Rafflèsia, after Sir S. Raffles, i. 67.
Regio ophthalmica, region of the eye, i. 277.
Regio parótica, protuberance over the car, i. 277.
Remiges, the oars, i. 277.
Rheum, from Rha, the ancient name of the
River Volga, iii. 350.
Rhizamorpha, from rhiza, root, and morphe,
form, i. 155.
Robur, applied by the Romans to the hardest
kind of oak, i. 248.
Rongeurs, from ronger,
Rostrum, the bill, i. 123.
Rubelite, from rubellus, reddish, i. 154.
Spirolobe, from speira, a spire, lobos, a pod, i.144.
Spondylus, from spondylos, the prickly head of
an artichoke, i. 28.
Supercilia, the eyebrows, i. 123.
Téctrices caúde, the tail-coverts, i. 123.
Téctrices, the wing-coverts, i. 123.
Telàrius, from tela, a web, i. 157.
Tempora, the temples, i. 123.
Tenueróstres, slender-beaked, i. 122.
Testaceous, having a shell, iii. 335.
Thalamiflora, from thalamus, a bed, and flos, a
flower, i. 136.
Tinctorius, dyeing, used by dyers, i. 168.
Ruminantes, from ruminare, to chew again, Toise, the French, equal to 106575 English fa-
Succus jugularis, the pouch, i. 124.
Sablonous, sandy, iii. 500.
Salep, from the Arabic sahkleb, iii. 352.
Trichodactylus, from thrix, hair, and daktylos,
a toe, i. 185.
Tridactyli, three-toed, i. 123.
Salpiglóssis, from salpigz, a trumpet, glossa, a Tròchus, from trochus, a boy's top, i. 29.
Scariosa, scarious, i. 168,
Scapulares, scapulars, i. 123.
Scansores, climbers, i. 122.
Scansori, climbing, i. 124.
Schists, argillaceous clayey slate, or schistose
slate, iii. 499.
Schistose, rocks abounding with schist, iii. 500.
Scorpa na, from skorpios, a scorpion, i. 162.
Semipalmatus, semipalmated feet, i. 124.
Sinciput, hinder part of the head, i. 277.
Solen, from solēn, a tube, i. 28.
Soulangiana, in honour of the Chev. Soulange-
Bodin, i. 362.
Spatha, a slice, iii. 52.
Speculum, the wing spot, i. 123.
Tropa olum, dim. of tropeum, a trophy, iii. 141.
Truncus, the trunk, i. 423.
Umbelliferous, umbel-bearing, ii. 156.
U'ngues, the claws, i. 124.
Univalve shell, composed of one piece, iii. S$5.
Uropygium, the rump, i. 123. 227.
Vasculares, from vas, a vessel, i. 136.
Ventral, from venter, the belly, i. 162.
Vérter, the crown, i. 123.
Vibrissæ, from vibro, to shake or move nimbly,
iii. 33.
Vittatus, from vitta, a band, i. 163.
Volitans, from volito, to fly about, i. 162.
Volva, from volvere, to wrap, iii. 52.
Willughbiella, named after Willughby, a friend
of Ray's, i. 273.
Sphenotoma, from spheno, to connect together, Zoophyte, from zoon, an animal, phyton, a plant,
toma, a slice or section, i. 61.
INDEX TO BOOKS REVIEWED AND NOTICED.
THE GENERAL SUBJECT.
BRITISH Naturalist, the, vol. i. 80. vol. ii. 426.
Catalogue of the Norfolk and Norwich Museum,
First Report of the Scarborough Phil. Soc. Nat.
564.
Gardens and Menagerie of the Zool. Soc., 81.
Gorham's Memoirs of Martyn, 427.
Johnson's Life of Ray, announced, 81.
Journal of a Naturalist, 84.
Library of Entertaining Knowledge, 80, 564.
Neill's Address, &c. &c. noticed, 564.
Paris's Life of Sir H. Davy, reviewed, 389.
Report of the N. H. Soc. of Northumberland,
&c. 564.
Rhind's Studies in Natural History, 79.
Transactions of the Plinian Society, not. 79.
Transactions of the N. H. Soc. of Northumber-
land, &c. 564.
