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INDEX 
Victoria, Queen, the History of 
British Birds , dedicated to, 86; 
acquires the manuscript of The 
Natural History of Deeside and 
Braemar , 106 
Water-rat, the, 194 
Water-shrew, movements of, 128 
Weir, Mr, 178 
White, Dr John F., on the influence 
of MacGillivray’s teaching, 151- 
53 
Wilson, Mr James, 69 
Wilson, Mr, janitor of the Edin¬ 
burgh University, 60 
Windermere, 44 
Wisely, Rev. Dr, 103 
Withering, Arrangement of British 
Plants , abridgment, 115 
Wood, Mr, his tribute to Mac- 
Gillivray, 77 
Woodpecker, number of insects in 
the stomach of a, 129 
Wood pigeons, flight of, 167 
Zimmerman on Solitude , 12 
Zoologists , Lives of Eminent , 115, 
140 ; extracts from, 143, 144 
Zoology, Manual of, 86; study of, 
13, 23 
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