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HARDWICKE'S SCIENCE-GOSSIP. 



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INDEX TO VOL. VI. 



Abilitv of Aquatic Insects to Sus- 

 tain severe Cold, 41. 



Abnormal Plantain, 37- 



About the Elm-tree, 77- 



A brief Gossip about Bees, 26g. 



Abstinence of Insects, 64. 



Accidental Variations of Seed-leaves, 145, 

 226. 



Aceraa anthropophora, 189, 211. 



Achatina ncicula, 278. 



Ar)i //la prolifera, 23. 



Adaptation of Microscope, 20. 



Adiantum capillus-Veneris, 67. 



Adiantum reniforme, 71. 



Admiral or Admirable, 21, 70. 



/Eschynanthus in Fruit, 93. 



Affection in Birds, 60. 



Affection of Insects for their Young, 64. 



Agarics, British, 139. 



Age of the Salmon, 233. 



A Ghost Story, 94. 



Agrophila sulphurttlis, 1S4. 



Albatross, 2U9. 



Alchemy superseded, 235. 



Algeria, Locusts in, 259. 



Alpine Bees, 257. 



"American Entomologist," 90. 



" American Naturalist," 79. 



Amherstia, 188, 215. 



Amplification, Microscopic, 1S7, 230. 



Anas crecca, 35, 66. 



Andromeda polifolia in Ireland, 186. 



" Animal World, the," 22. 



Animated Oats, 190, 211, 212, 237. 



Anomalies of Speech, 165. 



Anotnodon attenuatus, S3. 



Anser gambensis, 51. 



Anther Smut, 160. 



Antipathies, Floral, 70. 



Antique, Studies from the, 14, 45, J\. 



Ant-lion, the, 87. 



Ants, 241. 



Ants, Death to, 263. 



Ants, White, 185, 263. 



Aphides, Killing, 141. 



Aphides, Winged, 249. 



Apium graveolens, poisonous, 139. 



Aplysia, New Species of, 113. 



Aplysia punctata, 185. 



Apterous Insects, 49, 105, 126, 164. 



Aquarium Difficulty, 142, 165, 191, 215, 

 216. 



Aquarium, Marine, 121, 179. 



Aquarium Query, 261. 



Aquarium, the Brighton, 40. 



Aquarium Worms, 238. 



A Rat's Ride, 90. 



Arbutus Unedo, 166, 276. 



Ardea stellar is, 95, 137. 



Arges Cyclopum, 25. 



Argynis Lathonia, 233, 258. 



Armadillo vulgaris, 41. 



Artificial Swarming, 188. 



Arum maculatum, 73. 



Arum maculatum and Rooks, 166. 



Arundo pliragmites, 19, 94. 



Asperula odorata, 47. 



Asplenium Ruta-muraria, 215. 



Assiminea Grayana, 259. 



Asterias, 150. 



A Suggestion, 71. 



At Table, 191. 



Attractive Plant, 20 9. 



Attractive Power of Female Moths, 153, 

 174, 213. 



Aviary, Birds for an, 113, 159. 



Badgers, 95. 



Badger and Otter, 54. 



Ballota nigra, 47. 



Bark of the Elm, 71. 



Barley, a Field of, grown from Oats, 164. 



Bartsia Odontites, 210. 



Bearded Titmouse, the, 65. 



Bee Book, 118. 



Bee Orchis, 239. 



Bee, Parasites of the Honey, 1, 42. 



Bee Progeny, 278. 



Bees, a brief gossip about, 269. 



Bees aloft, 70. 



Bees, Artificial Swarming of, 188. 



Bees as Botanists, 47, 18S, 212, 213, 215, 



232, 236, 237. 

 Bees Boring, 65, 117, 142, 165, 190. 

 Bees, Deserting, 21, 42. 

 Bees devoured by Birds and Toads, 11 7, 



141, 142, 161, 164, 166. 

 Bees, Italian, Alp, or Ligurian, 257. 

 Bees, Ligurian, 21, 24, 34. 

 Bees, Queries about, 119, 141, 142, 167, 



188, 212, 213, 215. 

 Bees, Sagacity in, 65, 11 7. 

 Bees, Strange, 141, 143, 161. 

 Beet, the Sea, 100. 

 Beetles, Light-giving, 112. 

 Beetles, Mummied, 113. 

 Beetles, Scavenger, 143. 

 Beetles, Swarm of, 233, 263. 

 Bellis perennis, 67. 

 Berberry, the, 190. 

 Beta maritima, 100. 

 Bibliography of Saprolegniaceoe, 67. 

 Bird Notes, 184. 

 Bird Parasites, Eggs of, 132. 

 Birds, Affection in, 65. 

