Macaulay's History of England, 400, 401.
Macleod, Rev. Norman, The Home School,
70.

Mayhew's Rhine, 69; his Wonders of
Science, or Young Humphry Davy, 71.
M'Cosh and Dickie, Professors, Typical
Forms and Special Ends in Creation, 216.
Memnonium, plan of the, 74.

Men of the Time, 286.

Meteoric stones, descent of, at various
places, 199-201; at Landes, 201, 202; at
Weston, Connecticut, 202; composition
of, 203, 204; hypotheses respecting, 339;
laws of, 345, 346.

Meteors, fiery, and shooting stars, 339-
347.

Mezzofanti, the linguist, 3.

Mia and Charlie, 71.

Milton's lament on the loss of sight, 105,
106.

Montgomery, Rev. Robert, death of, 72.
Moore, Thomas, Memoirs of, by Lord John
Russell, 420.

Morgan, Dr., The Hidden Life, 360.
Morning Hymn, descent of, from the ear-
liest times, 243, 245.

Motley, Mr., The Rise of the Dutch Repub-
lic, 287.

Myers, Rev. F., Lectures on Great Men,
216.

Nabonidus, discovery of cylinders contain-
ing an account of the restoration of
temples by, 408.

Nature's laws, 145-151; want of knowledge
of, 145.

Nebo, statue of the Babylonian god, in the
British Museum, 409.
Nebuchadnezzar, cylinders of, found at
Borsippa, 408.

Negroes, runaway, Sabbath among the,
40-49; number of, in Canada, 41; un-
worthy prejudices of whites towards
them, 48; their capabilities, 49.
Newton, John, his birth, 308; is taken by
his father to sea, ib. ; his degraded and
lawless career, 309, 311-315; his extra-
ordinary dream, 309-311; his adven-
tures at sea, 311-315; his marriage,
316; his religious convictions, 316, 317;
obtains the curacy of Olney, 317; re-
moves to London, 318; grief at the
death of his wife, 318; his death, 320;
his characteristics as a letter-writer and
author, 156, 320.

Newton, Adelaide, Memoir of, 70.
Newts, phenomena attending the deposit-
ing of their eggs, 267, 268.

Nicobar pigeon, 292.

Night at sea, 60.

Nineveh marbles, 408-415.
Nitrogen gas, 173.

Norway, notes on: VI. 181-189; VII.
217-227; VIII. 348-356; IX. 391-399.
Norway, mode of travelling in, 184, 217;
its roads and posting stations, 184, 351;
its inns, 185, 186; its farmers, 349; its

pine-forests and rivers, 352, 353; sup-
port of the poor in, 393; decrease of
drunkenness in, 393, 394.

Norwegian peasants, their attachment to
their horses, 350.

Norton, Hon. Mrs., lines by, on the at-
tachment of the dog, 203.

Nutrition, the function of, how effected,
258.

Esophagus, 263.

Olympia Morata, death of, in 1555, 67.
Open-air preaching, 66.
Optic nerves, 96.

Optical instruments, difficulties in the
formation of, 99-101.

Ourselves: The sense of sight, 94–106; Nu-
trition, 258-263.

Owen, Professor, on the skeletons of
chimpanzees and ouran-outangs, 23, 24;
on the provision made for the teeth of
a South African snake, 366, 367.
Owen, Dr. John, complete edition of his
Works, 71.
Oxygen gas, 173.

Palate, structure of the, 263.

Parables: Herder's, The strife of the holy
hills, 62; Sun and moon, 62, 63; The
rat in the image, 64: Krummacher's,
The two ways, 280-282; Life in death,
282, 283; The king's garden, 283, 284 ;
The carnation bed, 285.
Parabolic pigeon, 299.
Parental solicitude, 387.
Paris Industrial Exhibition, 66.
Parry, Sir Edward, death of, 68.
Passenger pigeon, 293, 297, 298; extraor-
dinary flocks of, 298; its feeding-grounds,
298, 299.

Patagonian mission, renewal of the, 288.
Patriotic Fund, 66.

Peace, reception of the announcement of,
142; ratification of, 356.
Pensive childhood, 381.
Persian epilogue, 137-140.

Phalukha, king of Assyria, the Pul of
Scripture, occurrence of his name on
the Babylonian god Nebo, 409.
Pharynx, the, 263.

Philip, Dr., his Map of Palestine and
Egypt, 215.

Picture reward-tickets issued by the So-
ciety for promoting Christian Know-
ledge, 71.

Piedmont, massacre in, in 1655, 67.
Pigeons, their beauty, 290, their pecu-
liarities, 291; their position in syste-
matic ornithology unsettled, ib.; their
wide diffusion, 291, 292; species of, 292-
301.

Pigmentum nigrum, 94.
Pilchard-fishery, 191.

Plant, development of a, 303, 304.
Poet of poets, the, 389, 390.

Poetry: The heart of man, 58; The bell
in the heart, ib.; On the sea-shore, 59;

Review of the Months, 69, 142, 214, 286,
358, 420.

Reynolds, Sir Joshua, may be considered

the founder of the English school of
painting, 110; his birth, 111; turns por-
trait-painter, ib.; visits Italy, 111, 112;
his success on his return, 112, 113; elect-
ed President of the Royal Academy,
113; his paintings, 113, 114; his death,
funeral, and character, 115; his "Dis-
courses" at the Royal Academy, ib.;
criticism on his style, 116, 117.

