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INDEX. 



Cryptodus, on the genus, 303. 

 Cryptolepis, on the genus, 448. 

 Cucurbitaceae, on the fruit of the, 200. 

 Cuming, H., on new shells collected by, 



02, 148, 380, 527, 536, 538; on new 



insects collected by, 217. 

 Cursorius europaeus, 473. 

 Cycadeae, on the gum-passages in the, 



256. 

 Cyclostoma elegans, occurrence of in Ire- 

 land, 228. 

 Cyprinidae, descriptions of Indian, 35, 



108, 192. 

 Cyst- worm, structure of the, 445. 

 Dale, J. C, on some British Diptera, 430 ; 



on the fauna of Dorsetshire, 472. 

 Decaisne, M., on the structure of the wood 



of the misseltoe, 130; on the structure 



of the beet-root, 253 ; on the Lardiza- 



balea;, 254. 

 Dendromys, new species of, 53. 

 Deposits, pliocene, 514; post-tertiary, 5 15. 

 Derraoptera, description of new, 272. 

 Deslongchamps, M., on the occurrence of 



cryptogamous plants on the air-cells of 



an Eider duck, 229. 

 Diptera, British, 430. 

 Disphericas, description of the genus, 



298. 

 Dogs, the Natural History of, reviewed, 



137. 

 Don, Prof., notice respecting the late, 397, 



476 ; and of his father, 476. 

 Dorsetshire, fauna of, 472. 

 Drosera, on the glanduliferous hair of, 



132. 

 Dumas, M., on the chemical statics of or- 

 ganized beings, 360. 

 Dutrochet, M., on the temperature of 



plants, 28. 

 Dynastidae, 454. 

 Echidnocerus cibarius, 453. 

 Eel, on the geographical distribution of 



the, 207. 

 Egerton, Sir P. G., on the occurrence of 



triassic fishes in British strata, 391. 

 Eisner, M., on the red-colouring matter 



in plants, 33. 

 Endlicher S., genera plantarum, noticed, 

 446 ; enchiridion botanicum, noticed, 

 447. 

 Entomological Society, proceedings of the, 



217, 297, 452. 

 Entophytes, on, 229. 

 Entozoa, on the anatomy of four species 



of, 151. 

 Eocene sand of Kyson in Suffolk, occur- 

 rence of molar teeth in the, 1. 

 Epilobium angustifolium, observations on, 

 170, 246, 401 ; Epilobium bracliycar- 

 puni, description of, 403. 



Euplectella aspergillum, a new species of 

 sponge, 222. 



Eurynotis, new species of, 53. 



Everest, Ilev. R.,on the effects of cold on 

 Mammalia, 325. 



Eyton, T. C, notes on birds, 46. 



Falconer, Dr. H., on the genus Crypto- 

 lepis, 448. 



Faluns, of the Loire, 507; occurrence of, 

 near Dinan, 509; at Rennes, 510; at 

 Angers, 510; near Savigne, 511 ; near 

 Tours, ib. ; at Pontic voy, 512. 



Ferae, blood-corpuscles of, 533 ; measure- 

 ments of the, 535. 



Fibre, Dr. Barry, on, 502, 545. 



Fishes, fossil, of Mundesley, remarks on 

 the, 01 ; the Natural History of, no- 

 ticed, 138 ; on the breeding of, artifici- 

 ally, 166 ; remarks on some observed 

 in the neighbourhood of Aberdeen, 230 ; 

 on the occurrence of Triassic, in Briti.Nli 

 strata, 391 ; Australian, 464. 



Flora of Western Norfolk, 171. 



Flowers, on the production of odours in, 

 31. 



Foraminifera, fossil, in the greensand of 

 New Jersey, 158. 



Forster, Edward, on Mnium annotinum, 

 433. 



Fossil bivalve shells, new genus of, 481. 



Fossils, from Stonesfield, 456 ; from New 

 York, 506 ; Suffolk crag, near V^alognes, 

 508 ; at Carentau, 509 ; at Sainteny, 

 ih.; from Pembrokeshire, 515. 



Fringillidae, 406, 523. 



Fungi, occurrence of, on insects, 217 ; 

 discovery of three species of, 542. 



Geese, longevity of, 474. 



Geological Society, proceedings of the, 56, 

 305, 391, 459, 506. 



Geology, analogies of European and In- 

 dian, 74; of Russia, 289. 



Glacial and diluvial phsenomena, remarks 

 on, 319. 



Giibel, F., on the quantity of potash and 

 soda contained in the principal Halo- 

 phytes of tiie Caspian Steppe, 333. 



Gold-fishes, breeding of, 533. 



Goliathus, new species of, 458. 



Gould, ^Ir., on new species of Australian 

 birds, 66, 138; on a new species of 

 Himantopus, 227 ; on a new species of 

 Hypsiprymnus, 380; on Menura su- 

 perba, 396. 



Gray's, G. R., List of the Genera of Birds, 

 reviewed, 367 ; supplementary remarks 

 on, 544. 



Greensand, saurian teeth from the, 519. 

 Griffith, W., on the fecundation of Osyris, 

 447. 



Gulliver, George, on the cyst-worm, no- 