 Birds, Book of, 54. 



Birds, British, 13, 35, 5S, 108, 157, 179. 

 Birds, Death of Native, in New Zealand, 



S6. 

 Birds for an Aviary, 113, 159. 

 " Birds of Norfolk," 276. 

 Birds of Paradise, 246. 

 Bittern in Norfolk, 95, 137. 

 Blackheart, 262, 282. 

 Black Horehound, 47. 

 Black v. Ligurian Bees, 34. 

 Bleak, Scales of the, 187. 

 Blindness, Natural, 182. 

 Bog-plants, Isle of Wight, 210, 234. 

 Bone-setter, Nature as a, 2/8. 

 Book of Birds, 84. 

 Book of Nature and the Book of Man, 



102. 

 Books, New, 101. 



Borago, 165, 189, 212, 213, 214, 239. 

 Botanical Analysis, 186. 

 Botanical Synonymy, 95. 

 Botany, Journal of, 44. 

 Branches, Three-leaved, 250. 

 Branches, United, 254, 283. 

 Bred Specimens of Insects in Collections, 



251. 

 Brighton Aquarium, 40. 

 Bristol, St. Mary Redcliff, 23. 

 British Agarics, 139. 

 British Birds, 13, 35, 58, 108, 157, 179. 

 British Fishes, Couch's, 137. 

 British Fungi, 77. 

 British Fungi, Handbook of, 21 1. 

 British Insects, List of, 137. 

 British Shells, New, 130, 138, 161, 277. 

 British Sponges, Common, 172. 

 Brown-tail Moth, the, 263. 



Buckland's Geology, 22. 

 Buff-tip Moth, the, 236. 

 Bugs, Water, 188. 

 Burgeoning, 45, 69, 72. 

 Butterbur, the fragrant, 67. 

 Butterflies at Sap, 22. 

 Butterflies, Eggs of, 251, 283. 

 Butterfly, who'd be a, 143. 

 Buxbaum's Speedwell, 43, 91, 186. 



Calabar Bean, Starch op, 68. 



California, Climate products of, 260, 2S1. 



Camberwell Beauty, 209. 



Campanula rotundifolia, 44. 



Cannibal, a, 119- 



Capture of an Otter, 1 14. 



Carp, Scales of the, 235, 279. 



Carrier Pigeon, 184. 



Caterpillar Nurture, 149. 



Caterpillar of Emperor Moth, 239. 



Caterpillars at Work, 47, 70. 



Cat, Ferocity of the Wild, 63. 



Cats, 17, 23. 



Cats and Figs, 16. 



Catusferus, 63. 



Cause or Effect ? 46, 71. 



Cells, Vulcanite, 20. 



Centenine Eggs, 114. 



Centra vinula, 105, 124. 



Chalk Foraminifera, 81, 106, 155. 



Chalk Foraminifera, to clean, 167, 214. 



Charadrius pluvialis, 58, 95, 114, 188. 



Cheap Foreign Objectives, 20. 



Chelifers, 114. 



Chenopodium Bonus Hemicus, 189, 214, 



234, 238. 

 Chestnut-trees, Spiral Twist in, 237. 

 Chinese method of catching Eels, 213. 

 Chinese Mummy, 123. 

 Chinese Silkworm, Wild, 134. 

 Cholera Flies, 249. 

 Christmas Primroses, 45. 

 Chrysopa perla, 231, 237, 239. 

 Chub, Scales of, 92. 

 Cicadas, 41. 



Cleaning Shells, 190, 214. 

 Clifton College Museum, 237. 

 Climate products of California, 260, 281. 

 Cold, Insects able to sustain severe, 41. 

 Cole Titmouse, the, 42. 

 Colour in Eggs, 238. 

 Colour in Frogs, 233. 

 Colours of Flowers, 45. 

 Colour of Insects affected by Hibernation, 



76. 

 Colours of Insects dependent on their 



Food, 247. 

 Colymbus arcticus, 83. 

 Common British Sponges, 172. 

 Composite, Cross Fertilization of, 30. 

 Conferva; in Aquaria, 142, 165, 191, 215. 

 Conifers, Stigmas (?) of, 142. 

 Cornwall, Flora of, 47, 50. 

 Corrected Quotation, 2S3. 

 Cowper and the Nightingale, 142, 175, 



209. 

 Cowslips, 141, 164, 166, 190. 

 Cranesbills, 22. 

 Cricket, the Mole, 41. 

 Critlimum maritimum, 263. 

 Cross Fertilization of Compositae, 30. 

 Croydon Microscopical Club, 116. 

 Crustaceans, Pigmy, 26. 

 Crustacea, to Preserve, 21. 

 Crystals for Polariscope, 92. 



