INDEX, 
501 
Institution* 153; Zoological Society,207; Medico- 
Botanical Society, 207 ; Botanical Society, 208; 
Linnsan Society, 208; Worcestershire Natural- 
History Society, 208 ; Liverpool Eoyal Institu¬ 
tion, 209; St. Andrews Literary and Philosophical 
Society, 210; Geological Society, 269; Meteoro¬ 
logical Society, 270; Entomological Society, 271; 
Linnasan Society, 271; Warrington Natural-His¬ 
tory Society, 271; Cheltenham Literary and Phi¬ 
losophical Institution, 2?3; Gloucestershire Zoo¬ 
logical Society, 278; Natural-History Society 
of Northumberland, Durham and Newcastle- 
upon-Tyne, 278; British Association (Newcastle 
Committee Report), 321; Devon and Cornwall 
Natural-History Society, 321; Botanical Society, 
373; Medico-Botanical Society, 374; Royal So¬ 
ciety of Horticulture and Agriculture, 375; Royal 
Asiatic Society, 375; St. Andrews Literary and 
Philosophical Society, 375; Blackburn Phreno¬ 
logical and Geological Society, 376; Entomologi¬ 
cal Society, 442; Linnaeau Society, 443; Zoolo¬ 
gical Society, 443; Geological Society, 443; Leeds 
Philosophical and Literary Society, 444; Edin¬ 
burgh Botanical Society, 482; Medico-Botanical 
Society, 484; Hull Zoological Society, 485; St. 
Andrews Scientific and Literary Association, 485. 
EXTRACTS FROM FOREIGN PUB¬ 
LICATIONS. 
Zoology. —Silk-worm Nursery in France, 45; 
Blood of Annelidce, 45; Chinese Mode of pre¬ 
paring Eggs, 155; Spermatic Animalcules in 
Plants, 155; Shower of Fish near Calcutta, 321; 
Notes on the Condor, 322; New Crustacea, 376; 
Lace made by Caterpillars, 376; Calcareous Co¬ 
verings of Polyps, 445 ; Death of a tame Elephant 
in Paris, 445; Nerves of Sensation and Motion, 
485. 
Botany.— Differences between the Cellular Tissue 
of the Apple and Pear, 45; Preservation of Corn, 
46; Grafting the Chesnut on the Oak, 46; Per¬ 
fume of Flowers, 46; Musical Tree, 156; Fer¬ 
mentation an Act of Vegetation, 156; Maclura 
auraniiaca growing in France, 156; New Dye- 
Plant, 156; Church Nosegays, 323; Novel Lo¬ 
cality for a Plant, 356; Cultivation of the Tea- 
plant, 377; Beet-root Sugar, 446; Georgian 
Clover-seed, 446; the Lapacho-tree, 446; Ma¬ 
nagement of Gardens in Persia, 446; Vegetable 
Heat, 485. 
Geology. —Gigantic Skeleton, 46; Unknown Fos¬ 
sil, 157; Fossil Palm-tree, 157; Descent of the 
Marsupiata, 157; Geological Features of the 
Dukhan, East-Indies, 447; Fossil Carnivora, 486. 
Mineralogy. —Substitute for Emery, 158; Bog 
Earth a Substitute for Coal, 158. 
Meteorology.— Vegetable Weather-prophet, 158. 
REVIEWS OF NEW PUBLICATIONS. 
Letters on the Natural History of the Insects men¬ 
tioned in Shakespere’s Plays, by Robert Pat¬ 
terson, 47; Illustrations of the Zoology of 
South-Africa, by Andrew Smith, M.D., Sur¬ 
geon to the Forces, Part i., 49; Flora Abredonen- 
sis, by George Dickie, A.M., M.R.C.S., &c., 
50; The Honey Bee, by Edward Bevan, MJ)., 
Second Edition, 52; A Treatise on Insects, by 
James Wilson, F.R.S.E., M.W.S., &c., 52; The 
Causes of Planetary Motion, by Jabez Allies, 
Esq., 52; Proceedings of the Ashmolean Society, 
52; Farmers versus Rooks, by James Stuart 
Menteath, Esq., 53; British Oology, by Wm. 
C. Hewitson, No. xxxvii., 109; The Natural¬ 
ist’s Library, British Quadrupeds, by W. Mac- 
Gillivray, A.M., F.R.S.E., &c., 110; The 
Economy of a Coal-field, by James F. W. John¬ 
ston, M.A., F.R.SS.L.&E., F.G.3., &c., 159; 
SevenWeeks in Belgium,Switzerland,Lombardy, 
Piedmont, Savoy, &c., by John Roby, Esq., 
M.R.S.L., &c., 159; A History of British Birds, 
by William Yarrell, F.L.S., V.-P.Z.S., Part 
ix., 161; A General Outline of the Animal King¬ 
dom, by Thomas Rymer Jones, F.Z.S., Prof, 
of Comp. Anat. in King’s Coll.,Lond., Parts i. and 
ii., 162; The India Review, edited by Frederick 
Corbyn, Esq., No. xxv., 167; Strictures on 
Anti-phrenology, 16/ ; Catalogue of the British 
Natural Orders and Genera of Plants, by Daniel 
Cooper, A.L.S., 215 ; The Weather Almanack 
for the Year 1839, by Patrick Murphy, Esq., 
&c.. Second Edition, 215; The Rose-fancier’s 
Manual, by Mrs. Gore, 279; The Little English 
Flora, by G. W. Francis, 280; Natural History 
of the Sperm Whale, by Thomas Beale, Sur¬ 
geon, &c.. Second Edition, 323; Vegetable Organ¬ 
ography, translated from the French of De Can¬ 
dolle, by Boughton Kingdon, Part i., 332; 
The Meteorologist, by W. J. Simmonite, Second 
Edition, 332; Illustrations of the Botany and 
other Branches of the Natural History of the 
Himalayas, by J. Forbes Royle, M.D.,V.-P.R.S., 
F.L., G., R.A.SS., Prof, of Materia-Medica and 
Therapeutics in King’s College, &c. &c., 378; A 
Monograph on the Auatidas, by T. C. Eyton, 
Esq., F.L.S., F.Z.S., 378; Dearden’s Miscellany, 
No. iii., 380; A Treatise on the Growth of Cu¬ 
cumbers and Melons, by John Smith, Gardener 
to Dykes Alexander, Esquire, Ipswich,Fourth 
Edition, 447; Practical Observations on the 
