Hardwicke's Science-Gossip/Volume 1

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HARDWICKE'S


Science-Gossip:


AN ILLUSTRATED MEDIUM OE INTERCHANGE AND GOSSIP


FOR STUDENTS AND


LOVERS OF NATURE.


Edited by M. C. COOKE,

AUTHOR OF "A PLAIN AND EASY ACCOUNT OF THE BRITISH FUNGI," "MICROSCOPIC FUNGI,"
"A MANUAL OF BOTANICAL TERMS," AND OF "STRUCTURAL BOTANY,"
THE "BRITISH REPTILES," ETC. ETC.



LONDON:

ROBERT HARDWICKE, 192, PICCADILLY.

1866.

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HARDWICKE'S

SCIENCE-GOSSIP

For 1865.

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COX AND WYMAN,
ORIENTAL, CLASSICAL, AND GENERAL PRINTERS,
GREAT QUEEN STREET, LONDON, W.C.

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INDEX.

  • A Little Rhapsody, 45.
  • Abnormal Fossil Ferns, 197.
  • Abnormal Larch Cones, 88.
  • Abnormal Pimpernel, 18.
  • About the Otter's Shell, 79.
  • Acari, lists of, 65.
  • Achatina acicula, 61.
  • Adjustments, 95.
  • Aëration of Aquaria, 211.
  • Agardh's View of Nature, 47.
  • Age of Human Skeleton, 264.
  • Air-bladders of Fish, 69.
  • Albino Flowers, 24.
  • Alexander Rust, 190.
  • Algæ, Bibliography, 192.
  • Almora and Sorrel, 43.
  • Alpine Plantain in Shetland, 283.
  • Alpine Rose, 66.
  • Alps, formation of, 210.
  • Amateur Botanists' Society, 23, 46, 70.
  • Amateur Microscopists, 153.
  • American Blight, 185.
  • American Water-weed, 141.
  • Amœba, the, 45.
  • Anacharis alsinastrum, 141.
  • Anatomatizing leaves, 215, 239, 286.
  • Ancient Trees, 185.
  • Anecdote of Stork, 14.
  • Anecdote of Swift, 14.
  • Anecdote of Birds, 181.
  • Anemone with Five Bracts, 188.
  • Anemones, Sea, 155.
  • Angling for Tench, 16.
  • Angular Aperture, 283.
  • Animalcules, Eel-like, 213.
  • Animalcule, Jelly, 88.
  • Animals, preserving, 43.
  • Anobium tessellatum, 60.
  • Anoplotherium, 214.
  • Another Plesiosaurus, 164.
  • Another Swift in Difficulty, 64.
  • Another use for Nattles, 88.
  • Anthropological Society, 22.
  • Anthus spinoletta, 61, 76.
  • Ants, 262.
  • Ant, the Driver, 113.
  • Ants, black, 238.
  • Ants and Cincraria, 143.
  • Ants and Cocci, 234.
  • Ants, festoons of, 116.
  • Ants of Great Britain, 195.
  • Ants, House, 170, 239.
  • Ants storing Grain, 113.
  • Ants, winged, 263.
  • Apetalous Stitchwort, 235.
  • Aphides, Swarms of, 287.
  • Aphis on Money-wort, 257.
  • Aphis populi, 257.
  • Appendages to Water-beetles, 238, 257.
  • Aquaria, Aëration of, 211.
  • Aquaria, Fish in, 119.
  • Aquaria, Fresh-water, 198, 211, 312, 213.
  • Aquaria and Fernery combined, 71, 117.
  • Aquaria Plants, 92, 111.
  • Aquaria, Marine, 129.
  • Aquaria, Streams in, 188.
  • Aquarian Difficulties, 154, 183, 213, 239.
  • Aquarium, Gobies, in, 42.
  • Aquarium Query answered, 167.
  • Aquarium Query, 143.
  • Aquavivarium, 288.
  • Arachnoidiscus ornatus, 114.
  • Arcadian Fir, New, 250.
  • Arctic Clio, 183.
  • Aregma bulbosum, 176.
  • Arran Drift-beds, 63.
  • Artaxerxes Butterfly, 66.
  • Artichoke, Jerusalem, 118, 142, 262.
  • Artichoke in flower, 262.
  • Asclepias seeds, 143.
  • Ash-bark Fungus, 144.
  • Asphalte, 159.
  • Asptenium viride, 44.
  • Association of Plants and Animals, 233.
  • Assyrian Botany, 110.
  • Asterosporium Hoffmanni, 35.
  • Atropus pulsatorius, 111.
  • Badger, the, 87.
  • Badger caught, 135.
  • Badger, White, 118.
  • Badgers, capture of, 63.
  • Baikie, Dr., death of, 46.
  • Balance of Power, 193.
  • Balsam and Chloroform, 45, 69.
  • Baltic Cod-fish, 261.
  • Barnacles and Corals, 211.
  • Basse, the, 208.
  • Battle of the Bees, 214.
  • Bearded Tit, 26.
  • Beauty in Nature, 182.
  • Beaver, Gigantic Fossil, 44.
  • Beech "Gall Midge," 190.
  • Beech Trees, 167.
  • Bee and its Sting, 65, 142.
  • Bees, 286.
  • Bees and Fuchsia, 263.
  • Bees and their Food, 286.
  • Bees and Wasps, 263.
  • Bees attacking Fruit, 287.
  • Bees, Battle of, 214.
  • Bees, Ligurian Queens, 41.
  • Bees' Remains, 143, 166, 167.
  • Bees, removing, 257.
  • Bees, suffocation of, 185.
  • Bees, superstitions about, 34.
  • Bees, why did they go, 93.
  • Bees, Wild, 137.
  • Beetledom, a Story of, 98.
  • Benzole for killing insects, 72.
  • Bibliography of Zoology, 72.
  • Bighorn at Belfast, 44.
  • Binocular Dissecting Microscope, 201.
  • Birds, Anecdotes of, 181.
  • Birds and Insect Pests, 160.
  • Birds' Eggs, 238.
  • Birds' Eggs, Colour of, 47.
  • Birds in an Eclipse, 207.
  • Birds, names of Sea-, 239.
  • Birds, to preserve, 48, 63.
  • Bite of Viper, 95.
  • Bitten by a Viper, 131.
  • Bittern, the, 86.
  • Bituminous Oil, 210.
  • Black Ants, 238.
  • Black Beetles, 167, 238.
  • Black Cradle, 270.
  • Black-headed Gull, 256.
  • Black Hollyhocks, 43.
  • Black Woodpecker, 183.
  • Blight, American, 185.
  • Blight, a Curious, 167.
  • Blight of Larch, 190.
  • Blighted Beech-leaves, 190.
  • Bloody-man's Fingers, 114.
  • Bloomeria, Golden, 167.
  • Bluebottles, 70.
  • Blue Fleabane in Cumberland, 220, 258.
  • Blue-flowers, White, 24.
  • Blue Tits, 39.
  • Blue Wren, the, 199.
  • Bog Asphodel, 209.
  • Books on Fungi, 240.
  • Books on the Microscope, 240.
  • Books on Seaweeds, 192.
  • Books on Shells, 48.
  • Books on Zoophytes, 192.
  • Books received, 24, 48, 72, 96, 120, 144, 168, 192, 216, 240, 264, 288.
  • Bombay Zoological Gardens, 46.
  • Bonaparte's Gull, 38.
  • Botanical Society, Edinburgh, 74.
  • Botanists' Amateur Society, 23, 36, 70.
  • Botanist, the Cobbler, 66.
  • Botany, 17, 43, 66, 86, 114, 137, 162, 186, 209, 235, 258, 283.
  • Botany, Assyrian, 110.
  • Botany at the Cape, 115.
  • Botany, Modern Military, 24.
  • Botany, Origin of Sowerby's, 47.
  • Bramble-leaf Brand, 176.
  • Brambling, the, 64.
  • Brand, Meadow-sweet, 255.
  • Breeze-Fly, the, 194.
  • Bristle-mould, new, 66.
  • British Land and Freshwater Shells, 61, 191.
  • British Lichens, 186.
  • British Orchids, 124.
  • British Plants, Variations in, 32, 228.
  • British Roses, 86.
  • British Salmon, 69.
  • British Species of Burdock, 44.
  • British Woods, 239.
