GENERAL INDEX. 



495 



Phalf-e'^na Pyralis, remark respecting, 302. 



Pheasants, answer to query respecting, 288. 



Pliilosophical and Literary Institution of Can- 

 terbury, museum of, 383: of Chatham, meet- 

 ing of September 29., 383. 



Philosophical and Literary Society of Bristol, 

 meeting of May 29., 39L 



Philosophical Society of Cambridge, purchase 



- of birds made by the, 386. 



PhysJllia, observations on the, 425. 



Physeter catbJon figured, 477. 



P'lcus minor and miiximus, remark respecting, 



i^ by Perceval Hunter, 208 ; minor, critique re- 

 specting, 110; in Herefordshire, by Walter 

 Henry Hill, 387. 



Pied flycatcher, query respecting, 100. 



Pigeon, the wild, in America, 369. 



Plants collected by the Rev. S. Palmer, in Mid- 

 dlesex, 26c); in Surrey, 266; in Hampshire, 

 276 ; in Essex, 385 ; in Hertfordshire, Hun- 

 tingdonshire, and Cambridgeshire, 386; in 

 Northamptonshire, 387 ; efficacioss method of 

 drying, by J. E. Bowman, 245 ; hints respect- 

 ing the lists of, by S. Palmer, 212 ; in flower 

 near Bungay on the 21st of December, by D. 

 Stock, 88 ; marine, query respecting, 4C6 ; rare, 

 localities of, in North Wales, by Nat. John 

 Winch, 278; sloughing of 464, tropical re- 

 mains of, 81 ; varieties of, found in Warwick- 

 shire by W. G. Perry, 268. 



Pliny's animals determined specifically by M. 

 Ciivier, 421 ; statement as to the papyrus ves- 

 sels, 325. 



Plover, query on an uncommon species of, 207. 



Plymouth and London, indigenous floras of, 

 compared, by W. Hamilton, 26.5. 



Plutarch's statement respecting boats made of 

 the papyrus, 325. 



Pollen of plants, account of Mr. Needhara's ori- 

 ginal discovery of the action of; with observ. 

 ations on the supposed existence of active 

 molecules in mineral substances, by Robert 

 Bakewell, 1 ; of flowers, Brongniart's state- 

 ment respecting, 417. 



Pondicherry, collection of nat. hist, from, 249. 



Porcupine, Canada, 357. 



Poultry, wild, 368. 



Preservation of small birds, 458. 



Preston, land and fresh-water shells in the 

 neighbourhood of, by Joseph Kenyon, 273. 



Procellaria Leachw, query respecting, 105. 



PuflSns, 393. 



Pupa of the wheat fly, 451. 



Pygmy bison, or American ox, notice of an 

 imposture so entitled, 218. 



Radicles, descent of, in germination, 463. 



Rail us aquaticus, critique on the figure of, 502. 



Rare, critique respecting plants and insects con- 

 sidered as, 1 10. 



Rattlesnakes, a den of, 370. 



Raven, young of the, query respecting, 403. 



Ray, commemoration of, 84. 



Raymond, M., his discovery in dyeing, 410. 



Razor-bills, 393. ' 



Rein deer, 63. 



Rhine and Moselle, volcanic district between, 71. 



Rhod'iola millegrana, corrected, ] 19. 



Rock blocks, 471. 



Rook, white one taken in full feather, 387. 



Root, description of the, 165. 



Rose, C. B., on the anatomy of the ventriculites 

 of Mantel, 332. 



Rose tree, sap of the, 462. 



Rotherham, Flora of, by Larret Langley, 269. 



Rush, nidus on a, 104. 



Salmon, J. D., query on the best work on British 

 birds' eggs, 205 ; answer to, '205. 



Sand, dark-coloured, the sun's rays reflected 

 from a, 81. 



Saxc-Weimar, the Duke of, his description of 

 the Falls of Niagara, 369. 



Scarborough museum, 482. 



5c61opax Sablnj, answer to query respecting, by 

 Perceval Hunter, 288. 



