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INDEX TO VOL. IX. 



ABU>fDANCE OP C. cardui in Ke.vt, 209. 

 Acorns, 138. 



Act for Protection of Small Birds, 8>J. 

 Act lor Procection of Wild Birds, 111, 



115. 

 Actinia, Preserving-, 276. 

 Additions to Irish Flora, 1S9. 

 Adjutant, how I tried to poison an, 3. 

 Adventure with a Mouse-trap, 214. 

 Affection, Canine, 95. 

 Affection of the Partridge, 211. 

 Age, the Pleistocene, 113. 

 A Hailstorm, 51. 

 Air-bugs, 22S. 

 Air, Humminss in the, 91. 

 Alga;, British Marine, 135,259. 

 Algcfi, Hastings, 258. 

 Algie, Irregularity of Appearance of some 



Marine, 193, 241. 

 Algm, New British, 183. 

 Alpine Plants, 73, l63. 

 Amalgamation of North London Societies, 



65. 

 Amber, Ipswich, 115, 142, 165. 

 Anatomy of Insects, 20, 45. 

 Anchovies, English, 17. 

 Ancient Cheshire Forest, 67. 

 Ancient Plant Life, 76. 

 Ancient Trees in Ireland, 177. 

 Animalcula2, Water, 213. 

 Animal Hairs, Comparative Sizes of, 108. 

 Animal Skeletons, 69, 91, llG, I29. 

 Animals, Pain in, 143. 

 Antiquity of Man, 114. 

 Antiquity of Man in America, 43, 140. 

 Ants, 22, 92. l(i,-), 211, 239, 277, 283. 

 Ants and Precious Stones, 92. 

 Ants, are they Pirates? 92. 

 Ants, Curious Emergence of, 211. 

 Ants' Eggs, 165. 

 Apes and Man, 111, 184. 

 Aphides, Appearance of Male, 4". 

 Aphides, Notes about, 173, 212, 238, 263, 



277. 

 Apple, White, 117, 185. 183. 

 Aquaria, to make water-tight, 214, 238, 



262, 283. 

 Aquarium, Fresh-water, 282. 

 Aquarium in Winter, 262. 

 Arahis strintii, 41, 42. 

 Archoeology of Rare Plants, in6. 

 Argi/ntiis Aslii'it and Ailippe, IdO. 

 Arrival of Wax-wings, 94. 

 Articholce, Wild, 164, 135, 213. 

 Ash-trees, 119. 

 Asphodels, 138. 



Astriintia majur in Shropshire, 8. 

 Attacus Lu7ni, 252. 

 Aurocorisa, or Air-bugs, 223. 



Babylonian Willows, 139, I62. 



Bacteria and Microzymes, 257. 



Balsam, Mounting in, 16, 63, 87, 135. 



Barley grown from Oats, 237. 



Barnacles, Gossip about, 1B9, 198. 



Batrachia, Young of ti.'e, 183. 



Bats by Daylijjht, 262. 



Bats, Hardihood of, Qi. 



Bats, Hybernation of, 93. 



Battle of Lite amongst Plants, 42. 



Beautiful Fish, 141. 



Beech-trees and Lightning, 23, 44, 45,69, 



Bee Journal, British, 20". 



Bee, the Queen, 44, 69. 116, 143, 251, 262. 



Bee, the Queen, and Drones, IS9, 273. 



Bee, the Roseleaf-cutter, 9, 94, 21 1. 



Bees and Glow-worms, 190, 212. 



Bees and Plants, 44, 67. 



Bees and Pollen, 67. 



Bees and Wasps, Stings of, 44, 46, 50,69, 



89, 91, 93, 116, 143, 273. 

 Bees in Birds' Nests, 21. 

 Bees, Stings of Worker and Queen, 44, 



69, 116, 143, 251. 

 Beetle, Rare, 233. 

 Beetle's Eye, 262. 

 Beetle, the Mnsk, 266. 

 Binocular, Dark Lines with, 63, 85, 86, 110. 

 Bird, a Deiitlgerous, 179. 

 Bird, a Nut-stowing, 33. 

 Birds, Dialects of, 119. 

 Birds, Flight of, 161, 211, 212. 

 Birds, Maggots on stutfed, 214, 238. 

 Birds, Names of, 262. 

 Birds' Nests, Bees in, 21. 

 Birds' Nests, Peculiarities of, 203. 

 Birds, Rare, and Grouse, 237. 

 Birds, Rare, in Scotland. 276. 

 Birds, Roosting Habits of, 19I. 

 Birds, Songs of, 166, ign, 213, 214. 

 Birds, Southern, 143, 187, 211. 

 Bitten by a Viper, 237. 

 Black Smut, 164, 214. 

 Blind Spiders, 16. 

 Blood Corpuscles, Shape of, 137. 

 Blood Ci7Stals, 137. 

