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INDEX TO VOL XVIII. 



Aberdeenshire, Crag Shells of, 116 



AcJuitina acicula, 91 



Achcrontia. atropos, 94, 143, 164, 263 



Acorns, Scarcity of, 261 



Adder Bites, Cure for, 118 



Alternation of Generation among the Ure- 

 dines, 195 



Alpine Strata, English equivalents of, 19 



Ants, 237 



Ancient Herbarium, 115 



Animalcula, On the Continuous Observa- 

 tions of Minute, 13S, 160 



Animals, Reasoning Powers of, 262 



Apollo Butterfly, Capture of, in Devon- 

 shire, 258 



Aquarium, Objects in the, 20, 90 



Arbutus, Notes on the, iS, 46, 70, 91, 94, 



234 

 Arc ell a, 115 



Ardennes, Editor's Holiday in, 151 

 Army of Caterpillars, 141 

 Astromyelon and its Affinities, 203, 241 

 Assisting Naturalists, 6 

 " Atheism, Natural Selection Incompatible 



with," 163 

 "Atlas, Botanical," 163 

 Audacity of a Hawk, 94 



Ballarat, 164 



Beech Trees and Storms, 77 



Bee Hive, Pests of, 65 



Bee, Query as to, 256 



Bees, 190 



Bees and Wasps, Senses of, 278 



Begonia and Bignonia, 210 



Bifurcation of Fir, 71, 93 



Birds' Eggs, 215 



Birds of Lancashire, 234 



Birds, Premature development of, lOi 



Birds of Jersey, 118, 166 



Birds' Nests at North Allerton, i4r 



Birds and their Eggs, 190, 215 



Birds, Rare, 190 



Birds, Report on the Migration of, 277 



Birds Tapping at the Window, 142, 190 



Birmingham, Glacial Drift in, 280 



Blood Corpuscules, 165, 206 



Blue-bottle Flies, Diseases of, 47 



Blue Tits' Nest, 213 : 



