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HARDWICKE'S SCIENCE-GOSSIP. 



[Dec. 1, 1868. 



Reptiles from the Coal Measures, 104 



142, 167, 214. 

 Reptiles in Confinement, 272. 

 Resin versus Balsam, gi, 118. 

 Retired Eagle, a, 208. 

 Reviews of Books, 59, 112. 

 Wiizosolenia, 184. 

 Ribs, Repaired Fossil, 2S0. 

 Robin, the, does he Change his Colour? 



190, 209. 

 Rooks, the Three, 111. 

 Rose, Scarlet, 119, 141. 

 Rose Weevil, the, Ml. 

 Rotifer, a Parasitic, 39. 

 Royal Pern, the, 187, 236, 233. 

 Rrval Microscopical Society, 119, 167, 

 266. 



Sagacity of Animals, 1S6. 



Salmon Breeding-, 182. 



Salsify Pollen, 211. 



Salt, 'is. 



Sand- skippers and Company, 45. 



Sandstone, Artificial, 6Q. 



Sandstone, the Old Red, 118. 



Sand Wasp, the, 205. 



Scalariform Tissue, 276. 



Scale Insects, 165. 



Scarecrows, 166, 190. 



Scarlet Rose, 119, 141. 



Schafer's Egg Tester, 143. 



Snhizoneura lanigern, 186. 



Science, Anachronisms in, 92. 



Science, a Story of, 44. 



Scientific Terms, French Dictionary of, 



118. 

 Sadopux rusticola, 41 . 

 Sea Anemone, Rare, 234. 

 Sea-birds, a Plea for the, 257. 

 Sea-horses, 186. 

 Sections of Wood, 67. 

 Second Broods, 236. 

 Seeds, Microscopic, 253. 

 Sensation, Irritability and, 25. 

 Sensorial Vision, 145. 

 Shads and Herrings, 160. 

 Shark in Chichester Harbour, 16. 

 Silkworm Disease, 188. 

 Silver Mining in Eastern Nevada, 193. 

 Silver Tree, the, 164. 

 Singular Battle, 113. 

 Skipper, the Small, 160. 

 Slug Parasite, 274. 

 Slugs, Live Trap for, 46. 

 Small Skipper, the, 160. 

 Smell of Oak Egger Moth, 4 1 , 7 1 • 

 Smew, the, 55. 

 Smooth Finger Grass, 224. 

 Snails, 22. 



Snails, Abundance rf, 47. 

 Snails' Tongues, 20. 

 Snail, the Marsh, 17. 

 Snakes, 88, 208. 

 Snakes in London, 2C8. 

 Snow-drops, 66. 

 Soirees, 67, 109, 119- 

 Sow, Ferocity of a, 113. 

 Spawn of Frogs, 69. 

 Sphinx convolvuli, 233, 258, 259. 

 Sphinx ligustri, 208, 215, 236. 

 Spicules of Echinoderms, 1"5. 

 Spider, Alimentary System of the House, 



128, 1<)5. 

 Spider and Wasp, 63. 

 Spider Architecture. 262. 

 Spider Attacks, 4 5, 261. 

 Spider Bites, 281. 

 Spider Doings, 23, 47 

 Spider Nests, 11. 

 Spider Poison, 24, 47, 165, 167, 1S5, isp, 



195, 213, 238, 261. 

 Spiders, 41, 82, 129, 167, 195, 26l. 

 Spiders and Ants, 23. 



rs, Gossamer, r >i, 58, 124, 143. 

 Spider's Maternal Affection, 263, 283. 



Spiders of Ceylon, 161, 185. 



Spiders, to Preserve, 8, 21, 22. 



Spider suspending a Stone, 283. 



Spiders' Webs, 105, 161, 195. 



Spiders' Winter Quarters, 68. 



Spitting of the Puss-moth Caterpillar, 

 257. 



Splits, 169. 



Sponges, 68. 



Spots on Paper, Dendritic, 282. 



Spring, a Second, 238, 262. 



Spring, Early, 94, 95. 



Spring Flowers, Early, 115, 189, 259. 



Spring Fungi, Early, 115. 



Spring Phenomena of Plant Life, 121. 

 j Springtails, 140. 



Stag-beetle, the, 109. 



Starling, the, 208, 261. 



Sereoscope, new panoramic, 142. 



Stickleback disease, 263. 



Sticklebacks and Carp, 215. 

 ! Stings and Poison Glands of Bees, See, 

 148, 205. 



Stinkhom Fungus in Winter, go. 



Storm Glass, 24, g3, 11 7, 143, 167. 



Storms in November, 47, 70. 



Stormy Petrel, the, 6). 



Story of Science, a, 44. 



Stratiotes aloides, 280. 



Striped Hawk-moth, 65, 233. 



Struggle for Life, gi, 141. 



Sundew, the, 117. 



Surrey Blackberries, 270. 



Swallows, late, 17. 



Swallows in November, 282. • 



Swallows, Phthisis among, 18, 46, 65. 



Swarms of Crane-fly, 281. 



Sword-fish gill, 279. 



Tadpole Oi-t, 119, Ml. 



