GENERAL INDEX. 



A.ARON, J., on the cause of goitre, 191. 



.^"'cer, 140. 



ilddress delivered to the Zoological Club of the 

 Lin. Soc. of London, by N. A. Vigors, 201. 



Ainsworth, W., Notes on the Pyrenees, 496. 



Air, dryness of, at Florence, 376. 



.(41cfedo, species of, 147. 



jilcy6nia, remains of, 270. 



A'\g3z, query on preserving, 198. 



yilisma Plant^go, 62. 



Alligator, hard substances in stomach of, 447. 



>4'llium, 59. 



Alluvium, in Geology, 77. ' 



America, pearls in, 251. 



Amphfbia, fossil remains of, 363, 366; query 

 respecting, 472. 



./Imyris, 141, 



>fnag&llis arv^nsis and caertilea, on the specific 

 identity of, by the Rev. J. S, Henslow, 537. 



Anatomical preparations, query on, by B. 

 Maund, and answer to, 92. 



Anatomy, comparative, query best treatise, 470. 



Ants and aphides, 148. 



.<4p6cynum androsEemifblium, remark on, 461. 



Arden, Forest of, 386. 



Aspergillum, 336. 



Aspidium lobatum, 166. 



Aviaries in the Garden of Plants at Paris, 24. 



Awn of tlie oat, observations respecting, 486. 



Baird, W., on the luminousness of the sea, 320. 



Bakewell, Robert, a visit to the Mantellian Mu- 

 seum at Lewes, 9. 



Bakewell, R , jun., on the Falls of Niagara, 117. 



Ball containing bees, curious, explained, 195. 



Bancroft, Dr., noticed, 215. 



Battles of the stickleback fish, 330. 



Bellus, 515. 



Bewick, Robert Elliot, noticed, 4. 



Bewick, Thomas, memoir of, 1 ; concluded, 97 ; 

 his fondness for children, 4; his great strength, 

 4 ; his daughters, 4 ; spirit of his vignettes, 6 ; 

 his fishes, 103 ; his reception in London, 104 ; 

 query on his relics, 92 ; reply to, 191. 



Belemnites figured and described, 284. 



Bell, Mr., noticed, 214. 



Bennett, Mr., noticed, 208. 



Bicheno, Mr., on the shamrock of Ireland, 294. 



Bill, remarkable formation of the, observed in 

 several birds, by John Blackwall^ Esq., 402. 



Bimanes, 513, 



Birch tree, large, 175. 



Bird, small unknown, answer to query, 93. 



Birds, rare, shot, hints respecting, 185; soften- 

 ing the skins of, answer respecting, 123; in 



i the west of Scotland, facts and queries respect- 

 ing, 194; arrival of a valuable collection of, 

 211 ; fossil remains of, 362 ; remarkable form- 

 ation of the bill observed in several species of, 

 by John Blackwall, 402; summer, early ar- 

 rival of, by J. D. Hoy, 436 ; rare, killed in 

 Suffolk, and on the borders of Norfolk and 

 Essex, by J. D. Hoy, 436 ; song of, critical 

 remarks respecting, by R. Sweet, 447 ; songs 

 of, observations respecting, 472; destroying 

 the buds of fruit trees, query respectij^, 475. 



Biscachoand Coquimbo owl, critique on, 188. 



Blackbird, white, 146. 



Blackwall, John, Esq., remarkable formation of 

 the bill observed in several birds, 402 ; on the 

 ascent of aeronautic spiders, 456. 



Blood, cause of colour not ascertained, 446. 



Bloxam, A., plants in Charnwood Forest, 167. 



Blue-bells of Scotland, critical remark on, 461. 



Bonnet's theory of shells, 342. 



Botanical Society suggested, 185, 



Bowman, J. E., figure and description of the 

 shining moss, 462. 



Breach of Roland, the, 507. 



Bree, the Rev. W. T., M.A., sketch of a natural 

 calendar of coincidence, 17 ; criticism respect- 

 ing the water shrew, 90; answer respecting a 

 small unknown bird, 93; dates of the first 

 and last appearances of the Hirfindines in the 

 neighbourhood of AUesley rectory, for 1829, 

 130; the distinction of sex in the wood-cock, 

 147 ; botanical frauds, 150 ; rare plants found 

 in Warwickshire, 162 ; stones found in the 

 stomachs of pike, 241 ; on the large and small 

 cabbage butterflies, 242; the mode in which the 

 common frog takes its food, 326; critical re- 

 marks on the cuckoo and cuckoo's maid, and 

 on the departure of the swift, 450. 



Bride stones, 426, 



Brongniart's theory of primeval vegetation, re- 

 marks on, by Nat. John Winch, A.L.S., 373. 



Brown, John F.L.S., query on skate spawn, 93; 

 on a mass of fused green porphyry, 199. 



Bruguiere's theory respecting shells, 343. 



J5iiccinum lapillus, critique respecting the, 484. 



Bull-trout, queries respecting the, 480. 



Bull oak, the, 551. 



Bungay, Orchideje and uncommon plants found 

 near, 155; calendar of nature in, for 1829, 179v 



Bunting, the black-headed, answer, 92. 



Bushmen of South Africa, 429. 



Bustard, Great, of India, description of, with 

 notices of some other Indian bustards, 515. 



Butterflies, Cabbage, large and small, 242. 



Butterflies and flies, query respecting, 476. 



Butterfly, painted lady, 247 ; black-ribbed, 247 ; 

 Argus, 247. 



Byron'-s poetry, Bewick's opinion of, 99. 



Calendar, natural, of coincidence, sketch of, 17. 



Calendar of nature for Scotland, 82. 181. 295, 

 391. 440. ; for Bungay, 178. 



Caley, the late Mr. George, notice of, 226. 



Calla aethiopica, 136. 



Calyx, on the different species of, 52. 



Camelopardalis on cover of Magazine, 188. 



Campanula p^tula, 163. 



Carabus, query respecting, 477. 



Carlisle, arrival of 24 summer birds of passage 

 in the neighbourhood of, during 1829, 172. 



Carnassiers, 513. 



Carr, J,, answer to query respecting the samlet, 

 botcher, and gillion, 196. 



Carrageen or Irish moss, query, and answer, 483. 



Carus, Dr., observations relative to his discovery 

 of the circulation of the blood in insects, 48, 



Cassida, metamorphosis of a species of, 523. 



Cetaceous animals, 514. 



CHe, 515. 



Ceylon, productive of pearls, 250. ^ 



Chalk districts, plants of the, 418. 



Chama gigas, figured, 43. 



Chameleon, critical remark concerning, 188 ; on 

 the habits of the, by H. Slight, M.R.C.S., 232. 



Charnwood Forest, plants in, by A. Bloxam, 167. 



Chestnut, the Tortworth, 378. 



Chlbra perfolikta, 138. 



Clarke, W. B., impression of a star-stone on flint, 

 152 ; unusual appearance in the sky, 199. 



Clio borealis, 529. 



Coal fields, extensive, in North America, 429. 



Coccin^lla septempunctata, 248. 



Cock of the wood, in Britain, 157. 



Collecting geological specimens, 442. 



Colouring of shells, 315 ; influenced by light, 346. 



Conftrva, duck's-foot, query and answer, 483. 



Conv(jlvulus SoldantJlla, locality of, 417. 



