HA RD IVICKE' S S CIENCE- G O SSI P. 



287 



Obituary, 44 



Objects in Aquarium, 20, 92 



Observations on the Crown Animalcule, 



107 

 Observations on Living Organisms, 159 

 Observations on Ova and Tadpoles of 



Frog, 105 

 Occurrence of Polypodiutn calcareu»t in 



Sussex, I S3 

 On the Premature Development of Buds, 



lOI 



Origin of Harebell, Foxglove, S:c., 88 

 Origin of Jet, 166, 191, 212 

 Ornithological Notes, 69 

 Ornithology of the Poets, 134 

 Otters in County Down, 271 

 Our Vernal Flora, The Origin of, 267 

 Ova of Dragon Flies, 94 

 Oxfordshire, Local names in, 165 



Pachynobia kypcrborca, 277 



Painting, Microscopical, 230 



Palaeozoic Polyzoa,jClassification of, 189 



Pansy, 188 



Parasites from Centipede, 16 



Parasites on Dytiscus marginalis, 46, 208 



Parasites in Snakes, 138 



Parrots, 51, 93 



Parrots and.their Food, 45, 95 



Parrots, Do, require water? 21, 45, 46 



Pear-Tree, History of the, 11 



Pebbles of the Drift, 260 



Peculiar Site for Blue Tit's Nest, 213 



Pentacrinus, 19 



Peridermium Pinii, 140 



Pests of the Bee-hive, 65 



Phosphorescent Centipede, 165 



Pike, Hardiness of the, 141 



Pin-tailed Sand Grouse in Staffordshire, 

 232 



Planorbis Cornells, 235 



Pla7itago major, 261 



Plants, Local Names of, 42 



Plume Moths, Mimicry in, 258 



Podophthalmata, Embryology of the, 162 



Poet's Ornithology of the, 134 



Poison Glands in Frogs, go 



Poisonous Lizard of Mexico, 270 



Polariscope Objects, 31 



Pollen as a Polariscope Object, 231 



Polypodium calcareian in Sussex, 188 



Polyzoa from the Halkyn INIountains, 164 



Polyzoa of the Wenlock Shales, 43 



Pond Collecting in Mid- winter, 31 



Pond Life, 90, 104, 212, 271 



Popular Natural History, 258 



" Portfolio," Mr. T. Bolton's, 90, 277, 



Position of Herons when Incubating, 190 



Potamogeton, a New, 259 



Premature Development of Buds, loi 



Preparation for Destruction of Mites, 114, 

 138, 166 



Preparation of Dammar Varnish for 

 Microscopic Studies, 257 



Preparation of Diatoms, 257 



Preservation of Natural History Speci- 

 mens, 150 



Preserving Butterflies and Moths, 281 



Preserving Crustacea, 163, 260 



Preserving Flowers, 22, 65 



Preserving Larvae of Lepidoptera, 283 



Primrose, Green, 139 



Probable Marine Shell from Erith, 19 



Production of Sound by Crickets, 265 



Professor E. Ray Lankester, 114 



Prospect of Sharp Winter, 282 



Provinces, Science in the, 26J 



Provincial Museums, 16 



Provincial Scientific Societies, 162, 209, 233 



Prunus and Pyrus, 140 



Primus spinosa, var., 139 



Pulex irritans, 9 



Pyrus, Prunus and, 140 



Quakers, The, ofTokio, 269 

 Quekett Microscopical Club, The, 15, 160 

 Query as to Bird, 281 

 Query as to Insects, 237 

 Query as to Moth, 21 



Rabbits, Litter of Wild, 263 



Ramble on the Fells in Search of Eggs,'83 

 Ramble, Botanical, around Weymouth, 28 

 Rare Bee, 209 

 Rare Bird, 93 



Rare Plants, 272 



Reason or Instinct? 143 



Reasoning Powers of Animals, 262 



Reaumur and the Germ Theory, 41 



Recent Captures, 282 



Recreations in Fossil Botany, 203, 241 



Red Blossomed Hawthorn, 163 



Red Dead Nettle, 159 



Regime of aTowl House, 22 



Report on the Migration of Birds, 277 



Reptiles, Singular, 237 



Resetting Lepidoptera, 142 



" Revue de Botanique," 188 



Rocks of the Channel Islands, 43 



Rocks, Table of, 116 



Rooks and Starlings, 278 



Royal Microscopical Society, The, 64, 98, 



114, 207, 258 

 Rugose Corals, A New Family of, 235 

 Rutnia cratcegata. Egg of, 13 



Salmon Disease, The, 114 

 Sand Grouse, The Pin-tailed, in Stafford- 

 shire, 232 

 Saturnia carpini, 117 

 Scabious, A Field of, 260 

 Scarcity of Wasps, 70, 92 

 Schizomycetes, Notes on, 148, 200, 223, 274 

 Science Classes, Notes for, 10, 52, 247 

 Science in the Provinces, 26 

 Scientific Societies, Provincial, 162, 209, 



233 



Scientific Progress in Hertfordshire, 147, 

 230 



Scott on the Harebell, 93 



Sea-gulls, 95 



Sea Lily, 19 



Sea Slugs, Notes on some Common, 179, 

 194, 217 



Section Cutting, Collier's Experience of, 

 227 



Sections of Coal, 137, 139 



Senses of Bees and Wasps, 278 



Setting Lepidoptera, 93, 141, 142, 213 



