CONTENTS. 



A Garden of Pleasure, 159 

 Abnormal Cabbage Leaf, 119 

 Abnormal Growth of Ash, 6 

 Abnormal Ox-Eye Daisy, 151 

 Abnormal Plantain, 178 

 Abnormal Primula, 99 

 Abnormal Strawberry, 150 

 Acorn Germinating, 147 

 Acorn, Sections of, 145 

 Algonquin National Park, 181 

 Alfum Bay, Section, 95 

 Aquarium, Section of, 123 

 Ash in Summer Habit, 203 

 Ash in Winter Habit, 202 

 Atherfield to Blackgang, Section, 63 

 Aurora Display, 50 



Beam, The, Lesser White, 113 

 Beech Tree in New Forest, 47 

 Binocular Zeiss Field Glass, 9S 

 Binocular Zeiss Telescope, 9S 

 Brazilian Motmot, 103 

 By Tangled Paths, 296 



Camer?, Chronophotographic, 242 



Camera, open, 193 



Catching Mussels, 1S5 



Cell-Wall, 8 



Centring Underrating, 188 



Corn Blue-Bottle, 43 



Cotyledons, 172 



Daisy, 42 



Double Fruit of Orange, 31 



Editor, Late, of Science-Gossip, 

 Eli Collins, Truffle Hunter, 187 

 Elm, Small-Leaved, 320, 321 

 Elm, Wych, 292, 2g3 

 Embryo, Section of Half, 146 



Field Glass, folded, 21: 

 Field-Glass, open, 212 

 Flight of Herons, 241 



ILLUSTRATIONS. 



Flint Implements, 36, 37, 261, 262, 309, 



310, 311 

 Fossil Pine, 20 

 " Frena " Film-Holder, 3 figs., 126 



Galvanometer Scale and Lamp, 233 

 Geology in Wee Cumbrae, 33 



Himanthalia lorea, 215 

 Hydrometra stagnarum, 201 

 Hypnum Jilieiiutm, 284 



Incisors of Rat, 2 figs., 139 



Isle of Wight, Geological Sections, 63, 95 



Limestone Boulder, 165 

 Limnea palustris, 39 

 Lithostrotion from Limestone, 12S 

 Lunar Phenomenon, 327 



Maple, Summer State, 239 



Maple, Winter State, 239 



Melicerta ringens, x 100, 57, 59 



Micro. -Photo Apparatus, 188 



Microscope, New Pattern Student's, 188 



Microscope, Student's, 127 



Molluscs, Sight in, 66, 67 



Moncreiffe Museum, Perth, 12, 13 



Moon, Rings round, 327 



Mountain Limestone, 165 



Mourne Mountains, 85, 87 



Narina trogon, 102 

 Neolithic Remains, Surrey, 261, 262 

 Nest of Gadwall, 243 

 Nesting-Hole of Wryneck, iS 



Oak Split by Frost, 51 

 Object-Holder, Adjustable, 277 



Paraffin Bath, 160 

 Parrot, Portrait of a, 193 



Pasteur, Louis, 197 



Phaseolus multi/iorits, 70 



Pheasant, The, 158 



Picris hieracioides, 44 



Finns Sylvestris, Abnormal, 28 1 



Pigmy Flints, 36, 37 



Plant ago major, 17S 



Polynema natans, 89 



Porphyritic Eurite in Ireland, 253 



I'yrus minima, 113 



Reinke's Dredge, 214 

 Ring-net and Bottle, 326 

 Rocking Microtome, 228 

 Root-Nodule of Scarlet Runner, 71 

 Root Nodules of Red Clover, 70 

 Root-Nodules of Scarlet Runner, 70 

 Rotche, or Little Auk, 1 



Scolopendiium vulgarc, 270, 271 



Sea-Birds' Citadel, 19 



Sedum telephium, 267 



Sialis, Eggs of, 257 



Spectra, Argon and Nitrogen, 5 



Sphczrium corneum, 39 



Splash of a Drop. 297, 29S, 2gg 



Skeleton of Casuarina, 234 



Skeleton of Equisetum, 234 



Sycamore, before Flowering State, 237 



Sycamore, Summer State, 236 



Sycamore, Winter State, 238 



Syrian Rotifers, 29 



Uninvited Guests, 157 



Unio littoralis, from Crayford, 39 



Vortex Ring, Birth of, 75 



Wych Elm, 293 



Wych Elm, Spray of, 292 



Young Coots. 1S6 



ARTICLES, NOTES, ETC. 



