Cloudland, 273–277.

Clouds, 274, 275; varieties of, 277.
Cockatoo, the, a native of Australia and
the Indian Islands, 123; anecdote of a,
124; mode of killing it with the boome-
rang, 124, 125; its plumage, 125; the
sulphur-crested, 125, 126.
Cockburn, Lord, 424.

Colour, the power of, 133; durability of, in
the pictures of the Van Eycks, 360;
evanescent nature of that of modern
painters, ib.

Conchology. See Snails.

Constantine proclaimed Emperor at York,
247.

Contractile bladder of infusoria, 108, 109.
Coxcie, Michael, employed by Philip II.

to make a copy of the "Adoration of the
Lamb," 359, 360.

Crimea, the, its annexation to Russia, 305,
306; its populations, 306.

Cromwell, O., his advice to his son, 398.
Crosland, Mrs. N., Memorable Women, 159.
Crosses, Vision of the, 181.
Crystal Palace at Sydenham, 80.

Cunningham, Mr., editor of Goldsmith's
Works, 160.

Curzon's Armenia, 296.

Dobie, Dr., researches into the nature of
sponges, 170.

Dockyards, capabilities of the, 327.
Don Kosaks, 402.

Domenico Veneziano treacherously mur-
dered by Andrea del Castagno, 362, 363.
Druids, the, their religious tenets, 30;
their cruelty, 31; their scholarship, ib.;
their defeat by the Romans, 31; their
incantations, 32; their remains, ib.

Earnest Cove, 299.

Eastlake, Sir Charles, his testimony to the
right of the Van Eycks to the discovery
of oil-painting, 362.

Ecclesiastical History: The Druids, 30;
Christianity in Roman Britain, 244.
Edgar, J. G., Footprints of Famous Men,
159.
Egyptians, originally a tribe from Asia,

205; their physiognomy, 206; discovery
of two of their deeds of sale, ib.
Ehrenberg, Prof., his experiments on in-
fusoria, 108, 110, 113; considers some
infusoria to be plants, 165; detects infu-
soria in the air, 113.
Electrometer, 211.

England, revenue and exports of, in 1853,
77; religious statistics of, 157.
Entomostracous crustacea: Lymington
brine-shrimp and Fezzan worm, 213.
Ericsson's caloric ship, 77, 78.
Esquimaux, utility of the walrus to the,
38; in Russian America, 408.
Esthonia, 234, 235.

Ethnology: Ancient Egyptians, 204; po-
pulations of Russia, 232, 303, 401.
Evangelists, their trustworthiness, 385;
their different styles and characteristics,
385, 386; their circumstantial minute-
ness, 387; their undesigned coincidences,
388-393.

Everlasting Hills, the, 68.
Euglena, 111.

Faber, Rev. G. Stanley, 222.
Fezzan worm, 214–216.
Finland, populations of, 232.
Fins, 235, 236.

Firmament, props of the, 104.
Fogs, 274.

Food, consumption of, in the United King-
dom, 375.

Forbes, Professor, Monograph of the British
Naked-eyed Medusa, 380.

Foreign countries, first impressions on
reaching, 69, 70.

Fuegia. See Tierra del Fuego.
Fuegian martyrs, the, 297–302.
Funeral hymn, a, 76.

Gabriac, M., account by, of the breeding
of the Pavouan parrakeet, 57, 58.
Gardiner, Capt., journal of, 299–301.
Gaskoin, Mr., account by, of a milk-white
helix, 319, 322.

Gay-Lussac, M., experiments by, on ani-
mals liberated from a balloon, 212.

Generation, law of the alternations of, 382.
Geneva, revival at, 224.
Geography: Russia, 216.
Georgians, the, 403.

German element, the, in Russia, 233, 234,
238.

Germanus of Auxerre, his triumph over

the Pelagians, 250; over the Picts, ib.
Gervais, M., on the fresh-water hydra, 318.
Glastonbury thorn, 244.

Gibbon, E., his boyhood, 365; effect pro-
duced on his mind by reading the Uni-
versal History, 5, 366; his historical
compositions at college, 367; commence-
ment and conclusion of his Decline and
Fall, 368, 370.

Gildas, on the character of the clergy, 248.
Goldau, village of, buried under a landslip,
288.

Gold, increase of, 376.

Goldsmith, Oliver, and his Works, 160.
Golovin, on the Caucasus, 426.

Gonium pectorale, high-priest's breast-
plate, 111.

Gordon, Dr., death of, 79; Christ as made
known to the Ancient Church, 376.
Gospel, the, its transforming effect on the
character of man, 5-7.

Gospels, comparison of the, 387-393.
Gould, Mr., his account of cockatoos, 126;
parrakeets, 129, 130, 131; the red-winged
lory, 131, 132.