  • Brittle India-rubber, 136.
  • Bromley, and What I found there, 246.
  • Brood of Caterpillars, 126.
  • Broom-rape in a strange place, 89.
  • Brücke's Lens, 111.
  • Buckinghamshire Flora, 67.
  • Bull's-eye Condenser, 212.
  • Burdock, British Species of, 44.
  • Buried alive, 135.
  • Burnet, Six-spot, 151.
  • Butcher-bird, Great, 184.
  • Butcher-bird, or Shrike, 100.
  • Butterflies, Heroic Names, 15.
  • Butterfly and Nettle, 62.
  • Butterfly, Clouded Yellow, 281.
  • Butterfly Parasites, 262.
  • Butterfly Scales, 140, 166.
  • Butterfly, Small Tortoise-shell, 263, 286.
  • Butterfly Wings, Development of, 113.
  • Butterworts, Cultivatica of, 205.
  • Button Galls, 240.
  • Buxton, Mr. Richard, 66.
  • Cabbage Butterfly Parasites, 71.
  • Cabbage Butterfly and its Metamorphoses, 30, 74.
  • Cabinet Labels, 192.
  • Cape Botany, 115.
  • Cape Pigeons, 118.
  • Cape Hen, 142, 239.
  • Cape Salmon, 64.
  • Carolina Crake in England, 60.
  • Cases, Ferns in, 281, 287.
  • Cat-briar, 215, 239.
  • Cat-fleas, 278.
  • Cat sacred to Hecate, 41.
  • Caterpillars, Brood of, 126.
  • Caterpillars, irritating, 288.
  • Caterpillars on Apple-trees, 168.
  • Caterpillars on Oak, 168.
  • Caterpillars defoliating Trees, 162.
  • Caterpillars on Hawthorn, 168.
  • Cats, Manx, 118, 142.
  • Caverns near Furfooz, 164.
  • Cedar-wood Exudation, 214, 239.
  • Celery Fly and Tomtits, 281.
  • Cement for Rock-work, 94.
  • Chætomium murorum, 66.
  • Chameleon, 92.
  • Change of Climate, 99.
  • Chapter from the Life of a Volvox, 244.
  • Chapter on Hairs, 29.
  • Chestnut-tree of Tuileries, 138. ​
  • Child poisoned by a Toad, 111.
  • China-grass, 18, 277.
  • Chirocephatus diaphanus, 45.
  • Choice of a Microscope, 207.
  • Chloroform and Balsam, 45, 69.
  • Christmas leaves, 283.
  • Cilia of Diatomaceæ, 237.
  • Cilia of Volvox, 263.
  • Cinders in Cultivating Ferns, 183.
  • Cineraria and Ants, 143.
  • Circle of Life, 145.
  • Circulating Cabinet, 236.
  • Circulation in a Fly, 259.
  • Circulation of Cosmarium, 94.
  • Clausilia Mortilleti, 61.
  • Cleaning Diatomaceæ, 52.
  • Cleaning Echinus Spines, 91.
  • Cleaning Insects, 72.
  • Cleaning Objects, 142.
  • Cleaning Sections, 47.
  • Clio Borealis, 183.
  • Clip, Improved, 189.
  • Clouded Yellow Butterfly, 281.
  • Cluster-cups, 67.
  • Coal, our Stock of, 210.
  • Coal's Account of itself, 91.
  • Coal-plants, 210.
  • Cobber-Botanist, the, 66.
  • Coccus of Oranges, 96.
  • Cochineal, 210.
  • Cockroaches and Crickets, 42, 66.
  • Cod-fish, Baltic, 261.
  • Collecting Diatoms, 85.
  • Collecting Objects, 69.
  • Collecting Roses, 43.
  • Collas in exchange, 286.
  • Colour of Birds' Eggs, 39, 47, 87, 142, 231.
  • Comatula rosacea, 95, 112.
  • Common Things, 217.
  • Common Things Unknown, 88.
  • Comparative Increase in Size, 206.
  • Compound Eyes of Insects, 228, 219.
  • Conchological Works, 48.
  • Condenser, Bull's-eye, 212.
  • Condenser, Economic, 90.
  • Condenser, Webster's, 140.
  • Cone, Fossil, 259.
  • Conferva, Green, 119.
  • Conservatory Guide, 239, 263.
  • Corallines, 177.
  • Coral Reefs, 112, 220, 285.
  • Corals and Barnacles, 211.
  • Corals and Madrepores, 287.
  • Corals and Sponges, 187.
  • Cork Bark for Fern-cases, 21.
  • Corn Poppy, White, 167.
  • Cosmarium Botrylis, 201.
  • Cosmarium, Circulation, 91.
  • Cotton, Species of, 43.
  • Cow-trees, 171, 286.
  • Crab-claw, Curious, 206.
  • Crab, Hermit, 191.
  • Cradle, a Black, 270.
  • Crake, Carolina, 60.
  • Crane in Shetland, 184.
  • Cretaceious Fossils, 229, 283.
  • Cricket on the Hearth, 81.
  • Crickets and Cockroaches, 42, 66.
  • Crickets, what do they eat, 118, 128, 166.
  • Crowfoot, Pollen of, 186.
  • Cryptograms in Himalayas, 111.
  • Crystallized Carbon, 288.
  • Cuckoo, the, 85.
  • Cuckoo and its Eggs, 38.
  • Cuckoo's Egg in Linnet's nest, 87.
  • Cuckoo, Notes of, 183.
  • Cui Bono? 25.
  • Cultivation of Butterworts, 205.
  • Cultivation of Ferns, 119.
  • Culture of Vallisneria, 138.
  • Curiosities, Natural, 283.
  • Curious Blight, 167.
  • Curious Crab-claw, 266.
  • Curious Dietetie Phenomenon, 91.
  • Curious Places for Nests, 233.
  • Cutting Sections of Wood, 71.
  • Cybete Hiberniea, 43.
  • Cyclops, Four-horned, 158.
  • Dabchicks, 152.
  • Daisy, Prohferous, 182.
  • Dammar-Bee, 252.
  • Darwin's New Work, 114.
  • Dead Fly in Water, 133.
  • Dead Fly on the Window, 10.
  • Dead-Sea Water, 259.
  • Dead Spider in Water, 133.
  • Death among Young Ferns, 93.
  • Death of Dr. Balkie, 46.
  • Death of Professor Silliman, 24.
  • Death to Flies, 15.
  • Death's-head Hawk-moth, 208, 234.
  • Death's-head Moth at Sea, 41.
  • Death-watch, the, 60.
  • Deer poisoned by Yew, 112.
  • Deformed Swallow-tail, 185.
  • Detesseria sanguinea, 117.
  • Dermestea and Pencil-tail, 230.
  • Development of Butterfly Wings, 113.
  • Devilline, 20.
  • Devonshire Mistletoe, 114.
  • Diameter of Benses, 238.
  • Diamonds, Origin of, 88.
  • Diaphragm for Microscope, 189.
  • Diaphragm, Graduatin, 153.
  • Diatom, new Irish, 114.
  • Diatoms wanted, 95.
  • Diatomaceæ, Cilia of, 237.
  • Diatomaceæ, Cleaning, 52.
  • Diatomaceæ, Movements of, 163.
  • Diatomaceæ, Sea-ride, 250.
  • Diatoms, Exotic, in British localities, 110.
  • Diatoms, Exotic and British, 167.
  • Diatoms from Guano, 148.
  • Diatoms, on Collecting, 85.
  • Diatoms, what they are, &c. 27.
  • Diet of Worms, 180, 214.
  • Dipper, Feed of, 184.
  • Dipper, Song of, 135.
  • Diseased Flies, 70.
  • Dissecting Microscope, Binocular, 201.
  • Diving Sandpipers, 63.
  • Dog n Fox, 169.
  • Dog-whelk, netted, 259.
  • Dormouse, the Common, 202.
  • Dorr-Beetle, Strength of, 41.
  • Dorse, the, 261.
  • Double-yolked Eggs, 39, 63.
  • Dragon-flies, 95.
  • Drift-beds of Arran, 68.
  • Drift of East of England, 44.
  • Driver Ant, 113.
  • Driver Ants, Festoons of, 116.
  • Drosers rotundifolia, 209.
  • Drying Flowers, 186.
  • Drying Starfish, 136.
  • Duckweeds, 5, 258, 286.
  • Duckweeds, name, 258.
  • Dumfries Natural History Society, 70.
  • Dytiscus, its Parasite, 255.
