THE MAGICIAN'S DREAM OF ANCIENT DAYS.THE ENDINDEX
- Abbot's Way across Dartmoor, [196]
- Absorption of rays of sunlight, [129]
- Abyssinia, wild ass of, [203]
- Actinozoa, Cydippe allied to the, [190]
- Ages, lapse of between old and new stone age, [217]
- Alcor, or Jack, [158]
- Aldebaran, [149]
- Algol the Variable, [162], [165]
- Almach, γ Andromedæ, [156]
- a coloured double star, [167]
- America, extinction of original horse in, [207]
- Andromeda, the great nebula of, [162], [164]
- double coloured star in, [167]
- Animal of the Sea-mat, [191]
- number in one leaf, [193]
- Animal-trees and stony plants, [178]
- Animals, extinct, living with man, [211]
- Antares, a ruby-red star, [167]
- Antherozoids of mosses, [89]
- Apothecia of lichens, [83]
- Apennines, Lunar, figured, [19]
- Archimedes, a lunar crater, [10]
- Arctic lands, lichens in, [82]
- Arcturus, colour of, [166]
- Aristarchus, a lunar crater, [10], [24]
- Aristotle, a lunar crater, [10]
- Arrows, old stone, [215]
- Asia, horse of Central, [201]
- Asinus tæniopus, [203]
- Aspergillus glaucus, [61]
- Ass tribe, forms allied to the, [201]
- ——, wild of Africa, [203]
- Atmosphere, absence of in the moon, [21]
- Australia, wild horses of, [207]
- Bacillaria Paradoxa, a diatom, [185]
- Bacteria growing on wounds, [66]
- Baiæ, hill thrown up on Bay of, [103]
- Ball, Sir R., on binary stars, [154]
- Beehive, triple star near the, [168]
- Beer, fermentation of, [65]
- Bellatrix, a star in Orion, [148]
- Berlin, ground beneath, formed of diatoms, [186]
- Bessel, on movements of Sirius, [169]
- Betelgeux, a star in Orion, [148]
- Binary star in Great Bear, [157], [158]
- —— stars, [154], [166], [170]
- Bog-moss or Sphagnum, [93]
- Bog-mosses, distribution of, [94]
- Bombs, volcanic, [105]
- Boötis ε, a coloured double star, [167]
- Britons inhabiting caves, [224]
- ornaments and customs of, [223]
- —— of Dartmoor, [196]
- Bronze weapon and bracelet, [223]
- Bryum or thread moss, [77]
- Buckfast Abbey, monks of, [196]
- Bunt, a fungus, [64]
- Burial in Neolithic times, [221]
- Cassiopeia, the constellation, [162]
- coloured double star in, [167]
- Castor, a binary star, [154]
- Camera, photographic, [47]
- attached to the telescope, [121]
- Cancer ζ, a triple coloured star, [168]
- Candle-flame, image of, formed by lens, [33]
- Canis Major, constellation of, [148]
- Capella, colour of the star, [153]
- Castor, light of compared with a near star, [158]
- Caterpillars destroyed by fungus, [66]
- Caucasus Mountains on the Moon, [18]
- Cave, the three periods of a, [225]
- Caves, Palæolithic and Neolithic, [210]
- Palæolithic life in, [211]
- hyænas roamed in, [217]
- Neolithic life in, [218]
- Britons took refuge in, [224]
- Cells, fertile of mushroom, [69]
- Celt, jade, from Suffolk, [219]
- Chambers, Mr., his drawing of ε Lyræ, [166]
- Charles's Wain, [155]
- Chilomonas amygdalum, a monad, [182]
- Ciliary muscle, action of the, [34]
- Clark, Alvan, on companion of Sirius, [169]
- Clockwork of telescope, [2]
- Cocconema lanceolatum, a diatom, [184]
- Coin of age of Constantine, [223]
- Confervæ, growth of, [79]
- Commons, Mr., photographed Orion's nebula, [152]
- Constantine, coin of age of, [223]
- Constellations, maps of, [148], [156]
- Copernicus, a lunar crater, [10], [24]
- figured, [17]
- bright streaks around, [18]
- Copper-sulphate in lava, [108]
- Corallina, a stony seaweed, [175]
- Cornea of the eye, [31]
- Corona, nature of the sun's, [123], [137]
- Cottam, Mr. A., his plate of coloured stars, [167]
- Crater, lava flowing from a, [98]
- interior of Vesuvius, [100]
- Crater-plains, [19]-[21]
- Craters on the moon, [10], [13], [17], [19], [20]
- of earth and moon compared, [16]
