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INDEX. 



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 Linna?an 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. 



Asiatic Society, the, 330. 



Audebert, 89. 



Author, anecdote of the, 129. 



Azara, Don Felix de, the 

 Spanish naturalist, 8 1 . 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, 1 2. 



Belzoni, the celebrated Egyp- 

 tian traveller, 393. 



Berzelius, 352. 



Bicheno, Mr., 364. 



Birds, diversity of habits 

 among, 177. Their feet the 



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. 



