288 



HARDWICKE'S SCIENCE-GOSSIP. 



Query as to Fungus, 116, 130 

 Query as to Plants, 238, 262, 263 



Ramble over the Surrey Downs, A 



Midsunnrer, 282 

 Rambles, Holiday, 145 

 Ranunculus Jicaria, 187, 189, 238 

 Ranunculus Jicaria, yEcidium of, 160 

 Ranunculus ficaria. Notes on, 130 

 Rare Birds, 191, 236 

 Rare Insects near London, 191 

 Recent Earthquake Shock, 93 ■ 

 Recreations in Fossil Botany, 59, too, 15s 

 Red-throated Diver in Cambridgeshire, 18 

 Reef, An Ancient Atoll, 263 

 Remarkable Pebbles in Boulder Clay, 236 

 Reproduction of Tape Worms, Direct, 158 

 Revolving Table, Another, 232 

 Revolving Table, Substitute for, 208, 232 

 Rhinoceroses, Origin of, 261 

 Rochester Naturalists' Club, 239 

 Rocks, Archean, Controversy on the, 134 

 Rocks, Metamorphic, of Ross, 92 

 Rocks, Pre-Cambrian of England and 



Wales, 57, 81, 118, 131 

 Rooks, 95 



Rooks and Starlings, 23 

 Rook's Nest, Curious Site for, 143 

 Rose, 140 



Ross, Metamorphic Rocks of, 92 

 Royal Feather Cloak, 237 



Sandhills, Isle of Wight, Botar.Uing 

 among the, no 



Scarcity of Acorns, 22 



Schizomycetes, Notes on, 83, 123 



Science Classes, Notes for, 27, 148 



Scientific Institute, 67 



Scientific Instruments, 280 



Scotland, Carboniferous Corals of, 27; 



" Scottish Naturalist," 212, 259 



Sea Anemones, 47, 165, 262 



Sea-birds near Cambridge, 46, 94, 117 



Sea Crab, A Monster (Inachus Kcmpjcri), 

 266 



Sea-side Holidays, 206 



Seasonal Appearance of Animals and 

 Plants, 20 



Season, Mildness of, 46 



Second Flowering of Cornel, 139 



Section Cuttings, Bedding Material for, 

 184 



Sending Lepidoptera by Post, 143, 164 



September at the English Lakes, 198 



Setting Board for Lepidoptera, 277 



Severn and its Tributaries, 162 



Shell Collectors, Take Notice, 116 



Shells, Land, 163 



Shells, Land and Freshwater nr. London, 9 



Shells, Land and Freshwater near Middles- 

 brough, 185 



Shells, Land, near Winchester, 94 



Shrike, Great Grey, 17 



Sidmouth Coast, 190 



Sidmouth, Dredging off, 164 



Sidmouth for Shore Collecting, 143 



Signs of Spring, 139 



Silica, Gelatinous, 140 



Silicified Plant, 239 



Simla, Natural History Notes from, 38 



Site for a Rook's Nest, Curious, 143 



" Sketch of Geology of Norfolk,'' 214 



Sketches of Eminent Naturalists, 82 



Skua Gull, 18 



Skulls, Colouring, 21 



Slavonian Grebe, 143 



Sloth, Three-toed, 52 



Slow-worm, 141, 151, 165 



Slug, Strange, &c, 163 



Slugs, Common Garden, Notes on, 224 



Slugs, Variety of British, 257 



Snails, Breeding, 263 



Snails, Extracting Minute, 22, 43, 112 



Snails, Water, 18, 71 



Snakes, a Poisonous Lizard and New, 45 



Snakes, Slow-worms and, 166 



Snow-line, Plants and the, 19 



Societies : — Proceedings, &c. 



