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Crucifixion, represented, 68
Cruelty to Brutes, lines on, 40
Cuckoo and Nightingale, contention
between, 148-lines on, ib.
Daw, 52
Day-flies, 1

Death-watch, xxiv
Death, lines on, 219
December, explained, 251
Dermestes, bacon, xxiii
Dial among flowers, 217
Dodd, R. 90
Dog-days, 187

Domestic happiness, a poem, 3.33
Ear-wig, xxix-best mode of de-
stroying, xxx
Easter Day, 69-ceremonies at Je-
rusalem, 71-73

Eve, 69-ceremonies at Je-
rusalem, ib. at Dresden, 70
hymns, sung in the Rus-
sian church, 71

Monday, 74 Tuesday, 89
Eclipse of the Sun in 1820, lines
on, 195, 196

Edinburgh, shoemakers' festival at,
289

Edmund, king and martyr, 320
Edward, king of the West Saxons,
60

Ember days, 43, 129, 261
Emperor, purple, xliii
Entomology, study of, important to
youth, lxx, lxxi

on, lxxii
Epiphany, 4

British, select books

February, explained, 35
Festa di Cattedra, 11

Flea, Ixv

Flesh-fy, lx

Flowers, lines on, 174, 204
Fools, order of, 315-319
Forest-fly, Ixi
Fox, C. J. 107

Freezing-water, force of, 27
Frog-hopper, xxxiv
Frost-well, 35

Frost, effects of, 25-27
Fruits and seeds, 309
Fucus, sensitive, 281
Fungi, 302, 331
Gad-flies, lix
Gall insects, 1, li
Garrick, saying of, 262
Mrs. 287

Geese, of what repute in France,
262-livers made into pies, ib.
Gemini described, 325

George the Fourth and a' that, 227
Glow-worm, xxix-lines on, ib.,
247, note

Goatchafer, musk, xxviii

Good Friday, 66-penance on, at
Rome, ib. ceremonies at Jeru-
salem, 67-sonnet on, 68
Gossamer webs, lxiii
Gower, John, 287

Grapes, abundance of in 1822,
278-in France, 279
Grass-hopper, xxxiv-lines on, 179
Hair-worm, clay, 85
Hallowe'en, 313

Hansard, Luke, see Parliamentary
Reports

Harebell, lines on, 113
Harvest-home in Scotland, 248-in
Italy, ib.

Harvest-bug, lxv, 247
Harvest-mouse, 246

Hawkmoth, death's head, xlv—
eyed, xliv-privet, ib.
Hawthorn, lines on, 151
Heard, Sir Isaac, 93
Heart's-ease, lines on, 32
Hedge sparrow, 54-lines on, ib.
Hemans, Mrs. 258
Herschel, Sir Wm. 231
Hessian-fly, lx
Holy Cross, 256

Thursday, 126

Homilies, first book of, 230
Horne, Rev. T. H. 129

Hyades, 300

Hymn, by Mr. Milman, 188
Hypochondriac, best air for, 272
Ice, cargoes of, brought from Nor-
way, 24, 25
Ichneumon, lii
Inchbald, Mrs. 217
Innocents' Day, 339
INSECTS, created with design, xvii
--the cause of blights, xviii, xix
-myriads of, devoured by birds,
xix-wonderful instinct of, ib.
metamorphoses of, ib., xx-their
transient life, 179, note-lan-
guage of, lxvii-their torpidity,
Ixix

Insects, British, select books on,
lxxii

INTRODUCTION, Xvii-lxxii
Invention of the Cross, 119
Ivy-tree, minstrel of, 33

January, explained, 1

Jay, habits of, 177

Jesus, name of, 218

July, explained, 186

King Charles I, martyr, 16

Charles II, restored, 131

May, cross of, 191, note
May-day, 117-119

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with the Muses, 145, note

May-fools, 89
Midlent Sunday, 56
Midsummer Day, 163-165
Mite, in cheese, lxv
Mole-cricket, xxxii
Monasteries, dissolution of, 156-
three sonnets on, 157, 158
Monk fishing, lines on, 213
Moths, xlvii

Moth, clothes, xlviii
lines on, xlix
brown tail, xlix
seratella, xlix
Music, sonnet to, 321
Name of Jesus, 218
Nativity of B. V. M. 255
NATURALIST'S DIARY for January
1823, 23-February, 49-March,
81-April, 102-May, 141-
June, 174-July, 201-August,
241-September, 272-October,
301-November, 329---Decem-
ber, 349

George IV born, 222-acces- New Year's Day, 1-4-in Paris, 4

sion, 16--proclaimed, ib.--crown-

Nicomede, 155

ed, 188--landed in Scotland, 227-Nightingale, lines on, 105-107-

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Leo described, 345

a merry bird, 106, 107-and
Cuckoo, contention between,
148-lines on, ib.

