Obtaining caterpillars, 46 Odonthalia dentate, 208 Odour of fungi, 176 Oil-beetles, 81 Olive-coloured seaweeds, 199 Osbert Salvin, 39 Osteology, 16, 22 ---- of the mammalia, 18 P Packing eggs, 38 ---- fungi, 163 ---- lichens, 174 Paddle of whale, 21 Padina pavonia, 208 Page's Introductory 'Text-book', 3 Paraphyses of lichens, 192 Paper for grasses, 140 Petrology, 6 Peristomes of mosses, 155 Phallus impudicus, 165 Phillips's 'Guide to Geology', 3 Physcia parietina, 192 Pinning insects, 60 Pins for setting hymenoptera, 98 Pisidium, how to prepare, 112 Plants for herbarium, 125 Platypus hammer, 7 Poa compressa, 140 ---- pratensis, 140 Poisoning fungi, 174 Pollen of plants, 127 Polyporus, 172 ---- igniarius, 166 Precaution against grease, 65 Preparation of mosses, 148 Preparing shells for cabinet, 110 Preservation of fungus spores, 171 ---- of lichens, 188-90 ---- of mosses, 151 Preserving animals, 23 ---- cocoons, 49 ---- eggs for cabinet, 28 ---- fresh fungi, 165 ---- fungi in fluid, 170 ---- insects' eggs, 45 ---- insects from decay, 64 ---- slugs, 110 Pressing seaweeds, 206 Pseudo-bombyces, 45 Public herbaria, 132 Q Quarantine for insects, 64 R Rare fungi, 178 Rearing beetles from larvæ, 68 Re-carding beetles, 84 Red seaweeds, 198 Removing bodies from shells, 112 ---- grease from insects, 65 Repairing eggs, 34 Rhinoceros bones, 22 Rhizomes, 123 Rhodosperms, 204 S Sand pits for beetles, 86 Searching for larvæ, 46 Season for collecting shells, 109 Seaweed gathering, 207 ---- press, 207 Seaweeds, collecting of, 195 Section cut through agaricus, 170 Seeds of plants, 128 Setting bristle, 61 ---- moths for cabinets, 62, 63 Setting out hymenoptera, 99 Skeleton of mole, 20 Skeletons of birds, 20 Skull of a crocodile, 19 Sliding stages for egg cabinets, 40 Snail shells, 104 Solution for killing slugs, 114 Specimens showing gills, &c., of fungi, 169 Spermagones, 191 Sphinges, 45 Sterigmata of lichens, 193 Study of the larger fungi, 177 Stupefying insects, 97-8 Subterranean pupæ, 49 Sugaring, 54 ---- drum, 56 Sweeping for beetles, 89 Sycamore, 122 T Table for hymenoptera, 99 Thallus of lichens, 193 Thatch beating, 52 Tools for fungus collecting, 162 ---- for lichen collecting, 186 Tortula muralis, 147, 150 Trimming hammer, 7 Triticum repens, 140 U Umbelliferæ, 134 Umbrella net, 47 Use of camphor, 66 ---- of osteological specimens, 25 V Varieties of species, 129 Varnishing eggs, 35 Vasculum for lichens, 185 W Washing eggs, 34 Where to find caterpillars, 46 Where to find chrysalis, 49 ---- ---- fungi, 160 ---- ---- lichens, 184 ---- ---- mosses, 147 ---- ---- seaweeds, 199 ---- to "sugar", 54 Woody specimens of fungus, 172 London: Printed by W. H. Allen & Co., 13, Waterloo Place, S.W. Transcriber's Note