Index. 



483 



Microscopic Section, Meetings of, 89, 

 192, 279. 



Microtome, a New Form of Freezing 

 and Embedding, 189. 



M'Kean, Miss M. : The Fossils of the 

 Ked Crag and Chalk Pits, Suffolk, 

 51. 



Moffat, A. : Exhibition of a White 

 Sparrow, 19. 



Lists of Plants gathered at Ex- 

 cursions, 79, 477. 



Miingoos or Ichneumon, the, 253. 



Naini Tal, the Lake of, 396 ct seq. 



Natural History in India, Notes on, 

 197. 



Natural History Notes, 422. 



Natural History, Some Peculiar Occur- 

 rences in, 155. 



Nightingale, the, as a song-bird, 146. 



Night-jar, description of the, 366 ct scq. 



Northern Cliffs, Pound about the, 372. 



Norway, a Sporting Tour in, 209. 



Norwegian salmon, cast for a, 211. 



Oak-leaves, exhibition of, 72. 

 Oliphant, J. C, on Bermuda, 246. 

 Optical Phenomenon seen in Glenure, 



159. 

 Ormiston Hall — Its Yew-tree and other 



Antiquities, 30. 

 ' ' Ormiston Laurel," the, 40. 

 Ornithological Visit to Warwickshire, 



on an, 141. 

 Owls, staple food of, 335. 



Paridae or Titmice, the, 41. 



Parsee funeral rites, 313. 



Penman, W., F.R.M.S. : On Dark- 

 ground Illumination, as showing 

 PeculiRrities of certain Diatoms, 56. 



Polarised Dark-ground Illumin- 

 ation, 127. 



Photo-micrographs, apparatus for tak- 

 ing, 88. 



Phytelephas macrocarpa or Ivory Palm, 

 the, 459. 



Plague in the Himalayas, the, 305 ct 

 scq., 398. 



Plant Multiplication, 416. 



Plants, List of, gathered in Switzer- 

 land, 174. 



Plants, Lists of, gathered at Excvu'- 

 sions, 79, 477. 



Plants of Gurhwal, the, 298 ct scq. 



Polarised Dark-ground Illumination, 

 127. 



Polyporus giganteus or giant sap-ball, 

 the, 18. 



Projection JMicroscope, Hume's, 61. 



Puffin Island, Anglesea, bird life, &c., 

 of, 371. 



Queen's Park, an Ancient Lake-deposit 

 in, 135. 



Rats and the Balance of Nature, 323. 



Rats, fecundity of, 327. 



Rattray, J., M.A., B.Sc. : Remarks on 



the Genus Aulacodiscus Ehrb., 183. 

 Reproduction in sponges, 436. 

 Rook, the, 120. 



Round about the Northern Cliffs, 372. 

 Royal Botanic Garden, bird life in the, 



12 ct scq. 



Salmon-fishing in Norway, incident of, 



211. 

 Scandinavian plants, representatives of, 



in Scotland, 11. 

 Sclerenchymatous Cells, on, 378. 

 Scott Elliot, G. F., M.A., B.Sc. : 



Lectures by, on tlie Life-history of a 



Plant, 192. 

 " Sea-fyke," Note on, 437. 

 Sea-urchins, the Echinoidea or, 341. 

 Seeds, dispersion of, 418 et seq. 

 Speedy, T. : The Hare, 64. 



Grouse Disease, 82. 



The Rook, 120. 



Stoats and Weasels, 166. 



A Sporting Tour in Norway, 209. 



Rats and the Balance of Nature, 



323. 



The IMagpie, 384. 



The Kingfisher, 411. 



How I Robbed the Eagle's Nest, 



and Wh}% 463. 

 Sponge spicules, description of, 432. 

 Sponge, the Structure and Life-historv 



of a, 428. 

 Sporting Tour in Norway, a, 209. 

 Sprague, Mrs : List of Plants gathered 



in Switzerland, 174. 

 Sprague, T. B., M.A. : The "Green 



Balls " of Loch Kildonan, 420. 

 Starlings, Swallows and, feeding in 



Concert, 71. 

 Steele, A. B. : Polyporus giganteus, 18. 



Fundus Folk-Lore, 175. 



On Dry-rot, 246. 



Stewart, R., S.S.C. : Notes on Bird- 

 Life, 12. 

 Some Peculiar Occurrences in 



Natural History, 155. 

 The Ichneumon or Mungoos, 



253. 

 The Garden - Spider (Epcira 



diadcma) as an Architect, 337. 



Natural Historj- Notes, 422. 



Stoats and Weasels, 166. 



Sutherland, J. : Round about the 



Northern Cliffs, 372. 

 Swallows and Starlings feeding in 



Concert, 71. 