  • Eagle-killing Extraordinary, 13.
  • Eagle, the Golden, 39.
  • Early Wasp, 137, 161.
  • Earwig, White, 213.
  • Earwigs, 185.
  • Echinus Spines, cleaning, 94.
  • Economic Entomology, 87.
  • Edible Fungi, 214.
  • Edinburgh Botanical Society, 70.
  • Education in Geology, 140.
  • Eel, Observations of, 93.
  • Eel, Reproduction of, 118, 141, 165.
  • Eel-like Animalcules, 213.
  • Eels and Dew-worms, 236.
  • Eels and Fish Garbage, 93.
  • Eels, Migration of, 284.
  • Eels, Migratory, 70, 95.
  • Effects of Lightning on Fish, 211.
  • Egg of Cuckoo, 87.
  • Egg of the Moa, 14, 282.
  • Egg of Stormy Petrel, 87.
  • Eggs, Colour of, 39, 47, 87, 142, 231.
  • Eggs, Double-yolked, 39, 63.
  • Eggs of Cat-bird, 238.
  • Eggs of Great Auk, 184.
  • Eggs of Land Tortoise, 63.
  • Eggs of Thrush, 263.
  • Eggs, Pheasant's, 190.
  • Eggs, Stalked Insect, 190.
  • Elephant, Fossil, 215.
  • Embryonic Development, 65.
  • English Crag and Scotch Beds, 68.
  • Entomological Society, 22, 46, 143, 144.
  • Entomology, 15, 41, 66, 113, 137, 161, 185, 208, 234, 257.
  • Eozoon Canadense, 164.
  • Epipactis rubra in Gloucestershire, 235.
  • Eriogaster lanestris, 126.
  • Eriophorum angustifolium, 43.
  • Erucastrum Pollichii, 209.
  • Ethnological Society, 23, 46.
  • European Swallows, 136.
  • Evening Primrose, Pollen of, 212.
  • Examining Plants, 162.
  • Exotic and British Diatoms, 140, 167.
  • Exudation of Cedar, 214.
  • Eye, Facets in the, 189.
  • Eyes, Compound, 228, 249.
  • Fable, a, 63.
  • Facets in the Eye, 189.
  • Fairy Shrimp, the, 45.
  • Fearless Tits, 160.
  • Features of Plants, 43.
  • Fern-growing, 44, 109, 188, 239, 262.
  • Fern, Hart's-tongue, 190, 214.
  • Fern, Killarney, 92.
  • Fern Query, 94.
  • Fern, the Tunbridge, 114.
  • Fernery and Aquarium, 71, 117.
  • Ferns, 20, 34, 37, 44, 66, 67, 93, 109.
  • Ferns, Abnormal Fossil, 187.
  • Ferns, Cultivating, 44, 109, 188, 239, 262.
  • Ferns, Death among, 93.
  • Ferns in Cases, 284.
  • Ferns, Insects feeding on, 65.
  • Ferns, Preservative Power of, 37, 95, 115.
  • Ferns, Reproduction of, 89.
  • Festoons of Driver Ants, 116.
  • Field Naturalists, Manchester, 23.
  • Fiftieth Objective, 90.
  • Fiji Islands Flora, 67.
  • Fir, new Arcadian, 250.
  • Fir-scales for Microscope, 45.
  • Fire-fly Light, 191.
  • Fish, Air-bladders of, 69.
  • Fish-culture on the Lea, 140.
  • Fish, great Slaughter of, 165.
  • Fish in Aquaria, 119.
  • Fish killed by Lightning, 211.
  • Fish-ladders on the Thames, 16.
  • Fish-moulds and Fly-moulds, 134, 189.
  • Fish Ova-cases, 182.
  • Fish-scales for Microscope, 261.
  • Fish Tattle, 16, 42, 93, 141, 165, 207, 236, 261, 284.
  • Fish, the New, 42, 56.
  • Fish: What are they about? 95.
  • Fish, Weever, 166.
  • Fleas, Cat, 278.
  • Flesh-worm Disease, 40.
  • Flora of Bucks, 67.
  • Flora of Fiji Islands, 67.
  • Florence Flask-covers, 120.
  • Flower-loving Spiders, 206.
  • Flowers, imperfectly developed, 103.
  • Flowers, Language of, 114.
  • Flowers, to Dry, 186.
  • Flies and Wasps, 262.
  • Flies, Death to, 15.
  • Flies, Diseased, 70.
  • Flies, Hybernation of, 113.
  • Fly-catcher, Spotted, 256.
  • Fly-catching Plant, 43.
  • Fly, Circulation in, 259.
  • Fly, Foot of a, 253.
  • Fly, Green Drake-, 231.
  • Fly in Pike-fishing, 280.
  • Fly, Larvæ of, 83.
  • Fly-moulds, 10.
  • Fly-moulds and Fish-moulds, 134.
  • Fly Nuisance, 257.
  • Fly Parasites, 93, 227.
  • Fly, Spiracles of, 199.
  • Fly, the Breeze-, 194.
  • Fly, Tongues of, 83.
  • Focal Length, 288.
  • Folk-lore of Geology, 164.
  • Food of Salamander, 95.
  • Food of the Dipper, 184.
  • Foot of a Fly, 253.
  • Foraminifera, 69, 187.
  • Forceps, Stage, 212.
  • Forest of Cromer Period, 259.
  • Formation of the Alps, 210.
  • Forty Years ago, 24.
  • Fossil Beaver, Gigantic, 44.
  • Fossil Cone, 259.
  • Fossil Elephant, 215.
  • Fossil Ferns, Abnormal, 187.
  • Fossil Oak, 210.
  • Fossil Plants, 68. ​
  • Fossil Plants of Coal, 210.
  • Fossil Shell, 94.
  • Fossil Spider in Coal, 259.
  • Fossil Teeth, &c., 136.
  • Fossils, Cretaceous, 229, 285.
  • Fossils from Caradoc Strata, 210.
  • Fossils, Manufacture of, 91.
  • Fossils, what are, 19.
  • Fountain Intermittent, 260.
  • Four Years' Acquaintance with a Toad, 12.
  • Four-horned Cyclops, 158.
  • Fox-shark, 165.
  • Fox v. Dog, 160.
  • Fox with young Scentless, 166.
  • Freshwater Aquaria, 188, 211, 212, 213.
  • Freshwater Sponges, 287.
  • Friendly Notice of Tomtit, 59.
  • Fringed Scale-moss, 109.
  • Frog and Thrush, 112.
  • Frog eating its Old Skin, 233.
  • Fruit and Bees, 287.
  • Fuchsia and Bees, 263.
  • Fucus serratus, &c., 204.
  • Fungi, Books on, 240.
  • Fungi, Edible, 214.
  • Fungi, new British, 209.
  • Fungi, to Preserve, 144.
  • Fungus, Star-spored, 35.
  • Furze-leaves Trifoliate, 115.
  • Gall-fly, Male, 137.
  • Gall-insects eaten by Tits, 59.
  • Gall-insect, new, 185.
  • Galls, 15, 24, 41.
  • Galls, Kakrasinghee, 286.
  • Galls, Knoppern, 41.
  • Garnets, 94.
  • Gathering Seaweeds, 173.
  • Geaster, Species of, 19.
  • Gemmæ of Mosses, 67.
  • Geographical Society, 22.
  • Geological Changes in Scotland, 44.
  • Geological Queries, 119.
  • Geology, 19, 44, 68, 91, 116, 119, 140, 164, 187, 210, 259, 285.
  • Geology, Education in, 140.
  • Germon, the, 261.
  • Gigantic Fossil Beaver, 44.
  • Gill-fans of Sabella, 262.
  • Glacier Phenomena, 44.
  • Glasses, Magnifying Power of, 69.
  • Glengariff for Ichthyology, 208.
  • Gnat Larva, 163.
  • Gobies in an Aquarium, 43.
  • Gold Shells, 120.
  • Golden Bloomeria, 167.
  • Golden Eagle, 39.
  • Gomuti Palm, 77.
  • Gonium pectorale, 95.
  • Gordius aquaticus, 107, 197.
  • Gorilla, 38.
  • Gossamer Spiders, 151, 191, 213.
  • Gossip about Mansuckers, 49.
  • Gossypium, Species of, 43.
  • Graduating Diaphragm, 153.
  • Granite, 116.
  • Gray Wagtail, 281.
  • Grease, to remove, from insects, 72.
  • Great Auk's Eggs, 184.
  • Great Butcher-bird, 184.
  • Great Slaughter of Fish, 165.
  • Green Conferva, 119.
  • Green Drake-fly, 231.
  • Green Spleenwort, 44.
