Through Magic Glasses and Other Lectures / A Sequel to The Fairyland of Science

by Arabella B. Buckley

• 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]
  • of moss-plant, [89]
• Celt, jade, from Suffolk, [219]
• Chambers, Mr., his drawing of ε Lyræ, [166]
• Charles's Wain, [155]
  • part of Great Bear, [157]
  • stars of drifting, [159]
  • stars visible in waggon of, [160]
  • double coloured star in, [158], [167]
• 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]
  • fruit of, [177]
  • appearance like Sertularia, [179]
• 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]
  • precious, [116]
• Cydippe pileus, a living jelly-ball, [187]
  • structure of, [188]-[190]
• Cygni β, a coloured double star, [167]

• Dartmoor, fairy rings on, [57], [58]
  • the Sundew on, [56]
  • granite figured, [112]
  • ponies, [195]
• 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]
  • living marine, [184]
• 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]
  • lurid light during, [25]
• 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]
  • structure of, [191]-[193]
• Fly, fungus killing a, [66]
• Focal images, [33]
  • distances, [44]
• Fouqué, M., artificial lava made by, [112]
• Fructification of mushrooms, [69]
  • of lichens, [83]
  • of mosses, [91]
  • of seaweeds, [177]
• Funaria hygrometrica, urn of the, [89], [91]
  • has no urn lid, [92]
• 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]
  • binary star in, [158]
  • coloured double star in, [158], [168]
• 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]
  • new stone, [219]
• Imps of plant-life, [59]
• India, low plants in springs of, [79]
  • solar eclipse seen in, [124]
  • wild ass of, [203]
• 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]