Turner's Introductory Address to the N. H. Soc.
of Northumberland, &c. 564.
Young Lady's Book, 81.
Castle's Introduction to Botany, 427.
Chandler's Camellie, 427.
Geological Flora of Europe, not. 289.
Greville's Algæ Británnicæ, 427.
Jones and Kingston's Flòra Devoniensis, &c.,
rev. 288.
Audouin's Systems of the Linnean Insects, &c. Lindley's First Principles of Botany, 427; copper-
announced, 565.
Bennet's Fishes of Ceylon, 427.
Boisduval's N. American Coleoptera, &c. 565.
Brebisson's Minute Hymenoptera, 565.
Brown's Conchology of Great Britain and Ire-
land, 427.
Carcel's Minute Hymenoptera, 565.
Curtis's British Entomology, vol. vi. ann. 81.
De Jean's Species General of Coleoptera, ann
565.
Iconography of the Europ. Coleoptera,
ann. 565.
Desvoidy, Robineau, his Múscidæ, 565.
Dupont's Beetles, ann. 565.
Duponchel's French Moths, 565.
Gory and Percheron's Cetontadæ, ann. 565.
Gray's Illustrations of Indian Zoology, ann. 81.
Griffiths' Animal Kingdom, not. 564.
Anagallis arvensis and cærùlca, on the specific
identity of, by the Rev. J. S. Henslow, 537.
Anatomical preparations, query on, by B.
Maund, and answer to, 92.
Anatomy, comparative, query best treatise, 470.
Ants and aphides, 148.
Apocynum androsæmifolium, remark on, 461.
Arden, Forest of, 386.
Aspergillum, 336.
Aspidium lobàtum, 166.
Aviaries in the Garden of Plants at Paris, 24.
Awn of the oat, observations respecting, 486.
Baird, W., on the luminousness of the sea, 320.
Bakewell, Robert, a visit to the Mantellian Mu-
seum at Lewes, 9.
Bakewell, R, jun., on the Falls of Niagara, 117.
Ball containing bees, curious, explained, 195.
Bancroft, Dr., noticed, 215.
Battles of the stickleback fish, 330.
Belluæ, 515.
Bewick, Robert Elliot, noticed, 4.
Bewick, Thomas, memoir of, 1; concluded, 97;
his fondness for children, 4; his great strength,
4; his daughters, 4; spirit of his vignettes, 6;
his fishes, 103; his reception in London, 104;
query on his relics, 92; reply to, 191.
Belemnites figured and described, 284.
Bell, Mr., noticed, 214.
Bennett, Mr., noticed, 208.
Bicheno, Mr., on the shamrock of Ireland, 294.
Bill, remarkable formation of the, observed in
several birds, by John Blackwall, Esq., 402.
Bímanes, 513.
Bird, small unknown, answer to query, 93.
Birds, rare, shot, hints respecting, 185; soften.
ing the skins of, answer respecting, 123; in
the west of Scotland, facts and queries respect-
ing, 194; arrival of a valuable collection of,
211; fossil remains of, 362; remarkable form-
ation of the bill observed in several species of,
by John Blackwall, 402; summer, early ar.
rival of, by J. D. Hoy, 436; rare, killed in
Suffolk, and on the borders of Norfolk and
Essex, by J. D. Hoy, 436; song of, critical
remarks respecting, by R. Sweet, 447; songs
of, observations respecting, 472; destroying
the buds of fruit trees, query respecting, 475.
Biscacho and Coquimbo owl, critique on, 188.
Blackbird, white, 146.
Blackwall, John, Esq., remarkable formation of
the bill observed in several birds, 402; on the
ascent of aeronautic spiders, 456.
Blood, cause of colour not ascertained, 446.
Bloxam, A., plants in Charnwood Forest, 167.
Blue-bells of Scotland, critical remark on, 461.
Bonnet's theory of shells, 342.
Botanical Society suggested, 185.
Bowman, J. E., figure and description of the
shining moss, 462.
Breach of Roland, the, 507.