Abnormal Ash Plant, 6 

 Abnormal Plants, 150, 178 

 Abnormal Primula, 99 

 Adactyla verrucosa, 30 

 JEschna cyanea, 41 

 sEschna grandis, 41 

 Aischna juncca, 41 

 sEschna mixta, 41 

 Agriculture, Experimental, 124 

 Agrion puclla, 42 

 Agrion pulchillum, 42 

 Alderfly. Development of, 257 

 Alpine Plants, 254 

 Anax formosus, 41 

 Animals, Changing Habits of, 295 

 Aphelininae, Revision of, 231 

 Aquarium for Microscopic Life, 122 

 Aquatic Hymenopterous Insect, 89 

 Argon, Notes on, 60 

 Argon, The New Element, 5 

 Aria, Group of British Pyri, The, 113 

 Ascidia, Example of an, 119 

 Astronomy, 25, 49, 77, 105, 133, 161, 1S9, 

 217, 245, 301, 325 



Astrographic Chart, 161 



" Astrophysical Journal," 25 



Comets, Nature of, The, 25 



Driving Clock, Improved, 325 



Earth's Rotation and Sleep, 301 



Eclipse Committee, 105 



Encke's Comet, 25 



Faye's Comet, Return of, 217 



Jupiter, 77 



Mars, 77 



Astronomy — continued. 

 Mars, Atmosphere of, 25 

 Mars, Observation of, 133 

 Mercury, 77, 105, 133, 189, 245, 273 

 Meteors, 49, 105, 217, 301 

 Meteors, Shower of, 161, 245, 301 

 Moon, 25, 49, 77, 105, 133, 161, 1S9, 217, 



-45 



Moon, Total Eclipse of, 25, 4g 



Mountain Sickness, 77 



Nebular Theory, Notes on the, 273 



Popular Astronomy, iSg 



Saturn, 49, 77, 105 



Saturn's Ring, 105 



Scientific American, The, 133 



Sinus Iridum, 217 



Spectroscopic Astronomy, 105 



Sun, 25, 49, 77, 105, 133, 161, iSg, 217, 

 ?45> 301 



Sun, Eclipse of, 301 



Telescope, New Form of, 25 



Uranus, 77 



Venus, 49, 77, 105 



Verke's Observatory, The, 189 

 Auk, Little, Visitation of, 1 

 Aurora Borealis, 51 



Bacteria and Filtration, 124 

 Berlin Nat. Hist. Museum, 118 

 Bibliographical Bureau, 268 

 Binocular Telescopes, New Hand, 99 

 Biological Distribution, 175 

 Birds in long Frosts, 20 



Books to Read. 17, 75, 102, 129, 157, 1S5 



214, 241, 269, 296 

 Abstract Proceedings, South London 



Nat. Hist. Soc, 1S94, 104 

 Annals of British Geology, 1S93, 76 

 Astronomers and their Observations, 



159 

 Birds, Beasts and Fishes of Norfolk 



Broadland, 130 

 Birds' Calendar, 104 

 Bird Notes, 104 



Birds of Wave and Woodland, 18 

 British and European Butterflies and 



Moths, 29S 

 British Birds. 1S7 

 British Moths, 299 

 By Tangled Paths, 296 

 Cambridge Natural History, 269 

 Catalogue of Marine Mollusca o 



Japan, 242 

 Chats about British Birds, 522 

 Chemists and their Wonders, 159 

 Chess Openings, 160 

 Climates of Geological Past, 157 

 Collected Papers on Controverted 



Questions of Geology. 76 

 Consider the Heavens, 244 

 Country Pastimes for Boys. 185 

 Dictionary of Bathing Places and 



Climatic Resorts, 104 

 Earth-Knowledge. 244 

 Elementary Inorganic Chemistry 244 

 Elementary Physiology, 216 

 Fern Growing, 270 



