Index. 



393 



1 88 ; his paper on embryology, 

 190; letters to, 227, 274, 275, 

 301, 302 



Domestics, position of, 45 



Donax vittatus, in the Hebrides, 

 319 ; at Cumbrae, 319, 332 



Douglas, Mr., 75, 83, 87 



Dredge, naturalist's, 239 ; scoop, 

 240, 367 ; wee, 245, 277 



Dredging, pleasures of, 130 ; com- 

 panions in, 154; expedition caught 

 in a storm, 178 ; at Drobak, 

 2IQ; conditions of, 239; in Ire- 

 land, 243 ; at Boness, 248 ; in 

 Phoenix park, 262 ; off the Scilly 

 Isles, 285 



Drobak, visit to, 209 



Dunn, Mr., the taxidermist, 218 

 ing, 75. 84, 85 



Ear-bones, of fishes, 252, 368 

 East Kilbride, n, 55, 65, 287 

 Echinus, species of, 287 

 Edinburgh, 247 

 Editors, how to judge of, 121 

 Edward, Thomas, of Banff, 160, 



165, 299 

 Elie, 247, 249 

 Endothyra subtilissima, 346 

 Erpetocypris Robert soni, 353 

 Errol, 247 



Etheridge, Mr. R., jun., 287 

 Ewart, Professor, 345 

 Excisemen, story of, 39 

 Exhibition, Jennie's visit to the, 



123; the Fishery, 323, 324; the 



Great, 323 



Fairland or Farlane Point, 153 

 Farm, moorland, life at a, 41 

 Fauna and Flora of West of Scot- 



land, 309 



Fern Bank, 150, 357, 359 

 Field Naturalists' Society of Glas- 



gow, 310, 311 

 Fintry Bay, 357 



Fishery Exhibition in 1883, 323 

 Flemingia plumosa, 1 76 

 Float Whey, 9 

 " Floating " ostracoda, 374 

 Foraminifera, Mrs. Robertson's 



study of, 154 ; caught in a bottle, 

 214; in the Shetlands, 221; 

 carboniferous, 283 ; from Scilly, 

 285; in Portree Bay, 319; from 

 the Valorous, 325 ; from the 

 Mediterranean, 325 ; forms of, 347 



Forbes and Hanley, 328 



Forbes, on British Starfishes, 135 ; 

 on the Brittle Starfish, 136 



Fossils, from carboniferous shale 

 heaps, 91 ; catalogue of the 

 Western Scottish, 309 



Frauenfeld, Georg Ritt. von, 182 



Frog, strange behaviour of, 86 



Gamrie, post-tertiary deposits at, 

 167 



Garnet, Dr., 70 



Garrison 'Bay, 357 



Gatherer, Mr., 216, 269 



Geneva, lake of, 289 



Geological Society of London, 181 ; 

 of Glasgow, 181 



Geology, Craig's lectures on, 91 ; 

 remarks on, 144 ; Robertson's 

 early study of, 153 



Get, to, use of verb, 47 



Girl, as a guide, 138 



Glasgow, waterworks, I ; Nelson 

 Monument, 2; the child's visit 

 to, 5; Sandy's discomfiture in, 

 6 1 ; Universities of, 69 ; David's 

 residence in, 71, 73, /6> 88, 

 156 ; character of, 125 ; learned 

 societies in, 129, 181 ; Meeting of 

 British Association at, 309 



Glasgow, Earl of, 83 



Glasgoiv Herald, the, contributions 

 to, 119; humorous poem by 

 editor of, 278 



Glen Luce, Bay of, the shores of, 

 192, 281 



Glow-worms, 85, 316 



Glycerine, used upon Starfishes, 



'57 



Goldsmith's "Animated Nature," 



5 2 



Gorse, ornamental use of, 295 

 Gosse, the Rev. P. H., 144, 192 

 Graham, Dr., 8l, 82 

 Granton Zoological Station, 338 



