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Planches de Seba, 53.

Cuvier's Règne Animal, noticed, $60.

Cuvier and Valenciennes's Histoire Naturelle
des Poissons, 55.

Dejean's Coleoptères, 55.

Donovan's Nests and Eggs of British Birds,
Desmarest's Crustacés, 56.
reviewed, 452.

Duméril's Classe des Insectes, 55.
Duperrey's Voyage Zoologique, 54. 364.
Duponchel's Hist. Natur. des Lepidoptères
Nocturnes, 55.

Duponchel's Lepidoptères de France, 365.
Eloquet's Faune des Médécins, 54.
Faune Française, 54; rev. 362.

Fischer's Tentamen Conspectus Cantharidi-
arum, 59.

Gardens and Menagerie of the Zoological So-
Geoffroy, Saint Hilaire's Cours de Hist. Natur.
ciety, announced, 193; noticed, 241.

des Mammifères, 54.

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Lepelletier's Monographia Tenthredinetarum,
55.

Pliny's Natural History proposed to be trans- Lesson's Complément des Œuvres de Buffon,
lated, 61.

Rutter's North-western Division of Somerset-
shire, &c., announced, 61.

Saigry et Raspail's Annales des Sciences d'Ob-
servation, noticed, 193.

Saintfond's Histoire Naturelle de la Montagne

Saintpierre de Maestricht, 54.
Stark's Elements of Natural History, 49; no-
ticed, 188.

Transactions of the Linnean Society, 49.
Trimmer's Natural History of Quadrupeds, 49.
Wilbrand and Ritsen's Picture of organised
Nature, &c., rev. 342.

ZOOLOGY.

Ajasson de Grandsaigne's Resumé d'Ichthy-
ologie, 365.

Bennett's Fishes of Ceylon, No. III. rev. 453.
Blainville's Manuel de Malacologie, &c. 55.
Boitard's Manuel d'Entomologie, 55.
Burrow's Elements of Conchology, 359.
Butterfly Collector's Vade Mecum, noticed, 238.
Carus's Introduction to the Comparative Ana-
tomy of Animals, 358.
Conchologist's Companion, The, 359.
Conversations on Entomological Subjects, 52.
Cours d'Histoire Naturelle, 54.
Curtis's British Entomology, 50.

Curtis's Guide to an Arrangement of British
Insects, rev. 453.

Cuvier, F.'s Dents (des) Mammifères, 54.
Cuvier, F.'s, Histoire Naturelle des Mammi-
fères, 54. 364.

VOL. II. - No. 10.

54. 364.

Lesson's Oiseaux-Mouches, 364.
Levaillant's Histoire Naturelle des Perroquets,

55.

L'Herminier's Recherches sur l'appareil sternal

des Oiseaux, 55.

Lichtenstein's Säugethiere zu Berlin, 59.
Meigen's Europäische Schmetterlinge, noticed,
59.

Menageries, the, noticed, 188.

Pfeiffers Land-un Sürtwasser Mollusken, 60.
Picturesque Guide through the Regent's Park,
announced, 193.

Polydore Roux's Ornithologie Provençale, 55.
Price's Physiognomy of the present Inhabitants
of Britain, &c., 359.

Richardson's Faúna Boreàli-Americàna, &c,
noticed, 352.

Robineau Desvoidy's Organisation vertébrale
des Crustacés, &c., 56.

Roux's Crustacés de la Mediterranée, 365.
Roux's Ichnographie Couchyliologique, 365.
Rudiments of Conchology, noticed, 52.
Schmetterling's Cabinet für Kinder, not., 59.
Sowerby's Genera of Recent and Fossil Shells,
50.

Steffens's Anthropologie, 54.

Stephens's Catalogue of British Insects, an-
nounced, 61.

Stephens's Illustrations of British Entomology,
50.

Stephens's Nomenclature of British Insects,
noticed, 453.

