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. own. Bayswater, Oct. 18. 1830. J. C. L. Some Details respecting the Garden of Plants and the National Museum at Paris. By Mrs. On the Geography, Geology, and Vegetation of Sicily. By John Hogg, Esq. M.A. F.L.S. On the Falls of Niagara, and on the Physical Trait in the Habits of the Weasel, with Notes on the Water Shrew and the Thrush. By W. Notice of a Discovery respecting the Food of the Bearded Titmouse (Pàrus biármicus Lin.). Notice of the Plumage of the Bearded Titmouse Notice of Stones found in the Stomachs of Pike. An Address delivered at the sixth and last An-On Póntia Chariclèa and Mètra, the large and Remarks on some of the Advantages and Dis- advantages of Periodical Works on Natural the Plinian Society. By W. Baird, Esq. 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 507 Observations on the Preternatural Growth of 30 Supplement to the "Descriptive and Historical - .34 On the Gooseberry Grub. By E. S. 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 Some Account of the Stickleback Fish (Gaster- Notice of the Capture of Vanessa Húntera, for the first time in Britain, with a Catalogue of rare Insects captured. By J. C. Dale, Esq. 332 On a remarkable Formation of the Bill observed in several Species of Birds. By John Black- Remarkable Visitation of the Phalana typi The Cuvierian, or Natural, System of Zoology. By B. Essay 4. On Mammiferous Animals; their Division into Orders, and distinctive Description of the Great Bustard of India, with Notices of some other Indian Bustards. By Some Observations on the British Willow Additions to the British Fauna; Class, Fishes. By William Yarrell, Esq. F.L.S. Z.S. &c. 521 An Introductory View of the Linnean System Catalogue of Works on Natural History, lately | published, with some Notice of those con- sidered the most interesting to British Natu- Fidra Devoniénsis: or a descriptive Catalogue of Plants growing wild in the County of De- von, arranged both according to the Linnean and Natural Systems, with an Account of their Geographical Distribution, &c. By the Rev. J. P. Jones and J. F. Kingston 288 Delícia Sylvarum; or Grand and Romantic Fo- rest Scenery in England and Scotland. Drawn from Nature and etched by Jacob George |