INDEX. 



Acanthobrachia inconspicua, T. S. 



Wright, 44. 

 Accidental peculiarities of plumage, 

 of Alauda arvensis, 184; Paras coeni- 

 leus, 207; Passer domesticas. Perdix 

 cinerea, Lagopus Scoticus, 334 ; Tar- 

 dus merula, 392. 

 Addresses, Presidents' introductory — 

 Alex. Bryson's, 1. 

 J. M'Bain's, M.D., 107. 

 David Page's, 187, 313. 

 Atractylis bitenticulata, T. S. W., 45. 



quadritenticulata, T. S. W., 45. 

 Acridoxena, n. g. Fam. Geyllid^:, 

 309. 



ffewa?iiance, n. s., 309. 

 iErolite, supposed, or fireball, at 



Auchterarder, 64. 

 Alauda arvensis (sky-lark, a black 



variety), 176. 

 Anser Egyptiacus, 129- 

 Anthophora, n. s. (bee), Africa, 310. 

 Anthropoides virgo (Numidian crane), 



176. 



Antiquity of man, 199. 



Appearance of terraces, 338. 



Aquila chrysaetos (golden eagle), 392. 



Astur palumbarius (Selby), the gos- 

 hawk, exhibited, 333. 



Atelecyclus heterodon, 214. 



Australia, notes on the gold-fields of 

 Ballarat, 409. 



Balfour, Professor, quoted, 346. 



Ballarat, Australia, notes on the gold- 

 fields of, 409. 



Beattie (William), description of Kin- 

 cardineshire bone cave referred to. 

 319, et seq. 



Birds of East-Lothian, appearance 

 and migration of, by R. Scott-Skir 

 ving, 362. 



Boderia Turneri, n. g., T. S. W - ' 

 structure and reproduction of, 153. 



Bombycilla garrula (Flera.) (Bohemian 

 wax-wing\ 176, 333. 



Bone cave at Lower W T arburton, Kin- 

 cardineshire, by James C. How den. 

 M.D., 368. 



Bos primigenius, exhibited by George 

 Logan, 347. 



Botaurus lentiginosus (American bit- 

 tern), 176. 

 stellaris (common bittern), 176. 



Boulder-clay of Caithness, fossils of, 

 34 ; and account of, by Charles W. 

 Peach, 396. 



Brick-clay beds and fossil remains. 

 125. 



Brodie (Rev. James), of Monimail, on 

 natural agencies at present in 

 operation to which thephenomena of 

 glacial epoch may be ascribed, 238. 



Remarks on Dr Page's intro- 

 ductory address, 329. 



on the natural agencies, level 



terraces produced, and proofs afford- 

 ed that elevations of central parts 

 of Scotland must have been sudden, 

 336. 



on the pearls of the Tthan, 



Aberdeenshire, 394. 



Bronze implement, and bones of ox 

 and dog, found at Kinleith, 93. 



Brown (Robert), analysis of discoveries 

 on east coast of Greenland, with 

 plan of renewed exploration, 15. 



on species of Hcematopinus 



parasitic on the Pinnipedia, 1 5. 



Brown (William), F.R.C.S.E., on the 

 life of a domestic cat, 375. 



Bryson (Alexander), President's Ad- 

 dress, 1862, on present position of 

 mineralogy in regard to physical 

 science, 1. 



on the evidence of the rise of 



the shores of the Firth of Forth, 75. 



on the rise of the shores of the 



Forth. Have the shores of the 

 Forth and Clyde risen since the 

 Roman period, as asserted by Sir 

 Charles Lyell and Mr Geikie ? 278 