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Stephens's Systematic Catalogue of British In-Saint-Hilaire, &c.'s Flora Brasilia Meridionalis,
sects, noticed, 453.

Swainson's Zoological Illustrations, noticed, 51.
Sweet's British Warblers, noticed, 50.
Temminck's Planches d'Oiseaux, 54.
Thompson's Zoological Researches, noticed, 51;
announcement of the second number of, 61.
Tower Menagerie, noticed, 50.

Vigors's Zoological Journal, noticed, 49.
Wagler's Systema Avium, 59.

Werner's Atlas des Oiseaux d'Europe, 55.
Werner's Oiseaux d'Europe, 364.

Wilson's Illustrations of Zoology, No. VII., re-
viewed, 452.

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Brongniart's Classification Naturelle des Cham-
pignons, 57.

Burgess's Eidodendron, noticed, 52.
Cassini's Opuscules Phytologiques, 56.
Conversations on Vegetable Physiology, noticed,
360; reviewed, 454.

Curtis's Botanical Magazine, 52.

Decandolle's Familles des Crassulacées, &c., 56.
Decandolle's Familles des Mélastomacées, 56.
Decandolle's Mémoires du Règne Végétal, 56.
Decandolle's Plantes rares du Jardin de Genève,
56.

Descourtilz's Flore des Antilles, 365.
Deslongchamps's Flora Gallica, 57.
Dierbach's Beiträge zu Deutschlands Flora, 365.
Edwards's Botanical Register, 52.

Fingerhuth's Tentamen Florulæ Lichenum
Eiffliacæ, 365.

Flora Danica, 472.

Flora Medica, 52.

Freycinet's Voyage Botanique, 57.

Fries's Elenchus Fungorum, 60.

Graffenauer's Traité sur le Camphre, 57.
Henslow's British Plants, 359.

Hooker's Botanical Miscellany, noticed, 193.
Hooker and Greville's I'cones Filicum, review-
ed, 454.

Humboldt and Bonpland's Voyage Botanique,

365.

Johnston's Flora of Berwick upon Tweed, no-
ticed, 193; reviewed, 234.

Jussieu's Famille des Euphorbiacées, 56.
Jussieu's Méthode Naturelle des Végétaux, 56.
Kunth's Révision des Graminées, 366.
Kunth's Synopsis Plantarum, &c., 57.
Labillardière's Novæ Hollandiæ Plantarum Spe-
cimen, 56.

Labillardière's Sertum Austro-Caledonicum, 56.
Lachmann's Flora Brunsvicensis, 60.

L. B. D., M.'s, Lettres à Madame de C***, sur
la Botanique, &c., 56.

Ledebour's Icones Plantarum Novarum, 366.
Lindley's Fossil Flora of Great Britain, an-
nounced, 454.

Lindley's Introductory Lecture on Botany, no-
ticed, 359.

Lindley's Synopsis of the British Flora, &c.,
noticed, 189.

Link and Otto's Icones Plantarum, &c., 365.
Linnæus's Systema Vegetabilium, &c., 60.
Loddiges's Botanical Cabinet, 52.
Loudon's Encyclopædia of Plants, noticed, 240.
Maund's Botanic Garden, 52.

Michaux's Flora Boreali-Americana, &c., 57.
Michaux's Histoire des Chênes de l'Amerique,

57.

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Schrader's Blumenbachia, novum e Loasearum
familia genus, 60.

Smith's Natural History of many British Plants,
&c., announced, 61.

Smith's Plants in South Kent, noticed, 240.
Sprengel's Tentamen Supplementi ad Systematis
Vegetabilium Linnæani, &c., 365.

Stevenson and Churchill's Medical Botany, 52.
Stoltz's Flore du Haut et du Bas-Rhin, &c., 57.
Sweet's British Flower-Garden, 52.
Sweet's Cistineæ, 52.

Sweet's Geraniaceæ, 52.

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GEOLOGY AND MINERALOGY.
Aubuisson's Basaltes de la Saxe, 59.

