Beechey, Captain, encounter with a polar bear, 114.
Bellot, Lieutenant, testimonial to, 238. Bernard of Clairvaux, his birth and pa- rentage, 174, 175; death of his mother, 176; his conversion, 176, 177; his labours on behalf of his family, 177; attaches himself to the fraternity at Citeaux, ib.; establishes a settlement at Wormwood, 179; his grief on the death of his brother Gerard, 181, 182; his controversy with Abelard, 250, 251; his activity, 253, 254; mediates between the burghers of Metz and the neighbouring barons, 254, 255; his death and character, 255-257. Berzelius, his analysis of the bones of the human body, 212.
Biscuit-machinery at Portsmouth, 248. Blocks, manufacture of, 246, 247. Blood, use of, 12; how circulated through the body, ib.; provision for obtaining new supplies of, 12, 13. Blood-vessels, 12.
Bones, number and arrangement of, 11, 210, 211; analysis of, 212; their propor- tions at different periods of life, 213; how united to each other, 213, 214; peculiari- ties of the structure of, 214-216. Botallack mine, 209, 300, 301. Bonelli, M., on the comet humming-bird, 447.
Bourcier, M., description of the volcanic mountain of Pichincha, 448-450.
Brain, the, 10; its division by anatomists, 458, 460; its membranes, 459; its ven- tricles, 460; its sensation, 460, 461; its size and weight, 461; results of the ex- periments of phrenologists upon, 462. Brainerd the missionary, character of, 144. Brewster, Miss, Sunbeams in the Cottage,
British Association, meeting of the, at Liverpool, 320, 389-396.
British mining: Tin, 34-40, 119-126; Cop- per, 200-209, 301-309; Lead, 359-366. British navy, present effective force of the, 249.
British taxation, chart of, 78.
Brittle-stars, 299, 300; why so called, 367; larvæ of, 441.
Brunel, Sir Mark I., his improvements in block-machinery, 247.
Buffon, M., his fastidious taste, 6. Bullock, Mr., on the food of humming- birds, 266.
Bunyan, John, his conversion, 226, 227. Burns, Rev. W. C., missionary at Amoy, extract of a letter from him, 240.
Bushel, Mr., proprietor of the Welsh mines, sacrifices his fortunes in the defence of King Charles I., 361. Butler's Analogy, 7.
Coleridge, S. T., remarks by, on Stilling- fleet's Origines Sacræ, 109-112. Concentration, 2, 3.
Coney, the, mention of, in the Bible, 55, 56; description of, by Pallas, &c. 56; the most diminutive genus of pachyder- mata, 56; its habitat, 57; how caught by the Arabs, ib.; various names of, 58. "Consols," 423.
Continent, progress of the gospel in, 319. Copper, commercial value of, 200; its mode
of occurrence, 204, 205, 206, 207; varie- ties of, 205; sometimes found in the metallic state, 205, 206; methods of sepa- rating it from impurities, 304, 305; "dressing" it, 306; process of sale of, 306, 307.
Copper-mines, history of, in Britain, 201, 202; the principal in Cornwall, 202; machinery employed in, 203; depth of, 203; description of the interior of, 208, 209; casualties in, 303, 304.
Copyright, decision respecting, 237, 238. Coral-polypes, structures of, 53; depth beyond which they cannot exist, ib.; their method of existence, ib.; affinity between, and actiniæ, 54.
Costar, Mr., his energy in developing the mineral treasures of Cornwall, 202, 203. Counties of England, characteristics of the, 381.
Cowper, William, conversion of, 226; his
birth and boyhood, 412; his earlier ca- reer, 413; his later life, 414, 415, 416;
specimens of his epistolary style, 416- 419; his excellency as a letter-writer, 419.
Crystal Palace at Sydenham, opening of the, 80.
Cuckoo, the, why unable to rear its young, 59-61.
Cupellation, process of, 366.
Cyanæa aurita, or sea-blubber, generation of, 218, 219; capillata, 83. Cydippe pileus, 220, 221.
