CONTENTS. 



Page 

 On the progressive Development of the Vegetable Organization, by Robert 



J. N. Strcetcn, M, D 287 



Letter to the Editor, on Statistics 301 



Adieu 304 



Remarks on Vernacular and Scientific Ornithological Nomenclature .... 305 



To C* » * *y 307 



Paul Lander ; a fact, thirty years since 308 



Remarks on a Review of a Paper on Phrenology, by Dr. Milligan 314 



Ou the Nomenclature of Birds 317 



Birmingham School of Medicine and Surgery 319 



Remarks on Insects, Pictorial and Poetical, by Edwin Lees, M. E. S 324 



Sonnets 332 



On the Tendency and Prospects of Mechanics' Institutions, by W. Hawkes 



Smith 333 



Fine Arts 338 



Finden's Byron's Beauties. 



Critical Notices of New Publications 342 



Provincial Sketches — British Oology, by W, C. Hewitson — The 

 Naturalist's Library ; Ornithology, by Sir Wm. Jardine — Faculties 

 of Birds, by James Rennie — Pompeii, by the Rev. S. Middleton, 

 B. D — Gems of Literature — Lives and Portraits of Celebrated Women 

 of all Countries, by the Duchess of Abrantes — A History of British 

 Fishes, by Wm. Yarrall, F. L. S. — History and Description of the late 

 Houses of Parliament, by J. Britton and W. Brayley — Loudon's Arbo- 

 retum Britannicum, &c. 



Literary and Scientific 355 



Lectures **0n the Mental Faculties of Man," by J. Wallace. 



List of New Publications 355 



Preferments, Marriages, Births and Deaths 357 



Meteorological Report 358 



{JCf* We have made arrangements for publishing Dr. Hastings*s Lecture 

 on the " Salt Springs of Worcestershire*' (recently delivered before the^ 

 Members of the Worcestershire Natural History Society) in our next 

 Number, without curtailment. As the Lecture will far exceed the limits 

 we usually allot to a single article of a scientific character, it is our intention 

 to present our readers with at least sixteen additional pages. The 

 Lecture will be illustrated with a Lithographic Section, exhibiting the 

 different Strata in boring for the Salt Springs at Stoke Prior. 



TO CORRESPONDENTS. 



The continuation of " Lionel Lackland" is unavoidably deferred. 



Our Correspondents, " Juvenis" and "Zilla," will, we trust, excuse us when we 

 state that their poetical effusions require revision before they can be transferred 

 to the pages of " The Analyst." 



Publications received too late for review in our present number will be noticed 

 next month. 



It is requested that all communications sent to the Editor, may be 

 post-paid ; and Contributions should be sent early in the month pre- 

 ceding that in which they are expected to appear. 



