IV. 
INDEX. 
Societies, Reports of— 
Birmingham Natural History and 
Microscopical Society, 26, 50, 
70-6 (28th Annual Report), 
78-9, 106-7, 114-20 (Presidential 
Address), 135-6, 142-50 (Presi¬ 
dential Address), 161-2, 183-4 
(Excursion to Oxford, 189-90, 
215-16, 238, 266-7, 294-5, 313-16. 
Caradoc Field Club, 136, 191, 239, 296. 
Dudley and Midland Geological and 
Scientific Society, 191-2, 239-40, 
296. 
Leicester Literary and Philosophical 
Society, 27, 80, 108, 163-4, 190-1, 
216, 268. 
Peterborough Natural History, 
Scientific, and Archaeological 
Society, 27-8, 51-2. 
Rugby School Natural History 
Society, Report for 1886 
[Review), 293. 
Solids under Great Pressures, On Tresca’s 
Remarkable Investigations into the 
Flow of, 137-42. 
Some Investigations into the Function 
of Tannin in the Vegetable Kingdom, 
269-76. 
South Beds, Botanical Notes from, 263-4. 
Specimen of the Giant Puff-ball, 266. 
Spencer (Herbert), The Principles of 
Biology, 17-22, 45-8, 126-9, 179-82, 
212-14, 309-13. 
- “ The Factors of Organic Evolu¬ 
tion,” 49. 
- Sy n thetic Philosophy, The, 228-30. 
Studer, Bernard, The Death of, 188. 
Synthetic Philosophy, The, 228-30. 
Tannin in the Vegetable Kingdom, Some 
Investigations into the Function of, 
269-76, 305-9. 
Tenby, An Excursion to, 7-12. 
Temperature on the Colour of the Blood, 
Influence of Extremes of, 134-5. 
Thomas Bolton, F.R.M.S., 22-4. 
Thompson (B.), The Middle Lias of 
Northamptonshire, 34-41, 55-8, 97-100, 
109-113, 175-9, 204-7, 230-6, 250-55, 
288-93, 302-5. 
Times, Signs of the, 188. 
Tolypella Intricata in Beds, 237-8. 
Trees and Shrubs, The Relations between 
Evergreen and Deciduous, 63-7. 
Tresca’s Remarkable Investigations into 
the Flow of Solids under Great 
Pressures, 137-42. 
University, A Proposed Midland, 67-70. 
Vegetable Kingdom, Some Investigations 
into the Function of Tannin in the, 
269-76, 305-9. 
Vegetable, Shamming, 161. 
Visit to Chirk, A, 13-17. 
Waller (Thos. H.), Notes on a Rock from 
New Zealand, and on the Dust 
ejected in the Eruption of Tarawera, 
in June, 1886, 207-11. 
Waller (Thos. H.), The Occurrence of 
Gold at Mount Morgan, Queensland, 
217-20. 
“ Wesley Naturalist, The,” 135. 
Wheat, Mummy, 159. 
Wilkinson (W. H.), A Ramble amongst 
Lichens in the Island of Bute, 81-5. 
Worcester, History of the County Botany 
of, 85-92, 120-4, 150-6, 169-74, 199-204, 
220-5, 255-61, 283-8, 
Wayside Notes— 
—“A Review of Lighthouse Work, 
&c.,” 189. 
-- Arabian Method of Preserving 
Roses, 265. 
-— A Semi-Aquatic Myxomycete, 160 
- Award of Medals, 48. 
—— Botanical Gardens at Kelvinside, 
135. 
- British Association at Man¬ 
chester, 237. 
-British Museum, New Geological 
Gallery in, 265. 
- Caterpillars Incog., 105-6. 
— Death of William Curnow, 77. 
-Deposit of Pliosphatic Nodules, 77 
- Dr. Junker on the Dark Continent, 
159. 
- Examination Answers, 266. 
- General Scientific Education, 
159-60. 
- Giant Puffball, Specimen of the, 
266. 
- Gilding of Chrysalids, 134. 
- Gilliflower, The, in the East, 265. 
-Hayes Water, 237. 
-• Influence of Extremes of Tem¬ 
perature on the Colour of the 
Blood, 134-5. 
- John Arthur Phillips, F.R.S., 49. 
-— Mason College and the Removal 
of Dr. John B. Haycraft, 105. 
- Meeting of the Midland Union 
of Natural History Societies at 
Malvern, 214. 
-- Motto for a Sportsman, 48. 
-- Mr. Herbert Spencer, 49. 
- Mummy Wheat, 159. 
- Narcissus, The, in the East, 265. 
-New Species of Rotifers, 77. 
-Physiological Selection in 
“ Nature,” 48. 
-Pulicaria Dysenterica, 78. 
- Shamming Vegetable, 161. 
- Signs of the Times, 188. 
The Death of Bernard Studer, 188 
-“ The Essex Naturalist,” 48. 
-The “ Entomologist’s Monthly 
Magazine ” (Sacium pusillum), 
104. 
- The late Thomas Edward, 158-9. 
- The Leicester Flora, 160-61. 
- “ The Naturalists’ Monthly,” 237, 
264. 
-The Preservation of Alpine 
Plants, 189. 
- “ The Wesley Naturalist,” 135. 
-• The “ Zoologist” upon Horse¬ 
shoe Bats, 105. 
- Tolypella Intricata in Beds, 
237-38. 
Zoology, A Junior Course of Practical 
(Review), 156-57. 