Bakewell's Geology, reprinting in America, 366.
Beaumont's Coup d'Eil sur les Mines, 58.
Bernhardi's Beiträge zur nähern kenntniss, &c.,
60.

Bertrand-Roux's Description Géognostique du
Puy-en-Velai, &c., 58.

Beudant's Traité de Mineralogie, 58.

Beudant's Voyage Minéralogique en Hongrie, 58.
Blainville's Mémoire sur les Bélemnites, 59.
Brard's E'lémens pratiques d'Exploitation, 58.
Breislack's Institutions Géologiques, 57.
Brochant's De la Cristallisation, &c., 58.
Brongniart, Adolphe : Prodrome d'une Histoire
des Végétaux Fossiles, 58.

Brongniart, Alex.: Introduction à la Minéralo-
gie, 58.

Brongniart, Alex.: Roches Homogènes et Hé-
terogènes, 58.

Brongniart, Alex. : Terrains du Vincentin, &c.,
58.

Brongniart, Alex.: Terrains qui composent
l'E'corce du Globe, 58.

Brongniart and Desmarest's Crustacés Fossiles,
&c., 59.

Brongniart's Végétaux Fossiles, 365.
Charpentier's Constitution Géognostique des
Pyrenées, 58.

Cuvier's Revolutions of the Surface of the
Globe, &c., translated, 359.

D'Aubuisson's Traité de Géognosie, 57.
Defrance's Corps organisés fossiles, 58.
Desmoulins's Essai sur les Sphérulites, 59.
Elie de Beaumont's Observations Géologiques,
&c., 365.

Guenyveau's Principes de Métallurgie, 58.
Hartmann's Handwörterbuch der Minéralogie
und Geognosie, 60.

Humboldt's Essai Géognostique sur le Gisement
des Roches, 57.

Jäger's Fossilreptilien in Würtemberg, 60.
Joyce's Chimie Minéralogique, &c., 58.
Larivière's Mémoire sur un silicate, &c., 60.
Leonhard's Agenda Geognostica, announced,241.
Manual of Mineralogy, noticed, 53.
Naumann's Lehrbuch der Mineralogie, 60.
Nilsson's Petrificata Suecàna, &c., commenced,
366.

Ordinaire's Hist. Natur. des Volcans, 58.
Scrope's District Volcanique de Naples, 57.
Transactions of the Geological Society of Lon-
don, 53.

Ure's New System of Geology, 53.
Walchner's Handbuch der Mineralogie, 365.
Zanon's Del Nuovo Solfato di Soda et Magnesia,
&c., 366.

ABO, museum of natural history at, destroyed
by fire, 252.

Accentuation of names, 298.

Aerial spider, critique on Mr. Murray's paper
respecting, by John Blackwall, 116; critical
remarks on the ascent of the, by J. Murray,
299; reply, by John Blackwall, 396.
E'shna and Libéllula, distinguished, 472.
Æsop, fables of, illustrated by Bewick, 431.
Agates in dolomitic strata of new red sandstone
formation in the Mendip Hills, 381.
Ainsworth, William, on the water shrew, 483.
Air for analysis, 468.

Aix, the tertiary fresh-water formations of, 382.
Almanacks on the Continent, 248.

Animals, vertebrated, description of, 128; mam-
miferous, 131; changes in, 254; changes pro-
duced in by domestication, by Dr. Roulin, 421;
characters of, 469.

Annelides, respiration of some of, 423.
Annihilation of certain animals, 442.
A'nodon rugosus, critique respecting, 116.
Anonaceous plant of New Holland, 119.
Antelope, Indian, 63; flat-horned, 63.
Anthracite found in Rhode Island, 253.
Antirrhinum Cymbalària in Wales, 400.
Ants and aphides, 209.

Aphis on endive and lettuce, query respecting,
by Walter Henry Hill, 104; remarks on, 210.
Artesian well at Syon, 87.