Tails of Lizards, 23. 



Tale of Two Cities, 57. 



Tea Plant, Origin of the, 210. 



Tea Tree, 213, 235, 238, 239. 



Teeth, Fossil, 53. 



Telling the Bees, 282. 



Temperature, 22, 45, 191, 240. 



Tenacity of Life in the Cockroach, 215, 



239. 

 Teneriffe, Dragon Tree of, 42. 

 Tephritis onopordinis, 211. 

 Terror at a Bat, 263. 

 Test-plate, Nobert's, 269. 

 Tetranychus Uticis, 49. 

 Tlinliissidruma pelugica, 64. 

 " There is a God," all Nature cries, 140. 

 Theridion riparium, 11. 

 Thermometer, Fall of, 22, 45. 

 Thermometer, Improved, 22. 

 The Three Rooks, 114. 

 Thrips, 213,237,261. 

 Tide, left by the, 16. 

 Timothy grass, 187. 

 Tipula oleracea, 256. 

 Titmice, Death of, 95. 

 Toad, Hybernation of the, 71, 94. 

 Toads, Venom of the, 114, 137. 

 Tongues of Snails, 20. 

 Traces of the Giants, 55, 96. 

 Treasures, Autumnal, 272. 

 Tree Frog, the Green, 206. 

 Trees, Age of, 202, 231, 259. 

 Trees ! Trees! 214. 

 Trout, remarkable size of the, 64. 

 Tucker, Death of Mr. E., 95. 

 Tui or Parson Bird, 282. 

 Turnip, Saw-fly, 232. 

 Turtle, Ancient, 114. 

 Type slide of Diatoms, 188, 216. 



Vlothrie, ill. 



Umbelliferre, Venation of the, 115, 127. 



Unfaithful Figures, 65. 



Uncinula bicornis, 136, 188. 



Unicorn Hawk-moth, 233, 25S, 259. 

 Unity of Mankind, 634. 

 Upland Frogs, 213. 

 Upupa epops, 160. 

 Useful Knowledge, 5. 

 Uses of Vegetable hairs, 1 1 . 

 Usurper, a, 89. 

 Utricularia, 210. 



Variation in' the Hawthorn, 167. 



Variation in the Parstley Plant, 43. 



Variations in Leavps, 147. 



Varieties of Butterflies, 137. 



Varieties of the Wood Violet, 139. 



Vegetable autographs, 71. 



Vegetable Hairs, mi. 



Vegetable Hairs, uses of, II. 



Venation of Umbellifera?, 115, 127. 



Venomous Bite,26l. 



Venom of Toads, 114, 137. 



Vermin in Gardens, 21, 45. 



Veteran Rennie, the, 47. 



Victoria Docks, Polyzoon from, 255. 



Violets, Yellow, 23, '43, 90. 



Vipers, 165, 180. 



Viper poison fatal, 212. 



Vipers' Lair, 23. 



Vipers' poison, 46, 70, g5, 180, 212. 



Vision, sensorial, 14."). 



Volvox and Water Fleas, 117. 



Volvos globator, 164. 



Vulgar Names, 250. 



Wai.thamstow, Fossils at, 235. 



Was it a Mosquito ? 212, 236. 



Wasp and Spider, 63. 



Wasps, 21, 205, 259. 



Wasps' Nests, 21, 22, 71- 



Wasps' Stings and Poii-on Glands of, 148, 



205. 

 Wasp, the Sand, 205. 

 Water Beetle, 142. 

 Water Boatman, the, 209. 

 Water Boatman, Cry of the, 119, 209. 

 Water Cresses, 70, 95. 

 Water Fleas and Volvox, 1 17. 

 Water Ranunculus, the, 163. 

 Waxwing, the, 181. 

 Weaver Birds, 161. 

 Weevil, the Rose, 141 . 

 West London Field Club, 114, 143. 

 What are Figs ? 284. 

 What is Darwinism ? 241. 

 "What's in a Name?" 94, 119, 13S, 



239. 

 " Wheeler Insect," the, 44. 

 White Cabbage Butterfly, the, 186, 203. 

 Whiting for Foraminifera, &c, 39. 

 Why? 265. 



Why, the Reason, 45. 

 Wilderness, Beauties of the, 90. 

 Wild Pansy, 280. 

 Winter Greens, 162, 190. 

 Winter Quarters of a Spider, 6S. 

 Wood Borer from Ceylon, 213. 

 Woodcock, 41. 



Wooden Taps and Acari, 41, 6g. 

 Wood Sections, 67. 

 Wood-sorrel, the, 52, 280. 

 Wood Violet, Varieties of, 139. 

 Worms, 22. 



Xyluphasia polyodon, 280. 

 Yellow Violets, 23, 43, 90. 

 Yorkshire, Helix pomutia in, 160. 

 Young Cuckoo, 143. 



Zealand, Greenstone ok New, 70, 



g2, 117. 



Zealand, Laurel of New, 21, 46, 70, 05. 

 Zebra Mussel, the, 166, 189, 191. 

 Ziricote, 47. 

 Zoological Society's Gardens, 47. 



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