CONTENTS. 



Metkokological, 50, 132 

 Aurora, 51 

 Notes, 50 



Rainfall in London, 1.32 

 Thunderstorm of May, 132 

 Trees Split by Frost, 51 



Meteorology, International, 149 



Microscope, A Student's, 127 



Microscopy, 21, 46, 81, 109, 137, 1G0, 188, 

 276, 306, 326 

 Caoutchouc Cement, Miller's, 326 

 Cautlwcamf'tiis minutus, 81 

 Centring Underfitting, New, 188 

 Codfish, Sections of Eye, 81 

 Codfish, Crystalline Lens, 137 

 Conochilus volvox, 109 

 Deutzia, Incinerated Leaf of, 137 

 Eye of Beetle for Multiple Image, 188 

 Fresh-water Algas, Study of, 326 

 High Magnification, 276 

 Hydra, What becomes of, 268, 276 

 Leeches, Interesting, 306 

 Marine Glue, 276,326 

 Melicerta, Adaptation in, 21 

 Micro-Botany in Norfolk, 306 

 Micro-Organisms of Sewage, 21 

 Micro-Organisms, Mounting Delicate, 



21, 46 

 Micro-Photography, 188 

 Microscopic Object, Interesting, 306 

 Microscopical Society, Royal. 21 

 Microscopy, Questions on, 276 

 Microtome, Adjunct to, 277 

 Microtome, An Improved, 228 

 Mildew in Slides, 276 

 Nymphon gracilis, 306 

 Paraffin Bath, Inexpensive, 160 

 Polynema nutans in August, 276 

 Pond Life under Ice, 306 

 Seasonable Objects, 326 

 Sea-Weeds, Preserving, 21 

 Symbiosis and the Microscope, 306, 326 

 Vegetable Sections, 21, 46, 81, 109 

 Vorticcllidans on Daphnia pubcx, 137 

 Xanthidia in Flint, 46 



Mineralogy, 176 



Moncrieffe Memorial Museum, 11 



Mourne Mountains, The, 85 



Natural History Exhibition, 15, 213 

 Natural History at Penarth, 315 

 Natural History Society, Glasgow, 



Transactions, 16 

 Neolith's Haunt, A, 261 

 Nettle-Taps and Crocus Flowers, 206 

 New British Moth, 226 

 New F.R.S., 93 

 New Lepidopterology, 229 

 Newspaper Natural History, 138, 2gi 

 Night-Jar, Habits of, 177 

 Noble Sanctuary, A, 180 

 North Sea Trawl Fishery, 148 

 Notes and Queries, 26, 53, 82, 109 138, 

 166, 194, 222, 249, 272, 305, 327 



Abnormal Goldfish, 327 



American Zygaenidae, 194 



Animal Hairs, 26 



Animal Intelligence, 167 . 



Autumnal Flowering, 222 



Bats, Habits of, 272 



Bees, Memory of, 272 



Biology in Essex, 109 



Bird-Notes, 194 



Blow-Flv, Anatomy of, 249 



Booth Museum of Birds, 327 



Caddis Worms, 109, 138 



Caddis Worms, Curious Behaviour, 82 



Chaffinch and Hedge-Sparrow in same 

 Nest. 249 



Chalk Rock in Herts, 166 



Clausilia, Cryptic Colouration in, 305 



Clouded Yellow Butterflies, 138 



Clouded Yellow Butterfly, Late, 249 



Coleoptera of Gloucestershire, 53 



Colonising British Insects, 327 



Coloured Plates, 167 



Common Centaury, White Variety, 272, 



3=5 

 Dendritic Crystals, Recent, 109 

 Diptera Collecting, 82 

 Dry-rot, 194 



Echinus norvegicus in Scottish Seas,305 

 Edible Fungi in Winter, 272 

 Exchanging Birds in Flesh, 53 

 Fish, Suspended Animation, 222 

 Fishes, Shower of, 194 

 Frost, The Late, 82 



Notes and Queries — continued. 