Dalyell, Sir John, on the production and duration of life of sea-anemones, 50-52; on the regeneration of sea-cucumbers, 439. Darling, Mr., completion of Vol. I. of the Cyclopædia Bibliographica, 159, 160. Darwin, Mr., his discovery respecting the depth beyond which coral-worms cannot exist, 53.
Decimal coinage, discussion respecting,
Defoe, Mr., his letter to Mr. Baker, 412. Deyrolle, M., on the festive coquette hum- ming-bird, 446.
Different-coloured glasses, effect of, on the germination of plants, 405, 406. Digestion, organs of, 13.
Dioramas at King William Street, 79. Discophora, 217.
Divining-rod, the, 123, 124. Dolcoath mine, 122.
Domenichino considered the most able of the scholars of the Carracci, 342; his fresco of the "Flagellation of St. Andrew" painted in competition with Guido's "St. Andrew conducted to Mar- tyrdom," 343; his "Communion of St. Jerome," 344, 345; the jealousy of Lan- franco, 345, 346, 347; his masterpieces, 347; cabal against him at Naples, 349; his death, 350.
Drake, Sir Francis, his capture of Vera Cruz, 430, 431.
Dressing-floors," 302.
Dwight's Christianity in Turkey, 400.
Earnest Student, the, 276-284.
Eastern Steam Navigation Company, enor- mous steam-ship built for, 399, 400. Echinodermata, 294-300, 367-373, 436-442. Echinus, or sea-urchin, its elaborate struc- ture, 297, 298, 372, 373; difference be- tween it and feather-star, 298. Elaboration, 5-8.
Eldon, Lord, his knowledge of cotton-ma- chinery, 3.
Encrinites, or lily-stones, 294, 295; their
rarity at the present day, 295. England and Russia, 77, 466,
English letter-writers: William Cowper, 409-419.
Englishmen, restlessness of, 273, 274. Essay: Veneration for the past, and its opposite, 41.
Exchequer bills, 428.
Exeter Hall lectures, 465.
Eye, structure of the, 378, 379. Eyelid, muscles of the, 378.
"Faults" in tin-lodes, 120, 121. Feather-star, rosy, curious discovery re- specting, 295, 296; description of, 296. Fibrin, how it may be obtained, 374. First-rate, description of a, 241. First-rates, 1-8.
Five-finger, or cross-fish, description of, 368; its locomotive powers, 369, 370; its sucker-feet, 370; its gastronomy, 371. Fletcher, John, his conversion, 226. Forbes, Professor, on the Cyanæa capillata, 83, 84; directions by, for procuring me- dusæ, 86; on the metamorphosis of an encrinite into a feather-star, 296; on the difficulty of capturing lingthorns, 367, 368; on the structure of the sea-urchin, 373; his death, 464, 465.
Food, how converted into blood, 13. Foster, John, care taken by him in the composition of his Essays, 7. Franklin, Benjamin, and electricity, 87. Franklin, Sir John, fate of, 398. Friend, the countenance of a, 337-340. Funded debt, 428.
Funds, the, 350-358, 420-429.
Gosse, Mr., Aquarium, 158; on the Melli- suga minima, 260, 261, note, 328, 329; on the black-capped humming-bird, 321, 322, 323; on the best method of bringing humming-birds to England, 324. Gould, Mr., Monograph of the Trochilide, 263, note, 450; on the little flame-bearer, 444; on the nests of the white-throated sapphire, 445, 446.
Government, how money is raised by it, 422.
Graham's Jordan and the Rhine, 400. Great histories, story of: Hume's History of England, 310-317.
Great pictures, notes on: Leonardo da Vinci's" Last Supper," 62-72; Raphael's "Transfiguration," 161-173; Domenichi- no's "Communion of St. Jerome," 341- 349.
Guido, his "St. Andrew conducted to Martyrdom," 343.
Guilding, Rev. Landsdown, on the food and nests of humming-birds, 265, 267.