Bree, the Rev. W. T., M. A., sketch of a natural
calendar of coincidence, 17; criticism respect-
ing the water shrew, 90; answer respecting a
small unknown bird, 93; dates of the first
and last appearances of the Hirundines in the
neighbourhood of Allesley rectory, for 1829,
130; the distinction of sex in the wood-cock,
147; botanical frauds, 150; rare plants found
in Warwickshire, 162; stones found in the
stomachs of pike, 241; on the large and small
cabbage butterflies, 242; the mode in which the
common frog takes its food, 326; critical re-
marks on the cuckoo and cuckoo's maid, and
on the departure of the swift, 450.
Bride stones, 426.
Brongniart's theory of primeval vegetation, re-
marks on, by Nat. John Winch, A.L.S., $73.
Brown, John F.L.S., query on skate spawn, 93;
on a mass of fused green porphyry, 199.
Bruguière's theory respecting shells, 343.
Búccinum lapillus, critique respecting the, 484.
Bull-trout, queries respecting the, 480.
Bull oak, the, 551.
Bungay, Orchideæ and uncommon plants found
near, 155; calendar of nature in, for 1829, 179.
Bunting, the black-headed, answer, 92.
Bushmen of South Africa, 429.
Bustard, Great, of India, description of, with
notices of some other Indian bustards, 515.
Butterflies, Cabbage, large and small, 242.
Butterflies and flies, query respecting, 476.
Butterfly, painted lady, 247; black-ribbed, 247;
Argus, 247.
Byron's poetry, Bewick's opinion of, 99.
Calendar, natural, of coincidence, sketch of, 17.
Calendar of nature for Scotland, 82. 181. 295.
391. 440.; for Bungay, 178.
Caley, the late Mr. George, notice of, 226.
Calla æthiopica, 156.
Calyx, on the different species of, 52.
Camelopardalis on cover of Magazine, 188.
Campanula pátula, 163.
Carabus, query respecting, 477.
Carlisle, arrival of 24 summer birds of passage
in the neighbourhood of, during 1829, 172.
Carnassiers, 513.
Carr, J., answer to query respecting the samlet,
botcher, and gillion, 196.
Carrageen or Irish moss, query, and answer, 488.
Carus, Dr., observations relative to his discovery
of the circulation of the blood in insects, 48.
Cássida, metamorphosis of a species of, 523.
Cetaceous animals, 514.
Cète, 515.
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Ceylon, productive of pearls, 250.
Chalk districts, plants of the, 418.
Chàma gìgas, figured, 43.
Chameleon, critical remark concerning, 188; on
the habits of the, by H. Slight, M.R.C.S., 252.
Charnwood Forest, plants in, by A. Bloxam, 167.
Chestnut, the Tortworth, $78.
Chlora perfoliata, 133.
Clarke, W. B., impression of a star-stone on flint,
152; unusual appearance in the sky, 199.
Cllo borealis, 529.
Coal fields, extensive, in North America, 129.
Coccinella septempunctata, 248.
Cock of the wood, in Britain, 157.
Collecting geological specimens, 442.
Colouring of shells, 345; influenced by light, 346,
Conférva, duck's-foot, query and answer, 483,
Convolvulus Soldanella, locality of, 417.
Coot, greater, 177.
Corals, fossil, 271.
Cornwall, rare birds observed in, 175.
Corvorant, 177.
Cowslip, monstrous, 151.
Couch, J., on a substance drawn up at sea, 481.
Crabs in Jamaica, query respecting, 197; fossil
remains of, 286.
Creation, order of, in geology, 64.
Crocodile, the, on land and in water, 422.
Farrar, W., M.D., on preternatural growth of
incisor teeth in Mammàlia rodéntia, 27; the
pied flycatcher and grasshopper warbler, 146.
Fauna, British, additions to, by W. Yarrell,
524.
Fern owl, on the, by Bartholomew Dillon, 30;
use of the claw of the, by J. Hayward, 449.
Fèræ, 514.
Fieldfares and thrushes, arrival of, 434.
Fight between a rat and a hedgesparrow, 192. !
Cromer, natural history of neighbourhood, 155. Filaria forficulæ, remarks by B. Maund, 149.
Crossbill, 176.
Crow, carrion and hooded, 146.
Crustacea, fossil, 285.
