INDEX. 



551 



Royal Society, proceedings of the, 55, 



389, 502. 

 Rubus arcticus, discovery of, 542. 

 Salmon, on the breeding of, artificially, 



166. 

 Sargassum, remarks on the genus, 213. 

 Sars, M., on the development of Medusa 



aurita, 48. 

 Saunders, S. S., on some experiments with 



Mygale Ionica, 455. 

 Saurian, gigantic, from Hythe, 517. 

 Savi, P., on the stomata of plants, 134 ; 

 on the resin-passages of Schinus molle, 

 328. 

 Saxifrages of the Robertson ia group, ob- 

 servations on the, 321. 

 Schinus Molle, on the resinous passages 



of the, 328. 

 Schleiden, Dr., on the structure of annular 

 vessels, 25 ; on spiral formations in the 

 cells of plants, 249. 

 Schultz, Dr., on the movement of the sap 



in plants, 334. 

 Scientific travellers, information respect- 

 ing, 439. 

 Seeds, experiments on the conservation of 

 the vegetative powers in, 77 ; on the 

 vitality of, 317. 

 Semnopithecus, remarks on the genus, 



314. 

 Shells, new species of, 62, 72, 148, 380, 



527 ; new genus of, 481. 

 Shuckard, W. E., on bird-catching spiders, 



435. 



Smith's, Lieut.-Col. C. H., Natural History 



of Dogs and of Horses, reviewed, 137. 



Snails, limestone rocks corroded by, 459. 



Sowerby, G. B., on new shells from the 



Philippines, 72, 383, 467, 527, 531. 

 Sowerby, G. B., jun., on the genus Ra- 



nella, 538. 

 Spach, Ed., on the genus Corylus, 344. 

 Spiders, doubts on the existence of bird- 

 catching, 324 ; bird-catching, 435. 

 Sponges, proposed divisions of the order 



of, 3 ; new species of, 222, 393. 

 Starling, migration of, into Ireland, 413. 

 Steudel, E. T., nomenclator botanicus, 



noticed, 447. 

 Stephens, H. O., on Epilobium angusti- 

 folium, and species which have been 

 confounded with it, 170. 

 Stevens, S., on coleoptera from Kent, 452. 

 Strata, tertiary, near Volognes, 506. 

 Strickland, H. E., on Gray's genera of 

 birds, 367 ; on Mergulus Alle, 394 ; on 

 some new genera of birds, 520. 

 Sturnidae, 406. 

 Stutchbury, S., on a new genus of fossil 



bivalves, 481. 

 Sylviadae, 521. 



Sylvia rubecola, on the disappearance of, 

 in parts of Belgium and Germany, 

 395. 

 Tachina pacta, 455. 



Teeth, Saurian, from the lower green- 

 sand, 519. 

 Thomas, Dr. S., on the anatomy and 

 physiology of the seed of Phaseolus 

 vulgaris, 542. 

 Thompson, W., on migratory birds which 

 were seen on a passage from Malta to 

 Morea, 125; on the occurrence of Cy- 

 clostoma elegans in Ireland, 228 ; on 

 the birds of Ireland, 273, 353, 406, 

 486. 

 Tickell, Lieut., on the natural history of 



the Hodesum, 153. 

 Tree creeper, 501. 

 Trinchinetti, Sig., on the production of 



odours in flowers, 31. 

 Turtles, on fossil remains of, from the 

 chalk of the south-east of England, 

 155. 

 Upupa epops, occurrence of, 235. 

 Volognes, tertiary strata near, 506. 

 Vigne, G. T., list of birds found by him in 



Thibet, Cashmere, &c. 224. 

 Vrolik, and de Vriese, on the evolution • 

 of heat in the spadix of Colocasia 

 odora, 27. 

 Wagner, Prof. A., on the arrangement of 

 the Rodentia, and natural families, with 

 descriptions of new species, 50. 

 Walton, Mr., on Apion laevigatum, 456. 

 Waterhouse, G. R., natural history of 

 Marsupialia, reviewed, 54 ; observations 

 on the Rodents, 81 ; on two new spe- 

 cies of birds, 151 ; on names applied 

 to certain Carabideous insects, 205 ; on 

 a new genus of Carabidae from tropical 

 Africa, 208 ; on new species of Pachy- 

 rhynchus, 218 ; on new Coleoptera 

 from the Philippines, 221. 

 Webber, C. T., on the wolves of Ireland, 



470. 

 Westwood, J. O., on a character distinc- 

 tive of the sexes in certain Lucanidae 

 and Cetoniidae, 121, 338 ; on new in- 

 sects, 123, 203, 272 ; Arcana Entomo- 

 logica, noticed, 296 ; monograph of 

 the Panorpidae, 298 ; on the Austra- 

 lian genus Cryptodus, 303; monograph 

 of the genus Nematoptera, 376 ; on 

 species of Paussus, 449 ; on Dynastidae, 

 454 ; on a fossil from Stonesfield, 456 ; 

 on Lamellicorn beetles, 457. 

 Widdrington, Capt, on some species of 

 European pines, 87 ; on the Eel and 

 on freshwater fish of Austria, 207. 

 Wiegmann's Archiv fur Naturgeschichte, 

 notice of the contents of, 47. 



