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H A K D VV 1 C K E ' S SCIENCE- GOSSIP. 



[Dec. 1, 1S6; 



Crane at Sandhurst, 161. 



Crickets, 279, 281. 



Crickets, Origin of, 89. 



Crickets, how to get rid of, 263, 279, 281 . 



Crocodile in England, 7, 41. 



Crystal Palace, Fire at the, 31. 



Cuckoo, the, 112. 



Cucumbers, 2/7. 



Cure (?) for Ague, 117. 



Curious Flower, 18. 



Curious Nest of Hedge Sparrow, 275. 



Curious Sea-anemone, 134. 



Cuticles of Leaves, &c, 43, 115. 



Cyclops, Vorticella, &c, 81. 



Dashour, Bricks of, 43. 



Daisy and Buttercup, 16b. 



Daisy Anemone, 46. 



Dead as a Herring, 263. 



Dead Black, 142, 166. 



Dead Starlings, 279. 



Death-Adder of New South Wales, 161. 



Death's-head Moth, igo, 213, 214, 262. 



Death's-head Moth, Larva? of, 208, 262. 



Death Watch, the, 2g. 



Deodara, the, 114, 144. 



Deposit, Monmouth, 133, 156, 180. 



Dermestes? what is, 28, 206. 



Desmids, Mounting, 188. 



Destruction of Rare Birds, 69, 93, 94, 160. 



Diamond Beetle, the, 64. 



Diatomaceous Deposits of America, 210. 



Diatoms, 9, 35, 81, 91, H3, 115, 133, 156, 



180, 188, 228. 

 Diatoms, Cleaning. 262. 

 Diatoms, Genera and Species o r , 91. 

 Diatoms of Shell-fish, 115. 

 Diatoms in the Chalk, 236. 

 Diatoms, Mounting, 140, 166, 167. 

 Diatoms, Movements in and o(, 46, 140, 



164. 

 Diatoms of British Columbia, 211. 

 Diatoms, Processes and Inflations in, It 3 . 

 Dicranum arcticum, 158. 

 Died of a Shrew, 186. 

 Diptera, Work on, 24U. 

 Disease caused by use of False Hair, 9?. 

 Disguises of Insects, 193, 233, 234, 261, 



279. 

 Dissection, Preservation of Objects for, 



262. 

 Distribution, Helps to, 244. 

 Distribution of Plants, 114. 

 Diver, Catching a, 1 36. 

 Divination by Rib-grass, 60. 

 Dodo, the White, 5, 52. 

 Dog in Trouble, 63, 190. 

 Dog-life, 155. 



Dog, Mediaeval Anecdote of, 232. 

 Dogs, House, 136. 

 Dog, the Bereaved, 39. 

 Dombeya ungulata. 65. 

 Domestic Spiders, 64. 

 Dormouse, Fossil, 139. 

 Double Bittercress, 209, 235. 

 Double Cardamine, 167. 

 Double Egg shells, 22, 46, 47. 

 Double Honeysuckle, 239. 

 Double Oranges, 118, 142. 

 Double Pear, 119. 

 Dove-plant, the, 42. 

 Dragon-fly, the, 225. 

 Drake, Feathers of the, 139. 

 Drawing Microscopic Objects, 236. 

 Drilling Glass, 93, 212. 

 Dust on Aquaria, 69, 117, 118, 142. 

 Dyeing Grasses and Mosses, 23. 



Eagle in Hylands Paek, 40. 



Early Wasp, 94, 117. 



Eccentricities of Hedgehogs, 213, 238. 



Echinus lividus, 82. 



Echoes from the Club, 231 . 



Economic Uses of Pith, 90. 



Edible Bird's Nest, 39. 



Edible Larvae, 30. 



Eels, Wheat, 19, 66. 



Egg-hatching, Failure of, 280. 



Eggs, Double, 22, 46, 47. 



Eggs of the Lackey Moth, 119, 141. 



Eggs of the Whelk, 91. 



Eggs of Woodpecker, 68. 



Egg within an Egg, 94, 1 19. 



Elastic Glue, 259. 



Electric Sparks, Cats' Hair and, 212. 



Elk, the, 239. 



Elm Galls, 17. 



Emergence and Submergence, 276. 



Encampment of Fleas, 134. 



Enemy to Bugs, 260. 



England, the Crocodile in, 7, 41. 



Enormous Boletus, 65. 



Erector for Binoculars, 115. 



Europe, the Papyrus in, 65. 



Evening Primrose, 65. 



Event, an Interesting, 3. 



Examination of Melicerta with High 



Power.'', 33 

 Examining Soundings, 164. 

 Exchange Rules, Quekett Club, 142. 

 Exogens, 114. 



Exposition Universale. 121. 

 Eye, Ciliary Muscle of the, 188. 



Failure of Egg-hatching, 280. 



False Champignons, 238. 



False Hair a Cause of Disease, 95. 



Fangs of Spiders, 237, 270, 276. 



Faro Apophyllite. 117, 142. 



Fatty Acids as Microscopic Objects, 140. 



Feast of Roses, 145. 



Feathers for Mounting, 139. 



Ferns Buried with the Dead, 60. 



Ferns, Hardy Foreign, 83. 



Ferns, Varieties of, 187. 



Fern, the Walking, 187. 



Fertilization by Insects, 209. 



Field Mouse, the, 234.. 



Filiigu Gallica in Surrey, 278. 



Fine Tench, 17. 



Fire, an Ocean of, 161. 



Fish-beds, 67. 



Fisheries, Pearl, 185. 



Fishes, Odd, 26d. 



Fishes, Preserved, 161. 



Fish-hooks cut out of Shells, 26J. 



Fish Increase, 260. 



