VI 



CONTENTS. 



Botanical Competition, 46, 198, 353 

 „ Exhibition, Novel, 46 

 ,, Notes, 69 

 ,, Rambles Round Edinburgh, 130 



Botany.— 59, 69, 116, 152, 183 

 Abnormal Cowslip, 59 



„ Marsh Marigold, 59 



Adaptability of Plants, 152 

 Albanism, 183 

 Anckusa sempcrvirens in Lincolnshire, 



59 



Anemone appenina in Esses, 59 



„ appenina in Ireland, 59 

 Bladderwort, 152 



Blue Jacob's Ladder in Somerset, 59 

 Botanical Exchange Club, 59 

 British Grasses, 59 

 Double Flowers, 152 

 Fasciated Daisy, 59 



„ Rose-Stem, 317 



Hepaticae, British, New List, 116 

 Orchidaceae in Surrey, 25, 59 

 Rare Plants in Lincolnshire, 59 

 Sandhills at Flushing, 116 

 Solomon's Seal in Hants, 59 

 Trifolium filijorme in Lincolnshire, 59 

 Veronica Montana near Louth, 59 

 Xenodochus carbonaria in Wales, 152 



British Freshwater Mites, 187 



„ Infusoria, 307, 345 



„ Mosses, 325 

 Bulimus decollatns, 17 



Calcarina candidissima, 9 



■Caltha pahtstris- n 



Casual and Alien Plants in North Lon- 

 don, 223 



Christmas Island, 106 



Clausilia swinhoci, 17 



Climate of the Yukon Basin, 335 



Coal in Kent, 32, 97, 157, 190 



Cochlostyla philippincnsis, 17 



Coloration and Variation of British Extra- 

 Marine Mollusca, 161, 194, 226, 255, 290, 



322, 343 



Coloration and Varieties of Mollusca, 254 

 „ and Zonulation in Tachea, 132 



Colour of Blood, 4 

 Coming of the Rains, 66 

 Confusion in Nomenclature, 2 

 Congress, Annual, of the South-Eastern 



Union of Scientific Societies, 42 

 Connulits fulvtts, 9 

 Contributions to the Life- Histories of 



Plants, 15, 38, 80, 105 * 



Correspondence, 62, 94, 156, 186, 215, 306 



Crystallizations of Fats, 237 

 Crystals, Rings and Brushes of, 236 



Cypraea arabica, 16 



Darwtn at Shrewsbury, 127 



Denton Collection of Butterflies and 



Moths, 232 

 Dickson, Baron Oscar, 31 

 Disseminating Yeasts, 292 

 Dust, 100 



Early Man in Egypt, 47 

 Earthworms, Destruction of, in Essex, 314 

 Earwigs, 188 



Eclipse of the Sun, January 22nd, 264 

 Energy, Rhythmic, in Plants, 39 

 Erythvaea, Variations in, no 

 Euglcna acus, 308 

 „ deses, 308 

 „ spirogyra, 345 

 „ viridis, 307, 308 

 Evolution of the Animal Cell, 250, 287, 320, 



347 

 Exchanges, 30, 62, 94, 126, 156, 215, 246, 



276, 306 

 Eyes of Insects, 113, 338, 366 



Fermentation Germs: how they are 



SPREAD, 222 



Fern, Swimming. 270 

 Fighting an Insect, 313 

 Flowering of Dead-Nettle, 129 

 Flagellata Eustomata, 307, 345 



Flying Fish, 79 



Foreign Varieties of British Land and 



Freshwater Mollusca, 45, 229 

 Fossil Bacillaria in New Jersey, 253 



Geology, 150, 180, 181, 212, 242, 273, 300, 



334. 357 

 Age of the Earth, 273 



„ Pre-Cambrian Series, 273 

 Ancient Glaciation, 273 

 British Jurassic Brachiopoda, 334 

 Carboniferous Flora, Yorkshire, 357 

 Cause of Ancient Submergence, 273 

 Chalk — Croydon to Oxted, 150 



,, Rock, 334 

 " Challenger" Notes, 357 

 Cheadle Heath Oak, 334 

 Correlation of Ancient Faunas, 212 

 Devizes, Geology of, 242 

 Egyptian Geology, 181 

 Eolithic Implements, 356 

 Erosion in the Nile Valley. 334 

 Evidence of Glaciation, 273 

 Fossil Club Mosses, 

 Foreign Boulders in Chalk, 242, 300 



,, Stones in Chalk, 273 

 Formation of Boulder Clay, 334 

 Geological Dates, 273 



,. Photographs, 283 



„ Records of South-East 



England, 180 

 Geological Titles of Formations, 242 

 Glacier Garden, 181 

 Gravels of South England, 356 

 Greenland Cretaceous Flora, 150 

 Growth of the Glaciers of the Alps, 181 

 Humus, 242, 300 

 Igneous Fragments in Bagshot Beds, 



300 

 Indiana Petroleum, 300 

 Intensity of Glacial Period, 273 

 Interstratified Quartzite, 212 

 London Geological Field Class, 357 

 Manganese Deposits at Harpenden, 25 

 Mediterranean, An American, 212 

 Microlites and Trichites, 180 

 Natural Gas, 300 

 Opal Pseudomorph, 356 