Ashby, Mr. John, obituary of, 120.
Attachments formed by animals, 62.
Audubon, M., his Birds of South America, 422.
Azara's Memoirs, query respecting, 402.
Babington, C. C., distinction of sex in Papilio
Machàon, 67.

Babington, Mr., remarks on his list of rare
plants and insects, by Daniel Stock, 213.
Bakewell, Robert, an account of Mr. Needham's
original discovery of the action of the pollen
of plants, &c., 1; remarks on molecules, 213.
Ball containing bees, query by H. Gunt, 404.
Banksian Society of Manchester, 389.
Baris, ship, made of papyrus, 326.
Barmouth, insects taken at, 89.

Basil, wild, in Chile, query respecting a curious
species of, 293.

Bears of America, 355.

Beaver, ingenuity of one at Paris, 249.
Bee, leaf-cutting, 90.

Bees, on putting into mourning, 105; super-
stitions respecting, 209; nests of, in the woods
of Brazil, 254; superstition respecting, 405;
swarming of, 460.

Beet-root sugar manufacture in France, 425.
Belfast, natural history in, 202.

Beudant, M., discovery in mineralogy, 410.
Bewick, life, genius, and personal habits of, by
John F. M. Dovaston, A.M., 313; continued,

428.

Bird, call of some kind of, answer to query re-
specting, by Walter Henry Hill, 100; water,
query respecting a strange one, 101; in De-
vonshire like a humming-bird, query respect-
ing, 402; shot at Fowey, answer to query
respecting the, by Walter Henry Hill, 403.
Birds, on their forsaking their nests, by R.
Sweet, 113; critique respecting their singing
while on their eggs, by R. Sweet, 113; Euro-
pean singing, query respecting, 207; termino-
of, arranged by Thomas Thomson, 214;
rare, account of some in the Manchester Mu-
seum, by John Blackwall, 273; in the neigh-
bourhood of Whitehaven, by J. Stanley, M.D.,
275; rare, shot in Dumfries-shire, 282; En
glish, suggestion for letters to be written on,

287; presented to the Hull Literary and Phi-
losophical Society, error respecting the de-
scription of, by Thomas Thompson, 302; of
Demerara, 370; organs of voice in, 376; of
prey, vision of, 481; on the sea coast of Gom-
rie, in Aberdeenshire, S92; rare, killed in
different parts of Ireland. 594; skins of, query
on softening, 484.

Bittern, the great American, 64.

Black, antipathy of the chameleon to, 469.
Blackcock, curious female of, 90.
Blackwall, John, account of some rare birds in

the Manchester Museum, 273; farther con-
troversy on the ascent of the aerial spider, 396.
Blainville, M. de, observations on Physàlia, 425.
Bleating of a goat, remarks on the bird which
produces the sound of, 207, 208.
Blindworm, query respecting, 402.
Blocks, rock, 471.

Blomer, Capt. Charles, the Dartmouth Warbler,
and other birds, 278; a singular nidus, 303.
Bones, fossil, caverns containing, 367; note by
J. R., 367.

Books, French, cheaper in London than for-
merly, 361.

Botanical Society of Bungay, 386.
Botany and zoology of Indian archipelago, 368
Bounties of winter, 455.

Bowdich, Mrs., anecdotes of a Diana monkey,
7; progress of natural history during 1828, 409.
Bowman, J. E., an efficacious method of drying
plants, 245; query on a singularly brilliant
golden green light, 406.

Brabant, fossil bones in, 251.
Brain, observations respecting, 418; physiologi-
cal fact respecting, 472.

