INDEX. 



503 



Portsea Literary and Philosophical Society 

 ' reviewed, 364. 

 Rice bird, song of, 419. 

 Rock bloclvs, 388. 

 Rocks, impressions on, 488. 

 Rose, remark on the tall bristly, 394. 

 Rose- wood, answer to query on, 196. 

 Roux's Iconographie Conchyliologique, &c., 64. 

 Royal botanic garden of Glasgow, 399. 

 Sab^Ua, from sabulum, fine, sand or gravel, 26. 

 Sago palm, 84. 



Salamanders, some new ones figured and de- 

 scribed, 177. 

 Salmon, natural history of, 170. 

 Salpigl6ssis, from salpigx, a trumpet, anAglossis, 



a tongue, 362. 

 Sandstone, notice of the occurrence of footsteps 



in, 144. 

 Savi's Ornithologia Toscana, &c., 176. 

 Scabibsaarv^nsis, notice of, 83. 

 Scale on the bills of birds, 200. 

 Scandinavian cats, 74. 

 Scarlet Tanager, note of, 419. 

 Schools, law respecting, in the south of Ger- 



many, 483. 

 Scientific institutions, 80. 

 Scientific journals, 168. 362. 

 5cilla niltans, 83. 191. 379 ; with white flowers, 



by William Perecval Hunter, 393. 

 Sc61op.ix described by J. M., 297. 

 Scorpge'na, from skorpios, a scorpion, 162. 

 Skulls of brutes, query on, by C, 299. 

 Sea air, remark on, 384. 

 Sea eagle, 47. 

 Sea fir, 278. 

 Sea serpent, new one, figured and described, 



169. 

 Sebright's Observations upon Hawking, &c., 



reviewed, 366. 

 Second Moffat Chalybeate, 493. 

 Selby's Illustrations of British Ornithology, 62. 

 Sensatien, 316. 



Serpents, on the charming of, 372. 

 5erratula tinctbria, notice of, 83. 

 Shark, lower jaw-bone of, found in the county 



of Perth, 493. 

 Sheep genus, monstrous production of the, by 



John Chichester, Esq. M.D., 325. 

 Shells and minerals, collection of, for sale, 96; 



exchange of, 96 ; fanciful ideas for a national 



museum of, by Conchilla, 24 ; juvenile cabinet 



for, 413 j marine, by R. Reid, 393 ; remarks on 



the British land and fresh -water ones, by Mr. 



Joseph Ken yon of Preston, 424. 

 Shore lark, song of, 420. 

 Shrieke, query respecting, 93; answer to, 93. 

 Siberia, natural history of, 74. 

 Simla .Jacchus, account of a specimen of, by P. 



Neill, Esq. M.A. F.R.S.E. &c., 18. 

 Siren lacerfina, figured and described, 171. 192. 

 Smith's English Flora, noticed, 62. 

 Smith, Sir J. E , Pres. Lin. Soc, biography and 



obituary of, 91 ; criticism respecting, 198. 

 Snakes caught by fishermen, by Henry Slight, 



Snapdragon, ivy-leaved, remark on, by T. F., 

 378. 



Soil, formation of, on a small scale, 179. 



Sblen, from solen, a tube, 28. 



Song birds, American, sketches of twenty-four, 

 by J. Rennie, Esq. A.M., 414. 



Song sparrows, 49. 419. 



Sorata, description of the mount so called, 000. 



Sowerby, J. D. C, Esq., critique of, respecting 

 the late Mr. Sowerby, 304. 



Sowerby's genera of recent and fossil shells, re- 

 viewed, 5(^. 



Sparrowhawk, described and figured, 220 ; query 

 the female, 220. 



Spider, ascent of, into the atmosphere, 157 ; 

 curious remark on, by A. A., 304 ; of Solomon, 

 875; on the aerial, by John Murray, Esq. 

 F.S.A., &c. &c., 320. 



