HARDWICKE'S SCIENCE-GOSSIP. 



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INDEX TO VOL. X. 



Acclimatization op Eucalypti, 65. 



Adder and Mole, I89. 



Addresses of Provincial Natural History 



Societies, 134. 

 Adulteration of Pepper, 19. 

 A Freshwater Polyzoon, 268. 

 Africa, Changes in the Vegetation of 



South, 43. 

 Africa, Diamonds of South, 44, 187. 

 Agassiz. Death of Professor, 41. 

 Age of Yew-trees, Presumed, 100. 

 A Half-day's Plant-hunting, 150. 

 Air, Microscopic Examination of, 90. 

 Alauda alpestris, 45. 

 Algse, British Marine, 115, 211. 

 AlgtC, on Preserving and Mounting, 18, 



98. 

 Algiers to the Sahara, Geological Notes, 



93. 

 Alligators, Economic Value of, 113. 

 Alpine Plants, Slugs and, 166. 

 American Otter, the, 132. 

 American Potato-bug, 89, 90. 

 Amoebce, 255. 



Among the Andamans, 81 . 

 Analysis, Microscopic, 111. 

 Anatomy of a Caterpillar, 248, 281. 

 Anatomy of Menobrancltus, 113. 

 Ancient Ti-ees, 47, 56, Qb, 100, 136, 139, 



141, 213, 238, 281. 



Ancient Volcanoes of the Highlands, 65. 



Andamans, among the, 81. 



Anemones, Solution for Preserving Sea, 



45. 

 Anglers' Worm -bait, igo. 

 Animals, Dress of, 177. 

 Animals, Suicide of, 42. 

 Antenna of Insects, 29, 60. 

 Ant, the Wood, 71. 

 Ants, a Chapter on, 58. 

 Ants, how to Destroy, 23, 70. 

 Ants, Swarms of, 283. 

 Apes, Man and, 110. 

 Aphides, 145, 16". 

 Aphis, Etymology of, 234. 

 Aphis, Ichneumon of the, ISO, 208. 

 Aquaria, to aerate, 124. 

 Aquarium, Freshwater, 70, "1. 

 Aquarium in Winter, 69. 

 Aquarium, Marine, 71, 94> 95i 118, 191> 



223, 262, 263. 

 Aquarium, the Manchester, 162. 

 Arachnid, a New, 121, 161, 1/1, 185, 209, 



234. 

 Argas reflems, 121, I6I, 171, 185,209,234. 

 Arrival of Migratory Birds, 162. 

 Ash-trees, Seven, in Tewin Churchyard, 



143, 214, 215. 



Asperities in the leaves of Bryonia alba, 



19. 

 Asphaltum and Rubber Varnish, 64, 130. 

 Azadiracta Indica, Bark of the, 43. 



Barbastei-le Bat, the, 67. 



Barium, Chloride of, as a Preservative, 



207. 

 Bark of the Azadiracta Indica, 43. 

 Barnet, Geology of, l65, 187, 188. 

 Barometer, a Natural, 69. 

 Basalt, What is it? 139, 212. 

 Bat, the Barbasteile, 67. 

 Bat, the Noctule, 215. 

 Bats in Spring, 118. 



Bee, the Queen, 46. 



Beech-blight, a New, 19. 



Beech-leaves, White, 166. 



Bee-food, a Query, 192. 



Beehives, Duration of, 22. 



Bees and Wasps, 112. 



Bees, Swarming of, 280. 



Beetle, the Stag, 69- 



Belfast, Geology of, 169. 



Belfast, Guide to, 237. 



Bermuda, Vegetation of, 44. 



Bird, large Struthious, 213. 



Bird, Rare, 46. 



Birds and Primroses, 135, 166, 172, 184. 



Birds, arrival of Migratory, 162. 



Birds, caged, and Cat, 23. 



Birds, Local Names of, 67, 282. 



Birds, Longevity of, 63. 



Birds, Neotropical, 135. 



Birds, New Classification of, 63. 



Blackbeetles or Cockroaches ? 215. 



Blight of the Beech, a New, 19. 



Blood-corpuscles, Origin of, 183, 20/. 



Boar-fish, the, 42. 



Boleosoma Olmstt-di, 57. 



Bombyx Cynthia, 69, 135. 



Books, New, 11. 



Botanic Society, the Royal, 43. 



Botanical Extracts, 64. 



Botany, Sowerby's English, 137. 



Brachiopods, Embryology of, 62. 



Bracts of Crucifers, the, 115. 



Brains of Tertiary Mammals, 237. 



Breathing of Frogs, 20. 



Bridgeman Triple Lantern, 281. 



Brimstone Butterfly, 119. 