- Crystallites in volcanic glass, [109]
- Crystallisation, two periods of, in lava, [115]
- Crystals forming in artificial lavas, [114]
- Cydippe pileus, a living jelly-ball, [187]
- Cygni β, a coloured double star, [167]
- Dartmoor, fairy rings on, [57], [58]
- De la Rue, his photograph of moon, [13]
- Devonshire ponies, black stripe on, [201]
- Diatom, a growing, [185]
- Diatoma hyalina, [184]
- Diatoms, magnified fossil, [39]
- Didymium, giving a broken spectrum, [126]
- Dordogne, caves of the, [210], [215]
- Draper, Prof., photographed Orion's nebula, [152]
- Drosera rotundifolia on Dartmoor, [56]
- Dschiggetai, horse-ass of Tibet, [200]
- Dsungarian desert, wild horse of the, [203]
- Dykes, nature of volcanic, [111]
- Earth, path of the moon round the, [8]
- magnetic storm on, caused by sun, [14]
- reservoirs of melted matter in the, [101]
- Earthquakes accompanying volcanic outbursts, [102]
- Eclipse of sun, red jets and corona seen during, [125]
- ——, total, of the moon, [23]
- Eclipses, how caused, [7]
- Elephant, hairy, engraved on ivory, [216]
- Empusa muscæ, [66]
- Engis and Engihoul caves, [210]
- England, ancient caves in, [210]
- in Palæolithic times, [211]
- Eocene, toed horses of the, [205]
- Eohippus, or horse of the dawn, [205]
- Equus hemionus, the horse-ass, [202]
- Eratosthenes, a lunar crater, [10]
- Erbia, giving a broken spectrum, [126]
- Ergot, a fungus, [61]
- Eruptions of Vesuvius, [97], [100], [104]
- Eudoxus, a lunar crater, [10]
- Experiments, necessity for accurate, [54]
- Eye, structure of the, [29]-[32]
- mode of seeing with the, [32]
- short-sighted, [29], [35]
- distances spanned by the naked, [40]
- Faculæ on the sun's face, [122], [140]
- Fairy rings, [55]
- mentioned in Merry Wives of Windsor, [57]
- growth of, [71]-[73]
- Ferments caused by fungi, [60], [64]
- Fishing in ancient times, [215], [220]
- Fistulina hepatica, a fungus, [71]
- Flint skeletons of plants, [185]
- Flustra or sea-mat, [187]
- Fly, fungus killing a, [66]
- Focal images, [33]
- Fouqué, M., artificial lava made by, [112]
- Fructification of mushrooms, [69]
- Funaria hygrometrica, urn of the, [89], [91]
- Fungi, nature of, [59]
- different kinds of, [60]
- attacking insects, [66]
- growing on wounds, [66]
- the use of, [74]
- Fungus and green cells in lichen, [81]
- Gardener, advice of the old, [118]
- Gas, spectrum of a, [126]
- Gases revealed by spectroscope, [52]
- Gemini, the constellation, [154]
- Geminorum, δ, a double coloured star, [167]
- Gills of mushroom, [69]
- Gomphonema marinum, [184]
- Gooseberry, fermentation in a, [64]
- Gory dew, Palmella cruenta, [79]
- Graham's island thrown up, [102]
- Granular appearance of sun's face, [123]
- Grape fungus, [65]
- Great Bear, the constellation, [157]
- Greenstone, Neolithic weapons of, [220]
- Guards, the, in the Little Bear, [162]
- Hartz Mountains, caves of the, [210]
- Hatchet, a Neolithic stone, [219]
- Hebrides, volcanic islands of, [111]
- Henri, MM., photograph of moon's face by, [19]
- Herculaneum, buried, [98], [104]
- Herculis α, a coloured double star, [168]
- Hermitage, lava stream flowing behind the, [97], [99]
- Herschel's drawing of Copernicus, [17]
- Huggins, Dr., on shape of prominences, [135]
- on spectra of nebulæ, [151]
- on cause of colour in stars, [168]
- Himalayas, single-celled plants in the, [79]
- Horse, wild, of the Pampas, [198]
- of Tartary, [199]
- of Kirghiz steppes, [200]
- Przevalsky's, [202]
- early history of toed, [204]
- structure of foot and hoof of, [205]
- skeleton of, [206]
- origin and migration of early, [207]
- Hungary, ancient caves of, [210]
- Huyghens, the highest peak in Lunar Apennines, [19]