Sheep worried by Donkey, 239 



Sheep, Flukes in, 69 



Shells, Land and Freshwater, 258, 261 



Shore Lark, 45 



Sign X, What is the Meaning of? 159, 1S3, 

 206, 232 



Silurian Species of Glauconome, 189 



Singular Reptiles, 237 



Sir Wyville Thomson, 91 



Sketch Jof Flora of Coal Period, 123, 137, 

 176 



Slate Quarry near Corwen, 18 



Sloth, Three-toed, 282 



Slow- worms and Snakes, 117 



Slug, Large, 237, 262 



Slugs, 261 



Snails and Hydras, 166 



Snails, Land, 142, 131 



Snails near London, 191, 233 



Snail's Shell, Tenant of, 235 



Snakes, Carbolic Acid and, 20 



Snakes, Parasites in, 138 



Snow Crystals, 114 



Societies : — Proceedings, &c. 



Belfast Naturalists' Field Club, 233 

 Ballarat School of Science, 164 

 Braintree Microscopical Society, 231 

 Brighton and Sussex Natural History 



Society, 209 

 Bristol Natural History Society, 27, 209 

 British Association, 187 

 Cambridge Entomological Society, gt 

 Cardiff Naturalist's Society, 161 

 Eastbourne Natural History Society, 76, 



233 

 East Kent Natural History Society, 



162, 209 

 Epping Forest, Essex, &c.. Naturalists' 



Field Club, 27, 233 

 Folkestone Natural History Socety, 114 

 Fylde District Natural History Society, 



^ 139 . 



Geologists' Association, 43, 211 

 Hackney Microscopical Society, 160 

 Hackney Natural History Society, 279 

 Hampstead Naturalists' Club, 162 

 Hertfordshire Natural History Society, 



27, 209, 233 

 Isle of Man Natural History Society, 209 

 Lambeth Field Club, 187 

 Liverpool Geological Association, 43 



Societies': — Proceedings,&c. — continued. 

 Liverpool Naturalists' Field Club, 209 

 Manchester Microscopical Society, 160 

 Norfolk and Norwich Naturalists 

 Society, 233 



North Middlesex Natural History Asso- 

 ciation, 41 



North Staffordshire Naturalists' Field 

 Club, 162, 209 



Norwich Natural Science Club, 138 



Norwich Geological Society, 233 



Penzance Natural History, &c., Society, 



_,233 



Postal Microscopical Society, 15, 114, 

 186, 238 



Quekett Microscopical Club, 13, 160 



Victoria Microscopical Society, 207 



Walthamstow Natural History Society, 

 162 



Waterford Literary and Scientific Asso- 

 ciation, 262 



Whitby Naturalists' Field Club, 27 



Winchester College Natural History 

 Society, 27 



York Field Naturalists' Society, 114 



York Philosophical Society, 164 

 Spain, Botany of, 21 

 Spain, Natural History of, 230 

 Sparrows, 46, 70, 141, 260 

 Sparrow, White, 70 

 Spiranthes astivalis, 211, 239 

 Spring Bees, Early, 114 

 Spring Flowers, 93 



Springs. Compirison of the last four, 23! 

 Squirrel, The, 62 

 Squirrels in Ireland, 113, 261 

 Staffordshire, North, Naturalists' Field 



Club, 162 

 Starch, Liinas tnaxtmus killed by, 161 

 Starlings, Rooks and, 278 

 Stellate Hairs of Deutzia, 138 

 Stephanops laviellaris, 138 

 Steplianoceros Eichornii, 107 

 Stoat, Weasel or, 141 

 Stone Implements. 140 

 Storms, Beech Trees and, 17 

 Studies in Microscopical Science, 138, 160, 



207, 232 

 Study of Pond Life, 80, 104, 121 

 Suffolk Names, 214, 213 

 Suggested Classification of Palaeozoic, 237 

 Suggested Market for Natural History 



Objects, 281 

 Suggestion, A, 214 

 Sun Spots and Earthquakes, 234 

 Supposed Viper, 28r 

 Swallow, Late appearance of, 77 

 Swallows, Domestic Arrangements of, 238 

 Swallows' Nests,;! 67, 68, 119, 140, 190, 



213 

 Swiss Highlands, Botanical Notes from, 



169 

 Swiss Trees, 50 

 Switzerland, Geological Excursion to, 13, 



1S2 

 Switzerland, Larch Trees in, 91 



Table of Rocks, u6 



Tadpoles, 166 



Tadpoles, Late, 163 



Tadpoles in October, 20, 69 



Talc, 214, 232, 237 



Tame Hawk, 282 



Tank, Microscopic, 142 



Terns, Inland, 213 



Thalassidroma pelagica, 16 



Three-toed Sloth, 282 



Tingis histricellus, 161 



Toads, Larks and, 20 



Tokio, the Quakers of, 269 



Trichinae, 214 



Trifolium stellatum, 279 



Tropidonotus liberis, 191 



Turnstone, The, 21, 165 



Tyrone County, Folk Lore of, I3r 



U.vexpected Guests, 188, 236 



" Unicorn, The," 42 



Uredines, Alternation of Generation among 



the, 195 

 Uria. Troile, 243 



Varieties of Woodcock, 93 



Veins and Cleavage, 66 



Vernal Flora, The Origin of our, 267 



