NDEX. 



501 



Kangaroo, dissection of the mammary organs of, 



Kent, Miss, introductory view of the Linnean 

 System of Plants, 228 ; continued, 429 ; on 

 botany as a study for young people, 124 j Syl- 

 van Sketclies,!&c. &c. reviewed, 173. 

 Kenyon, Mr. Joseph, remarks on British land 



and fresh-water shells, 424. 

 Ker's /ridearum Genera, &c., noticed, 62. 

 Kingfisher, on the habits of the, 23. 

 Kirby, the Rev. W., M.A. F.K. and L.S., ac- 



count of the Hessian fly, 227. 

 Kite described and figured, 220. 

 Kittell's Memoires d'Histoire Naturelle, 174. 

 Kreysig's Ueber den Gebrauch der NatOrlichen 

 und Kunstlichen Mineralwasser, noticed, 467. 

 Krubut, or great flower of Sumatra, figured and 



described, 67, 68. 

 I^achmann's Flora der Umgegende von Bruns- 



chweig, 64. 

 Ladybird, notice respecting, by H. J. Brown,191. 

 Lag6stomus, from lagos, a hare, and stotne, a 



mouth, 185. 

 iampyris, from lampo, to shine, pyr, fire, 155. 

 Land crabs, 490. 



Landscape, on the forest trees of Europe, con- 

 sidered as elements of, by J. G. Strutt, 37. 242. 

 Lapwing, food of, 496. 

 Latham's arrangement of birds, 121. 

 Lathras'^a squamaria, query respecting, by G. E. 



Smith, 407. 

 Latreille's natural system, query respecting, 94. 

 Leaves covered with frogs, 284. 

 Leaves of plants, influence of light on, 179. 

 Leaves, electro-attraction of, 281. 

 Lebreux's Histoire Naturelle dcs L^pidopt^res, 



ou Papillons, 174. 

 Lecoy's Recherches sur la Reproduction des V6. 



g^taux, 174. 

 Lectures on the universe, 96. 

 Lees, Edwin, affinities of plants to birds and 



insects, 200. 

 Lemming, query respecting, 198. 

 i^mna muior and major figured and described 



by D. Stock, 290. 

 Lempriere's Popular Lectures on the Study of 



Natural History, &c., reviewed, 174. 

 Lemur, description of a specimen of, by W. 



Baird,Esq., 208. 

 i^pas, from lepas, a rock, 30. 

 Lesson's Complement des CEuvres de BufFon, 



&c., 174. 

 Library written by negroes, 377. 

 Lightning, destruction of an oak by, 71. 

 Lignite, 388. 

 ZinesB, 336. 



Links' figures of select plants from the royal 

 botanic garden of Berlin, &c., reviewed, 280. 

 LinnJBUs, merits of, noticed, 10. 

 Linnean orders of ornithology, description of, 



121 ; of the class insects, 424. 

 Linnean Society, origin and notice of, 74 ; meet- 

 ings of March 4th and 18th, and April 1st and 

 15th, 75 ; May 4th, 184 ; May 24th, 185 ; June 

 3d and 10th, 185 ; presents to, 75. 

 Linnean system of plants, introductory view of, 



by Miss Kent, 228. 429. 

 Literary and Philosophical Society of Hull, 



meeting of April 25th, 289. 

 Liverpool botanic garden, 490. 

 Living principle, and its effects, 310. 

 Lizard, remark on the monitor kind, 391. 

 Localities of rare plants, 84. 

 Loddiges's Botanical Cabinet for April, 1828, re- 

 viewed, 60 ; May, 166 ; Jul3^, 360. 

 London, calendar of nature for, 295. 402. 

 London Institution, April 16th, 80. 

 Luminosity of the sea, cause of, 154. 156. 304. 

 Zychnis dioica, query on the red and white, 300. 

 Lycoperdon Prbteus, 399. 

 Lymnae^a fragilis, detrita and ovkta, 425. 