Hip-joint, structure of the, 216. Holothuriadæ. See Sea-cucumbers. Homes: how to make and how to improve them, No. I. introductory, 127-133. Hooft, of Holland, his industry, 6. Howard, Sir Edward, maxim of, 430. Human structure, the, 9-14; how the equality of its temperature is preserved, 13; means for the renovation of, 13, 14; difference between it and a human ma- chine, 14.
Hume, David, his birth, 310; his charac- ter, 311; is appointed librarian to Fa- culty of Advocates, Edinburgh, ib.; writes the History of England, 311, 312; attractions of his style, 313; his know- ledge of human nature, 313, 314; his indo- lence and prejudice, 314, 315; his antipa- thies and misrepresentations, 315 317. Humming-birds, metallic lustre of their plumage, 258; gradation in their size, 260; their distribution, 261-263; number of species of, 263; their food, 263-266; their nests, 267, 268; unsuccessful at- tempts to domesticate them, 268, 269, 324; habits during the breeding season, 269; wings and bills, 270, 271; different species of, 321-330, 443-450.
Idiots, weight of the brain of, 461. Infancy, 118.
Inkermann, battle of the, 466. Intestinal canal, 13.
Italian art, condition of, at the time of Raphael, 162; schools of painting, 342.
Jay, Rev. William, Autobiography of, 318, 319.
Johnson, Dr., on the scarcity of distin- guished letter-writers, 409.
Johnstone, Dr., on the voracity of the sea- anemone, 51, 52.
Joints, mucus of the, 11; their mechanism, 214, 215.
Jones, Professor, his description of the "Sallee-man," 223.
Jones, Sir Wm., his universal genius, 2. Judson, Dr., his devotedness, 142, 143.
Kitto, Dr., fund for the relief of, 239. Knox, John, effect produced by the news of his return to Scotland, 451, 452.
Lanfranco, his persecutions of Domeni- chino, 345, 346, 347.
"Last Supper," the, by Leonardo da Vinci, description of, 64, 67; its present state, 65; copies and engravings of, 65, 66, 72. Lawson, Mr., Edinburgh, his experiments on the germination of seeds, 406, note. Lead - mines, Roman, 359; charters re- specting, 359, 560; productiveness of the Welsh, 360; customs connected with the Derbyshire, 363, 364.
Lead ore, in which counties most produc- tive, 364; quantity of, raised in the United Kingdom, ib.; amount of silver
in, 365; processes of separating silver from, 365, 366.
Lester, Rev. J. W., A Letter to the Arch- bishops, &c. 79.
Letters from London to friends far away, 77-80.
Letter-writers, 409, 410.
Life, in its lower forms, No. III. Polypi- fera, 47-54; No. IV. Acalephæ, 81-86, 217-223; No. V. Echinodermata, 294- 300, 367-373, 436-442.
Light, rapidity with which it travels, 88; phenomena of vision and the colour of bodies dependent upon, 401; experi- ments upon, 402.
Lightning, 88; varieties of, 89. Lightning-conductors, 87, 88. Limbs, 11.
Lingthorn (Luidia fragilissima), difficulty of capturing, 367, 368.
Literature: Marginalia, S. T. Coleridge, 109; Hume's History of England, 310; The old scrap-book, 331; English letter- writers: Cowper, 409.
"Little travellers Zionward,” 17. Living epistles, 134-145, 224-234. Livingston, Rev. David, his travels in Afri- ca, 399.
Loans by government, disadvantages of, to meet increased expenses, 351, 352. Logan, Rev. John, lines on the cuckoo, 59. London, statistics of the health of, 160. Lowrie, Mr., Manual of Missions, 160. Lucas, Mr., valour of, 435. Lucernaria, 82.
Lyons, Sir Edmund, his gallant conduct when lieutenant of the Minden, 431, 432.
Macaulay, Mr., on Hume's History of Eng- land, 316, 317.
Mackintosh, John, his birth and education, 276; his character, 277; visits Italy, 278; extracts from his letters, 282-284; his death, 284.
