INDEX. 
V. 
Societies, Reports of: — 
Nottingham Working Men’s Natura¬ 
lists’ Society, 59, 92 
Nottingham Naturalists’ Society, 28, 
58-9, 91-2, 119-20,148 
Peterborough Natural History and 
Scientific Society, 28, 59-GO, 91, 148, 
240 
Tamworth Natural History, Ac., 
Society, 92, 120, 148, 176, 240 
Sociology, the Ethics of, 187-93 
South Beds, Botanical Notes from, 172 
Speculations on Protoplasm, 43-4 
Spencer (Herbert), on Religion: A Retro¬ 
spect and Prospect, 48 
- The Principles of Biology, 35-6, 
71-2, 99-100, 139, 153-4, 160-4, 168, 
195-7, 206, 226-9, 250-2, 285-7, 309- 
15 
- Translation of Works, 85 
Spider, Curled Web of, 236-7 
Spiders, Trap-door, in Captivity, 3 
Stanley (Edward), on Familiar History of 
Birds, 51 
Starch, the Formation of, 269 
Star’s. Half-liours with the (Review), 20 
Stokes (Dr. A. C.), on a New Vorticella, 
298 
Study of a Lichen from Oban (Ricasolia 
Amplissima), 273-7 
Sub-Editors, our, 28-60 
Sunsets in Australia, 25*2-3 
- and Sunrises, The Recent, 1-3 
- on the Volcanic Theory for the 
Cause of the Recent Remark¬ 
able, 177-84 
Swallows, Arrival of, 170 
Svenites of South Leicestershire, the, 
7-11, 41-2 
Tait (Lawson), on The Principles of 
Biology, 195-7 
Tangye (R.), Reminiscences of Travel in 
Australia., America, and Egypt, 49-50 
Taylor (J. E.), on Collecting and Pre¬ 
serving Natural History Objects 
(Review), 51 
Teeth, Some Points of Interest in the 
Comparative Anatomy of, 2‘J-34 
Telescope, Half-hours with the (Review), 
20 
Terns Breeding at the Fame Islands, 
Notes on the, 67-70 
Thrush, the Lark and the, 142 
Torrens Observatory, South Australia, 98 
Trap-door Spiders in Captivity, 3 
Travel, Reminiscences of, in Australia, 
America, and Egypt (Review), 49-50 
Union, Annual (Meeting of the, 100 
Uredines, Two New British, 237-8 
Volcanic Dust in relation to the Recent 
Sunsets and Sunrises, 22 
- Theory for the Cause of the 
Recent Remarkable Sunsets, 
on the, 177-81 
Vorticella, a New, 298 
Waller (T. H.), on Volcanic Dust in Rela¬ 
tion to the Recent Sunsets and 
Sunrises, 22 
Web, Curled, of Spider, 23G-7 
Weighing the Earth with a Chemical 
Balance, 157-8 
Wheeler (E.), Mild Season in the Fens, 
53-4 
Wild Garden, 24 
Wilkinson (W. H.), on The Study of a 
Lichen from Oban (Ricasolia Amplis¬ 
sima), 273-7 
Wills (A. W.), on The Preservation of 
Native Plants, 209-14 
Witchell (E.), The Geology of Stroud, 85 
Wragge (Clement L.), on Sunsets in 
Australia, 252-3 
On Temperature in Australia, 86 
Wright, the late Dr. T., 341-4 
Year-Book of Scientific Societies, KM) 
Zygnemacea 1 , on the; a Chapter in the 
History of the Fresli-water Algae 
315-324 
