Dec. 1, 1S68.I 



HAItDWICKE'S SCIENCE-GOSSIP. 



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INDEX TO VOL. IV. 



Aberdeen, Bittern - ix, 39. 



Abnormal Foxglove, 210. 



Abundance ot Snails, 40. 



A Bundle of Books, 59. 



Abyssinian Porcupines, 239. 



Acacias, 92. 



Acari, Wooden Taps, &c, 41, Pp. 



A Century ago, 183. 



Acheronlia Atrupos, 23, 185. 



" Ackersprit," 248. 



Acorns Food for Fowls, 282. 



Acridn viridissimu, igli, 23(3. 



Actinia, a Fresh-water, 217. 



Adhemar's Theory, 46, 94. 



JEihna grandis, 245. 



Agave in Bloom, 43. 



Age of Trees, 202. 



Agricultural Ant of Texas, 1. 



Ailanthus Moth, the, 263, 283. 



Alas, poor Otters ! 70. 



Alcedo ispida, 204, 234. 



Alimentary System of House Spicier, 128, 



195. 

 Amber, 281. 



American Blight, 186, 192. 

 American Diatomaceoua Deposits, 85, 



131. 

 A Monster of the Deep, 222. 

 Ampelis gamtlus, 181. 

 Anachronisms in Science, 92. 

 Ancient Turtle, 114. 

 Andromeda poly folia, 162. 

 Anemone, Rare Sea, 234. 

 Anemometer, Recording, 119. 

 Animalcule, 71 ■ 

 Animals, Increase of, 64. 

 Animals, Man and, 209. 

 Animals that Never Die, 16, 40, 62, 106. 

 Animal Sagacity, 186. 

 Animals and Light, 283. 

 Annals of Natural History, 47. 

 Another New Moss, 62. 

 Anodonta Ci/gnea, 160. 

 Ant- Hills, 88. 

 Anthomyia Pluvialis, 260. 

 Ants, £9, 88, 117, 118, 138, 159, 1/7, 282. 

 Ants and Aphides, 190. 

 Ants and Spiders, 23. 

 Ants at the Crystal Palace, 138, 159. 

 Ant, the Red House, 213, 234, 26l, 263. 

 Ants, to Destroy, 143, 213, 234, 261, 263. 

 Anthrenus scrophularice, 20. 

 Ant, the Agricultural, of Texas, 1 . 

 A Phenomenon, 233, 281. 

 Aphrophora Spumaria, 158. 

 A Pleasing Incident, 167. 

 Aquaria, Molluscs in, 236. 

 Aquaria, Perch in, 142. 

 Arhutus Unedo, 47. 

 Architecture of a Spider, 262. 

 Ardea Stellaris, 39. 

 Artifical Sandstone, 69. 

 Asleep or Awake, 214. 

 Association, 220. 

 Astrantia Mujor, 194. 

 Athalia Spinarum, 232. 

 Atrupos Pulsatoria, 87, 113. 

 Aunt Judy, a Punch for, 165. 

 Autographs, Vegetable, 71. 

 Autumnal Treasures, 272. 

 Awake or Asleep, 214. 

 Azalea, Miseltoe on, 112. 



Babbing Eels, 258. 

 Baby Prawns, 18, 42, 65. 

 Balsam versus Resin, 91, US. 

 Bats, Hairs of Indian, 26. 



Bat, Terror at a. 2fi3. 



Beauties of the Wilderness, SO. 



Beauty, I19. 



Bee-eater, the, 64. 



Bee?, Telling the, 283. 



Berlin Black, 11 6. 



Bee, Fecundity of the Queen, SOS. 



Bees, 118, 208. 



Bees at Laurel, 191. 



Bees, Fuschia and, 262. 



Bees of Cuba, 47. 



Bees, Queries about, 46, 191. 



Bees &c, Stings and Poison Glands of, 



148, 205. 

 Bees to Dislodge, 4". 

 Beetles, to Collect and Mount, 73. 

 Beetle, Water, 142. 

 Berries, Laurel, 2S3. 

 Bifurcated Ferns, 187, 213, 231, 237, 238, 



240. 

 Bird Destruction, 185. 

 Birds and Insects, how they Fly, 9. 

 Birds, a Plea for, 88. 257. 

 Birds of Berks and Bucks, 41, :6o. 

 Birds of Killingwoith, 191. 

 Birds, Rare, 64, 95. 

 Birds, Rare, in Kent, 41 . 

 Bittern in Aberdeen, 39. 

 Bittern, the, 65. 

 Blackberries, Surrey, 270. 

 " Black Jack," 232. 

 Biack-tailed Godwit, 95. 

 Blechnum Spicant, 187, 212, 231, 237. 

 Blight, American, 186, 192. 

 Blight of the Maple, 136, 188. 

 Bluebottle Flies, 234. 

 Blue Pimpernel, 19. 