Scot, David, M.D. M.W.S. F.H.S.E., on the 



kath of the ancient Hebrews considered as 

 the pelican of the moderns, 137. 



Scotland, wolves and foxes in, by J. Rennie, 457. 



Sea, the blue colour of, 297. 



Sea-spider, 211 ; an imposition, 290. 



Seeds, durability of, query respecting, 106. 



Shadows, double phenomenon of, explained, 496. 



Sheep, broad-tailed, 63 ; West India, 63 ; Abys- 

 sinian, 63 ; supposed to be fattened by shelled- 

 snails, 150 ; black, 457. 



Shells, fossil, catalogue of unpublished, 246; 

 British, alteration in Mr. Kenyon's paper on, 

 303 ; land and fresh-water, in the neighbour- 

 hood of Preston, by Joseph Kenyon, Esq., 273. 



Shirreff, Mr. P., account of the wheat-fly, 448. 



Shrew mole of America, 354. 



Shrew, water, some account of the, by John 

 F. M. Dovaston, A.M., 219. 



Shrike, the greater, query on the peculiar smell 

 from, after death, 484. 



Sight, distant, 470; of the stemmatous insects, 

 471. 



Silver fish, query respecting, 102. 



Simla tribe, the best treatise on ? 402. 



Skeleton plants, query on, 106. 



Skins of birds, query on softening, 484. 



Skulls of brutes, answer to query respecting, by 

 Thos. Thompson, 288. 



Sloughing of plants, 464. 



Slugs, spinning, by the Rev. W. T. Bree, 69. 303. 

 485. 



Snail, musical sound produced by, 244. 



Snake, British, new species of, 458. ^ 



Snipe, the solitary, figured and described, 147 ; 

 the common, figured and described, 147 ; the 

 Jack, figured and described, 148 ; the soli- 

 tary, correction respecting delineation of, 302. 



Snipes, British, descriptive and historical notices 

 of, 143. 



Snow, red, of the Arctic regions, 321. 



Society, Natural History, suggestion for, 286. 



Soil, influence of, on roots, 463. 



Solan goose, 90. 



Sowerby, J. D. C, F.L.S., note on a new species 

 of trilobite, 44 ; note to paper on Orthoceras 

 annularis and strikta, 233. 



Spain, state of natural history in, 367. 



SphaeVia/raxinea, phenomena attending, 171. 



Spider, remarkable one, query respecting, by 

 C. Lamb, 290 ; aerial, critical remarks on the 

 ascent of, by J. Murray, 299. 



Spiders not found on chestnut timber, query re- 

 specting, by John Brown, 291 ; developement 

 of the eggs of, 244 ; live and grow without 

 food, 459. 



Spinning slugs, 303. 



Spirit of Bewick's designs, 432. 



Spring, indications of, 127. 



Spruce fir-tree, some account of a remarkable 

 one in the woods of Braco Castle, Perthshire, 

 by Mr. Archibald Gorrie, C.M.H.S., 173. 



Stanley, J., M.D., birds found in the neigh- 

 bourhood of Whitehaven, 275. 



Starwort, answer to the query respecting, 293; 

 of Graham's British Georgics, 4(j6. 



Stewart, John V., respecting the lump attached 

 to the hare's throat, 300. 



Stock, Daniel, remarks on Mr. Babington's list 

 of rare plants and insects, 213 ; discovery of 

 plants varying with white flowers, 387 ; Trib- 

 dia procumbens, 387 ; error respecting the 

 sun-flower corrected, 464. 

 Stone, Robert, P\L.S., obituary of, 120. 



Storks in Germany, 484. 



Stourchat and whea tear, difference between, 289. 



Strabo's description of the papyrus, 326. 



Sturnus f^inclus, remarks respecting, 400. 



Sun-flower, error respecting, 464. 



Sun's rays reflected from a dark sand, 81. 



Superfcetation of a pheasant's egg, 289. 



Surrey, plants collected in, 266. 



Swallow, query respecting a, by R. Sweet, 101. 



Swallows, arrival of, 264 ; in this country during 



the winter, 458. 

 Switzerland, Societies of Naturalists in, 251. 



