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number of our readers, that we have in this Third Volume brought to a conclusion most of our Introductions to the different branches of Natural History, originally intended to be continued through several volumes. In every 'other respect we have adhered to our prospectus; and we hope to go on in the same course for many years to come, gathering strength as we proceed; and so rooting. this periodical into the literature of the country, as that there must always in future be in these islands a Magazine of Natural History.

With the present Volume is given a Glossarial Index to the technical terms made use of from the commencement of the work up to the present time, with references to the pages where will be found their explanations at length, and their application to the different departments of natural science. As the first step towards the knowledge of the nature of things, and to the communication of that knowledge to others, is to know their names; so we would earnestly recommend to our young readers, or generally to all those who feel that they are not. yet beyond the age of acquiring new ideas, to study this Glossary word by word. We would recommend them to turn to every page referred to, so as not only completely to understand the word and its application, but to impress on the understanding and the memory the subject in the discussion of which the application is made. This will be to master a part of every branch of Natural History, and to make the Magazine, as far as it has hitherto proceeded, the reader's The ideas communicated to the world in this Magazine proceed from the minds of some hundreds of individuals, all directed to the same subject; they are, therefore, much more worthy of being fixed in the memory than those of any one individual; for example, in a single treatise. This is a proposition which will bear discussion at length; but we must leave it for the present, and conclude by hinting that those who peruse a scientific magazine, as they would glance over a merely literary periodical, are spending their time to very little purpose.

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Bayswater, Oct. 18. 1830.

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An Address delivered at the sixth and last An-On Póntia Chariclèa and Mètra, the large and
niversary Meeting of the Zoological Club of
the Linnean Society of London, on the 29th of
November, 1829. By N. A. Vigors, Esq. A.M.
F.R.S.
- 201
Further Notice of the late Mr. George Caley.
By William Withering, Esq. L.L.D. F.L.S. 226

Remarks on some of the Advantages and Dis-

advantages of Periodical Works on Natural

History. By a Purchaser of Periodicals 297

On the Luminousness of the Sea. Read before

the Plinian Society. By W. Baird, Esq.

Member of that Society

- 308

Account of an Ornithological Visit to the Is-

lands of Shetland and Örkney, in the Sum-

mer of 1828. By Richard Drosier, Esq. 321

Remarks on the Natural History of the Parish
of Slapton, near Dartmouth, Devonshire. By
H. V. D.
393
Original Letters, descriptive of a Natural His-
tory Tour in North America. By T. W. 489
Notes on the Pyrenees. By William Ainsworth,
Esq, Member of the Royal College of Sur.
496
geons of Edinburgh, &c.
Certain Effects attending the Blowing up of
Stob's Powder Mill in Peebleshire, and other
Matters. By Agronome

507

ZOOLOGY.

Observations on the Preternatural Growth of
the Incisor Teeth, occasionally observed in
certain of the Mammàlia rodéntia. By W.
Farrar, Esq. M.D.
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Supplement to the "Descriptive and Historical
Notice of British Snipes," in the Seventh
Number of the Magazine of Natural His-
tory. (Vol. II. p. 143.) In a Letter to the
Conductor. By S. T. P.
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On the Caprimulgus europæ us, or Fern Owl.
By Bartholomew Dillon, Esq.
On the Autumnal Migration and Habits of
some of the Genus Sylvia in England. By
J. D. Hoy, Esq.
On the wanton Destruction of Swallows. By
Philochelidon
35
An Introduction to the Natural History of Mol-
luscous Animals. In a Series of Letters. By
G. J.
- 39. 249. 335. 525
Observations relative to Dr. Carus's Discovery
of the Circulation of the Blood in Insects. By
William Spence, Esq. F.L.S.
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On the Gooseberry Grub. By E. S.
On the Periodical Appearance of certain Insects.
By J. H. Davies, Esq., Lieut. R. M., late Cu-
rator of the Museum of the Portsmouth Phi-
losophical Society

247

An Account of the Mode in which the common

Frog takes its Food. By the Rev. W. T.

Observations on the Habits and Nidification of

Bree, A.M.

- 326

the Bearded Titmouse (Pàrus biármicus L.).

328

By J. D. Hoy, Esq.

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An Introductory View of the Linnean System
of Plants. By Miss Kent, Authoress of Flora
Doméstica, Sylvan Sketches, &c. 53, 134. 350
On the Specific Identity of the Primrose, Oxlip,
Cowslip, and Polyanthus. By the Rev. John

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