INDEX. 
Acharadria larynx, 378. 
JEquoria vitrina, reproduction of, 316. 
Agelaius phoeniceus, Vieill., 47. 
xanthocephalus, Bonap,, 47. 
A lauda alpestris, Linn. ,111. 
Alcedo ispida, 245. 
AlcyonidcB, petrifaction of, 203, 
Alder (Joshua), on British Zoophytes. 
Hydractinia areolata, n. sp. ; Atrac- 
tylis arenosa, n, sp., 314, 
Anahyster calaharicus, Murray, 157. 
Anchovy on coast of Caithness, 257. 
Anderson (Dr John), on Phryxus 
paguri, 374. 
on SaccuUna, 806. 
on New Holothuria, 331. 
" Angwantibo," Perodicticus Calahar- 
ensis, J. A. Smith, of Old Calabar, 
Notice of, 172. 
Anas hosckas, Linn., 54, 343, 420. 
clypeata, Linn., 110, 139. 
strepera, Linn., 110, 150. 
Anser canadensis, 52, 131. 
hyperhoreus, Gmel., 50. 
Anthus Ludovicianus, Gmel., 47, 
Apternus tridactylus, Sw., 48. 
Archibuteo sancti Johannis, Gmel., 45. 
Arctomys empetra, Schreb., 21. 
Argentine, 256. 
Astrophyton scutatum, 868. 
Atractylis arenosa, T. S. Wright, 815, 
349. 
coccinea, T. S. Wright, 251. 
miniata, T. S. Wright, 351. 
paUiata, T. S. Wright, 250. 
ramosa, T. S. Wright, 85. 
repens, 250. 
Asio hrachyotus, 46. 
Balfour (Prof.), Opening Address (His- 
tory of Wernerian Society, &c.), 1, 
— on the Birds of Heligoland, 
communicated by, 82. 
Banks (James), on Lantern-fly of 
Honduras, 102. 
Beaver, habits of, 329. 
Beaver, American, 21. 
Beetles, eyeless, from Carniola and 
Hungary, 88. 
Bell (Eev. T. B.) Notes from the 
neighbourhood of Stranraer, 143. 
Bernicla canadensis, Linn., 50. 
leucolcema, Murray, 51. 
Hutchinsiif 53. 
Bimeria vestita, 61. 
Birds, British, 44, 58, 69, 189, 244, 
259, 292, 347, 363, 420. 
of Caithness, 334. 
of Heligoland, 82. 
ofHudson's Bay Territories, 45, 57. 
Bison priscus, 11. 
Bloch's Top-knot, taken near North 
Berwick, 189. 
Bos primigenius, 72, 77, 111. 
longifrons, 208. 
Botaurus lentiginosus, Montag., 50. 
stellaris, Selby, 864. 
Bovinas, fossil, 71. 
Brown (Eobert), on Astrophyton scu- 
tatum, 868. 
— on a foetal narwhal, 447. 
on Phocidce of Greenland Seas , 
communicated by, 891. 
Bryson (Alex.), on danger of hasty 
generalization in geology, 85. 
with reference to the so-called 
raised sea-beach at Leith, 430. 
on tenacity of life in Buccitmm 
coronatum, 89. 
on structure of pearl, 142. 
on silicification of organic 
bodies, 202. 
Buccinum coronatum, tenacity of life in, 
89. 
Buteo lagopus, 44. 
Buzzard, rough-legged, 44. 
Calaharia fusca, 201. 
Carruthers (Wm.), geology of Moffat, 
383. 
on geology of Swellendam, 
South Africa, 108. 
