4.56 
Arrangement of insects, 201. 
Difficulties of, 203. Groups 
not always perfect, 213. 
Order of succession, 215. 
Verification of groups, 217. 
Importance of uniform re- 
sults, 223. 
Art and nature, reflections on, 
97. 
Artedi, one of the earliest and 
most eminent disciples of 
the Linnean school, 45. 
Remarks on his writings, 
46. 
Ashmolean Museum presented 
to the university of Oxford 
in 1682, by Dr. Elias Ash- 
mole, account of, 320. 
Asiatie Society, the, 330. 
Audebert, 89. 
Author, anecdote of the, 129. 
Azara, Don Felix de, the 
Spanish naturalist, 81. Re- 
marks on his writings, 82. 
Babbage, Mr., 306. 
Bacon, 7. 
Banks, Sir Joseph, 39. Anec- 
dote of, 128. 
Barbut, 70. 
Barraband the best ornitholo- 
gical painter France ever 
produced, 81. 
Bat, various opinions of the 
individual construction of 
the, 153. 
Bauer, F., 350. 
Beechey, Captain, 383. 
Belon of Mans, 10. Obser- 
vations on his works, 11. 
View of his system, 12. 
Belzoni, the celebrated Egyp- 
tian traveller, 393. 
Berzelius, 352. 
Bicheno, Mr., 364. 
Birds, diversity of habits 
among, 177. ‘Their feet the 
INDEX. 
means of discriminating the 
primary divisions of the fea- 
thered race, 266. Feet of 
climbing birds, 269. Claws 
of birds, 271. 
Bloch, remarks on his fa- 
mous work upon ichthyo- 
logy, 61. 
Boccone, the famous Sicilian 
botanist, 24. 
Boerhaave, 22. 
Bonnet, 21. 
Bontius, 19. 
Borlase, 50. 
Born, remarks on his work 
upon systematic concho- 
logy, 59. 
Bradley, 32. 70. 
Brisson, M., remarks on his 
writings, 77. 
British Association for the Ad- 
vancement of Science, 327. 
Objects of, 328. Sugges- 
tions for the improvement 
of, 445. 
British Museum, 332. Re- 
cent national encouragement 
given to, 337. 
Brown, Mr., 32. 
Bruguire, M., 161. 
Buffon, 44, Remarks on his 
works, 45. Character and 
progress of his school, 74. 
Cambridge Philosophical So- 
ciety, 318. 
Catesby, 33. 
Catherine II. of Russia, 59. 
Chain of being, 205. Paucity 
of its known laws, 207. 
Colonna, Fabius, remarks on 
his treatises upon natural 
history, 15. 
Contrariety of opinion on the 
structure of animals, 153. 
Continuity of structure of 
animals illustrated, 153. 
