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r^DEX. 



Geological indications, 387. "" 



Geological Society, origin and notice of, 75; 

 address to, by W. H. Fitton, M.D. F.RS., 

 &c. 75. to 78; meeting of April 18th, 185; 

 May 2d, 188. 



Geologist, pleasures derived by, in travelling, 

 &c., 5. 



Geology, connection of the study of, with mine- 

 ralogy, 4; faults in, 255; progress of, 442; 

 of Palestine. 390. 



Geology, anticlinal lines in, 257 ; stratification, 

 2.57 ; conformable and unconformable, 253 ; 

 derangements by subsidence, 254 ; dip or 

 angle of inclination, 253 ; elevation, 255 ; out- 

 liers, 253. by denudation, 254. by protrusion, 



^ 254; saddle-shaped arrangement, 255; valleys 



[ of elevation, 256 ; transverse and longitudinal, 

 256. 



Geology, reflection on the present state of, 249. 



Gerfalcon described and figured, 218. 



Germany, remarks on the present state of na- 

 tural history in, by W. J., 409. 



Gcrmen, described, 232. 



Gill's Technological Repository for May and 

 June, 169 ; for July, 363. 



Glasgow Royal Botanic Garden, 399. 



Glokder Versuch einer Characteristic der schle- 

 sisch-mineralogischen Litcratur, &c., 175. 



Glowworm, description of, 155; query on the 

 light of, by A. A., 300. 



Golden-crested wren, 179. 



Goldfinch, the American, 419. 



G6rdius aquaticus, query on, by H„ 301. 



Goshawk, described and figured, 219. 



Grain and bread in an Egyptian tomb, 390. 



Grallae, from grallcc, stilts, 121. 



Granite, north of the Umber, by L. E. O., 396. 



Grasses, formation of tlie embryo in, 283. 



Griffith's Animal Kingdom described, &c. &c.. 

 reviewed, 275. 



Grubs, query in ground, 93. 



Gymnbtus, from gymnos, naked, mtos, back, 

 107. 



G^nia, from the Greek for wife, 233 ; explained, 

 233. 



Habitats, former, of extinct animals, by Edwin 

 Lees, 394. 



Halibut, large one, 84. 



Halibtis, from hals, the sea, ata, ears, 27. 



Ham&dryas, from hamadryades, nymphs who 

 preside over trees, from hama, with drys, the 

 oak, 287. 



Hann's Recherches sur 1' Anatomie, &c. &c., 174. 



Hare, black one, 84 ; account of a remarkable 

 one, by John V. Stewart, Esq., 216. 



Hartfell Spaw, 493. 



Hart's Philosophical Enquiries, &c., noticed, 

 366. 



Harvey, Mrs., account of a particular variety 

 of bull, 113. 



Hatching of female eggs, by J. Rennie, Esq., 

 373. 



Haustell^ta, division of insects so called, 461. 



Hawfinch's nest, remark on, by T. F , 374. 



Hawk and the eagle, characteristics of, 94. 



Haworth's Lepid6ptera Britannica, reviewed by 

 A. R. Y., 348. 



Hay, cause of the smell of new-made, by D. 

 Stock, 381. 



Heather-blite, query on, by J. N., 297 ; answer 

 to, by J. M., 297. 



Heather-bluiter, 495. 



Hedwig's Species Muscorum, &c., 64. 



Heidelberg, natural history at, 478. 



J/elix, from heileo, to twist round, 25. 



iKlix sylvatica, fCisca, and earth usian 611a, 427 ; 

 cellkria, nitida, rufescens, hispida, and sericea, 

 428. 



Hendrick's Lecture on Geology, &c. &c,, no- 

 ticed, 173. 



Hen-harrier, described and figured, 220. 



Hen's egg shells, accidental preservation of, 492. 



Henslow, the Rev. John Stevens, on the crys- 

 tallisation of gold, 146 ; Malaxis paludbsa, 441. 



Hepp, Madame de, her garden and aviary, 447. 



Herbarium, account of a juvenile one, 4l2 ; 

 query on forming one, by the Rev. George 

 > Munford, 196 ; answer to, 197. 