Filària, critical observation on, by J. Murray, 459.
Fish, voice of, 147; in Slapton Lea, 395; silver,
478; fossil remains of, 363.
Floras, local, use of, 288.
Florence, on the weather at, by W. Spence, 374.
Fly's eye, curious property of, 195; under a
microscope, remark by J. Murray, 458.
Flycatcher, pied, 146; arrival of at Carlisle, 172.
Cuckoo, on the Malvern Hills, 160; arrival of, at
Bedford, 154; query respecting, 193; on the
nests of the, by J. Rennie, 397; and cuckoo's
maid, critical remarks respecting, 450.
Cuckoo-mate, 474; observations on, 475.
Cucullus simplex, curious phenomenon in, 95; Fogs at Florence, 375,
remark on, 190.
Curculios, query respecting, by J. C. Farmer,477.
Curtis, J., notices respecting Pterostichus punc-
tatus and Leistus montànus, 477, 478.
Cuttle-fish, 527.
Daffodil, the, 56.
Dale, J. C., capture of Vanessa Húntera for the
first time in Britain, 332.
Dartford, rare birds shot, by Jas. C. Hurst, 435.
Davies, J. H., remark respecting the natural
system of plants in the Magazine of Natural
History, 187; remark on the explanation of
terms, 187; on the museum at Haslar, 188;
on the mermaid, 188; on the chameleon, 188;
periodical appearance of certain insects, 247.
Davy, Sir Humphry, Dr. Paris's Life of, 389.
Decandria, the class, described, 350.
Delicia Sylvarum, 378.
Depot, natural history, remarks on, 470.
Diadelphia, the class, described, 356.
Didynamia, the class, described, 353.
Dikes, W. H., food of bearded titmouse, 239.
Dillon, Bartholomew, Esq., on the fern owl, 30.
Diluvium, in geology, 75.
Dia'cia, the class, described, 360.
Discussion at meetings of societies, 294.
Forest of Arden, 386.
Fossil shellfish, 280.
Foula Island, 322.
Foxcote, fossils figured and described, 159.
Foxglove, localities of, 418.
Frauds, botanical, 150.
Fritillary, the, 56.
Frog, mode of taking its food, 326.
Frost at Florence, 374.
Fruit and seed-vessels, geological remains, 266.
Faci, query on collecting, 198.
Fuel in America, 496.
Fulton, Robert, notice respecting, 493,
Gasterósteus trachùrus, semiarmàtus, and leiù-
rus, 522
Geographical Society of London, 431.
Geology, introduction to, continued, 62.
Geological systems of arrangement, 62.
Geological Society of London, Feb. 19., 294.
Geological specimens, collection of, 442
Geranium Robertianum, where luxuriant, 415;
pratense, where luxuriant, 416.
German naturalists and physicians, eighth an.
nual meeting of the, 428.
Gilbertson, collection of shells from Preston,
170; remarks on, 171.
Giraffe, the, in the garden of plants at Paris, 22.
Doctrines, absurd, of the system of nature, 352. Glechoma hederacea, figured, 354.
Dodecandria, the class, described, 352.
Dorce in Solway Frith, 174.
Dotterel, arrival of, at Carlisle, 173.
Douglas, Mr., his services to zoology, 204.
Dovaston, John F. M., Esq. A. M, some account
of the life, genius, and personal habits of the
late Thomas Bewick, 1; concluded, 97; reply
respecting Bewick's relics, 191.
Drosier, Richard, an ornithological visit to the
islands of Shetland and Orkney, 321.
Drying plants, Whateley's directions for, 459.
Dugong, queries respecting the, 480.
Eagle and the skua gull, 323.
Eagle-stone, query respecting the, 484.
Goatsucker, remarks concerning, 188; query
respecting, 192; foot-comb of, 296.
Goitre, remarks on the cause of, 191; opinion
respecting, 446; query respecting 470.
Gold, native, instance of, by J. Murray, 439; on
the teeth of sheep, cause of, 471.
Gooseberry grub, on the, 245.
Gorrie, A., remarks on meteorological observ.
ations 190.
Gorrie, W., rare plants indigenous to the parish
of Kilspindie, in Perthshire, 440.
