GENERAL INDEX. 



573 



Coot, greater, 177. 



Corals, fossil, 271. 



Cornwall, rare birds observed in, 175. 



Corvorant, 177. 



Cowslip, monstrous, 151. 



Couch, J., on a substance drawn up at sea, 481. 



Crabs in Jamaica, query respecting, 197 ; fossil 

 remains of, 286. 



Creation, order of, in geology, 64. 



Crocodile, the, on land and in water, 422. 



Cromer, natural history of neighbourhood, 155. 



Crossbill, 176. 



Crow, carrion and hooded, 146. 



Crusta.cea, fossil, 285. 



Cuckoo, on the Malvern Hills, 160 ; arrival of, at 

 Bedford, 154; query respecting, 193; on the 

 nests of the, by J. Rennie, 397 ; and cuckoo's 

 maid, critical remarks respecting, 450. 



€uckoo-mate, 474 ; observations on, 475. 



Cucullus simplex, curious phenomenon in, 95 ; 

 remark on, 190. 



Cticulus canbrus, 175. 



Curculios, query respecting, by J. C. Farmer,477. 



Curtis, J., notices respecting Pterostichus punc- 

 t^tus and Leistus montJinus, 477, 478. 



Cuttle-fish, 527. 



Daffodil, the, 56. 



Dale, J. C, capture of Vanessa Himtera for the 

 first time in Britain, 332. 



Dartford, rare birds shot, by Jas. C. Hurst, 435. 



Davies, J. H., remark respecting the natural 

 system of plants in the Magazine of Natural 

 History, 187; remark on the explanation of 

 terms, 187 ; on the museum at Haslar, 188 ; 

 on the mermaid, 188 ; on the chameleon, 188 ; 

 periodical appearance of certain insects, 247. 



Davy, Sir Humphry, Dr. Paris's Life of, 389. 



Decandria, the class, described, 350. 



Delicize Sylvarum, 378. 



Dep6t, natural history, remarks on, 470. 



Diadelphia, the class, described, 356. 



Didynamia, the class, described, 353. 



Dikes, W. H., food of bearded titmouse, 239. 



Dillon, Bartholomew, Esq., on the fern owl, 30. 



Diluvium, in geology, 75. 



Dioe^cia, the class, described, 360. 



Discussion at meetings of societies, 294. 



Doctrines, absurd, of the system of nature, 352. 



Dodecandria, the class, described, 352. 



Dort^e in Sol way Frith, 174. 



Dotterel, arrival of, at Carlisle, 173. 



Douglas, Mr., his services to zoology, 204. 



Dovaston, John F. M,, Esq. A.M , some account 

 of the life, genius, and personal habits of the 

 late Thomas Bewick, 1 ; concluded, 97; reply 

 respecting Bewick's relics, 191. 



Diver, northern, 177. 



Drosier, Richardj an ornithological visit to the 

 islands of Shetland and Orkney, 321. 



Drying plants, Whateley's directions for, 459. 



Dugong, queries respecting the, 480. 



Eagle and the skua gull, 323. 



Eagle-stone, query respecting the, 484. 



Echinite, fossil rem.ains of, 276; table of La- 

 marck's arrangement of, 277. 



Edentes, 513. 



Egg within an egg, query respecting an, 472. 



Electricity, query concerning, 200 ; remark, 488. 



Elephants in the Garden of Plants at Paris, 24. 



EUes, J., remarks on the water beetle, 148. 



Encrinites, fossil remains of, 275. 



P^nneandria, the class, described, 350. 



Epidermis of shells, 347. 



Erbdium marlnum, locality of, 416; deuterium, 

 or moschatum, locality of, 417. 



Eri6phorumpub^scens, critical remarks on, 461. 



Errors, geological, corrected by W. Hulton, 463. 



Evans, John, query respecting'a trilcbite, 483. 



Exchanges of specimens in natural history, 155 ; 

 depot for, 185. 



Exotics, the dissemination of, among indigenous 

 plants, condemned, 460 ; observations on, 461. 



Fillco peregrinus, 175. 



Fan palm, the, 60. 



Farmer, J. C, query respecting Curculios, 477 ; 

 query on a grub injurious to oats, 477. 



