GENERAL INDEX. 



683 



eating, a mode of preserving them good for 

 months recommended and partly described, 

 574 ; the guillemot's eggs, an account of the 

 I collecting of them for sale, 164, 165. 

 Elephant, the, can it crack, with its foot, a nut 

 without breaking the kernel ? 396 ; fossil 

 bones of elephants, see Geology.. 

 Entomological Society, the engravings in the 

 first part of The Transactions of, are exe- 

 cuted by Mr. Swaine, not by Mr. Swainson, 

 120. 

 Entomology, a clew to information on the state 



of, in Britain, 524. 

 Eolidia papillbsa Fleming, despecta Johnston, 

 EmbletOm Johnston, rufibranchialis Johnston, 

 illustrations of, 376—380. 

 Epping, a notice !of the average quantity of 



rain that falls at, 346. 

 Erie, Lake, notices of instances of the rise of 



the water in, 119. 

 Essex, see Geology. 

 Eucoila rapa? Westwood, described and figured 



and conjectures on its habits, 171—178. 

 Eury^iome, see Crustaceous animals. 

 Eyprepia matr6nula Ochsen., an individual 



without vestige of fore wings, 220. 562. 

 Falcon, the peregrine, facts on, 162. 510. 543. 

 Feathers, solution of an optical effect observ- 

 able in some kinds of, 469, 504. 

 Fishes and reptiles have the power to assimi- 

 late, in some degree, their colour to that of 

 the objects about them, 230; freshwater spe- 

 • cies of fishes are found in the brackish water 

 of the Albufuera ; a species of eel that is of 

 very lage size is found in it, 571. note*, 607 ; 

 sea fishes are often best killed by immersing 

 them in freshwater, 518; fishes are pro- 

 digiously fecund, 455 ; [ hostile parasites 

 may influence the migration of fishes, 204; 

 a list of species of fishes met with on the 

 north-eastern extremity of the Alleghany 

 Mountain Range, 540. 

 Fissurella gra?'ca, facts on, 592. 

 Flamingo, facts on the geographical range of, 



571. 

 Fossils, see Geology. 



Fowl, the common, a notice of an instance of 

 remarkable changes in the colour of the 

 plumage of a, 111. 

 Fox, the, materials of the food of, 226. 228 ; 

 an account of a fox's being secured by its 

 tongue being clasped by a MftWus modiolus 

 in its shell, 227 ; a locality of the fox, 162. 

 Frog, the, is eaten by the heron, 457. 

 Galeopsis versicolor Curt., evidence on the 

 question of its distinctness from allied kinds 

 as a species, 632. 

 Galium cruciStum, has two tubercles near the 



apex of its leaf, 280, 281. 

 Gas, inflammable, arising after boring for salt, 



notices of instances of, 118. 

 Geology: a classed synopsis of some of the 

 mineral substances and of the organic re- 

 mains found in the gravel at Stanway, Essex, 

 and the neighbouring localities within a ra- 

 dius of fifteen miles, 349. 394 ; and some re- 

 marks on the general condition of the gravel 

 in Suffolk and Norfolk, 353; a locality in 

 Essex of specified fossil bones of the ele- 

 phant and deer found, and geological condi- 

 tions of the locality, 353 ; observations on 

 the strata near Woolwich, inclusive of no- 

 tice of species of 6hells found in them, 

 356 ; some account of the limestone quarries 

 and incrustating spring at Pounceford, Sus- 

 sex, with preliminary remarks on the Weal- 

 den rocks, 597 ; bones, teeth, and a portion 

 of a tusk, fossil, of elephants have been 

 found in the blue clay near Brighton, 354 ; 

 fact and situation of the occurrence of seeds 

 and certain species of shells in the lower 

 freshwater formation of the Isle of Wight, 

 391 ; an account of'a deposit of fossil shells 

 at Burlington Quay, 355 ; a notice of some 

 geological conditions deemed likely to affect 

 the climate of Kendal, Westmoreland, 345, 

 346 ; a list of some kinds of fossils found in 



the Isle of Man, 119 ; some of the geological 

 conditions of the north-east extremity of the 

 Alleghany Mountain Range, 529; some in- 

 formation on the geology of Norway, 65. 

