number of our readers, that we have in this Third Volume brought to a conclusion most of our Introductions to the different branches of Natural History, originally intended to be continued through several volumes. In every other respect we have adhered to our prospectus; and we hope to go on in the same course for many years to come, gathering strength as we proceed; and so rooting this periodical into the literature of the country, as that there must always in future be in these islands a Magazine of Natural History. With the present Volume is given a Glossarial Index to the technical terms made use of from the commencement of the work up to the present time, with references to the pages where will be found their explanations at length, and their application to the different departments of natural science. As the first step towards the knowledge of the nature of things, and to the communication of that knowledge to others, is to know their names; so we would earnestly recommend to our young readers, or generally to all those who feel that they are not yet beyond the age of acquiring new ideas, to study this Glossary word by word. We would recommend them to turn to every page referred to, so as not only completely to understand the word and its application, but to impress on the understanding and the memory the subject in the discussion of which the application is made. This will be to master a part of every branch of Natural History, and to make the Magazine, as far as it has hitherto proceeded, the reader's own. The ideas communicated to the world in this Magazine proceed from the minds of some hundreds of individuals, all directed to the same subject; they are, therefore, much more worthy of being fixed in the memory than those of any one individual; for example, in a single treatise. This is a proposition which will bear discussion at length; but we must leave it for the present, and conclude by hinting that those who peruse a scientific magazine, as they would glance over a merely literary periodical, are spending their time to very little purpose. Bayswater, Oct. 18. 1830. J. C. L. CONTENTS. 1 PART I. ORIGINAL COMMUNICATIONS. GENERAL SUBJECT. Some Account of the Life, Genius, and Personal Habits of the late Thomas Bewick, the cele- brated Artist and Engraver on Wood. By his A Visit to the Mantellian Museum at Lewes. By Robert Bakewell, Sketch of a Natural Calendar of Coincidence, On the Geography, Geology, and Vegetation of 105 On the Falls of Niagara, and on the Physical 117 An Address delivered at the sixth and last An- F.R.S. 201 Further Notice of the late Mr. George Caley. the Plinian Society. By W. Baird, Esq., 308 Account of an Ornithological Visit to the Is- Remarks on the Natural History of the Parish Trait in the Habits of the Weasel, with Notes on the Water Shrew and the Thrush. By W. Notice of a Discovery respecting the Food of the Bearded Titmouse (Parus biarmicus Lin.). Notice of the Plumage of the Bearded Titmouse when a young Bird. By the Rev. J. Lakes 239 Notice of Stones found in the Stomachs of Pike. On Póntia Chariclèa and Metra, the large and Observations on the Habits and Nidification of the Bearded Titmouse (Parus biármicus L.). Some Account of the Stickleback Fish (Gaster- Notice of the Capture of Vanessa Húntera, for the first time in Britain, with a Catalogue of rare Insects captured. By J. C. Dale, Esq. 332 On the Hydra, or Fresh-water Polypus. By Supposed Parasite Habits of the Night-jar The Cuvierian, or Natural, System of Zoology. By B. Essay 4. On Mammiferous Animals; their Division into Orders, and distinctive Characters of each. Comparison between the Description of the Great Bustard of India, with Additions to the British Fauna; Class, Fishes. By William Yarrell, Esq. F.L.S. Z.S. &c. 521 An Introduction to the Natural History of Mol- luscous Animals. In a Series of Letters. By An Introductory View of the Linnean System BOTANY. of Plants. By Miss Kent, Authoress of Fldra published, with some Notice of those con- sidered the most interesting to British Natu- Fidra Devoniénsis: or a descriptive Catalogue of Plants growing wild in the County of De- von, arranged both according to the Linnean and Natural Systems, with an Account of Delíciæ Sylvarum; or Grand and Romantic Fo- rest Scenery in England and Scotland. Drawn from Nature and etched by Jacob George Cours de l'Histoire Naturelle des Mammifères. A Geological Survey of the Yorkshire Coast, de- scribing the Strata and Fossils occurring be- tween the Humber and the Tees, from the German Ocean to the Plain of York. By the Rev. George Young, A.M., assisted by John Bird, Artist, Members of several Local Philo- sophical Societies. Second Edition Sýlva Britannica; or Portraits of Forest Trees distinguished for their Antiquity, Magnitude, Gloucestershire Worcestershire Glossarial Index 159 Retrospective Criticism 160 Queries and Answers Index to Books reviewed and noticed General Index |