Lepidoptera, larvæ of, 211.

Libellula and Æ'shna distinguished, 472.

Light Bowman, 406.

Lightning, an oak tree struck by, 230.
Limestone from coral rocks, 297.
Linnean Society, meetings of Dec. 2., Nov. 18.,
Dec. 16., Jan. 20., Feb. 3., and Feb. 17., 82;
March 3., and April 7., 196; addition to the
library of, 256; anniversary dinner, 257;
meeting of June 2., 257. 376; June 16., 376.
Linnean system of plants, introductory view of
continued, by Miss Kent, 155.

Literary and Philosophical Society of Newcastle
upon Tyne, 387.

Lithography, new discovery in, 410.

Lives of certain naturalists, query as to where
they may be procured, 402.

Lizards, memoirs on, by MM. Dugèz and Ed-
wards, 422.

Loligo vulgaris, figured, 153.

London, remarks on the ornithology of, by Jas.
Jennings, 264; and Plymouth, indigenous
floras of, compared by W. Hamilton, Esq., 265.
Lump attached to the hare's throat, confirma-
tion of the opinion respecting, by John V.
Stewart, Esq., 300.

Lunel Vieil, caves of, 412.
Lymnæ a ovata, 292.

Magnetism, chemical powers of, 467.

Main, Jas., A.L S., of winds, and the causes of
their different kinds, 175.
Maize, opinion respecting, 418.
Malaria, cause of, 468.

Mallow of Horace, critique respecting, 118;
ancient, 293.

Mammàlia rodéntia, observations on a preter-
natural growth of the incisor teeth occasion-
ally observed in certain of the, by the Rev.
Leonard Jenyns, F.L.S., 134.

Mammiferous animals, description of, 132.
Mammoth cave, 370.

Manchester museum, account of some rare birds
in, by John Blackwall, 273.
Manganese, evident traces of, in slate, 72.
Man in the north of France, 75.

Mantel, anatomy of the ventriculites of, 332.
Marine animals and plants, on certain effects
produced by fresh water on some, by James
L. Drummond, M.D., 121.

Marine animals, further observations on the
influence of fresh water on, by Lieut. J. H
Davies, R. N., 217; influence of fresh water
on, 398. 402.

Marine plants, query on, 406.
Martius, Dr., his discoveries, 293.

Mass, gelatinous, answer to the query respect-
ing, by J. Murray, Esq., 289.

Matthews, Andrew, on the Zeuzèra æʼsculi, 67.
Mearns, John, F.H.S., supposed cause of corn
springs, 488.

Menageries, travelling, and of London, query
respecting, 402.

Menzies, Mr., ascent and barometrical measure-
ment of the Wha-ra-rai mountain, in Owhy-
hee, 435.

Merganser, red-breasted, nest of the, 90.
Meslier, M., notice of his cabinet of birds, 74.
Meteorological journal, extracts from one kept
near the town of Kilkenny, during 1828, 97.
Meteorology, critical remarks on, 304.
Microscopic amusement, as a means of educat-
ing the feelings, 286.

Middlesex, plants collected in, 266.
Minerals which attract the magnetic needle, 247.
Mirbel's opinion on the vegetable ovulum, 416.
Mole, physiological observations respecting, by
M. Geoffroy St. Hilaire, 420,
Mole cricket, answer to query respecting, 290.
Molecules, active, supposed existence of in mi-
neral substances, 1; remarks on, by Robert
Bakewell, 213; observed in a haddock's eye,
242; query respecting, by J. O. Westwood,
F.L.S., &c. 402; ultimate, a cloud of witnesses
in favour of the motion of, 215.

Moth, brown-tail, attempt to naturalise, by the
Rev. W. T. Bree, 66; the death's-head hawk,
460; the vapourer, 460.

Mountain cock, critical remark respecting, 302.
Mountains, form and aspect of, 466.
Muphatamet's optical phenomenon explained,
496.

Murray, J., answer respecting the circumstance
of a gelatinous mass like the remains of a
frog; and suggestion as to the showers (of
frogs, 289; critical remarks on the ascent of
the aerial spider, 299.

Muscle, fresh-water, young of, 469.

Museum Alexandrinum, at Petersburg, 252;
of natural history at Abo destroyed by fire,
252; at Manchester, account of some rare
birds in the, by John Blackwall, Esq., 273; of
the Canterbury Philosophical and Literary
Institution, 383; of Scarborough, 474.

Mya batàva, query respecting, 102.
Names, accentuation of, 298; of plants, changes
in, 462.

Natural history, the progress of, during 1828, by
Mrs. Bowdich, 409; collection from Pondi-
cherry, 249, in Spain, 367; in China, 368; in
Wurtemberg, 250; of vegetables, 165.
Natural History Society, advantage to be ex-
pected from a, 395; of Preston, 88; suggestion
for one, 286.