Mackintosh, Sir James, tribute paid by him to his wife, 131, 132. Madrepores or corals, 53. Magdalen Hepburn, 318.
Magnets and mote-catchers, 152-156. Mahon, Lord, History of England subse- quent to the Peace of Utrecht, 318. Malachite, 205.
Man's individuality, 454-457. Marginalia, by S. T. Coleridge, 109-112. Marrack, Fort, captured by Sir Edmund Lyons, 431-432.
Medusa, various forms of, 81, 82; some species of, emit phosphorescent light, 84, 85; variety of size in, 85; naked- eyed and covered-eyed, ib.; directions for procuring, 86; reproduction of, 217, 218; different species of, 217-223. Mellisuga minima, the least of all birds, 260, 262, 328, 329.
Melmoth, Mr., on the scarcity of good letter-writers, 409, 410.
Mendip Hills, remains of Roman mining at the, 359.
Metallic deposits, how they are formed,
Metallic lustre in the animal kingdom, 259, 260.
Metals, variety of, in England, 34; annual value of, ib.
Metallurgy, imperfect state of, among the Romans, 359; notices of, in the Bible, 366. See British Mining. Metamorphosis, a, 61. Michelangelo, rivalry between him and Raphael, 169, 170; assists Sebastiano in the Raising of Lazarus,” 170.
Middleton, Sir Hugh, realises a fortune from Welsh mines, 360; loses the same in bringing the New River to London, 361.
Milner's Baltic and White Sea, 400. Miller, Hugh, My Schools and Schoolmas- ters, 318.
"Mine Adventure, the," 361, 362. Miner, heroism of a, 303, 304. Mineral veins or lodes, 119, 120. "Mines-royal," laws respecting, 363. Ministering Children, 318.
Missions, Protestant, statistics of, 160. Monasteries of the middle ages, 178, 253. Müller, Johann, on the development of star-fishes, 440.
Murchison, Sir Roderick, Siluria, 157, 158. Muscles, their use, 11, 374; their structure,
374; their number, ib.; voluntary and involuntary, ib.; flexion and extension of, 375; their arrangement, 376; their harmony and accuracy of action, 377, 379; their rapidity of motion, 378. Museum of Ornamental Art opened on Saturdays, 320.
My Brother's Keeper, Chaps. VII., VIII., 15-33; Chaps. IX., X., 91-108; Chap. XI., 184-199.
My own work, 451-457.
Napoleon, his conquest by England ac counted for, 421.
Nasmyth's steam-hammer, 246. National debt, its commencement, 354, 421; its gradual increase, 356; sinking- funds established for the diminution of, 355-357; amount of, in 1786, in 1816, and at the present time, 421, 422, 424, 429; how it can be extinguished, 427. Naval dockyards, a peep into, 241-249; steam-docks at Plymouth and Devon- port, 243, 244; relative importance of, 244.
Neck, bones of the, 215.
Nelson, Lord, encounter when a midship- man with a Polar bear, 114. Nerves, 10.
Nervous system, the, 458. Newton, Sir Isaac, on the seven primary rays, 403; on the refraction of light, ib. Norfolk, notes on, 381-388; its aspect, 383; distinguished natives of, 387; cha
racter of its inhabitants, 387, 388; re- mains of ecclesiastical antiquity in, 388. Norwich, remarkable places in, 382, 383; foreign settlers at, 385, 386; taste for floriculture displayed by its inhabitants, 386.
Obituary: Sir John Franklin, 398; "Old
Humphrey," 462; Dr. Golding Bird, 463; Professor Forbes, 464; General Cath- cart, 466.
Ocean, varied forms of being in, 54. "Old Humphrey" (Mr. G. Mogridge), death of, 462.
Open-Air Preaching, report of the Asso- ciation for, 79.
Ophiocoma rosula, 298; beauty of its spines, 299.
Opie, Amelia, as a wife and daughter, 129. Oreotrochilus, 325, 326.
Ornithology: The cuckoo, 59-61; Trochili-
dæ, or humming-birds, 258-271, 321-330, 443-450.
