HARDWICKE'S SCIENCE-GOSSIP. 



287 



Ludlow Rocks, the Distribution of the 

 Graptolites in the Lower, 233. 



Lunar Rainbow, 45. 



Lycopodium Sporules, their Microscopi- 

 cal Structure in relation to their Phar- 

 maceutic and Therapeutic Value, 2/5. 



Lymph of Small-pox, 160. 



Lynx rufus, Raf., 123. 



Magnifying, Standard Uniformity 



in, 86. 

 Magpie, Pet, 74. 

 Maiden - hair Fern, Adiantum Capillus 



Veneris, 137, 187- 

 Malva, 259. 

 Malva borealis, 278. 

 Mammoth Cave, Fishes of, 65. 

 Manchester Aquarium, l6l. 

 Manna of the Desert, 146. 

 Ma.7itis religiosa, 282. 

 Marine Algae, to Preserve, 21, 71. 

 Marine Animals, to Preserve, 46. 

 Marine Aquaria, 68. 

 Martins, 190, 234. 

 Meaning of Botanical Names, 188. 

 Mice, Nests of, 94, 139- 

 Microchemical Examination of Angustura 



Bark, 64. 

 Micrographic Dictionary, 41. 

 Microscope in the Examination of Patents, 



184. 

 Microscopical Notes, 16, 39,63,86, 112, 



135, 160, 184, 205, 229, 255. 

 Microscopical Objects, Opaque, 255, 260. 

 Middlesex Chalk, 262. 

 Migrants, Return of our Summer, 257. 

 Migration of Aphides, 238. 

 Mimicry, 18. 



Mites, How to -Preserve, 238, 257. 

 Moles, 140. 



Molluscs, Tyrian Purple, 142. 

 Monads, Researches in the Life History 



of, 40. 

 Monkey's Cup, 189, 232. 

 Mooruck, the, 155. 

 Mosses, British, Synopsis of, 42. 

 Mosses to Mount for Microscope, 115. 

 Moth, Death's-head, 71, 119- 

 Moth, Humming-bird Hawk, 95. 

 Moths in Repose, 95. 

 Moths' Wings, 95. 

 Mountain Linnet, 141. 

 Mounting, a Centerer for, 206. 

 Mounting in Balsam, 86. 

 Mounting in Glycerine, 255, 275. 

 Mounting Mosses for Microscope, 115. 

 Mounting Slips, Prismatic, 135. 

 Mounting, the best Medium for, 256. 

 Mounting, Use of Carbolic Acid in, 229. 

 Mounting Zoophytes, 45. 

 Mouse and Sparrow, 71, 1 19. 

 Mousetrap, Novel, 68. 

 Mud-loving Fishes, 104. 

 Muscn domestic*, 257. 

 Musselling, 68, 93. 

 Mype (Turnip), 22. 



Namks, Local, 143. 

 Natterjack, the, in Berkshire, 183. 

 Natural Curiosities at Cheddar, 225. 

 Natural History Societies, 113, 141,162, 



163, 186. 

 Nests of Mice, 94, 139. 

 New Books, 25, 123. 

 New Carex, 156. 



New Forest Fauna and Flora, 280. 

 Newt, Common Smooth, 93. 

 Newt, Gray's Banded, 143. 

 Newts and Tadpoles, 279. 

 Newt, the Warty, 220, 261, 280. 

 New Zealand Forests, 69, 118, 141. 

 North America, Superficial Geology of 



the Central Region of, 210. 

 Northern Holy-Grass, 177, 262. 

 Northern Seas, the Pirate Birds of, 198. 

 Notes and Queries, 21, 45, 68, 91, 117, 



138, 165, 188, 211, 233, 259, 279. 



Notices to Correspondents, 24, 48, 72, 96, 



120, 144, 168, 192, 216, 240, 264, 284. 

 Notornis Mantelli, 153. 



Oak Galls, Pathology of, 64. 

 Oak, the Cecil, 22. 



Obituary Notices, 87. 



Opaque Objects for Microscope, Seeds 



good for, 255, 260. 

 Organisms, Copper in Animal, 160. 

 Ornithogalum Pyrenaicum, 136. 

 Ostrich, African, 154. 

 Ostrich, American, 154. 

 Our Jack, 74. 

 Owl, Fern, 71. 

 Owl, Tengmalm's, 65. 

 Oxen and Music, 263. 

 Oxfordshire, Field Clubs in, 260. 

 Oxhydrogen Lanterns, 22. 



Painted Lady {Cynthia Huntera), 256. 



Parasite on the Common House Fly, 18. 



Parasites in Greenhouse, 56. 



Parasites in Caterpillars, 282. 



Parrot-keeping, 69, 92, 141. 



Parsley, 189. 



Patients, the Microscope in the Examina- 

 tion of, 185. 



Pea (Pisum), History of, 130. 



Pear-tree, a Curious, 214. 



Penguins, 155. 



Perca cermia, 277- 



Pharmacy, Cottage, 234. 



Phenomena, Frost, and Evaporationfrom 

 Ice, 3. 



Phosphates in the Cambrian Rocks, 138. 



Pirate Birds of the Northern Seas, 198. 



Plant Eccentricities, 42. 



Plant-names, English, 231. 



Plant-names, Local, 143,238, 259,260, 270. 



Plants, Albino, 163. 



Plants, Double-flowered Wild, 231. 



Plants, Etymologies of, 143, 163. 



Plants, Insectivorous, 187. 



Plants, Preserving, 1. 



Plants, Bare, at Castle Eden, 18. 



Plants, Sudden Appearance and Dis- 

 appearance of, 71, 117- 



Plants, Variegated and Ornamental 

 Foliage of Wild, 231. 



Plumage of Wingless Birds, 155. 



