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SUNSTROKE illustrated, 43 



SURNAMES among the Gipsies, 121, 130 



TOAD, the, eaten by snakes, 27 



TORTOISES AND TURTLES, how they are generated, 33 



The tortoise swallowed alive by the boa, 41 



WATERTON, CHARLES, greatly in error in regard to snakes, . . . 39-42 

 Surrounds Walton Hall with a wall, for the sake of natural history, . 42 

 His writings full of errors in regard to natural history, ... 42, 46 



On sunstroke, . . . . , 43 



The pythoness hatching her eggs, . . .. . ' ; , . . . . 43 



The skunk, . . * . 44 



On wolves, ^ . .44 



The apes on Gibraltar, ; . . 45 



A description of his writings, 46, 48 



Avows himself to be a Romanist, . 47 



On bird-stuffers, 47 



On closet naturalists, . . . 44, 47 



His character as a naturalist, ; 42, 47, 48 



Some peculiarities in his private character, 46, 47 



His eulogium on the Jesuits, by whom he was educated, 47 



How he got the better of a Jesuit at Stonyhurst, #48 



His complaint on being termed an unscientific naturalist, ... 48 

 He was not a man of science in the proper sense of the word, . . 49 



WESTMINSTER REVIEW, THE, on the Gipsies, m6o 



WHITE, GILBERT, of Selborne, on the propagation and feeding of snakes, . 10 

 His testimony regarding vipers swallowing their young, and viper-catch- 

 ers, II 



Describes a viper pregnant with eggs, and another with young, . . 1 1 

 ' His theory regarding the hatching of vipers' eggs, . . 11,12,33 



Was not apparently a scientific naturalist, n\2 



On monographers, 17 



On the difficulties attending the formation of a natural history, . . 17 

 On the comparing of one animal to another by memory, . . .18 

 As a man of candour, and open to conviction in regard to natural history, 19 

 On the genera of animals peculiar to America, . . . .* 19 



On the variety of the methods of Providence in natural history, . . 20 



On the hatching of snakes' eggs, 20,21 



Was no bird-catcher or tamer, 20 



On snakes shedding their skins, 22 



Was not fond of analogous reasoning or theories, 22 



WOLVES, how they hunt their prey, 44, 45 



WORDSWORTH, the influence of his poetry on Mill, 96 



ZINCALI SOCIETY, THE, in the city of New York, 141 