Ourselves: The human fabric, 9-14; The
bones, 210-216; The muscles, 374-380; The nervous system and the brain, 458- 462.
Owen, Professor, on the fossil remains of a quadruped allied to the coney, 58. Oxypogon Lindeni, 328.
Paley, Dr., on the movement of the muscles, 375.
Palm-house at Kew Gardens, the glass of, how prepared, 405, note.
Parry, Sir W. E., address by, to seamen, 79; on the flesh of the Polar bear, 117. Past, veneration for the, and its opposite, 41-46.
Patriotic Fund, progress of, 466.
Patterson, Mr., description by, of an en- crinite, 295.
Pattinson, Mr. H. L., his process of sepa-
rating silver from lead ore, 365, 366. Payson, Dr., his character, 143, 144. Pedicellariæ of star-fishes, curiosity of their structure, 300, 436. Perseverance, 3-5.
Phrenologists, results of the experiments of, 462.
Pichincha, volcanic mountain of, 448-450. Pitt, Mr., sinking-fund instituted by him,
Photographs of the moon, 396.
Plant, the, in the cellar, 150, 151. Plants, experiments on the germination, growth, and flowering of, 407. Plymouth and Devonport, new steam-docks at, 243, 244.
Poetry: Sonnets, 61, 118, 209; Clouds, 183. Polar bear, the, description of, 113; its food, 114; encounters with, 114, 115; at- tachment to its young, 115, 116; its flesh and skin, 116, 117. Polypifera, 47-54.
Plymouth, its dockyards, 244, 249. Portuguese man-of-war, 221, 222. Potter, Paul, and the "Bull," 6.
Poussin, Nicolas, his appreciation of Do- menichino, 341, 346. Prismatic spectrum, 402. Pterophanes Temminckii, 330. Pulszky's Tricolor on the Atlas, 318.
Raphael, his birth, 162; is placed under Pietro Perugino, 163; his sojourn at Florence, 163, 164; his frescoes in the Vatican Palace, 164, 167; his cartoons at Hampton Court, 167; his extraor- dinary ability and style, 168, 169; how far indebted to Michael Angelo, 169, 170; his death, 172.
Rapin de Thoyras, his History of England, 311, 312.
Rennie, Mr., on the food of humming. birds, 265.
Review of the Months, 157-160, 237-240, 318-320, 397-400, 462-466.
Richardson, Mr., his account of the pre-
sent condition of the "Last Supper," 65. Right way of resting, the, 272-275. Rock-animals and plants, 55.
Rome, thoughts on visiting, 278–280. Romilly, Sir Samuel, tribute paid by him to the character of his wife, 132, 133. Rowers, the, 149, 150.
Safety-fuse, its use in mines, 303. Salève, an October excursion to the, 285- 293.
"Sallee-man" description of, 222, 223. Salmon, experiments in the propagation of, 320.
Saturday half-holiday, 320.
Scheele, M., on the effect of the sun's rays, 401.
Schlegel, M., on the inability of the cuckoo to rear its young, 60, 61.
School-apparatus, exhibition of, 157. Scoresby, Capt., on the variations of com- passes in iron-built vessels, 393. Scotland, effects of closing public-houses on the Sabbath in, 78.
Scott Russell, Mr. J., on the progress of naval architecture and steam-navigation, 395; colossal ship built by, 400. Scrap-book, the old, 331-336. Screw-propellers, advantages of, 242, 243. Scriver's parables: The violet, 146; The child at play, 147; The bird in the cage, 148; The rowers, 149; The plant in the cellar, 150; Beans in blossom, 151. Sea-anemones, how procured and pre- served, 48, 49; description of, 49; pro- cess of reproduction, 50; their method of feeding, 50, 51; duration of life, 52; number of species of, ib.
Sea-blubbers. See Medusæ and Cyanæa aurita.
Sea-cucumbers, their mode of regenera- tion, 439; esteemed delicacies by the Chinese, ib; processes of preparing them for the market, 440; extent of traffic in, ib.
Sea urchins. See Echinus.
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