CONTENTS. 



Abbott, Dr. C. C, Article by, 3 

 Alpine Insect Flora of the Rocky Moun- 

 tains, 80 

 Anodonta dejecta, 26 

 Ants, Strength and Perseverance of, 25 

 Apocope coitesi, 39 

 Asters, 65 



Bank Swallow, note on, 88 



Big Tree, 44 



Birds of the District of Columbia, 79 



Botany in the District of Columbia, 29 



Botanical Notes, 5 



Cambridge Entomological Club, 64 

 Carpenter, Lt. W. L., Article by, 80 

 Case of Snake Poisoning, 12 

 Case of Snake Swallowing, 30 

 Chickering, Prof, J. W., Articles by, 8, 



37, 48, 65 

 Cocoons and Cocoon Builders, 76 

 Comparative Scarcity of Insects in the 



Mountains of Colorado, 89 

 Colorado Potato Beetle, notes on, 16 

 CoUES, Dr. E., Salutatory, i 

 Cucumber, New Enemy to, 9 

 Curious Growth in a Potato, 16 



Descriptions of new Species, 4, 26, 39 

 District of Columbia, Botany of, 29 

 Distribution of Certain Species of Aster, 65 

 DouoE, Chas. R., Editor, Articles by, 9, 



25, 27, 73, 89 

 Dodge. J. R.. Article by, 44 

 DooLiTTLE, M. H., Article by, 67 

 Dung Beetles, 55, 71 



Earthquake Shock, 48 



Early Flowering Plants, 88 



Editorial Pencilings, 32, 96 



Edible Fuiigi, 71 



Entomological Gleanings in Southern 



Fields, 73 

 Eremobia magna, 4 

 Erythronium albiiin, 8 

 Exotic Trees in Washington, 1 7 



Field Record, 8, 16, 30, 48, 55, 71 



First appearance of insects, 8 



Flora Columbiana, 83, 96 



Florida Litany, 32 



!''':'5- EMAN, Dr. E., Articles by, 19, 29 



F'. .ntain Pump, 3 1 



Gleanings in Foreign Fields, 95 

 Gold Fish Breeding, 46 

 Goniloba olynthiis, 73 

 Grasshoppers in Minnesota, 31 

 Grasshopper plague, 31 



Habits of the Yellow Perch, 3 

 Holly and Mistletoe, 91 

 House-fly, note on, 47 



Influence of Illuminating Gas on Vegeta- 

 , tion, 14 



Inquiry concerning early botanists of the 

 District, 8 



J GUY, Louis, List by, 79 



Latimer Collection at the Smithsonian 



Institution, 19 

 Lewis, Jas., Description by, 26 



Mantis Carolina, 74, 

 McMurtrie, Wm., Article by, 14 

 Mildness of the season, note on, 71 

 Mistletoe, The American, 66 

 'Missing Links among the Lepidoptera, 63 



Nesting of the Worm-eating Warbler, 10 

 New Enemy to the Cucumber, 9 

 Notes on the Habits of the Yellow Perch, 3 

 Notice of the Cambridge Entomological 

 Club, 64 



Oaks of the Potomac-side, 39 

 Our Native Trees, 49 



Palms and Yuccas of the United States, 67 

 Phylloxera, remedy for, 55 

 Potomac-side Naturalists' Club — Record, 6 

 i5> 42, 53, 69, 88, 94 