Farrar, W., M.D., on preternatural growth of 



incisor teeth in Mammalia rodentia, 27; the 



pied flycatcher and grasshopper warbler, 146. 

 Fauna, British, additions to, by W. Yarrell. 



524. * 



Fern owl, on the, by Bartholomew Dillon, 30 ; 



use of the claw of the, by J. Hayward, 449. 

 Ferce, 514. 



Fieldfares and thrushes, arrival of, 434. 

 Fight between a rat and a hedgesparrow, 192. 

 Filaria forf iculse, remarks by B. Maund, 149. 

 Filkria, critical observation on, by J. Murray, 459. 

 Fish, voice of, 147 ; in Slapton Lea, 395 ; silver, 



478 ; fossil remains of, 363. 

 Floras, local, use of, 288. 

 Florence, on the weather at, by W. Spence, 374. 

 Fly's eye, curious property of, 195 ; under a 



microscope, remark by J. Murray, 458. 

 Flycatcher, pied, 146: arrival of at Carlisle, 172. 

 Fogs at Florence, 375. 

 Forest of Arden, 386. 

 Fossil shellfish, 280. 

 Foula Island, 322. 



Foxcote, fossils figured and described, 159. 

 Foxglove, localities of, 418. 

 Frauds, botanical, 150. 

 Fritillary, the, 56. 

 Frog, mode of taking its food, 326. 

 Frost at Florence, 374. 



Fruit and seed-vessels, geological remains, 266. 

 Fixci, query on collecting, 198. 

 Fuel in America, 496. 

 Fulton, Robert, notice respecting, 493. 

 Gaster6steus trachfirus, semiarmatus, and leiii- 



rus, 522. 

 Geographical Society of London, 431. 

 Geology, introduction to, continued, 62. 

 Geological systems of arrangement, 62. 

 Geological Society of London, Feb, 19., 294. 

 Geological specimens, collection of, 442 

 Geranium RobeTtiamim, where luxuriant, 415 j 



prat^nse, where luxuriant, 416. 

 German naturalists and physicians, eighth an. 



nual meeting of the, 428. 

 Gilbertson, collection of shells from Preston, 



170; remarks on, 171. 

 Giraffe, the, in the garden of plants at Paris, 22. 

 Glechbma /iederacea, figured, 354. 

 Gil res, 515. 

 Goatsucker, remarks concerning, 188; query 



respecting, 192 ; foot-comb of, 296. 

 Goitre, remarks on the cause of, 191 ; opinion 



respecting, 446 ; query respecting 470. 

 Gold, native, instance of, by J. Murray, 439; on 



the teeth of sheep, cause of, 471. 

 Gooseberry grub, on the, 245. 

 Gorrie, A., remarks on meteorological observ- 



ations 190. 

 Gorrie, W., rare plants indigenous to the parish 



of Kilspindie, in Perthshire, 440. 

 Gospel oak, the, 553. 557. 

 Grasshopper warbler, 146. 

 Greyhound, Irish, query respecting, 470. 

 Grilse, queries respecting the, 480. 

 Grub, gooseberry, on the, 245 ; injurious to oats, 



query on a, by J. C. Farmer, 477. 

 Gryphae^a arcuata, critical remark on, 190. 

 Guinea-pig, described, by P. Hunter, 192. 

 Gull, the skua, 322; an enemy to the eagle, 



323; the arctic, 326. 

 Gyn&ndria, the class, described, 359. 

 Hamilton's monument on the Hudson, 495. " *i 

 Hardwicke, General, noticed, 215. 

 Harvey, J. A., a snipe of a novel colour shot 



near Kington, 436. 

 Hawkins, Thomas, doubts on the samlet con- 

 firmed, 94; remarks respecting the salmon 



varieties, 94. 

 Hayward, ,J., use of the claw of the fern owl, 



449 ; the snipe's beak, 449. 

 Heaths, localities of, 417. 



Hfelix pomatia, figured, 46 ; eaten by the Ro- 

 mans, 46. 

 Henna, 142. 

 Henslow, the Rev. John Stevens, Prof. Bot., on 



the specific identity of the primrose, oxlip. 



