CONTENTS. 



LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS, 

 With References to the Subjects of their respective Communications, 



Page 



Adams, Arthur, Esq. 



On the Variation of Colour in Wild Plants 325 



Bellingham, O'Bryen, M.D., &c., &c. 



Description of a Specimen of the Orthogoriscus mola (Sun-Fish), 

 caught off the Irish Coast in June, 1839, and preserved in 

 the Museum of the Natural History Society of Dublin. ... 235 

 Catalogue of the Entozoa indigenous to Ireland 343 



Birch, Samuel, Esq. 



On the Monkeys known to the Chinese, from the Native Au- 

 thorities. (Continued from vol. iii. p. 592.) 35 



Bladon, Mr. J. B. 



Remarks on the Theory of Spontaneous Generation 280, 339 



Bladon, James. 



Singular mode of extrication of the Imago from the Pupa-case 



in a species of Crane-fly 101 



Occurrence of the Argynnis Aphrodite in Britain 306 



j^ Blyth, Edward, Esq. 



^ Notice of some additional species of the genus Equtis to those 



i^ currently admitted by Zoologists. ., 81 



Bowerbank, James S., Esq., F.G.S. 



On the London Clay Formation at Bracklesham Bay, Sussex. 23 

 On the mode of procuring the London Clay Fossils at the Isle 

 of Sheppey 205 



Bree, The Rev. W. T., M.A. 



Notice of the capture of Argynnis Aphrodite in'Warwickshire. 131 

 Notice of a remarkable variety of Vanessa Urticce taken at 

 Coventry 368 



Bright, John. 



Habits of the Toad, its change of skin, &c 103 



Bromhead, Sir Edward Ff., Bt., F.R.S., Lond. and Ediub. 



Remarks on the Botanical System of Professor Perleb 329 



