CONTENTS. IX 



Hearn, to be considered a British bird - - - 30 



Stutchbury, Samuel, A.L.S., &c. 



Description of a new fossil Avicula from the Lias Shale of So- 

 mersetshire - - - . - - 163 

 Thompson, George. 



On the fall of a shower of Meteoric Stones at the Cape - 145 



Thompson, William, F.L.S., Sec. 



On some Snow Crystals observed on the 14th of January, 1838 107 

 Zoological Notes on a few Species obtained from the South 

 West of Scotland -----_ 585 



Waterhouse, George R., M.E.S., &c. 



Observations on the Rodentia, with a view to "an arrangement 

 of the group founded upon the structure of the crania 



90,184,274,595 

 Weissenborn, W., D.Ph. 



Record of the curious capture of a White-headed Eagle, in the 

 river Havel - - - - - -197 



Remark relating to the nature of the Ignis fatuus - -197 



Note on an extinct species of Frog in yellow Amber - - 256 



Notice of an immense erratic block of Granite - - 472 



of a newly discovered metal, called Lantanum - . 472 



Note on the formation of an Entomological Society in Stettin 472 

 On the Natural History of the German Marmot - 473, 533, 577 

 On a great migration of Dragon-flies observed in Germany - 516 

 Note on some new facts in the nature of mineral precipitates - 567 

 Note on the Ushar or Abuk (Asclepias procera) of the Senaar 568 

 Notice of a valuable collection of objects in Natural History, 



bought by the Belgian Government - 568 



Notice of the decease of Count Caspar Sternberg-Serowitz - 567 

 Westwood, J. O., F.L.S., &c. 



On Hymenotes, a genus of exotic Orthopterous Insects - 489 



Wetherell, Nathaniel, F.G.S. 



Notice of a species of Rotalia found attached to specimens of 

 Vermetus Bognoriensis * - - - - 162 



of some undescribed Organic Remains from the London 



Clay - 496 



White, Adam, M.E.S., &c. 



Description of two new species of Beetles, belonging to the 

 Family Cetoniidce of MacLeay - - - - 24 



Description of two Hemipterous Insects - 537 



Willmot, E. Eardly. 



Record of the Woodcock breeding at Berkswell - - 255 



Wilson, W. K. 



Account of the capture of an immense Saw-fish, in the Gulf of 

 Paria - - - - - - - 519 



Wood, Searles, V., F.G.S., &c. 



On the species of the genus Lima occurring in the Crag - 233 

 On the species of the genus Bulla occurring in the Crag - 460 

 Letter announcing the discovery of Fossil Quadrumanous -Re- 

 mains near Woodbridge, Suffolk - 444 

 Woods, Henry, F.L.S., &c. 



Letter addressed to the Editor respecting the supposed Frontal 

 Spine of Hybodus in the Bath Museum - 282 



Yarreli, William, F.L.S., &c. 



Remarks appended to Mr. Long's communication on the dis- 

 covery of the Nest and Eggs of the Crossbill at Farnham. 236 