November, explained, 251
Nut weevil, xxvii

Oak, lines on, 151

October, explained, 256

lines on,

311

Leaf, reflections on the fall of, 301 Olives, Mount of, described, 126

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described, 81

Mary Magdalen, 190

Maundy Thursday, 66

O. Michaelmas-day, 286
0. Mart. 321

Oniscus aquaticus, lxvi

entomon, lxvi

Oratory, inscription for, 216
O Sapientia, 336

Outlaw of Taurus, 124
Oysters, fête of, 190

Palm Sunday, eve of, 60

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May, explained, 117--lines on, 142- Passion Sunday, 60

144, 150

Perry, James, 335

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Sea-side ramble, 280-lines on, 282
Seasons, a hymn, by R. Ryan, 353
Seeds, remarks on, 309
Sensitive plant, lines on, 204
September morning, lines on, 272
explained, 251

Septuagesima, 15
Sewell, Dr. Geo. 16
Sexagesima, 37

Sheep, lines on a flock of, 110
Sheep-shearing in Spain, 180
Shelley, Percy Bysshe, 218-speci-
mens of his poetry, 204, 219, 250
Shortest Day, 336
Shrove Tuesday, 39
Sicard, Abbé, 128

Silpha, XXV

Skeleton, lines on, 289
Smith, Wm. 255
Souling explained, 314

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affection

Sparrow, common, increase of, 203
Spiders, nests of, lxii
for their young, Ixiii
Spider, house, lxii
Spider-flies, Ixi

Sphynges, xliv

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of St. Martin, 187
Travelling, pleasures of, 250
Tree-lice, xxxv

Trinity Sunday, 129
Tulips, lines on, 154
Twelfth Day, 5, 6

Ursa major, 268-minor, 270
Valentines, specimens of, 41, 42
Vintage at Como, lines on, 311
Violet, lines on, 86, 111
Virgin Mary, sonnet to, 186
Virgo described, 347

- remarks on the Visitation of B. V. M. 186

changes of, xlvi, xlvii

Volcano in the sea, 36

Spring, remarks on, 102, 142-144-Wall-flower, sonnet to, $3

Walnuts, anecdotes respecting, 279,

280

Sponges, 281

lines on, 81, 82, 143, 144

Swedish, 103

Stag-beetle, xxiii

238, 266, 294, 325, 345

Stirbirch fair, 261

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Water-lily, 215

Starry heavens, reflections on, 197, Water fowl, lines to, 115

Steam coaches, 249, note

Storm at sea, lines on, 352
Stormy night, lines on, 332
Summer evening church-yard in
Gloucestershire, lines on, 251
-——, reflections on, 241-morn-
ing, 201, 202

in S. America, lines on, 207

Sun-flower, lines on, 245
Sun-rise, lines on, 202

Swallow, migration of, 303

Taurus, described, 297

Taylor, Dr. R. 38

Telescope, astronomical, 46
Termes pulsatorium, lxi
Thirst, dreadful, 211

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Time, ode to, ix-xv - lines on a
statue of, 336

Time and rivers compared, 216

Water-flea, lxv

Waterloo, lines on, 159
Weevils, xxvi-xxviii
Wheat-fly, lix

Whit Sunday, 129-Monday, ib.
Winds, lines to, 277, 332
Winter, in Russia, 26-in Canada,
ib.

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In the Frontispiece, the Seven Orders of Linnæus contribute each a representative, to be found among our British Insects; these are disposed either on or about a branch of the common bind-weed, and are as follow:

Fig. 1. Bronze Wood-beetle.

2. The Grasshopper

3. Mazarine-blue Butterfly.
4. Slender-bodied Dragon-fly.

Fig. 5. Golden Chrysis.

6. Yellow-striped Tipula. 7. Common House-spider.

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