CONTEXTS. 



Parasites of Humble Bees, 343 

 Parasitic Dipteron, 176 

 Periodicals, Index to, 88 

 Persistence of Low Forms of Life, 130 

 Phenology in Aberdeenshire, 156 



in Ireland, 125 

 Photographic Exhibition, Crystal Pal., 22 

 Physical Apparatus, New, 197, 230, 278, 



303 



State of Mars, 24 

 Photography, 379 

 Physics. 



Bolometer, Langley's, 312 



Coherers, 285 



Current Interrupter, 372 



Electric Fish, Nile, 372 



Electric Light, Nerust, 344 



Electricity, Atmospheric, 372 



Flicker Photometry, 305 



High Vacua by Liquid Hydrogen, 344 



Influence Electrical Machine, New, 285 



Liquefying Oxygen, 24 



Nuclei of Condensation, 285 



Physical Laboratory, National, 182 

 ,, Society, 312 



Radiography and Human Subjects, 24 



Resistance, Standard High, 344 



Space Telegraphy, 285 



Specific Resistance of Steels, 285 



Temperatures, Measuring Extreme, 344 



Volumenometer, A New, 312 



Zeeman Effect, The, 285 

 Pieris brassicte. Abundant, 154 

 Pigeon, Speed of Flight, 88 

 Pisidium nitidum. New Variety, 73 

 Plants and Animals of Different 

 Soils, 40, 79 

 ,, Arctic, in Britain, 2 

 ,, Medical Importance, British, 309 

 . ,, see Botany 

 Plague in Europe, 169 

 Platyptilia, Distribution of, 60 

 ,, tesseradactyla, 60 



Plea for Owls and Kestrels, 121 

 Plume Moths of America, 24, 60 

 Poecilochirus fucorum, 373 

 Polypterus, Embryology of, 284 

 Post, Sample, 284 

 Practical Object Lessons, 244 

 Present Evolution of Man, 199 

 Preservation of Croham Hurst, 321 



,, ,, Wicken Fen, 291 



Rain, Deficiency of, 342 

 Rainy Days in Britain, 30 

 Reviews of Books, see Books to Read 

 Riviera, Easter Entomology on, 289 

 Natural History of, 60, 125 

 Robin, A Tame, 309 



Sample-post, 284 



Sandgrouse, in Lincolns., 372 



San Jose Scale-insect, 245 



Science Abroad, 24, 61, 94, 119, 150, 189, 

 251, 349 ' 



Acetylene, Action on Ammonium 

 Metals, 251 

 ,, Imperfect Knowledge, 349 



Actineans, Some New, 349 

 Algae of Adriatic, 251 

 American Journal or Science, 349 

 Anaesthetics, Influence on Plants, 251 

 Arms of Ancient Egypt, 94 

 Balloon Observations, 189 



,, of Leonids, 251 



Beetles, New Bolivian, 94 

 Bolletino Musi Zool., Turin, 94, 349 

 Bulletin de la Soc : Philomat, 24, 94 

 ,, Linneene, de Bruxelles, 349 

 Butterfly, African in Australia, 189 

 Calcium Carbide, Alcohol from, 24 

 Canadian Experimental Farms, 150 

 Case-Moths, Australian, 61 

 Chigoe, Habits of, 61 

 Chlorophyll, Assimilation of, 189 

 Coins of Laodicea, 94 

 Colonizing English Birds, Australia, 1 19 

 Colours of Porcelain, 189 

 Comptes Rendus, 61, 189, 251 

 Conservatoire of Arts, Pans, 94 



Science Abroad — continued 



Cosmogony, New Theory of, 189 



Cosmos, 24, 94, 189, 349 



Crustaceae, Classification, 24 



Crustaceae, Decapod of W. Indies, 94 



Cuba, Soil of, 61 



Diplopodi, New Species of, 349 



Dried Mud, Animals Living in, 189 



Egyptian Arms, 189 



Electrical Exhibition, Turin, 189 



Embalming, Science of, 349 



Errant Frustules of Diatoms, 119 



Field Columbian Museum, 119 



Flowers Fertilized by Mice, 24 



French Neoliths, 24 



Fungi of Kerguelen Island, 119 



Fungoid Coloration of Protoplasm, 251 



Fungus, Little-blue-foot, Edible, 94 



Galago at Berlin, 231 



Girard, Charles, Portrait, 24 



Glaciers of Apennines, Ancient, 94 



Grafting, Physiology of, 349 



Green Ray, The, Observed, 189, 231 



Helices, West American, 119 



Inflammability of Vapours, 61 



Insects, Endoderm of, 94 



Journal de ]'Acet}-lene, 349 



Labiate Plant in Victoria, New, 119 



Laburnums, Grafting, 349 



Leonids at Lyons, 251 



Malacological Notes, 94 



Mammals of Bolivia, 94 



of N. America, 119 

 Mammoth Ivory, 189 

 Mantis, The Praying, 251 

 Mars, Physical state of, 24 

 Molluscs, Littoral of Patagonia, 349 

 Moss in Victoria, New, 119 

 Museum Philadelphia, Reports, 349 

 Mushrooms, Edible, 94 

 Nature, La, 24, 61, 94 

 Nature, La Excursions, 24 

 Nautilus, 24 

 Natur und Haus, 231 

 Origin of Vertebrates, 61 

 Orthoptera of Ecuador, 94 

 Oxidation of Pyrogallal, 61 

 Oxygen Liquefying, 24 

 Palms, Illustrations of, 251 

 Panama Canal, 349 

 Pear Blight, Bacteria Causes, 251 

 Philadelphia Academy, 119, 349 

 Pigeons, Carrier at Sea, 94 

 Plants and Phosphoric Acid, 251 

 Radiography in Surgery. 24 

 San Jose, Scale-insect, 349 

 Science, 251 ' 

