286 



HA RD WICKK S S CIENCE- G OS SIP. 



Diatoms, Mourne, 16, 42 



Diatoms, On the Structure of some occur- 

 ring in the Cementstein, 122 



Direct Reproduction of Tape Worms, 158 



Discovery of Remains of Great Elk at 

 Monmouth, 70 



Discrimination of Different Species of 

 Wood, 9, 39 



Disease, Bacteria and, 257 



Disease of Puss Larvae, 119, 143, 190, 238, 

 280 



Distorted Specimen of Helix hemoralit, 

 Notes on a Curiously, 269 



Distribution of Acme lineata, 185 



Dog's Mercury, Autumn, 47 



Dormouse, 22, 46 



Dormouse, Climbing Powers of, 93, 117, 

 167 



Double Oranges, 95 



Douglas, David, 91 



Drawing Microscopic Objects, 193 



Dredging in Menai Straits, 93, 131 



Dredging off Sidmouth, 164 



Dr. Hermann Mueller, 235 



Drift-beds of North- West of England, 19 



Drying Flowers to Retain the Colours, 235 



Drying Plants, 118, 191 



Duckweed, Flowering of, 139, 161 



Dugong, 89 



Dulwich College Scientific Society, 113 



Dynamite, 190 



Eagles and their Young, 71 



Early Emergence of Insects, 280 



Early Flowers, 44, 68 



Early Flowers of Lamium galeobdolon, 95 



Earthquake in Ischia, 213, 261 



Earthquake Shock, A Recent, 93 



Eccentricities in Nest-building, 190 



Economic Entomology, American, 113 



Eels in Vinegar, 64, 94, 95 



Eggs of Insects, Growth in, 225 



Eggs, Starlings, White, 189, 190 



Eggs, Varieties of Birds and, 262 



Egyptian Gerbille, 117, 188 



Electric Light applied to the Microscope, 



171 



Elk, Large, Discovery of Remains of, at 



Monmouth, 71 

 Embryogeny of Bryozoa, 18 

 Emergence of Insects, Early, 280 

 England and Wales, Pre-Cambrian Rocks 



of, 57, 81, 118, 131 

 England, Drift-beds of the North-West of, 



Entomologising on the Transkei, 281 



Entomology, Economic American, 113 



Epeira umbratica, Male of, 143 



Epping Forest, 91, 141 



Erratic Blocks, 261 



Essex and Chelmsford Museum, 27S 



Estuaries of the Severn, 162 



Etymology of Sphagnum, 269 



Evolution of Species, Another factor in, 

 140 



Evolution, New Application of the Doc- 

 trine of, 233 



Evolution, Principal Dawson and, 278 



Exchange Club, Suggestions for, 209 



Exhibition, International Fisheries, 134 



Extracting Minute Snails, 22, 43, 112 



Extraordinary Abundance of Tzpulaolera- 

 cea, 257 



Eye in Cyclops, 143 



Eye-pieces, Standard Sizes for, 17 



Fasciated stems, 186, 235 



Fasciated stems, Notes on, 196 



Feathers, Colours of Birds', 211 



Fertilisation of Asclepias, 212 



Fertilisation of Oyster Spat, Artificial, 277 



Fertilisation of Willows, 161, 234 



Fish, Gold, in Spirit, 95, 117 



Fisheries Exhibition, 134 



Flora of Ben Lavigh, 152 



Flora of Wrotham, 235 



Florideae, Protoplasmic Continuity in the, 



278 

 Flowered Plants, White, 45 

 Flowering, Early, of Lamium galeobdolon, 



95 

 Flowering of Duckweeds, 139, 161 



Flowering, Second, of Cornel, 139 



Flowers, Double, Cause of, 234 



Flowers, Drying to Retain Colours of, 235 



Flowers, Early, 44, 68 



Flowers of Pollard Willows, i6r 



Flowers, Old Fashioned, 139 



Flowers, White Varieties of, 117 



Flowers with Double Colours, 161 



Fluid Cavities in Meteorites, 41, 78, in 



Foliage, Unseasonable, 279 



Folk-lore, Colliers', 64 



Footprints, Carson, 162 



Forest, Danish, 14, 29, 36, 104, 169 



Forests, Submerged, on Suffolk Coast, 8 



Forms of Heliopelta, 16 



Fossil Birds, Chapter on British, 222, 241 



Fossil Botany, Recreations in, 59, 100, 155 



Fossil Cryptogamia, 236 



Fossil Men of Nevada, 140 



Fossil Oolitic Madreporaria, 69 



Fossil Oysters, &c, at Peckham, 93 



Fossil Sponges from the Inferior Oolite, 114 



Fossil " Walking-Stick " Insects, 45 



Fossil Worms, 45 



French Books on Natural History, 70 



Freshwater Medusae, 138 



Freshwater Mites, British, 10, 36, 80, 180 



Freshwater Shells occurring near London, 

 9, in 



Freshwater Shells occurring near Brent- 

 ford, 262 



Frogs in Ireland, 90 



Frog, Wood, and Tree-Toad, 204 



Fruits of all Countries, 213 



Fungi, Gossip about, 227, 252, 279 



Fungus in Oranges, 69 



Fungus, Parasitic, 21 



Fungus, Query as to, 116, 130 



Fungus Spores, Germination of, under the 

 Microscope, 137 



Further notes on Orchis mascnlci, ■zifi 



Gannet, a Young, 21 



" Gardeners' Chronicle," 44 



Garden Pest, Another, 173 



Gelatinous Silica, 140 



