GENERAL INDEX. 



565 



in the titlark's nest, 302 ; habits of, 270. 18* ; 

 near Bedford, 275. 

 Cumberland and Westmoreland, tour in, 297. '' 

 Currant bushes, branches of, attacked by iEgirio 



/ipulffiformis, 6. 

 Cyclops, genus and species of, 509. 

 Cyp^ru* fuscus proved to be a British plant, 



186. 

 Cypress tree, account of two enormous ones in 



Mexico, 30, 31. 

 Davis's remarks on the mode in which Ste- 

 phens's Entomology is published, 303 ; Pro- 

 fessor Henslow's animadversions on, 4o9 ; 

 animadversions on, by a Purchaser of Ste- 

 phens's Entomology, 496 ; reply to the remarks 

 (p. 303.) on the recent mode of publishing 

 Stephens's Illustrations qf British Entomology, 

 by Mr. Stephens, 488. 

 Deal fish of Orkney, its identity with the vaag- 



maer of Iceland, 215. 

 Deer in the forests of America, 110. 

 Dep6t, at Preston, for the sale and exchange of 



objects of natural history, 72. 

 Devonshire, climate in, as to birds, 445 ; insects 



in, 445. 

 Dew point, remarks on the, 192. 

 Diluvial gravel and deposits near Birmingham, 



372. 

 Dissemination, artificial, of exotic plants, 439. 



441, 442. 



Dog, spaniel bitch, remarkable physiological 



fact connected with, 142 ; church-going dogs, 



142 ; dogs, their aversion to worry a toad, 557. 



Dorsetshire, natural history in, 73. 



Dragon-fly, grey (Libellula vulgaris), compound 



eyes of, 221. 

 Duck, wild, habits of, 519. 

 Eagle-stone (^tites), iii. 484, iv. 190. 468. 

 Eagle, white-headed, 425. 

 Earth, the, its vast antiquity, 543. 

 Earwig, the smaller (forficula minor), instance 



of the flight of, 436. 

 Eggs of birds, notice of Hewitson's Illustrations 

 qf British, and of M. Gloger's theory applied 

 to, 429. 

 Eggs, mode of blowing for preservation in cabi- 

 nets, 145. 

 Elms in Catherine Hall grove, Cambridge, on 



the death of, 153. 

 England, calendar of nature for, 167. 383. 

 English counties, natural history in, 70. 159. 



265. 445. 

 Entomological tour in Wiltshire, Hampshire, 



Oxfordshire, &c., 265. 

 Epiphyte and parasite distinguished, 285. 

 Equinoxes, their precession explains the pheno- 



nomena of geology, 308. 



J5^rica mediterrknea found in Ireland, 167. 



Essex, adder and its eggs in, 268 ; glance at the 



geology of a part of, 447 ; glance at the oryc- 



tology of a part of, 447 ; rarer plants of, 446. 



Exchange of specimens in natural history, 178, 



470 ; in botany, 166, 470. 

 Eye, structure of, and the manner in which rays 



of light act upon it, 15. 

 Faculties. See Brute Animals. "" 



Fkgus of Casar, the Gu^rcus .Ballbta of modern 



botany, 4. 

 Falcon, peregrine, 146. 

 Falconry, description of, 431 ; notice of, 425. 

 Fall of rain, monthly, in different places, 248. 

 Fawn suckled and brought up by a spaniel bitch, 



142. 

 Fishes, small, to obtain skeletons of, 433. 

 Fishes, the domestic cat diving for, 430 : voice 



of fishes, 148. 

 Flora of Richmond, Yorkshire, as compared 

 - with that of Thirsk, 24; criticism on, 276. 

 " 467. 



Foreign countries, natural history in, 263. 

 Foreign insects, trade in, 148. 

 i^orffcula minor, instance of the flight of, 436. 

 Forests the source of rivers, 33. 

 Fossils found in a flint quarry near Chatham, 



240. 

 Foul weather, forewarner of, 444. 