Gospel oak, the, 553. 557.
Grasshopper warbler, 146.
Greyhound, Irish, query respecting, 470.
Echinite, fossil remains of, 276; table of La- Grilse, queries respecting the, 480.
marck's arrangement of, 277.
Egg within an egg, query respecting an, 472.
Electricity, query concerning, 200; remark, 488.
Elephants in the Garden of Plants at Paris, 24.
Elles, J., remarks on the water beetle, 148.
Encrinites, fossil remains of, 275.
Enneándria, the class, described, 350.
Epidermis of shells, $47.
Erodium marinum, locality of, 416; cicutàrium,
or moschàtum, locality of, 417.
Erióphorum pubescens, critical remarks on, 461.
Errors, geological, corrected by W. Hutton, 463.
Evans, John, query respecting a trilebite, 483.
Exchanges of specimens in natural history, 155;
depôt for, 185.
Exotics, the dissemination of, among indigenous
plants, condemned, 460; observations on, 461.
Falco peregrinus, 175.
Grub, gooseberry, on the, 245; injurious to oats,
query on a, by J. C. Farmer, 477.
Gryphie a arcuata, critical remark on, 190.
Guinea-pig, described, by P. Hunter, 192.
Gull, the skua, 322; an enemy to the eagle,
323; the arctic, 326.
Gynándria, the class, described, 359.
Hamilton's monument on the Hudson, 495. M
Hardwicke, General, noticed, 215.
Harvey, J. A., a snipe of a novel colour shot
near Kington, 436.
Hawkins, Thomas, doubts on the samlet con-
firmed, 94; remarks respecting the salmon
varieties, 94.
Hayward, J., use of the claw of the fern owl,
449; the snipe's beak, 449.
Heaths, localities of, 417.
Hèlix pomàtia, figured, 46; eaten by the Ro-
mans, 46.
Henna, 142.
Farmer, J. C., query respecting Curculios, 477; Henslow, the Rev. John Stevens, Prof. Bot., on
query on a grub injurious to oats, 477.
the specific identity of the primrose, oxlip,
Cowslip, and polyanthus, 406; on specific iden-
tity of Anagallis arvensis and cærulea, 537.
Herling, queries respecting the, 480.
Hessian fly, critical remark respecting the, 458.
Hexandria, the class, described, 54.
High Wycombe, journal of the weather at, 179.
Hirundines at Allesley Rectory, first and last
appearances for 1829, 150.
Hogg, John, A. M. F.L.S., on the geography,
geology, and vegetation of Sicily, 105; farther
illustration of vessels made of Papyrus, 206.
Horsechestnut, beauties of the, 134.
Hoy, J. D., migration and habits of some of the
genus Sylvia, in England, $4; on the habits
and nidification of the bearded titmouse, 328;
rare birds killed in Suffolk, and on the borders
of Norfolk and Essex, 436; early arrival of
summer birds, &c., 456.
Hudson River, the, 491; scenery on the, 494.
Hunter, P., guinea-pig described, 192; hard
substances found in the stomach of the alli-
gator, 447; various queries by, 470.
Hurst, James C., rare birds near Dartford, 485.
Hutton, W., correction of geological errors, 463.
Hydra, on the, by Samuel Woodward, 348.
Hydra fúsca, habitat of, 349.
Ianthina, the genus, 532.
Ichneumonidæ, critical remarks on, 452.
Icosándria, the class, described, 352.
Insect tribe, extraordinary instincts peculiar to
some of the, 50; a new locality for some less
common, 154; certain, on the periodical ap-
pearance of, 247; fossil remains of, 361.
Insects, observations relative to Dr. Carus's dis-
covery of the circulation of the blood in, 48.
Instincts, extraordinary, of some insects, 50.
Jackdaw, remarkably formed bill of a, 402.
Jennings, James, errors respecting the colour of
blood, and the faculties of the mind, 446; cri-
tical remarks respecting the kingfisher, 448.
Jenyns, Mr., noticed, 206.
Jenyns, the Rev. L., M. A. F.L.S., some remarks
upon the late winter of 1829-1830, &c., 538.
