GENERAL INDEX. 



49S 



distinction of sex in, and which croaks, by 



. W. H. White, H. M. C. S., 209; winter quar- 

 ters of, answer to the query respecting, 289 ; 

 shower of, query respecting, 103 ; suggestion 

 respecting, by J. Murray, 289. 



Gall, Dr., his mode of studying the characters 

 of animals, 469. 



Geese, desertion of, 65 ; flying, 65 ; wild, in 

 Owhyhee, 440. 



Geological Society, meetings of Nov. 7., Nov. 21., 

 Dec. 5., Dec. 16., and Jan. 2., 83 ; Jan. 16.. 197 ; 

 Feb. 6., 257 ; Feb. 20., 259 ; March 6.' and 

 April 3., 376; May 1., 377; May 15. and 

 June 5., 378 ; June 19., 381. 



Geology of Palestine, critique respecting, 119 ; 

 scriptural, 108. 



Germany, curious belief in, respecting the stork, 

 484. 



Girl, dancing, 441. 



Glow-worm, 406. 



Glutton, American, 356. 



Gnat, stinging of a, 68. 



Goat, Cachemire, 63 ; the Rocky Mountain, ac- 

 count of, 358. 



Goats of Thibet, 251. 



Goitre, query respecting the cause of, 403. 



Gold, washing of, 73 ; supposed influence of, on 

 sheep, 467. 



Goldfinch, change of colour in its plumage, by 

 J. Murray, 64 ; natural intelligence of, 64. 



Gomrie, birds on the sea-coast of, 392. 



Goose, presentiment in a, by C. A. Brew, 65. 



G6rdius aquaticus, 211 



Gorrie, Mr. Archibald, C.M.H.S., some account 

 of a remarkable spruce fir tree in the woods at 

 Braco Castle, Perthshire, 173; on the art of 

 deriving interest from the study of the wea- 

 ther, 177 ; a dissertation on the Hebrew names 

 of animals, 319 ; on the wheat fly, 323. 



Granite in Yorkshire, 120. 



Grasshopper warbler wanted, 100. 



Gray's natural arrangement of British plants, 

 remarks respecting, 216. 



Greenfinch, yellow, 64. 



Grevillea punicea, figured and described, 486. 



Grew's theory of colours in plants, 455. 



Guillemot, sea fowl, 393. 



Guinea-pig, query respecting, by C. Lamb, 205. 



Gunt, H. Esq., query on a curious ball contain- 

 ing bees, 405. 



Hailstones, peculiar ones, 252. 



Halo round the sun, 468. 



Hamilton, W., indigenous Floras of London 

 and Plymouth compared, 265. 



Hammer, geological, improvement in, 247. 



Hampshire, rare plants collected in, 276. 



Hand, left, inferior dexterity of, 456. . 



Hare's throat, confirmation of the opinion re- 

 specting the lump attached to the, by John V . 

 Stewart, 300. 



Harvest bug, query respecting, 290 ; answer to 

 query concerning, 404. 



Hawkins, Thos., query on a species of plover, 

 207 ; account of a small uncommon insect, 

 210; larvaa of Lepid6ptera, 211. 



Hay, new-mown, query respecting smell cf, 106. 



Hebrew names of animals, dissertation on, 319. 



Htilix virgata and Bulimus acvitus, 303. 



Heron, common, feet and legs of the, 206. 



Hessian fly, 292. 



Hill, Walter Henry, farther observations re- 

 specting ants and aphides, 209 ; the Ficus mi. 

 nor, 387 ; on the dark-looking water bird shot 

 at Fowey, 403 ; query respecting the young of 

 the genus Corvus, 403 ; query on the small 



' dover, 403. 



l/irundinacea?, monograph on, 424. 



Hirundines, on the arrival and retreat of, with 

 a table of arrivals and departures from 1800 to 

 1828, by the llev. W. T. Bree, M.A., 16. 



Hoeven's distinctions of Libtillula and Mshna, 



Hogg, John, M.A. F.L.S. ^c, on vessels made 



of the papvrus, 324. 

