CONTENTS. 



Page 



On the Aith 1 



Mysteries of Memory 4 



Lees's Lecture on the Affinities of Plants with Man and Animals 15 



Stanzas 21 



Biographical Sketch of the Westfalin«r Family, Rudhall, Herefordshire ; by 



Sir Samuel Rush Meyrick, K. H 22 



Transactions of the Provincial Medical Association 28 



Monumental Inscription 32 



On tlic Connexion of Meteorological Appearances with Changes in the Tem- 

 perature and Weather, by Edwin Lees, Honorary Curator of the Wor- 

 cestershire Natural History Society 33 



To E * * * '. 38 



Introductory Observations on the Fine Arts 39 



Cursory Remarks on the first Exhibition of Paintings at the Worcester 



Athenaeum 40 



Reviews of Prints and Illustrated Works 45 



Wolsey receiving the Cardinal's Hat in Westminster Abbey — Fairy 

 Mab — Hide and Seek — A Musical Bore — Studies from Nature — Engrav- 

 ings from the Works of Sir Joshua Reynolds — Illustrations of the Bible — 

 Fisher's National Portrait Gallery — Gallery of Portraits — Fisher's Pic- 

 turesque Illustrations — Illustrations to the Poetical Works of Sir Walter 

 Scott — Memorials of Oxford : Historical and Descriptive Accounts of the 

 Colleges, Churches, and other Public Buildings — Newstead Abbey — The 

 Botanic Garden, 



Critical Notices of New Publications 49 



The autobiography, &c. of Sir Egerton Brydges, Bart. — History of 

 British Costume — Introductory Lecture on the Anatomy and Functions of 

 the Nervous System of Man and the Inferior Animals — The Archer's 

 Guide — Cunningham's Life of Robert Burns — Italy, with sketches of Spain 

 and Portugal — Dr. Lang's Historical and Statistical Account of New 

 South Wales — The Poetical Works of the Rev. George Crabbe — Bell's 

 Monograph of the Tcstudinata — The Naturalist's Library — Dr. Hastings's 

 Illustrations of the Natui-al History of Worcestershire — Murchison's Out- 

 line of the Geology of Cheltenham — Valpy's edition of Hume and Smol- 

 let's History of England — Lardner's Cyclopaedia; Arithmetic — Minor 

 Morals for Young People — Huo:h Murray's Encyclopaedia of Geography — 

 The Gardener's Magazine — Main's Catechism of Gardening — Dr. Calcott's 

 Grammar of Music — Manual Labour versus Machinery — The Juror's 

 Guide. 



"" Foreign Critical Notices 65 



Dr. SiebenpfeifFer. Uber Erziehung und Unterricht ; On Public Edu- 

 cation and Instruction — Reise um die Erde durch Nord Asien und die 

 beiden Oceane, in den Jahren 1828, 9, and 30, ausgefiihrt von Adolph 

 Erman ; Travels round the World, through Northern Asia, and across 

 the two Oceans, in the years 1828, 9, and 30, by Adolphus Erman — 

 Reise dui'ch Deutscldand, Ungarn, Holland, Italien, Frankreich, Gross 

 Britannien, und Ireland, &c. u. s. w. von Wilhelm Horn; Travels in 

 (jcrmany, Hungary, Holland, Italy, Frartce, Great Britain, Ireland, &c., 

 by W. Horn — Homer und Lycurgus., oder das alter der Iliade und die 

 politische Tendenz ihrer Poesie, &c. von Christian Heinecke ; Homer and 

 Lycurgus, or the anticjuity of the Iliad, and the tendencies of its Poetry — 

 French Periodicals, &c. 



List of New Publications 69 



Literary Intelligence 71 



Facts relating to Natural History , 71 



Meeting of the Provincial Medical and Surgical Association 72 



Agricultural Report 73 



Preferments, Marriages, Births, and Deaths 74 



List of New Patents 75 



M.>«,>.M-n!,,:ip;,l Report 76 