  • Growing Ferns, 239.
  • Guano, 231, 239.
  • Guano, &c., in exchange, 140.
  • Guide to Conservatory, 262.
  • Gull, Black-headed, 256.
  • Gulls looking out, 14.
  • Gulls, Piratical, 272.
  • Gurnard, Sapphirine, 236.
  • Habits of the Toad, 86.
  • Habits of Reptiles, 287.
  • Hair-worm, the, 107, 288.
  • Hair-worm, more Notes on the, 197.
  • Hairs, Chapter on, 29.
  • Hammer-headed Shark, 207.
  • Hart's-tongue Fern, 190, 214.
  • Hawk and Rat, 125.
  • Hawk-moth, Death's-head, 208, 234.
  • Hawk-moth, Humming-bird, 208.
  • Hawk-moth, Lime, 161.
  • Hawk-moth, Unicorn, 263.
  • Hawthorn, 198.
  • Hawthorn Caterpillar, 168.
  • Hedgehog, the, 79, 108.
  • Hedgehog among Strawberries, 95.
  • Hedgehog, White, 207.
  • Hedgehogs eating Eggs, 143.
  • Helix obvoluta, 61.
  • Hepaticæ, mounting, 109.
  • Herbaria, Prizes for, 78.
  • Herbarium Insect, 111.
  • Herb Paris, 138, 143.
  • Hermaphrodite Catkins, 19.
  • Hermit Crab, 191.
  • Hermit Rooks, 226.
  • Heroic Names of Butterflies, 15.
  • Heron, the Squacco, 281.
  • Herring, the, &c., 284.
  • Highest Power, the, 45.
  • High Powers, Illumination, 22.
  • Himalayan Cryptograms, 114.
  • Hints for Marine Aquaria, 129.
  • Hissing of Snake and Viper, 142.
  • Hive-bee and Sting, 65, 142.
  • Hive-bees removed, 287.
  • Hobby, what's your? 1.
  • Hollyhocks, Black, 43.
  • Homes without Hands, 251.
  • Hoopoe, the, 256.
  • Hoopoe and Roller, 184.
  • Horse Chestnuts, 114.
  • Horse Chestnut-tree, 17.
  • Horse Chestnuts, Uses of, 43.
  • House Ants, 170, 239.
  • House Fly, the, 82.
  • House Sparrow in India, 135.
  • How to begin, 97.
  • How to grow Ferns, 262.
  • How to mount Mosses, 43.
  • How the White Owl takes its Prey, 233.
  • Human Remains, Petrified, 132.
  • Humming-bird Hawk-moth, 208.
  • Humming Birds, 218.
  • Hunter's Early Work, 23.
  • Hyacinth Bulbs, preserving, 190.
  • Hybernation of Flies, 113.
  • Hybridism, Naudin on, 258.
  • Hymenophyllum Tunbridgense, 20, 114.
  • Ichneumons and Vanessa, 238, 263.
  • Ilford Mammoth, 20.
  • Illumination for High Powers, 22.
  • Illumination, Microscopic, 130.
  • Imperfectly-developed Flowers, 103.
  • Improved Clip, 189.
  • Inch of Rain, 119.
  • Increase of Bulk in Larvæ, 208.
  • Incubating Robin, 142, 166.
  • Independence, 241.
  • Index to Scientific Literature, 113.
  • India-rubber, Brittle, 186.
  • Influence of Palms, 283.
  • Infusoria, 223.
  • Infusorial Earth, 93, 239.
  • Ingenuity of Thrush, 207.
  • In how Little lies the Past, 187.
  • "In Memoriam," 265.
  • Insect Larva, 259.
  • Insect-mouldds, 133.
  • Insect-pests and Birds, 169.
  • Insect Vivarium, 188.
  • Insects feeding on Ferns, 66.
  • Insects feeding on Wheat, 191.
  • Insects in Armour, 161.
  • Insects in Greenhouses, 15.
  • Insects mounted whole, 163, 191.
  • Insects of Nova Scotia, 142.
  • Insects, Scales of, 21.
  • Insects, to kill, 113.
  • Intelligence of Starling, 13.
  • Intermittent Fountain, 260.
  • Introduced Plants, 67.
  • Introduction of Rare Plants, 139.
  • Invisible World revealed, 20.
  • Irish Ivy, 209.
  • Irish Plants, Notes on, 115.
  • Irrationale of Speech, 65.
  • Irritating Caterpillars, 288.
  • Ivy, Irish, 209.
  • Ivy, the, 114.
  • Jelly Animalcule, 58.
  • Jelly-fishes, 248.
  • Jerusalem Artichoke, 118, 142.
  • Kakrasinghee, 286.
  • Katy-did, 146.
  • Keyhole Limpet and Parasite, 122.
  • Kestrel, the, 206.
  • Killarney Fern, 92.
  • Killing Insects for Cabinet, 15, 113.
  • Kleptomania, 194.
  • Knoppern Galls, 41.
  • Kolpods, Reproduction of, 132.
  • Laburnum, 215.
  • Lace-wing Fly, Eggs of, 190.
  • Lamp, Microscope, 236.
  • Land Shells, British, 119.
  • Land Tortoise—Eggs, 63.
  • Language of Flowers, 114.
  • Lantern Fly, 191.
  • Larch Blight, 190.
  • Larch Cones, abnormal, 88.
  • Large Mushroom, 258.
  • Larva of a Gnat, 162.
  • Larvæ and Imago, 208.
  • Larvæ, Increase of Bulk, 208.
  • Larvæ, Pugnacity of, 161.
  • Laudanum, a Species of Dew, 139.
  • Leaf teachings, 52.
  • Leaves, anatomatizing, 215, 239, 286.
  • Leaves for Packing, 47, 70.
  • Leaves, Skeleton, 286.
  • Leaves, Veins of, 24.
  • Leiodon at Norwich, 20.
  • Lemma arrhiza, 264.
  • Lemna, Species of, 5.
  • Lenses, Diameter of, 238.
  • Lepidonotus Lordi, 123.
  • Lepidopterous Scale, 127.
  • Lesser Broom-rape, 89.
  • Lichens, British, 186.
  • Lichens, New British, 19, 88.
  • Life, the Circle of, 145.
  • Light of Lantern Fly, 191.
  • Ligurian Queens and English Bees, 41.
  • Lime Hawk-moth, 161.
  • Limnæus pereger, 72.
  • Limpet, Keyhole, and Parasite, 122.
  • Linnæan Society, 46.
  • Lissotriton palmipes, 136.
  • Liver Fluke, 18.
  • Liverpool Naturalist Society, 70.
  • Llandrillo Fossils, 210.
  • Local Names, Notes on, 35.
  • London Rocket, 149.
  • Lord Scarabæus, 98.
  • Lampers and Splitters, 73.
  • Lutraria maxima, 79.
  • Machine for Aquaria, 118.
  • Madrepores, 239, 287.
  • Magnifying Power, to ascertain, 69.
  • Male Fern, Anthelmintic, 67.
  • Male Gall-fly, 137.
  • Maltwood Finder, 259.
  • Mammoth at Ilford, 20.
  • Management of Ferns, 284.
  • Man in the Past, 256.
  • Manchester Field Society, 23.
  • Manchester Literary and Philological Society, 46.
  • Man's Place in Nature, 46.
  • Mansucker, or Octopus, 87.
  • Mansucker and Sea-Cucumber, 118.
  • Manufacture of Fossils, 91.
  • Manx Cats, 118, 142.
  • Margarodes formicarum, 120.
  • Marine Aquaria, Hints, 129.
  • Marine Phosphorescence, 190.
  • Martin in Difficulty, 40.
  • Meadow-sweet Brand, 255.
  • Metamorphoses of Butterfly, 30, 74.
  • Micro-photographs, 90.
  • Microscope, Books on, 240.
  • Microscope, Choice of, 267.
  • Microscope, Collecting for, 69.
  • Microscope, Indoors, 20.
  • Microscope, its Principles, 8.
  • Microscopic Illumination, 130.
  • Microscopic Lamp, 236.
  • Microscopic Mites on Stones, 22.
  • Microscopic Object, 45.
  • Microscopic Powers, 163.
  • Microscopical Club, 189.
  • Microscopical Society, 23, 46, 70.
  • Microscopists, Amateur, 153.
  • Microscopists, Proposal to, 116.
  • Microscopy, 20, 45, 69, 90, 116, 140, 163, 189, 212, 237, 259.
