Vlll. 



KNOWLEDGE. 



Monck, W. H. S.— 



Letter on 61 Cygni 39 



Letter on The Distribution of the Stars ... 179 



Letter on The Snn's Radiant Heat ... ... 205 



Letter on Suspected Variable Stars ... 252 



Letter on Is the Stellar Universe Finite '? ... 276 



Moon, The "Seas" of the, What are they, 

 and What is the Cause of their Obscure 

 Appearance ? — 



By J. G. 0. Tepper 251 



Letter on ; by Laurence B. Tappenden ... 277 



Morley, George — 



Customs of Shakespeare's Greenwood ... 90 



Mosquitoes and Malaria — 



By Percy H. Gbimshaw ... ... ... 49 



Note on 254 



Mother-of-Pearl and its Sources— 



By E. Lydekker ... ... ... ... 97 



Mycetozoa, The, and Some Questions which 

 they Suggast— 



By Sir Edward Fry and Agnes Fry, 1, 56, 114, 



101, 194, 241, 271 



Naturalist, On the duty of a Field — 



By E. A. S. E. 260 



Nebula N.G.C. No. 1599 Persei, Photograph of 

 the— 



By Is.AAc Roberts 



Nebula, The, N.G.C. 2237-9 Monocerotis— 



Letter on ; by E. E. Mark wick 



Nebulae, Dark Rifts and Lanes in — 



Letter on; by W. E. Wir.soN 



Nebulae Surrounding the Star D.M. No. 1858 

 Monocerotis, Photograph of — 



By Isaac Roberts 



Nebulous Region Round the Cluster N.G.C. 

 No. 2239 IVIonocerotis 



39 



179 



206 



249 



132 



By Is.\Ac Roberts 



Nervous System, The, of our Empire — 



By John Mills 



Noses, A Contrast in — 



By R. Lydekker 



Nuttall, G. Clarke, B.Sc— 



The Discoloration of Cut Apples 

 Microbes in Co-operation 



Orchids, The Story of the— 



By Rev. Alex. S. Wilson ... 149, 210, 259 



Ornithological Notes, British — 



42 



174 



124 

 151 



Ages to wliicb Birds liye, On the ComparatiTe- 



J. H. Gurney ... 



Auk, Great, or Garefowl, Additional Xotes on- 



Svuiington Grieve ,., 



63 



14 



Auk, Great, Remains of, from Wliitepark Bay, 



County Antrim — W. J. Knowles ... ... 42 



Auk, Great, once an Irish Bird — R. J. Ussher ... 42 

 Birds of the Islands of Tiree and CoU, ObserFatious 



on the— L. H. Irby ... ... ... ... 253 



Black Grouse formerly an Irish Bird — G. E. II. 



Barrett- Hamilton ... ... ... .. 42 



Bustard, Little, in Breeding Plumage — Thos. 



Southwell ... ... ... ... ... 41 



Bustard, Macqueen's, in Aberdeenshire {correction) — 



H. F. W. ... ... ... ... 84 



See also page 42 



Buzzard, Common, and Domestic Fowl — Alan F. 



Grossman ... ... .. ... 14 



Buzzard, Honey, at Peterhead — William Serle ... 14 



Crake, Spotted, in County Down — " J. R." ... 14 



Cranes in Norfolk — J. H. Gui-ney ... ... 134 



Crossbill, Two-barred, in Sussex — N. F. Ticehur.st .. 278 



Cuckoo, -V Pet— Charles Campbell ... ... 14 



Cuckoo in December— E. C. .\. Byrom ... ... 41 



Cuckoo, Young, ejecting youn? Meadow Pipit ... 278 

 Cuckoos in Winter in Devonshire — W. S. M. D'Urban 41 

 Duck, Tufted, Breeding of, in South-west Derby- 

 shire — Francis C. R. Jourdaiu ... ... 253 



Fire-Crested Wren in Breconsliire— E. Cambridge 



Phillips ... ... ... ... ... 84 



Flamingo in Merionethshire — G. H. Caton Haigh... 42 

 Fulmar Petrel Breeding in Noss, Shetland — Robert 



Godfrey ... ... ... ... ... 42 



Fungoid Disease in Razorbill— T. H. Nelson ... 278 

 Golden-Crested Wren, Spring Immigration of the — 



Johu Cordeaux ... ... ... 158 



Goshawk, Nesting of the, in Yorkshire— Thomas 



Southwell ... ... ... ... ... 63 



Grouse, The Introduction of the Black, in Ireland — 



G. E. H. Barrett- Hamilton ... ... ... 63 



Grouse, Red, and Bantam Hybrid — J. G. Millais ... 84 

 Hawfinch in County Dublin — J. Trumbull ... 42 

 Heron, Night, in Co. Wexford— G. E. H. Barrett- 

 Hamilton ... ... ... ... ... 25.3 



Hobby, The Food of the— Charles A. Witchell ... 278 

 Hybrids — Mallard and Pintail, and Red Grouse and 



Bantam ... ... ... ... ... 84 



Increase and Decrease of Certain Species of Birds 



in the Tay Area— John Campbell ... ... 253 



King-Eider in Shetland— J. E. Harting ... ... 84, 134 



Linota exilipes (Coues) in Holderness — John 



Cordeaux ... ... ... ... ... 84 



Mallard and Pintail Hybrid — H. A. Macphersoa ... 84 

 Movements and Occurrence of Birds in Scotland 



during 1898, Report on— T. G. Laidlaw .. 229 



" Nightingale Thrushes "— C. A. Witchell ... 158 



Ospreys near London — J. E. Harting ... ... 14 



Owl, European Hawk, in Aberdeenshire — G. Sim ... 42 



Pastor, Rose-coloured, in Ireland — E. Williams 253 



Plialarojje, Grey, in Co. Armagh — Marsden ... 253 



Pipit, Richard's, in Cumberland — H. A. Macpherson 63 

 Plover, Sociable, The Occurrence of the, in Ireland — 



Edward Williams ... ... ... ... 278 



Ptarmigan, formerly an Irish Bird — G. E. H. 



Barrett- Hamilton ... ... ... ... 42 



Razorbill, Fungoid Disease in — T. H. Nelson ... 278 



Razorbill, Notes on the— Edward M'Canon ... 229 

 Remains of Bu-ds from the Lake-Dwellings of 



Glastonbury— C. W. Andrews ... ... 229 



Rook as an Egg-Stealer— Harry F. Witherby ... 133 



Sandgrouse in Lincolnshire — John Cordeaux ... 133 



Sandpiper, Buff-breasted, in Norfolk— E. C. Ai-nold 253 



Sandpiper, Spotted, in Ireland — F. Curtis ... 134 



