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INDEX, 
Caloric, effects of, on bodies, 
271. 
Chaffinch, the, 116. 
Changes in nature, 221. 
Cheese, cheap kind of, 22. 
Christmassing, 246. 
Chrysalides of insects, 191. 
Chrysalis, singular one, 186. 
Cleanliness of animals, 219. 
Clematis, the wild, 81 — sticks 
of, used by boys for smoking, 
82. 
Clocks, name given to the great 
dorr beetle, 217. 
Cockchaffer, 220. 
Coins dug out of the earth, 10. 
Color, probably reflected light, 
60. 
Coral polypi, 15. 
Crossbill, the, 128. 
Cruelty, a vice of the ignorant, 
96. 
Dandelion, the, 74. 
Day’s eye, the, 74. 
Death’s-head moth, 222. 
Digestion, power of, in birds, 
146. 
Dog, usefulness of, to man, 153. 
Dogsbane destructive to insects, 
61. 
Dry-rot, the, 88. 
Dyers, capricious in their art, 
59. 
Dyers’ broom, 58 — gathering of, 
59 — uses of, ibid — dyers’, 
weed, 72. 
Earth-worm, the common, 231. 
Elm tree, the wych, a singular- 
ly beautiful one, 46 — value 
of, 47 — uses of, ibid. — soon 
decays, 48 — leaves of the elm 
marked with plague-spots, 89. 
Empiricism, 235. 
Entomology, 190. 
Evaporation from the earth, ef- 
fect of, 63. 
tons of some of his foragers, 
Fairy rings, 250. 
Fescue, spines of the hard, bear- 
ing no flowers, 77. 
Fieldfare, the, 181. 
Flea, the water, 215. 
Flowers of plants, 52 — pleasures 
afforded by, 53 — use and ap- 
plication of, 54. 56 — natural 
love of, 54 — the playthings of 
children, 55. 
Fly, the house, 151 — the biting, 
ibid. — the four-spotted dragon, 
192. 
Fly-catcher, the gray, 146. 
Foxglove, 67. 
Friendship between birds, in- 
stance of, 146, 147. 
Frost, early, effect of on flower- 
ing plants, 276. 
Fungi, beauties of, 85— varieties 
of, 86 — uncertain appearance 
of, ibid — mutations of, 87 — 
agents of decay, 88 — propaga- 
tion of, 93. 
Fur of animals, 107. 
Gallinaceous birds, 172. 
Gamma-moth, the, 210, 
Ghost-moth, 190. 
Glaucous birthwort, 62. 
Gleaning, profits of, to the poor, 
244— antiquity of the custom, 
245, 
Glow-worm, the, 207. 
Gnat, the winter, 189, 
Goat-moth, 202. 
Goldfinch, the, 166. 
Grass crops, nature of, in the 
author’s village, 22 — certain 
grasses attached to certain 
soils, 23 — grass balls, 77. 
Guinea, anecdote of the finding 
of one, 248, 
Hair of animals, 106. 
Hair-worm, the clay, 226, 
Hawk, the sparrow, 144 — the 
kestrel, ibid. — the hawk-moth, 
197. 
Fairfax, general, supposed skele- 
