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INDEX. 



Bryson (Alexander), Description of 

 Kincardineshire bone cave re- 

 ferred to, 368, et seq. 



Caithness, land and fresh water shells 



found at, 161. 

 boulder-clay of, by Charles 



W. Peach, Esq., 396. 

 Calabar, Old, Africa, Chameleo cristatus, 



228. 



Chameleo fasciatus {?), 306. 



chrysalis from, 36. 



— Gallago Demidoffii. 303. 



" Etuet," Tetraodon, from, 268. 



insects, various, 309. 



new Ganoid fish from, 273. 



• Oiketicus, 311. 



otter, " Jyung," from, 34. 



pipe fish, 227. 



Calamoichthys Calabaricus, from Old 

 Calabar, 332. 



Carboniferous strata, sections of 

 Scottish and English, 17. 



Cat, life of a domestic, by William 

 Brown, Esq., F.E.C.S.E., 375. 



Catton (Alfred K.),M.A.,on the action 

 between the material molecules and 

 the etherial medium, considered 

 with reference to the theory of the 

 refraction of light in crystallised or 

 isotropic media, 248. 



Cervus elaphus (red deer), varieties in 

 antlers, 208. 



Chameleo cristatus, 228. 



fasciatus, n. s. ? 306. 



Chameleon, on colours displayed by a 

 species of the genus Lop hosaura, 390. 



Chronology of geology, 316. 



Classification of minerals, 30. 



Cinclus Europceus (Dipper), on the 

 nesting of, 383. 



Circus cyaneus (hen-harrier), 176. 



Coleoptera from Egypt, collected by 

 Professor P. Smyth, exhibited by 

 Mr M'Nab, 335. 



Contemporaneity of deposits or forma- 

 tions, 196. 



Comatula rosacea, Caithness, 81. 



Coryne feroz, T. S. Wright, 46. 



Cyclopterus lumpus (lump-sucker), ex- 

 hibited, 355. 



Cyclopteris found at John o'Groat's, 

 by C. W. Peach, 368. 



Cydippe, prehensible apparatus and 

 sting-cells of, 153. 



Death's-head Moth, occurrence of 

 in Roxburghshire, Perthshire, and 

 Ross-shire, 353; in Shetland, 345. 



Digits torn off in man, remarks on, 27. 



Donations to Librarv, 16, 27, 37, 49. 



74, 107, 129, 152, 165. 187, 212, 



215, 230, 237, 275, 313, 331, 335, 



350, 366, 394. 

 Duns (Professor John), D.D., on the 



nesting of Cinclus Europceus, 383 

 Dynamic power, 173. 



Earth, central heat of, 107, 129. 

 internal fluidity of, 132. 

 secular cooling of, 159. 

 Earth's surface, irregularities in, 149. 

 Edwards (A. M'K.), remarks on torn- 

 off digits in man, with reference to 

 analogous injuries in animals. 37. 



on some surgical homologies, 



49. 



■ on the restoration of bone, 



212. 



Euglena, natural history of, 237. 



Erpetoichthys Calabaricus {Calamoich- 

 thys), exhibited, 331. 



" Esere" or ordeal bean of Old Calabar, 

 notes of insects which feed on, 356. 



remarks on discovery of insect 



which feeds on it, by Dr Eraser, 

 360. 



Falco gyrfalco (Jerfalcon), 204. 



subbuteo (Hobby), 176. 



Falconer (Dr), on early relics of human 



race, quoted, 325. 

 Fife, east of, extension railway, 125. 

 Firth of Forth and Clyde, on rise of 



shores of, 278. 

 Fluidity, internal, of earth, 132. 

 Fowl, domestic, female assuming male 



plumage, 297. 

 Fraser (Thomas R.), M.D., claims to 



the discovery of insect feeding on 



the esere, the ordeal or poison 



bean of Old Calabar, examined, 



349. 



on Dr Smith's remarks on the 



discovery of the insect which feeds 

 on the esere or ordeal bean of Old 

 Calabar, 360. 



Fragilus graculus (chough), bill and 

 legs of young, 34. 



Fundamental strata, 190. 



Galago Demidoffii, 303. 

 Ganoid fish, n. g. [Calamoichthys), 

 allied to Polypterus, 273. 

 n. g., anatomy of. 300. 

 Geological inquiry, present aspect* of 



(President's address), 187. 

 Glacial epoch, phenomena of, ascribed 

 to natural agencies at present in 

 operation, 238. 



