INDEX. 



COMPILED BY CHARLES E. SCARSE. 



Abnormal Ferns, 5 



(jrowths in Plants and Animals, 251 



Acherontia Atropos, IP!) 



Address, Opening, by Editors, 1 



African (Southi) Fossils, 230 



Agates found in Drift, 26 



Agave Americana, 254 



Air, Adventures in the, 131 



AlgEB, Freshwater, (illust.,) 113, 145, 189,259 



Aloe, American, 254 



Analogies of Plant and Animal Life, 111 



Aneroid Barometer, an Improved, 8 



Animal and Plant Life, Analogies of, 111 



Antiquities, Spurious, 225 



Apples, from Pips, 337 



Apple Tree Blossoming in Atignst, 254 



Aquaria, 54, 82, 85, 108, 398, 274, 340 



Archseologv, 112, 231, 265, 278, 312, 340 



Arran, Marine Zoology at, 11, 284, 313 



Artizan Naturalists, 310 



Arum, the, an Insectivorous Plant, 106, 138 



Astinomus eedilis, 22 



Aucuba Jixponica, and Vera, 165 



Autographic Printing, 132, 165 



Automatic Kailv7ay Signalling, 339 



Bagnall, (J. E.,) Distribution of the Genus 



iJosa in Warwickshire, 41, 281 

 Bagnall, (J. E.,) On the Study of Mosses, 



(illust.,) 59, 193, 213, 271, 318 

 Ballooning in England, 131 

 Barometer, Field's Improved Aneroid, 8 



" Mountain, 8 



Barrow-in-Furness Naturalists' Field Club 



and the Paris Exhibition, 201 

 Bas Boulonnais, Excursion to the, 229 

 Bedwell, (F. A.,) Notes on Melicerta 



Eingens, 245 

 Beech Trees, Girths and Age, 260 

 Bees, Determination of Sex, 172 

 Beetle, Curious, Note on, 22 ; Rare, 202 

 Berkeley, (M. J.,) the Rev. Andrew Bloxam 



a Memoir, 88 



Portrait of, presented to the 



Linnean Society, 337 

 Biology, Honours in at Oxford, 312 

 Birds, Blackbird, Black and White, 106 



Black-backed Gull, 49 



Cage, Duration of Life of, 280 



Crusade against Sparrows, 201 



Cuckoo, 21, 81, 163, 198, 226, 227, 



253, 254, 280, 308 



Destruction of, 176 



Early Appearance of, 49, 136, 163, 167 



Eggs, Side Blown, 227 



Fieldfares, 337 



Maepie, 21, 81 



■ Migration of, 277 



• Rare, 24 



Bird, Redpoll and Linnet, 198, 227 



Snipe Breeding, 253 



Sparrow, Nest of, 21 



Sparrow, with White Wings and 



Tail, 311 



Tame-bred Mallards, 201 



The Colouring Matter in the 



Plumage of, 200 



Woodcock, 280 



Wren, Gold-crested, 227 



Birmingham Aquarium, the, 85, 208 



Library, the, 311 



Philosophical Society, Proceediutia 



of, 141, (Eevieioj 277 



Saturday Half-Holiday Guide, 



(Review,) 225 



Bland, (W.,) Notes of Lessons on Elemen- 

 tary Botany, (Revieiu,) 105, 141 



Blatch, (W.G.,) Entomological Books for 

 Beginners, ICO 



Blue John Mine in Traycliff, 61 



Bloxam, the Rev. Andrew, Death of, 81, 83 ; 

 Memoir, 83 



Bolton, (Thos.,) a Productive Pond, 76 



Bolton, {Thos.,; Microscopists' and Natu- 

 ralists' Studio, 132, 141, 229, 255, 283, 335 



Bolton, Museum for, 229 



Bones of Extinct Animals at Castleton, 64 



Borings in Limestone Rocks, 309 



Books, a Classification of, 311 



Boscobel, the Royal Oak at, 282 



Botanical Query— the Ranunculus, 107 



Locality Record Club, 313 



Botany— Abnormal Ferns, 5 



Agave Americana, 254 



AlgEB, 113, 145, 1S9 



Analogies of Animal and Plant 



Life, 111 



Arum, 106, 138 



Botanic Garden, Darwin's, 261 



Brambles, Double, 137 



Chara fragifera, 23 



Chelidonium majus, 198 



Chlorophyll and Starch, 37 



Climbing Plants, 164 



Cuckoo-pint, 106 



Deformed Primroses and Double 



Flowers, 137, 163 



Derbyshire, 283, 310, 336 



Distribution of the Genus Itoaa, il 



281 



Do Leaves Absorb Wattr ?, 337 



Drosera rotundifolia. 50 



Ferns, 5, 52, 110, 308, 310 



Ferns, How to Raise from Spores, 



7 



Flowering of Plants, 82, 221 



Flowers : their Origin, &c. 221 



Fungi, 79, 137, 233, 283, 31(', 336 



Hepaticse, British, 140 



