honey guides,
orioles, 245; falcons, owls, swifts,
swallows, and thrushes, 245; parrots
and trogons, 245; structure and man-
ner of growth of scales of fish, 246;
reptiles scales, 246; gadoid fish, 247 ;
megrim, or scale fish, 247; berring
and pilchard, 248; cuticle of the
fish, 248; sea bream, Pagellas, Cen-
trodontus, 249; perch scales, 249;
sole scales, 249; Scioenae, 249; Perca
fluviatilis, 249; Solea vulgaris, 249;
comber fish, 250; Serranus cabrilla,
250; Mullus surmuletus, 239; Trigla
piper, 250; Rhombus hirtus, 250;
shad, 250; Clupeidae, 250; Can-
thurus griseus, 250; Caranx tra-
churus, 250; Scomber esiox, 250;
scad, 250; Labridae, 251; Atherine,
251; Atherina presbuta, 251; scales
of lateral line, 251; Trigla cuculus,
252; Ammodytes Tobianus, 252;
Labrus balamus, 252; Mullus sur-
muletus, 252; Pagellus centrodontus,
252; Clupea pilchardus, 253; Esox
lucius, 253; Belona vulgaris, 253;
Salmo trutta, 253; Brama Raii,
253; gadus fish, 253; structure of
annelids, with a criticism on Quatre-
fages, 266; regions of the body and
appendages, 267; feet of annelids,
269; hesions, 269; teguments and
muscular apparatus, 269; Arthro-
podes, 270; muscular system, 271;
digestive organs, 271; perivisceral
circulatory system of annelids, 272;
Aphroditians, 272; Glycerians, 272;
Terebella, 272; Aphrodita aculeata,
272; rotifers, 281; ovovivaparous
generation, 282; eggs of rotifers, 283;
eyes of rotifers, 283; calcar or spur
of rotifer, 283; Systolides, 284;
fixed rotifers, 284; swimming roti-
fers, crawling rotifers, 284; Floscu-

larians, 284; Melicertians, 281;
Brachions, 284; Philodines, 281;
Polyarthra, 284; Triarthra, 284;
Conochilus, 284; Lacinularia, 284;
Ecistes, 284; Limnias, 285; Ste-
phanoceros, 286; tube-dweiling roti.
fers, 286; Dujardin's free-swimmers,
287; Asplanchna, 287; pitcher
rotifer, 288; Salpina, 288; Ptero-
dina, 288; cuirassiers, 288; trochal
disks, 288; ciliary organs, 289;
active wheel cilia, 290; gizzards, 291;
mastax, 291; ciliary movement, 290;
brachion mastax, 292; foscules, 293;
stomach and intestines, 293; diges-
tive apparatus, 294; nervous system,
295; Metopidia acuminata, 295;
localities in which rotifers are found,
295; Annuloida, 296; true-jointed
limbs of rotifers, 296; sulphuric
acid formed by a mollusk, 319; in-
sects eggs, their structure, beauty,
and variety, 321; Lepidopterous,
321; care of insects in depositing
eggs, 321; cockroach's eggs, 322;
ants' eggs, 322; queen bees' eggs,
322; silkworms' eggs, 322; goat
moth's eggs, 322; coleopterous in-
sects' eggs, 322; burying beetles'
eggs, 323; Scarabaeidae, 323; earth
borer, 323; formation of eggs, 323;
chemical constituents of eggs, 324;
egg membrane or shell, 325; Coccus
Persica, 326; phryganea eggs, 326;
coccus eggs, 327; ova of crustaceans,
327; mottle umber moth, 327; mag-
pie moth, 327; thorn moth eggs,
327; straw-belle moth eggs, 328;
dingy shears moth eggs, 328; puss
moth eggs, 328; swallow prominent
eggs, 328; brimstone moth eggs,
328; lappet moth, 328; buff tiger
moth, 328; brown-tail moth, 328;
emerald volute moth, 329; glory of
Kent moth, 329; silkworm moth,
329; silver line moth, 329; meadow
brown butterfly, 329; white butterfly,
330; brown hair-streak butterfly,
330; fur-bearing foxes, 354; Can-
nidae family, characteristics of, 355;
red fox, 355; grey fox, 355; wolves
and foxes, 355; foxes' tails, 355;
South American foxes, 356; silver
fox, 356; prices of fox skins, 357:
cross-fox fur, 358; red fox, 358;
trapping foxes, 359; red trappers,
359; kitt fox, 359; Rocky Mountain
fox, 360; skull of kitt fox, 361:
corsac fox, 361; thievish propen-
sities of kitt fox, 362; Arctic fox,
364; white fox, 361; blue Arctic
fox 364; respiratory apparatus of

annelids, 365; reproductive appa-
ratus of annelids, 368; classification
of annelids, 369; termites, or white
ants of India, 381; winged ants,
382; destroyers of white ants, 382;
skipping frog, 383; mollusks, 399;
new mudfish; 399; walrus, 400.
Neptune grotto, 79.

Nerve terminations of annelids, 368.
Nervous system of rotifers, 295.
Nervous system of annelids, 367.
New crater Linné, 36.

New islands in Kaimene group, 143.
New planets, 320.