 Blood Discs of Salmonidse, '10. 

 Blue-bottle Fly, 211, 239, 263. 

 Bog Mosses, 184. 



Boiling Springs of New Zealand, 164. 

 Boldness of Mustelidre, 92. 

 Bone-cavern, Scottish, 209. 

 Bone-dust in Soap, 15. 

 Books, New, 26, ini, 233, 255. 

 Borings in Fossil Wood, 20. 

 Botanical Catalogue, 46. 

 Botanical Labels, 42. 

 Botanical Locality Record Ciub, 113, 14?, 



167, 191, 213. 

 Botanical Nomenclature, 91. 

 Botanic Terms, Manual of, 235. 

 Botanists' Pocket-book, 112. 

 Botany, Brighton, 277. 

 Botany, London, 237. 

 Botany, Philosophy of, 223. 

 Bread, Vegetable Parasites on, 67. 

 Breccias, Origin of Permian, 140. 

 Brighton and Sussex Natural History 



Society, 64. 

 Brighton Botany, 277. 

 Bristle Fern, European, 128. 

 British Bee Journal, 207. 

 British Butterflies, 238. 

 British Fera3 Naturre, 20". 

 British Hemiptera, New, 208. 

 British Isoetes, 1 13. 

 British Marine Algre, 185, 259. 

 British Orchids, 87. 

 British Riceia, New, 88. 

 British Shrews, 188, 237, 282. 

 Brown-tails and Gold-tails, 37, 69. 

 Bug, the Harvest, 45. 

 Bunt of Wheat as a Lens, 15, 64. 

 Bustard in Suffolk, 234. 

 Butterflies and Moths, Proboscis of, 180 



Butterflies, British, 2:lS. 

 Butterrties, Large and Rare, 91, 262. 

 Butterflies, Male and Female, 1-37. 

 Butterflies, Scarcitv ot iii June. 282. 

 Butterfly, the Oldest Fossil, 260. 



CAniNETS, Microscopic Post.\l, 1!J, 



165, 281. 

 Cage Birds, Parasites on, lis. 

 Calamity, Domestic, 188. 

 California, Precious Stones in, 185. 

 Calla patiistris, 277. 

 Camberwell Beauty, 22,65, 111, 118, II9, 



J41, 165, 215. 

 Cambrian Rocks, the Upper, 6s. ' 

 Canadian Natural History, 215. 

 Canary, Hawk and, 20. 

 Canine Atfection, 95. 

 Carboniferous Land Shell-:, New, 19. 

 Castleton, Geology of, 235. 

 Caterpillars, Venomous, 161. 

 Ciitncata fraxina, 47. 

 Cave-dwellers, 178. 

 Cellepora. Xew Species of, 208. 

 Cements for Mounting, 86. 

 Centaury, White, 45, 48. 

 Ceplialopods, Fossil, 90. 

 Cerco-monad, Life-history of a, 257. 

 "Challenger" Expedition, the, 104, \Z7. 

 Chapter on Barnacles, igs. 

 Chapters on Cuttles, 270. 

 Charse, to prepare, 139. 

 Chemical Processes in Plants, 66. 

 Chickens and Sparrows, I8S. 

 Chinchas Islands, Guano Deposits of, 2l5. 

 Chlorophyll, Formation of, 249. 

 Chrysalis, Curious Place for a, 166. 

 C'i)ierari<i camprstris, 2119. 

 Circulation in Frog, 183. 

 Cirripede, a New, 234. 

 Clay Ironstone, Origin of, 114. 

 Cleaning Feathers and Skins, 40, 88. 

 Coal and Coal Plants, 210. 

 Coal, its Nature and Uses, 235. 

 Coal-measures, Tree-ferns of the, 11 J. 

 Coal Sections, 19. 



Coal Strata of the United States, 136. 

 Cobra, how I killed the, 49. 

 Cockch.-ifers, 21. 

 Cockchafers, Swarm of, 239. 

 Coke, Distillation of Vapour from, 40. 

 Cole Tit, the, 22, 71, 167. 

 Collecting and Preserving, 25. 

 Collecting and Setting Lepidoptera, 23, 



158. 

 Collecting Shells, 101. 

 Collection Catalogue, 46, 

 Coloured Light, 183. 

 Colours in Flowers, Variation of, 131, 



161, 209. 

 Colours of Plants, to Preserve, 115. 

 Comparative Size of Animal Hairs, 108. 

 Compass.plant, the, 23, 43, 44, 70, 95. 

 Contents of a Fish's Stomach, 189. 

 Corals, Fossil, 272. 



Cossus, the. What was it? 130, I66, I8S. 

 Cutoneiist';r riilfjiiris, 259. 

 Courage of Swallows, 69. 

 Cow; Strange Incident, 211. 

 Crab, Tenacity of Life in a, 22. 

 Crab, the King, 260. 

 Crab, the Robber, 233. 



