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HARDWICKE'S SCIENCE-GOS'SIP. 



Siberia, the Steppes of, 213. 



Sidwell, 236. 



Signs used to denote Sex, 46, 



Silicious Cuticles, 134, 235. 



Siluroid Fishes, Habits of, 62. 



Simple Marine Aquarium, a, 223. 



Singular Growth of Willow- trees, l62. 



Skeletonizing, 6S, 113, 140, 141, 142, 184, 



185, 213. 

 Slieleton Leaves. &c., 68, 113, 140, 141, 



142, 184, 185,213. 



Skirret, 278. 



Slide, a "Life," 161. 



Slide, the Holman Syphon, 173, 



Slugs, 119, 143, 166. 



Smoking Flowers, 152, 



Snakes and Toads, 46, 68, 165, 261. 



Snakes, utilizing Poisonous, l6l. 



Snipe, the Ionian, 6p. 



Snow-buntings, 20. 



Snowdrop, the, 92, 140. 



Societies, Provincial, 209. 



Solanum grandifloruvi, &c., 235, 278. 



Songs of Fishes, 257, 261. 



Sowerby's English Botany, 137. 



Sparrow, only a, 247. 



Sparrow-hawk, Strange Freak of a, 23. 



Sparrows' Eggs in December, 69. 



Sparrows, White, 23. 



Speculations concerning Comets, 246, 



266. 

 Speedwell, Buxbaum's, 92. 

 Spider and Lizard, 206. 

 Spider, the Diadem, 270. 

 Spiders and Chestnut-trees, 191. 

 Spiders and Wasps, 47. 

 Spiders, British, 112. 

 Spiders' Cords, Length of, 208. 

 Spiders' Webs and Spinnerets, 180, 200, 



257. 

 Spongilla, Chlorophyll in, 256. 

 Spontaneous Changes in Eggs, 20. 

 Sport, Medireval, 'J.b. 

 Squirrels, OldTreesand, 118, 142. 

 Stag-beetle, unsuspected Property of, 



185. 

 Stag-beetles, 69. 

 Staining Vegetable Tissues, 25 6. 

 Starhng, Notes on the, 152, igo. 

 Stenocephalun ugilis, 20, 42. 

 Steppes of Siberia, the, 213. 

 Stones, Origin of Precious, 66. 

 Stores for Winter, 68. 

 Story of my Robin, 3. 

 Strang-e Companions, 23. 

 Strange Freak of a Sparrow-hawk, 23. 

 Straw-paper as a Polariscopic object, 183. 

 Structure of the Mo\iths of Insects, 107. 

 Structure of the Potato, 161. 

 Study of Flowers, 151. 

 Study of Zoology, 95. 

 Sub-ai^rial Action, 170. 

 Submarine Forest in the Orwell, 278. 

 Substitute for Water-net, 47. 

 Subterranean Entomology, 126. 



Sub-Wealden Exploration, 20, 139. 



Sucked Eggs, 47. 



Sudden Appearances of Plants, 91, 140, 



199, 260. 

 Suicide, Can Animals commit' 42. 

 Sundew, a Large, 92. 

 Superstition, a Rustic, 238. 

 Swallow-tailed Butterfly at Waterloo, 



282, 277. 

 Swarming of Bees, 280. 

 Swift, the Northern, 67. 

 Syphon-slide, the Holman, 173. 



Tachina Flibs, 189. 



Tea-tree, the, 260, 2/8. 



Teratological Notes, 153, 187, 192. 



Tertiary Mammals, Brains of, 237. 



Tetranychus lapidum, 234. 



Theohroma Cacao, 69. 



Thermal Conductivity of certain Rocks, 



236. 

 Threads of Mollusca, 49, II7, 119, 165. 

 Tineidm, Exceptional Keproduction of, 



89. 

 Toads, 46, 62, 68. 



Toads and Snakes, 46, 68, 165, 26]. 

 To Poultry-keepers, 214. 