  • Migration of Eels, 284.
  • Migratory Eels, 70.
  • Mildew—What is it? 139.
  • Milk-tree of Para, 286.
  • Mimulus luteus, 235. ​
  • Minds and Memories, 187.
  • Mischievous Rats, 184.
  • Mistletoe, 273.
  • Mistletoe in Devonshire, 114.
  • Mistletoe on Mountain Ash, 283.
  • Mistletoe on the Oak, 283.
  • Mistletoe, Trees on which it Grows, 283.
  • Mites, Microscopic, on Stones, 22.
  • Moa's Egg, 14, 281.
  • Moa of New Zealand, 282.
  • Modern Military Botany, 24.
  • Mole and Mouse, 86.
  • Molluscs, Small, 256.
  • Monarch of the Forest, 61.
  • Money-wort Aphis, 257.
  • Monkey, Squirrel, 206.
  • Monstrosities, Vegetable, 137.
  • Moon, Mountains in, 249.
  • More Note on Hairworm, 197.
  • More Uses for Nettles, 209.
  • Morley Naturalists Society, 23.
  • Morrhua callarias, 261.
  • Mosquitoes in England, 239.
  • Moss Culture, 92.
  • Moss, New British, 258.
  • Mosses accumulating Soil, 67.
  • Mosses, Gemmæ of, 67.
  • Mosses, Study of, 79.
  • Mosses, to Mount, 43.
  • Most perfect Plants, 17.
  • Moth, Death's-head, at Sea, 41.
  • Moulds, Insect, 133.
  • Mountain Ash, Mistletoe on, 283.
  • Mountain Limestone of Shropshire, 187.
  • Mountains of the Moon, 249.
  • Mounting in Balsam and Chloroform, 45.
  • Mounting Objects, 116.
  • Mounting Plants, 46.
  • Mounting Polyzoa, 65, 93, 94.
  • Mounting whole Insects, 163, 191.
  • Mouse and Mole, 86.
  • Movements of Endochrome in Diatoms, 163.
  • Mud-shell, Wandering, 72.
  • Mule-breeding, 38.
  • Muller's Topknot, 261.
  • Mushroom, Large, 258.
  • Mushroom, Triple, 209.
  • Myriad Zoophytes, 183.
  • Natterjack Toad, 111, 118, 143.
  • Natterjack at Coombe, 206.
  • Natterjack in Ireland, 86.
  • Natural Curiosities, 283.
  • Natural History Society of Northumberland, &c., 70.
  • Naturalists' Society, Morley, 23.
  • Naudin on Hybridism, 258.
  • Nereis bilicæata, 59.
  • Nests in curious places, 233.
  • Nesting of Cuckoo, 38.
  • Netted Dog-whelk, 259.
  • Nettle and Butterfly, 62.
  • Nettle, China-grass, 18.
  • Nettles, another Use for, 88.
  • Nettles, a Plea for, 275.
  • Nettles, more Uses for, 209.
  • Nettles, Use for, 70.
  • New Arcadian Fir, 250.
  • New British Fungi, 209.
  • New British Lichens, 19, 88.
  • New British Moss, 258.
  • New British Sea-Anemone, 188.
  • New Gall-insect, 185.
  • New Holland, in Europe, 58.
  • New Irish Diatom, 114.
  • New Silene, 258.
  • New Silk-producing Insect, 87.
  • New Source of Theine, 88.
  • Newt Eaten by a Toad, 233.
  • Newts, 136.
  • Newts in Confinement, 39.
  • Noctilucæ, 245.
  • No Knowledge without Work, 46.
  • Notes and Queries, 24, 46, 71, 93, 118, 142, 286.
  • Notes on Local Names, 35.
  • Notes on the Hawthorn, 198.
  • Notes of the Cuckoo, 183.
  • Notice of Mule-breeding, 38.
  • Notices, 24, 48, 72, 96, 120, 144.
  • Nova Scotia Insects, 142.
  • Nuthatches at the Window, 224.
  • Nyssia zonaria, 120.
  • Oak Caterpillar, 168.
  • Oak, Fossil, 210.
  • Oak, Mistletoe on, 283.
  • Oak Spangles, 240.
  • Objects, Circulating Cabinet of, 236.
  • Objects in Tumuli, 262.
  • Objects, Mounting, 116.
  • Observations on Eel, 93.
  • Occurrence of Beds in the West of Scotland in the position of the English Crag, 68.
  • Octopus, on the, 49, 87, 135.
  • Old Trees, 222.
  • On behalf of Salamander, 71.
  • Ophrydium versatile, 58.
  • Orange, Scale of, 96.
  • Orchid, possible Increase, 185.
  • Orchid Rust, 162.
  • Orchids, How to Grow, 124.
  • Orcynus alalonga, 261.
  • Origin of Diamonds, 88.
  • Origin of English Botany, 47.
  • Origin of Proverbs, 46.
  • Ornithological Queries, 47, 71, 143.
  • Otters, 112.
  • Otter-shell, the, 79.
  • Our Lady of Toulouse, 34.
  • Our stock of Coal, 210.
  • Owl, White, and its Prey, 233.
  • Palmate Newts, 136.
  • Palmella cruenta, 88.
  • Palm Tinder, 118.
  • Palms, influence of, 283.
  • Palm-tree, under a, 77.
  • Pandorina morum, 279.
  • Parasite of Dytiscus, 255.
  • Parasites of Butterfly, 262.
  • Parasites of Cabbage Butterfly, 71.
  • Parasites of Fly, 227.
  • Parasites of Parsnip, 238.
  • Parasites on Root-galls, 216.
  • Paris quadrifolia, 143, 235.
  • Parlour Science, 118.
  • Pear-tree in Blossom, 258.
  • Pencil-tail and Dermestes, 230.
  • Pendent Wasp-nest, 137.
  • Pens of Reed, 118.
  • Periwinkle, the, 186.
  • Petherwin Fossils, 119.
  • Petherwin Beds, 150.
  • Fetrified Human Remains, 132.
  • Phallus impudicus, 190.
  • Pheasants and Wireworms, 38.
  • Pheasant's Eggs in Partridge's Nest, 190.
  • Phosphorescence of Sea, 245.
  • Phosphorescent Podura, 238.
  • Phosphor-stone, 44.
  • Photo-micrographs, 236.
  • Pigeons routed by Swallows, 206.
  • Pigment-cells, 106.
  • Pike, a Good, 140.
  • Pike choked by an Eel, 233.
  • Pike-fishing with Fly, 280.
  • Pimpernel, Abnormal, 18.
  • Pinguicula grandiflora, 67.
  • Pinguicula vulgaris, 205.
  • Pinguicula, the, 214.
  • Piratical Gulls, 272.
  • Pixy Purses, 182.
  • Plane-tree of Vostitza, 258.
  • Planorbis corneus, 61.
  • Plantain, Alpine, in Shetland, 283.
  • Plantain, the, 232.
  • Plant Animals, 177.
  • Plant, Fly-catching, 43.
  • Plants and Animals, 235.
  • Plants, Consumers of Oxygen, 198.
  • Plants, Examining, 162.
  • Plants, Features of, 43.
  • Plants for Aquaria, 141.
  • Plants, Fossil Coal, 210.
  • Plants in Aquarium, 92.
  • Plants introduced, 67.
  • Plants, Introduction of Rare, 139.
  • Plants, Irish, Notes on, 115.
  • Flants, most Perfect, 17.
  • Plants, Mounting, 46.
  • Plants, Poisoning of, 24.
  • Plants rooting in Soil, 17, 43.
  • Plants, Stray Notes on, 138.
  • Plants, Study of Fossil, 68.
  • Plants, Training, 185.
  • Plants, Varietles of Common, 162.
  • Plants, Variations in British, 32, 228.
  • Platyphullum concavum, 146.
  • Plea for Nettles, 275.
  • Plesiosaurus, another, 164.
  • Poduræ Phosphorescent, 238.
  • Poisoning Plants, 24.
  • Poisonous Yew-leaves, 162.
  • Polarized Light, 224.
  • Pollen, 45, 237.
  • Pollen Grains of Cedar, 69.
  • Pollen of Crowfoot, 186.
  • Pollen of Evening Primrose, 212.
  • Pollen of Valerian, 238.
  • Polycystius, Popular History, 100.
