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Societies, Reports of : 



Geological Society, Annual Meeting of, 



110 

 Leicester Literary and Philosophical 



Society, 299 

 London (West) Eutnmological Society, 



56, 82, 110, ir.i. 1G8 

 Northampton Naturalists' Society, 55, 



258, 287 

 Nottingham Literary and Philoso- 

 phical Society, (Natural Science 

 Section,) 27, 84, 112, 142, 167, 203, 232, 

 315, 339 

 Nottingham Naturalists' Society, 27, 



55, 84, 112, 142, 168, 203, 316, 339 

 Oswestry and Welshpool Naturalists' 



Field Club, 27, 168, 203, 232, 253 

 Peterborough Natural History and 



Scientific Society, 232, 288 

 Postal Microscopical Society. 28, 107 

 Eugby School Natural History Society, 



84, 112, 224, 340 

 Severn Valley Naturalists' Field Club, 



84, 204, 258 

 Shropshire Archfflological and Natural 



History Society, 259 

 Stroud Natural History Society, 27, 55, 



112,142, 316,340 

 Tamworth Natural History, Geological, 

 and Antiquarian Society, 28, 55, 84, 

 112, 143, 168, 260, 288 

 Warwickshire Field Club, 204 

 Woolhope Naturalists' Field Club, 168, 



232, 260,288, 316 

 Yorkshire Geological and Polytechnic 

 Society, 143 

 Sparrow, (Nest of,) 21 



White, 311 



Sparrows, (Crusade against,) 201 

 Bphseraphides, 159 

 Sphagnaceas Braithwaites', 337 

 Sphagnum auriculatum and contortum, 



136 

 Spicules of Sponges, 26 

 Spindle Tree and the Death's Head Moth, 



199 

 Spirosjyra angularis, iuflatum.neglecta, and 



Woodsii, (illust.,) 189 

 Sponges, Spicules of, 26 

 Spurious Antiquities, 226 

 Starch, Chlorophyll and its Eelation to, 



37 

 Staurooarpus gracilis, (illust.,) 189 

 Sturgeon, 200 

 Sundial, Motto for, 231 

 Surrey, Roman Villa Excavated in, 229 

 Sutton Park, 115 

 Swallows, Early, 136, 163 

 Sympiesometer, the, 9 

 Synalissa picina, 259 



Table, Revolving, for Microscope, 335 



Tait, Lawsou, Letter from, 22K 



Tamworth Treasure Trove, 155 



Taxidermy, Practical, 137, 140, 222, 227 



Tayior, ( J. E.,) Flowers : their Origin, 

 Shapes, Perfumes, and Colours, 

 (Review,) 221 



Telephone, the, 24 



Teratology, 251 



Testacella Maugei, 309 



Tetraspora lubrica, (illust.,) 113 



Thatcher, (C. K.,) iJeath of, 337 



Thermometer, the Vacuum Solar, Radia- 

 tion, 110 



Thirlmere, 199 



Thomson, (Sir C. Wyville,) The Voyage of 



the Challenger, (Review,) 44 

 Thornewill, Rev. C. F., on Lepidoptera 

 and their Captors in the Midland 

 Counties, 14 

 Thunderstorm, Described, 310 

 Times, The, and Meteorology, 53 

 Tonks, Edmund, inaugural Address, at 

 the First Annual Meeting in Birming- 

 ham of the Midland Union of Natural 

 History Society, 169 

 Tortoise, Eggs of, 313 



Toxic Matter Connected with Typhoid, 109 

 Trap, a Microscopic, for a Rover, 108 

 Treasure Trove at Tamworth, 155 

 Trees, Girth of, 260, 288 

 Tremadoc and Pre-Tremadoo Rocks, 205 

 Trematoda, 57 

 Tube, Dipping, 229 



Twigg, (G. H.,) on Study of Science, 285 

 Tye, (G. Sherriff,) on Helix Cantiana, 323 

 Tyndall, (Prof.,) as a Lecturer, 22 

 Typhoid, the Detection of Toxio Matter 

 Connected with, 109 



United States Survey, 110 

 Universities, Biology at, 312 

 Upper Cambrian Fossils, 208 

 Urococcus sp.? (illust.,) 113 

 Utricularia, 314 



Vaucheria ornithocephala and V. raca- 



mosa, (illust.,) 145 

 Volcanoes, the Phenomena of, 217 

 VolvocinesB, 145 

 Volvox globator, 50, 101, 116 



and Conoehilus volvox, 50, 101 



Voyage of the Challenger, 44 



Warwickshire, Distribution of the Genus- 

 Rosa in, 41, 281 



Drawings and Photographs, 185, 



186 

 Water-fowl, 49 

 Waterton, (C.,)177 

 Weasel, Common, a Parasitic Wor n 



Infesting the, 139 

 Weather, the, of Christmas, 1877, 49 



January, 1878. 73, 77 ; February, 102 



March, 133; April, 161; May, 

 196; June, 219; July, 2.U j 

 August, 275; September, 306; 

 October, 333 



Well-boring at Norfolk, 256 



White varieties of Plants, 106, 135, 136, 163, 

 164, 198, 308 



Wills, (A. W.,) Freshwater Algae, (illust.,) 

 113, 143, 189 



Note on a Thecated Rotifer from 



Sutton Park, 317 



on CEoistes pilula, 302 



Wilson, (Wright,) Practical Taxidermy, 

 (Review,) 222. 



Parasitic Worm in Weasel, 139 



Winter of 1877-8, Mildness of, 49, 106 

 Winter, (1878.) Signs of Early, 337 

 Winter's Ramble, a, 77 

 Wolverhampton, Rainfall at, 102 

 Wolbiston Gold Medal, Award of, 61 

 Wollaston, Thomas Vernon, Death of, 82 

 Woodcock, 280 



