INDEX. 
Acanthohrachia inconspicua, T. S. 
Wright, 44. 
Accidental peculiarities of plumage, 
oi Alauda arvensis, 184; Parus coeru- 
leus, 207; Passer domesticus. Perdix 
cinerea, Lagopus Scoticus, 334 ; Tur~ 
dus merula, 392. 
Addresses, Presidents' introductory — 
Alex. Bryson's, 1. 
J. M'Bain's, M.D., 107. 
David Page's. 187, 313. 
Atractylis hitenticulata, T. S. W,, 45. 
quadritenticulata, T. S. W., 45. 
Acridozena, n. g. Fam. Geyllid^, 
309. 
Hewaniance, n. s., 309. 
^rolite, supposed, or fireball, at 
Auchterarder, 64. 
Alauda arvensis (sky-lark, a black 
variety), 176. 
Anser Egyptiacm^ 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 palumharius (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, 163. 
Bomhycilla garrula (Flem.) (Bohemian 
war-wing), 176, 333. 
Bone cave at Lower Warburton, Kin- 
cardineshire, by James C. Howden, 
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 (Eev. James), of Monimail, on 
natural agencies at present in 
operation to which the phenomena 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 aiford- 
ed that elevations of central parts 
of Scotland must have been sudden, 
336. 
on the pearls of the Ythan, 
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 Hamatopinus 
parasitic on the Pinnipedia, 15. 
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 
tlie 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 
