Index. 



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146 ; illness, 146, 321 ; removal 

 to Millport, 152; scientific work, 

 154, 285 ; lets the stars fall, 157 ; 

 her use as a fellow-traveller, 159, 

 318; journey to Norway, 199; 

 suspected of smuggling, 212 ; 

 makes a playful present, 228 ; 

 makes net by the roadside, 250 ; 

 hospitable ways, 308 ; makes a 

 friend at Peebles, 319 ; in diffi- 

 culties at Broad Bay, 320 



Roberts onia tenuis, 351 



Rolling stones, a plea for, 89 



Rosy feather-star, the, 345 



Rothesay, nest of Lima hians at, 

 175 ; proposed aquarium at, 299 



Roundstone, in Ireland, 242, 262, 

 265 



Rowan tree, 316 



Ruskin, on sandhoppers, 328 



Sabellaria alveolata, dwellings and 

 beautiful appearance of, 190, 194 

 Salting specimens, 263 

 Sand-eels, ways of catching, 159, 



294 



Sars, Professor G. O., works on 

 cumacea by, 189 ; conversation 

 of the Robertsons with, 203 



, Professor Michael, kindness 



of, 198 



Scalloway, 217 ; weird scene at, 220 

 Schistostega ostnundacea, 37 

 Scilly Isles, the, excursion to, 283 

 Scoop dredge, Robertson's, 239, 



245 



Scotch character, 314 

 Scotch Reformer Gazette, the, 119, 



122 



Scott, Sir Walter, 44, 65, 250, 314, 



3i6 



Sea-fowl, mortality among, 190 

 Sea-water, how to keep, in good 



condition, 173 



Seaweed, 131, 132, 133, 263 

 Seeley, Professor H. G., quotation 



from, 253 



Serpents, marvellous, 334, 335 

 Sheep, a, pet, 125 ; with wool 



pulled off, 224 

 Sheep Friday, 63 



Shetlands, in the, dress,* 2 15 ; birds, 

 216 ; medusae,22i ; knitting, 222 ; 

 women, 222 ; primitive water- 

 mills, 224 ; treatment of sheep, 

 224 ; nights, 225 ; visors, 226 



Shore -hunting, 237 



Sieves, use of, 368 



Siphonostoma, 176 



Skua, Richardson's, 216 



Skye, visit to, 319 



Sladen, Mr. W. Percy, letters to, 

 287, 306, 312, 313; letter from, 



307 



Slate, ruled, 366 

 Sleeping in, 2, 37 

 Slides, type, 305, 366; white and 



red, 343 

 Smiles, Dr., influential work by, 



301 



Smith, Mr., of Jordan hill, 332 

 Smugglers, 32, 39 

 Sneezing fit explained, 212 

 Snow-storm, asleep in a, 24 

 Society, Geological, of London, 



181 ; of Glasgow, 181 ; Linnaean, 



181 ; Natural History, of Glasgow, 



129, 135, 181, 185, 194, 213; 



Philosophical, of Glasgow, 181 ; 



Zoologico-botanical, of Vienna, 



182; Palaeontographical, 181, 



283, 293 



Sophrosyne Rohertsoni, 377, 382 

 Sparrows, 331 

 Spens, the, 41, 45 

 Sphc$roidina bulloides, 349 

 Spindlehoe farm, harvesting at, 



5.2 



Sponges, giant, 193 ; collection at 

 Roundstone of, 265 ; Dr. Bower- 

 bank's purchase of, 288 



Spoons, ram's-horn, 43 



Spratt, Admiral, 325 



Starfish, the brittle, 136, 157; five- 

 fingers, abnormal specimens of, 

 191 ; rare species of, 156 



Starfishes, Forbes's British, 135 



Steam-launch, The Medusa, 339 



Stegocephahis celticus, 192 



Sterna arctica, 217 



Stevenson, Mr., an ornithologist, 

 259 



