INDEX. 



■ A LiTTLK RhAPSODV", 45. 



Abnormal Fossil Ferns, 18". 



Abnormal Larch Cones, 88. 



Abnormal Pimpernel, 18. 



About the Otter's Shell, 79. 



Acari, lists of, 65. 



Achatina ucicula, 6l. 



Adjustments, 95. 



Aeration of Aquaria, 211. 



Ag:ardh's View of Nature, 4/. 



Age of Human Skeleton, 26-J. 



Air-bladders of Fish, 69. 



Albino Flowers, 24. 



Alexander Rust, 190. 



AlgcC, Bibliography, 1()2. 



Almora and Sorrel, 43. 



Alpine Plantain in Shetland, 283. 



Alpine Rose, 66. 



Alps, formation of, 210. 



Amateur Botanists' Society, 2.1, 46, 70. 



Amateur Microscopists, 153. 



Amefican Blight, 185. 



American Water-weed, 141. 



Amosba, the, 45. 



Anacharin alsinastrum, 141. 



Anatornatizing leaves, 215, 239, 286. 



Ancient Trees, 185. 



Anecdote of Stork, 14. 



Anecdote of Swift, 14. 



Anecdotes of Birds, 181. 



Anemone with Five Bracts, 138. 



Anemones, Sea, 155. 



AngUng for Tench, 16. 



Angular Aperture, 288. 



Animalcules, Eel-like, 213. 



An'nialcule, Jelly, 58. 



Animals, preserving, 48. 



Anobium tesselatum, 60. 



Anoplotherium, 214. 



Another Plesio>aurus, 164. 



Another Swift in Difficulty, 64. 



Another use for Nettles, 88. 



Anthropological Society, 22. 



Anthus sjjinolelta, 64, 76. 



Ants, 262. 



Ant, the Driver, 113. 



Ants, black, 238. 



Ants and Cineraria, 143. 



Ants and Cocci, 234. 



Ants, festoons of, 116. 



Ants of Great Britain, 185. 



Ants, House, I/O, 239. 



Ants storing Grain, 113. 



Ants, winged, 263. 



Apetalous Stitchwort, 235. 



Aphides, Swarms of, 287, 



Aphis on Money-wort, 257. 



Aphis popnli, 25/. 



Appendages to Water-beetles, 238, 257. 



Aquaria, Aeration of, 2) 1. 



Aquaria, Fish in, 119. 



Aquaria, Fresh-water, 188, 211, 212, 213. 



Aquaria and Fernery combined, 71, II7. 



Aquaria Plants, 92, 141. 



Aquaria, Marine, 129. 



Aquaria, Streams in, 183. 



Aquarian Difficulties, 154, 188, 213, 239. 



Aquarium, Gobies in, 42. 



Aquarium Query answered, 167. 



Aquarium Query, 143. 



Aquavivarium, 288. 



Arac/moidi.scus ornalus, 114. 



Arcadian Fir, New, 25 U. 



Arctic Clio, 183. 



Aregma bulbosum, 17S. 



Arran Drift-beds, 68. 



Artaxerxes Butterfly, 66. 



Artichoke, Jerusalem, 118, J 42, 262. 



Artichoke in fiower, 262. 



Asclepias seeds, 143. 



Ash-bark Fungus, 144. 



Ash Coccus, 216. 



Asphalte, 259. 



Asplenium viride, 44. 



Association of Plants and Animals, 235. 



Assyrian Botany, 1 10. 



Asterosporium Hoffitianni, 35. 



Atropns jmlsatorius, 111. 



Badger, the, 87. 



Badger caught, 135. 



Badger, Wnite, 118. 



Badgers, capture of, 63. 



Baikie, Dr., death of, 46. 



Balance of Power, 193. 



Balsam and C;hloroform, 45, 69. 



Baltic Cod-fish, 261. 



Barnacles and C'orsls, 211. 



Bas:^e, the, 208. 



Battle of the Bees, 214. 



Bearded Tit, 26. 



Beauty in Natiu-e, 182. 



Beaver, Gigantic Fossil, 44. 



Beech " Gall Midge," 190. 



Beech Trees, 167. 



Bee and its Sting, 65, 142. 



Bees, 286. 



Bees and Fuchsia, 263. 



Bees and their Food, 286. 



Bees and Wasps, 263. 



Bees attacking Fruit, 287. 



Bees, Battle of, 214. 



B^es, Ligurian Queens, 41. 



Bees' Remains, 143, 166, 167. 



Bees, removing, 25/. 



Bees, suffocation of, 183. 



Bees, superstitions about, 34. 



Bees, why did they go, 93. 



Bees, Wild, 137. 



Beetledom, a Story of, 98. 



