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SCIENCE-GOSSIiP. 



[1865. 



Child poisoned by a Toad, 11]. 



China-grass, 18, 2"". 



Chironeph'ilvs diaphanus, 45. 



Choice of a JVIicroscope, 2f^. 



Chloroform and Balsam, 45, 69. 



Christmas leaves, 2S3. 



Cilia of DiatomaceEe, 237. 



Cilia of Vol vox, 263. 



Cinders in Cultivating Fern?, 188. 



Cineraria and Ants, 143. 



Circle of Life, 145. 



Circulating Cabinet, 236. 



Circulation in a Fly, 2S9. 



Circiilation of Cosmarium, 94. 



ClausUia Blortilleti, 61. 



Cleaning Diatomaceae, 52. 



Cleaning Echinus Spints, 91. 



Cleaning Insects, 72. 



Cleaning Objects, 142. 



Cleaning Sections, 47. 



Clio borealis, 183. 



Clip, Improved, 189. 



Clouded Yellow Butterfly, 281. 



Cluster-cups, 67. 



Coal, our Stock of, 210. 



Coal's Account of itself, 91. 



Coal-plants, 210. 



Cobbler-Botanist, the, 66. 



Coccus on Ash, 216. 



Coccus of Oranges, 96. 



Cochineal, 210. 



Cockroaches and Crickets, 42, 66. 



Cod-flsh, Baltic, 261. 



Cod-fish Eges, 21U. 



Collecting Diatoms, 85. 



Collecting Objects, 69. 



Collecting Roses, 43. 



Colias in e.\cbange, 286. 



Colour of Birds' Eggs, 39, 47, f7, H2, 



231. 

 Comntula rosacea, 95, ] 12. 

 Common Things, 217. 

 Common Things Unknown, 88. 

 Comparative Increase in Size, 2' 6. 

 Compound Eyes of Insects, 228, 249. 

 Conchologicel Works, 48. 

 Condenser, Bull's-eye, 212. 

 Condenser, Economic, 90. 

 Condenser, Webster's, 140. 

 Cone, Fossil, 259. 

 Conferva, Green, II9. 

 Conservatory Guide, 239, 262. 

 Corallines, 177. 

 Coral Reefs, 112, 220, 285. 

 Corals and Barnacles, 211. 

 Corals and Madrepores, 287. 

 Corals and Sponges, 187. 

 Cork Bark for Fern-cases, 3i. 

 Corn Poppy, White, 167. 

 Cosmarium botrytis, 201. 

 Cosmarium, Circulation, 94. 

 Cotton, Species of, 43. 

 Cow-trees, 1 71, v86. 

 Crab-claw, Curi' us, 206. 

 Crab, Hermit, 191. , t 



Cradle, a Black, 270. ' 



Crake, Carolina, 60. 

 Crane in Shetland, 181. 

 Cretaceous Fossils, 229, 285. 

 Cricket on the Hearth, 84. 

 Crickets and Cockroaciies, 42, 63. 

 Crickets, what do they eat, us, 128, 166. 

 Crowfoot, Pollen of, 186. 

 Cryptogams in Himalnyas, 114. 

 Crystallized Carbon, 288. 

 Cuckoo, the, 86. 

 Cuckoo and its Eggs, 38. 

 Cuckoo's Egg in Linnet's nest, 87. 

 Cuckoo, Notes of, 183. 

 Cui Bono? 25. 



Cultivation of Butterworts, 205. 

 Cultivation of Ferns, 11 9. 

 Culture of Vallisneria, 138. 

 Curiosities, Natural, 283. 

 Curious Blight, 167. 

 Curious Crab- claw, 2f.6. 

 Curious Dietetie Phenomenon, g4. 

 Curious Places for Nests, 233. 

 Cutting Sections of Wood, 71. 

 Cybelc Uihernica, 43. 

 Cyclops, Four-horned, 158. 

 Dabchicks, 152. 

 Daisy, Proliferous, 182. 

 Dammar-Bce, 252. 

 Darwin's New Work, 114. 



Dead Fly in Water, 133, 



Dead Fly on the Window, lO. 



Dead-Sea Water, 259. 



