286 



HARDWICKE' S SCIENCE-GOSSIP. 



Corrigenda, 92 



Cost of Electric Lighting, in 



Cotoneaster vulgaris, 180 



Crab, Ova of the Hermit, 187 



Crabs, Black, 215 



Crocuses Blooming Underground, 1C6, 214 



Crocuses, The Flowering of, 188 



Crow, The, 42 



Crows, About, 17 



Crystallography of Butter and other Fats, 



The, 187 

 Crystals of Meteoric Carbon, 215 

 Cuckoo, 166, 173, 190, 262 

 Cuckoo at Night, 237 

 Cuckoo, Note of the, 23, 95, 215 

 Cuckoo with Fal-e Note, 47 

 Cuckoo's Mate, 259 

 Cuckoo's Notes, 215, 237, 238 

 Curiosities in Drugging, 241 

 Curious instance of the Parental Instinct 



in Young Birds, A, 188 

 Curious Phenomenon on Ice, 46 

 Curious Sudden Disappearance of Spring, 



118 

 Curlew, Stone, 239 

 Cutting Glass Vessels, 88 



Dancing Bears, 20 



Darts of the Helicidae, 286 



Date, Duration, and Conditions of the 



, Glacial Period with Reference to the 



Antiquity of Man, 158 

 Demoralised Cats and Monkeys, 132 

 Descent of Man, 18 

 Destroyer of Taste, 154 

 Development of a Flea's Egg, 260 

 Development of Frog Spawn, 32 

 Development of the Tadpole, Ihe, 22, 44, 



68, 116, 127 

 Diatoms from Bangor, Wales, 65 

 Diatoms Raised from Spores, 233 

 Dictionary of Plant Names, A, 18, 93 

 Diptera, On Collecting, n, 30, 56 

 Directory, Our Scientific, 40, 65, 114, 138, 



161, 199 

 Distribution of the Lepidoptera in the 



British Isles, 141 

 Diver, the Great Northern, 119 

 Dog, Obstinacy in a, 68 

 Dog, Reason in a, 69 

 Domestication of Apes, The, 113 

 Dor-Beetle, Vitality of, 71 

 Dorsetshire, A Landslip in, 118 

 Double-yelked Cuckoo's Egg, 166 

 Dragon-flies, British, 215 

 Drugging, Curiosities in, 241 

 Drying of Plants on a Tour, 24s 

 Dublin, Birds near, 94, 143, 237 

 Dumbledores, 20 



Durham, etc., Natural History Society, 164 

 Dytiscus marginalis in Draper's Snop, ij 



Early Appearance of Pieris Rapie, 141 

 Echinus, The Geological History of the, 



"9 



Economical Production of the Alkaline 



Metals, 88 

 Economical Products of Plants, 7 

 Educational Collection of Insects, 253 _ 

 Eels, Norwegian Superstition concerning, 



21 

 Effects of the late Severe Weather on 



Mice, 47 

 Egg, Development of a Flea's, 260 

 Egg, Double-yelked Cucko/s, 106 

 Egg, Frightful Explosion of an Ostrich, 47 

 Eggs, Explosion of, 47, 91 

 Electric Lighting Difficulty, in 

 Electric Welding, 112 

 Electrical Absurdities, 23 

 Eligible Building Site, An, 189 

 England, Terminal Remains of the Great 



Glaciers of, 262 

 England, The Whitefish in, 130 

 English Lake District, Minerals and 



Flowers of the, 1 

 English Soles in America, 130 

 Enock's Slides, 91, 138, 163,259 

 Entomology and Geology, 17 

 Eozoon Canadense, The Pseudo-dawn of 



Life, 82, 102 

 Episode in Bird Life, 139 

 Equinoctial Gales, The, 131 

 Evolution, Pathology and its Relation to, 



80, 99, 116, 124 



Exchanges, 24, 48, 72, 95, 119, 144, 167, 



192, 216, 240, 263, 283 

 Expansion and Contraction of Buildings, 



58 

 Exploding Gunpowder, 142 

 Explo-ion of Fg^s, 47, 91 

 Extinction of the Primrose, etc., 191, 202 

 Extirpation of the Lepidoptera, 23 

 Extract of Logwood, 41, 66, 91 

 Eyes of the Water Flea, 127 



Falcon, Peregrine, 142 



Fearful Prospect, A, 257 



Feather-eating, 167 



Heathers, Fowls Fating, 143 



Feeding Frogs and Toads, 236 



I ertili-ation of Antirrhitntiu majus, 70 



Fertilisation of Flowers, 70 



Few more Remarks on Fungi, 230 



Fight between a Rat and a Stoat, 227 



Fisheries, Norwegian and Japanese Cod,S7 



Fishes, the Parietal Eye in, 188 



Flea, the Eyes of the Water, 127 



Flea, the Pygidium of the, 129 



Flies, Scarcity of Wasps and Plague of, 



69. 94 

 Flies, the Teeth of, 28, 108, 152, 246 

 Floral Malformation, 214 

 Flowering of Crocuses, The, i33 

 Flowers, Bees and, 20, 45 

 Flowers, Fertilisation of, 70 

 Flowers, the Colours of, 234 

 Flowers, the Origin of, 234 

 Fluorine, 59 



Fly, Nest of Australian, 239 

 Flv, the Hessian, 17, 213, 233 

 Fl e^, the Plague of, 22 

 F'orests, Notes on Australian, 97 

 Fossil Insects, 235 

 Fowls Eating Feathers, 143, 167 

 Foxglove, a Monstrous, 239 

 Frightful Explosion of an Ostrich Egg, 47 