Nature, calendar of, for Perthshire, 477-483;
meteorological table and calendar of, for 1828,
from the register kept at Annat Gardens, 94.
Naútilus, query on, 102.

Nests and eggs, query respecting, 404.
Nest of a strange bird, &c., 404.

Newcastle upon Tyne, museum of natural his.
tory in, 270.

Niagara, description of the Falls of, by the Duke
of Saxe-Weimar, 369.

Nicholson, Thomas, on the red snow of the
Arctic regions, 321.

Nidus on a rush, 104; answer to query respect-

ing, by the Rev. Wm. Kirby, 405; singula.
one, by Charles Blomer, 303.

Nightingale, curiously composed nest of the, 65.
Nile, manner of passing, on reeds, 327.
Nuthatch, circumstances respecting, by the Rev.
W. T. Bree, 243; query on the peculiar smell
from, after death, 484.

Oak tree, notice respecting one struck by light-
ning, 230.

Ontario, Lake, ancient fish-banks near, 253.
Optical phenomena, 108.

Ornithology of London, remarks on the, 264.
Orthoceras annulàris and striàta, notice of some
fragments of, found in the Barr limestone in
Warwickshire, by Frederick Jukes, with a
note by J. D. C. Sowerby, F.L.S., 231.
Owl feeding on fish, suggestion as to, 288.
Ox, American, or pygmy bison, notice of an im-
posture so entitled, 218.

Palestine, geology of, critique respecting, 119.
Palmer, the Rev. S., hints respecting the lists
of plants, 212; plants collected by, in Middle-
sex, 266; in Surrey, 266; in Hampshire, 276;
in Essex, 385; in Hertfordshire, Huntingdon-
shire, and Cambridgeshire, 386; in North-
amptonshire, 387.

Papilio Machàon, distinction of sex in, 67.
Papyrus, on vessels made of the, 324.
Pearls, British, 461.

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

Pentacrinus europa'us and the star-fish, cri-
tique respecting, 114.

Perennial calendar, critique respecting, 110.
Perry, W. G., varieties of plants found in War-
wickshire, 268.

Peru, coal-fields in, 370.
Petersburg, Museum Alexandrinum at, de-
stroyed by fire, 252.

L

Phala na Pýralis, remark respecting, 302.
Pheasants, answer to query respecting, 288.
Philosophical and Literary Institution of Can-
terbury, museum of, 383; of Chatham, meet-
ing of September 29., 383.

Philosophical and Literary Society of Bristol,
meeting of May 29., 391.

Philosophical Society of Cambridge, purchase
of birds made by the, 386.
Physàlia, observations on the, 425.
Physeter catodon figured, 177.

Picus minor and maximus, remark respecting,
by Perceval Hunter, 208; minor, critique re-
specting, 110; in Herefordshire, by Walter
Henry Hill, 387.

Pied flycatcher, query respecting, 100.
Pigeon, the wild, in America, 369.
Plants collected by the Rev. S. Palmer, in Mid-
dlesex, 266; in Surrey, 266; in Hampshire,
276; in Essex, 385; in Hertfordshire, Hun-
tingdonshire, and Cambridgeshire, 386; in
Northamptonshire, 387; efficacious method of
drying, by J. E. Bowman, 245; hints respect-
ing the lists of, by S. Palmer, 212; in flower
near Bungay on the 21st of December, by D.
Stock, 88; marine, query respecting, 406; rare,
localities of, in North Wales, by Nat. John
Winch, 278; sloughing of 464, tropical re-
mains of, 81; varieties of, found in Warwick-
shire by W. G. Perry, 268.

Pliny's animals determined specifically by M.
Cuvier, 421; statement as to the papyrus ves-
sels, 325.

Plover, query on an uncommon species of, 207.
Plymouth and London, indigenous floras of,
compared, by W. Hamilton, 265.
Plutarch's statement respecting boats made of
the papyrus, 325.

Pollen of plants, account of Mr. Needham's ori-
ginal discovery of the action of; with observ-
ations on the supposed existence of active
molecules in mineral substances, by Robert
Bakewell, 1; of flowers, Brongniart's state-
ment respecting, 417.

Pondicherry, collection of nat. hist. from, 249.
Porcupine, Canada, 357.
Poultry, wild, 368.

Preservation of small birds, 458.

Preston, land and fresh-water shells in the
neighbourhood of, by Joseph Kenyon, 273.
Procellària Leáchii, query respecting, 105.
Puffins, 393.

Pupa of the wheat fly, 451.

Pygmy bison, or American ox, notice of an
imposture so entitled, 218.