  • Polyxenia Alderi, 24.
  • Polyzoa, Mounting, 65, 93, 94.
  • Poonyet, 252.
  • Popular History of Polycystius, 100.
  • Porpoise, a Live, 39.
  • Porpoise, the, 63.
  • Porzana Carolina, 60.
  • Possible Increase of Orchids, 185.
  • Power, Balance of, 193.
  • Present and Past, 187.
  • Preservative Power of Ferns, 37, 95, 115.
  • Preserving Animals, 63.
  • Preserving Birds and Animals, 48.
  • Preseving Dragon-flies, 95.
  • Preserving Hyacinth Bulbs, 190.
  • Prickly Pears, 24.
  • Primroses in a Room, 114.
  • Prizes for Herbaria, 78.
  • Proliferous Daisy, 182.
  • Proposal to London Microscopists, 116.
  • Proverbs, Origin of, 46.
  • Ptilidium ciliare, 109.
  • Pugnacity of Larvæ, 161.
  • Puzzle worth thinking about, 127.
  • Quekett Microscopical Club, 189.
  • Queries, Geological, 119.
  • Queries, Ornithological, 47.
  • Question for Ornithologists, 94.
  • Quinquebracteal Anemone, 138.
  • Rabbits and their Friends, 184.
  • Rain—What's an Inch? 119.
  • Rare Insects, 256.
  • Rat and Hawk, 125.
  • Rats, Mischievous, 184.
  • Red-backed Shrike, 64.
  • Red-leaved Sea-weed, 117.
  • Reed Pens, 118.
  • Reefs, Coral, 112, 220, 285.
  • Reflections of Gentleman Waife, 47.
  • Relations between Present and Past, 187.
  • Reports of Societies, 22, 46, 70.
  • Reproduction in Ferns, 89.
  • Reproduction of Kolpods, 132.
  • Reptiles, Habits of, 287.
  • Reptiles in Confinement, 86.
  • Results of Explorations, 161.
  • Rhatany, Savanilla, 88.
  • Rhinoceros at Ilford, 187.
  • Ring-Ousel in Wales, 135.
  • River Water in Brazil, 102.
  • Robin Incubating, 142, 166.
  • Robin Foretelling Weather, 64.
  • Rock Whistler, the, 242.
  • Roller, the, 183.
  • Roller and Hoopoe, 184.
  • Rooks, Hermit, 226.
  • Rosa alpina, 66.
  • Rose Saw-fly, 257.
  • Roses, British, 88.
  • Boses, Collecting, 43.
  • Rosy Feather-star, 95, 112.
  • Royal Geographical Society, 22.
  • Rust, a New, 139.
  • Rust of Alexander, 190.
  • Rust of Orchids, 162.
  • Rustic Work for Fern-cases, 34.
  • Sabella, Gill-fans of, 262.
  • Saffron, a Condiment? 215, 263.
  • St. Winefrid's Blood, 88.
  • Salamander, a Dainty, 94.
  • Salamander, Food of, 71, 95.
  • Salmon-breeding in the Tay, 42.
  • Salmon, British, 69.
  • Salmon, Cape, 64.
  • Salmon in Asia, 16.
  • Salmon in Australia, 16, 42, 141.
  • Salmon Maut, 119, 143.
  • Sandlaunce, &c., 284.
  • Sandpiper, Diving, 63, 95.
  • Sandpiper in Difficulties, 86.
  • Sappharine Gurnard, 236.
  • Saprolegnia ferax, 133.
  • Saturnia Bauhiniæ, 87.
  • Savanilla Rhatany, 88. ​
  • Saw-fly Larvæ.
  • Scale of Butterfly, Fossil, 127.
  • Scales of Cabbage Butterfly, 140, 166.
  • Scales of Fish, Fossil, 136.
  • Scales of Insects, 21.
  • Sea-Anemone, New British, 188.
  • Sea-Anemones, 155, 196, 239, 260, 285.
  • Sea-Anemones Dividing, 167, 190, 213, 286.
  • Sea-Anemones, Voracity of, 40.
  • Sea-birds, Names of, 214, 239.
  • Sea-Cucumber and Mansucker, 118.
  • Sea-Perch, 208.
  • Sea, Phosphorescence, 245.
  • Sea, the Deep, deep, 169.
  • Sea-weed Fern, 190.
  • Sea-weed, Red-leaved, 117.
  • Sea-weeds, Books on, 192.
  • Sea-weeds, Gathering, 173.
  • Sea-worm (Nereis bilicæata), 59.
  • Sea-wrack, 204.
  • Sea-side Diatomaceæ, 250.
  • Sections of Wood, 71.
  • Sections, to Clean, 47.
  • Seed lying Dormant, 43.
  • Self-fertilization, 114.
  • Serpentine, 140.
  • Servian Flora, 88.
  • Sevenoaks for Geology, 119.
  • Sex of a Viper, 191.
  • Sexes of Lepidoptera, 190.
  • Shark, Fox, 165.
  • Shark, Hammer-headed, 207.
  • Sheep Rot, 15.
  • Sheep-sorrel in New Zealand, 17.
  • Shells, Books upon, 48.
  • Shells, British Land, 61, 119.
  • Short Commons, 49.
  • Shrew, the Common, 14.
  • Shrike, Great Grey, 184.
  • Shrike, or Butcher-bird, 110.
  • Shrike, Red-backed, 64.
  • Shrimp, the Fairy, 45.
  • Shukhur-ool-ashur, 252.
  • Silene, a New, 238.
  • Silene dichotoma, 238, 258.
  • Silk-insect, New, 87.
  • Silk, "Tusseh," 190.
  • Silliman, Professor, Death of, 24.
  • Silurus, European, 56.
  • Simple Objects, 35, 58, 109, 158, 176, 201, 230, 279.
  • Singular Occurrence, 233.
  • Six-spot Burnet, 119, 151.
  • Skeleton Leaves, 48, 286.
  • Skeletons of Fish, 48.
  • Skylark, Song of, 39.
  • Skylark's Song in January, 93.
  • Skylark, the, 63.
  • Slug or Snail? 62.
  • Small Birds and Insect Pests, 160.
  • Small Eggar-moth, 126.
  • Small Molluscs, 256.
  • Small Tortoise-shell Butterfly, 15, 263, 286.
  • Smelt, the, &c., 284.
  • Smooth Snake, 47.
  • Smooth Snake again, 71.
  • Snail or Slug? 62.
  • Snake and Viper, 160.
  • Snake and Viper Hissing, 142.
  • Snakes at Dinner, 207.
  • Snake in Scotland, 70.
  • Snake or Viper, 2.
  • Snake-stones, 37, 61, 94.
  • Snake, the Smooth, 47, 71.
  • Societies, Reports of, 22, 46, 70.
  • Society, Amateur Botanists', 23, 46, 70.
  • Society, Anthropological, 22.
  • Society, Botanical, Edinburgh, 70.
  • Society, Dumfries and Galloway, 70.
  • Society, Entomological, 22, 46, 113, 144.
  • Society, Ethnological, 23, 46.
  • Society, Linnæan, 46.
  • Society, Liverpool Naturalists', 70.
  • Society, Manchester Field Naturalists', 23.
  • Society, Manchester Literary, 46.
  • Society, Microscopical, 23, 46, 70.
  • Society, Morley Naturalists', 23.
  • Society, Royal Geographical, 22.
  • Song of Water-dipper, 135.
  • Sowerby's English Botany, 47.
  • Sparrow and Crocus, 166.
  • Sparrow in India, 135.
  • Sparrows on the House-top, 112.
  • Sparrows, White, 167, 183.
  • Speech, Irrationale of, 65.
  • Sphagnum rubellum, 47.
  • Spicules of Sponge, 259.
  • Spider and its Web, 256.
  • Spider and Wasp, 39, 239.
  • Spider, Eat its Web, 24, 36, 86, 215.
  • Spider, Fossil, 259.
  • Spider Hoax, 143.
  • Spiders at Home, 39.
  • Spiders, Flower-loving, 206.
  • Spiders, Gossamer, 151, 213.
  • Spiders, Visitation of, 282.
  • Spiders' Webs, 65.
  • Spiracles of Insects, 254.
  • Spiracles of the Fly, 199.
  • Spleenwort, Green, 44.
  • Splitters and Lumpers, 73.
  • Sponge Spicules, 259.
  • Sponges and Corals, 187.
  • Sponges, Freshwater, 287.
  • Sporendonema muscæ, 10.