Benzole for killing insects, 72. 



Bibliography of Zoology, 72. 



Bighorn at Belfast, 44. 



Binocular Dissecting Microscope, 201. 



Birds, Anecdotes of, 181. 



Birds and Insect Pests, I60. 



Birds' Eggs, 238. 



Birds' Eggs, Colour of, 47. 



Birds in an Eclipse, 207. 



Birds, names of Sea-, 239. 



Birds, to preserve, 48, 63. 



Bite of Viper, 95. 



Bitten by a Viper, 131. 



Bittern, the, 86. 



Bituminous Oil, 210. 



Black Ants, 238. 



Black Beetles, 16", 238. 



Black Cradle, 270. 



Black-headed Gull, 256. 



Black Hollyhocks, 43. 



Black Woodpecker, 183. 



Blight, American, 185. 



Blight, a Curious, 167. 



Blight of Larch, 190. 



Bhghted Beech-leaves, 19O. 



Bloody-man's Fingers, 114. 



Bloomeria, Golden, 167. 



Bluebottles, 70. 



Blue Fleabane in Cumberland, 220, 



258. 

 Blue-fiowers, White, 24. 

 Blue Tits, 39. 

 Blue Wren, the, 199. 

 Bog Asphodel, 209. 

 Books on Fungi, 21O. 

 Books on the Microscope, 210. 

 Books on Seaweeds, 192. 

 Books ou Shells, 48. 

 Books on Zoophytes, 192. 



Books received, 24, 48, 72, 96, 120, 144, 



168, 192, 210, 240, 264, 288. 



Bombay Zoological Gardens, 45. 



Bonaparte's Gull, 38. 



Botanical Society, Edinburgh, 7ii. 



Botanists' Amateur Society, 23, 46, 70. 



Botanist, the Cobbler, 66. 



Botany, 17, 43, 66, 88, 114, 137, 162, 185, 

 209, 235, 258, 283. 



Botsiny, Assyrian, 110. 



Botany at the Cape, 1 15. 



Botany, Modern Military, 24. 



Botany, Origin of Sowerby's, 47. 



Bramble-leaf Brand, 176. 



Brambling, the, 64. 



Brand, Meadow-sweet, 255. 



Breeze-Fly, the, 194. 



Bristle-mculd, new, 65. 



British Land and Freshwater Shell'^, 61, 

 191- 



British Lichens, 1 86. 



British Orchids, 124. 



British Plants, Variations in, 32, 228. 



British Eoses, 88. 



British Salmon, 69. 



British Species of Biudock, 44. 



British Woods, 239. 



Brittle India-rubber, 186. 



Bromley, and What I found there, 246. 



Brood of Caterpillars, 126. 



B:oom-rape in a strange place, 69. 



Briicke's Lens, 141. 



Buckinghamshire Flora, 67. 



BuU's-e;. e Condenser, 212. 



Burdock, British Species of, 44. 



Buried alive, 135. 



Burnet, Six-spot, 151. 



Butcher-bird, Great, 181. 



Butcher-bird, or Shrike, 100. 



Butterflies, Heroic Names, 15. 



Butterfly and Nettle, 62. 



Butterfly, Clouded Yellow, 281. 



Butterfly Parasites. 262. 



Butterfly Scales, 140, 166. 



Butterfly, Small Tortoi^e-shell, 263, 283. 



Butterfly Wings, Development of, 113. 



Butterworts, Cultivation of, 205. 



Button Galls, 240. 



Buxton, Mr. Richard, 66. 



Cabbage Butterfly Parasitks, 71. 



Cabbage Butterfly and its Metamor- 

 phoses, 30, 74. 



Cabinet Labels, 192. 



Cape Botany, ) 15. 



Cape Pigeons, 118. 



Cape Hen, 142, 239. 



Cape Salmon, 64. 



Carolina Crake in England, 63. 



Cases, Ferns in, 284, 287. 



Cat-briar, 215, 239. 



Cat-fleas, 278. 



Cat sacred to Hecate, 41. 



Caterpillars, Brood of, 126. 



Caterpillars, irritating, 288. 



Caterpillars on Apple-trees, 16S. 



Caterpillars on Oak, 168. 



Caterpillars defoliating Trees, 168. 



Caterpillars on Hawthorn, 168. 



Cats, Manx, 118, 142. 



Caverns near Furfooz, l6t. 



Cedar-wood Exudation, 214, 239. 



Celery Fly and Tomtits, 281. 



Cement for Rock-work, 94. 



Chcetomiuin murormii, 06. 



Chameleon, 92. 



Change of Climate, S9- 



Chapter from the Life of a Volvox, 214. 



Chapter on Hairs, 29. 



Chestnvit-tree of Tuileries, 138. 