Spix's shells of Brazil, notice of, 73. .j 



Spundylus, from spon</7//o5, the prickly head of 

 an artichoke, 28. 



Sp6ngia occulJita and fluvi&tilis, 278. 



Spontaneous organisation of matter, 370. 



Spray of trees, Gilpin's remarks on, 243. 



Stamen, described, 232. 



Stark's Elements of Natural History, 62. 



Starwort, query respecting, by An Apiarian, 299. 



State of man in the south of Germany, 482. 



Steiner's Gebirgshcehendes Salzkammerguthes, 

 175. 



Stephens's Illustrations of British Entomology, 

 for April, reviewed, 55 ; May and June, 161 ; 



Stewart, John V., Esq., notice of a remarkable 

 hare, 216. 



Stigma described, 232. 



Stock, Mr. D., on the i^mna mkjor and minor, 

 290; on the Orobinche minor, 300. 



Strasburg, museum of natural history at, 468 ; 

 botanic garden at, 469. 



Strata, age of, traced from their organic re- 

 mains, by J. R., 383; consequences of con- 

 tinued disintegration, by J. R., 383. 



Strathpeffer water. 



Structure of plants. Dr. Martius's theory of, 475. 



Strutt, J. G., on the forest trees of Europe, as 

 elements of landscape, 37. 242. 



Stuttgard, natural history at, 477. 



Style described, 232. 



Succinea amphibia, 426. 



Summer red bird, note of, 420. 



Swainson, W., F.R.S. &c., • on the Nuthatch, 

 330 ; review of Audubon's Birds of America, 

 43. . 



Sweden, rare plants in the north of, 282. 



Sweden, works published in, 368. 



Sweet's Aviary, Cameron Square, noticed, 81 ; 

 British , Flower Garden, for April, 1828, re- 

 viewed, 61 ; May, 168 ; June, 168 ; July, 362. 

 British Warblers, reviewed, 57. FIbra Aus- 

 tral&sica, for April, 1828, reviewed, 61 ; May, 

 167 ; June, 167. 



Sylvan Sketches, &c. &c , reviewed, 173. 



5ymphytum ofl[icinale, 397. 



Tabasheer, notice of, 67. 



Taste, on the improvement of, by natural his- 

 tory, S. 



Technicalities of science, by J. Renhio, Esq., 

 369 ; by Mr. James Jennings, 178. 



Technicalities, on translating, by B., 303. 



Temminck's Nouveau Recueil, &c., 64. 



Templeton, J., biography of, 403. 



Tenore's Saggio sulIa Geografia Fisica e Botta- 

 nica del Regno di Napoli, con Carte, 176; 

 Osservazione sulla Flbra Virgilikna, 176. 



Terminology of birds, figured and described, 276. 

 of British insects, 421 ; used in ornithology, 

 123. 



Terms, translation and derivation of, 200. 



Ternaux sur les Obstacles qui s'opposent k la 

 Propagation des Mtrinos en France, noticed, 

 467. 



Testkcea, from testaceous, having a shell, 27. 



Test of a good naturalist, by J. Rennie, Esq., 2,&9. 



Tetrag;^nia, order of, described, 433. 



Tetrandria, class of, described, 431. 



Thalamiflbrse, from thalamus, a bed or recep- 

 tacle, and Jlos, a flower, lo6 ; description of, 

 137. 



Thompson's Memoir on the Pentacrinus euro- 

 pae"'us, 62. 



Thrush, theBrown, 415 ; the Red-breasted, 415 j 

 the Wood, 415 ; the Lesser, 386, 



Thyrse explained, 431. 



Titmouse, the Crested, song of, 420 



Toad and lizard, lethargy of, 159. 



Torpidity of the common tortoise, 159. 



Transactions of theLinnean Society of London, 

 62. 



Trees, large ones, 191. 



Triandria, 237. 



Trimingham, mass of chalk in the cliff at, 259. 



Trbchus, from trochus, a boy's top, 29. 



Trout, varieties of, 372. 