Generation, Spontaneous, 70, 94, 118 



Geological Society, Liverpool, 92, 172 



Geologists' Association, 44, 70, 280 



Geology, 19, 44, 69, 91, 114, 14a, 162, 213, 



233, 261, 280 

 Geology of Palestine, 115 

 Geology, Ireland and its, 280 

 Gerbille, Egyptian, 117, 188 

 Germination of Fungus Spores, 137 

 Giant Potato, 93 



Glacial Action in South Brecknockshire, 20 

 Glacial Period in America, 233 

 Glamorganshire, Glacial Action in, 20 

 Glasses, Microscopical, 243 

 Gnat, How to prepare head of, 276 

 Gnats, Notes on, 141 

 Goat-suckers, Habits of, 190 

 Golden Plover, 138 

 Gold Fish, 95, 263, 282 

 Gold in Limestone, 280 

 Good News for Ostriculturists, 234 

 Goose, Canada, 42 

 Gossip about Fungi, 127, 232, 279 

 Great Gray Shrike, 17 

 Great Ice Age, 162 

 Grebe, Slavonian, 143 

 Greenfinch, 190 



Greenland, Nordenskiold's Voyage to, 261 

 Greenland, Interior of, 115 

 Greenwich Microscopical Society, 42 

 Growth in the Eggs of Insects, 225 

 Guide to Llandudno, 233 

 Guillemot, 17, 116 



Habits of Goat-suckers, 190 



Hackney Microscopical Society, 259 



Half-Holiday Handbooks, 211 



Handbooks, Half-Holiday, 211 



" Hardy Perennials," 260 



Harecourt Literary and Scientific Society, 



in 

 Hare, Names of, 256 

 Harleston Literary Society, 138 

 Has Helix aspersa been found fossil in 



Britain ? 115 

 Hastings, Natural History of, 233 

 Head of Gnat, How to prepare, 276 

 Hedgehogs, 262 

 Heliopelta, 16, 41 

 Helix aspersa, 163, 237 

 Helix nemoralis, 258 



Helix nemoralis, Notes on a curiously 



distorted specimen of, 269 

 Helix nemoralis, Variety of, 282 

 Helix obvoluta, 67, 89 

 Helix pcrsonata in Ireland, 159 

 Helix pomatia in Bucks, 210, 238 

 Hemel Hempstead Natural History 



Society, 90, 278 

 Herb Beverages, 80 

 Hertfordshire Natural History Society, 



113, 278 

 Hibernation among North American 



Swallows, 1, 25, 49 

 Hibernating, Swallows, 159 

 Highbury Microscopical Society, 89 

 Highlands, Northern, Age of the Newer 



Gneissic Rocks of the, 162 

 History of the Sparrow, A new, 203, 217 

 Holidays, Seaside, 206 

 Holiday Rambles, 145 

 Home of the Potato, 114 

 Horned Aphis, 244 

 How Anemones Eject their Food, 23 

 How to Construct a Microscope, 173 

 How to prepare Head of Gnat, 276 

 " How to use our Eyes, and how to pre- 

 serve them," 278 

 Humming-birds, Mimicry by Moths, 139 

 Hyacinth, Ovid's, 142 

 Hygrometricism, 184 



Inachus Kcmpferi, 266 



Infusoria as " Messmates," 277 



Inquiry into the Alleged Habit of Hiber- 

 nation among North American Swallows, 

 1. 25, 49 



Insect Life on the Mountains, 139 



Insect Organs, Mounting, 184, 208, 232 



Insects, Early Emergence of, 280 



Insects, Fossil "Walking-stick," 43 



Insects, Growth in the Eggs of, 225 



Insects, Preserving, 22 



Insects, Rare, near London, 191 



Insects, Vitality in Gases, 43 



Insects, Water, 280 



Instinct, Maternal, 65 



Interior of Greenland, 115 



Inverness-shire, Metamorphic Rocks of, 92 



Ireland, Frogs in, 90 



Ireland, Helix personata in, 159 



Ireland and its Geology, 280 



Iris, Late-flowered, 21 



Ischia, Earthquake in, 213, 261 



Isle of Man, Natural History Society, 138 



Isle of Wight, Botanising among the Sand- 

 hills, 100 



Ixodes, Study of, 113 



Jottings, Natural History, 105, 150 

 Journal of the Postal Microscopical Society, 



41, 89, 256 

 Journal of the Royal Microscopical Society, 



41, 89, in, 232, 256 



Labelling of Microscopic Objects, 

 219, 276 



Lady Brassey's Cloak, 283 



Lakes, September at the English, 198 



Lambeth Field Club, 239, 278 



Lamium galeobdolon, 95 



Lancashire Botanists, 259 



Land and Freshwater Shells, 238 



Land and Freshwater Shells, nr. London, 9 



Land and Freshwater Shells near Middles- 

 borough, 185 



Land and Freshwater Mollusca, near 

 London, in 



Land Shells, 163 



Land Shells, Admission to the British List, 

 112, 146, 179 



Land Shells near Croydon, 212 



Land Shells near Winchester, 194 



Land's End, A day's Moss-hunting at'the, 

 270 



Lapwing, Pied, 267 



Large Viper, 46 



Larvae, Disease of, 119, 143 



Larva? of Lepidoptera, Preserving, 22, 35 



Larvae of Puss Moth, 119 



Late-flowered Iris, 21 



Late Transit of Venus, 24 



Leafing of Ashes and Oaks, 282 



Leontodon taraxacum, 139, 161, 1S6 



Lepidoptera, Preserving Larvae of, 22, 35 



Lepidoptera, Sending by Post, 143 



