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INDEX. 



Caloric, effects of, on bodies. 



271. 



Chaffinch, the, 116. 

 Changes in nature, 221. 

 Cheese, cheap kind of, 22. 

 Christmassing, 246. 

 Chrysalides of insects, 191. 

 Chrysalis, singular one, 186. 

 Cleanliness of animals, 219. 

 Clematis, the wild, 81 sticks 



of, used by boys for smoking, 



82. 

 Clocks, name given to the great 



dorr beetle, 217. 

 Cockchaffer, 220. 

 Coins dug out of the earth, 10. 

 Color, probably reflected light, 



60. 



Coral polypi, 15. 

 Crossbill, the, 128. 

 Cruelty, a vice of the ignorant, 



96. 



Dandelion, the, 74. 

 Day's eye, the, 74. 

 Death's-head moth, 222, 

 Digestion, power of, in birds, 



146. 



Dog, usefulness of, to man, 153. 

 Dogsbane destructive to insects, 



61. 



Dry-rot, the, 88. 

 Dyers, capricious in their art, 



59. 

 Dyers' broom, 58 gathering of, 



59 uses of, ibid dyers' 



weed, 72. 



Earth-worm, the common, 231, 



Elm tree, the wych, a singular- 

 ly beautiful one, 46 value 

 of, 47 uses of, ibid. soon 

 decays, 48 leaves of the elm 

 marked with plague-spots, 89. 



Empiricism, 235. 



Entomology, 190. 



Evaporation from the earth, ef- 

 fect of, 63. 



Fairfax, general, supposed skele- 



tons of Borne of his foragers, 



Fairy rings, 250. 



Fescue, spines of the hard, bear- 

 ing no flowers, 77. 



Fieldfare, the, 181. 



Flea, the water, 215. 



Flowers of plants, 52 pleasures 

 afforded by, 53 use and ap- 

 plication of, 54. 56 natural 

 love of, 54 the playthings of 

 children, 55. 



Fly, the house, 151 the biting, 

 ibid. the four-spotted dragon, 



Fly-catcher, the gray, 146. 



Foxglove, 67. 



Friendship between birds, in- 

 stance of, 146, 147. 



Frost, early, effect of on flower- 

 ing plants, 276. 



Fungi, beauties of, 85 varieties 

 of, 86 uncertain appearance 

 of, ibid mutations of, 87 

 agents of decay, 88 propaga- 

 tion of, 93. 



Fur of animals, 107. 



Gallinaceous birds, 172. 



Gamma-moth, the, 210. 



Ghost-moth, 190. 



Glaucous birthwort, 62. 



Gleaning, profits of, to the poor, 

 244 antiquity of the custom, 

 245, 



Glow-worm, the, 207. 



Gnat, the winter, 189. 



Goat-moth, 202. 



Goldfinch, the, 166, 



Grass crops, nature of, in the 

 author's village, 22 certain 

 grasses attached to certain 

 soils, 23 grass balls, 77. 



Guinea, anecdote of the finding 

 of one, 248, 



Hair of animals, 106. 

 Hair-worm, the clay, 226. 

 Hawk, the sparrow, 144 the 



kestrel, ibid. the hawk-moth, 



197. 



