Index 



Arum, 527 ; double flowers, 579. 

 Ash, 361 ; and oak, 579. 

 Asparagus, 98. 

 Atavism, 253. 

 Atmosphere, 467. 

 Austen, Jane, 36, Sarah, 36, 37. 

 Autumn leaves, 233, 360. 

 Autumn melancholy, 232. 



Babirussa, skull of the, 67. 

 Babylonia, 518. 

 Bactrian camel, 45. 

 Badgers, hybernation of, 333. 

 Bahrein, Desert Tomb* of, 457. 

 Baker, T. H., 559. 

 Ball, Sir Robert, 159. 

 Barberry, 361. 



Bark, 432, bleaching of, 406, 

 Barking Deer, 15, 64. 

 Bashford, Dr., quoted, 376. 

 Bats, 244, hybernation of, 335. 

 Bechuanas, 374. 



Bee orchis, 302, 439 pollinia of, 108. 



Beech, 431, 433, leaves, 362. 



Beech trees and lightning, 118, 516, 552. 



Beef-steak fungus, 189, 191. 



Beet, 98. 



Beetle (Buprestis), 49. 



Beetles, leaf rolling, 61 ; shore, 91. 



Beza's Icones, 416. 



Big trees of California, 447. 



Bilateral symmetery, deviation from, in crustaceans, 305. 

 Binturong, 26. 

 Biorhiza renum t 29. 

 Birch, 432. 



Birds, in August, 142. 

 and berries, 362. 

 colour sense in, 353. 

 early nesting of, 453. 

 hybernation of, 332. 

 in January, 41 1. 

 in midwinter, 406. 

 malformation of bills, 237, 446. 

 migration of, 60, 293. 



nesting in February, 453; March, 506; April (and May), 581. 

 seaside, 180. 

 storing food, 424, 515. 

 summer migrants, 57. 

 Birth wort, 161. 



