HARDWICKE'S SCIENCE-GOSSIP. 



287 



Measuring Distance by Electric Light, 156 



Me'als, Economical Production of Alka- 

 line, 88 



Meteorite at Little Lever, The, 70 



Meteorite in Coal, 58 



Meteorological Instinct, 227 



Meteorology, 88 



Meteorology, Astronomy and, 33, 63, SS, 

 114, 136, 160, 178, 202, 231, 257 



Mexico, Scorpions in, 187, 234, 237 



Mexico, The Scorpions of, 126 



Mice, Effects of the late Severe Weather 

 on, 47 



Mice, Sociability of, 118 



Micro-Photography, 233 



Microscope, Wasp Paper under the, 116, 



2I S 

 Microscopic Queries, 90 

 Microscopical Observers, Astigmatism in, 



15 



Microscopical Science, Cole's Studies in, 



15 

 Microscopical Society, Journal of the 



Royal, 138 

 Microscopy, 15, 41, 65, 90, 116, 138, 163, 



187, 213, 233, 259, 280 

 Microscopy in Calcutta, 229 

 Microscopy, Journal of, 259 

 Middlesex Slugs, 187 

 Migration of Birds, 42, 141, 164 

 Milk, Erozen, 207 

 Stimulus luteus, 45, 95 

 Minerals and F lowers of the English Lake 



District, The, 1 

 Mirrors, The Two, 25, 52, 75 

 Mole's Eyes, 20 



Mollusca at Limpsfield, Surrey, 139 

 Mollusca at Breconshire, 67 

 Mollusca in the Ealing District, 43 

 Mollusca, Size of, 142 

 Mollusca, Trie Variation and Abnormal 



Development of the, 177 

 Monkeys, Affection of, 93 

 M onkeys and their Tails, 142 

 Monkeys, Demoralised Cats and, 132 

 Monkey's Memory, A, 139 

 Monstrous Eoxglove, A, 239 

 Moss-Flora, The British, 215 

 Moss, Query as to, 22 

 Mounting in Castor Oil, 116, 138 

 Mummies, American, 238 

 Munchausen Science, 184, 203, 213, 226, 



235, 2 37 

 Murex erinaceus, M. elcmgatus, 139 

 My Ants, 181 

 My Drawing-room Pets, 27, 121 



Natural History Jottings, 209, 219 



Natural History Notes in Germany, 217 



Natural History Rambles, 31 



Nest of Australian Ely, 239 



New British Alga, A, 165 



New Explosives, 255 



New Fertiliser, A, 227 



New Reader of Science-Gossip, 22 



New Slides, 15, 42, 116 



New Uses for Solid Carbonic Acid, 38 



New Variety of Rotifer, 67 



Norwegian and Japanese Cod Fisheries, 87 



Norwegian Superstition concerning Eels,2i 



Nose Triumphant, The, 155 



Note, Cuckoo with False, 47 



Note of the Cuckoo, 23, 95, 215 



Note on Hildenbiandtia, 214 



Notes and Queries, 19, 46, 70, 93, 11S, 



141, 166, 190, 215, 236, 262, 283 

 Notes on Australian Forests, 97 

 Notes on Chcetopterus Valencinii, 200 

 Notes on Gonopteryx rhatuni, 73 

 Notes on Granite, 193 

 Notes on New Books, 106, 24) 