- Image formed at focus of lens, [33]
- of sky in telescope, [49]
- Implements, old stone, [213]
- Imps of plant-life, [59]
- India, low plants in springs of, [79]
- Infusorial earth, [186]
- Infusorians in a seaside pool, [183]
- Inhabitants of a seaside pool, [172]-[174]
- Iris of the eye, [30]
- Iron pyrites in lava, [108]
- Iron slag, lava compared to, [105]
- Islands, volcanic thrown up, [102]
- Jack by the second horse, [157]
- Jade, Neolithic weapons of, [220]
- Jannsen, Prof., on sun prominences, [131]
- Judd, Mr., on volcano of Mull, [111]
- Jutes and Angles invading Britain, [224]
- Kant on nebular hypothesis, [152]
- Kent's Cavern, rough stone implement from, [213]
- Kepler, a lunar crater, [10]
- Kertag, or wild horse, [202]
- Kew, sun-storm registered at, [143]
- Kiang or Kulan, [200]
- Kirchhoff, Prof., on sunlight, [128]
- Kulan or Kiang, [200]
- Labrador felspar artificially made, [113]
- Langley, Prof., sun-spot drawn by, [141]
- Laplace, nebular hypothesis of, [152]
- Lava, aspect of flowing, [99]
- reservoirs of molten, [101]
- nature of, [107]
- artificially made, [113]
- two periods of crystallisation in, [115]
- Lava-stream, history of a, [100]
- section of a, [108]
- rapid cooling of surface, [108]
- Laver or sea-lettuce, structure of, [176]
- Leo, the constellation, [155]
- Leucotephrite artificially made, [113]
- Lens, natural, of the eye, [31]
- Levy, M., artificial lava made by, [112]
- Lichens, specimens of from life, [77]
- Lick telescope, magnifying power of, [46]
- Light, lurid, on moon during eclipse, [24]
- sifted by spectroscope, [126]
- Light-granules on sun's face, [123]
- supposed explanation of, [141]
- Lime-tree, fungi on the, [64]
- Liss, bronze bracelet from, [223]
- Little Bear, pole-star and guards in the, [162]
- Lockyer, Mr., on sun-prominences, [131], [136]
- Lunar Apennines figured, [19]
- Lyræ ε, a double-binary star, [166]
- Machairodus, tooth of, [213]
- Madeleine, La, carvings from cave of, [216]
- Magic glasses and how to use them, [27]
- Magician's chamber, [1]
- Magnetic connection of sun and earth, [142]
- Magnifying-glass, action of a, [35]
- Mammoth engraved on ivory, [216]
- Maps of constellations, [148], [156]
- Marasmius oreastes, fairy-ring mushroom, [55], [72]
- Mazeppa, quotation from Byron's, [201]
- Men of older stone age, [212]
- Mesohippus, a toed horse, [205]
- Microliths in volcanic glass, [109], [110], [113], [115]
- formed in artificial lava, [113]
- Microscope, [3]
- Mildews are fungi, [60]
- Milky Way, [149]
- Minerals crystallising in lava, [108]
- Mines, increase of temperature in, [101]
- Miohippus, or lesser toed horse, [206]
- Mizar, a double-coloured star in the Great Bear, [158], [168]
- Monads, size and activity of, [183]
- Monks, ancient, of Dartmoor, [196]
- Monte Nuovo thrown up in 1538, [103]
- Moon, phases of the, [6]
- course in the heavens, [8]
- map of the, [10]
- craters of the, [10], [13], [17], [19], [20]
- face of full, [11]
- a worn-out planet, [21]
- no atmosphere in the, [21]
- diagram of eclipse of, [23]
- lurid light on during eclipse, [24]
- Moss-leaf magnified, [87]
- Moss, life-history of a, [84], [92]
- a stem of feathery, [85]
- protonema of a, [86]
- modes of new growth of a, [88]
- fructification of a, [89]
- urns of a, [89], [91]
- Mosses, different kinds of, [77]
- advantages and distribution of, [94]
- Moulds are fungi, [60]
- Mountains of the moon, [19]
- Mucor Mucedo, figured, [61]
- Mull, volcanic dykes in the island of, [111]
- Mushroom, early stages and spawn of, [67]
- mycelium of, [67]
- later stages of, [68]
- section of gills of, [69]
- spores of, [70]
- fairy or Scotch bonnet, [72]
- Mycelium of mould, [63]
