INDEX. Vv 
Moss Habitats, by Jas. E. Bagnall, 36, 89 
Mosses, 73, 220 
Moth, (Puss,) 234 
Mott, (F. T.,) The Scale of Being, 29 
Mott, (F. T.,) Hardiness in Plants, 63 
Mott, (F. T.,) The Colours of Flowers, 175 
Mott, (Ff. T.,) A Festival of Gnats, 247 
Mois, (F. T.,) on Frost Phenomena, 22 
Musson (C. T.) and Lowe (EH. J.) Land 
and Fresh-water Shells of Nottingham- 
shire, 197 
Mounting Specimens for the Microscope, 
25, 52, 76, 97, 126 
Names, Scientific, Pronunciation of, 268, 
298, 308, 310 
Natural History Agency, 261 
Natural History Notes, 74, 98, 124, 152, 158, 
187, 210, 234, 256, 283, 307 
Book Circular, 213 
Natural History and Development of the 
Vorticellidee, 85, 109 
of the Ant, 55 
Nature, Calendar of, 152 
Naturalists’ Union, Yorkshire, 29 
Necroscilla Wilsoni, 310 
Nematoda, 7, 61 
Nest, a Strange Place for a, 211 
Nets for Collecting Coleoptera, 142 
Nightingale, 158, 159, 161, 187, 188, 211 
Nightjar, 210 
Northampton Castle, Excavations at, 54 
Northampton Natural History Society, 24 
Northants, Ferns of, 44 
Norwich Geological Society, 55 
Nottingham High School Natural History 
Soeiety, 103 
Nottinghamshire Land and Fresh-water 
Shells, 197 
Object Glasses for Mioroscope, 18, 19 
Gicistes umbella, 80 
Oil Immersion Lens, 18 
Olton Reservoir, 241 
Ophiocoma, 126 
Ophiolepis Damesii, 22 
Orchids, Fertilisation of, 21 
Orchis pyramidalis, 21 
Ornithological Society, New, 213 
Ornithology, 19, 22, 23, 25, 52, 63, 54, 74, 76, 
83, 94, 98, 101, 102, 122, 124, 128, 129, 133, 
152, 158, 159, 160, 161, 187, 188, 210, 211, 
213, 235, 256, 258, 261, 309, 310 
Ousel, Water, 23 
Owl, 102 
Paleontographical Society, 79, 214 
Palzxontology, 14, 16, 22, 44, 161, 189, 283 
Parasites, 162 
of Man, 7, 61, 112 
Partridges, Scarcity of, 253 
Passages from Popular Lectures, by F. T. 
Mott. II. The Scale of Being, 29 
Paste-eel, 129 
Pears and Apples, Exhibition of, 260 
Pebbles, Fossiliferous Bunter, in Drift, 283 
Pemis Apivorus, 22, 235 
Penarth, Ceratodus at, 21 
Petrology, a Book on, 55 
Microscope for, 213 
Phalarope, Grey, 259 
Phonograph, 79 
Phosphorescent Sea Weed, 260 
Photography, 54 
Autotype Process of, 26 
Pitcher Plants, On the Structures of, 
(illust.,) 265, 295 
Pitchstone, Microscopic Structure of, 107 
Plants and Animals, Geographical Distri- 
bution of, 9 
Plant Lice, Gall-making, 180 
Plants, What ae ee Cause of Hardiness 
in? 
Podiceps Cristatus, 22 
Answered by F. T. Mott, 68 
Pollen, 129 
of the Hazel, 128 
Polyzoa, (Fresh-water,) 26, 52, 76 
Mounting of, 76 
Popular Lectures, Passages from, 29 
Pools. Productive, 284 
Post-Tertiary Deposits of Cambridgeshire, 
(Review,) 155 
Postal Microscopical Society, 49 
Potato Disease, 149 
Pre-Cambrian Rocks, 103 
Groups in Shropshire, 158 
Predaceous Water Beetles of Leicester- 
shire, 57 
Fre gonous, American, of Coming Storms, 
Prionus coriarius, 26 
Prism, Rectangular, 18, 76 
Pronunciation of Scientific Names, 268, 298, 
308, 310 
Protamceba primitiva, 237 
Prothobathybius, 237 
Protoplasm, 236 
Puss Moth, 234 
Quail, 188 
Rails, (Water,) 102 
(Land,) 187, 188 
Rambles with a Hammer, 117 
Railway Cuttings, 127, 159, 489 
near Walsall, 201, 226 
Rainfall, (Remarkable;) 259 
1865—1879, 212 
—— 1878, 52, 213 : 
of November, 1878, 20; December, 
51; January, 1879, 75; February, 
99; March, 125; April, 157; May, 
186; June, 208; July, 233; 
August, 256; September, 282; 
October, 306. 
Rambles, Entomological, 
Forest, 193, 229 
Ray Society, 214 
Razorbill, 102 
Reason or Instinct, 212 
Redstart, 158, 188 
Redwings, 23, 76, 98, 128 
Reports of Societies, see Societies. 
Repton, Pre-Norman History of, 82 
Revivification, 129 
Reviews : 
Locality Record Club 
in Bewdley 
Botanical 
Report, 69 
Cardiff Naturalists’ Society’s Transac- 
tions, 205 
Geological Record for 1876, by W. 
Whitaker, 48 
Geology of East Somerset and the 
Bristol Coal Fields, 67 
