CONTENTS. 



Dana, Dr., Resignation of, 160 

 Davy-Faraday Research Laboratory, 121 

 Dead Flies on Grass, 33 

 Decomposition of Carbon, 246 

 Deep-sea Dredging for Amateurs, 204 

 Deep-sea Exploration (Greenland), 205 

 Dendrites, 267 



Dendritic Crystals in Books. 136 

 Dsndritic Crystals, 136, 156, 165, 190, 235 

 Digitalis. Inflorescence, 187 

 Diptera, The, as a Study, 19 

 Dispersal of Flora and Faunae. 28, 61, 139. 



145 



Dispersal of Plants, 145 



Dispersal of Shells, 15, 92 



Dragon-flies, British, 7 



Dragon-flies, Demoiselle, in Ireland, 15S 



Dragon-flies, Fossil, 283 



Dragon-flies, Larvas-nymphs of, 80, 100, 



127, 148, 176 

 Dredging, 152 

 Duckweeds, Habits of, 117 

 Duke, The Zoo Lion, Death, 259 



Early Flowering of Corydalis, 64 



Early Summer Migrants, 54 



East Sheen Common, 90 



Eclipse Microscope, 277 



Eclipses, 161, 185 



Edible Fungi in Surrey, 251 



Egg-laying, Erratic, 65 



Egg-laving of Helix pomatia, 99 



Egg with Three Yolks. 284 



Electricity in Horticulture, 124 



Entomological Club. 2S3 



Entomologist, U. States Chief. 138 



Entomostraca, 34 



Erratic Egg-laying, 65 



Estuary of the Crouch, 229 



Exchanges, 23, 48, 72, 96, 120, 144, 168, 



192, 216, 240, 264, 288 

 Exeter Canal, 34 



Fairy-flies, 67 



Falmouth, Magnetic Observatory at, 160 



Fasciated Asparagus, 159 



F'asciated Dandelion, 140 



Fasciated Svreet^pea, 140 



Fasciated Thistle, 117 



Fauna and Flora of Ireland, 266 



Ferns Eaten by Sheep, 43 



Ferns of Jamaica, 160 



Fertilization of Ruscus, 159 



Fish, A New British, 251 



Fish Commission, United States, 184 



Five-leaved Clover, 211, 236 



Flammarion, Astronomer, 89 



Flies on Grass, Dead, 30 



Flies Preying upon Gnats, 118 



Floating Telescope. 113 



Flora and Fauna?, Dispersal of, 28, 61 



Flora and Faunas of British Columbia, 



165, 189 

 Flora of Greenland, 45 

 Flora of Kaffraria. 160 

 Fly Preying upon Gnats, 189 

 Fly's Tongue, Query, 150 

 Food of Fungi, 93 

 Foraminifera, Chalk, 205 

 Foraminifera of the Gault, 156 

 Forests and Climate, 104 

 Forest Legislation, £6 

 Fossils, Lists of, from Ightham, 170 

 Four Abnormal Shells, 64 

 Foxey Stains in Books, 163, 189 

 Free Libraries, Science at, 15 

 Freshwater Snails in Trafalgar Square, 92 

 Freshwater Polyzoon, 105. 165 

 Frogs, Sensitiveness of Eyes. 43, 94 

 Fungus-hunting on the Ceiling, 140 

 Fungus Transitions. 93 

 Fungi at the British Museum, 32 

 Fungi, Cultivated Puff-balls, 165 

 Fungi, Edible, in Surrey, 251 

 Fungi. Preserving, 284 



Gannets os Little Skellig, 137 



Gardening Scholarships, 250 



Geological Maps, 190 



Geological Map of Europe, 214 



Geological Time. 214 



Geologists' Association, 42, 108, 138, 285 



Geologists' Association, Bristol, 108 



Geology, 21. 42, 108, 166, 190, 214, 236, 285 



Geology, Physical, 136 



Geology on River Cuckmere, 166 



Geologv, Swinev Lectures on, 1&4 



Geology and the' Relief of the Globe, 108 



Germination of Seeds, 212 



Giant's Causeway, 153 



Giant Telescope for Greenwich, 71 



Gila Monster, Bite of, 219 



Gilbert White's Letters, 253 



Ginger Beer Plant, 284 



Glacial Period, The, 236 



Glacial Period in Switzerland, 42 



Glow-worms in Autumn, 253 



Golden Eagle in Mayo, 138 



Goldfish Breeding in Captivity, 186 



Gonopteryx rhainni, hermaphrodite, 213 



Golf Clubs and Naturalists, 234 



Great Auk, The, 75 



Great Auk's Egg, 8 



Great Copper Butterfly, 20 



Great Mullein, 212 



Greengage, Germinated, 187 



Greenland Flora, 45 



Green Hellebore in North Kent. 45 



Green Woodpecker at Leith Hill, 83 



Growth of Sheils of Helices, 140 



Growth of Helix pomatia, 140 



Guernsey, A Ramble in, 84 



Holosphara viridis, 190 

 Hatching of Helix pomatia, 140 

 Haslemere Microscope and Nat. Hist 



Soc , Record of Lectures, 156 

 Hawfinches in Surrey, 19 

 Helices, Oviposition of Some, n 

 Helix aspetsa, mons., 64 

 Helix hoiiens.s, m. sinistrorsum, 235 

 Helix nemoralis, mons , 64 

 Helix pomatia, Egg-ld.ying, 99 

 Helix pomatia, Growth of, 140 

 Helix pomatia, Hatching of, 140] 