Grant, Dr., on the currents in sponges,
168, 169; on the manner of increase of
sponges, 267, 268.

Great Britain, area of, 218, 220.
Great Histories: Gibbon's Decline and
Fall of the Roman Empire, 365–373; Ra-
leigh's History of the World, 395–400.
Great Pictures, Notes on, 355-364.
Great White Throne, the, 81-88.
Grecian Archipelago, sponges of, 212;
divers in, 213, 214.

Green microglene, a monad, declared by
Kützing to be produced from a plant, 165.

Hail, 275.

Halos, 420.

Hasselquist, M., on diving for sponges in
the Greek islands, 263.
Haydon's Autobiography, 80.
Heligoland, 241.

Helix, account of the long life of a milk-

white, 319; desertorum, singular history
of a, 320, 321. See Snails.
Hemprich and Ehrenberg, MM., on the
habits of the wild-goat, 200, 201.
Henry, Capt., captures and sends to Eng-
land a walrus, 33.

Henry, Matthew, on the behemoth, 135.
Herschell, Mrs., Memoir of, 425.
Hill's Travels in Siberia, 426.
Hippopotamus, the behemoth of Scripture,
135; mode of capturing it in ancient
Egypt, 136; at the present day to be
found only in Africa, 137; its immense
mouth, 138, 139; mode of destroying it
in Eastern Africa, 138; attack of, on a

429

boat, 139, 140; its habits and food, 140;
its flesh, teeth, skin, 141; in the Zoolo-
gical Gardens, its passage to and life in
this country, 141, 142.

History of the World, Raleigh's, 395-400.
Hoar-frost, 274.

Hooker, Dr. Joseph, Notes of a Naturalist,
223.

Horn, Nicholas, his life an exemplification
of aversion to labour, 1.

House-fly, the animal of medium size in
creation, 43, note.

Hungary, History of the Protestant Church
in, 295.

Hydra, the fresh-water, its mode of cap-
turing its prey, 314: its weapons of of-
fence, 315; anomalous mode of produc-
tion, 164, 316; monstrosities produced
from, 317, 318.
Hydrogen, 50, 117.
Hygrometer, 210.

Hymn, story of a, 251-260; traced from
Scotland to England, 252-255; thence to
St. Augustine, 259, 260.

Ibex, or bouquetin, 200.

Impasto of early Venetian pictures, 364.
Indolence, a besetting sin of fallen man, 1;
its disastrous effects, 2.

Infusoria, why so called, 44; different
species of, 42-47, 109-112; external or-
gans of, 109, 110; mountain in Bohemia
composed of the shells of fossil, 110;
fossil remains of, used for food in Swe-
den, ib.; instructions for obtaining and
preserving, 113, 114.

Inglefield, Captain, letter from, 228-231.
Inglis, Sir R. H., his retirement from the
representation of the University of Ox-
ford, 157, 158.

Intellectual epochs in the lives of famous
men, 5.

Iron, the, 404.

Jameson, Professor, 374.

Jay, Rev. William, death of, 158; Female
Characters of Scripture, 376.

Jews, their peculiar training for the re-
ception of the truth, 21; their character
at the advent, 25; of England, interest-
ing controversy among the, 224.
Johnston, Dr., at first places sponges
among the vegetables, 166; afterwards
classes them among the zoophytes, 166,
167; on the tenacity of life in the snail,
320.

Jones, Professor, on the reproduction of
sponges, 268.

Joseph of Arimathea supposed to be the
first to bring the Gospel to this country,
244.

Judson, Dr., Memoir of, 80.

Kaka, description of the, 128.
Kalmucs, the, 307, 308.
Kaye, Bishop, 79.

Kohl, M., 237.
Kosaks, the, 401, 402.

Krüdener, Madame de, her character, 413;
her influence over the mind of the Em-
peror Alexander, 414, 415.
Kützing, M., his researches into the dis-
tinction between plants and animals, 165.

Laborde, M. Léon, on the capture of the
wild-goat, 202.

Laharpe, Cesar, French tutor to the Em-
peror Alexander, 410.

Laminaria digitata, 378.

Lang, Mr. Oliver, builder of the Royal
Albert, 329.

Laomedea geniculata, 378; dichotoma, 379.
Laplanders, magic an hereditary art
among the, 89.

Lardner's Handbooks of Natural Philo-
sophy, 80.

Layard, A., Discoveries, 79.

Lefebvre, M., on the timidity of the hippo-
potamus in Abyssinia, 137.
Lesgians, the, 405.

Letters from London to friends far away,
77-80.

Letts, 231, 236, 237.

Le Vaillant, M., description by, of the
blue-bellied parrakeet, 56, 57; of the
grey parrot, 59, 60; of the damask par-
rot, 62, 63; of the Carolina parrot, 64.
Levitical code, rationale of the, 20-22.
Life, in its Lower Forms. No. I. Infusoria,
39-48, 108-114; No. II. Porifera (Sponges),
161-171, 261-272; No. III. Polypifera,
312-318, 377-382.