 Hog, Warree, 63. 



Hollandre's Faune du Department de la Mo- 



selle, 74. 



J/bmo, South American variety of, 456. 



Horse of Dalecarlia, 62 ; of the Cape of Good 

 Hope, 63 ; of Africa, 62. 



Humboldt, Baron, extract from his opening 

 speech at the congress of the German natu- 

 ralists, 80 ; suggestion for a translation of his 

 works, 288. 



Hunter, Perceval, remark respecting Pkus mi- 

 nor and maximus, 208 ; answer to query re- 

 specting Scolopax S.abini, 288 ; various ques- 

 tions, 402. 



Incubation, effect of, in lessening the timidity 

 of birds, by W. Henry Hill, 64. ' 



Indian, anecdote of, near Fort Enterprise, 355. 



Indian Archipelago, zoology and botany of, 368, 



Indications of spring, 127. 



Indicatorial calendar, 99. 



Inhumanity to insects, answer to charge of, 238. 



Insect, account of a small uncommon one, 210. 



Insects, dissection by, 455 ; leaf, 368. 



Ireland, rare birds killed in, 394. 



Jack snipe, figured and described, 148. 



Java, cochineal transplanted to, 252. 



Jennings, James, reply respecting Jennings's 

 Ornithology, 111 ; remarks on the ornithology 

 of London, 264. ^' 



Jenyns, the Rev. Leonard, F.L.S., observations 

 on a preternatural growth of the incisor teeth, 

 occasionally observed in certain of the Mam- 

 malia rod^ntia, 134. 



Jerdan, W., a curious circumstance respecting 

 the cuckoo, 242. 



John Dor(5e, remarks on the derivation of the 

 name, by S. Bowdich, 115. 



John Dory, derivation of, 208. 



Jukes, Frederick, an account of a new species of 

 trilobite, found in the Barr limestone in the 

 neighbourhood of Birmingham, 41 ; notice of 

 some fragments of Orthoceras annularis and 

 striata, found in the Barr limestone in War- 

 wickshire, 231. 



Junks of the Red Sea, Bruce's supposition re- 

 specting, 328. 



Kath of the ancient Hebrews considered as the 

 pelican of the moderns, by David Scot. M.D. 

 M.W.S. F.H.S.E., 137. 



Kent, Miss, an introductory view of the Lin- 

 nean system of plants, continued, 155. 



Kenyon, Joseph, land and fresh-water shells in 

 the neighbourhood of Preston, 273 ; alteration 

 in his paper on British shells, 303. 



Kerridge, D. G., circumstances respecting the 

 Zeuzfera ^ sculi, 291 ; query respecting the 

 eggs of butterflies, 405. 



Kingfisher, remark concerning, 457; by J. 

 Lakes, 457; nest of the, made offish bones, 206. 



Kirby, the Rev. William, M.A. F.K.S. L.S., 

 &c., an outline and description of Centrdtus 

 Benn^tw and Hardwick«, 20 ; answer to query 

 respecting the nidus on a rush, 405. 



Kittiwake, sea fowl, 393. 



Lamb, C, query respecting the guinea-pig, 

 205 ; remarks on the Gdrdius aquaticus, 211 j 

 query respecting a remarkable spider, 290. 



Langley, Mr. Larret, flora of Rotherham, i:69. 



Language, universal, 81. 



Lapwing, remark on the food of the, 113. 



Lark, white, 267. 



Larvae of the wheat fly, 450. 



Lathrze'^a squamaria, 70 ; answer to query re- 

 specting, by J E. Bowman, 105 ; found near 

 Richmond, 294. 



Laudanum, a species of dew, 298 ; not a species 

 of dew, in answer to R. S., 408. 



Lead ore, 467. 



Leaf insects, 368. 



Leaves, their various forms figured and de- 

 scribed, \5(i. 



I>eeches, reproduction of, 194 ; breeding of, 251 ; 

 flying, 368. 



Leith and Christiana, temperature of, 367. 



Leguat, copy of his voyage discovered, 443 ; his 

 description of the dodo, 445. 



