286 



HARD WICKE 'S S CIENCE - G OS SIP. 



Flowers, Fertilisation of, by Insects, 21, 



39, 92, 114, 113, 128, 140 

 Flowers, Origin of, 278 

 Flower, Query as to a, mentioned by 



Shelley, iiS, 165, 260 

 Flowers, Symmetry of, 67 

 Food-fishes, Propagation of, 1S5 

 Foreign Insects, &c., how introduced, 117 

 Forest Pathology, i 

 Fossils, common British, and Where to find 



them, II, 60, 131, 251 

 Fossil, Crustacean, a new, 40 

 Fossil Fungus, a, 269 

 Fossil Glass Rope Sponges, 259 

 Fossil, Lizard, 259 

 Fossils, Mode of Strengthening, 6g 

 Fossils, Mode of Cleaning, 141, 159 

 Fossils, Upper Devonian, at Torbay, 116 

 Fowls, Lead-poisoning of, 71 

 Frog, Chameleon - like Changes in the, 



256 

 Fruit Culture, 143 

 Fungi, Distinction between Poisonous and 



Edible, 18 

 Fungi, Fossil, 269 

 Fungi, new, on Violets, 125 



" Gapes," Treatment for Malady of, 



16 

 Gasteropoda, Vitality of, 161 

 Geutiana acaiilis, 278 

 Geology, ig, 40, 69, 90, 116, 141, 163, 187, 



= 11, 235, 25S, 279 

 Geology of Harwich and Walton-on-Naze, 



69 

 Geology of Hertfordshire, 91 

 Geology of Leicestershire, 258 

 Geology of the Planet Mars, 91 

 Geology of Plymouth, 169, 212 

 Geology of Rutland, 258 

 Geology of the Savoy Alps, 236 

 Geology of Underground London, 147 

 Geology of Water-supply, 236 

 Geology, Scepticism in, 259 

 Geological Honours, 90 

 Geologists' Association, Proceedings of, 41 

 Gilbert White, the Rev., Grave of, 167, 



213, 191 

 Glass Rope Sponges, Fossil, 259 

 Glastonbury Thorn, 45, 94 

 Glnuciim liiteutn, 140 

 Goatsucker, the, 149, 191, 213, 259 

 Gold-fish, 46 

 Golden Pheasant, Breeding of Domestic 



Fowl with the, 22 

 Gorilla, the, at Westminster Aquarium, 



209, 237 

 Gourds, History of, 9 

 Gourds and Pumpkins, Inflorescence of, 



257 

 Grey Parrot, singular Fact as to a, 213 



Hairy Rhinoceri akd Siberian Mam- 

 moths, 20 



Hard Parts of Animals, the, 241, 265 



Harvest Bugs, 44, 227 



Harvest Bugs, Mode of Destroying, 190 



Hawfinch, the, 44, 193, i65 



Hearing, the Sense of, 277 



Hedgehog, Food of the, 21 



Hedge-sparrow, a White, 14 (note) 



Heliopelta, 37, 65 



Herb-paris, 104 (note) 