Brazil, supposed bees' nests in the woods of, 254.
Breadfruit, error in the description of, 304.
Bree, the Rev. W. T., M. A., on the arrival and
retreat of the British Hirúndines, with a table
of arrivals and departures from 1800 to 1828,
16; the dog not the only brute animal that
dreams, 213; circumstances respecting the
nuthatch, 243; circumstances respecting a
corn spring, 297; critique respecting Fritil
lària tessellata, 304; the vapourer moth, 460;
observation respecting Dadley's spring, 488.
Bristol Institution, annual meeting of, 277.
Brongniart, M. Adolphe, improvement by, in
the study of fossil botany, 413; his statement
respecting the pollen of flowers, 417.
Brown, John, query respecting spiders not
being found on chestnut timber, 291.
Bruce's observation on vessels of papyrus, 326.
Buffon, inaccuracies of, 394.
Bunting, black-headed, query respecting, 289;
answer to query respecting, 404.
Bùlimus acutus and Hèlix virgàta, 303.
Butcher bird, critical observations respecting,
and query by W. Farrar, M.D., 484.
Butterflies, migration of, 370; white, of Britain
by J. Rennie, A.M., A.L.S., 224; query re-
specting the eggs of, by D. G. Kerridge, 405.
Butterfly or moth, first developement of a per-
fect one, 68; the common large cabbage, 226;
the early cabbage, 226; the small cabbage,
227; the spotless small cabbage, 227; the
green-veined white, 227; the middle green-
veined white, 228; the Bath white, 228; the
orange-tip butterfly, 228; the wood white,
229; the black-veined white, 229; the brim-
stone butterfly, 229.

Cachalot, account of the capture of a, on the

south coast, by Henry Woods, A.L.S. &c. 198.
Calendar of nature for the Carse of Gowrie,
Perthshire, 203. 285. 477 to 483.

Caley, Mr. George, obituary of, 310.
Camel, 63.

Canterbury Philosophical Institution, 383.
Capercaile, errata respecting, 483.

Carlisle, arrival of certain birds of passage in
the neighbourhood of, 89.

Carse of Gowrie, calendar of nature for, 285.
Cavern containing fossil bones, 367.
Cedar, query respecting, 293.

Centrotus Bennetii and Hardw'ckii, outline and
description of, by the Rev. Wm. Kirby, 20.
Chameleon's antipathy to black, 469.
Charcoal, fossil, accounted for, 466.
Chatham, Literary and Philosophical Institu-
tion of, 267; meeting of Sept. 29th, 383.
Cherokee nation, advancement of, 426.
Chevalier and Lenglumé's lithography, 410.
Chevreul, M., discovery made by, 410.
Chiff-chaff, the, the lesser white throat, 481.
Child, spotted, 456.

Chile horse, 62.

China, natural history in, 368.
Chlànius vestitus, tarsus of, 302.

Christiana and Leith, temperature of, 367.
Cimex, the genus, 459.

Circular system extended to events, 455.
Claremont, name of shrub sent from, 486.
Clarke, W. B., geological hammer, 247.
Coal-fields in Peru, 370.

Coal fossils from Clifton, near Manchester,
figured and described, 106.

Coal, vegetable remains in, 470.

Cochineal insect found in the Botanic Garden
at Cambridge, 386.

Cochineal transplanted to Java, 252.
Colour, flowers varying in, 485.

Colours in plants, Grew's theory of, 455; op-
tical influence of, 426.

Colúmba migratòria in America, 369.
Congress of the German naturalists, 79.
Continents, submergence of the, 250.
Conybeare, the Rev. W. D., F. G.S. &c. &c., on
the hydrographical basin of the Thames, 378.
Coral rocks, 371; limestone from, 297.
Cordilleras, 370.

Cork tree at Sammerstown, 91.

Corn spring, 408; circumstances respecting a,
297; supposed cause of, 488.
Cows, white, 63.

Crab, common, developement of the eggs of, 244.
Crocodile, on riding on the back of a, 13.
Crossbills, occasional visitants at Ambleside,
89; flocks of, near Worcester, 268.
Cross-hatching style of engraving, Bewick's
opinion on, 429.

Crow, query respecting a curious one, 101;
answers to the query respecting one seen,
288.

Crustacea, memoir on, 424.