Johnston, G., critical remark on Eriophorum
pubescens, 461; the blue-bells of Scotland,
461; Vicia lathyroides, 462.
Jones, W., queries on the tortoise by, 472.
Journal of a Naturalist, criticism on, 84.
Kent, Miss, continuation of the Linnean system
of plants, 52. 134; concluded, 350.
Kilspindie, rare plants indigenous to, 440.
Kingfisher, 175; critical remarks on, 448.
Klein and Bonnet's theory of shells, S42.
Ladanum, mode of gathering, 95.
Lakes, the Rev. J., answer to query on the
black-headed bunting, 192; plumage of the
F bearded titmouse, when a young bird, 239.
Lamarck's arrangement of echinites, 277.
Lambe, C., tenacity of life in weevils, 149.
Lamprey, queries respecting the sex of the, 478.
Lay, Mr. George Tradescant, noticed, 205.
Leaf, fall of the, in evergreens, queried, 95.
Leathercoat Jack, critical observation on, 452.
Leaves, geological remains of, 266.
Ledbury, limestone at, answer respecting, 198.
Lee, Mrs. R., details respecting the garden of
plants and the national museum at Paris, 22;
notice of two singular poodles, 290.
Lees, Edwin, plants on the Malvern Hills, 160;
plants varying in the colour of their flowers,
161; answer respecting the limestone at Led-
bury, 198; limeworks at Colwall, 198; lime-
stone near the Wrekin, 199; remark respecting
plants with white flowers, 190.
Leistus montanus, locality of, 171. 478.
Leptara micans, winter quarters of, 148; Crio-
céridæ, critical remarks respecting, 453.
Light, curious brilliant golden green, 152.
Lilium Mártagon, 153. 438.
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| Lóxia Coccothraústes, 436.
Luminousness of the sea, 320.
Lymnæ a, 531.
Lysimachia thyrsiflora, 168.
Macculloch, Dr., error of, respecting the lumi
nousness of the sea, 320.
Macleay, Mr. S., noticed, 206.
Macroscélides, genus of, 204.
Main, J., answer to Mr. Gorrie's query respect.
ing the weather, 486.
Malvern Hills, plants on, by Edwin Lees, 160.
Mammalia, 510; divisions of, into orders, 512.
Mantell, Mr., his labours for geology, 9.
Maple, 140.
Marine vegetables as food, answer, 198.
Marshall, James Drummond, remarks on a na-
tural history depôt, and native ornithology,
470; answer respecting the missel thrush, 475.
Marsupia, 513.
Masters, W., remark on the Canterbury Philo-
sophical and Literary Institution, 154; query
respecting the goatsucker, 192.
Matthews, Mr. A., letter from Rio Janeiro, 430.
Maund, B., query on anatomical preparations,
and answer, 92; on Filària forficulæ, 49.
Medusa possessing a luminous property, 314.
Meleagrina margaritifera, 249.
Menagery of the Zoological Society, 293.
Menziesia, 139.
Mermaid exhibited in London, remark on, 447.
Mermaids, remarks concerning, 188.
Meteorological observations, remarks on, 191.
Meteors, appearance of, 154.
Milne, John, notice of a pair of siskin finches,
having hatched, 440.
Mirage, supposed cause of, 200; explained, 484,
Missel thrush,answer respecting the vocal powers
of the, 473; by James D. Marshall, 473.
Mollúsca, Heteropode and Pteropode, 529;
Gasteropodous, 530; bivalve, 533; tunicata,
Molluscous animals, introduction to the natural
history of, 39. 249. 335. 525.
Monadelphia, the class, described, $55.
Monce cia, the class, described, 359.
Morgan, Thomas, query respecting Mother
Carey's chickens, and answer to, 474; query
respecting flies and butterflies, 476.
Mosses, geological remains of, 267.
Mother-of-pearl shells, 339.
Mother Carey's chickens, 474.
Murray, J., circumstance respecting cock-phea-
sants, 146; the aerial spider, 189; instance
of native gold, 459; opinion respecting the
goitre, 446; the mermaid exhibited in Lon-
don, 447; snakes taking the water not uncom-
mon, 450; skate spawn, 450: critical observ.
ation on the flight of spiders, 457; the fly's
eye under a microscope, 438; critical notice
of Filaria, 459.
