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,

400.

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,

394.

Defoe, Mr., his letter to Mr. Baker, 412.
Deyrolle, M., on the festive coquette hum-
ming-bird, 446.

Diamond beetle, 260.

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.

66

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.

Electricity, 87.

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.

469

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.

Lacteals, 13.

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.

Ligaments, 11.

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.

Lungs, 13.

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,

307-309.

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.

Milan cathedral, 281.

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,

355.

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.

471

Poussin, Nicolas, his appreciation of Do-
menichino, 341, 346.
Prismatic spectrum, 402.
Pterophanes Temminckii, 330.
Pulszky's Tricolor on the Atlas, 318.

Radiism, 438.

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.