- Naples, volcanic eruption seen at, [96]
- Monte Nuovo thrown up near, [103]
- Nasmyth on bright lunar streaks, [16]
- Nebula of Orion, [149]
- Needle, bone, from a cave, [212]
- Neolithic implements, [219]
- Neptune, invisible to naked eye, [35]
- Neison, Mr., his drawing of Plato, [20]
- Nostoc, growing on stones, [79]
- Oak, fungi on the, [64]
- Observatory, the Magician's, [2]
- astronomical on Vesuvius, [97]
- cascade of lava behind the, [99]
- Obsidian, or volcanic glass, [109]
- Occultation of a star, [22], [25]
- Onager, or wild ass of Asia, [203]
- Optic nerve of eye, [34]
- Orion, constellation of, [147], [149]
- great nebula of, [149]
- photographs of Nebula of, [152]
- coloured double stars in, [168]
- Orionis θ, or Trapezium, [150]
- Ornaments of ancient Britons, [222]
- Orohippus, a toed horse, [205]
- Oscillariæ, growth of, [79]
- Palæolithic man, [212]
- Pampas, wild horses of the, [198]
- Penicillium glaucum, figured, [61]
- Penumbra of an eclipse, [23]
- Perithecia of lichens, [84]
- Petavius, a lunar crater, [10]
- Photographic camera, [3], [47]
- attached to telescope, [121]
- Photographs of the moon, [13], [19]
- Photosphere of the sun, [123]
- Philadelphia, electric shocks at during sun-storm, [143]
- Pixies of plant life, [59]
- Plains of the moon, [10]
- Plants, colourless, single-celled, [65]
- single-celled green, [78]
- two kinds of in lichens, [80]
- with flint skeletons, [185]
- Plato, a lunar crater, [10], [24]
- Pleiades, the, [153]
- Pleurococcus, a single-celled plant, [78]
- Plough, the, or Charles's Wain, [157]
- Pointers, in Charles's Wain, [161]
- Pole-star, the, [161]
- Pollux, a yellow sun, [166]
- Polysiphonia, a red seaweed, [175]
- Polytrichum commune, a hair moss, [88]
- its urns protected by a lid, [91]
- Pool, inhabitants of a seaside, [172]-[174]
- Precious stones, formation of, [116]
- Proctor, his star atlas, [146]
- on drifting of Charles's Wain, [159]
- Prominence-spectrum and sun-spectrum compared, [134]
- Prominences, red, of the sun, [125]
- Protococcus nivalis, [79]
- Protonema of a moss, [86]
- Przevalsky's wild horse, [202]
- Ptolemy, a lunar crater, [10]
- Puffballs, [67], [70]
- Pupil of the eye, [30]
- Puzzuoli, eruption near, 1538, [103]
- Rain-band in the solar spectrum, [130]
- Rain-shower during volcanic eruption, [107]
- Readings in the sky, [53], [127], [151], [168]
- Red snow, a single-celled plant, [79]
- Regulus, the star, [155], [166]
- Reindeer, carving on horn of, [216]
- Reservoirs of molten rock underground, [101]
- Resina, ascent of Vesuvius from, [98]
- Retina of the eye, [31]
- image of object on the, [33]
- Richmond, Virginia, infusorial earth of, [186]
- Rigel, a star in Orion, [149]
- a coloured double star, [168]
- Rings, growth of fairy, [73]
- Roberts, Mr. I., his photograph of Orion's nebula, [152]
- and of nebula of the Pleiades, [153]
- and of nebula of Andromeda, [164]
- Rosse, Lord, his telescope, [46]
- on Orion's nebula, [150]
- stars visible in his telescope, [160]
- Rue, De la, his photograph of the moon, [13]
- Rust on plants, [61]
- Sabrina island formed, [102]
- Saturn, distance of, [40]
- Saxons, invasion of the, [224]
- Schwabe, Herr, on sun-spots cycle, [137]
- Scoriæ of volcanoes, [108]
- "Scotch bonnet" mushroom, [72]
- Sea-mat, see Flustra
- "Seas" lunar, so-called, [10]
- Seaweeds, a group of, [175]
- Secchi, Father, on depth of a sun-spot, [139]
- Selwyn, Mr., photograph of sun by, [122]
- Senses alone tell us of outer world, [29]
- Sertularia tenella, structure of, [180]
- Sertularian and coralline, resemblance of, [179]
- Shakespeare on fairy rings, [57]
- Shipley, Mr., saw volcanic island formed, [103]
- Sight, far and near, [35]
