CONTENTS. 



Page. 



Honuirks upon Bishop Burnett's History of his own Time 1 



Remarks conducive to the Improvement of Ornithological Nomen- 

 clature 20 



The Sinner's Agony 35 



Bemarks on the practicability of Navigating the Biver Huallaga, with 

 Notes of the Productions, and ot part of Maynas, Peru, by A. 



Mathews, A. L. S 3G 



Aphorisms on the Frontal Sinuses, and the extent of their inter- 

 ference with Phrenological Observation 43 



On the Study of Latin," more especially as regards the Medical 



Profession 46 



Sonnet 63 



A comparison between the Climates of Great Malvern and London ... 64 



On the Non-Permeability of Glass by Water 72 



Sonnet 77 



A Betrospect of the Literature of British Ornithology, from the close 



of the 17th Century to the present time 78 



Birmingham Society of Arts — Modern Exhibition 1 0(V 



Meeting of the British Association 113 



Professor Agassiz on Ichthyolites, with a Lithographic Engraving of a 



new species of the genus Tetragonolepis 132 



Hints to observers of Halley's Comet, by the Be v. T. W. Webb 134 



Proceedings of Provincial Societies 1 38. 



Meeting of the Provincial Medical and Surgical Association at 

 Oxford — Birmingham School of Medicine Anniversary Meeting — 

 Birmingham Philosophical Institution ; depositions relative to "the 

 Toad found in the stratum of new red Sand-stone, near Coventry 

 — Birmingham Mechanic's Institution — liiverpool Literary, Scien- 

 tific, and Commercial Institution— Manchester Mechanic's Insti- 

 tution — The new Mechanics's Institution, Manchester — Worces- 

 tershire Natural History Society — Shropshire and North Wales 

 Natural History Society. 



Critical Notices of New Publications 151> 



The life of Samuel Johnson, L. L. B., by J. Boswell — Loudon's 

 Gardener's Magazine — The History and Antiquities of the Cathe- 

 dral Church of Worcester, by J. Britton, F. S. A — Observations 

 on certain Indentations in the old red Sand-stone, by J. Allies, 

 Esq.,— Wanderings through North Vfales — De l^amartine's Sou- 

 venirs pendant un Voyage en Orient — The Works of Wm. Cow- 

 per, edited by the Bev. T. S. Grimshaw— -Yarrell's History of 

 British Fishes — Burmeister's Manual of Entomology. 



List of New Publications 17- 



Literary Intelligence 173 



Meteorological Bepoi t 1 7& 



TO COBBESPONDENTS. 



As one of the principal o])jects of The Analyst is to give correct reports 

 of the proceedings of Literary and Scientific Institutions, and Societies 

 established for the advancement of a more perfect knowledge of Natural 

 History, the Editor hopes to be furnished, by the Secretaries of these several 

 Institutions, with the requisite materials for giving a full report of the 

 Transactions of the Sessi(m about to conunence, in time for the next publi- 

 cation (January 1st.) 



J. H. has our best thanks for his communication, but we have not space 

 to insert his animadversions on the scurrilous attacks on the recent meeting 

 of the British Association at l)u])lJn. Our correspondent will find an able 

 refutation of the gross calumnie.5 fabricated by a certain portion 01 the 

 periodical press, in the 22(1 number of the Lancet for August, 1835. 



W. must excuse our inserting his Critique on the British Cyclopajdia, di- 

 vision III, Natural History — not having seen a copy of the work, we cannot, 

 of course, judge of its merits. 



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The 14th number of " The Analyst" will appear on the 1st of January 

 next. 



Erratum. — Page 133, line 30, insert, after Professor Agassi>^, "has been 

 derived." 