Cuckoo, curious circumstance respecting the,
by W. Jerdan, 242; its species, 249.
Dadley's Spring, farther observation respecting
the, by the Rev. W. T. Bree, 488.
Dartford (read Dartmouth) warbler, 100.
Dartmouth warbler, Capt. Charles Blomer, 278.
Davies, J. H., R. M., farther Observations on
the Influence of Fresh Water on Marine Ani-
mals, com. by Jas. L. Drummond, M.D., 217.
Death-watches, 461.

Decandolle, eulogium on, 453.

Delille's description of Thelýgonum Cyno-
crámbe, 418.

Demerara, birds of, 370.

Deposits, diluvian, 253.

Detrosier, Mr., his Address to the Banksian So-
ciety of Manchester, 390.

Devil Stingaree, query respecting, 401.
Diana monkey, anecdotes of a, 9.
Diluvian deposits, 253.

Diodorus Siculus's" river boats" made from the
reed papyrus, 327.

Dissection performed by insects, 455.
Dodo, contributions towards the natural history
of, by John T. Thompson, F. L. S., 442; de-
scription of, by Leguat, 445.

Dog, not the only brute animal that dreams, by
W. T. Bree, 213; derived from the wolf, 356.
Donovan's egg of the razor-bill auk, 394; Eggs
of British Birds, query respecting, 205.
Dovaston, John F. M., A. M., some account of
the water shrew, 219; some account of the
life, genius, and personal habits of the late
Thomas Bewick, 313; remarks respecting
Stúrnus Cinclus, 400; Antirrhinum Cymba-
lària in Wales, 400.

Dover, the small, query respecting, 403.
Drummond, James, figure and description of a
cork tree at Sammerstown, 91.

Drummond, James L., M.D., on certain effects
produced by fresh water on some marine
animals and plants, 121.

Drying plants, an efficacious method of, by
J. E. Bowman, 245.

Dumfriesshire, rare birds shot in, 282.
Duncan, J. S., his address at anniversary of the
Linnean Society, May the 25th, 373; his proof
of the existence of the dodo, 444.
Durability of engraver's blocks, 430.
Dutrochet, M., his new discovery in vegetable
physiology, 414.

Dyeing, discovery in, by M. Raymond, 410.
Earthworm, oviparous, 470.

Eggs of British birds, query on the best work
on, by J. D. Salmon, 205; answer to, 205; of
the common crab, developement of, 244; of
spiders, developement of, 244; of butterflies,
query respecting, by D. G. Kerridge, 405;
of the wheat fly, 450.
Endosmometer, the, 415.

Engravings, list of, 205; of birds, 114.
Epipactis latif dlia, on the spontaneous appear-
ance of, by W. T. Bree, 70,

Errata in Vol. I. 110. 299. 401; in Calendar of
Nature, 488; in the word Capucaila, 483.
Fables of Esop, illustrated by Bewick, 431.
Farran, W., M. D., critical remark and query
respecting the Butcher Bird, 484.
Fauna, French, 424.

Feelings, on educating the, 286.

Fish-banks, ancient, near Lake Ontario, 253.
Fish like a herring, mode of preparing them
for a distant market, 65.

Fish, owl feeding on, suggestion as to the cir-
cumstance, 288; hearing of, 459.

Flints, query respecting minute objects on, 296.
Flora Dánica, 472.

Flòra Virgiliana, query respecting, 401. 485.
Floras, indigenous, of London and Plymouth
compared, by W. Hamilton, 265.

Flourens, M., researches in physiology, 419.
Flowers varying in colour, 485; white, the dis-
covery of plants varying with, by Mr. Daniel
Stock, 387.

Flycatcher in November, 88.
Flying leech, 368.

Foot of a supposed dodo, 444.
Fossil Astèria figured and described, 73; bones
in Brabant, 251; like a broken nut, query re-
specting, 297; plant, a remarkable one, 376;
plants from Clifton near Manchester, continu-
ation of, 494; shell, from a quarry in Radnor
shire, figured and described, 109; shells, Bri-
tish, an attempt to form a table of the geological
arrangement of, by R. C. Taylor, Esq, F.G.S.,
26; geological arrangement of British, cor-
rections respecting the, by R. C. Taylor, Esq.,
216.