Bohemian Waxwing, 115 



Bolton's " Portfolio," 90, 277 



Botany, 17, 42, 65, 91, 115, 139, 162, iSS, 



210, 234, 259, 279 

 Botany of Spain, 2r 

 "Botanical Atlas," 163 

 Botanical Notes from the Swiss Highlands, 



169 

 Botanical Ramble round Weymouth, 78 

 Braintree Microscopical Society, 231 

 Brazilian Birds, 277 

 British Association, 1S7 

 British Bees, 282 

 British Phragmidia, new, 279 

 British Freshwater Mites, 193, 249, 272 

 Broken Stems, How to mend, 279 

 Budgerigars Changing Colour, 261 

 "Butterflies of Europe,'' 42, 91, 161, 187, 



210, 278 

 Bure Valley Beds, 234 

 Burrowing Bee, 232 

 Burrowing Caterpillar, 165 j 



Buxus sempervireiis, 66, 92 



Caddis Worm Cases, 117 



Cambridge Entomological Society, 91 



Campanula, White, 262 



Canary Hen, 142 



Canary, Cross between Bullfinch and, 208 



Canada Goose, 282 



Captures, Recent, 261 



Capture of Apollo Butterfly in Devonshire, 



Carbolic Acid and Snakes, 20 

 Carboniferous Limestones of the Halkyns, 



127 

 Cardiff Naturalists' Society, 161 

 Carp, Large, 190 



Catalogue of West Kent Flora, 165 

 Caterpillar, Buirowing, 165 

 Caterpillars, An Army of, 141 

 Cause of Depression, &c., of Land during 



Glacial Period, 189 

 Centipede, Parasite from, 16 

 Centipede, Phosphorescent, 165 

 Chalk, Foraminifera from, 19 

 Charles Darwin, 126 

 Charles Moore, 44 

 Channel Islands, Rocks of, 43 

 Chapter on Fossil Worms, 251 

 Chelifer Degeerii, &c., 277 

 Clielop7is Muklenhcrgii, ii-j 

 Chick, Embryo of, 4r 

 Christmas Week, Notes in, 68 

 Christmas Fungus Foray, 33 

 Cinclus aquaiicus, 174 

 Cleavage, Veins and, 66 

 Climbing Powers of Earthworms, 214 

 Coal, Cutting sections of, 89, 113, 136, 137, 



160, 169, 187 

 Coal Measure Fossils, 212 

 Coal Period, Sketch of the Flora of the, 



i23> 157.. 176 



Cotcns vitis-viitifera, 190 



Cochlicopa iridens, var. crystallina, 288 



Collecting Otolites, 44 



Collier's Experience in Section Cutting, 227 



Colours of Flowers, 42 



Comparison of Last Four Springs, 231 



Conduct of a Dog, Curious, 238, 268 



Confer\'a, 115 



Continuous Observations on Minute Ani- 

 malcula, 138, 160 



Continuous Observations on Micro-fungi, 

 277 



Cormorants, 9, 20, 94 



Cornwall, A Week in, 130 



Cornwall, Geology of, 280 



Corpuscules, Blood, 165 



Corrections, 23 



Correlation of Blackdjwn Beds, &c., 43 



Corwen, Silurian Slate Quarry at, 18 



Crag Shells at Aberdeenshire, 116 



Cricket, Production of Sound by, 265 



Cross between Bullfinch and a Canary, 20S 



Crown Animalcule, Observations on, 107 



Crustacea, Preserving, 163, 260 



Crustacea of Jersey, 157 



Crystallised Fruit Salt, 64 



Cuckoo, The, 105 



Cuckoos' Eggs, 189 



Cucumber, Peculiar, 140, 163 



Cure for Adder Bites, 118 



Curious Frogs, 71 



Curious Conduct of a Dog, 238, 263, 283 



Cutting Sections of Coal, 89, 113, 136, 137, 

 160, 169, 187 



Daisy, Malformation of, 139, 163 

 Dancing of Gnats, 282 

 Dead Nettles, Red, 159 

 Death's Head Moth, 262 

 Deaths from Wild Animals in India, 13 

 Deutzia, Stellate hairs of, 138 

 Diagnosis of Ferns, 17, 81 

 Diatomacese, Distribution of the, 161 

 Diatoms, Preparation of, 257 

 Diastoporidae, The, 145, 244 

 Digitalis purpurea, 70 

 Dipper, Notes on the, 174 



Director-General of Geological Survej', 20 



Diseases of Blue-bottle Flies, 47 



Dispersion of Seeds, 211 



Dog, Curious Conduct of, 238, 263, 283 



Domestic Arrangements of Swallows, 238 



Donkey, The, 77 



Donkey, Sheep worried by, 239 



Do Parrots require Water? 21 



Dorites apollo in Devonshire, 25S 



Dragon Flies, Ova of, 94 



Drawing from the Microscope, 39 



Drawing and Painting from the Micro- 

 scope, 174 



Dredging in the Mediterranean, 16 



Dressiua polymorpha, 23, 46, 94 



Drift, Pebbles of the, 260 



Dytiscus }>iarginalis. Parasites on, 46, 

 208 



Early History of the Diatomaceve, 



6, 25 

 Early Insects, 139 

 Early Martins, 154 

 Early Nesting, 45 

 Early Spring Bees, 114 

 Earthquakes, Sun-spots and, 234 

 Earthworms, 45, 51, 117, 214 

 Earthworms, Climbing powers of, 2r4 

 Earthworms in a Garden-path, 166 

 Earthworms and Growth of Soil, 51 

 Editor's Holiday in the Ardennes, 151 

 Edward W. Binney, 44 

 Egg ai Rumia cratagata, 13 

 Eggs, Lapwing's, 213 

 Eggs, In Search of, 83 

 Electric Light, 162 

 Embryo of Chick, 41 

 Embryology of the Podophthalmata, 162 

 English Equivalents of Alpine Strata, 19 

 Entomological Collections, Preparations for 



Prevention of Mites in, r38, r66 

 Entomology, 162 



Entoraostraca, Mounting, 160, 206 

 Erith, Probable Marine Shells from, 19 

 Erratum, 164 



Euglcna, Markings on, 115 

 " Europe, Butterflies of," i6r, 258, 278 

 Evolution, 260 

 Exchanges, 23, 48, 71, 96, 120, 143, 168, 



192, 216, 232, 240 

 Eyestones, 215 



Family Type, Natural History of a, 



154, 244 

 Fauna of Jersey, 75 

 Fells, Rambles on the, 83 

 Ferns, Diagnosis of, 17 

 Ferns of Killarney, Notes on the, 162 

 Fineness of Striation of Diatoms, 40 

 Fir, Bifurcation of, 71, 93 

 First Visit to the Heart of the Grampians, 



109, 172 

 Fisheries Exhibition, International, 127 

 Flies, Wasps and, 238, 282 

 Flora of Whitby, The, 255 

 Flora of West Kent, Catalogue of, 165 

 Flowers, Names of, 45 

 Flowers, Notes on, 238 

 Flowers, Their Origin, &c., ri5 

 Flukes in Sheep, 69 

 Folk-lore, 44 



Folk-lore in County Tyrone, 131 

 Fossil Botany, Recreations in, 203, 241 

 Fossil Plants, Stomata in, 280 

 Fossil Trees, 116, 279 

 Fossil Remains in Hollows of Fossil Trees, 



67 

 Foxglove, 88 

 Frog, Development of .a and Tadpoles 



of, 105 