Polarizing Salts, 184. 



Pope or Ruffe, 277. 



Pope, the, as an Aquarium Fish, 26 1. 



Poplar Hawk Caterpillars, 215, 263. 



Popular Science Lectures, Illustration of, 



277. 



Portland Stone, Silicious Substances 

 found in, 112. 



Post-Christian Antiquities, 227, 261, 271. 



Potato Beetle, the Colorado, 92, 142, 161, 

 200. 



Potato Disease, a New Disovery in Con- 

 nection with, 208. 



Potato Fungus, Resting Spores of the, 

 249, 266. 



Potato-tree (Solanum crispum), 19, 137. 



Praying Mantis, 282. 



Preparation of the Diatomaceae, 184. 



Preservation of Marine Animals, 46. 



Preservation of Spiders, 87. 



Preserving Fungi, 163. 



Preserving and Setting Hymenoptera, 

 217, 269. 



Preserving Insects, 93. 



Preserving Marine Algae, 21, 47. 



Preserving Plants, 1. 



Preserving Reptiles. 166. 



Preserving Star-fish, 162. 



Prismatic Mounting Slips, 135. 



Privet-moth, Pupa of, 230. 



Proliferous Daisy, 140. 



Protoplasm, 242. 



Protozoa (Actinnphrys Sol), 107. 



Puff-ball, Enormous, 283. 



Pupa of Privet-moth, 280. 



Puss-moth Caterpillar and its Syring-e, 



235. 

 Pyret/irum inodorum, 187. 



Queen Bee, 93. 



Quekett Microscopical Club, 113,206,230. 



Rainbow, Lunar, 45. 

 Rambles, Holiday, 34, 102, 178, 222. 

 Raphides as Natural Characters in Sys- 

 tematic Botany, 186. 



Raphides of Asparagus, 278. 



Rare Plants and Field Clubs, 167. 



Rare Plants, Rediscovery of, 231. 



Rats, Brown, 143. 



Red Blood Corpuscles of the Hippopota- 

 mus, Walrus, and Eared Seal, 18. 



Red-throated Diver, 88. 



Red Varieties, 208. 



Reproduction of Desmids, 16. 



Reptiles, to Preserve, 166. 



Resting Spores of the Potato Fungus, 

 249, 266. 



Riverside Bunting, 52. 



Robins, Death of, 263. 



Rocks, Ancient, near St. David's, 20. 



Rookeries of Old London, 214. 



Royal Microscopical Society, ScientiSc 

 Evening, 16. 



Ttumex maximus, 91. 



Rupture Ash and the Shrew Ash, 260. 



Sagacity of Cows, 71. 

 Salamanders, Fossil, 233. 

 Salmon-Trout or Sprod, 280. 

 Salts for Polarizing, 184. 

 Sand Dunes and Blowing Sand, 116. 

 Sandpiper, Green, 256. 

 Sandpit, Charlton. 262. 

 Schmidt's Atlas of Diatomaceae, 39. 

 Scientific Evening at the Royal Micro- 

 scopic Society, 16. 

 Scilly Isles, Rambles in the, 222. 

 Scotch Arran, the (Rambles on), 1/8. 

 Scott, the late Mr. George, F.S.A., Scot., 



20. 

 Sea Anemones, 23. 

 Sea Lions, 175. 



Seal (Otaria), Red Blood Corpuscles in, 18. 

 Seaside Shrubs, 95, 142. 

 Sections, to remove Air- oubbles from, 39. 

 Seeds as Opaque Objects for the Micro- 

 scope, 255, 2fi0. 

 Selbome, Gilbert White, of, 257. 

 Self-centring Turntable, 230. 

 Sertularia, 212. 

 Setting and Preserving Hymenoptera, 



217, 269. 

 Sexes in Hermit Crabs, 189, 238. 

 Shark, Basking, 88. 

 Sheep, Anecdote of, 214. 

 Shells, the Umbilicus in Univalve, 23, 69. 

 Sherwood Forest, 163. 

 Shrew Ash, the Rupture Ash and the, 



260. 

 Shrubs, Seaside, 95, 142. 

 Shrubs, Winter, 208. 

 Silicious Substances found in Portland 



Stone, 112. 

 Silk Fowls, 156. 

 Sinapis ari'ensis, 232, 186. 

 Sium latifulium in Wiltshire, 232. 

 Sketches in the West of Ireland, 83, 97, 



127,227,247,261,271. 

 Slate, Cleavage of, 119, 137, 164. 

 Slides, Useful, 274. 

 Slug-Threads, 190, 206. 

 Small-pox, the Lymph of, 160. 

 Snake and Hen, 140. 

 Snake-eating Snake, 114, 161. 

 Snike, the Congo, 185, 207- 

 Solanum grandiflorum or dentatum. 

 Songs of Birds, 81. 

 South African Diamonds, 20. 

 Sparrows and Peas, 263. 

 Sparrow j). Mouse, 71, 119. 

 Spartium junceum, 88. 

 Spawn of Frogs and Toads, 245, 213, 276. 

 Sphaeraphides inUrticaceae andLeonurus, 



16. 

 Sphinx convolvuli, 278. 

 Spider and Toad, 21. 

 Spiders, Mode of Search for and Capture 



of, 109. 

 Spiders, to Preserve, 87, HI, 114. 

 Spiders' Webs and Spinnerets, 53, 88, 100, 



132, 195. 

 Spinach, History of, 218. 

 Spindle-tree in Flower, 278. 

 Sponge, Livingstone's, 234. 

 Spores of the Potato Fungus, 249- 

 Sprod or Salmon-Trout, 280. 

 Squirrels reared bv a Cat, 141. 

 Staining Vegetable Tissues, 5, 21, 73. 