 Helix pomatia, Hibernation of, 50 

 Helix poynatia, mons , 64 

 Hellebore, Green, in North Kent, 45 

 Hepatic, A New, 252 

 Hibernation of Helix pomatia, 50 

 Hibernation of Vanessa v.rtica>, 232 

 Highest Observatory, 71' 

 House Martins. Materaal Care of, 165 

 Hump-backed Whale, 232 

 Hypnum confervoides in Wicklow, 45 

 Hybtid Sparrow, 44, 65 



Ightham Bone-Fissure, 169 



Ill-luck of Spring Flowers, 10 



Illustrating Sound Curves, 243, 273 



Improved Spirit Levels, 86 



In-Breeding, 283 



Incubation, Risks of, 102 



Indian Lore, 228 



Inhabitant cf Vauchena, 201, 233 



Insects and Disease, 67 



Insect Sight, 211 



Insectivorous Plants, 159 



Ireland, Fauna and Flora of, 266 



Ireland, Potagomogetan undulatus in, 117 



Iridescent Band on Windermere, 90, 165 



Irish Natural History, 137 



Iron Trade, Ancient, 10 



Irrito-contractility of Plant Tissue, 156 



Isocardia cor, Vais. of, 122 



Jackdaws and Ducklings, 139 

 Jackdaw and Young Ducks, 139 



Kent. Osprey in, 225 

 Kent, Rutifers in, 173 

 Kestrel as a Pet, 186 



Lake District, Mollusca of, 116 

 Larva-nymph of Brachytron pratense, 273 

 Larvas-nymph of British Dragon-Flies", 



80, 100, 129, 148, 176, 272 

 Late appearance of Peacock Butterfly, 



284 

 Leaf-like Timber Stains, 226 

 Leaf-nature of Bud-scales, 217 

 Leguminous Plants in Aberdeenshire. 



287 

 Lepidoptera, New. in Britain, 259 

 Lepidoptera in Yorkshire, 224 

 Lichens, North of England, 117 

 Limbs of Tribolites, 108 

 Lindley Library, 184 

 Liverpool Marine Biology Committee, 



66 

 Lord Salisbury and Evolution, 147 



Locust in London, 20 



Lower Cambrian Series, 51, 78 



Lycoperdon pyriformc, 40 



Marine Rotifers in Captivity, 34 

 Marine Animals, Preserving, 172 

 Marine Zoology, 189 

 Marine Zoology of the Irish Sea, 233 

 Marine Zoology, Practical Hints on, 98 



151, i/2 

 Market Value of Specimens, 225 

 Mars, Canals of, 113 

 Megaptcra lomgimana, 205 

 Meteors, 261 



Meteors, Photography of, 261 

 Meteorology and Hygiene, 66 

 Microscope, A Farmer's, 34 

 Microscope, Dr. Dallinger od, 114 

 Microscope, " Eclipse," 277 

 Microscope, Stereoscopic Binocular. 65 

 Microscopic Objects, Modeled in Wax, 



190 

 Microscopic Preparations, 257 

 Microscopy, 34, 65, 114, 136, 156, i9°> 211, 



257 



Microscopy, Works on, 18 



Micro-slides, New, 65, 114 



Micro-studies, New, 284 



Mild December, 1894, 44, 285 



Mimicry in Strombus, 44 



Mineral Collector, 234 



Mineral Plant-food, 66 



Minerals. Some Scarce, 276 



Mineralogy at British Association, 166 



Minor Planet Discovery, 89 



Minor Planets, Diame.ers of, 142 



Misletoe, Life History of, 160 



Mock Suns, 133 



Mollusca in Medicine 114 



Mollusca of the Lake District, 58, 92, 116 



Monograph of Lichens (British), 134 



Mont Blanc (Observatory) 71 



Moon, 23, 47, 71, 89, 113, 142, 161, 185, 209, 



237 

 Moon (Full) and Clouds, 71 

 Moon and Storms, 71 

 Mosses, Notes on, 45 

 Moth-catching Plant, A, 64, 181 

 Mount Logan, 112 

 Mount Orizaba, 112 

 Mount St. Elias, 112 

 Mounting Small Objects, 211 

 Museum, British, 44 

 Museum, Booth, 258 

 Museum, Canadian, 223 

 Museum, Nottingham, 35 

 Mushroom, A Spring, 57 

 Myriophyllum, 199 



Names Wanted, 284 



Natural History Exhibition 284 



Nebula near Pleiades, 237 



Nests and Eggs. Non-Indigenous Birds. 



208 

 New Illuminant, A, 278 

 New Microbes, 211 

 New Micro-Studies, 284 

 New Micro-Slides, 65, 114 

 Niagara, 190 



Nightingale in North Wales, 116 

 Nitrates in Living Plants, 212 

 North of England Lichens, 117 

 Notes on Shellness, 116 

 Notes and Queries, 8, 43, 65. 94, 118, 139, 



165, 189, 211, 235, 284 

 Notices to Correspondents, 23, 48, 72, 96? 



119, 144, 168, 192, 216, 240, 264, 288 

 Nottingham Museum, 35 

 Nova Norma?, 89 

 Nuts in the South, 189 



Obituary : — 

 Figuier, Louis, 234 

 Ranyard, A. C, 249 

 Romanes. George John, F.R.S., 97 

 Topley, William, F.R.S., 214 

 Weir, John Jenner, F.L.S., 49 

 White. F. Buchanan, M.D., F.L.S., 241 



Omens of Butterflies, 67 



Orchidaceae, Pollinia of, 53 



Ontario. National Park for, 283 



Ornithological Notes from Yorkshire, 222 



Oology in Canada, 44 



Opisthostomas of Borneo. On the. 5 



Opisthostoma=, The, 44 _ 