Newton forgeries, 239, 400.
Newton, Sir Isaac, 350.

Newtonian theory of light, 139
New Zealand mudfish, 399.
Notes on star-streams, 1.
Notodromas, 118.

Notommata aurita, 288.
Novel action of light, 308.
November shooting stars, 190.
Nutrient fluid, 92.

Reproductive apparatus af annelids,
366.

Reptiles scales, 246.
Resonance, 47.

Respighi, estimation of crater Linné,
38.

Respiratory apparatus of annelids, 365.
Restennet priory, 27.

Revolutions of Jupiter's satellites, 145.
Rhæticus, 216.

Rhododendrons and magnolias of the
Himalayas, 132.

Rhombus hirtus, 250.

River salmon, 107.

Roman antiquities, 311.

Roman city of Uriconium, 149.

Roman lead mining work on Mendip
Hills, 234.

Roman pottery, 348.

Roman pottery at Thruxton, 149.
Roman road, 311.

Roman roads in Derbyshire, 342.
Roman Salopian ware, 350.
Roman station of Vindomis, 310.
Roman town in France, 235.
Ross's new four-inch objective, 398.
Rotifers, characteristics of, 281.
Royal Geographical Society, 396.
Royal Microscopical Society, 398, 478.

SABRE-TOOTHED animal, 202.
Sacrificing human beings, 265.
Safety-valve improvement, 77.
Salmon, food of, 104.

Salmo trutta, 253.

Salpina, a rotifer, 288.
Salisbury mammalia, 201.

Santorini, eruptions at, 142.

Satellites, Jupiter's, 222.

Satellites, Jupiter without, 144.

Sepulchral interments, 236.
Sepulchral urns, 185, 261, 344.
Serrannus cabrilla, 250.

Shadows in terrestrial sunshine, 275.
Silex in bark, 50.
Silkworms' eggs, 322.

Silkworm moth, 329.

Silver armillae, 345.

Singing and sensitive flames, 48.
Sinus Estuum, 374.
Skeletons, 258.

Skeletons discovered in Derbyshire
barrows, 184.

Skeletons found in Yorkshire, 310.

Slate quarries, 29.

Snow flakes, 332.

Solea vulgaris, 249.

Sole scales, 249.

Sound, curiosities of, 42.

Sound, waves, 43.

Sounds we cannot hear, 45.

South American foxes, 356.
Sponges, 161.
Spicules, 164.

St. Abb's head, 26.
Stag, 202.

Standards of weights, measures, and

coinage, 297.

Starch manufacture, 314.

Stars, colours of, 315; new, 479

Star showers, 320.

Star streams, 1.

Steam applied to railway breaks, 316.
Steam-boiler incrustations, 473.
Steel, improvement in the manufacture
of, 74.

Stephanoceros, 286.

Stippling of the field of light, 12.
Stirling Castle, 26.

Stomachs and intestines of rotifers, 293.

Stone avalanches of the Alps, 332.

Stone cists in Derbyshire, 186.

Stone implements, 256.

Stones of Stenness, 235.

Storm on Nevada de Toluca, 134.

Strait of Cheddar, 31.

Stratigraphical structure of Cheddar
cliffs, 34.

Straw-belle moth, 328.
Stream formations, 8.

Streams and cascades of Glen Clova, 23.
Streams of light in the milky way, 12.
Structure and manner of growth of
the scales of fishes, 246.
Structure of insects' eggs, 321.
Structure of the annelids, with a criti-
cism on Quatrefages, 266, 365.
Study of costume, 167.

Substitution of an electric current for
a fulminate with fire-arms, 237.
Sugar birds, 245.

Sulphuric acid formed by a mollusk,319.
Superheaated steam, improved appli-
cation of, 150.

Supposition of life in the moon nega-
tived, 55.

Swallow prominent, 328.
Swallows, 245.

Swifts, 245.

Variety of conditions and influences
being essential to progress of civil-
zation, 65.
Vegetation and electricity, 399.
Velocity of sound, 45.
Venus, day view of, 399.
Venus' flower-basket, 161.
Verification of sextants, 158.
Vesuvius, eruption of, 480.
Via Lactea, 4.

Vibrations of columns of sounds, 46.
Visit to Glen Clova, 22.
Vitrified forts, Forfar, 28.

Volcanic action, formation of, 143.
Volcanic action in the Azores, 79.
Volvaria sub-genus of Agaricus, 18.
Voracity of the salmon, 106.

WALRUS at Zoological Gardens, 400.
Water marks in Cheddar caves, 33.
Warden of the Mint, 351.
Warden of the Standards, 298.
Wave-movements of sound, 43.
Weight of Jupiter and size, 115.
Weights Standard, 297.
White ants of India, 381.
White ant destroyers, 382.
White butterfly, 330.
Wigmore Abbey, 150.
Wild boar, 202.
Wind cliff, Cheddar, 31.
Winds, differences in the, 335.
Winged ants, 382.
Wolf, 202.

Wolf on Linné, 40.

Wright on the Milky Way, 3.

XESTOLEBERIS, 123.

YORKSHIRE barrows, 310.

ZONE of Erastosthenes, 275.
Zygodactyle birds, 241.