Hessian fly, account of, by the Rev. W. Kirby, 

 M.A. F.R. and L.S., 227. 



Heysham, T. C, arrival of the summer birds of 

 passage in the neighbourhood of Carlisle in 

 the year 1808, 290. 



Himalaya mountains, 286. 



Hinsinger's Anteckningar i Physic och Geog- 

 nosie, &c., 176 ; Mineralogische Beschreibung, 

 &c., 175. 



Hippopotamus, 288. 



Histoire des Animaux, &c., 64. ' 



Histoire Naturelle des Poissons, 72. 



Hogg's Natural Hi.-itory of the^ Vicinity of Stock- 

 ton-on-Tees, reviewed, 277. 



Holoc^ntrus, from holos, all, kcntron, a spur, 

 163. 



Hooker and Greville's Figures and Descriptions 

 of Ferns, 279. 



Hope«7^a, from Mns. Thomas Hone, of Deep- 

 dene, 165. 



Hornet of New South Wales, described and 

 figured, 170. 



Horsefield's Descriptive Catalogue of the L^i- 

 dopterous Insects, &c., reviewed, 172. 



Humanity, on a too great degree of, to animals, 

 407. 



Human voice, and that of beasts, query respect, 

 ing, by C, 299. 



Humboldt's Tableaux de la Nature, &c. 64. 



Humming-bird, food of, by J. Rennie, Esq., 371. 



Huntingdonshire, rare insects in, by C. C. 

 Babington, Esq., 290. 



Hyacinth, supposition respecting, 229. 



Hydropeltideae, description of, 140. 



Jameson's Philosophical Journal, for April, re- 

 viewed, 170 ; June, 364. 



Jardine's Illustrations of Ornithology, 62. 



Jasmine, perfume obtained from, 236. 



Jennings, Mr. James, on the technicalities of 

 science, 178. 



Jennings's Ornitholbgia, 62. 341. 



Jennings's Pleasures of Ornithology, 279. 



Jet, origin of, 383. 



Ignis fatuus, 156; critique respecting, by W. H., 

 304. 



Illustrations of British Entomology, &c. &c., by 

 James Francis Stephens, F.L.S., &c., reviewed, 

 459. 



lUustraiionsof Zoology, by W. Wilson, F.R.S.E. 

 &c., reviewed, 52. 



Indicatorial calendar, 296. 403 ; object of, 88 ; 

 weather, 88. 196 ; quadrupeds, 89 ; fishes, 89. 

 195; birds, 00. 194; insects, 90; reptiles, 90; 

 worms, 90; plants, 90. 195; astronomical in- 

 dications, 91. 196 ; animals of the chace, 194. 



Indigo bird, 419. 



Inflorescence, modes of, 429. 



Inoceramus Cuvi&ri, figured and described, 70. 



Insecta, from insectus, cut or notched, 421. 



Insects, British, description and history of some 

 of the principal, by A. J. N., 421 ; Linnean 

 orders of, 424 ; method of killing, for the use 

 of naturalists, QQ ; cloth fabricated by, 66 ; 

 near Bath, 392 ; query on a scientific book on, 

 by T. L. H., 407 ; rare ones found in Hun- 

 tingdonshire, by C. C. Babington, Esq., 290 ; 

 Redi's experiments on the generation of, 221. 



Instinct, mistakes of, by J. Rennie, Esq., 373. 



Instinct of insects, by J. H. Davies, Esq., 332. 



Interior of the earth, temperature of, 70. 



Ornithology, introduction to the study of British, 

 121. 



Plants, introductory view of the Linnean sys- 

 tem of, by Miss Kent, 228 ; continued, 429. 



Journals, scientific, 168. 



Journey, notice of a scientific one in process, 



Jussieuean, or natural, system of plants, intro- 

 ductory view of, 30. 135. 288. 332. 

 Juvenile museums, by J. Rennie, Esq. A.M. 412. 

 Juvenile Natural History Society of Belfast, 86. 

 Kaiser's Mineralquellen zu St. Moritz, &c., 175. 



