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HARDWICKE'S SCIENCE-GOSSIP. 



Gallinula Chloropus, 117 

 Geographical Distribution, A Problem in, 



114 

 Geological Discoveries in Australia, 280 

 Geological Pamphlets, 280 

 Geological Record, 33 

 Geologists' Association, 92, 166 

 Geology, &c., 20, 46, 69, 92, 115, J 4i» ^5> 



189, 212, 236, 280 

 Giant Puff-Bails, 238 

 Gizzards, Mounting, 17, 90 

 Glacial Action near Grassmere, 189, 212 

 Glacial Formations of the Midlands, 237 

 Glass for Objectives, A New, 114 

 Glass 100 feet thick, 180 

 Gnats and Gnat-Bites, 234 

 Greek Tortoise, 239 

 Green Flies, 4 

 Grey Hair-Grass, 189 

 Ground Ivy, 27 

 Gulls in Gardens, 272 

 Gulls Roosting on Trees, 283 

 Gum-Tragacanth, 140, 166 

 Gum-Tragacanth for Insect Mounting, 140, 



160 



Hastings in August, Around, 231 



Hedgehog, 263 



Helix nemoralis, 19 



Helix hispida, with Adherent Tentacles, 



259 

 Hcsperis matronalis, 165 

 History of Toads, 209 

 Honey-Bee, Varieties of, 182 

 Hop-stems and Foliage as Food, 153 

 Hops and Morphia, 153 

 Horned, Hoofed Mammals of Eocene 



Period in America, 40, 49 

 House-flie«, 281 



How to keep cool in hot weather, 227 

 How to make a cheap Aquarium, 10 

 Humble Bees and Flowers, 261 

 Hydrogenium, 249 



Iceland, 141 



Infusoria, Temporary Encystment among, 



31 

 Inoculation for Yellow Fever, 227 

 Insects' Brains, Preparing, 89 

 Instantaneous Microphotography, 43 

 Instinct or Reason? 15 



Jackdaws, 70 



Journal of the Royal Microscopical 



Society. 140 

 Journal of Microscopy, 186 



Knot, The, 23 



Land-shells, Colouring of, 44 

 Larva in Sea-water, 167 

 Leaf Bloom and Stomata, 91 

 Lepidoptera, Extirpation of, 278 

 Lepidopterists' work for April, 86 

 Lepidopterists' work for May, 102 

 Lepidopterists' work for June, 126 

 Lepidopterists' work for July, 161 

 Lepidopterists' work for August, 169 

 Lick Observatory, 271 

 Limax viaximus, var. Strobeli, Pini, 



near Wakefield, 259 

 Limncea glutinosa, 19 

 Limncea stagnalis, 214 

 London Catalogue, 188, 211, 234, 235, 23o 

 Louis Agassiz, 58 

 Lower Greensands, Ather Field, Isle of 



Wight, 60 

 Lunar Rainbows, 70 



Macro - Lepidopterous Caterpillar, 

 Food of, etc., 94 



Magic Mirrors, 135 



Male Nurse, A, 226 



Man, Teeth of the Coming, 107 



Man's Lost Incisors, 234 



Manuring Vines, 34 



Marine Collecting with the Surface net, 

 52, 79, no, 121 ' 



