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^imE ANALYST; a Qt^ARTERLY JOURNAL OF SCIENCE, 

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CONTENTS OF No XIX.— APRIL, Ih^l. 



Remarks on Elementary Education, b3^^ames Simpson, Esq., Advocate — List of Re- 

 markable Plants growing in the Vicinity of Birmingham, in 1836 — Roman Antiquities dis- 

 covered in Worcestershire — Antonio's I>ove Song, or Don Quixote's Reverie — On the 

 present State of the Opera in London — An Historical Review of the Character of Fisher, 

 Bishop of Rochester— The Doctor; a Sketch — Sketches of European Ornithology: 

 " Gould's Birds of Europe" — Some Remarks on the Philosophy and Observances of Sliak- 

 speare : V., " Much Ado about Nothing" — An accoiyit of two new Crustacea from the 

 Transition and Carboniferous Strata ; illustrated with a Lithographic Drawing — Remarkable 

 Cures effected by Gymnastics— Hannah Dyer; a Sketch— Proceedings of Provincial Soci- 

 eties — Critical Notices of New Publications — Fine Arts : Music — Extracts from Foreign 

 Scientific Journals — MiscellanecJus Communications — Obituar}'' of Scientific Men — Lite- 

 rary Intelligence — Select List of New Publications — Meteorological Report, &c. 



CONTENTS OF No. XVIII .JANUARY, 1837. 



Some Remarks on the Dissolution of the Monasteries — Observations on the Nomen- 

 clature of Neville Wood's British Sttng Birds — Hard Words — The Fishes of Britain sys- 

 tematically arranged— On the Effects of certain Mental and Bodily. States upon the Ima- 

 gination — Swarm of Minute Insects in and Sround Macclesfield — The Poet Shenstone — 

 Thoughts on the Sublime in Music — Anecdotes Elucidatory of the Natural History of the 

 Ermine Weasel, by Sir O. Mosley, Bart., M.P., D.C.L. — Remarks on the Philosophy and 

 Observances of Shakspeare — On the Connection of Phrenology with Physiognomy — 



Remarks on Museums of Natural History, by J. E. Gray, F.R.S Notes on Natural 



Histbry. Books, by J. Fennell — Correspondence — Proceedings of Provincial Societies — 

 Central Society of' Education —St. James's Ornithological Society — Yorkshire Institution 

 for Deaf and Dumb— Critical Notices of New Publications — Fine Arts ; Reviews of Music 

 — Miscellaneous Corrimunications — Literary Intelligence — Meteorological Report, &c. 



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