Dead Spider in Water, 133. 



Death among Young Ferns, 93. 



Death of Dr. Baikie, 46. 



Death of Professor Silliman, 24. 



Death to Flies, 1 5. 



Death's-head Hawk-moth, 208, 234. 



Death's-head Moth at Sea, 41. 



Death-watch, the, 60. 



Deer poisoned by Yew, 1 12. 



Deformed Swallow-tail, 18i. 



Delesscria sanguinea, 1 1 7. 



Dermestrs and Pencil-tail, 23f). 



Developm.ent of Butterfly Wings, 113. 



DeviUine, 20. 



Devonshire Mistletoe, 114. 



Diameer of Lenses, 238. 



Diamonds, Origin of, 88. 



Diaphragm for Microscope, 189. 



Diaptiragni, Graduating, 153. 



Diatom, rew Irish, 114. 



Diatom wanted, 95. 



Diatomarcse, Cilia of, 237- 



DiatomaceEG, Cleaning, 52. 



DiatomaceK, Movements of, l63. 



Diatomaceaj, Sea-s-ide, 250. 



Diatoms, Exotic, in tritish Iccalilics, 



140. 

 Diatoms, Exotic and British, 167. 

 Diatoms from Guano, 148. 

 Diatoms, on Collecting, 8'>. 

 Diatoms, what they are, &c., 27. 

 Diet of Worms, 180, 214. 

 Dipper, Fred of, 184. 

 Dipper, Song of, 135. 

 Diseased Flies, 70. 



Dissecting Microscope, Binocular, 201. 

 Diving Sandpipers, 63. 

 Dog V. Fox, I6I). 

 Dog-whelk, netted, 259. 

 Dormouse, the Common, 202. 

 Dorr-Beetle, Strength of, 41. 

 Dorse, the, •.:6l. 

 Double-yolked Eggs, 39, 63. 

 Dragon-flies, 95. 

 Drift-beds of Arran, 68. 

 Drift of East of Etiyliu-d, 41. 

 Driver Ant, 113. 

 Driver Ants, Fest'ons of, 1!6. 

 Drosera rotttndifolia, 209 . 

 Drying Flowers, 186. 

 Drying Starfish, 136. 

 Duckweeds, 5, 258, 286. 

 Duckweeds, name. 258. 

 Dumfries Natural Hist ry Society, 'Jf>. 

 Djtiscus, its Parasite, 255. 

 Eaglk-icili.ing Extrao'dir.ary, 13. 

 Eagle, the Golden, 39. 

 Early Wasp, 137, 161. - ■ 



Earwig, White, 213. 

 Earwigs, 185. 



Echinus Spines, cleaning, 91. 

 Economic Cmnenf er, 9'i. 

 Economic Entomology, 8/. 

 Edibe Fungi, 214. 

 Edinbiirgh Botanical Socity, "JO. 

 Education in Geology, 1 lO. 

 1 Eel, Observations o-i, Q3. 

 Eel, Reprcducton of, lis, 141, 165. 

 Eel-like Animalcule s, 213. 

 Eels and Dew-v%orm-, 236. 

 Eels and Fish Garbage, 93. 

 Eels, Migration of, 2S1. 

 Eels, Migratorj', 70, 95. 

 Effects of Lightning en Fi--:h, 211. 

 Egg of Cuckoo, 87. 

 Egg of ihe Moa, 14, 282. 

 Egg of Stormy Petrel, 87. 

 Eggs, Colour of, 3P, 47. 8/. 1 J2, 231. 

 Eggs, Double-yolked, 39, Hi. 

 Eggs of Cat-bird, 23?:. 

 Eggs of Great Auk, 184. 

 Eggs of Land Tortoise, 63. 

 Ej;gs of Thrush, 253. 

 Eggs, Pheasant's, 19.1. 

 Eggs, Stalked Insect, 190. 

 Elepliant, Fossil, 215. 

 Embryonic Development, 65. 

 English Crag and Scotch Bed-, 68. 

 Entomological Society, 22, 46, 1 i3, 1 !4. 

 Entomology, 15, 41, 66, 113, UJ, 161, 185 

 208, 234, 257. 