 Shells, Freshwater of Abyssinia, 94 



,, of Gulf of Aden, 119 

 Shrike-robin, Australian, 61 

 Societe Philomatique, 24 

 Spectrum Analysis of Minerals, 61 

 "Sulphur" Shower in France, 34 

 Synthesis of Phenol, 251 

 Telegraphs, African, 94 

 Trayas, Harbours of 94 

 Tree, A Strange, 24 

 Triphoridae of Red Sea, 24 

 Triton, New Italian, 94 

 Victorian Naturalist, 61, 119, 189 

 Volcanic Rocks in Pennsylvania, 119 

 Wireless-telegraphy, 61 

 Xenopus, New Species of, 349 

 Yeast Fermentation, 251 



Science and Art Buildings, New, 62 



,, Gossip, 22, 62, 88, 121, 134, 182, 



216, 245, 284, 312, 342, 372 

 ,, in Session, 147 



Scientific Work in 1898, 284 



Sea Fisheries, Scotch, 342 



Sea-water Mite in Freshwater, 293 



September, 1898, 180 



Shark, Man-eating in Torbay, 243 



Sharks, Danger in British Waters, 134 



Shells, ^-banded Wanted, 20 

 Nomenclature of, 20 

 ,, of the Isle of Man, 98 

 ,, see Malacology 



Singing-fly, 34s 



Skull of Elephant at Spurn, 342 



Skylark, White in Ireland, 93 



Snake Poison, Antidote, 62 



Societies' Notices— End of each Number 

 Societies Transact., 29, 63,95, I2 7' '59' 

 190, 221, 254, 287, 319, 350 

 ,, Metropolitan, 32, 64, 96, 128, 



160, 192, 224, 253 

 Astronomical Society, Royal, 313 



,, .. of Wales, 216 



British Association, 147 ; at Dover, 22, 

 285 ; at Glasgow, 366 

 ,, Mycological, 179 

 Cambridge Nat. History Society, 319 

 Carlisle" Natural History Society, 351 

 City of London Nat. History Soc, 127, 



159, 191, 221 254, 319, 3 5 " 7 

 ConchologicalSoc, London Branch, 63 

 Entomological Club, The, 270 

 Greenock Nat. History Soc, 159, 223 

 Guernsey Natural Science Societv, 22 

 Hull Scien. Field Club, 30, 95, 319 

 Irish Field Club Union, 62, 121 

 Lambeth Field Club, 223 

 Leicester Literary Soc, 159, 287 

 Manchester Microscop. Soc, 123 

 Meteorological, Royal, 30, 63, 221, 287, 



319. 34 2 

 ,, Removal of, 245 

 ,. ,. Station, Ben Nevis, 122 



Moss Exchange Club, 342 

 North London Nat. His., 30, 119, 190, 



S 1 ^. 35° 

 i) ,. ,, ,, Exhibition, 



245, 268 

 Nottingham Scien, Rambling Club, 216 

 Rastrick and Brighouse Society, 121 

 Royal Institution, 233 



,, Society, Conversazione, 22 

 Scarborough Philos. Soc, 22 

 Selborne Society, 93 

 Sheffield Micro. Soc, 316 

 South Eastern Union Societies, 29, 36, 



216, 342 

 South London Nat. His., 29, 63, 127, 



159,190, 216, 221, 254, 287, 350 

 Warrington Field Club, 31 

 Yorkshire Naturalist Union, 121, 227 

 Zoological Soc, London, Income, 22 

 Spectacles, Retailing of, 88 

 Sphinx convohndi, Abundant, 188 

 Succulents at Kew, 330, 364 

 Surface Net, Collecting with, 73 

 Sussex Flora, Additions, 260 

 Swan Mussels, Large, 34 s 

 Swift, Flight of, 92 



Technical Education and London County 



Council, 245 

 Temperatures, Measuring Extreme, 344 

 Temperature of Jan. and June, 62, 98 

 Thames Valley, Drift of, 194, 264 

 Thecla 111-album, 60 

 Theory of the Earth, 158. 281 

 Thrush Nest, New Type, 363 

 Tides, Galileo's Treatise on, Found, 315 

 Tortoise, Greek, 359 

 Transactions, see Societies 

 Trees, see Botany 



Unscientific Gossip, 156 



Vaccine, Pure, 232 

 Vanadium, Discovery of, 88 

 Vernacular Names, 233 , 

 / cspa austriaca, 6g 



,, in Scotland, 220 



Virchow's, Prof, Address, 182 



Water-bugs as Food, 182 



Waterglass, Marine, 373 



Watkin's Mountain Aneroid, 294, 339 



Weather Lore, 25 



Whale in Chancery, 14 



Whales at South Kensington, 21 



Whitechapel Museum, 312 



Wicken Fen, Preservation of, 2Q1 



Wild Birds Protection Act, Additions 284 



Windermere, Rainbow Wonders of, 233 



Wireless Telegraphy, 284, 285 



Yukon Goldfields, 22 



Zebra Hybrids, 335 