 249. 305 ; some of the grounds of a deduc- 

 tion that the species of the fossil flora of the 

 coal measures may be in kind distinct from 

 what they have been usually supposed to be, 

 526. : see, besides, Minerals. 

 Geranium pyrenaicum grows wild in Cam- 

 bridgeshire, 388. 

 Glowworm, the, facts on the habits of, and 



characteristics of, 623—626. 

 Gnu ; is not the jumaire the gnu ? information 



on the gnu, 395, 396. 

 Goose ; the length of the life of a certain gan- 

 der, 509 ; facts on the habits of the Canada 

 goose, 255. 

 Gorgonocephalus, facts on the structure of, and 



a view of the affinity of, 70, 71. 

 Gravel, see Geology. 

 Gravelling, see Salmonidae. 

 Grebe, the tippet, one shot, 510. 

 Greenfinch, a notice of an individual, in nest- 

 ling feathers of a very pale yellow, 112. 

 Guana, the, facts on, 321. 

 Guillemot, the, notes on the habits and haunts 

 of, 162 ; the modes of its using its wings in 

 diving, 617. 

 Gulls, certain, their defending of their eggs and 

 young, 506 ; the kittiwake gull, facts on, 162, 

 163, 164. 168. 

 Gunpowder, see Weather. 

 Heather, the, (Calluna vulgaris,) is the subject 

 of endeared associations in the Scottish bosom, 

 282. 

 Haloes, solar and lunar, see Weather. 

 Hawk-mo:hs, a list of species of, which have 



occurred in Forfarshire, 629. 

 Hedgehog, the, facts on the habits of, 107. 570 ; 



its harmlessness advocated, 322. 

 Heron, the common, notes on the habits of, 34. 



453 ; facts on the night heron, 509. 

 Hoopoe, the, two individuals of, shot, 511. 

 Hornet, the, facts on the, habits of, 627. 

 Hurricanes, a diagram illustrative of the prin- 

 ciples upon which, it has been conceived 

 that, hurricanes are generated, 160. 

 Hylaeosaurus, the, information on, 600. It can 

 scarcely be doubted that this is the species of 

 fossil animal noted on in vi. 75, 76 ; viii. 320, 

 321. 

 Iguanodon Mantilla", some particulars on the 

 fossil skeleton of, found in a stone quarry 

 near Maidstone, 99. 

 Iguanodon, the, argument on the identity of, 

 with the behemoth of The Scriptures, and, 

 incidentally, in this argument, information 

 on the iguanodon, 313 ; information on the 

 iguanodon, 599. 

 Insecta myriapoda, the, found in Berwickshire, 



a descriptive catalogue of, 486. 

 Insects, a notice of the ravages of a species of 

 insect upon barley, and of another upon the 

 turnip, 171 ; during a certain interval of dry 

 weather, in 1834, grubs penetrated much 

 deeper into the earth than usual, 113. Tipula 

 olerdcea, a notice of the results of the ravages 

 of the grubs of, 114; instances of the subser- 

 vience of insects to the sustenance of birds, 

 242. 371., [of beasts, 228; a list of species of 

 the diurnal lepidopterous insects known to 

 occur in Switzerland, with notices of the lo- 

 calities of them, [205— 220, 553 ; a list of spe- 

 cies of crepuscular lepidopterous insects, and 

 of some of the species of nocturnal ones, 

 known to occur in Switzerland, with notices 

 of the localities in which they have been ob- 

 served, 553; a mention of certain insects ob- 

 served in a tour in Norway, 66; a notice of 

 works on insects suited to enable a student 

 to ascertain the names of pecies, 398, 399. 

 jpris foetidissima, some places in England in 



which it grows wild, 388. 630. 

 Ivy, eaten by sheep with preference, 92; ktf 

 fowls which feed on it, 92. 

 Jackdaw, the, facts on, 162. 164. 