 Fungoid Potato Disease, 166 

 Geology at New Thames Tunnel, 138 

 Ginger-beer Plant, 26 

 Growth of Rats' Teeth, 139 

 Helix nemoralis as Ornament, 109, 138, 



222 

 House-Martins in Shetland, 222 

 Kingfisher, Nest of, 249 

 Laccfta agilis, Extending Range, 305 

 Land Shells, Local, in Kent, 249 

 Lightning, Unusual Sound from, 249 

 Luminosity in Animals, 167 

 Luminous centipede, 82 

 Lunar Phenomenon, 327 

 Marine Aquarium, 167, 194 

 Mollusca of Cheshire, 249 

 Molluscs, Notes on Land, 249 

 Moss Exchange Club, 272 

 Names Wanted, 26 

 Natural History Exhibition, 194 

 Notes from Norfolk, 222 

 Panchlora Madera: in London, 249 

 Partridge, Sudden Death, 194 

 Pigmy Flints, 82 

 Plantago major, Abnormal, 272 

 Preservation of Fungus Spores, 327 

 Pseudo-Albino Sparrows, 53 

 Reptiles in Captivity, 54 

 Rook Stealing Chicken, 109 

 Sabine's Gull in Yorkshire, 222 

 Sedge-warbler, Nesting-places, 249 

 Shells, Preservation. Colours of, 82 

 Snail Shell, Formation of, 194 

 Spider Crabs, 305 

 Splash of a Drop, 327 

 Spruce Fir, Rapid Growth, 167 

 Symbiosis, Plants and Animals, 26 

 Valvata piscinalis, a Spinner, 82 

 Volvox in Horse-trough, 222 

 Water Boatmen, 272 

 Winter Exhibitions, 167, 272 

 Woodpeckers near London, 327 

 Woodpigeons in London, 109 



Notes of Home Naturalist, 4, 35, 179, 232, 

 272, 3H 



Notholea orientalis, 30 



Notops macrourns, 30 



Notice to Correspondents, 28, 56, 84, 112, 

 140, 168, 196, 224, 252, 280, 308, 330 



Oak Seedling, An, 145 

 Obituary (see In Memoriam) 

 Oecistes syriacus, 30 

 Ortlictrum cairulescens, 40 

 Orchids, Collecting stopped, 324 

 Oscillatoria in Hot Water, 294 

 Our Annual Greeting, iii. 