Marine Hemipterous Insects, 56 



Mason Wasps, 142 



Mean Temperature and Rainfall, 74 



Meteors, More November, 21 



Method of using Bismarck Brown, 186 



Mice as Burglars, 22 



Mice eating Bitter-sweet Berries, 164 



Micro-Fungi of North Notts, 170 



Micro-photography, 18 



Microscopical Drawing, Accessories for, 8 



Microscopy, 17, 43, 66, 89, 113, 139, 162, 

 186, 210, 233, 278 



Migration of Squirrels, 35 



Mimicry in Bees, 45 



Miinulus hi tens, 9, 22, 71, 94, 116 



Mineralogical Studies, 205 



Mirrors, The Two, 217, 265 



Miscellaneous Queries, 94 



Mistaken Instinct, 166 



Mock Suns, 261 



Moles' eyes 230 



Mollusca, Variations in, 68 



Mollusca of Clonmel, Ireland, 187, 234 



Molluscs, Variations and Abnormal de- 

 velopment of, 98, 123 



Mount Coccoliths from Chalk, To, 212 



Mountain Observatories, 179 



Mountains of Denmark, 106 



Mounting in Balsam, 113, 140 



Mounting Chalk Organisms, 212 



Mounting Pollen, etc, 89, 113 



Moss in Deep Water, 106 



Natural Gas Fuel, 7 



Net Fungus, 35 



New Books, Notes on, 2, 27, 74, 130 



New Portable Cabinet, 258 



New Slides, 67, 90, 139, 143, 163, 234 



New Vapour Engine, 246 



Nitrification, 198 



Nitrifying Organisms in Soil, 236 



Nitrogenous Compound in Rain-water, 



198 

 Noctiluca, etc., 14 

 Notes and Queries, 21, 46, 70, 93, 113, 141, 



166, 189, 212, 238, 261, 281 

 Notices to Correspondents, 23, 47, 71, 95. 



119, 143, 167, 191, 215, 240, 263, 283 



Operculum, Absence of, 23 

 Otters in the Eastern Counties, 119 

 Otters, Lambs killed by, 119 

 Our Robins, 142 

 Over Drainage, 178 



Pal.<eontological Society, 280 



Palm Trees, 166 



Papilio Machaon, 213 



Parrots, Instinct in, 47, 113 



Partridges, Scarcity of, 282 



Pathological Conditions in the Mollusca, 



163 

 Pathological Specimens for Mounting, 25 

 Peloric Orchids, 141 

 Pcteilomonas carinata, 272 

 Petroleum Vapour Fuels, 8 

 Phenomenal Bugs, 261 

 Phosphography, 271 



Photographic Pictures by Charles Breese, 

 108 



Photographs of the Corona, 226 



Pile Driving by Dynamite, 227 



Planet Neith, 178 



Plant Names, Old English, 151, 185, 191, 

 214 



Plants, Effects of Pressure on the Respira- 

 tion of, 82 



Plants from the Isle of Wight, 45, 69, 91 



Plants, Studies on Common, 27, 101, 224 



Plants, Transpiration of, 45 



Pliocene Beds of Cornwall, 115 



Poisonous Cheese, 134 



Poisonous Codfish, 177 



Poisonous Confectionery, 82 



Porpoise Milk, 34 



Post-glacial Forest in Hull, 214 



Potentilla tridentata, 165 



Prehistoric Man, 226 



Preparing Lettuce Leaves, 212 



Preserving Beetles, 187 



Preserving Zoophytes, 166 



Preservation of the Eyesight, 18 



Primroses and Cattle, 20, 69 



Primroses, more, curious, 21 



Prodigies, on, certain so-called, 17 



Proliferation of Cardamine pratensis, 9: 



Prothallia of Ferns, 236 



Prunella, Peculiar, 281 



Pyritised Diatoms, 278 



Queer Fishes, 212 



Query, A, 213 



Query, As to Moss, 222, 262 



Query, for Teetotallers, 95, 141 



Quotation, the Violet, 70, 94, 118 



Ramble in Devon, 243 



Rat Teeth, 214 



Re-Afforesting of London, 247, 265 



Refined Susceptibility, 271 



Remarkable Primrose, 167 



Remarkable Robin, A, 95, 117 



Removing Cuticles, 163 



Rhopalocera in 1885, 45 



Rotifera and other Pond Organisms, 



Natural Preservation of, 149 

 Rotifera, or Wheel Animalcules, 140, 163, 



234 

 Rotifers, Group of, 83, 113, 193 

 Rotifers, New Works on the, 90 



Societies, &c.: — 



Society of Amateur Geologists, 46 

 Fairford Juvenile Naturalists' Club, 190 

 The Field Naturalists' Society of Vic- 

 toria, 18 

 Hertfordshire Natural History Society, 



iS 

 Liverpool Microscopical Society, 90, 17 

 The Practical Naturalists' Society, 22 

 Provincial Societies, 91, 140 

 The Quekett Microscopical Club, 67, 



163, 234 

 Royal Microscopical Society, 17, 67, 234 

 Rugby School, Natural History Society, 



18 

 The Watson Botanical Exchange Club, 

 141 

 Saccharin, 134 



Sad end to Nest Building, 143 

 School Ventilation, 270 

 Science-Gossip, 16, 42, 63, 89, 112, 138, 



1 61, 186, 209, 232, 257, 277 

 Scientific Directory, 16, 42, 63, 88, 112, 

 138, 161, 186, 209, 232, 256, 2S0 