Herons, Habits of, 47, 71, 92 



Herons and Rooks, 94, 189 



Holy-grass, Northern, 44 



Hoopoe, the Rarity of, 22, 185 



H oploplwra femiginea, Notes on, 205 



House Sparrow, Desertion of Young by 

 a, 260 



Hyaenarctos in the Red Crag of Suffolk, 

 i88_ 



Hybrid Primula, i8g 



Hydroid, a One-armed, 235 



Ice Age, the, 167 



Illumination, new Mode of, 87 



Irish Botanist, Holiday Tour of a, 150 



Iron, Metals accompanying, 279 



Ivy, early Flowering, 69 



Ivy, Notes on, 164 



Kent, Scjmmer Ramble on East 

 Coast of, 29 



Lampyris noctiluca, 113 



Land Tortoises, from Ossiferous Cave ms 



of Malta, 69 

 Lawson, Dr. H., Death of, 253 

 Lemming, Migration of the, 103 

 Lemming, Probability of Existence in 



British Isles of the, 189, 237 

 Lepidoptera cf the Black Forest, 118 

 LeptocliniHin punctaticm, 260 

 Lescheiianltiafor)nosa,YM'X\7-sX\o-!\ of, 204 

 Limestone, probable Cause'of Faults in, 187 

 Linnean Society, Particulars of Admission 



to the, 144 

 Lithorttis emtduus in the Isle of Sheppey, 



187 

 Lizards recently extinct of the Mascarene 



Islands, 113 

 Lizard Fossil, 259 

 Lobster, Sagacity of a, 278 

 Locusts in British Isles, 21, 45, 67 

 Lyons, Query as to Geology of, 71 



Magpie and Starlings, Attack on a 



Swift by, 262 

 Mammoths, Siberian, 20 

 INIarigold, Query as to, 47 

 Marion Island, Flora on, 18 

 Marmozet, anew, 17 

 Medusae, Varieties of, 67 

 Mermaid's Purses, 117 

 Metropolitan Well Borings, 141 

 Metropolitan Societies, 139 

 Mexican Grasses, Sexual Modification of 



the Glumes of, 140 

 Mica, Discovery of, in Arctic Regions, 69 

 Microscope, how to choose a, 66 

 Microscope, Application of, in Geology, 78 

 Microscopical Society of Bath, 88 

 Microscopical, Use of Term, 117 

 Microspectroscopes, 137 

 Microscopy, 15, 36, 65, 86, 112, 137, 139, 



183, 206, 230, 233, 276 

 Mid-Silurian Vegetation, 279 

 Miocene Period, Animals of the, 279 

 Mistletoe, Celtic Names of the, 39 

 Mistletoe, Growth, Age, &c., of, 25, 43, 



44, 279, 2S0 

 Mistletoe on Lime-trees, 143, 260 

 Mistletoe on Pink Hawthorn-tree, 281 

 Mites, Destruction of, 280 

 Moa Skeleton, Discovery of a, 233 

 Mollusks, Methods for Cleaning Shells of 



Smaller Species of, 183 

 Moon, Photographs of the, 283 

 Moonlight, Phenomena connected with, 



281 

 Moose-deer, Capture of, at Sea, 282 

 Morse or Walrus, 3 

 Mountain Chains, Origin of, 259 

 Mystacoceti, Table of Differences of 



British, 246 



N,\MES OF Birds, 46 



Names of Plants, 46 



Names, Pronunciation of, 43, 118, 164, 193 



Nettle, the Common, 46, 92, 115 



Nettle, the Uncommon, 164 



New Forest, Sport in the, 26 



New Fossil Tertiary Bird, 212 



New Guinea, Birds of, 106, 121 



New Guinea, Zoology of, 231 



Newt, Development of, 239 



Newt, Spawn of, 94, 161, 263 



Newt, Water Currents on Gills of, 114 



New Zealand, Flowers in, 161 



North Wind, Effects of, on Plants, 93, 263 



Notes and Queries, 21, 41, 69, 91, 117, 142, 



164, 188, 212, 237, 239, 279 

 Notices to Correspondents, 24, 48, 72, 



96, 120, 144, 168, 192, 216, 239, 263, 283 

 Notices and Reviews : — 



Across Africa (Cameron), 83 



Animals, Uses of to Men (Dr. Lan- 

 kester), 67 



Botany, Structural and Physiological 

 (Thome'), 86 



Botanical Excursion to the Grampians, 

 a, 140 



British Bird-preserver (Wood), 113 

 Cross- and Self-Fertilization of Plants 



(Darwin), 31 

 Diatoms, Practical Directions for Col- 

 lecting, Preserving, Mounting, &c., 



277 

 Earthquakes and Volcanoes, Causes of 



Activity in (Peacock), 91 

 Elementary Zoology (Wilson), 161 

 English Antiquities, Half-hours with 



(Jewitt), 8s 

 Ferns, British and Foreign (Smith), 210 

 Folk Lore of Natural History (Holland), 



139 



Forest and Chase of Malvern, its 

 Present and Ancient State (LeesJ, 258 



Geologj- of East Anglia, ig 



Geology of England and Wales (Wood- 

 ward), 31 



Geology of Walton-on-the-Naze and 

 Harwich, 69 



Geological Record for 1873, 24 



Insect Fauna of the Second Tertiary 

 Period (Goss), 117, 187 



Journal of Forestry, 186 



Journal of the Quekett Microscopical 

 Club, 206 



Large and Small Game of Bengal and 

 North- Western Provinces of India 

 (Capt. Baldwin), 31 



Lias in Warwickshire (Beesley), 117 



Life (Garner), 89 



Life of a Scotch Naturalist (Smiles), 83 



London Flora, a New (De Crespigny), 

 211 



Microscope, how to Choose a (Demon- 

 strator), 66 



Microscopical Society of Bath, Annual 

 Address of the President, 88 



Norfolk and Norwich Naturalist Society's 

 Transactions of, 161 



Orchids, Fertilisation of (Darwin), 67 



Physiological Tables (Aveling), 236 



Popular Science Review, 183, 236 



Primeval World of Switzerland (Profes- 

 sor Heer), 83 



Reminiscences of Animals, Birds, Fishes, 

 and Meteorology (Kingsford), 89 



Royal School of Mines Magazine, 69 



Sun Birds, the (Shelley), 139 



Symmetry of Flowers (Gibbs), 67 



Watford Natural History Society, Trans- 

 actions of, 89 



Winds and their Story of the World 

 (Jordan), 163 



Zoological Classification, Handbook of 

 Reference on (Pascoe), 113 



Oaks in Sussex, 186 . 



Obelisk, raising an, 262 



Orchids in Surrey, 44, 92 



Orchids, Fertilization of, 67 



Oriental Plane, suited for Cultivation in 



Towns, 48 

 Ornithology, Errors in, 163, igi 

 Orobanche jitinor, 68 



Pal.^octonus Appalachianus, 279 ■ 



Palcrospalax matins, 69 



Papilio inachaon. Larvae of, at Brighton, 



231 

 Parasites on the common Cyclops, 46, 93, 



112 

 Parasites in Egg Cocoon of the Spider, 17 

 Parasites on Midge, 13 

 Parasites on Plants, 167 

 Parthenogenesis^ 140 

 Peregrine Falcon, the, 31, 91, 142, 163, 212, 



262 

 Petrel Species of Sea Birds, Notes on the, 



195, 261 

 P]iormii(in teiiax (New Zealand Flax), 210 

 Physiography and Physical Geography, 



236 

 Physical Geography (Mrs. Somerville), 237 

 Pike, Holes in the Head of, 261 

 Plants, Absorption of Organic Matter 



by, 18 

 Plant Crystals, dS, 90, 186 

 Plants, economical Products of, 77, 129, iSi 

 Plants exposed to North Winds, Effect on, 



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