Muscum of Norfolk and Norwich, meeting of,
Nov. 25. 1829, 158.
Museum, Mantellian, at Lewes, 9.
Music, remarks on, 2.
Muscicapa luctuosa, query on, and answer, 92.
Narcissus, the, 55.
Nasturtium, 141.
Natural History Society of Gloucester, 159; of
Newcastle upon Tyne, meeting of Sept. 15.
1829, 169; Nov. 17., 170; parochial, hint re.
specting, 469.
Naturalists, young, monthly guide for, 468, 469.
Niagara, on the falls of, and on the physical
structure of the adjacent country, 117.
Nidus on a reed, 94. 194, 195; on a rush, 458;
attached to a reed, 476.
Nightingale, when first heard, 454.
Nightingale's nest, 145.
Night-jar, supposed parasite habits of, 397.
Nomenclature, changes in, mischiefs from, 143.
North America, original letters, descriptive of
a natural history tour in, 489.
Northern Diver, 436.
Oak, the creeping, 384; the king, 385.
Oakly Farm oak, 553.
Oaks, age of, under-rated, 378.
Ogilby, Mr., noticed, 205.
Oriole, golden, 175.
Oriòlus Gálbuĺa, 436.
Ornithorynchus, query respecting, 470.
Ornithology, native, query respecting, 470.
Orobanche cærùlea, 435.
Oysters esteemed by the Romans, 41.
Pachydérmes, 514.
Palmer, the Rev. Mr., his list of plants, 189.
Papyrus, vessels made of the, further illustra-
tions of observations on, 535.
Paris, garden of plants, and natural museum at,
details respecting, by Mrs. R. Lee, 22.
Paris, Dr., his life of Sir Humphry Davy, 389.
Peacock, wild, food of, 146.
Pearl fishery, British, now existing on the Con-
way, 132 of the Conway, observations on,
by W. Wilson, 451.
Pearls, production of, explained, 249; among the
Romans, 250; in America, 251.
Pentacrites, fossil remains of, 275.
Sabine, Mr., remarks on, 293.
Saint Hilaire's theory in zoology, 420.
Salmon, varieties of, opinion respecting, by Thos.
Hawkins, 94; queries respecting, 480.
Samlet, doubts on the, confirmed, by Thos.
Hawkins, 94; botcher and gillion, answer to
query respecting, 196.
Saul, M., rats resisted by ducks and hens, 146.
Saxifraga granulata, 351.
Scallop worn in the hats of pilgrims, 256.
Scenery on the Hudson River, 494.
School of botany at Paris, 26.
Scolopax grisea, figured, 28; Sabini, 29.
Scolopax, peculiarity in the beak of, 29.
Scotland, west of, facts and queries on birds in,
194; calendar of nature for, 391. 440. 566.
Scouler, Dr., noticed, 207.
Sea, vision over, 96; luminousness of, 308.
Periodical works on natural history, advantages Sea-trout, queries respecting the, 480.
and disadvantages of, 297.
Petrel, the stormy, 325.
Pettychaps, Lesser, 520.
Phala na typicoides, remarkable visitation of
the, 404.
Pheasants, cock, circumstances respecting, 146.
Philosophers, generally self-taught, 389.
Senecio lividus and sylvaticus, query, 197.
Sèpia, the, whether parasitical or not, 535.
Shadows, double, correction respecting the, 468.
Shamrock of Ireland, observations on, 294.
Sheep, the Puruk, of Ladusk, remarks on, 145.
Shellfish, fossil, 280.
Philosophical and literary institution of Canter-Shells, arrangement of, by conchologists, 335
bury, 154.
Philosophical Society of Yorkshire, anniversary
meeting of, Feb. 2., 437.
Pig-parsnep, a good foliage for foregrounds, 99.
Pike, extraordinary growth of, 147; stones found
in the stomachs of, 241.
Pimpinella magna, 164.
Plantago major, curious variety of, 482,
Plants varying in the colour of their flowers, by
Edwin Lees, 161; with white flowers, remark
respecting, 190; night-smelling, query, 197.