Fossils, Blackdown, sent by J. R., names of,
294; remarks on 294; sent by Sam. Tyssen,
described, 295, 296.

Foville, Dr., his memoir on the brain, 420.
France, man in the north of, 75.

Fritillaria tessellata, critique respecting, 304.
Frogs, query respecting their winter quarters,
and on a jelly-like substance resembling the
remains of, 103; winter quarters of, 208; an-
swer to query whether they are dormant in
winter, by W. H. White, 208; answers to
query respecting a jelly-like substance sup-
posed to be the remains of, 209; query on the

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distinction of sex in, and which croaks, by
W. H. White, H. M. C. S., 209; winter quar-
ters of, answer to the query respecting, 289;
shower of, query respecting, 103; suggestion
respecting, by J. Murray, 289.

Gall, Dr., his mode of studying the characters
of animals, 469.

Geese, desertion of, 65; flying, 65; wild, in
Owhyhee, 440.

Geological Society, meetings of Nov. 7., Nov. 21.,
Dec. 5., Dec. 16., and Jan. 2., 83; Jan. 16., 197;
Feb. 6., 257; Feb. 20., 259; March 6. and
April 3., 376; May 1, 377; May 15. and
June 5., 378; June 19., 381.

Geology of Palestine, critique respecting, 119;
scriptural, 108.

Germany, curious belief in, respecting the stork,
484.

Girl, dancing, 441.

Glow-worm, 406.

Glutton, American, 356.

Gnat, stinging of a, 68.

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Hollandre's Faune du Départment de la Mo-
selle, 74.

Homo, South American variety of, 456.
Horse of Dalecarlia, 62; of the Cape of Good
Hope, 63; of Africa, 62.

Humboldt, Baron, extract from his opening
speech at the congress of the German natu-
ralists, 80; suggestion for a translation of his
works, 288.

Hunter, Perceval, remark respecting Picus mi-
nor and máximus, 208; answer to query re-
specting Scolopax Sabini, 288; various ques-
tions, 402.

Incubation, effect of, in lessening the timidity
of birds, by W. Henry Hill, 64.

Indian, anecdote of, near Fort Enterprise, 355.
Indian Archipelago, zoology and botany of, 368,
Indications of spring, 127.
Indicatorial calendar, 99.

Inhumanity to insects, answer to charge of, 238.
Insect, account of a small uncommon one, 210.
Insects, dissection by, 455; leaf, 368.

Goat, Cachemire, 63; the Rocky Mountain, ac- Ireland, rare birds killed in, 394.
count of, $58.

Goats of Thibet, 251.

Goltre, query respecting the cause of, 403.
Gold, washing of, 73; supposed influence of, on
sheep, 467.

Goldfinch, change of colour in its plumage, by
J. Murray, 64; natural intelligence of, 64.
Gomrie, birds on the sea-coast of, 392.
Goose, presentiment in a, by C. A. Brew, 65.
Górdius aquáticus, 211

Gorrie, Mr. Archibald, C.M. H.S., some account
of a remarkable spruce fir tree in the woods at
Braco Castle, Perthshire, 173; on the art of
deriving interest from the study of the wea-
ther, 177; a dissertation on the Hebrew names
of animals, 319; on the wheat fly, 323.
Granite in Yorkshire, 120.

Grasshopper warbler wanted, 100.

Gray's natural arrangement of British plants,
remarks respecting, 216.
Greenfinch, yellow, 64.

Grevillea punicea, figured and described, 486.
Grew's theory of colours in plants, 455.
Guillemot, sea fowl, 393.

Guinea-pig, query respecting, by C. Lamb, 205.
Gunt, H. Esq., query on a curious ball contain-
ing bees, 405.