  • Spotted Fly-catcher, 256.
  • Squacco Heron, 281.
  • Squirrel fond of Toadstools, 40.
  • Squirrel Monkey, 206.
  • Stage Forceps, 212.
  • Stalked Eggs of Insects, 190.
  • "Standard" Wasp Nest, 134.
  • Stanner Rocks, 91, 138.
  • Star-fish, to Dry, 136.
  • Starling, Intelligence of, 13.
  • Starling who had seen the World, 38.
  • Starry Puff-balls, 19.
  • Star-spored Fungus, 35.
  • Stinging-fish, 166.
  • Stink-horn, the, 190.
  • Stink-pot, 239.
  • Stitchwort, Apetalous, 235.
  • Stork, Anecdote of, 14.
  • Stormy Petrel's Egg, 87.
  • Story of Beetledom, 98.
  • Strange Remedies, 85.
  • Stray Notes on Stray Plants, 138.
  • Stream Bubble-shell, 167.
  • Streams in Aquaria, 118, 188.
  • Strength of Dorr-beetle, 41.
  • Study of Past History of Plants, 68.
  • Sturgeon, the, 261.
  • Stutterers in the Frontiers, 136.
  • Suffocation of Bees, 185.
  • Sun-dew, the, 209.
  • Superstition relating to Bees, 34.
  • Swallows and Pigeons, 206.
  • Swallows, European, 136.
  • Swallows, Query, 143.
  • Swallows under the Eaves, 63.
  • Swallow-tail, Deformed, 185.
  • Swarms of Aphides, 287.
  • Swift, Anecdote of, 14.
  • Swift, another, in Difficulty, 64.
  • Swift, the, 190.
  • Swifts, Departure of, 240.
  • Taxidermy, 63.
  • Tench, Angling for, 16.
  • Tern, Whiskered, 183.
  • The Common House-fly, 82.
  • The Deep, deep Sea, 169.
  • The 1–50th Object-glass, 45.
  • Theine, New Source of, 88.
  • The New Fish, 42, 56.
  • The Petherwin Beds, 150.
  • The Study of Mosses, 79.
  • Thrush and Frog, 112.
  • Thrush at Rome, 136.
  • Thrush, Eggs of, 263.
  • Thrush, Ingenuity of, 2077.
  • Tinctorial Bedstraw, 235.
  • Tinder, Palm, 118.
  • Tit in Moustaches, 26.
  • Tit, the Blue, 39.
  • Tits, Fearless, 160.
  • Toad, Acquaintance with, 12.
  • Toad, Child poisoned by, 111.
  • Toad Eating a Newt, 233.
  • Toad, Habits of, 87.
  • Toad, Local Name of, 111.
  • Toads Feeding, 256.
  • Toads, further Experiences, 62.
  • Toads in Town, 94.
  • Toadstools, 225, 258.
  • Tomb of Van Rhede, 44.
  • Tom Tidler's Ground, 126.
  • Tomtit, Notice of, 59.
  • Tomtits and Celery Fly, 281.
  • Tongue of Drone-fly, 83.
  • Tongue of House-fly, 83.
  • Torpedo, the, 236.
  • Tortoise, Eggs of, 63.
  • Tree, a Wonderful, 138.
  • Trees, Ancient, 185.
  • Trees, Old, 223.
  • Trees on which Mistletoe Grows, 283.
  • Trehala, 251.
  • Trichina spiralis, 40.
  • Trichinosis, 40.
  • Triphragmium ulmariæ, 255.
  • Triple Mushroom, 209.
  • Tripoli, 93.
  • Trout, a Fine, 239.
  • Trout, Extraordinary Voracity of, 165.
  • Truffles, 139.
  • Truffles, South Downs, 89.
  • Tumuli, Objects in, 262.
  • Tunbridge Fern, 114.
  • Tusseh Silk of India, 190.
  • Tussilago hybrida, 70.
  • Twining Plants, 185.
  • Tyneside Naturalists' Club, 70.
  • Under a Palm-tree, 77.
  • Unicorn Hawk-moth, 263.
  • Uredo Empetri, 139.
  • Use for Nettles, 70.
  • Uses for Horse-chestnuts, 43.
  • Valeriana dioica, 143.
  • Vallisneria spiralis, 138.
  • Vanesia and Ichneumons, 263.
  • Van Rhede's Tomb, 44.
  • Variations in British Plants, 32, 228.
  • Varieties of Common Plants, 162.
  • Vegetable Milk, 171.
  • Vegetable Monstrosities, 137.
  • Vegetable Origin of Diamonds, 88.
  • Vegetables, Watering with Iron Solution, 46.
  • Veins of Leaves, 24.
  • Very like a Shrimp, 135.
  • Vespa sylvestris, 208.
  • Viper and Snake, 160.
  • Viper or Snake? 2.
  • Viper, Bite of, 95.
  • Viper, bitten by a, 131.
  • Viper, Sex of, 191.
  • Viper Story, 143.
  • Viper swallowing its Young, 108, 160.
  • Visitation of Spiders, 282.
  • Vivarium, Insect, 188.
  • Volvox, Chapter from Life of, 244.
  • Volvox, Cilia of, 263.
  • Volvox globator, 190, 213, 238, 244, 262.
  • Voracity of Sea-Anemones, 40.
  • Voracity of Trout, 165.
  • Wagtail, the Gray, 281.
  • Waife's Reflections, 47.
  • Walnut, the, 89.
  • Wanted, a Diatom, 95.
  • Wanted, a Key, 262.
  • Wardian Cases, 239, 287.
  • Wasp and its Victim, 113.
  • Wasp and Spider, 39, 239.
  • Wasp, Early, 137, 161.
  • Wasp Fights, 215.
  • Wasps, 161, 208.
  • Wasps and Bees, 263.
  • Wasps and Flies, 262.
  • Wasps in Captivity, 42.
  • Wasps in Greece, 238.
  • Wasps in London, 71.
  • Wasps in plenty, 257.
  • Wasps' Nest, Pendent, 137.
  • Wasp Nest, Standard, 134.
  • Wasps scarce in London, 113.
  • Wasps, what has become of the? 234.
  • Wasps, why scarce, 257.
  • Watch, the Death-, 60.
  • Water-beetles, Appendages, 238, 257.
  • Water Pipit, 64, 76.
  • Water, River, in Brazil, 102.
  • Watering Vegetables with Iron, 46.
  • Water-weed, American, 141.
  • Weather foretold by Robin, 64.
  • Web, Spider eating its, 24, 36.
  • Webster's Condenser, 140.
  • Weever-fish, 166.
  • Welligtonia gigantea, 139.
  • Whale-bird, 239.
  • What are Fossils? 19.
  • What do Crickets eat? 113, 128, 166.
  • What has become of the Wasps? 234.
  • What is an Inch of Rain? 119.
  • What is it? 118. ​
  • What is Mildew? 139.
  • What Katy-did, 146.
  • What to Seek and what to Avoid in the Choice of a Microscope, 267.
  • What will 1–50 Objective do? 90.
  • What's your Hobby? 1.
  • Which is Right? 43.
  • Whiskered Fern, 183.
  • Whistler, the Rock-, 242.
  • White Badger, 118.
  • White Corn Poppy, 167.
  • White Earwig, 213.
  • White Hedgehod, 207.
  • White Sparrows in Smoke, 167, 183.
  • Why did the Bees go? 93.
  • Why objects appear larger through the Microscope, 8, 45.
  • Why Wasps are scarce, 257.
  • Wild Bees' Nest, 137.
  • Willow Catkins, Hermaphrodite, 19.
  • Window Gardens, 92, 117, 141, 284.
  • Winged Ants, 263.
  • Wings of Butterflies, 113.
  • Wire Clip, 259.
  • Wonderful Tree, 138.
  • Wood, cutting Sections of, 71.
  • Wooden Cows, 171, 286.
  • Woodlark wanted, 93.
  • Woodpecker, Great Black, 183.
  • Woods, British, 239.
  • Worms, 239.
  • Worms, the Diet of, 180, 214.
  • Wrack, Sea-, 204.
  • Wren, the Blue, 199.
  • Yew in the Oak, 43.
  • Yew-leaves Poisonous, 112, 162.
  • Zoology, 14, 38, 63, 86, 111, 135, 281.
  • Zoological Gardens in India, 46.
  • Zoophytes, 177.
  • Zoophytes, Books on, 192.
  • Zoophytes, Myriad, 183.

