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INDEX to VOL. VIII. 



Agates, moss, 460. 



Alder, Josh., on Lottia virginea, 404. 



Algae, on new species of, 90 ; Manuel of 

 the British, reviewed, 211. 



Amici, G. B., on the stomata of plants, 134. 



Ammonites, on some new species of, found 

 in the Oxford clay, 161. 



Amylum, on the presence of, in flowers, 

 328 ; on the structure of, 332. 



Animals, on the chemical statics of, 360 ; 

 intelligence of, 538. 



Annular vessels, on the structure of, 16, 

 25. 



Antechinus, description of the new genus, 

 241, 337. 



Apion laevigatum, 456. 



Araucaria, new species of, 438. 



Arcana Entomolcgica, noticed, 296. 



Arum maculatum, evolution of heat in the 

 spadix of, 28, 31. 



Australia, fishes of, 464. 



Austria, on the freshwater fish of, 207. 



Babington, C. C, on the saxifrages of the 

 Robertsonia group which are found in 

 Ireland, 321 ; on Ribes petraeum, 473 ; 

 on the plants in the islands of North 

 Uist, Harris, and Lewis, 541. 



Balfour, Prof., on the plants in the islands 

 of North Uist, Harris, and Lewis, 541. 



Barry, Dr. M., on fibre, 502, 545. 



Bat's hair, on the microscopical structure 

 of, 227. 



Beetles, longicorn, 221 ; lamellicorn, 457. 



Bergsma and Van Beck, on the heat of 

 vegetables, 30. 



Bidwill, H., on a new species of Arauca- 

 ria from New South Wales ; and on 

 Nuytsia floribunda, 438. 



Birds, of the Outer Hebrides, 9 ; notes 

 on, 46, 230, 317; new species of Aus- 

 tralian, 66, 138, 150, 380 ; notices re- 

 specting migratory, 125 ; of Thibet and 

 Cashmere,224 ; of Ireland, 273, 353 ; 

 a List of the Genera of, reviewed, 367 ; 

 on some new genera of, 520. 



Blood-corpuscles of Ferae, 533 ; measure- 

 ments of the, 535. 



Botanical excursion toSkye and the Outer 

 Hebrides, 541. 



Botanical Society of Edinburgh, 541. 



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Botanical travellers, information respect- 

 ing, 210. 

 Botany, physiological, report on, 27, 130, 



249", 328. 

 Bowerbank, J. S., on three new species 



of sponges, 393 ; on moss agates, and' 



other siliceous bodies, 460. 

 Bowman, J. E., notice respecting the late, 



399. 

 Box-tortoise of America, habits of the, 



449. 

 Broderip, W. J., on new species of shells 



from the Philippines, 62, 148, 380, 466, 



527, 536. 

 Buckland, Rev. Prof., on excavations by 



snails, 459. 

 Bulimus, new species of, 63, 149, 380. 

 Bushnan's, Dr. J. T., Natural History of 



Fishes, noticed, 138. 

 Carabus Schonherri, from Ben Lomond, 



452. 

 Carabus violaceus, 455. 

 Carinese, T., on the crystalline moisture 



in the cotyledons, 332. 

 Carnivora, measurement of blood- cor- 

 puscles of, 535. 

 Cephalopods, on the curious motion of 



the colour-cells of, 49. 

 Cerambycidae, 458. 



Cerastium triviale j3. holosteoides, disco- 

 very of, 542. 

 Certhi'adae, 486. 

 Cetoniidae, on a character distinctive of 



the sexes in, 338. 

 Charadriadae, 524. 

 Chedooba, Natural History of, 439. 

 Chough, numerous in Ireland, 420. 

 Chusan, notice of the zoology of, 288. 

 Cicada, new genus of, 458. 

 Coleoptera, new species of, 123, 203. 

 Colocasia odora, development of heat in 



the spadix of, 27. 

 Compsosternus, on the Elaterideous genus, 



453. 

 Corvidae, 406, 486. 



Corylus, observations on the genus, 344. 

 Craticus Tibicen, remarks on, 47. 

 Crossbill, occurrence of in Ireland, 407 ; 



white- winged rare in Ireland, 412. 

 Crow, carrion, 421 ; gray, 422. 