Hailstones, peculiar ones, 252.

Halo round the sun, 468.

Hamilton, W., indigenous Floras of London
and Plymouth compared, 265.
Hammer, geological, improvement in, 247.
Hampshire, rare plants collected in, 276,
Hand, left, inferior dexterity of, 456.
Hare's throat, confirmation of the opinion re-
specting the lump attached to the, by John V.
Stewart, 300.

Harvest bug, query respecting, 290; answer to
query concerning, 404.

Hawkins, Thos., query on a species of plover,
207; account of a small uncommon insect,
210; larvæ of Lepidoptera, 211.

Hay, new-mown, query respecting smell cf, 106.
Hebrew names of animals, dissertation on, 319.
Hèlix virgata and Bùlimus acutus, 303.
Heron, common, feet and legs of the, 206.
Hessian fly, 292.

Hill, Walter Henry, farther observations re-
specting ants and aphides, 209; the Picus mi-
nor, 387; on the dark-looking water bird shot
at Fowey, 403; query respecting the young of
the genus Corvus, 403; query on the small
dover, 403.

Hirundinaceæ, monograph on, 424.
Hirundines, on the arrival and retreat of, with

a table of arrivals and departures from 1800 to
1828, by the Rev. W. T. Bree, M. A., 16.
Hoeven's distinctions of Libéllula and Æ'shna,

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Jack snipe, figured and described, 148.
Java, cochineal transplanted to, 252.
Jennings, James, reply respecting Jennings's
Ornithology, 111; remarks on the ornithology
of London, 264.

Jenyns, the Rev. Leonard, F.L.S., observations
on a preternatural growth of the incisor teeth,
occasionally observed in certain of the Mam-
màlia rodéntia, 134.

Jerdan, W., a curious circumstance respecting
the cuckoo, 242.

John Dorée, remarks on the derivation of the
name, by S. Bowdich, 115.
John Dory, derivation of, 208.
Jukes, Frederick, an account of a new species of
trilobite, found in the Barr limestone in the
neighbourhood of Birmingham, 41; notice of
some fragments of Orthoceras annulàris and
striàta, found in the Barr limestone in War.
wickshire, 231.

Junks of the Red Sea, Bruce's supposition re-
specting, 328.

Kath of the ancient Hebrews considered as the
pelican of the moderns, by David Scot, M.D.
M.W.S. F.H.S.E., 137.

Kent, Miss, an introductory view of the Lin-
nean system of plants, continued, 155.
Kenyon, Joseph, land and fresh-water shells in
the neighbourhood of Preston, 273; alteration
in his paper on British shells, 303.
Kerridge, D. G., circumstances respecting the
Zeuzèra 'sculi, 291; query respecting the
eggs of butterflies, 405.

Kingfisher, remark concerning, 457; by J.

Lakes, 457; nest of the, made of fish bones, 206.
Kirby, the Rev. William, M.A. F.R.S. L.S.,
&c., an outline and description of Centròtus
Bennètii and Hardwickii, 20; answer to query
respecting the nidus on a rush, 405.
Kittiwake, sea fowl, 393.
Lamb, C., query respecting the guinea-pig,
205; remarks on the Górdius aquáticus, 211;
query respecting a remarkable spider, 290.
Langley, Mr. Larret, flora of Rotherham, 269.
Language, universal, 81.

Lapwing, remark on the food of the, 113.
Lark, white, 267.

Larvæ of the wheat fly, 450.

Lathræ a squamària, 70; answer to query re-
specting, by J. E. Bowman, 105; found near
Richmond, 294.

Laudanum, a species of dew, 298; not a species
of dew, in answer to R. S., 408.
Lead ore, 467.

Leaf insects, 368.

Leaves, their various forms figured and de-
scribed, 156.

Leeches, reproduction of, 194; breeding of, 251;
flying, 368.

Leith and Christiana, temperature of, 367.
Leguat, copy of his voyage discovered, 443; his
description of the dodo, 445.

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