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.


  • Abnormal Larch Cones, 89.
  • Animalcule, Jelly, 58.
  • Beadlet, 157.
  • Bearded Tit, Head of, 26.
  • Beech-leaf, 55.
  • Binocular Dissecting Microscope, 201.
  • Black Cradle, 270.
  • Bladder Wrack, 204.
  • Bottle, Collecting, 85.
  • Bramble-leaf Brand, 176.
  • Branched Pipe Coralline, 177.
  • Breeze-fly, 194.
  • Cat-flea, Larvæ, 278.
  • Cave Anemone, 156.
  • Charlock, abnormal Flower, 103.
  • Cherry-leaf, 55.
  • China-grass Nettle, ???.
  • Circulating Diaphragm, 153.
  • Collecting Bottle, 85.
  • Condenser, Webster's, 90.
  • Corallines, 177.
  • Cosmarium botrytis, 202.
  • Crab-claw, Singular, 206.
  • Cyclops, Four-horned, 159.
  • Dahlia Wartlet, 158.
  • Daisy, Abnormal, 104.
  • Daisy Anemone, 156.
  • Daisy, Proliferous, 182.
  • Dammar-bee, 252.
  • Dermestes, 230.
  • Diagram of Fly's Eye, 249.
  • Diagram of Moss Envelopes, 80.
  • Diagram of Moss Label, 81.
  • Diaphragm, 90.
  • Diaphragm, Circulating, 153.
  • Diaphragm, for Microscope, 189.
  • Duckweed, Gibbons, 6, 7.
  • Duckweed, Greater, 6.
  • Duckweed, Ivy-leaved, 5, 7.
  • Duckweed, Lesser, 5, 6.
  • East-India Wool, 29.
  • Egg and Larva of Fly, 82.
  • Egg and Larva of House-fly, 82.
  • Egg-cases of Fish, 182.
  • Eriogaster lanestris, 126.
  • European Silurus, 57.
  • Fern Vase, 92.
  • Fir, New Arcadian, 250.
  • Flowers, Abnormal, 103–105.
  • Fly, Foot of Breeze, 253.
  • Fly for Pike-fishing, 280.
  • Fly Moulds, 133.
  • Fly Parasites, 227.
  • Fly, the Breeze, 194.
  • Fly, Tongues of, 83.
  • Foot of Breeze-fly, 253.
  • Fossil-scale of Butterfly, 127.
  • Fringed-scale Moss, 107.
  • Fungus, Star-spored, 35.
  • Fur of Rabbit, 30.
  • Galls of Oak, 59.
  • Gall, Kakrasinghee, 286.
  • Galls, Knoppern, 41.
  • Gibbons Duckweed, 6, 7.
  • Glasses for Aquaria, 155.
  • Gomuti Palm, 77.
  • Greater Duckweed, 6.
  • Hair, Human, 29.
  • Hairs, of Dermestes, &c., 230.
  • Hair of Mouse, 30.
  • Hairs, Tenent, 254.
  • Hairworm, 107.
  • Hairworm, Head and Tail of, 197.
  • Head of Cat-flea, 278.
  • Head of Snake, 2.
  • Head of Viper, 2.
  • Hedge Woundwort, 103.
  • Herbarium Insect, 111.
  • Human Hair, 29.
  • Ivy-leaved Duckweed, 5, 7.
  • Jelly, Animalcule, 58.
  • Jelly-fish, 248.
  • Kakrasinghee, Gall, 286.
  • Keyhole Limpet Parasite, 122.
  • Knoppern Gull, 41.
  • Knotted Wrack, 205.
  • Larinus subrugosus, 251.
  • Larinus ursus, 252.
  • Larch Cones, Abnormal, 89.
  • Larvæ of Cat-flea, ???.
  • Larva of Dytiscus, 247.
  • Larva of Ephemera, 247.
  • Larvæ of Flies, 82.
  • Leaf of Beech, 55.
  • Leaf of Cherry, 55.
  • Leaf of Lime, 56.
  • Leaf of Poplar, 56.
  • Leaves of Endogens, 54.
  • Lepidonotus Lordi, 122.
  • Lesser Duckweed, 5, 6.
  • Lily Coralline, 179.
  • Lime-leaf, 56.
  • Meadow-sweet Brand, 255.
  • Merino, Spanish, 30.
  • Mistletoe, 274.
  • Mohair, 30.
  • Mouse-hair, 30.
  • Mushroom, Triple, 209.
  • Neilgherry Nettle, 276.
  • Net-veined Leaf, 54.
  • Noctiluca, 246.
  • Oak Galls, 59.
  • Oaten Pipe Coralline, 177.
  • Opelet, 157.
  • Ophrydium versatile, 58.
  • Palm, Gomuti, 77.
  • Pandorina morum, 281.
  • Parasite of Dytiscus, 255.
  • Parasitic Anemone, 157.
  • Pencil-tail, 230.
  • Pigment Cells, 106.
  • Pitcher Plant, 54.
  • Pixy Purses, 182.
  • Plantain, the, 232.
  • Plumose Anemone, 155.
  • Poison Apparatus of Viper, 131.
  • Poplar Leaf, 56.
  • Pollen of Passion-flower, 45.
  • Pollen of Thunbergia, 45.
  • Polycystina, 100.
  • Press for Sea-weeds, 176.
  • Primrose, abnormal, 105.
  • Rabbit, Fur, 30.
  • Rhopalocanium ornatum, 101.
  • Rotifer vulgaris, 244.
  • Sallow, Abnormal, 104.
  • Saprolegnia ferax, 133.
  • Scale-moss, fringed, 107.
  • Scarabæus, Sculptured, 98.
  • Scarabæus, Wingede, 98.
  • Sculptured Scarabæus, 98.
  • Sea-Anemones, 155–158.
  • Sea-fir, 178.
  • Sea-hair Coralline, 179.
  • Sea-mat, 180.
  • Sea-Oak Coralline, 179.
  • Sea-weed Press, 176.
  • Sea-weeds, 204, 205.
  • Seed-leaves of Pea, 54.
  • Serrated Wrack, 204.
  • Seychelles Cocoa-nut, 270.
  • Shukkur-ool-ashur, 252.
  • Sickle Coralline, 178.
  • Silurus, the, 57.
  • Small Eggar-moth, 126.
  • Small Wrack, 205.
  • Snake, Head of, 2.
  • Spanish Merino, 30.
  • Spiracle of Dytiscus, 254.
  • Spiracles of Fly, 200.
  • Spiracless of Larva, 254.
  • Stage Forceps, 212.
  • Star-spored Fungus, 35.
  • Stephanastrum, 100.
  • Strawberry, Anemone, 157.
  • Tenent Hairs, 254.
  • Tentacle of Anemone, 157.
  • Tit, Bearded, 26.
  • Toadflax, Abnormal, 104.
  • Toadstools, 225.
  • Tongue of Drone-fly 83.
  • Tongue of House-fly, 83.
  • Trehala and Insect, 251.
  • Trigona læviceps, 252.
  • Triple Mushroom, 209.
  • Twin Peas, 103.
  • Viper, Head of, 2.
  • Viper, Poison Apparatus, 131.
  • Volvox gloator, 244.
  • Webster's Economic Condenser, 90.
  • Winged Scarabæus, 98.
  • Wire Clips, 189.
  • Wood-Anemone, Abnormal, 105.
  • Wool, East-Indian, 29
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