Belgian Microscopical Society, 210 

 Birmingham Natural History Society, 



233 

 Chester Society of Natural Science, 259 

 Conference of Delegates of Scientific 



Societies, 259 

 Dulwich College Scientific Society, 113 

 Geologists' Association, 280 

 Greenwich Microscopical Society, 42 

 Hackney Microscopical and Natural 



History Society, 259 

 Harecourt Literary and Scientific So- 

 ciety, in 

 Harleston Literary Society, 138 

 Hemel Hempstead Natural History So- 

 ciety, 90, 278 

 Hertfordshire Natural History Society, 



113, 278 

 Highbury Microscopical and Scientific 



Society, 89 

 Isle of Man Natural History Society, 138 

 Lambeth Field Club, 278 

 Liverpool Geological Society, 92, 162 

 Manchester Microscopical Society, 66 

 Natural History Societies, 183 

 Ottawa Microscopical Societies, 138 

 Postal Microscopical Society, 41, _89, 



184, 256 

 Practical Natural History, 262 

 Provincial Societies, 43, 185, 211 

 Quekett Microscopical Club, 276 

 Royal Microscopical Society, 89, in, 



184, 232, 256 

 Stafford Scientific Institute, 67 

 Southport, British Association at, 211 

 Sparrow, A New History of, 203, 217 

 Spat, Artificial Fertilisation of Oyster, 277 

 Species, Evolution of, 140 

 S|.ecies of Chrysomela, 164, 172, 281 

 Specimen of Helix netnoralis, Notes on a 



Curiously Distorted, 269 

 Specimens, Embryological for Microscope, 



o I37 



Sphagnum, Etymology of, 79 



Sphinx Pinastri, 17 



Spiders, 67, 139 



Spiders, Chapter on, 79 



Spiders, Observations on, 2, 46 



Sponges, Fossil, from the Interior Oolite, 



Spontaneous Generation, 70, 94, 118 

 Spores, Germination of Fungus under the 



Microscope, 137 

 Sporting Blackbirds, 88 

 Springs, Signs of, 139 

 Standard Sizes for fcye-pieces, 17 

 Starling's Eggs White, 165, 189, 190, 239 

 Starlings, Rooks and, 23 

 " Star of Bethlehem," 118, 142, 188 

 Stoat, Name for in the North of England, 



'43. 165 

 Stoat, Local Name of, 117, i6s 

 Stork, Black, 68 

 Stork, Black, in Ireland, 17 

 Strange Food of Slug, 163 

 Strange Little Dog, 263 

 Strange Situation for a Yew-Tree, 238 

 Structure of Diatoms, 122 

 Studies in Microscopical Science, 17, 41, 



67, in, 138, 184, 209, 256, 276 

 Study of the Ixodes, 113 

 Study of the Variations of Vanessa Vr- 



ticce, 107 

 Submerged Forests off the Suffolk Coasts, 8 

 Substitute for a Revolving Table, 208 

 Suffolk Coasts, Portuguese Men-of-War 



off the, 43 

 Suffolk Local Names, 103 

 Suffolk, Submerged Forests on the Coast, 8 

 Suggestions for an Exchange Club, 209 

 Sun, Its Waste of Heat, etc., 254 

 Sundews, 182, 238, 282 

 Sundews, Proliferous, 44 

 Supposed Pre-Cambrian Rocks of St. 



David's, 114 

 Surrey Downs, A Midsummer Ramble 



over the, 220, 282 



Swallows, Alleged Habit of Hibernation 



of, 1, 25, 49, 49, 164 

 Swallows, Appearance of, 140, 163 

 Swallows, Arrival of, 118 

 Swans, Curious Instance of Protective 



Sagacity in, 215 



Tape Worms, Direct Reproduction of, 15S 



Taraxacum officinale, 212 



Telescope, Use of the, 118 



Tenacity of Life, 190 



Tenby, Conchological Ramble at, 174 



Testacella, 256 



Testacellidae, British, 557 



Three-toed Sloth, 52 



Tides, 93 



Tipnla oleracea, Extraordinary abundance 



of, 257 

 Toad Tree and Wood Frog, 204 

 Transit of Venus, 22, 94 

 Transkei, Ent >mologising on the, 2S1 

 Trifolium stellatuni, 18 

 Trilobites, Locomotive Organs of, 280 

 I rout in New Zealand, 90 

 Two Birds from one Egg, 236 

 Tyrone, Seasonal Appearance of Animals 



and Plants in, 30 



Unseasonable Foliage, 279 



I 'rcmyces pocr, 235 



Use ol the Telescope, 118 



Vandalism, 138, 231 



Vanessa Atalanta, Markings on, 189 



Vanessa Callirhoe, 158 



Vanessa Urtica-, Variations of, 107 

 Variations of Vanessa Urticce, 107 

 Variety of Helix netnoralis, 282 

 Varieties of Birds and Eggs, 262 

 Varieties of British Slugs, 237 

 Varieties, New, of Neritina Jluviatilis 



185 

 Venus, Late Transit of, 22, 94 



Vespa Norvegica, 116 



Vinegar, Eels in, 64, 94, 95 



Vinula, 142 



Viper, Large, 46 



Vitality of Insects in Gases, 43 



Wales, North, A Day's Mountain Ram- 

 bling in, 97, 126 



Wales, North, Drift-beds of, 19 



Wales, North, Natural History of, 142, 164 



'" Walking-Stick " Insects, Fossil, 45 



Water Insects, 280 



Wasps, 37 



Wasps and Flies, 23 



Water-hen's Nest, Peculiar site for, 187, 215 



Water-snails,* 1 8, 71 



Weather of 1882, 90 



Webster, Mr. Reuben, 162 



Western Microscopical Club, no 



Whitaker's Readings of Red-Chalk, Mr., 44 



White Crane's Bills, 188, »38 



White Egg of Starling, 190, 839 



White Flowered Plants, 45 



White Varieties of Flowers, 117 



Wight, Isle of, Botanbing among the 

 Sandhills of the, no 



Willows, Fertilisation, 161, 234 



Willows, Flowers of Pollard, i6r 



Winchester, Land Shells near, 64 



Winter, Pond Life in, 94, 158 



Winter, Prognostications of, 16 



Winter, Prospect of a Sharp, 93 



Wood-frog and Tree-toad, 204 



Wood, On the Discrimination of different 

 species of, 9, 39 



Wood pigeons and owl, 140, 191 



Worms, Fossil, 45 



Wrotham, Flora of, 235 



Yew-tree, Strange site of, 238 



Young Gannet, 21 



Yorkshire, List of Lepidoptera of, 238 



Zoology, 17, 43, 67, 89, in, 138, 158, 

 185, 210, 233, 256, 277 



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