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GENERAL INDEX. 



Temperature of the atmosphere on different 



parts of the earth's surface, 245. 

 Tenaciousness of life in the serpent tribe, 268. 



294. 472. 

 Thirsk and Richmond, Yorkshire, floras of, 24 j 



criticism on, 276. 467. 

 Thrush, missel, habits of, 270 : singing on the 



wing, 274; song of, 144. 

 Thrush, in-door nests of, 433. 

 Thrush, the solitary, 213. 

 Tillandsio, water secreted by, 32. 

 Tin produced in Britain, 2. 

 Titmouse, four species of, in the plantations at 



Abbotsford, 166. 

 Trap for catching all kinds of flying insects, 436. 

 Tree, a petrified, in Dorsetshire, 73 ; large oak 



trees dug up in Nottinghamshire, 70: [^de- 



scription of a beautiful tree, 238. 

 Trees, healthy ones never destroyed by Sc61ytus 



destructor auctomm, S. insons Benson MSS., 



152. 

 Trilobites, fossil, resembling butterflies, 443. 

 Trunk, the term, in entomology, 85. 186. 

 Toad, poisonousness of the, 557. 

 Tomtits, notice on, 428. 

 Tour to the lakes of Cumberland and West- 



moreland, 297. 

 Umbelliferous and other plants, useful applica- 

 tion of the dead and dry stems of, 443. 

 Vaagmaer of Iceland, its identity with the deal 



fish of Orkney, 215. 

 Vegetables and animals, analogy in the structure 



and functions of, 385. 

 Vegetables, their sensibility, 134. 

 Vertebrae, cervical, unusual structure of, 513. 

 Vel^lla limb5sa, found in Devonshire, 282. 

 Vfelia rivulbrum and c6rrens, 159. 

 Vigors, N. A. Esq., remarks on, 98 ; Mr. Vi- 



gors's reply, 206 ; Mr. Vigors's reply to Mr. 



Swainson's defence of certain French natur- 

 alists, 319 ; Mr. Swainson's final reply to, 481 ; 



M. Lesson's reply to, 487 ; remarks by Mr. 



Vigors, see Appendix. 

 Vine, grape, mode of pruning at Pisa in Italy, 



264. 

 Viper's tenaciousness of life, 268. 294. 472. 

 Virginian partridge, attempts to naturalise the, 



in England, 16 ; the habits of this species, 17. 

 Vision, organs of, in man and other animals, on 



the anatomy and physiology of, 14, 207 ; of 



insects and Crustacea, 124. 220. SQ5. 



Volcanic (Graham) island, formation of the, 



545. 

 Wagtail, habits of, 518; pied wagtail (iVotaciHa 



Ibtor Rennie) 424. 

 Warblers, British, some account of, 118. 412. 

 Warwickshire, Bohemian waxwing found in, 



164 ; in Suffolk, 165. 344 ; remarks on, 425. 

 Washington, General, incidental notice of, 113. 

 Wasp, a paper-maker, 48 ; its sting analogous 



to that of the nettle, 393. 

 Wasps, the habits of, 6 ; nests of, affixed to raft- 

 ers, 6 ; the structure of those nests, 7 ; the 



larvae of, fed by the old ones, 7. 

 Water-fowl, incubation of, Waterton's remarks 



on, 516. 

 Water-hen, habits of, 517. 519. 

 Water secreted by trees and plants, 32. 

 Water spider, 151. 



Waterton's remarks on Ronnie's edition of Mont- 

 agu's Ornithological Dictionary y 516. 

 Wax, secretion of, by the hive bee, 51. 185. 276. 

 Weasel, the, habits of, 337. 

 Weather, adages on, 264. 469; at and nearLon- 



donderry, 452; foul, a forewamer of, 444; 



journal of the, kept at Bedford, 170; Tatem's 



lournal of the, 168. 



estmoreland and Cumberland, tour in, 297. 

 Whale, found in the Channel near Brighton, 



163. 

 Whelk, waved (JSiiccinum undatum), habits of, 



361. 

 Whern, quernstone, or gritstone, 277. 

 Willow trees, water secreted by, 32. _^ 

 Wilson. See Obituary, B6CL S'sB . 



Wolf in the forests of America, 110. 

 Woodchat, some account of, 343. 

 Woodcuts in the Library of Entertaining KnaW' 



ledge, remarks on, 378. 

 Worcestershire, rarer plants of, 451. 

 Wren (Anorthtira communis Rennie), 424. 

 Wryneck, remarks on the, 450. 

 Yorkshire, natural history in, 71 ; rare insects 



taken in, 165. 

 Zoological Garden on the Surrey side of London, 



159. 

 Zoological Illustrations, Swainson's, 554. 

 Zoological Society, remarks bearing some refer- 

 ence to, 97. 273. 319. 482 ; reformation needed 



in, 486 ; reports of, 68. 158. 

 Zoology, instances of monstrous productions in, 



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