- Silkworm destroyed by fungi, [66]
- Sirius, [146]
- a bluish white sun, [166]
- irregularities of caused by a companion, [169]
- Skeleton of the horse, [206]
- Skin diseases caused by fungi, [61], [66]
- Sky, light readings in the, [53], [127], [151], [168]
- Smut, a fungus, [61]
- Sodium lime in the spectrum, [128]
- Somma, part of ancient Vesuvius, [97], [104]
- Spawn of mushroom, [67]
- Spectra, plate of coloured, [127]
- Spectroscope, [3]
- Spectrum of sunlight, [127], [130]
- Sphacelaria, a brown-green seaweed, [175]
- Sphagnum or bog moss, [77], [93]
- structure of leaves of, [93]
- Spindle-whorl from Neolithic caves, [219]
- Spore-cases of mosses, [89], [91], [93]
- Spores of moulds, [63]
- Star, occultation of, by the moon, [24]
- a double-binary, [166]
- a dark, travelling round Sirius, [169]
- Star-cluster in Perseus, [162]
- Star-depths, [160], [171]
- Stars, light from the, [40], [42]
- visible in the country, [145]
- apparent motion of the, [146]
- maps of, [148], [156]
- of milky way, [149]
- binary, [154]
- real motion of, [159]
- drifting, [159]
- number of known and estimated, [161]
- colours of, [166]
- double coloured, [167]
- cause of colour in, [168]
- are they centres of solar systems? [170]
- Statur or wild horse, [202]
- Streaks, bright, on the moon, [14]-[17]
- Suffolk, bronze weapon from barrow in, [223]
- Sun, path of the moon round the, [8]
- one of the stars, [119]
- how to look at the, [119]
- face of, thrown on a screen, [120]
- photograph of the, [122]
- prominences, corona, and faculæ of, [122]-[125]
- mottling of face of, [123]
- total eclipse of, [124]
- zodiacal line round, [125]
- dark lines in spectrum of, [128]
- reversing layer of, [131]
- metals in the, [131]
- sudden outburst in the, [142]
- magnetic connection with the earth, [143]
- a yellow star, [166]
- Sun's rays touching moon during eclipse, [24]
- Sun-spots, cycle of, [137]
- Sundew on Dartmoor, [56]
- Tarpan, a wild horse, [199]
- Tartary, wild horses of, [199]
- Tavistock Abbey, monks of, [196]
- Telescope, clock-work, adjusting a, [2]
- an astronomical, [41]
- magnifying power of the, [43]-[46]
- giant, [46]
- terrestrial, [47]
- what can be seen in a small, [46]
- how the sun is photographed in the, [122]
- how the spectroscope is worked with the, [132]
- Teneriffe, peak of compared to lunar craters, [15]
- Tennant, Major, drawing of eclipsed sun by, [123]
- Temperature, underground, [101]
- Thuricolla follicula, a transparent infusorian, [182]
- Tiger, sabre-toothed, [211], [213]
- Tilletia caria or bunt, [64]
- Toadstools, [67], [70]
- Tools, of ancient stone period, [214], [215]
- Tooth of machairodus, [213]
- Torquay, the Magician's pool near, [172]
- Tors of Dartmoor, [197]
- Trapezium of Orion, [150]
- Tremella mesenterica fungus, [71]
- Tripoli formed of diatoms, [35]
- Tundras, lichens and mosses of the, [82], [95]
- Tycho, a lunar crater, [10]
- description of, [13]
- bright streaks of, [14]
- Ulva, a green seaweed, [175]
- a section magnified, [176]
- Umbra of an eclipse, [23]
- Urns of mosses, [89], [91]
- Ustilago carbo, or smut, [64]
- Variable stars, [165]
- Vega, a bluish-white sun, [166]
- double-binary star near, [165]
- Veil of mushroom, [68]
- Vesuvian lavas imitated, [113]
- Vesuvius, eruption of 1868 described, [97], [99], [104]
- Volcanic craters of earth and moon compared, [16]
- Volcano, diagram of an active, [105]
- Volcanoes, the cause of discussed, [101], [102]
- ancient, laid bare, [111]
- Washington, electric shocks at during sun-storm, [143]
- Winter in Palæolithic times, [215]
- Wood, winter growth in a, [76]
- "World without End," [115]
- Yeast, growth of, [65]
- Yorkshire, Roman coins in caves of, [225]