Radicles, descent of, in germination, 463.
Rállus aquáticus, critique on the figure of, 302.
Rare, critique respecting plants and insects con-
sidered as, 110.

Rattlesnakes, a den of, 370.

Raven, young of the, query respecting, 403.
Ray, commemoration of, 84.

Raymond, M., his discovery in dyeing, 410.
Razor-bills, 393.

Rein deer, 63.

kath of the ancient Hebrews considered as
the pelican of the moderns, 137.
Scotland, wolves and foxes in, by J. Rennie, 457.
Sea, the blue colour of, 297.

Sea-spider, 211; an imposition, 290.

Seeds, durability of, query respecting, 106.
Shadows, double phenomenon of, explained, 496.
Sheep, broad-tailed, 63; West India, 63; Abys-
sinian, 63; supposed to be fattened by shelled-
snails, 150; black, 457.

Shells, fossil, catalogue of unpublished, 246;
British, alteration in Mr. Kenyon's paper on,
303; land and fresh-water, in the neighbour
hood of Preston, by Joseph Kenyon, Esq., 273.
Shirreff, Mr. P., account of the wheat-fly, 448.
Shrew mole of America, 354.

Shrew, water, some account of the, by John
F. M. Dovaston, A.M., 219.
Shrike, the greater, query on the peculiar smell
from, after death, 484.

Sight, distant, 470; of the stemmatous insects,

471.

Silver fish, query respecting, 102.
Simia tribe, the best treatise on ? 402.
Skeleton plants, query on, 106.
Skins of birds, query on softening, 484.
Skulls of brutes, answer to query respecting, by
Thos. Thompson, 288.
Sloughing of plants, 464.

Slugs, spinning, by the Rev. W. T. Bree, 69. 303.
485.

Snail, musical sound produced by, 244.
Snake, British, new species of, 458.
Snipe, the solitary, figured and described, 147;
the common, figured and described, 147; the
Jack, figured and described, 148; the soli-
tary, correction respecting delineation of, 302.
Snipes, British, descriptive and historical notices
of, 143.

Snow, red, of the Arctic regions, 321.
Society, Natural History, suggestion for, 286.
Soil, influence of, on roots, 463.
Solan goose, 90.

Sowerby, J. D. C., F.L.S., note on a new species
of trilobite, 44; note to paper on Orthoceras
annulàris and striàta, 233.

Spain, state of natural history in, 367.
Sphæ ria fraxinea, phenomena attending, 171.
Spider, remarkable one, query respecting, by
C. Lamb, 290; aerial, critical remarks on the
ascent of, by J. Murray, 299.

Spiders not found on chestnut timber, query re
specting, by John Brown, 291; developement
of the eggs of, 244; live and grow without
food, 459.

Spinning slugs, 303.

Spirit of Bewick's designs, 432.
Spring, indications of, 127.

Spruce fir-tree, some account of a remarkable
one in the woods of Braco Castle, Perthshire,
by Mr. Archibald Gorrie, C.M. H.S., 173.
Stanley, J., M.D., birds found in the neigh
bourhood of Whitehaven, 275.

Starwort, answer to the query respecting, 293;
of Graham's British Georgics, 406.

Rhodiola millegràna, corrected, 119.

Rock blocks, 471.

Rook, white one taken in full feather, 387.

Root, description of the, 165.

Rose, C. B., on the anatomy of the ventriculites
of Mantel, 332.

Rose tree, sap of the, 462.

Rotherham, Flora of, by Larret Langley, 269.
Rush, nidus on a, 104.

Salmon, J. D., query on the best work on British
birds' eggs, 205; answer to, '205.

Sand, dark-coloured, the sun's rays reflected
from a, 81.

Saxe-Weimar, the Duke of, his description of
the Falls of Niagara, 369.
Scarborough museum, 482.

Scolopax Sabini, answer to query respecting, by
Perceval Hunter, 288.

Scot, David, M.D. M.W.S. F.H.S.E., on the

to the hare's throat, 300.

Stock, Daniel, remarks on Mr. Babington's list
of rare plants and insects, 213; discovery of
plants varying with white flowers, 387; Trid-
dia procumbens, 387; error respecting the
sun-flower corrected, 464.

Stone, Robert, F.L.S., obituary of, 120.
Storks in Germany, 484.

Stourchat and wheatear,difference between, 289.
Strabo's description of the papyrus, 326.
Stúrnus Cinclus, remarks respecting, 400.
Sun-flower, error respecting, 464.
Sun's rays reflected from a dark sand, 81.
Superfotation of a pheasant's egg, 289.
Surrey, plants collected in, 266.

Swallow, query respecting a, by R. Sweet, 101.
Swallows, arrival of, 264; in this country during
the winter, 458.

Switzerland, Societies of Naturalists in, 251.