Fish Scales, to Mount, 19. 



Fish-tanks, 191, 213. 



Flomes, the Rhythm of, 49, 95. 



Flea of the Cat, 47, 214. 



Fleas, an Encampment of, 134. 



Flea, Tenacity of life in, 21. 



Fleas, Wintry, 113. 



Flies, Poisonous, 167. 



Flies, Saws of, 22. 



Flint Flakes, 138. 



Flora of Bucks, 277. 



Floscularia, &c, 19. 



Flower of the Holy Ghost, 18, 42. 



Fly Acarus, 207. 



Flying-fish. 161, 181. 



Folk-lore, Rural, 177. 



Foot, F. J., Obituary of, 7" 



Foraminifera, 129, 215, 236. 



Foraminifera from Shells, 263. 



Foraminifera in Chalk. 35. 



Forest, the Petrified, 138, 1S9. 



Fossil Coleoptera, 238. 



Fossil Dormouse, 139. 



Fossils of the Lias, 44. 



Fossils, Preservation of, 22, 23, 43. 



Fossils, Use of, 92. 



Foster-pup, Pussy's, 186. 



Freak of a Nightingale, I76. 



Freshwater, Sea-fish in, 113. 



Freshwater Sponge, 247. 



Freshwater Sticklebacks in Seawater, 38. 



Frog in Gooseberry Bush, 234. 



Frog in Oolite, 45, 69. 



Frogs and Toads, 234. 



Frogs and Toads climbing, 234. 



Frog Season, the, 213. 



Frogs, Incarcerated, 207, 261. 



Frog, Spawning of the, 63, 89. 117, 1 19- 



Fruit, Original Mode of Gathering, 184. 



Fungi, 18. 



Fungus, the Chignon, 106. 



Fungus, the Cholera, 206. 



Galilee, Blue Birds of, 31. 



Gall-flies, 64. 



Galls on the Elm, 17. 



Gannet and Diver, 162. 



Gasteroiteus galtatmx, 20. 



Gasteropnds, Rotation of Embryo in, 26 1. 



Germination of the Toad rush, 150. 



" Giants in those Days,'' 92. 



Glass- cells, 66. 



Glass, to Drill, 93, 212. 



Glaucous Gull, 88. 



Glenshira Sand, 72, 14n. 



Gnat-bites, 14?, 16s, 261). 



Gold-fish. 165, 190, 191, 213. 



Grurula religiosa, 112. 



Grand Lory, the, 20. 



Grasses and Mosses, to Dye, 23. 



Grasshoppers in America, 213. 



Grasshopper Warbler, the, 186. 



Great Aquaria, 143. 



Great Ribbon-fish, 208. 



Great Spotted Woodpecker, 41. 



Gregarinidre in Cockroaches, 238. 



Guaco, 167, 189. 



Gut, Silkworm, 143. 



Hairs of Dermestes Larva, 28. 



Hair-worms, 162, 190, 221. 



Halo of a Shadow, 23, 46, 95. 



Hamburgh, Zoological Society of, 166. 



Hampshire Lycopod, 2f9, 251. 



Hardy Foreign Ferns, 83. 



Hare-rabbits, 23. 



Hart's Tongue, Proliferous, 42. 



Harvest Moon, the, 215, 263. 



" Hats Off," 184. 



Hawk and Weasel, 256. 



Hawk-moth, the Striped, 136, 162. 



Hedgehogs, 280. 



Heogehog Eccentricities, 213, 23S. 



Hedge Sparrow's Nest, 275. 



Helps to Distribution, 244. 



Helvellyn, Bouquet Tom, 242. 



Hen with Cat and Kittens, 63. 



Herring, Dead as a, 263. 



Hint, a, 113. 



Hint about Labels, 239, 263. 



Hints to Object Mounters, 91, 133. 



Holly in Flower, 42. 



Holy Ghost, Flower of the, 18, 42. 



Honey Ants of Texas, 118. 



Honey, Pollen in, 68. 



Honeysuckle, Double, 239. 



Honey, What's in the ? 30. 



Horse, Anecdote of a, 233. 



Horse, a " New River," 135. 



House-dogs, 136. 



How did they get there ? 1 1 7. 



Human Remains, 67. 



Huxley on the Study or Natural Historv. 



73. 

 llynliidiscus, 95, 119. 

 Hyulunemn, 47. 



Hybernation of Swallows, 185, 214. 

 H\drophilus, Larva of, 189, 212. 

 Hydrophilus, Nest of the, l6ri. 

 Hjlands Park, an Eagle in, 40. 



Ides Bkumaltje, 265. 



Impressions of Leaves, 141. 191. 



Incarcerated Frogs, 207, 261. 



India-rubber Cement, 23, 43. 



India, Rust and Smut in, 137. 



Injections, Carmine for, 20. 



Insect Pests, 64. 



Insect, the Leaf, 192, 204. 



Insects and Birds of Malaya, 161. 



Insects, Fertilization by, 209. 



Insects in Cabinets, 45. 



Insect Sounds, 214. 



Insects, Scarcity of, 23. 



Insects, the Disguises of, 193, 233, 234. 



261. 

 Interesting Event, an, 3. 

 Invading Army ot Snails, 215. 

 Is it Podura? 45. 



Is the Poison of the Viper fatal? 280. 

 Is Lichen-growth detrimental to Trees ? 



241. 

 Ivy at Chadkirk, 277. 



Jamaica, the Black Spider ok, 88. 

 Jordan Almond-tree, 42. 

 J umping Seeds, 257. 

 Juvenile Museums, 106. 



Kawai, the, 260. 



Killing Cockroaches, 166, 212. 



Kingfisher, the, 232. 