Eozooii Canadense, I61. 



Epipactis rubra in Gloucestershire, 235. 



Eriogaster lanestris, 126. 



Eriophorum angiistifolium, 43. 



Erucastruin Pollirhii, 2'9. 



Ethnological Society, 23, 46. 



European Swdllows. 136. 



Evening Primrose, Pollen of, 212. 



Examining Plants, 162. 



Exotic and British Diatoms, 140, I67. 



Exudation of Cedar, 214. 



Eye, Facets in the, 189. 



Eyes, Compound, 228, 219. 



Fable, a, 63. 



Facets in the Eye, Ifg. 



Fairy Shrimp, the, 45. 



Fearless Tits, 160. 



Features of Plants, 43. 



Fern-growing, 44, I09, 188, 239, 262. 



Fern, Hart's-tongue, 190, 211. 



Fern, Killarney, 92. 



Fern Query, 94. 



Fern, tiie Tunbridge, 114. 



Fernery and Aquaiiani, 71, 1 1". 



Ferns, 20, 34, 37, 44, 66, 67, 93, l(i9. 



Ferns, Abnormal Fossil, 187. 



Ferns, Cultivating, 44, 109, 1S3, 239, 262. 



Ferns, Dra'.h among, 93. 



Ferns in Cases, 284. 



Ferns, Insects feeding on, 65. 



Ferns, Preservative Power of, 37, 95, lij 



Ferns, Reproduction of, 89. 



Festoons of Driver Ant?, 11 6. 



Field Naturalists, Manchester, 23. 



Fiftieth Objective, 90. 



Fiji Islands Flora, 67. 



Fir, new Arcadian, 250. 



Fir-scales for Microscope, 45. 



Fire-fly Light, 19 1. 



Fish, Air-bladders of, 69. 



Fish-culture on the Lea, 14;'>. 



Fish, great Slaughter of, 165. 



Fish in Aquaria, 1 19. 



Fish killed by Lightning, 21). 



Fish-ladders on the Thames, 16 



Fish-moulds end Fly-moulds, 13!, I80. 



Fish Ova-cases, 182. 



Fish-scales for Microscope, 26I. 



Fish Tattle, 16, 42, 93, 141, 165, 207, 2::6, 



261, 284. 

 Fish, the New, 42, 56. 

 Fish: What are they abcut? 93. 

 Fish, AVeever, l65. 

 Fleas, Cat-, 078. 

 Flesh- worm Disease, 4'". 

 Flora of Bucks, 67. 

 Flora of Fiji Islands, 67. 

 F;orence Flask-covers, 120. 

 Flower-loving Spiders, 206. 

 Flowers, imperfectly develo^-c'', 103. 

 Flowers, Lqnsuage of, 114. 

 Flowers, to Dry, 186. 

 Flies and Wasps, 262, 

 Flies, Death to, 15. 

 Flies, Diseased, 70. 

 Files, Hybernation of, 113. 

 Fly-catcher, Spotted, 256. 

 Fly-catching Plant, 43. 

 Fly, Circulation in, 259. 

 Fly, Foot of a, 253. 

 Fly, Green Drake-, 231. 

 Fly in Pike-fishing, 280 

 Fly, Larvaa of, 83. 

 Fly-moulds, 10. 



Fly-moulds and Fish-moulds, 134. 

 Fly Nuisance, 257. 

 Fly Parasites, 93, 227. 

 Fly, Spiracles of, 199. 

 Fly, the Breeze-, 194. 

 Fly, Tongues of, 83. 

 Focal Length, 288. 

 Folk- lore of Geology, 161. 

 Food of Salamander, 95. 

 Food of the Dipper, ISJ. 

 Foot of a Fly, 253. 

 Foraminifcra, 69, 187. 

 Forceps, Stage, 212. 

 Forest of Cromer Period, 5:53 

 Formation of the Alps, 210. 

 Forty Years ago, 24. 

 Fossil Beaver, Gigantic, 44. 

 Fossil Cone, 259- 

 Fossil Elephant, 215. 

 Fossil Ferns, Abnormal, )?7. 

 Fossil Oak, 210. 

 Fossil Plants, 68. 



