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HARDWICKE'S SCIENCE-GOSSIP. 



Foraminifera, Gossip about, 13, 36, 93, 



I'S, 137 

 Forms and Colours of Flowers, 165 

 Fossils, Astrologer's Idea of, 167 

 Fossils, Gault, 21, 46 

 Freezing Water-Pipes, 63 

 French Bird-Murder, 214 

 Frogs, Croaking of, 71 

 Frogs, Tadpoles of, 258 

 Frontal Sac of the Muscidse, 19 

 Fungi, Colorado, 92 

 Fungus Forays in the Forest of Dean, 231 



Gault Fossils, 46 



General Appearance and Anatomy of 



Sponges, II 

 Geologising, a successful day's, 227 

 Geology, etc., 21, 43, 70, 116, 165, 260 

 Golden Oriole, 115 

 Good hunting-ground for orchids in Kent, 



21 

 Goose, White-fronted, 69 

 Gossip about Foraminifera, 13, 36, 93, 137 

 Gossip on Current Topics, 4, 34. 62 

 Gould's Finches, 115 

 Great Sea Serpent, 93 

 Green Rose, A, 70 



Hailstones, Microscopic Life in, 163 



Hairs on Pupae, 119 



Half-pence, Wood's Irish, 118 



Hampshire, Birds of, 91 



Hampshire, Coronclla Lccvis in, 91, 141, 



i8s 



Hare at Sea, 94 



Hawfinches and Crossbills at Stapleton 

 Park, 117 



Hearing of Ants, 237, 280, 282 



Helicidae, Darts of the, 90, 140, 186, 213, 

 3S1 



Helix Aculeata, 239 



Helix Caperata, 280 



Helix Nemoralis, Reversed form, 142 



Helix Lapicidia, 191, 211 



Henbane, The, 191 



Highlands, Botanical Notes from the 

 Swiss, 151, i6g, 189 



Hinton's Slides, Mr., 114 



Horns and Antlers, 28 



House Martins, 262 



How to work with the Micographic Dic- 

 tionary, 3 



Humber, American Shells in the River, 



Hunstanton, A Day among the Salt- 

 marshes at, 183 



Induction, Lines of Electrical, 155 

 Infusoria, Rudimentary Intelligence of 



the, 243, 280 

 Infusoria Trichodina, Study among the, 



123 

 Insects, the Senses of, 91 

 In Sutherland, 205 



July Notes, by a Field Naturalist, 



209 

 June, Silloth in, 136 



Kent, Good Hunting-ground for 

 Orchids in, 21 



Ladybird, Cannibalism of the, 133 

 Laelaps /{rvoliea, 6 



Lanceolata, Monstrosity in Plantago, 189 

 Lancashire, Pupa cinerea in, 281 



Land Shells near Norwich, 282 



Ledges on Banks or Hill-slopes, 116 



Leprosy, 193, 223, 261, 276 



Lesser White-fronted Goose, 69 



Life, A Flea's, 46 



Life-history of a Flea, 119 



Life-history of Mosquitoes, 118 



Life of a Shooting Star, 283 



Lightning, Caprices of, 63 



Lightning, Thunder and, 191 



Limnixa stagnalis and peregra devoured 



by Dytiscus tnarginalis, 280 

 Lines of Electrical Induction, 155 

 Limitn Perenne, 260 

 Liquid Prisms, 4 

 Littoriiia Riidis, 41, 91 

 Llandudno Mollusca, 141 

 Lobsters and Trout, 119 

 Localities, 117 

 London Catalogue, 238 

 London, Underground Geology of, 21 

 Longevity in a Beetle, 46 

 Love-darts in Snails, 44, 90 

 Low Antarctic Barometer, 36 

 Lung, Development of the, 251 

 Luscjila Albida in Sussex, 188 



Magpie and Cuckoo, 282 



Malstrom, The, 239 



Malta, A Day among the Tertiary Deposits 



of, 267 

 Mammoth in Belfast, 116 

 Mammoth not extinct, 214 

 Marigold, Double, 233 

 Massua, Winter in, 8 

 Matthiola incana, 277 

 May Fly, Metamorphosis of, 282 

 Melbourne Botanic Gardens, 99 

 Mercurialis percnnis, form aniumnalis, 



278 

 Metal, New, 95 

 Meteorology, Astronomy and, 7, 31, 64, 75, 



