GENERAL INDEX. 



A.BBOTsFonD, birds in the plantations at, IfiG. 



>i^bies of Cassar, the ^"bies Picea of modern 



botany, 3. 

 iSghr'ia crabronifiSrmis in Devonshire, 445. 



Mghr'ia ^ipulaef6rmis, its attacks on currant 

 bushes, 6. 



^'sculus Hippoc&stanum (the horsechestnut), a 

 description of, 238. 



./Etites, or eagle-stone, iii 484, iv.l90. 468. 



Adages on the weather, 264. 469. 



Adder and its eggs in Essex, 268. 



Agapanthus umbellktus, water secreted by, 33. 



Agronome's reply to the remarlcs of B. and J.S., 

 556. 



A'lgae, British, the inarticulated, genera and 

 species of, 57. 



America, North, letters descriptive of a natu- 



5 ral history tour in, 108. 289; aboriginal na- 

 tives of, 110 : trees and plants of, 110, 111, 



^nagallis arvensis and ca;riilea, their specific 

 relation, iii, 537. ; criticism on, iv. 79. 277, 278, 

 466. 



Anatomical dissections and examinations invi- 

 gorate the mind, 14. 



Anatomy and physiology of the organs of vision 

 of man and other animals, treatise on, 14. 207. 



Andre, Major, incidental notice of, 112. 



>*nem5ne nemordsa, fragrance of the flowers of, 

 442. 



^dnembne ranunculOldes found in Suffolk, 450. 



Animalcules, luminous ones in the sea, 285. 500. 

 505. 



Animals and vegetables, analogy in the struc- 

 ture and functions of, 385. 



Animals, instances of monstrous formations of, 

 403. 



Animah, molluscous, history of, 523. 



Answers and Queries, 86. 187. 278. 383. 470. 559. 



Ants, a battle of, 149. 



^pocynum ctndrosEemifolium, its manner of en- 

 trapping flies, 190. 422. 



Aponogfeton distachyon, a notice of, by Mr. 

 Gorrie, 177. 



ylraMcdr/abrasili^nsis, nuts or seeds much eaten 

 by man, quadrupeds, and birds, 396. 



Atmosphere, temperature of, in different parts 

 of the earth's surface, 245. 



Auditory apertures in the skulls of quadrupeds 

 and birds, as auxiliaries in classification, 9. 



Bear, black, in the forests of America, 110. 



Bedford, journal of the weather at, 170 ; nut- 

 hatch and cuckoo near, 275. 



Bedfordshire, natural history in, 160. 



Bee, secretion of wax by the, 185. 276; history 



i of the, 234 ; various species of, their erosions 

 in flowers, &c., 46, 47. 93. 479. 



Beetle, common black, some account of, 477. 



Belfast museum, 167. 



Bezoar, the constituents of, 383. 



Birds at and near Londonderry, 369. 452. 



Birds, British song, some account of, 118. 412. 



Birds, in Suffolk, 449, 450 ; in the plantations at 

 Abbotsford, 165 ; land birds met with at sea, 

 145 ; new British species of birds described by 

 Mr. Yarrell, 116 ; new mode of examining, 

 145 ; criticism on, 381. 464 ; migratory species, 

 date of the appearance of, in 1830, in Notting- 

 hamshire, 70; species of Renfrew and its 

 eighbourhood in 1831, 269. 464 ; rare British 

 species of, notice on, by Mr. Yarrell, 118 ; rare 

 species killed in Suffolk, 163 ; species shot at 

 Greenhow, North Shields, Northumberland, 

 in 1829-30, 448. 



Birmingham, diluvial gravel and deposits near, 

 372. 



Bittern, habits of the, 464 ; remarks on, 423. 



Blackbird crowing like the common cock, 4S3- 



Boa, breathing-tube of, 20. 279. 



Bogs, peat, recent and rapid formation of, in 



Ireland, 543. 

 Bohemian waxwing (Bombycivoragarrula), 164, 



165 344 425 

 56mbyx castrfensis, 1.50. 434 ; S. anfiqua, 150. 

 Book-trade in periodicals, custom of, 496. 

 Botany, local, hints on, 181. 

 Botany, see Plants. 

 Botanical exchange, 166. 470. 

 Bots in horses, some account of, 477. 

 Brazil, Bussian natural history expedition in, 



394. 

 Britain, natural productions indigenous to, 1 j 



criticism on, 273. 467. 

 British Entomology, Stephens's. See Davis, and 



Stephens. 

 Brute animals, faculties of, auditory, 9.536; 



visual, 14. 124. 207. 220. 363. 531; sentient, 



528; intellectual, 498; olfactory, 530; taste, 



529. 

 Bullfinch, its destructiveness to the buds of 



trees, 428. 

 Butcher bird, some account of, 342. 

 Butterflies, fossil trilobites resembling, 443. 

 Butterfly, azure blue, double-brooded, 477. 

 Calendar of nature for England, 167 ; in 1830, 



383; for Bedford, 170; for Bungay, Suffolk, 



173. 

 Calendar of nature for Scotland. See Scotland, 

 Calla (Richard/a) sethi6pica, water secreted by, 



33. 

 Callim6rpha dominula in Devonshire, 446. 

 Canal in America, connecting the Hudson and 



Delaware rivers, 295. 

 Cape and Mauritius shells, a list of, 470. 

 Carpenter. See Obituary, 192. 

 Cats, domestic, education of, 511 ; diving for 



fishes, 430 ; plunging into water for rats, 430. 

 Cervical vertebrae, unusual structure of, 513. 

 Chaflfinch (Fringilla Spiza Rennie), 424. 

 Chatham, fossils, and jaw and teeth of a mam- 

 moth, found near, 240 ; geology of the neigh- 

 bourhood of, 243. 

 Cheshire, natural history in, 73. 

 Chrysomela cereMis, various recent captures of, 



in Wales, 22, 23. 

 Claw of the nightjar or goatsucker, 425. 

 Collectanea, botany, 157. 437 ; geology, 443 ; 



meteorology, 444 ; zoology, 142. 430. 

 Collectors of the objects of natural history, in 



Norfolk, 177. 

 Comparative calendar of nature for the spring 



of 1829 and that of 1830, 36. 

 Controversy, the recent, in this Magazine, re- 

 marks on, 455. 

 Cornfield, Mr., his academy at Rectory Grove, 



Claphara, and tuition of natural history to his 



'C(3rnus mascola, fluid matter evolved by its 

 leaves, 32. 



Cornwall, list of rare plants found in, 161. 



Cornwall Literary and Philosophical Institu- 

 tion, established 1818, 267. 



Cow, ball of hair found in the stomach of a, 187. 



Crab and the oyster, 157. 



Crake, meadow (Rallus Cr^x), habits of young 

 of, 83. 



Crocodile's flesh used as food by the Indian 

 tribe Bororos, 399. 



Crustkcea and insects, discoveries of Milller and 

 others on the vision of, 124. 220. iX3. 



Cuckoo, at the " witching hour of night," 147; 

 departure of, 275. 466 ; singing at the " witch- 

 ing hour" of night, 147. 466; deposits its egg 