 Tortoise, the, 167, 214, 239- 

 Tortoise-shell, the Large, 283. 

 Traps for Insects, the Oldest, 174. 

 Tray, a Dog's Name, 282. 

 Tree-frog, the Green, 141. 

 Trees, Ancient, 47, 56, 95, 100, 136, 139, 



141, 213, 238. 281. 

 Trees in inclosed Tombs, 262. 

 Trees, Remarkable, in Tewin Churchyard, 



143, 214, 215. 

 Trees, the Oldest in Britain, 95. 

 Turnip, History of the, 217. 

 Turntables and Mounting, 80, 130. 



" Universal " Screw, the Royal 



Microscopical Society's, 255, 276. 

 Unknown Plants, 165, isg. 

 Unsuspected Property of Stag-beetle, 185. 

 Utilizing Poisonous Snakes, 161. 

 Utility of the Study of Natural History, 



Valeriana phu, 236. 



Value of Alligators, Economic, 113. 



Varieties of Plants, 259. 



Variety of Lime Hawk-moth, 135, 188. 



Varnish, Asphaltum and Rubber, 64, 130, 



183. 

 Vegetable Marrow, Leaves of, 255. 

 Vegetable Tissues, Staining, 256. 

 Vegetables, History of our Common, "^y, 



101, 123, 144, 145, 178, 193,217,241,265. 

 Vegetation of Bermuda, 44. 

 Vegetation of S. Africa, Changes in, 43. 

 Verbascum Lycknitis, 211, 



Verbascum and Digitalis, 69, 



Veronica Buxbaumii, 92. 



Verrucaria ochrostoma, 19. 



Vibratory Motion of Gnats at rest, 258. 



Victoria, recent Paleo-Botanical Re- 

 searches in, 154. 



Violet, the Scented, 211. 



Viper's Bite, Poisonous Effect of, 215, 263 

 282. 



Vipers swallowing their Young, 70, 94. 



283. 



Virginia, Mineral Wealth of, 44. 



Viviparous Lizard, the, 224. 



Volcanic Rocks, Ancient and Modern, 



278. 

 Volcanoes of the Highlands, Ancient, 65. 

 Vole, or Water-rat, 22. 

 Voracious Perch, 46. 



Warm Season, the, II9. 



Warwickshire Plants, 278. 



Wasps, 22, 47, 112. 



Wasps and Spiders, 47. 



Wasps, Duel between, 280. 



Water Avens, the, 137, 162, 190, 211. 



Water in Plants, 91 . 



Waterloo, Swallow-tailed Butterfly at. 



262, 277. 

 Water-net, Substitute for, 47. 

 Water-rat or Vole, 22. 

 Webs and Spinnerets of Spiders, 180, 200. 



257. 

 Whale, the Pigmy, 258. 

 What is Basalt? 139, 212. 

 White Beech-leaves, 166. 

 White Robin, a, 71. 

 White Sparrows, 23. 

 White Worms, 191. 

 Whitebait, 168. 



Whitehaven, Hematite Deposits of, 213. 

 Willow-trees, Singular Growth of, 162. 

 Wind-fertilized Crucifcr, a, 187. 

 Window Gardening, Origin of, 94. 

 Wings of Moths, )43, I66, 159, 215. 

 Winter Stores, 68. 

 Winter, the Aquarium in, 69. 

 Wire- worms, to destroy, 48. 

 Wood Ants, 71. 

 Wood-mouse, the, 143. 

 Worm-bait Anglers, 190. 

 Worms, White, 191. 

 Wren, the Gold-crested, 31. 



Ykast, 140. 



Yew-trees, and their presumed Age, 100, 

 137. 



Zeus aper, 42. 

 Zoological Study, 95. 

 Zoophyte, a Rare, 125. 

 Zoophytes, Hydrozoan, 152. 



V'YMA\ AXD SONS, PEINTERS, GKEAT QUEEN STREET, LONDON, W.C. 



