CONTENTS. 



PAGE 



Remarks on Elementary Education, by James Simpson, Esq., Advocate 3 



List of Remarkable Plants found growing in the Vicinity of Birmingham in 1836 ... 20 



Roman Antiquities discovered in Worcestershire 29 



Antonio's Love Song, or Don Quixote's Reverie 33 



On the Present State of the Opera in London 39 



An Historical View of the Character of Fisher, Bishop of Rochester 49 



The Doctor; a Sketch 67 



Sketches of European Ornithology ; Gould's *' Birds of Europe" 7I 



Some Remarks on the Philosophy and Observances of Shakspeare 83 



An Account of two new Crustacea from the Transition ana Carboniferous Strata ; 



C Illustrated by a Lithographic Drmcing) 85 



Remarkable Cures effected by Gymnastics * 89 



. Hannah Dyer; a Sketch 91 



Proceedings of Provincial Societies 98 



Manchester Natural History Society — York Philosophical Institution Don- 

 caster Lyceum—Chester Mechanics' Institution. 



Critical Notices of New Publications ; IOC 



The Romance of Nature, by Louisa Ann Twamley ; Beauties of the Country, 

 by Thomas Miller — National Education, its present state and prospects, by F. 

 Hill — Hewitson's British Oology — Birmingham and its Vicinity, as a manu- 

 facturing and commercial district, by W. Hawkes Smith — Mundi et Cordis, De 

 Rebus Sempiternis et Temporariis, Carmina — The Fallacy of the Art of Phy- 

 sic as Taught in the Schools, by S. Dickson, M.D — The Ornithological Guide, 

 by C. T. wood — Wanderings and Excursions in North and South Wales- 

 Simpson's Philosophy of Education — The Harmony of Phrenology with Scrip- 

 ture, by W. Scott; An Examination of Mr. Scott's Attack on Combe's " Con- 

 stitution of Man," by H. C. Watson — Doubleday's Nomenclature of British 

 Birds — Two Lectures on Modern English Literature, by the Rev. R. Jones, 

 D.D — The Naturalist's Library — Sacred Philosophy of the Seasons, by the 

 Rev. H. Duncan, D.D. — The Physiology of Digestion, by Andrew Combe, 

 M.D — A Practical View of Homoeopothy, by J. Simpson, M.D Homoeopa- 

 thy Examined, by Robert Verity, M.D. — A History of British Quadrupeds, 

 by Thomas Bell, F.R.S Report of the Committee of the Birmingham Philo- 

 sophical Institution, for 1836 — The Cheltenham Annuaire — Murray's New 

 Edition of the Works of Lord Byron — Sir William Jardine's Magazine of Zo- 

 ology and Botany. 



Fine Arts : Music — ^Vocal; Instrumental 156 



Correspondence ". 158 



On the Deposits of Superficial Gravel in the counties of Chester, Stafford, 

 Worcester, and Warwick — On the Application of Barbarous Corruptions of La- 

 tin Words as English Names. 



Miscellaneous Communications 160 



Extracts from Foreign Journals 164 



Zoology — Botany — Geology — Mineralogy — Miscellaneous. 



Obituary of Scientific Men ....'.... 171 



Literary Intelligence 173 



Select List of New Publications 173 



Meteorological Report 174 



NOTICES TO CORRESPONDENTS. 



An Essay *' On Circumstantial Evidence," by W. Wills, Esq. ; " Observations on 

 Swainson's Views on Nomenclature ;" and Mr. Levison's paper *' On Phrenology and 

 Physiognomy," in our next. 



tVe shall be happy to comply with the request of P. Q., by inserting directions for pre- 

 serving objects hi the several branches of Natural History, if correspondents possessing 

 a thorough practical knowledge of the art will favour us with communications on the sub- 

 ject. 



.We have been reluctantly compelled to omit, from want of space, an account of the pro- 

 ceedings of the Herefordshire, Warwickshire, and Norwich Natural History Societies, the 

 Liverpool Literary and Scientific Institution, and the Birmingham Philosophical Institu- 

 tion. The report of the Manchester Mechanics' Institution reached us too late for inser- 

 tion in the present number, but we will give in our next an epitome of the proceedings 

 of this society, which, in point of importance, ranks the first in the Provinces. 



A parcel awaits " Musicus" at our Publishers. 



Many thanks to Mr. S., of Twickenham, for his letter; we believe he will find it most 

 convenient to procure The Analyst through his usual bookseller. 



In reply to the several communications we have received relative to the difficulty of 

 procuring' The Analyst^ we have only to observe that if the London booksellers will apply 

 to Messrs. Simpkin, Marshall, & Co., they will be invariably supplied with copies. 



Ereata. — Page 62, note X-> li"^ 13, for scimus read "sumus." Page 53, note f, add 

 '* See Coleridge's Life of Bishop Fisher ;" and likewise at page 61, after the marked quota- 

 tion. 