Polyadélphia, the class, described, 357.
Polyandria, the class, described, 352.
Polybrachion, the, 149.
Polygamia, the class, described, 360.
Polypus, fresh-water, by S. Woodward, 348.
Poodles, notice of two singular ones, 290.
Porphyry, green, fused, query respecting, 199.
Powder mill, blowing up of a, 508.
Preston, collection of shells from, by W. Gil-
bertson, 170; remarks on, 171.
Primary rocks, 64.
Primrose, oxlip, cowslip, and polyanthus, on the
specific identity of the, 406.
Proverbs respecting natural appearances, 17.
Pterostichus parumpunctàtus, answer, 477.
Puffin, the Manks, 325.
Pyrenees, notes on the, by W. Ainsworth, 496.
Pyrogeneous formations, in geology, 65.
Pyrola secunda, locality of, by H. C. Watson, 174.
Quadrùmanes, 513.
Quail, arrival of, at Carlisle, 172.
Quercus sessiflora, 165.
Rain at Florence, 374.
Rainbow, a singular appearance of the, 544.
Rats resisted by ducks and hens, account of, 146.
Raven oak, the, 556.
Rennie, J., critical remark on the goatsucker's
foot-comb, 296; supposed parasite habits of
the night-jar, and nests of the cuckoo, 397.
Rice, 60.
Richardson, Dr., noticed, 205.
Richmond, early flowering and rare plants near,
168.
Rio Janeiro, letter from, by Mr. Matthews, 430.
Robertson, John, on the Puruk sheep, 144.
Rocks, primary, 64; crystalline, of the Pyrenees,
497.
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multivalve, 335; bivalve, 335; univalve, 337;
revolute, 337; mother-of-pearl, 339; manner
in which they are formed, 340; the colouring
of, 345; influenced by light, 346; admirable
formation of, 348; of molluscous animals, con-
nection of the, 525.
Shetland and Orkney ornithological visit to, 321.
Shining moss, figured and described, 462.
Sicily, on the geography, geology, &c., 105.
Silks and flannels emitting sparks in frost, 488.
Siphoniæ, 268.
Siskin finches, notice of a pair hatching, 440.
Skate spawn, query on, 93; conjecture, 195. 450;
answer, 478.
Skins of birds, answer to query on softening, 93.
Sky, unusual appearance in, 199.
Slapton, on the natural history of, 393.
Slight, H., on the habits of the cameleon, 232.
Smith, H. S., on a remarkable Vanéssa l'o, 194.
Smith's stratigraphical table of echinites, 278.
Snails, how to keep in confinement, 470.
Snakes taking the water, not uncommon, 450.
Snipe of a novel colour shot near Kington, 437.
Snipe's beak, critical observation respecting, 449.
Snipes, British, supplement to the notice of, 27.
Snow at Florence, 374.
Society of Naturalists, hints respecting, 185.
Song of birds, critical remarks respecting, 447.
Sowerby, J. D. C., catalogue of the fossils from
Foxcote, 159; his opinion respecting cowries
and cones, &c., 344.
Sparrowhawk, female, with a blue back, 449.
Spence, W., observations relative to Dr. Carus's
discovery of the circulation of the blood in
insects, 48; on the weather at Florence, $74.
Spiders, flight of, by Thomas Thompson, 147;
aerial, critical remarks on, by J. Murray, 189;
aeronautic, ascent of, critical remarks respect-
ing, by J. Blackwall, 456; critical observations
on the ascent of, 457; flight of, critical ob-
servations respecting, 457.
Spring, C., notice respecting the cuckoo-mate,
474; observations on, 475.
Sponges, geological remains of, 268.
Stanley, J., birds near Whitehaven,
Star-fish, fossil remains of, 275.
Star-stone, impression of one in flint, 152.
Steam-boats, American, 492.
Stickleback fish, some account of, 329; the black
variety, 332.
Sticklebacks, 522.
Stoat pursuing a water rat through a pond, 145.
Stobs's powder-mill, certain effects attending
the blowing up of, 507.
Stock, D., Orchidea and uncommon plants
found in the vicinity of Bungay, 155; Calen-
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