Life, what is it? 39, 40.

Light, 420; refraction of, 420, 421.
Light's Teachings, 183-185.

Linnæus, 135.

Lithuanians, 233, 237.

Lories, 131, 132; the king, 131; the red-

winged, 131, 132.

Love-birds, 132.

Missions: The Fuegian martyrs, 297.
Mists, 274.

Mistletoe employed in Druidical incanta-
tions, 32.

Mitchell, Sir Thomas, on cockatoos, 126.
Monad, twilight, considered to be the most
minute of all living beings, 42, 43; its
proportion to the Balaenoptera boops, 43,
note; description of, 43, 44.
Monkish chroniclers, 245.
Montgomery, James, 423.

Moon, occultation of Mars by, 336-345;
has it an atmosphere? 345.

Morpeth, Lord, lines by, on Niagara, 180.
Morrison Educational Society at Hong-
Kong, 296.
Moscovy, 304.

Moscow, burning of, 412.

Mould, the, and the Medallion, a lesson in
the Christian evidence, 19-28.
Murray's British Classics, 160; Handbook
of Turkey, 426.

Museum of Science and Art, the, 223.

Napier, Sir Charles, 79.

Nasmyth, Mr., on the instantaneity of the
occultation of a star, 343, 344, note.
Nature, mysteries of, 48.

Naval architecture, history of, 323–327;
late improvements in, 326, 327.

Neff, Felix, his labours in the Alps, 193.
Nelson, Lord, adventure of, when a lad

with a walrus, 36.

Nestor productus, 127.

"New Jerusalem," the, 251, 252.

Newport, Mr. George, 375.

News of the Churches, 223.

Niagara, 172–180.

Night, a, with Mars and the Moon, 336-
345.

Nitric acid, 52.

Nitrogen, 51; source of, in plants, 116.
North-west passage, discovery of, 78.

Ocean over-head, 48-52.

Oil-painting, discovery of, ascribed to the
Van Eycks, 356-358; knowledge of, con-
veyed to Italy, 362.

Oliphant's Shores of the Black Sea, 296, 426.
Opie, Amelia, 79.

Optical delusions, 420, 421.

Ornithology: parrots, cockatoos, macaws,
lories, 53-66, 121-134.
Oscillatoriæ, 164.

Oudney, Dr., description by, of the Fezzan
worm, 214, 215.

Owen, Professor, on the anatomy of the
walrus, 35, note; on the mouth of the
hippopotamus, 143; on classing sponges
among vegetables, 167.
Oxygen, 50, 51.

Paley, Dr., how roused from his lethargy
when at college, 4; his subsequent in-
dustry and his introduction to Christian
literature, 4, 5; his Hore Paulinæ, 393.
Palud the renegade, 193, 198.
Pandorina morum, 111.
Papers on the Air and Sky: The ocean
over-head, 48-52; Our atmospheric food,
115-120; An aerial voyage, 208-212;
Cloudland, 273-277; The way of the
wind, 332-335; Rainbows, halos, mirage,
420-422.

Paramecium, 109.

Parrakeets. See Parrots.

Parrots, their distribution, 53; their pow-
ers of imitation, 53, 60, 61; the blue-
bellied parrakeet, 56; the Pavouan par-
rakeet, 57, 58; the grey parrot, 59, 60;
anecdotes of, 60, 61; the damask parrot,
61, 62; the Carolina parrot, 63-66; the
honey-sucking parrakeet, 127; the grass
parrakeet, 128; the ground parrakeet,
128, 129, 130, 131; the warbling ground
parrakeet, 129.

Paul, Emperor of Russia, strangled, 409.
Peach, Mr., description of the Laomedea
dichotoma, 379, 380.

Pelagius, his character, 248; his doctrinal

431

Rigi, ascent of the, 285-293; sunrise from,
291-293.

Roby, Mr., Legendary and Poetical Re-
mains, 159.

Roman Britain, Christianity in, 244-250.
Roman Empire, Decline and Fall of, its

origin and progress, 368–370; its style,
369; its execution, 371; its faults, 372;
its popularity and profoundness, 373.
Romanist, scrap-book of a, 255–257.
Rossberg, landslip at, 288.

Royal Albert, description of the, 329–331.
Rumanyos, the, 308.

Ruskin's Stones of Venice, extract from,
133, 134.

Rusniaks, the, 310, 311.

Russia, its extent, 217, 218; variety of its
climate, 219, 303; area of, 220; hetero-
geneous character of its populations, 303,
304; division into Great, Little or Red,
and White, 310.

