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GENERAL INDEX. 



dar of Nature in the neighbourhood of Bun- 

 gay for 1829, 178. 



Storm, description of, on board a steam-boat, 493. 



Stowe, W., explanation of a curious ball con- 

 taining bees, 195. 



Strata, geological, and the plants found growing 

 on their superincumbent soils, on the relation 

 subsisting between, 410. 



Strictures of A Friend to Fair Criticism, reply 

 to, 18a 



Strutt's Deliciaj Sylv^rum, 378. 



Substance, curious, drawn up at sea, 481. 



Supplement to the notice of British snipes, 27. 



Swallows, on the wanton destruction of, 35; 

 arrival of at Bedford, 154 ; arrival of at Car- 



: lisle, 172 ; query respecting, 194 ; early ap- 

 pearance of, 434 ; answer respecting the mi- 

 gration and breeding of, 474. 



Swans, wild, on the lakes of Cumberland, 432. 



Sweet flag, 57. 



Sweet, R., arrival of the thrushes and fieldfares, 



J 434; critical remarks respecting the song of 

 birds, 447; correction of errata, 461. 



Swift, departure of the, 450. 



Swiss natunilists, July meeting of the, 428. 



Sylvia, migration and habits in England, 34. 



Syngenfesia, the class, described, 358. 



Tatem, Mr., his method of making meteorologi- 

 cal observations, 95 ; journal of the weather 

 at High Wycombe, 179. 



Taylor, R. C, Illustrations of Antediluvian Zo- 

 ology and Botany, 262 ; concluded, 361. 



Teeth, of an Igu&nodon, figured and described, 

 14 ; incisor, preternatural growth of in Mam- 

 malia, by W. Farrar, Esq. M.D , 27; of quad- 

 rupeds, fossil remains of, 369 — 372. 



Terms, explanation of, remark on, 187. 



Tern, common, arrival of at Carlisle, 174; 



Tertiary formations in geology, 68. 



Tetradynamia, the class, described, 354. 



Thermometer, the differential^ 487 



Thompson, E. P., hint respecting rare birds shot, 

 185 ; on softening the skins of birds, 192. 



Thompson, Thomas, volte of .fishes, 147; flight 

 of spiders, 147 ; a term misapplied, 187 ; ex- 

 planation of the nidus 6n a reed, 194 ; conjec- 

 ture respecting skate spawn, 195. 



Thomson, W., A.M., on the relations subsisting 

 between geological strata and the plants most 

 frequently found growing on their superin- 

 cumbent soils, 410. 



Thrush, missel, query respecting, 193; habits of 

 the, 237. 



Thrushes and fieldfares, arrival of the, 434. 



Titlepage, vignette for, criticism on, 89. 



Titmouse, bearded, discovery respecting the food 

 of the, 239; plumage of, when a young bird, 

 239; the habits and nidification of, 328. 



Titmouse, long-tailed, query respecting, 568. 



Tomtit destroying bees, 476. 



Tortoise, query respecting the, byW. Jones, 472. 



Tour in North America, 490. 



Transition rocks, 65. 



Travelling, effects of, on the mind, 491i 



Trees, condensing the moisture of the air, 562 ; 

 efffect of, on the climate, 563. 



Trifolium, localities of, 417. 



Trilobite, fossil, query respecting a, 483. 



Trilobites, fossil, 287. 



Turdus milsicus, query respecting, 193. 



Typha latifblia, figured and described, 151. 



Tyrian dye, 258. 



lire's geology, criticism respecting, 90. 464, 465. 



U^nio margaritifera, 249. 



Faccinium, 138. 



Vanessa Vo, remarkable, query respecting, 194. 



Vanessa Hdntera, capture for the first time in 



, Britain, and other rare insects, 332. 



Vegetable remains, 263. 



Vegetation, progress of, at Florence, 376. 



Ventriculites, geological remains of, 269. 



^fcia /athyrOides, observations on, 462. 



Vigors, N. A., Address to the Zoological Club 

 of the Linnean Society of London, 201. 



Vision, effects of heat and cold relatively to, 

 query respecting, 200; answer, 484. 



Volcano of Pietro Mala, 291. 



Wales, longevity in, 439. 



Warbler, grasshopper, arrival of, at Carlisle, 173. 



Warwickshire, rare plants found in, 162. 



Wasp, social, nest of a species of, 476. 



Wasps, query respecting, 20. 



Water beetle, remarks on the, by J. Elles, 148. 



Water shrew, critique respecting, £0. 188 ; note 

 respecting, 236; .query respecting, 471. 



Watson, H. C, locality of Pyrola secunda, 174. 



Weasel, trait in the habits of, 234. 



Weather, answer to Mr. Gorrie's queries re- 

 specting, &c., by J. Main, 486 ; character of 

 that which preceded and followed the winter of 

 1829-30, by.th« Rev. L. Jenyns, 538. 



Weaver's museum ia Birmingham, 162. 



Weevils, tenacity of life in, by C. Lambe, 149. 



Westwood, Mr., noticed, 218. 



WestwoOd, J. O., critical observation respecting 

 the leather-coat jack, 452 ; on /chneumunidas, 

 .452 ; on Leptdra, Crioceridas, 453 ; answer re- 

 specting a certain nidus, 476. 



Whale killed at Runton, 157. 



Whately, his directions for drying plants, 459. 



Wheatear, 176 ; arrival of, at Carlisle, 173. 



White, W. H., H.M.C., arrival of the cuckoo at 

 Bedford, 154; of swallows, 154 ; appearance of 

 meteors, 154; query on the cuckoo, 193; query 

 respecting TVirdus musicus, 193 ; query on 

 swallows, 194 ; a northern diver shot in the 

 Ouse, 436. 



Whitehaven, birds in the neighbourhood of, 171. 



Whitling, queries respecting the, 480. 



Wilbrand and Ritsen's Picture of Organised Na- 

 ture, incorrect passages in the review of, 445. 



Williams, Mr., the wood engraver^ 389. 



Willow-herb, 137. 



Wilson, W., on the Conway pearl fishery, 451 ; 

 critical remarks on the dissemination of exotics 

 among native plants, 460. 



Winch, Nat. John, A.L.S., on Brongniart's 

 theory of primeval vegetation, 373. 



Wind at Florence, 375. 



Wing, spurious, use of the, 145. 



Withering, W.> LLD. F.LS., further notice of 

 the late Mr. George Caley, 226. 



Wood, geological remains of, 266. 



Woods, Mr., noticed, 205. 



Woodcock, distinction of sex in, 147. 



Woodmen on the river Hudson, 496. 



Woodpecker, remarkably formed bill of a, 403. 



Woodward, SamueL on the i/^dra, or fresh- 

 water polypus, 348. 



Worm, curious, answer respecting, 481. 



Wren's nest, remark concerning the, 568. 



Wrens, the British willow, some observations 

 on, 518 ; the wood, 519 ; the yellow, 519. 



Wryneck, the, 474. 



Yarrell, Mr., noticed, 208; his additions to the 

 British Fauna, 524. 



Yeovil, rare plants found near, 174. 



Zoological farm, state of the, 433. 



Zoological garden, labels in the, 433. 



Zoological Society, incidental remark respecting, 

 185 ; meeting of April 1., 292 ; letter respect- 

 ing to Lord Lansdowne, 153. 



Zoology and Botany, Antediluvian, Illustrations 

 of, by R. C.Taylor, F.G.S.,262; concluded, 361. 



Zoology, query the best work on, 470. 



Zoophytes, geological remains of, 267. 



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