 Notes on the Common Frog, in a State of 



Domestication, 247, 274 

 Notes on the Flora of the North Downs, 



211 

 Notes on the Protective Colouring and 



Habits of Lepidoptera, 156 

 Notes on the Kotifera, 185, 267 

 Notes on 1887.. 280 

 Notices to Correspondents, 24, 47, 71, 95, 



"9, M3» l6 7> I 9 I . "6, 239, 263, 283 



Oak, Timber, 141 



Occurrence of Limax cinerco-niger in 

 Sussex, 43 



Odd Page in Nature's Book, An, 197 



On Some Types of Storm-Clouds, 204, 

 221 



On the Formation of an Imectorium, or 

 Insect Vivarium, for the Exhibition and 

 Study of Living Tropical Insects, 109, 

 122 



Ophrys arachnites, 261 



Orchids, Seasonal Variations in the Oc- 

 currence of, 18 



Orchis, Bee, 215 



Orchis, the Irregular Appearance of the 

 Bee, 140 



Origin of Atmosphere Ozone, 112 



Origin of Flowers, 234 



Ostrich Farming, 112 



Our British Migratory Birds in Africa, 234 



Our British Slugs, 10, 44 



Our Scientific Directory, 40, 65, 1T4, 138, 

 i6r, 199 



Ova of the Hermit Crab, 187 



Oyster Culture, 59 



Ozone, Origin of Atmosphere, 112 



Palaeolithic Workshop, 46 



Parallax, the Solar, 58 



Parietal Eye in Fishes, 188 



Parietal Eye of the Lizar.l, 67 



Pathology and its Relation to Evolution, 



80, 99, 116, 124 

 Peculiar Gymnastics, 255 

 Peregrine Falcon, 142 

 Petrography, British, 19 

 Petroleum and Health, 86 

 Pets, My Drawing-Room, 27, 121 

 Phenomenal Bugs, 71 

 Phenomenon in Aniline Staining, 4r, 65 

 Philosophy of Pruning Vines, etc., 208 

 Phosphorescence, Photography by Vital, 



200 

 Photographs of the Retina, 182 

 Photography by Vital Phosphorescence, 



200 

 Physafontinalis, 139 

 Pieris rapw, Early Appearance of, 141 

 Pigs, Clean and Dirty, 40 

 Pipes, Kinni-Kinnic and Indian, 252 

 Pisidium roseum in Surrey, 16 

 Pitcher Plant, A Carnivorous, 5 

 Plague of Flies, 22 

 Planorbis coinplanatus, 68 

 Planorbis lineatus, Walker, 16 

 Planorbis nautilens, 260 

 Plant Names, a Dictionary of, 18 

 Plant, Query as to, 21 

 Plants, Colours of Animals and, 184 

 Plants, Reappearance of, 216 

 Plants, Studies of Common, 147, 171 

 Plants, the Economical Products of, 17 

 Plants, Variations in, 51 

 Platypus, the Young, 68 

 Plumage of Birds as Trimming, 260 

 Poisonous Nature of the Yew, 21 

 Polishing Pebbles, 191 

 Poppy, Varieties of the Common, 214 

 Postal Obstructions to Scientific Research, 



166 

 Poterium sanguisorba, 95 

 Prehistoric Art, 7 

 Preparing Sections of Sponges, 66 

 Preservation of Telegraph Foles, the, 131 

 Preserving Polyzoa, 42 

 Primrose, Extinction of the, 191, 202 

 Pupa ringens, 213 

 Pygidium of the Flea, The, 129 



QlIEKETT Cl.UD, THE, 138, 213 



Quern, a Yorkshire, 152, 190 



Query for Mr. Mattieu Williams, A, 142 



Rain, Sanitary Action of, 182 



Ramble, A Winter's Day, 35 



Rambles, Natural History, 3r 



Rare Capture, A, 261 



Rat's Teeth, 19 



Reappearance of Plants, 216 



Rearing Bombyx rubi, 93 



Reason in a Dog, 69 



Recent Articles and Pamphlets worth 



Reading, 35, 64, 78, 113, 137, 160, 186, 



230, 244 

 Red-backed Shrike, the, 19 

 Red Leaf, a, A Study in Botany, 223 

 Remarkable Shot, A, 141 

 Reminiscences of Larvae-breeding, 169 



Reproduction of the Lost Tails of Lizards, 



the, 92 

 Re'ina, Photographs of the, 182 

 Revival, A, 131 

 Rings ot Saturn, the, 155 

 Rubin, lameness of a, 14 

 Rock Sections, 23 

 Rocks, Toads in, 21, 94 

 Rosella, 47 



Rotifer, a New Variety o r , 67 

 Rotifer Infested with Trichodina, 43 

 Kotifera, Notes on the, 185 

 Rotifera, The, 16 



Rotifers, Chats About, 149, 173, 220, 248 

 Royal Microscopical Society, 16, 66, 163 



213 

 Rozella, 47 

 Rudiments and Vestiges, 218, 262 



Salvia Pratensis, 69 



Sanitary Action of Rain, 182 



Saturn, the Rings of, 155 



Scarcity of Wasp;, 21 



Scarcity of Wasps and Plague of Flies, 60 



94 

 Science Gossip, 15, 40, 65, 89, 115, 138, 



i6r, 186, 2T2, 232, 258, 279 

 Science, a New Reader of, 22 

 Science in Glasgow, 119 

 Scorpions in Mexico, 187, 234, 237 

 Scorpions of Mexico, The, 126 

 Sea Air, 39 

 Sea-Birds Inland, 118 

 Seasonal Variation in the Occurrence of 



Orchids, 18 

 Sections of Sponge, 42, 65, 66 

 Seedlings of Heracleum, 165 

 Sense of Smell in Leeches, 183 

 Setting of Cement, The, 58 

 Shade in Stock Colour, 278 

 Shanklin Butterfly, The, 141 

 Shell-Money, American, 145, 174 

 Shelley's Halcyon, 236 

 Shells at Lucerne, 92 

 Ship-Model, the Viking, 112 

 Shrike, the Red-backed, 19 

 Silver in Volcanic Ash, 226 

 Simple Machine, A, 87 

 Singing of the Kettle, 27s 

 Singular Capture of a Kestrel, 166 

 Sirex gigas and S. jiiveucus, 21 

 Sisyrinchium Bermudianum, 18 

 Size of Mollusca, 142 

 Slaughter of Wild Animals in Centra 



Africa, 143 

 Slug Gossip, 222, 243, 265 

 Slug Variation, 16 

 Slugs, Middlesex, 187 

 Slugs, Our British, 10, 44 

 Sociability of Mice, 118 

 Society, Cambridge Entomological, 52 

 Society, the Frobel, 239 

 Solar Parallax, the, 58 

 Some Remarks on Fungi, 205 

 Sounding the " Sounding Sea," 227 

 Sources of Ginger, 255 

 Spenser and Geology, 70 

 Spergula pentandra, 235 

 Spider, Anecdote of a, 42 

 Spider, Instinct of a, 22 

 Sponge, Sections of, 42, 65, 66 

 Sponges, Preparing Sections of, 66 

 Spores, Diatoms Raised from, 233 

 Spring, Curious Sudden Disappearance of 



a, 118 

 Staining, a Phenomenon in Aniline, 65 

 Statoblasts of the Polyzoa, 281 

 Stings, Another use for Bees', 142 

 Stings, Bees and Wasps', 46, 60 

 Stoat, Fight Between a Rat and a, 227 

 Stone Curlew, 239 

 Stones in Wood, 142 

 Strange Butterfly, A, 71, 141^ 

 Studies, Cole's, 15, 41, 91, 116, 138, 233 

 Studies of Common Plants, 147, 171 

 Submarine Insect, A, 14 

 Successful Oyster Culture, 39 

 Suffolk, a Visit to the Red Crag and Chalk 



Pits of, 180 

 Suffolk, .Birds' Names in, 166 

 Suggestions for Scientific Research, 237 

 Swallow, Late Appearance of the Cuckoo, 



and the, 166 

 Swarm of Aphodii, A, 21 

 Switzerland, the Coral Roots of, 156 