Russian America, populations of, 408.
Russian Populations, I. The Baltic pro-

vinces and Finland, 232-243; II. The
parts around the Black Sea, 303-311;
III. The Kosaks, Caucasians, Siberians,
and North Americans, 401-408.

Sacrifices, their significance to the Israel-
ites, 22.

Schnitzler's Russia, 416, 419, 426.

Scotland, religious and educational census
of, 425.

Scott, Sir Walter, 365.

Scripture Ethnology: Egyptians, 204–207.
Sea anemone, an animal or a flower? 162.
Sensitive plants, 163.

Seppings, Sir R., his circular sterns, 326.
Sertulariadæ, 377.

Shamyl, description of, 405, 406; pro-
clamation by, 406, 407.

Sherwood, Mrs., Life of, 426.

Ships, dimensions of large, 157.

Siberia, populations in, 408.

Smell, sense of, 70, 71.

Smith, Albert, Story of Mont Blanc, 80.

Smith, Alexander, Poems, 80.

Smith, Dr. Pye, Life of, 80.

Smyrna, the principal market for the
sponge-trade, 262.

Snails, their long lives and their revivals,
319-322.

Snow, 277.

Sonnets: "Blessed are they that mourn,"
182; "One Star differeth from another
in glory," 207.

Southey, Robert, remarkable crisis in his
history, 3; his industry, 3, 145; his mo-
nument in the Poet's Corner, 145; his
conscientiousness, 147.

Spaniard Harbour, 297.
Spirillum, 44.

Spithead, naval review at, 80.

Sponges (Porifera), animals or vegetables?
165-167; various species of, 167, 169,
170, 171; currents in, 168, 169; discovery
of their animal nature, 169-171; horny,
261; Turkey and West Indian, 262;

Grecian, 263; diving for, 263, 264; uses
of, 264, 265; their bibacity, 265, 266;
their method of increase, 267.
St. Bavon, church of, at Ghent, 355.
St.-Hilaire, Auguste, 79.
Stentors, 112.

Stonehenge, Druidical remains at, 32.
Storms, circular theory of, 335.

Strigops habroptilus, its habits, 126, 127.
Suetonius Paulinus defeats the ancient
Britons, 31, 32.

Sunday scholars and teachers, number of,
in England and Wales in 1851, 424, 425.
Swedes in Russia, 241-243; superstitions
of, 242, 243; colonies of, 243.
Symonds, Sir W., his improvements in
ship-building, 326.

Table-turning mania, 223, 224.
Talfourd, Mr. Justice, 294.

Tartars, the, 305-307; their religion
language, and habits, 306, 307.
Tempera-painting, 357.

Temple of Jerusalem, a scene in the, 23,
24.

Theology: Onward and upward, 1; The
mould and the medallion, 19; The great
white Throne, 81; The volatile treasure,
149; The throne of grace, 186; The
cheque and the counterfoil, 383.
Thermometer, 210.

Thornton, Edward, Gazetteer of India, 159.
Three Wakings, the, 89-101.
Throne of grace, the, 186-192

Tierra del Fuego, mission to and its tra-
gical results, 297-302; inhospitality of
its coasts, 297; character of its inhabit-
ants, ib.

Time, value of, 149-155.

Tintinnidæ, 110.

Tolmans, or perforated rocks, ascribed to
the Druids, 32.

Wardlaw, Dr., 79.

Water, transformations of, 275.

Waterton, Mr., on macaws, 123; on the
great ant-eater, 270.

Weather-glass, principle of the, 277.
Weiss, Professor, History of the French
Protestant Refugees, 295.

Weitbrecht, Rev. J. J., Memoir of, 425.
Welsh, Mr., observations from a balloon,
212.

Westminster Abbey, how they found their
way to, 144-149.

Whately, Archbishop, on the "Rise and
Corruptions of Christianity," 80.
Whirlwinds, 334, 335.

Wildbad, first impressions at, 69, 70; fra-
grance of the fir at, 71; sense of seclu-
sion at, 71, 72; education, morality, and
religion at, 72-76; a funeral at, 75, 76;
its ways and its waters, 278-282.
Wild-goat, the, or the Beden, found on
Mount Sinai, 200, 201; its agility and
wariness, 201; its flesh, skin, and horns,
202, 203.

Wilkinson, Sir Gardner, Popular Account
of the Ancient Egyptians, 159.

Williams, Richard, memoir of, 297; jour-
nal of, 301, 302.

Wilson, Alexander, his account of the
Carolina parrot, 63–65.

Wilson, Professor, 373, 374.

Wind, phenomena of the, 332-335.

Wooden Walls of Old England, 323, 327.
Woodward, Mr., Manual of Mollusca, 321,

322.

Wordsworth's celandine, 283, 284.

Young Men's Christian Association, 78,
222, 424.

Zoophytes. See Infusoria, Porifera, Poly-
pifera.