INDEX. 



501 



Union of the Cheltenham Horticultural and 

 Floral Society and the Gloucestershire Zoological, 

 Botanical, and Horticultural Society, 260 ; Chel- 

 tenham Literary and Philosophical Institution, 

 261 ; Ornithological Society, 313 ; Botanical So- 

 ciety, 314; Entomological Society, 315; Sheffield 

 Literary and Philosophical Institution, 316; Ox- 

 ford Ashmolean Society, 317 ; Bristol, Clifton, and 

 West of England Zoological Society, 318; Chelten- 

 ham Literary and Philosophical Institution, 318 ; 

 Entomological Society, 431; Ornithological So- 

 ciety, 431 ; Geological Society, 433; Botanical 

 Society, 434 ; Horticultural Society, 434 ; Metro- 

 politan Society of Florists and Amateurs, 435; 

 Zoological Society, 435; Bath Royal Horticul- 

 tural and Botanical Society ,436; Wolverhampton 

 and Staffordshire Horticultural and Floral Society, 

 436; Salop Horticultural Society, 536; Doncaster 

 Lyceum, 436; British Association, 436; Liverpool 

 Natural History Society, 487 ; Botanical Society, 

 490. 



EXTRACTS FROM THE FOREIGN 

 PERIODICALS. 



Zoology.— Anatomy of Pentastoma Uenioides, 99 ; 

 Mucous Body, or Colouring Tissue of the Skin, 

 in the Charruan Indians, the Negro, and the Mu- 

 latto.100; Anatomy of Pentastoma Umioides, 147; 

 Hereditary Tendency of certain Faculties in Ani- 

 mals, 206; Proboscis of the Elephant, 319; Saga- 

 city of Animals, 320; Hybernation of Swallows, 

 428 ; Nature of Sponge, 428 ; Extravagant Fea- 

 thered Architect, 428; Food of Silkworms, 428; 

 Malayan Albino, 428. 



Botany.— Introduction of the Culture of Rice in 

 the Centre of France, 38 ; Vegetables used as Food 

 for the Horse, 40; Sleep of Flowers, 41; Corolla 

 of Cistace(r,12 ; Sleep of Flowers, 101 ; Connexion 

 of the Cells of Plants, 149; Comparative Estimate 

 of the Meteorological Circumstances under which 

 Corn, Maize, and Potatoes grow at the Equator 

 and under the Temperate Zone, 207; Saccharine 

 Nature of Beet-root, 208 ; Expansion and Sleep of 

 Leaves, 208; Phosphorescent Vegetables, 321; 

 Vegetable Acids, 429. 



Geology.— Fossil Teeth of Oran,321 ; Fossil Sala- 

 mander, 429 ; Narrow-toothed Mastodon found at 

 Gers, 430 ; Tombs in Santorini, 430. 



CHAPTER OF MISCELLANIES. 



Zoology. — Kingfisher shot near St. Andrews, 43; 

 Virginia overrun with Partridges, 43; Frog sitting 

 on a Fish's back, 43; Anecdote of a Robin Red- 



breast, 44 ; Query respecting Prize- essays on the 

 Turnip-fly, 45 ; Deaths from eating Fungi, 45; 

 Female Ourang Outang, 45 ; Sagacity of a Horse, 

 46; Curiosities in Natural History, 46; Habits of 

 the Spring Oatear, 46; Reply to Critical Observa- 

 tions by Peter Rylands, Esq., 46; Rough-leg- 

 ged Buzzard near Scarborough, 47; White Variety 

 of the Garden Ouzel, 47; Toads imbedded in 

 Stone, 47 ; Snowy Owl shot in Dorsetshire, 48 ; 

 Capture of an Eagle by a Boy, 48 ; Capture of a 

 Whale, 48 ; Addition to Mr. Dale's List of Dor- 

 setshire Insects, 48; Large Ray-fish found off 

 Ferroe, 48 ; Changes of Colour in the Plumage of 

 Birds without Moulting, 48; Haunts of the 

 Darklegged Warbler (Sylvia loquax), 49; Land 

 Crab of Jamaica, 49; Size of the Cuckoo's Egg, 

 103; Notes on the Birds of Portsmouth, 103; 

 Notes on the Neighbourhood of Godalming, 104 ; 

 Instances of the Capture of Vanessa antiope, 105 ; 

 Remarkable Fact, 105; the Blood of Quadrupeds 

 poisonous to Birds, 106; Prize-essays on the Tur- 

 nip-fly, 106; Hen Harrier near Scarborough, 106; 

 Wild Swans near Ayr, 106 ; Addition to the Lan- 

 cashire Fauna, 107 ; the Winter of 1837-8, 107; 

 Sense of Taste in Birds, 107 ; How to find the 

 larvae of Tortrix, 108 ; Butterfly seen on Christ- 

 mas-day, 108; Warrington Phrenological Society, 

 108 ; Crambus aridellus, 109 ; Nidification of the 

 Martin Swallow, 109; Scarcity of the Merlin 

 Falcon near Scarborough, 109; Pontia callidice, 

 109; a Species of Calosoma taken in Dorsetshire, 

 109; Dalmatian Kinglet (Reauhts modeslus) , 109; 

 Importance of Phrenology to Naturalists, 110 • 

 Sayings and Doings of Skatets, 111; Prolificacy 

 of the Blackbird, 152; Mode of extracting Grease 

 from Insects, 152 ; Child carried off by a Baboon, 

 152; Consumptive Animals, 153; Severity of the 

 Winter, and Abundance of Birds, 153 ; Aerial Au- 

 gurs, 154; Famished Wolves, 154; Wild Ducks 

 affected by Frost, 154; Cabbage Butterfly abroad 

 in February, 155; Pheasants and Pheasant-hunt- 

 ing in Norfolk, 155; Frozen Otter, 155; Note* 

 on Telracnemm diversicornis, 155; Capture of 

 the Eagie Owl offFlamborough Head, 155 ; Birds 

 observed near Doncaster during the Frost, 155; 

 Organ of Comrounication-of-Ideas in Man, 156; 

 Hybrids between the Lion and the Tiger, 156 ; 

 Mode of killing Insects, 157; Curious Locality 

 for the Hedge Dunnock's Nest, 157; the Finear 

 (Crambus), 157; Preserving Natural Objects in 

 Spirits of Wine, 157 ; Occurrence otApis meWfica 

 on Dec. 31, 158; Goatsucker near the Sea-coast, 

 158; Ildobia brevicollis, var. Portlandiea, 158; 

 Crambus lamellus, 158 ; Common Seal, 158; Sub- 

 stitute for Cork Lining in Entomological Cabinet*, 



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