Britain, the Oldest Trees in, 95. 



British Association, 184. 



British Hepaticii, 137, 210. 



British Marine Algse, 115, 211. 



British Orobanchaceas, 69. 



British Shrews, 22. 



British Spiders, 112. 



Bryonia alba. Asperities in the Leaves of, 



19, 

 Buds on Roots, 92, 116, 119, I62. 

 Butomns umbellatus, 262. 

 Butterflies, Cloud of, 139. 

 Butterwort, a Carnivorous Plant, 233. 



Cabbagr, Histoev of the, 178, 193. 

 Caged Birds and Cat, 23. 

 Calla palustris in Surrey, 43. 

 Canada Balsam, Mounting in, 106. 

 Canterbury Arachnid, New, 121, 161, 171, 

 185, 209, 234. 



Carboniferous Fish, more about, 253. 

 Carbuncle, the, 48. 

 Carduus tenuifloriis, 128, 175. 

 Carnivorous Habits of Certain Plants, 230, 



235. 

 Carnivorous Plants and their Prey, 272. 

 Carrot, History of the, 241. 

 Castle Eden Dene, Plants of, 260. 

 Cat and Caged Birds, 23. 

 Cat and Rat, 142. 

 Catalogue of Plants, the London, 91, 114, 



211. 

 Caterpillar, Anatomy of a, 248, 281. 

 Caterpillar, the Gooseberry-leaf, 262, 264. 

 Caterpillars, Changes of Skin in, 257. 

 Caterpillars, Green, 189, 2S1. 

 Cats, clever, 280, 283. 



Cats, curious, 191, 262. 



Cave-deposits, the Lemming in, 261. 



Cells for; Microscopic Objects, 16, 41, 88, 

 167. 



Cements and Turntables, 130. 



Centaurea calcitrapa, 283. 



Chaffinch and Missel-Thrush, 282. 



" Challenger," News from the, 221. 



Changes in the Vegetation of South 

 Africa, 43. 



Chapter on Ants, 58. 



Chapters on Cuttles, 4, 26. 



Chert, Organisms in, 188, 207, 



Cheshire Boulder Clay, Foraminifera in 

 117. 



Cheshire Low Level Sands, Shells of, 20. 



Chicken hatched by a Pigeon, 214. 



Chicory, Wild, 236. 



Chlorophyll in Spongilla, 256. 



Cicliorium intybus, 236. 



Classification of Birds, New, 63. 



Classification of the Labyrinthodonts, 

 237. 



Clevedon, Geology of, 117, 144, 164. 



Cloud of Butterflies, 139. 



Coal, to cut Sections of, 94, 120. 



Coal-measures, Fossil Teeth from, 74. 



Cockatoos, 151. 



Cockroaches or Blackbeetles ? 215. 



Colias Ediisa, 63, 95. 



Collecting, Indiscriminate, 68, 137, 140, 



142, 166, 190, 259. 

 Collecting Osteological Specimens, 226. 

 Colony of Natterjacks, 62. 

 Colorado, Flora of, 211. 

 Coloiu-ing Matter of Neottia Nidus-avis, 



255. 

 Colours of Flowers, 136, 190. 

 Comets, Speculations concerning, 246, 



266. 

 Common Lizard, the, 224. 

 Companions, Strange, 23. 

 Corncrake, 22. 



Crane-fly, the Mouth of the, 155, 189. 

 Creation, 122. 



Crickets, &c., Remedy against, 168, 264. 

 Crucifer,a wind-fertilized, I87. 

 Crucifers, the Bracts of, 115. 

 Crustacean, New British, 209. 

 Crystals in Plants, 18. 

 Crystals of Lime in Prawn's Skin, 18, 64. 

 Crystals, on Mounting, 22. 

 Cuckoos and their Young, 162, I89. 

 Cumberland, Origin of the Lake Basins 



in, 92. 

 Curious Place for Robins' Nests, 16". 

 Cuticles and Raphides, 141, I62, 183. 

 Cuticles, Silicious, 134, 255. 

 Cuttlefishes, Gigantic, 42. 

 Cuttles, Chapters on, 4, 26. 

 CymbMa Ehrenbergii, &c., 256. 



Dammar Varnish, 183. 



Darter, the, 57. 



Death of Professor Agassiz, 41. 



Deer, New Species of Fossil, 45. 



Dtioij'tia pulchf.Uii, 230. 



Derbyshire Microscopical Society, 276. 



Derbyshire, Post-glacial Animals in, 139. 



Derivation of Ladybird, 70, 94, 119,131, 



140, 143, 191. 

 Devices of Diatoms, to fix, 203, 233, 256. 

 Diadem Spider, the, 270. 



