INDEX. 



VI 1 



Notes during aVisit to Hampshire, in June, 1853 ; 



344, 374 

 Notes by a Naturalist, 72, 132, 194 

 Notes by a Sportsman and Naturalist, 67, 150 

 Nunneries, and other Vile Abominations, 318 

 Nuthatch, The, 344 



Oak, The, 59 



The Moccas Park, 142 



The Gospel, 238 



Obituary : — Death of Mr. John Trueman, the 



Entomologist, 311 

 Our Journal and the Public, 8, 117 

 Our Native Flowers, 314 



Parasites, 97 



Parrots, 64 



Paternoster Bow — the Grave of Poor Authors, 



61, 117, 127 

 Phrenology for the Million, 41, 43, 106, 168, 228, 



295, 360 

 Pigeons, 122 

 Pigeon Shows, 39, 111 

 Pillar Roses, 188 

 Piranha Fish, The, 256 



POETRY. 



Bear and Forbear, 222 ; Beauty is Dead, 48 ; Bee 

 Stings, To Cure, 317 ; Blessings of Peace, 176 ; 

 Blind Boy, 128; Bride, The, 112 ; Brother, 

 Come Home ! 128 ; Childhood, 329 ; Cuckoo, 

 The, 131 ; Daisies, 203 ; Day-break, 280 ; 

 Dear Ivy Leaves, 235 ; Domestic Lays, 47, 

 111; Don't You Remember? 332 ; Early Vio- 

 lets, 141 ; Echo, 202 ; England, Dear England ! 

 96; English Girl, 112; Faded Rose, 310; 

 Fare thee Well! 343; Field Flower, A, for 

 "My Love," 348 ; First Day of Spring, 134 ; 

 First Snowdrop, 132; For ever Thine, 14; 

 Friendship an Evergreen, 293 ; Friends in 

 Winter, 47 ; Give me back that Smile again, 

 267; Gladness of Nature, 285; Gold Fish, 

 Lines to, 220; Grant me thy Blessing, 112; 

 Harp's, The,Wild Notes, 288 ; " Home, Sweet 

 Home !" 344 ; Horrors of Pride, 333 ; If you 

 love me, say so, 224 ; I Love the Spring, 200 ; 

 I'll Think on Thee, 64, 96 ; Invocation to 

 March, 87, 117 ; Invocation to the South Wind, 

 346 ; Lavender, Sweet Lavender ! 128 ; Leaf, 

 The, 165 ; Life's Sunny Side, 48 ; Lines to a 

 Departed Child, 166 ; Love, for Love's Sake, 

 151 ; Love, the Lamp of Life, 111 ; Love Let- 

 ter, A, 336; May-Evening, 243; Memory, 

 154 ; Midsummer Day, 277 ; Mother and her 

 Boy, 264; My Russet Gown, 326; Necklace, 

 The, 243 ; New Year's Day, 40 ; Old Thorn, 

 The,208 ; One Toast More ! 174 ; Primroses, 64 ; 

 Procrastination, 47 ; Skylark, To the, 137, 198, 

 261 ; Song, The, of June, 320 ; Song of the Bees, 

 325 ; Song of the Moonbeam, 96 ; Spare my 

 Flower, 277 ; Spring and its Associations, 202 ; 

 Such is Life! 272; Sudden Shower, 290; 

 Sweet Repose, A, 350 ; Take Things as you find 

 them, 48 ; Thrush's Ncst,The, 139 ; 'Tis aBeau- 

 tiful World, 152, 323 ; 'Tis Sweet, 'Tis Sad ! 

 339 ; Voice of Nature. 351 ; Wanderer's Re- 

 turn, The, 330 ; Welcome, i Sweet May ! 206 ; 

 What I Love, 276; What say the Flowers? 

 128 ; Winter, 19, 78 



Popular Science : — Chappuis' Daylight Re- 

 flector, 46 ; Hydro-Electric Chain, 45 ; Photo- 

 graphic Pictures, 143, 251 ; Stereoscope, 45, 

 256 



Public Exhibitions : — Young's Soirees Magi- 

 ques, 127 ; Woodin's Carpet Bag, 304 



Poultry, 35, 63, 109, 175, 190, 239, 245, 251, 303, 

 375 



Poultry Shows, 37, 63, 109 



Rabbits, 55, 375 



Rail-roads and Steam-Engines, 221 

 Rat, Gluttony of a, 254 

 Rat-Tat-Tat-Tat ! 133 



Review : — Agrostographia, 173 ; Memoirs of 



a Stomach, 337 

 Robin, The, 59, 157, 163, 244, 318, 346 

 Rooks, 54, 185, 255 

 Rose Maggot, The, 313 



Sea Anemone, The, 186, 373 



Seasonable Curiosities, 340 



Seasonable Hints on Health, 79, 80, 158, 203, 



250, 277 

 Shrike, The, 59 



Silk, New Mode of Coloring, 61, 183 

 Siskin, The, 60 

 Skeleton Leaves, 246 

 Sky, Thoughts on the, 335 

 Skylark, The, 58, 318, 371 



Plea for the, 213 



Sleep, Thoughts on, 277 



Sparrow, The, 181 



Spider, The, 33, 315 



Spirit-Rapping Impostors, The, 224, 288, 312, 



369, 372 

 Starling, The, 243, 344 

 Stays, Use and Abuse of, 79, 160 

 Stowe, Mrs. H. B., and the Ladies of England, 



199 

 Strange Birds " Wintering " in Cornwall, 191 

 Street Music and Maniacs, 223 

 Swallow, The, 244, 245, 251, 279 



Table Moving, 288 



Talc, a Substitute for Glass, 183 



TALES AND SKETCHES. 



Dress-Cap, The 113 ; Harmony Run Mad, 205 ; 

 Joys of a Cold Day, 118; Odd-Fellows, 177; 

 Tit-for-Tat, or the Great Principle, 241 ; Wed- 

 ding Parties, 305 ; Young Gipsy, 53 



Taming Animals, Art of, 58, 182, 256 



'Tis Twenty Years Since ! 268 



Thrush, The, 90, 216, 283 



Toad, The, 122 



Tortoise, The, 125, 183, 246 



Trees of Oregon, 247 



Triphoena Pronuba, 189 



Trout in New Zealand, 179, 247 



Uniformity of Nature, 20 



Van Diemen's Land, 75 

 Vegetable Physiology, 324 

 Venomous Fly of Southern Africa, 62 

 Victoria Regia, 189 

 Vulgar Festivities, 263 