Partridges, Unusual Nesting of, 



238 

 Perthshire Society, Natural Science, 11 

 Pigmy Flints, 36 

 Photography, 20, 47, 128, 165, 193 



Amateur Photographers, 165 



Camera in Forest, 47 



Exhibition of Photography, 47 



Foraminiferae in Mountain Limestone, 

 165 



Fossil Pine, 20 



Moving Pictures, 324 



Photography for Naturalists, 193 



Photography in Colours, 128 



Photography by X-rays, 274, 324 



Sections from Mountain Limestone, 128 



Stenopaic Photography, 193 

 Plant Products, Substitutes for, 117 

 Plants, Growth of, in Press, 267 

 Plants in Sierra Nevada, 175 

 Plants of Black Pond, 199 

 Plants, Stations, and Buoyancy of Seeds, 



42, 68 

 I'latetrum dcprcssum, 40 

 Pleistocene Mollusca of Crayford, 39 

 Prehistoric Human Remains, 313 

 Preservation, Fauna and Flora, 169 

 Primula, Abnormal, 99 

 Protection of Birds at Epping, 101 

 Pseudo-Albino Sparrows, 9 

 Pyrrhosoma minium, 42 

 Pyrrlwsoma tcnellum, 42 



Rabbit, Curious Death, 34 

 Rain, Black, in Ireland, 294 



Rambles on Highland Peak, 123 



Reports of Two Societies, iG 



Root-nodules of Plants, 70 



Rotche or Little Auk, Visitations of, 1 



Rotifer forjkatus, 30 



Rotifers, Syrian, 29 



Scale Insects, 151 



Science Abroad. 24, 49, 79, 107, 135, 162, 

 191, 219, 247, 275, 303, 328 

 Academ. Nat. Science: Philadelphia, 



219, 275 

 American Journal Pharmacy, 79 

 American Philosophical Society, 135 

 Annaes de Sciencias Naturaes, 303 

 Bolletino Musei. Zool. Torino, 303, 328 

 Bulletin, Botan. Depart., Jamaica, 24 

 Bulletin L'Academie Imperiale, 303 

 Bulletin Mus. d'Hist. Nat., 107 

 Bulletin Soc. Indust. de Mulhouse, 191 

 Bulletin Societe Philomatique, 219, 328 

 Bulletin Soc. Royale Linneene de 



Bruxelles, 219, 275 

 Bulletin Societe Zoologiquede France. 



275. 303, 328 

 Canadian Entomologist, 24, 79, 135, 219, 



247 

 Contributions to Queensland Flora, 247 

 Cosmos, 162, 191 

 Feuilles des Jeunes Nat., 219, 247, 275, 



303, 328 

 Insect Life, 135 

 L'Academie de France, 107 

 L'Aerophile, 191 



La Nature, 24, 49, 107, 135, 162, 191 

 L'Eclairage Electrique, 191 

 Moniteur Scientifique, The, 162 

 Museum, The, 79, 275 

 N. York Micro. Soc, 191 

 Natur und Haus, 328 

 Naturae Novitates, 135 

 Naturalista Siciliano, 303 

 New Science Review, 107 

 Open Court, 79 

 Popular Science. 247 

 Popular Science Monthly, 79 

 Portland Soc. Nat. Hist., 219 

 Reports, Exp. in Entomology. 135 

 Revue Biolog. du N. France, 328 

 Revue Scientifique, 107 

 Royal Soc. of Queensland, 219 

 Ruschenberger, W.S.W., 275 

 Science, 49 



Trinidad Field Nat. Club, 24, 191, 219 

 Victorian Naturalist, The, 247 

 Science-Gossip, 23, 48, 78, 106, 134, 162, 

 190, 218, 246, 274, 324 

 Animals in Mitchelstown Cave, 23 

 Ascelepiad, The, 23 

 Atmospheric Electricity, 78 

 Auto-mobile carriages, 218 

 Beach, Alfred E., Death of, 302 

 Cylindrograph, The, 106 

 Eggs on Spurn Point, 78 

 Emily E. Johnson, Cruise of, 7S 

 Entomologists' Record, 48 

 Greenland Shark off Scotland, 106 

 Horseless Age, The, 302 

 House-Sparrows in Winnipeg, 78 

 I rone, 134 



Liquefaction of Gases, 106 

 Manchester Museum, 302 

 Nyssia lapponaria, 78 

 Ornithologist, The. 274 

 Physical Phenomena of Atmosphere, 



134 



Polyporus Tablets, 162 



Proceedings of the Liverpool Geologi- 

 cal Society, 23 



Putorius hiberntcus, 7$ 



Royal Society, Presidency of, 134 



Stratiomyiidae, Larva- of, 21S 



Symons' Meteorological Journal, 23 



University of America, 4;* 

 Sedge- Warbler. Nesting-places of, 156 

 Selborne Society Field Clnb, The, 183 

 Serpents' Fangs, 225 

 She Oak, The, 234 

 Site of London, 312 

 Sole, Spawning of Common, 212 

 Spiders, Habits of, 11? 

 Spring Flowers, First Appearance, 153 

 Sundew and Ants, 19S 

 Sycamore, The, 236 

 Sj ":p. ti urn scottctim, 41 

 Sympettum vulgatum, 40 



