1v INDEX. 
Heslop (Dr.) on Lucretius, 286 
Hicks, (H.,) On New Geological Foima- 
tions, 104 
Hoarfrost, 22 
Houghton, (W.,) History of British Fresh- 
water Fishes, (Review,) 205 
as (W. R.,) Marine Zoology at Arran, 
Huxley, Professor, 24, 46 
Hydradephaga of Leicestershire, 57 
Ice, (Antarctic,) Thickness of the, 103 
Crystals, 96 
Ichthyology, 205 
Illustrations of Rheetice Fossils, 14 
Immersion, (Oil,) Zeiss, 18 
Tepapiiants, Ancient, of the Cotteswolds, 
Insecta, 114 
Insects Mounted without Pressure, 97 
Injurious, 258 
Unsymmetrical, 258 
Insectivorus Plants, 12, 265 
Instinct or Reason, 212 
Jackdaw, Age of, 25 
Jeffrey's (Gwyn) on Pronunciation of 
Scientific Names, 308 
Jukes-Browne’s, (A. J.,) Post-Tertiary 
posite of Cambridgeshire, (Review,) 
Jungermannis, 73 
Larks, 102 
La Touche, (J. D.,) On the Measurement of 
me Sedimentary Discharge of Rivers, 
cieceter, Midland Union Meeting at, 137 
165 
Leicestershire, Water Beetles of, 57 
South, Rare Birds in, 94 
Delgnton, (W.A.,) Lichen Flora, (Review,) 
Lepidoptera, 21, 24, 31, 65, 161, 210, 234, 258 
Leptodora hyalina, (illust.,) 225, 238, 258, 
260, 263, 283, 307, 310 
Levick, (J.,) A New Rotifer, (illust.,) 241 
Levick, (J.,) A Tube-dwelling Stentor, 280 
Lewes, (George Henry,) Studentship, 261 
Library, Fire at the Birmingham Refer- 
ence, 55 
Lice, Gall-making, 130 
Lichens, 78, 81, 129, 206 
Lichen-Flora of Great Buitain, 81, 206 
Life, 29, 236, 310 
— Duration of, 129 
Liverpool, Learned Societies of, Scientific 
Soiree, 80 
Lloyd, (R. M.,)Artificial Sea- water, 151 
Lowe (HK. J.) and Musson (C. T.,) Notting- 
pespetire Land andFresh-waterShells, 
1 
Lubbock (Sir J.) on Leptodora hyalina, 260 
Lucretius and his Philosophy, 286 
Lyell’s Student’s Elements of Geology, 24 
Macaulay, (Thos.,) Rare Ornithological 
Occurrences in South Leicestershire, 
94 
Mackintosh, (D.,) on Glacial Deposits, 24 
Magpie, 153 
Man, Parasites of, 7, 61, 112 
Ancient, 77 
Manures for Gardens, 276 
Marine Aquarium, A, 1 
Zoology at Arran, 182 
Zoology at Falmouth, 228 
Marsden’s Bijou List of British Butter- 
flies, 24 
ge ca (H. W.,) Natural History Agency, 
Martins, 159, 161, 187, 188, 256 
Melicerta ringens, 18 
tubicolaria, 80 
tyro, 80, 163 
Menu Card, a Curious, 214 
Merops apiaster, 188,210, 235, 258 
Meteorology Text Book, 125, 310 
of the Midlands, 19, 50, 74, 98, 124, 
157, 186, 208, 233, 256,282 . 
Symons British Rainfall for 1878, 
Remarkable Rainfall, 259 
American Predictions of Coming 
Storms, 261 
Micro-F ungi, 73, 84 
Micro-spectroscope, (the,) 215 
Microscope, Method of Drawing Objects 
under, 18, 78 
Camera Obscura for, 78 
Enock’s Insect Slides, 97 
For Petrology, 213 
Living Objects for, 97, 127 
Mounting Specimens, 25, 52, 76 
Objectives for, 18, 19 
Sharpus’s Method of Mounting 
Slides, 126 
Slides, 73,97, 108 
Snow Crystals under, 76 
Swift’s College, 19, 213 
Weber’s Slide, (illust.,) 98 
Microscopical Society at Boston, 25 4 
Postal, 49 
Royal Society’s Journal, 80 : 
Journal, American Quarterly, 103 
Preparations, 73, 97, 126 
Micioscopist’s Agency, 50 
Microscopy, 18, 19, 49, 73, 97, 126 
Midland Entomology, by W. G. Blatch, 30, 
193, 229 
100 
Midland Naturalist, (the,) 24, 53 
Midland Union of Natural History Socie- 
ties, 53, 81, 103, 104, 136, 137, 141, 
161, 165, 213 
—— Annual Meeting at Leicester, 81, 
104, 136, 187, 141, 165 
— Conversazione, 136, 171 
—— Report of Council, 167 
—— Excursion to Charnwood Forest, 
136, 173 
— President’s Address, 137 
— List of Societies in, 168 
—— Annual Meeting for 1880 
—— Andthe Bedford Nutural History 
Society, 213 
And the Nottingham High School 
Natural History Society, 103 
Migratory Birds, 158, 159 
Minutest Forms of Life, 310 
Mock Sun, 161 
Mollusea, 21, 164, 197 
Molluscan Threads, 54 
Monads, 310 
Moss Flora, 221 
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