Fox, a destroyer of beetles, 24 j auditory aper. 



ture of the, 11. 

 French naturalists, Swainson's defence of cer- 

 i tain, 97 ; a farther defence, 316, 481. 

 Fritillary butterfly, large and small pearl-bor- 

 dered, single-brooded, 478. 558. 

 Frog, Gordie', beetles, and2);^ticua found in the 

 :", intestines of a, 95. 

 Frogs, torpidity of, 147. 



Functions and structure of animals and vege- 

 tables, analogy in the, 385. 

 Fungus, light-coloured, on a subterraneous tree, 



70. 

 Game, cause of the scarcity of, 180 ; hawk^ 



owls, &c., useful to game, 180. 

 Geographical Society, report of the, 69. 

 Geography of plants, iii. 410, iv. 27. 360. 

 Geology and mineralogy of Hichmond and 



Thirsk, Yorkshire. 25. 

 Geology, glance at part of that of Essex, 447 { 

 that of the neighbourhood of Birmingham, 

 372. 

 Geological formations, 243. 

 Geological phenomena, explained by the pieces. 



sion of the equinoxes, 308. 

 Geological relations of plants, iii. 410, iv, 27. 



460. 

 Geological Society, report of, 69. 

 Geometra trepid^ria Haw., male and female, 

 taken on Schichalion, 22; why distinct from 

 5(jmbyx Sabin/j 22. 

 Glaciers, the origin of rivers, 33. 

 Gloger, M., his theory on the eggs of birds, 429. 

 Goatsucker, pectinated claw of the, 275. 

 Goitre, remarks on the cause of, 86. 89. 

 Graham Island, volcanic formation of, 545. 

 Grampus (Delphinus O'rca), some account of, 



338. 

 Habitats of plants, on changes in, 437. 

 Hail, in the south of France, and insurance 



against the loss of crops by it, 540. 

 Hare, the auditory aperture of the, 9. 

 Hares taking the water, 143. 274. 382. 463. 464. 

 Hawk, tame, anecdotes of a, 19 ; its battles with 

 Strix brachy6tus, the smaller horned owl, 20. 

 Hedgehog, auditory aperture of the, 13. 382. 

 Hedgehogs said in Cambridgeshire and Suffolk 



to suck the teats of cows by night, 425. 

 Hermaphrodite insects, 150. 434. 

 Heron, A'rdea. cinferea, 425. 

 Hesperia Ofleus, notice of, 22. 

 Highlands, American, described, 289. 

 Hints for improvements, 177. 

 Botanist's Guide, a new edition of, suggested, 



181. 

 Botany, local, hints on, 181. 

 Collectors, British, of objects in natural 

 history, proposed to be registered in this 

 Magazine, and instanced, 177, 178. Con- 

 troversial papers to be submitted, prior to 

 printing, to the parties controverted, sug- 

 gested, 459 ; gainsaid, 556. 

 Dep6t for exchange of specimens, suggested, 



178; instituted 470. 

 Entomology, British, a dictionary of, sug- 

 gested and sketched, 278. 471. 

 Forest trees of Europe, as elements of land- 

 scape, Mr. Strutt's articles on, sho«ld be 

 continued, 456. 

 Game, hints for rendering it more abun- 

 dant, 180. 

 Grebes, a monograph on the, wanted, 78. 

 Larks, a monograph on the, wanted, 78. 

 Meteorology, Mr. Brayley's introductory 

 sketch of the objects and uses of, should be 

 continued, 456. Microscope, a cheap work 

 on, with lithographic plates, suggested, 180. 

 Monographs, or complete histories, of fami- 

 lies of animals, suggested, 78. 

 Monographs, or complete histories, of fami- 

 lies of insects, suggested, 78. 

 Ornithology, improvements in the terms of, 



suggested, 181. 

 Pter6stichus: parumpunctatus, two distinct 

 insects confounded under the account of, 

 iii. 447 J as shown by Mr. Wejtwood, iv. 85. 