103, 138, 160, 179, 234, 235 

 Mice, Parasites on Rats and, 116 

 Microscope, Accessories to the, 133 

 Microscope, Carpenter on the, 184 

 Microscope Slides, 43 

 Microscopic Life in Hailstones, 163 

 Microscopy, 18, 43, 68, 90, 114, 139, 163, 



184, 211, 276 

 Midsummer Night's Sun, 224 

 Mildness of the Season, 22, 46 

 Mildness of the Winter, 93 

 Mild weather before Christmas, 22 

 Mixed Diet v. Vegetable Food for Pigs, 6 

 Mollusca, British, 47 

 Monoliths, Raising of Egyptian, 63 

 Monstrosity in Plantago Lanceolata, 189 

 Monstrosity in Plantain, 92 

 Mosquitoes, Life-history of, 118 

 Moss-Flora, British, 20 

 Mounting Clip, New Form of, 271 

 Mounting Perishable Crystals, Sections, 



69 

 Mounting Plants, 238 

 Muscidx, Frontal Sac of the, 19 

 Museums, Our Natural History, 237 

 Mutability of Species, 64 

 My Window Pets, 196 



Natural History Notes, 87 



Nests in Strange Place':, 167 



Nests, Squirrels and Their, 189 



New British Carnivora, 70 



New cell, 184 



New Jersey, Winter Birds of, 143, 171 



New Metal, 95 



New Slides, 114, 139, 184, 211, 276 



Nickel and Cobalt, Sg 



Nightingale in Wales, 117 



Nightjar, 22 



Nomenclature, 93 



Norway, Crows in, 183 



Norwich, Land Shells near, 282 



Notes and Queries, 21, 46, 70, 116, 142, 



166, 189, 214, 238, 261, "281 

 Notes on CEdogonium, 81 

 Notes on a Turbellarian Worm, 203 

 Notes on Economic Botany, 176, 219, 250 

 Notes on Fossil Conchology, 56 

 Notes on Geographical Distribution, 69 

 Notes on Leprosy, 223 

 Notes on Mounting Sharks' Teeth, 80 

 Notes on New Books and Pamphlets, 39, 



43, 82, 90, 136, 184, 211, 222, 253, 271 

 Notes on the London Catalogue, 59 

 Notes on Worcestershire Birds, 248, 263 

 Notholica Scapha, 68, 167 

 Notices to Correspondents, 23, 47, 71, 93, 



"9. 143. 168, igt, 213, 239 



Old Botanical Book, 260 

 Ophion, Pale Variety of, 92 

 Ophrys Api/era, 92, 141 

 Organisms in Chemical Solution, 128 

 Origin of the Earth's Crust, 165 

 Ornithological Voracity, 71 

 Our Natural History Museums, 237 

 Our Scientific Directory, 42, 89, 113, 13S, 

 235 



Packing Ripe Fruit, 282 



Pale Variety of Ophion, 92 



Pallas Sand-grouse, 91 



Papers on Dragon-flies, 66 



Parasite of the White Ant, 76, 164 



Parasite on Rats and Mice, 116 



Periwinkle, Rarity of, 165, 279 



Pets, My Window, 196 



Philosophy of Hair-curling, 64 



Photo-Micrography, Chapter on, 30 



Pied Wagtail, 93 



Pig-feeding, 5 



Pigs, Food for, 6 



Plantago Lanceolata, i\-j 



Plantago Maritima, Growth of, 45, 92 



Plantain, Monstrosity of, 92 



Plants, Bad Tastes in, 262 



Plants, Folk-lore of, 20 



Plants, Mounting, 238 



Plants, White Varieties of, 20 



Poisonous Plants, 94 



Poisonous Nature of Yew-trees, 118 



Pollen of Celadium, 214 



Pond-dredging and Collecting, 54, 69 



Postscript to Ravens, etc., at Portland, 140 



Potatoes, Sagacious, 260 



Preserving Gault Fossils, 21 



Prolongation of the Tadpole Condition, 



197, 262 

 Pterodina, Species of, 139 

 Pupa cinerea in Lancashire,''2Si 

 Pupae, Hairs on, 119 



Query Concerning Caterpillars, 239 

 Query in Reference to the " Cuckoo' 

 Song," 262 



Raising of Egyptian Monoliths, 63 

 Ramsgate Well, 194 

 Rare Fish, 115 