 Palas onto logical Review, 181 

 Permanence of Ocean Basins, 242 

 Phosphatic Chalk, 334 

 Pleistocene Beds at Carshalton, 212 

 Pot Holes, 181 



Prestwich Collection for Forres, 181 

 Problem of Diamond Making, 180 

 Pyritised Fossils, 242 

 Rate of Denudation, 273 



,, Flow of the Lava Streams of 



Etna, 181 

 Shale Oil, 357 



Streatham Water Supply, 357 

 Sussex Pleistocene Cliff-Formation, 212 

 Thurlow Meteorite, 181 

 Triassic Outlier, A Submarine, 357 

 Underground Fuel, 180 

 Village Built on a Boulder, 181 

 Worms, Work of, 357 



Greenwich Observatory, Annual Visita- 

 tion of, 49 



Helicoid Landshells, Armature of, 

 *Oi 36, 70, 102, 138, 170, 231, 263, 284, 332 

 Heliopkytuvi, Fecundity of, 38 

 Helix nemoralis in Ireland, 352 



„ ,, The Virginia Colony of, 67 



Honey-glands of Flowers, 80 

 How Flowers Attract Insects, 281 

 Humus, 242, 300 

 Hybrids in Nature, 81 

 Hypericum, Pellucid Dots in, 15 



Infusoria, British, 307, 345 



Jackson-Harmsworth Arctic Expedi- 

 tion, 137 

 June Ramble, 77 



Kent Coal-Fields, g7, 157, 190 



Lamium pitrpureum, Flowers and Flower- 

 ing of. 105 

 Latent Life in Seeds and Microbes, 295 

 Living Lamps, 167 



Maori Tattooing, 164 



Marine Biological Association, Journal 



of, 139 

 Marine Fauna at Folkestone, 140 

 Mars, Clouds seen on, 258 



,, Physical State of, 74, 258 



Megalodon ensifcr, 136 



Meteorology, 152 



Immense Meteoric Stone, 152 



Strasburg Conference, 354 



Waterspout oft Cromer, 152 



Weather Signs at Whitby, 152 

 Microbes in Air of Schoolroom, 179 



„ Atmospheric, 178 

 Micrometer Measuring Apparatus, 333 

 Microscopical Sections, Making, 260 



Microscopy, 57, 58, 86, 87, 88, 120, 121, 



122, 148, 149, 178, 179, 208, 209, 210, 



236, 237, 238, 269, 270, 271, 295, 332, 



333- 360 

 Acetylene Gas in Photomicrography, 



208 

 Alga?, Preservation of, 149 

 Alkaline Glycerine, 209 

 Amoeba villosa, Sporular Development 



of, 296 

 Antherozoids of Zamia, 271 

 Assimilation of Green Plants, 238 

 Atmospheric Dust, 178 

 Bacteria of Corn, 271 

 ,, Size of, 333 

 Bactericide, A New, 295 

 Bacterium Living in Alcohol, 149 

 Bird Lice, Economy of, 57 

 Baldness Microbe, 122 

 Balsam, Preparation of, for Mounting, 



179 

 Balsam, Tolu, Test for, 238 

 Chaulmugra Fat Crystals, 120 

 Chigoe, The, 360 

 Clearing of Vegetable Microscopica 



Sections, 237 

 Coccidia, Life Cycle of, 208 

 Colour Reaction, 148 

 Composition of Peat, 332 

 Condenser, A Simple, 208 

 Crystallization, Processes of, t 2 i 

 ,, of Fats, 237 



,, of Oils, 120 



„ of Salts, 269 



Crystals, Preparation of, 332 



„ Rings and Brushes of, 236 

 Culture Medium for Protozoa, 295 

 Curious Swimming Fern, 270 

 Diatoms, Reproduction of, 88 



„ Mineral Particles, etc., 



Separation of, 179 

 Diatoms in Stomachs of Oysters, 238 

 Discoloration of Flowers, 148 

 Dissemination of Disease Germs, 208 

 Drinking-Water and the Microscope, 



209 

 Earth's Development, The, 122 

 Eggs of Insects as Objects for the 



Microscope, 148 

 Fig Scale, The, 270 

 Filtering Medium, a New, 178 

 Flour Weevils, 122 

 Fly's Foot, A, 236 

 Foraminifera, 58, 333 



,, Pelagic Distribution of, 122 

 ,, Recent Research in, 87 

 „ Recent Research on, 360 

 Food Supply of Fish, 295 

 Formation of Gold Nuggets, 333 

 Fossil Bacteria, 121 

 Freshwater Mites, British. 86 

 Fungi, Influence of Nutrient Media 



on the Development of, 295 

 Fungi, Influence of Light on, 88 

 Fungus, A Mystifying, 179 

 Glycerine, 179 

 Haddonia, 269 

 Haematoxylin and Safranine, Double 



Staining with, 360 

 Haematoxylin Stain, The, 361 

 Harvest Bug, The, 333 

 Hen Flea, The, 149 

 House-Fly, The, 271 

 Hydra, Distribution of, 87, 120 

 Indian Ink in Microscopy, 360 

 Inter-Relations of Insects and Yeasts, 



209 

 Invisible Friends and Foes, Our, 332 



