GENERAL INDEX. 



Abo, museum of natural history at, destroyed 

 by fire, 252. 



Accentuation of names, 298. 



Aerial spider, critique on Mr. Murray's paper 

 respecting, by John Blackwall, 116; critical 

 remarks on the ascent of the, by J. Murrav, 

 299 ; reply, by John Blackwall, S96. 



JE'shna and Libtllula, distinguished, 472. 



^sop, fables of, illustrated by Bewick, 431. 



Agates in dolomitic strata of new red sandstone 

 formation in the Mendip Hills, 381. 



Ainsworth, "William, on the water shrew, 483. 



Air for analysis, 468. 



Aix, the tertiary fresh-water formations of, 382. 



Almanacks on the Continent, 248. 



Animals, vertebrated, description of, 128 ; mam- 

 miferous, 131 ; changes in, 254 ; changes pro- 

 duced in by domestication, by Dr.Roulin, 421 ; 

 characters of, 469. 



Annelides, respiration of some of, 423. 



Annihilation of certain animals, 442, 



A'nodon rugbsus, critique respecting, 116. 



Anonaceous plant of Mew Holland, 119. 



Antelope, Indian, 63; flat-horned, 63. 



Anthracite found in Rhode Island, 253. 



-Antirrhinum Cymbalkria in Wales, 400. 



Ants and aphides, 209. 



Aphis on endive and lettuce, query respecting, 

 by Walter HeJiry Hill, 104 ; remarks on, 210. 



Artesian well at Syon, 87. 



Ashby, Mr. John, obituary of, 120. 



Attachments formed by animals, 62. 



Audubon, M., his Birds of South America, 422. 



Azara's Memoirs, query respecting, 402. 



Babington, C. C, distinction of sex in Papilio 

 Machkore, 67. 



Babington, Mr., remarks on his list of rare 

 plants and insects, by Daniel Stock, 213. 



Bakewell, Robert, an account of Mr. Needham's 

 original discovery of the action of the pollen 

 of plants, &c., 1 ; remarks on molecules, 213. 



Ball containing bees, query by H. Gunt, 404. 



Banksian Society of Manchester, 389. 



Baris, ship, made of papyrus, 326. 



Barmouth, insects taken at, 89. 



Basil, wild, in Chile, query respecting a curious 

 species of, 293. 



Bears of America, 355. 



Beaver, ingenuity of one at Paris, 249. 



Bee, leaf-cutting," 90. 



Bees, on putting into mourning, 105; super- 

 stitions respecting, 209 ; nests of, in the woods 

 of Brazil, 254 ; superstition respecting, 405 ; 

 swarming of, 460. 



Beet-root sugar manufacture ia France, 425. 



Belfast, natural history in, 202. 



Beudant, M., discovery in mineralogy, 410. 



Bewick, life, genius, and personal habits of, by 

 John F. M. Dovaston, A.M., 313; continued, 

 428. 



Bird, call of some kind of, answer to query re- 

 specting, by Walter Henry Hill, 100; water, 

 query respecting a strange one, 101 ; in De- 

 vonsliire like a humming-bird, query respect- 

 ijig, 402 ; shot at Fowey, answer to query 

 respecting the, by Walter Henry Hill, 403. 



Birds, on their forsaking their nests, by R. 

 Sweet, 113; critique respecting their singing 



' while on their eggs, by R. Sweet, 113; Euro- 

 pean singing, query respecting, 207 ; termino- 

 logy of, arranged by Thomas Thomson, 214 ; 

 rare, account of some in the Manchester Mu- 

 seum, by John Blackwall, 273; in the neigh- 

 bourhood of Whitehaven, by J. Stanley, M.D., 

 275; rare, shot in Dumfries-shire, 282; En 

 glish, suggestion for letters to be written on, 



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287 ; presented to the Hull Literary and Phi- 

 losophical Society, error rosj)ecting the de- 

 scription of, by Thomas Thompson, 302 ; of 

 Demerara, 370 ; organs of voice in, 376 ; of 

 prey, vision of, 481 ; on the sea coast of Gom- 

 rie, in Aberdeenshire, 392; rare, killed in 

 different parts of Ireland. 394 ; skins of, query 

 on softening, 484. 



Bittern, the great American, 64. 



Black, antipathy of the chameleon to, 469. 



Blackcock, curious female of, 90. 



Blackwall, John, account of some rare birds in 

 the Manchester Museum, 273; farther con- 

 troversy on the ascent of the aerial spider, 2^^^ 



Blainville, M. de, observations on Physalia, 425. 



Bleating of a goat, remarks on the bird which 

 produces the sound of, 207, 208. 



Blindworm, query respecting, 402, 



Blocks, rock, 471. 



Blomer, Capt. Charles, the Dartmouth Warbler, 

 and other birds, 278 ; a singular nidus, 303. 



Bones, fossil, caverns containing, 367 ; note by 

 J. R., 367. 



Books, French, cheaper in London than for- 

 merly, 361. 



Botanical Society of Bungay, 386. 



Botany and zoology of Indian archipelago, 368 



Bounties of winter, 455. 



Bowdich, Mrs., anecdotes of a Diana monkey, 

 7 ; progress of natural history during 1828, 409. 



Bowman, J. E., an efficacious method of drying 

 plants, 245 ; query on a singularly brilliant 

 golden green light, 406. 



Brabant, fossil bones in, 251. 



Brain, observations respecting, 418 ; physiologi- 

 cal fact respecting, 472. 



Brazil, supposed bees' nests in the woods of, 254. 



Breadfruit, error in the description of, .'>04. 



Bree, the Rev. W. T., M. A., on the arrival and 

 retreat of the British /firundines, with a table 

 of arrivals and departures from 1800 to 1828, 

 16 ; the dog not the only brute animal that 

 dreams, 21 J; circumstances respecting the 

 nuthatch, 243 ; circumstances respecting a 

 corn spiing, 297 ; critique respecting Fritil- 

 l^ria tessel.ita, 304 ; the vapourer moth, 460 ; 

 observation respecting Dadley's spring, 488. , 



Bristol Institution, annual meeting of, 277. 



Brongniart, M. Adolphe, improvement by, in 

 the study of fossil botany, 413; his statement 

 respecting the pollen of tlov\ ers, 417. 



Brown, John, query respecting spiders not 

 being found on chestnut timber, 291. 



Bruce's observation on vessels of papyrus, 326. 



BufTon, inaccuracies of, 394. 



Bunting, black-headed, query respecting, 289; 

 answer to query respecting, 404. 



BuUmus actitus and Helix virgata, 303. 



Butcher bird, critical observations respecting, 

 and query by W. Farrar, M D., 484. 



Butterflies, migration of, 370 ; white, of Britain 

 by J. Rennie, A.M., A.L.S., 224; query re- 

 specting the eggs of, by D. G. Kerridge, 40.5. 



Butterfly or moth, first developement of a per- 

 fect one, 63; the common large cabbage, 226; 

 the early cabbage, 226 ; the small cabbage, 

 227; the spotless small cabbage, 227; the 

 green-veined white, 227 ; the middle green- 

 veined white, 228; the Bath white, 228 ; the 

 orange-tip butterfly, 228; the wood white, 

 229; the black-veined white, 229; the brim- 

 stone butterfly, 229. 



Cachalot, account of the capture of a, on the 

 south coast, by Henry Woods, A.L S. &c. 198. 



Calendar of nature for the Carse of Gowrie, 

 Perthshire, 203. 285. 477 to 483. 



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