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INDEX. 



Snow Storm of January (1854), 46, 126 

 Society in America, 332 

 Sound and its Sympathies, 368 

 Spider-catching Fly, The, of Van Diemen's Land, 



249 

 Sponge, Natural History of the, 290 

 Spring, its Effect on the Sap in Trees, 123 

 Spring and the Feathered Tribes, 116, 183, 245 

 Spring and its Joys, 197, 245 

 Squirrel, Life of a Tame, 146, 195 

 Starling, The, 121 

 Sunflower, The, A True Lover, 186 

 Swallow, The, 311, 345, 371 

 Swan, The, 361 

 Swift, The, 346 

 Sympathy of the Poor for each Other, 59 



TALES AND SKETCHES. 



Emigrant's Lark, The, 111; Original Artist, The 

 241 ; Patchwork Quilt, The, 77 ; Stop Nature 

 —if you Can, 177 ; Tale of Love, 222 ; Un- 

 finished Picture, The, 49 



Tench, The, 48 



" Throwing the Hatchet !" 371 



Time and Space, or the Power of Locomotion, 

 333 



Titmouse, The Blue-headed, 53 



Tree Labels, 250 



Trees, Bark-bound, 249 



Commemorative, 256 



Umbrella Bird, The, 122 

 Uranus, The Planet, 64 



Vegetable Kingdom, The, 149 



Life, 14 



Vegetation, Varieties in, 64 

 Violets, A Bank of, 108 

 Vital Principle, The ; What is it ? 156 

 Vivarium, A Fresh Water, 59 



War and Pestilence, Ravages of, 127 



Wasp, The, 319 



Water, Purification of, 270 



Water Lily, The, 251 



Wild Men of the Himalayas, 250 



Willow, Cultivation of the, 253 



Winter, Joys of, 118 



Wives, — Useful, and Useless, 191 



Wolf, Affection of a, 156 



Woman, — Her Chief " Accomplishments," 184 



A, Well-dressed (a Rarity), 256 



Fashion's Hobby-horse, 184 



Woodcock, Eggs of a, Hatched by a Fowl, 188 

 Workmen and their Employers, 120 

 World, The, A Paradox, 189 



As good now as Ever it was, 312 



Wrecks at Sea, — Admiralty Register of, 315 



Zoological Folk Lore, 99, 167, 215 