 F rill Lizard, the, 143 

 Frubel Society, The, 239 

 Frog, Common, in State of Domestication, 



247. 274 

 I' rog-Spawn, Development of, 32, 141 

 Frost of 7th July in Belgium, 207 

 Frosts, Thunderstorms and, 45 

 Frozen Milk, 207 

 Fulgurites, 2c8 



Fungi, a Few More Remarks on, 230 

 Fungi, Some Remarks on, 205 

 Fungus, Crop of 1887. .261 



Gageas, the, of Switzerland, 272 



Gales, the Equinoctial, 13I 



Gas Beneath Ice, 95 



Gases, Condensation of, 39 



Gems and Ornamental Stones of the 



United States, 270 

 Geological Association, the, 18 

 Geological Histoiy of the Echinus, 119 

 Geological Society Awards, 76 

 Geologising at F'axe in Denmark, 62 

 Geology, etc., 18, 46, 70, 118, 140, 189, 



215, 235, 262, 282 

 Geology and Entomology, 17 

 Geology and History, 281 

 Geology and Industry, 275 

 Geology, Spenser and, 70 

 Germany, Natural History Notes in, 217 

 Ginger, Sources of, 255 

 Glasgow, Science in, 119 

 Glass to Gases, Impermeability of, 6 

 Guing in for it, 119 

 Go!dsmith, etc., 93 

 Gossamer in Spring, 21 

 Gossip on Current Topics, 5, 38, 57, '86, 



in, 130, 154, 182, 206, 225, 255, 275 

 Granite, 226 

 Granite, Notes on, 193 

 Great Black-backed Gull, 43 

 Great Northern Diver, the, 119 

 Grey Wagtails, 21, 118 

 Gull Language, 261 

 Gull, Great Black-backed, 43 

 Gulls, Lameness of, 236 

 Gunpowder, Exploding, 142 



Hail on the Congo, 207 

 Head of the Queen Bee, 116 

 Health, Petroleum and, 86 

 H elianthus annuus, 190 

 Helices, Variations in, 67 



of, 12 



ical 



Helix honoralis^nA H. Jwttensis, 166 

 Helleborines, the White, 228, 261 

 Heracleum, Seedlings of, 165 

 Hessian Fly, the, 17, 213, 233 

 Hildenbrandtia, Note on, 214 

 Hollyhock, the, 236 



Homoeopathic Treatment of Lunatics, 183 

 Hooker's Student's Flora and the London 



Catalogue, 54, 7S 

 Hornet and Wasp, 19 

 Horse-chestnuts, 166 

 Hours with a Three-inch Telescope, 149 

 How Coal was formed, 190 

 Hyalina DraJ>arnaldi, 139 



Ice, Curious Phenomenon on, 46, 95 

 Illustrations in Marine Zoology, 234 

 Impermeability of Glass to Gises, 6 

 Influence of Fossil Trees on Climate, 208 

 Insects, Chapters on Fossil, 49 

 Insects, Educational Collection of, 253 

 Insects, Fossil, 23s 

 Instinct of Spider, 22 

 Instrument, an Unimprovable, 183 

 Irregular Appearance of the Bee Orchis, 



140 

 Irregular Appearance of Tolypella intri- 

 cate!., 44 

 Ivy, the, 236 



Ivy, the Absorption of Water from Walls 

 by, 257 



Jack-Hangman, 141 



Japan, the Magic Mirror 



Jean Louis Thomas, 235 



Journal of Microscopy, 259 



Journal of the Royal Microscop 



Society, 138 

 Jubilee Boulder, A, 239 

 Jubilee Cookery, 154 



Kestrel, Singular Capture of a, 166 

 Kinni-Kinnic and Indian Pipes, 252 

 Koch's Comma Bacilli, 126 



Land Surveyors Superseded, 112 



Landslip in Dorsetshire, 118 



Lapidary Work, 237 



Larvse Breeding, Reminiscences of, 169 



Late Appearance of the Cuckoo and 



Swallow, 166 

 Late Flowers, 281 

 Leaf, A Red, 223 

 Leeches, Sense of Smell in, 183 

 Legs of Thrush, 143 

 Lengthy Fast of a Cat, 236 

 Lepidoptera, Notes on the Protective 



Colouring and Habits of, 150 

 Lepidoptera, The Extirpation of, 23 

 Lepidiitm latijolium and L. draba, 165 

 Lichens, The Synthesis of, 18 

 Life, Episode in Bird, 139 

 Light, Measuring Distances by Electric, 



156 

 Limax agrestis, var. alba, 16 

 Lime-trees, Bees and, 237 

 Limax glittinosus, 260 

 Little Bustard in West Sussex, 43 

 Li\ing Fish Line, A, 184 

 Lizard, Australian Fringed, 23 

 Lizard, The Frill) 143 

 Lizard, The Parietal Eye of the, 67 

 Lizards, The Reproduction of the lost Tails 



of, 92 

 Logwood, Extract of, 41, 66, 91 

 London Fogs in Paris, 59 

 London, White Sparrows in, 23 

 Long Surviving Fallacy, A, 206 

 Lucerne, Shells at, 92 

 Lunar Rainbow, 23 

 Lunatics, Homoeopathic Treatment of, 183 



Machine, A Simple, 87 

 Magic Mirror of Japan, The, 12 

 Magnetic Oil Filter, 226 

 Magnetised Watches, 130 

 Magnifying Powers, 91, 163 

 Male Wasps, 46, 94 

 Malstrom, 113 



Mammals, American Jurass'c, 140 

 Man, The Descent of, 18 

 Mango, The, 118 

 Mars, the Canals of, 46 

 Martyrs to Liberty, 256 

 Measurement of Time, 190 



