286 



HARDWICKE'S SCIENCE-GOSSIP. 



Geology of the Neighbourhood of Win- 

 chester, 165 

 Geology of the Lake District, 260 

 Geology of the Tonga Islands, 1S6 

 Gigantic Puff-Balls, 281 

 Glacial Period, 70 

 Goose, The Barnacle, 252 

 Grapes in the Open Air, 215 

 Great Grey Shrike, 21 

 Great Yarmouth Natural History Society, 



93 

 Gregarious Spiders, i 

 Guiana, Egypt and, 224 

 Gums, Resins, and Balsams, 145 



Habits of the Crossbill, 117 



Helix cantiana. New Variety of, 113 



Heredity, 95 



Hertfordshire Natural History Society, 69 



Holly Fern in Herefordshire, 260 



How I Saved my Hive of Bees, 166 



Huge Gold Nugget, 23 



Huge Puff-Bails, 261 



Hunting for Zoophytes, 248 



Hiiichinsia petrcea, 141 



Hydrobia Jenldnsixix Essex, 163, 164, 184 



Hydrocotyle Asiatica, 45 



Indian Lizards, 239 



Influence of the late Severe Winter on 



Small Birds, 69 

 Introduction to the Study of British Dip- 



tera, 35, 53, 102, 126, 156, 171, 27s 

 Inverness Earthquakes of November 15th, 



1890.. 1S7 

 Island of Inchkeith, 230 



Jottings concerning Certain Fruit- 



Trees, 49 

 Journal of Microscopy and Natural 



Science, Sg 

 Journal of the Royal Microscopical 



Society, 184 



Kent, Floral Guide to, 238, 259 

 Kermes (Coccus ilia's), 182 



Laburnum Seeds, Poison in, 239 



Lac {Coccus lacca), 170 



Lake District, Geology of the, 260 



Land and Freshwater Shells, 43 



Large Fungi, 239 



Lateral Tubercules, 165 



Left Behind, 147 



Lemna trisuka, etc., 185 



Lincolnshire Botanists, 238 



Lincolnshire Sketch, Ducking, 17 



Link with the Trilobites, 213 



Lizards, Indian, 239 



Lizard Rocks and the Mariner's Compass, 



247 

 Local Conchological SocIety,'93, 140 



Local Plant and Bird-Names from North 



Marston, Bucks, 119 

 Lord Tennyson's Flowers, 82 

 Luminosity of Plants, 203 



Marcle Landslip, 202 



Marine Phosphorescence, 187 



Marking of Wild Birds' Eggs at the 

 Smaller End, 118 



Marsh Garden, 97 



INIason's Improved Oxyhydrogen Lantern 

 and Table Microscope, 184 



Mercurialis pcremtis, 214 



Method of Mounting Diptera, 36 



Micro-Marine Zoology at Home, 89 



Microscopical Puzzle, 138 



Microscopical Society of Calcutta, 89 



Microscopy, 21, 42, 68, 89, 113, 13S, 184, 

 213, 258, 278 



Migration of Jamaica Butterflies, 221 



Mimicry of Mantis, 68 



Mollusca in the Thames, Notes concern- 

 ing the Distribution of, 8 



Mollusca Shell, Colouring of Non-Marine, 

 121 



Monstrosity of Clausilia riigosa, 257, 279 



Mounting Cochineal Insects, 43, 89 



Mounting Corallines, 8g, 138 



Mounting Shells, 95, 113, 140 



My INIethod, 222 



My Pet Marmoset, 55 



Natural History Notes, 71, 202, 218 



Natural History in January, 23 



Natural History of Slow-Worms, 262 



Natural History Vandalism, 117 



Neo-Darwinism, 207, 241, 265 



Nest of Bomhus lapidaris, 46 



New British Moss, 52 



New British Worm, 43 



New Rotifers, 236 



New Slides, 139, 213, 259, 278 



New Species of Dasydytes, order Ga'tro- 



tricha, 160 

 New Species of Kangaroo, 184 

 New Variety oi Helix cantiana, 113 

 New World Nature-Lovers, 193 

 North-West of England Boulder Com- 

 mittee, 142 

 Note on a Foot-Wcrking Blowpipe, 40 

 Note on Scolopendrinm fulgare, var. 



Lobatium, and its Allies, 92 

 Note on Sirex juvencus, 147 

 Note on the Occurrence of Cockroach 



Wings in the Coal Measures of the 



Forest of Dean, 116 

 Notes concerning the Distribution of 



Mollusca in the Thames Estuary, 8 

 Notes on New Books, 18, 30, 77, 102, 133, 



»5o, 174 

 Notes and Queries, 23, 46, 70, 93, 116, 



142, 167, 187, 214, 238, 261, 281 

 Notes on Vegetable Teratology, 140 

 Notes on the Modifications of Roots, 154 



Notes on Dog's Mercury {Mei-curialis 



perennis), 179 

 Notes for Winter Work, 217 

 Notes on an Insectivorous Plant, 269 

 Notes on the Flora of Braunton Burrows, 



North Devon, 236, 260 

 NotJwlca acu}innata, 139, 164 



Obituary — 

 Dr. James Croll, LL.D., 42 

 Dr. H. B. Brady, F.R.S., 68 

 Mr. Andrew Brotherton, of Kelso, 112 

 Sir John Hawkshaw, 162 

 Professor M. Duncan, F.R.S., 163 

 Mr. D. Mackintosh, F.G.S., 213 

 Dr. Thomas AUcock, Manchester, 213 



Old Experiment in Preserving Quickly 

 Fading Flowers, An, 259 



On the Burrowing Habits of the Genus 

 Testacella, 145, 235 



On the Discovery of Pseudopodia in 

 Diatoms, 258 



Optical Effect, 188, 215, 238 



Orchard Oriole of the United States, 225 



Ornithological Notes from Chichester, 114 



Ornithopus cbracteatiis, 69 



Our Lane, 86, 99, 123, 163 



Parrots and their Eggs, 119 



Partly Scalarid Specimens of Helix as- 

 persa from West Kent, 139 



Peculiarities in Site and Structure of Birds' 

 Nests, 6 



Phosphatic Chalk at Taplow, 115 



Physa acuta in Scotland, 89 



Physical Human Measurements, 189 



Pin in Hen's Egg, 165 



Plants, Albinism in, 61 



Plants found in the Neighbourhood o 

 Oxshott, Surrey, 69 



Pocket-Lens, 43 



Poison in Laburnum Seeds, 239 



Post Office and Botanists, 115 



Power of the Limnidae to resist Cold, 118 



Preservation o( Melicefta ringens, 113 



Preserving and Arranging Shells, 257 



Preserving Fish, 164 



Proceedings, etc., of Colonial and Pro- 

 vincial Societies, 21 



Professor Weismann's Theory of Heredity, 

 105 



Puff-Balls, Huge, 261 



Quekett Microscopical Club, 68 

 Query as to Egg, 119 



Rabbit Dying of Old Age, 70 

 Rarest Metals, 191 

 Rare Visitor, 2S1 

 Rat Stories, 95 

 Record in Zonites, 277 

 Remarkable Hen's Egg, 239 

 Remarkable Fossils, 2S0 