 Bog Onion, 270. 

 Books, a Bundle of, 59. 

 Born and Died in a Box, 21. 

 Botany, Difficulties of, 46. 

 Bougainnillea Spectabilis, 139. 

 Brazilian Plants, 47. 

 Breeding Cage, Cheap, 23. 

 Breeding of Salmon, 182. 

 Brighton, Rare Visitors, 277. 

 British and Foreign Galls, 140. 

 British Grasses, on the Study of, 197. 

 British Pelican, Extinct, 40. 

 Broods, Second, 236. 

 Bucks, Ferns of, 43. 

 Bucks, Flora of, 42. 

 Bugs, 17, 31, 46, 214. 

 Bug's skins, 214. 

 Bulimus Gouda/lii, 17. 

 Butterflies, Plumules of, 44, 214, 239. 

 Butterflies, Varieties of, 137. 

 Butterfly, the White Cabbage, 186, 209. 



Cabinet, Gems op the, 61. 



Caddis worms and their cases, 152, IS9. 



Cage for Fleas, 67. 



Calceolaria gracilis, 19. 



Californian Quail, 114. 



Canadian Cotton, 39, 71. 



Carduus, a new, 42. 



Carmine Peziza, 90. 



Carmine, Plants grown in, 71. 



Carp and Sticklebacks, 215. 



Carp, Fan-tailed, 138. 



Caterpillar of the Puss Moth spitting, 



257. 

 Caterpillars, Fasting, 64. 

 Celery leaf Miner, 211. 

 Centenarianism, 21. 

 Century ago, a, 183. 

 Cephalopod, Colossal, 222, 262. 



Centra vinula, 257. 



Ceylon Spiders, 161, 185. 



Ceylon, Wood borer from, 213. 



Chamwrops humilis, 66. 



Chameleons, 39, 42. 



Chcetospira, notes on, 125, 155, 164. 



Cheap Breeding Cage, 23. 



Chenalopex Egyptiuca, 64. 



Chrysalids, coloration of, 17. 



Chrysalids, Curious, 89. 



Chrysalis in Rock, 93. 



Church Service stopped by Moths, 114. 



Cities, a Tale of Two, 57. 



Claytonia alsino'ides, I87. 



Cluytonia perfoliata, 115, 140, 162. 



Cleaning Corals, 21, 45. 



Clouded Yellow Butterfly, 17, 233, 262, 



282. 

 Coal-measures, reptiles, &c, from, 104, 



142, I67, 214. 

 Cobra, Ichneumon and, 137. 

 Cocci, 165. 



Coccothravstes vulgaris, 109. 

 Cockroaches, London, 15. 

 Cockroaches, to kill, 22. 

 Cockroach, Tenacity of Life in the, 215, 



239. 

 Cold Companion, a, 213. 

 Cold, Effects of. 45. 

 Coleoptera, collection, &c, of. 73. 

 Co/ias edusa and hyale, 233, 262, 282. 

 Colias edusa in Ireland, 17. 

 Colias hyale, 282. 

 Collecting Bottles, 111. 

 Coloration of Chrysalids, 17. 

 Colossal Cephalopod, 222, 262. 

 Colouring Photographs, 224. 

 Companion, a Cold, 213. 

 Concerning Ants, 177. 

 Conchological Notes, 17. 

 Confinement, Reptiles in, 2/2. 

 Contraction, &c, of Fluids, 68, 93. 

 Corals, to clean, 21, 45. 

 Corethra plumicornis, /8. 

 Corn-Crake, 114. 

 Cornish Coast Ferns, 162. 

 Cotton, Canadian, 39, 71. 

 Courtship of Moths, 166. 

 Cowslips, 143. 

 Crab, rare, 113. 

 Crane Fly Swarms, 281. 

 Crickets, to kill, 22, 71. 

 Cromlechs, 93. 

 Crossbill, nest, 278. 

 Crow, the, 208. 



Cry of the Water Boatman, lip. 

 Crystal Palace, Ants at the, 138, 159. 

 Cuba, Bees of, 47. 

 Cuckoo! Cuckoo! 26l. 

 Cuckoos and Hedge Sparrow, 113, 143, 



161, 167, 214. 

 Cuckoo's Eggs, 167, 214, 261. 

 Cuckoo, Incubation of the, 239. 

 Cuckoo-spits, 158. 

 Curious Crysalids, 89. 

 Curious optical effect, 191. 

 Cuttle-fish, a Monstrous, 222, 262. 

 Cynthia cardui, 233. 



Daddy Longlegs, 256. 

 Daphnia, the Heart of, 227, 

 Daring of a Hawk, 63. 

 Darwinism ? What is, 241. 

 Dead as a Herring, 45. 

 Dead Sea, 238. 

 Death of Mr. E. Tucker, 95. 

 Death of Titmice, 95. 



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