CONTENTS. 



PAGE 



f'SSAY on the Rs'^^^ ^^ Circumstantial Evidence, by William Wills, Esq 1-77 



J^xpression in A''^ 191 



On the Present*^® *^^^^^ Opera in London 200 



Sketches of E»''^^" Ornithology—" Gould's " Birds of Europe." 239 



Some Remar''" ^^® Philosophy and Observances of Shakspeare ; VI., " Hamlet." 252 



Analysis of "^^^^s ''System of Phrenology." 262 



Horace on •^^"^^75 by D. W. Nash, Esq 271 



The Impc*"^^ "^ Consulting the Bias of Youth in theChoice of a Business or 



Proff^ion, exemplified in the case of Linneus [from a MS. Memoir] 280 



On the O^i^^c^r" between Phrenology and Physiognomy, by J. L. Levison (con- 



tinvd f ronf page 213) 284 



Corres/^JodencB 293 



C^talo^ue of Rare Plants found in the Vicinity of Birmingham and Lichfield. 



Ornitftologi-'al Society of London '298 



Proceediri<s of Provincial Societies 303 



Vorcestershire Natural History Society— Shropshire and North Wales Na- 

 tural History and Antiquarian Society. 



Critical Notices of New Publications 315 



Reports on the Explosion of Steam Boilei's — An Address delivered at the 

 Opening of the Worcestershire Museum — Sacred Philosophy of the Seasons, 



by the Rev. Henry Duncan, D.D An Analysis of the British Ferns and their 



Allies—A Synopsis of the Birds of Australia and the adjacent Islands — The 

 Naturalist's Library. 



Fine Arts: Music 337 



Extracts from Foreign Journals 340 



Miscellaneous Communications 341 



* Obituary 348 



Literary Intelligence 352 



Meteorological Report 353 



TO COJfRESPONDENTS. 



Notwithstanding we have given our readers an additional eight pages in the present 

 number, we have been obliged to omit a notice of the Herefordshire Natural History So- 

 ciety, and lilrewise an account of the opening of the Mechanics' Institution at Lichfield, 

 on whic^ occasion the Ilev. Chancellor Law delivered a very luminous and impressive ad- 

 dress. 



We have also been reluctantly compelled to postpone critical notices of the following 

 publications: — The Ninth Bridgewater Treatise ,• MacGillivray's British Birds ; Manual of 

 Phrenology, by John Kpps, M.D. ; Spartacits, or the Roman Gladiator, by Jacob Jones, Esq.; 

 Post Office Reform, its Impoi'tance and PracticahiUty, by Rowland Hill ; An Appeal to the 

 Public oil the subject of Raihvays, by George Godwin,' Esq.; Doveton, or the Man of many 

 ImpuLes ; Colonial Policy of the British Empire ; Memorials of Shrewsbury ; and A Horti- 

 cultural Tour through Germany. 



It is requested that all communications sent to the Editors may be directed (post paid) 

 U> the care of Mr. Barlow, Bookseller, Bennett's Hill^ Birmingham j and contribution:, 

 should be sent early in the {\\i;ir\.Qr preceding that in which they are expected to appear. 



No. XXI. of The Analyst will appear on the 1st of October next. 



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