 Lyonnet, posthumous works of, 282. 

 iysimachia Nummularia, 393. 

 Macrocirpus from makros, long, karpos, fruit, 

 166. 



Magazine of Natural History, principal objects 



of, 9. 

 Magellanic clouds, 488. 

 Magnoliflc<'^, description of, 138. 

 Mal&xis paludbsa, on the leaves of, by tiie Rev, 

 John Stevens Henslow, professor of botany in 

 the University of Cambridge, 441. 

 Malvaceae, 337. 



Mandibulilta, division of insects so called, 461. 

 Mandrake, large root of, 83. 

 Mangouste, on the habits of one, by Alex. J. 



Adie, jun., Esq., 21. 

 Marmot, figured and described, 377. 

 Martius, Ur., his theory of the structure of 

 plants, 475 ; Geological Memoir on a Part of 

 Western Sussex, &c., 62. 249. 

 Maryland yellow throat, song of, 420. 

 Maund's Botanic Garden for May, 1828, review- 

 ed, 163. 

 Mauritius, botany in the, 67. 

 Medicago denticul^ta, 398. 

 Medical and Physiological Essays, 64. 

 Medico- Botanical Society of London, origin and 

 notice of, 79 ; meeting of, in October, 1827, 79 ; 

 April 11th, 1828, 80; medal offered, 60 ; May 

 9th, 189 ; June 13lh, 286 j June 11th, 287. 

 Medusa, an immense, 286. 

 Menispi^rmeae, description of, 139. 

 Menzies, Mr., ascent and barometrical measure, 

 ment of Wha-ra-rai anountain, in Owhyhee. 

 201. ' ' 



Mermaid, tests by which a real one may be dis- 

 covered, 106. 

 Meteorological science, introductory sketch of 

 the objects and uses of, by E. W. Brayley, jun. 

 A.L.S., 147. 

 Meteorology, utility and progress of the science 



of, 5, 

 Metz, cabinet of natural history at, 470 ; botanic 



garden at, 471. 

 Meyer's Houttuynla atque Saurureis, 175. 

 Migration of fish, 372. 

 Millepbra foli^cea, 278. 



Mineralogy, importance of the knowledge of, 4i 

 Mineral waters, 492. 

 Mineral waters of Geilnau, Fachinger, and Set- 



tiers, 386. 

 Mitchill's Catalogue des Fossiles, &a &c,, 176. 

 Mocking-birds, 48. 416. 

 Moffat water, 492. 

 Moisture of climate influenced by trees, by J.R., 



384. 

 Molluscous animals described, 105. 

 Monandria, 234. 

 Monochlamydeas, from monos, one, chlamys, 



a coat or covering, 136. 

 Monocotyledones figured and described, 34. 

 Monocotyl^dones, from monoSy one, cotyledon^ 



136. 

 Monogynia, order of, described, 431. 

 Morals, cultivation of, through the understand. 



ing, 13. 

 More lovable than wise, 199. Z 



Movements of the spider, electricity as an agent 



in, 158. 

 Mount lUimani, 489. 



Mount Sorata, description of, 489, ^ 



Munford, the Rev. George, query on forming a 

 herbarium, 196 ; answer to, 197 ; by W. T. 

 Bree, 298. 

 Munich, museum of natural history at, 474. 

 il/Qrex, from murex, the point of a rock, .56. 

 Murphy, Edward, Esq, A.B., contributions to- 

 wards a Flbra Hib^rnica, 436. 

 Murray, John, Esq. F.S. A..&C. &c., on the aerial 



spider, 320. 

 Murray's Experimental Researches in Natural 



Histoi-y reviewed, 154, 

 Muscular motion, 314. 

 Museum Brasilianum, 474. 

 Museum at Epinal, 468 ; at Strasburg, 468 ; at 

 Norwich, 397 ; of the Royal Naval Hospital, 

 191. 

 Museum of shells, fanciful ideas for a national, 

 by Conch ilia, 2* 



