INDEX TO VOL. I. 



Abert,Col. 



On the habit of climbing of the 



Rattlesnake • 221 



Academy of Natural Sciences ot 

 Philadelphia, 



Election of Officers for 1832 381 



Alleghany Mountain, and Moshannon 

 VaUey, 

 Section of, by R. C. Taylor— with a 



plate : 433 



American Philosophical Society, 



Election of Officers lor 1832 381 



Ancient vilrilied heacon stations 506 



Arvicola Nuttali, 



A new species, by Dr. Harlan 446 



Armadilloes, 



Circumstances attending the birth 



of two young ones 329 



Arranffement, 



N^K. System of 92 



Atlantic Journal, 



By Professor Rafincsque, review of 508 

 Attachment between Animals, 



Anecdotes of 383 



Audubon, John James, 



Ornithological Biography 136 



Proposed expedition to California, i 



and the Rocky Mountains 2291 



Letter to tlie Editor from St. Augus- 

 tine, East Florida 358 



Do. do, from Bulowville, East Flo- 

 rida •• 407 



Suljscri prions to his great work, 



" The Birds of America." 431 



Review of" The Birds of America," 



and " Ornithological Biography" 456 



2nd Letter from Bulow ville 529 



Barbary Ape, 



its want of forethought 236 



Barbary, 



Geological notices of, by Rozet 273 



IV,. do 234 



Barlow, Peter, F. R. S. 



On the errors of the course of ves- 

 sels, from local attraction 326 



Bee, 



Self-decapitated — niiecdoto of 94 



Mexican domestic, do 23i 



Bell, Dr. John, 



On baths and mineral waters 48 



Bender, Major Goorgc, 



On the specific gravity of rocks used 

 in the construction of the Delaware 



break- water 312 



Big bone lick, Kentucky, 



Reporl of a committee of the Lyce- 

 um of natural history of New York, 



Page 

 Professor Rafinesques visit to Big 



bone lick in 1821 355 



Birds of Europe, 



By Mr. Gould 527 



Birmingham and London railway. 



Remarks upon 568 



Bivalve mouse traps 526 



Blackwall, Mr. 



On the means by which certain 

 animals ascend the vertical surfaces 



of highly polished bodies 527 



Bog in Ireland, 



Account of an ancient body found 



there 286 



Bohan Upas, and the Valley of 

 Death, 



Account of 431 



Bradford County, Pa. 



Geological notices of 519 



Brazil, 



Notices of the gold region of, by the 



Rev. Mr. Walsh 182 



Bridgewater, Earl of. 



His bequest to the President of the 

 Royal Society, for particular purposes 33 

 British Association for the advance- 

 ment of Science, 

 I Account of the meeting at York. 468 

 Do. at Oxford 571 



Brown lead ore of Zimapan, 



Communicated by Professor Del Rio 438 

 Browne, Peter A. 



On the geological character of 

 the beds upon which the city of Phi- 

 ladelphia stands 363 



On the rocks found in the vicinity of 



Philadelphia M7 



Buckland, Rev. Dr. 



Letier to the Editor, on Cave bones 278 

 Elected President of the British as- 

 sociation at the O.xford meeting 571 



Carr, John B. 



Diary of a naturalist 21 



Caterpillar, 



Its tail becomes the head of the but- 

 terfly 528 



Charts, 



A new plan of drawing them 333 



Cheat, or Chess, 



derived from wheat 561 



Chloride of lime, 



A preventative against small poi 



and measlen 334 



Christie, Dr. Turnbull, 



Appointed to examine the geology 

 of the presidency of Madras 192 



1 fos.sil bones found there 43 Climate, . , .,, r 



Noticesofby Wm. Cooper 158 Influence of, o» the fruitfulneae oi 



Do conunued 2051 plants ••■■ 



