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INDEX TO VOL XXVIII. 



Abnormal Orchid Flowers, 2r, 22 



Actinophryans, Some stalked, 124. 



Agave, The Mexican, 141 



Albino Flowers, 215 



Algerian Insect, Query as to, 262 



American Aloe, 118, 143 



Animal Plagues, 265 



Animated Oats, 23 



Annual Report of the Smithsonian Insti- 

 tution, 80 



Ants, Murder of a Spider by, 165 



Aphides and their Monuments, 141 



Approaching Extinction of the Lapwing, 

 70,89 



Archaeology, Relation of Geology to, 189 



Banks, Flora of the, 153 



Bee, Constancy of, 98 



Bees' Nest in a Block of Stone, 71 



Birds, Protection of, 162 



Blackheath, On the Popular Tradition 



that Coal exists under, 180 

 Bog Flowers, Two, 103 

 Botanical Excursion in Switzerland, 193, 



294 

 Botanist's Holiday in the Pyrenees, 130 

 Botany, 116, i83, 280 

 British Flora, Notes on the Additions to 



the, 141, 163 

 Brown Hairstreak and Clouded Yellow, 



233 

 Bullets, Photographing Flying, 166 

 Butcher's Broom, 117 

 Butterflies in North France, 118 

 Butterflies, European, n3 



Canada Ealsam, Use of a Substitute 

 ' for, 236, 260 

 Casual and Alien Plants, 275 

 Caterpillars in Epping Forest, Plague of, 



161 

 Cat, Intelligence of a, 165 

 Cats and Hens, Strange Conduct of, 165 

 Cltelonia caja, Notes and Observations 



on, 10 

 Chichester, Supposed Breeding of the 



Scoter near, 21 

 Cinnabar Moth, 212, 236 

 Cladocera, Males of, 20 

 Clausilia with Two Apertures, 21 

 Cleaning Slides, 20 



Climbing Hermit Crabs, 165 



Clouded Yellow and Brown Hairstreak. 

 23S, 243, 269 



Clover and Rare Plants, Sporting, 22 



Colouration of Flowers, 4s 



Colouration of the Rase, Violet, and Butter- 

 cup, 217 



Colouring of Flowers, 22 



Communications Received, 24, 48, 72, 96* 

 120, 144, 168,192, 216, 240, 264, 284 



Constancy of the Bee, 98 



Contributions towards a List of the Mol- 

 Iusca of Herefordshire, 77 



Copper and German Silver Wire, 254 



CoroniUa z>aria, 237! 



Correct Identification of Deep-Sea Sound- 

 ings, 92 



Correspondence, 24, 47, 71, 95, 119, 143, 

 167, 191, 215, 239, 263, 283 



Crocus, Peculiar, 117 



Cuckoo in Confinement, 71 



Cuckoo, Notes on the, 191 



Curiosities of Worm Life, 108, 161 



Curious Growth of Fungi, 22 



Daisv, Hen-and-Chickens, 163 



Death of the American Aloe, 70 



Deep-Sea Soundings, Correct Identifica- 

 tion of, 92 



Delagoa Bay, its Natives and Natural 

 History, 41 



Diatomisr, 2^0 



Diseases of the Primrose Family, 91 



Dog as Station-Master, 90 



Double-Flowered Dahlia, 237 



Double Mouths, Shells with, 21 



Dragon-flies, Some Famous Collecting- 

 Grounds for, 17, 18, 65, 7°» 97> I2 S, 154, 

 178, 204 



Dragon-flies, Preserving, 239 



Dragon-fly Names, Notes on British, 206 



Earthworms of Middlesex, 194, 195, 



196 

 East Anglia, probable Coal-Fields of 25, 



26, 27, 142 

 Edible Fungi: How to distinguish them, 



and How to cook them, 41 

 Edwards' "Reptiles," 23 

 Eggs of Insects, 228, 229, 230, 231 

 Electrical Transmission of Energy, 215 



Electrical Water-Power, 215 

 Electricity versus Caterpillars, 190 

 Endemic Features of the British Slug 



Fauna, 255, 256, 257, 258, 259 

 Essex Naturalist, 237 

 European Butterflies, 29, 30, 31, 3?, 71, 



118 

 Exchanges, 23, 24, 47, 71, 90, 120, 144, 



168, 192, 216, 239, 264 

 Exchange Column, 262 

 Excursion in Switzerland, 193, 194 

 Experimental Section of Hydra, 155 

 Extinction of the Great Sea-Serpent, 1 

 Extinction of the Lapwing, 95, 115 



Fall of the Leaf in Trees, 116 



Fatal Fly-Sting, 190 



Feathered Creatures, 191 



Feet of Flies, The Secreting Glands in the, 



162 

 Fertilization of Orchids without Pollen, 



241 

 Few Remarks upon Vegetable Teratology, 



154 

 Flora of the Banks, 152 

 Floral Monstrosities, 191 

 Fly-Sting, Fatal, 190 

 Fogs, 143 

 Fusus Turtoni, 212 



Gallinaceous Quail, 261 



Genus Orobanche in Great Britain, 213 



Geological History, Somersetshire Sand- 

 Tots, 75 



Geological Society of Glasgow, 117 



Geologists' Association, 94 



Geology, 45, 69, 91, 117, 142, 163, t83, 237, 

 261, 281 



Geology of Barbadoes, 45 



Geology of London, 251 



Glasgow, Geological Society o r , 117 



Gold Fish, 46, 66 



Grapta C. album in North Wales, 261 



Ground Upheaval, igo 



Habits of a Mason Wasp, 196 

 Hastings, Notes on the Site of, 32 

 Helix arbustorum, New Variety of, 187 

 Hen-and-Chickens Daisy, 163 

 Hepaticae, Preserving, 142 

 Hermit-Crabs, Climbing, i5s 



