IV 



INDEX. 



" Midland Naturalist," The, 154 



Midlands, Minerals of the, 11-13, 59-61, 142, 

 202-207 



Midland Union of Natural History Socie- 

 ties : Meeting at Nottingham, 81, 

 112, 129-120, 151-161, 169-178 



History of Societies in the Union, 



J12-114, 139-141 



Societies not in the Union, 158 



Migration of Jiirds, 144 



Milnes iH.), Derbyshire Land and Fresh- 

 water Shells, 105-107 

 Minerals of Derbyshire, 202 



Northamptonshire, 203 



Shropshire, 203-204 



Staffordshire, 204 



the Midlands, 11-13, 59-61, 142, 202- 



207 



Warwickshire, 204 



Worcestershire, 204-207 



Minor Planets, The, 92 



Mollusca of Nottingham, 173-175 



Molluscs, Hybernation of, 210-211 



Moore (Charlesi, Death of, 19 



Morton G. H.i, Shropshire Minerals, 13 



Mosses new to the Warwickshire Flora, 



210 

 Moss-Flora, The British f Review I, 88, 276 

 Mutilation of Specimens of Virgularia 



niirabilis, 223-227 

 Myxomycetes, The, (IIIks. , 48, 73-77, 97- 

 100, 133-136 



Description of, 75 



Development of a Spore, 97-100 



List of, of the Neighbourhood of 



Birmingham, 135-136 



Affinities of the, 133-135 



New Localities for Kare Warwickshire 



Plants, 238 

 Northampton Natural History Society, 



Journal of the, 70 

 Northampton, Minerals of, 11-12, 203 



Natural History Society and Field 



Club, 114 

 Notes from Merionethshire, 212-213 

 Notes on Beavers and the Bute Beavery, 



100-104, 161-167 

 Nottingham, Discovery of Fossil Fishes 



in the New Bed Sandstone of, 



45-46 



District, The Geology of, 171-173 



Geology of the Country 



around (lifvic^v), 67 



Literary andPhilosophicalSociety 



139-140 



Naturalists' Society, 140 



Nottinghamshire, Minerals of, 12 



Oak and Ash, Leafing of the, 211-212 



Oban, 3, 7 



CEcidium, 142, 167 



(Enanthe Lachenalii i(iniel.\ as a War- 

 wickshire Plant, 238 



On a Dragon-fly, 228, 234 



Ornithological Notes, 47 



Ornithology of Nottingham, 175-176. 



Osprey in Leicestershire, 261 



Oswestry and Welshpool Naturalists 

 Field Club and Archajological Society, 

 140 



Otter, a Large, in the Trent, 46 



Oxfordshire Natural History Society, 140 



Paris quadrifolia, 188, 210 



Pebbles, Quartzito, 18 



Ponna del pesce pavone (feather of the 

 peacock fish), name given to Funicu- 

 lina by the Neapolitan fishermen, 4 



Pennatula phosphorea (Illtis.), 1, 121-128, 

 193-202 



Anatomical Description of, 123-128 



1. The Stalk and Kacliis, 123-127 ; 



2. The Stem, 127-128 ; 3. The Poly- 

 pes and Zooids, 14.5-147 ; 4. Ana- 

 tomy of the Polypes, 147-151, 19:i- 

 197 ; 5. Anatomy of the Zooids, 

 198 



General Account of. 122-123 



Geographical Distribution of, 202 



Habits of, 199-202 



Sexes of, 195-197 



Zoological Position and Affinities 



of, 198-202 

 Pennatulida, Order of, 2 



Keport on the, collected in the 



Oban dredging excursion of the 

 Birmingham Natural History 

 and Microscoi)ical Society, 

 August, 1881, 1-9, 25-36, 49-56, 121- 

 128, 145-151, 193-202, 217-227,241- 

 250, 265-273 

 Permian Formation, The. 171-172 

 Peterborough Natural History, Scientific, 

 and Archaeological Society, 140 



Roman Remains of, and other 



Neighbourhoods, Lecture on the, 

 22-24 

 Petrel, Leach's, in Oxfordshire, 18 



Stormy, in Oxfordshire, 18 



Phillips (W.), On the Breaking of the 



Shropshire Meres, 282-283 



Pilobolus, New British, 279 



Plants in Bloom First Week of January, 

 1882, 91 



Pochard, Curious Captui'e of, 18 



Pocket Magnifiers, 119 



Poulton, (E. B.), on the Geological Causes 

 of varied Scenery, 96 



Practical Botany, 46 



Prestwich (Professor i. Guide to the Geo- 

 logical Collections in the University 

 Museum, Oxford {Beciewi, 88 



Primula vulgaris, 90 



Protective Resemblance, 187 



Quartzite Pebbles, 18 



in the Drift, 119-120 



Questions and Answers, 281 



Rainfall for November, 1881, 17 ; Decem- 

 ber, 44 ; January, 1882, 69 ; February 

 89 ; March, 117 ; April, 185 ; May, 185 

 June, 186; July, 209; August, 236 

 September, 260 ; October, 278 



Reed Warbler, Letter on, by Montagu 

 Browne, 38-39 



Report of the Rugby School Natural 

 History Society for the Year 1880, 

 iBerifW, 87 



Report on the Pennatulida collected in 

 the Oban dredging excursion of the 

 Birmingham Natural History and 

 Microscopical Society, August, 1881, 

 1-9, 25-36, 49-56, 121-128, 145-151, 193- 

 202 217-227 ,241-250, 265-273 