Ring-dove, cushat, or wood-pigeon, 293,
294.

River pig, 253-257.

Rock or wild pigeon, the true stock-dove,
294, 295.

Romney, the portrait-painter, 117.

Routh, Dr., death of, 72.

Russell, Lord John, Memoir of Thomas
Moore, 420.

427

Ryland, Mr., Memoir of John Kitto, 421.

Sabbath, efforts for the protection of, 142,
143.

Safety-lamp, Sir Humphry Davy's, 177,
178; principle of, 178; Stephenson's,
179; improvements in, 179, 180; benefits
resulting from the use of, 180.
Saithe, a shoal of, 182.
Salivary glands, 261, 262.
Salmon, migrations of, 197.
Sammuramit, the Semiramis of history,
occurrence of her name on the statue of
the god Nebo, 409.

Sardinia, King of, his visit to England, 66,
67; suppression of convents by, 67.
Sarpi, Fra Paulo, enters the monastic or-
der, 50; his eagerness in the pursuit of
knowledge, ib.; his scientific studies, 51;
his advice to the Venetian Senate as to
the best means of resisting the preten-
sions of the Papacy, 53; is stabbed by the
emissaries of the Pope, 54, 55; his History
of the Tridentine Council, 56; his con-
tests with the Papal See, 57.

Sayers, Lieut., on the chimpanzee of
Sierra Leone, 26.

Scotland, effects produced in, by the Act

for closing public-houses on Sundays, 66.
Scott, Sir Walter, a member of the Edin-
burgh Speculative Society, 332, 333.
Scriptural Museum, establishment of, 72,
359.

Seashore, on the, 59.

Sebastopol, capture of, by the Allies, 65.
Semiramis. See Sammuramit.
Sennacherib, portrait of, in the Nineveh
marbles, 410, 415.

Serpents, the nature of their gliding move-
ments, 363, 364; their mode of capturing
and swallowing their prey, 364-366;
their teeth or fangs, 366, 367; conflict
between a black and a water snake, 367-
369.

Sevolo, the Kaffir chief, visit to, 170, 171.
Shalmaneser, portrait of, on the Assyrian
sculptures, 415.

Shepherd dog, 207, 208.

Shooting stars, 345; cosmical theory re-
specting, 347.

Shush, or Shusan, sculptures discovered
at, 415.

Siddons, Mrs., as the "Tragic Muse," 108-

Species, the only existing division in nature,
118, 119.

Spenser, Edmund, lines of, 406, 407.
Spherical aberration, 99.

Stanley, Rev. A. P. Sinai and Palestine in
connexion with their history, 215.
Stephenson, George, his safety-lamp, 179.
Sticklebacks, their nest-building instincts,
and parental care evinced by them, 194.
St. John, Mr. J. A. The Preaching of
Christ, 216.

St. John, Mr., account by, of a conflict
between a black and a water snake, 367-
369.

St. Paul, Shipwreck of, Canto I. 321-331;
in common life, 416-420.

Strife, the, of the holy hills, 62.

Sunday School Union, Jubilee building of
the, 71; its canvass of London, 71, 72.
Sun and moon, 62, 63.

Sun, the source of physical powers, 306.

Table Mountain, visit to, 167; flora of,
168.

Tadpoles, 265–267.

Taylor, Mr., remarkable cylinders disco-
vered by, at Muque-hur, 408.

Teeth, form, structure, and position of,
259-261.

Tennyson's poems, 401.

Theology: How to make a fortune, 1;
Devotional writers, 86, 151; The broken
embankment, 370; The Apostle Paul in
common life, 416.

Thibetan mastiff, 212, 414.
Thick-billed pigeon, 292.
Thorwaldsen Museum, 398.
Tiglath-pileser I., cylinders of, discovered
at Khalah-Shergat, 408.
Tiglath-pileser II., head and bust of, re-
cently placed in the British Museum,
410.

Toad, changes which it undergoes, 265–267.
Tongue, structure of the, 263.
Tonsils, the, 263.

Tortoise, the, 361.

"Tragic Muse, the," by Sir Joshua Rey-
nolds, description of, 168-110; print of,
by Francis Hayward, 109.
Transparent cornea, 94.
Turtelines, 292.

Turtle-dove, 296, 297.

Tweedie, Dr., Man and his Money, 70.
Two ways, the, 280-282.

Ur of the Chaldees (Muque-hur), discovery
at, of cylinders bearing the name of
Belshazzar, 408.

Vaux, Mr., his Assyrian researches, 212,
408; account by, of the Babylonian god
Nebo, 409.

Venice, its disputes with, and resistance to,
the Papacy, 52, 53; applies to Fra Paulo
Sarpi for advice, 53.

Vertebrata, their peculiarities of structure
and function, 119-122.

Vicars, Captain Hedley, Memoir of, 216.
Vital power, nature of, 147, 306.
Vitreous humour of the eye, 95.

Walmsley, Sir Joshua, defeat of his motion
to open the National Gallery and British
Museum on Sundays, 216.

Wardlaw, Dr., Memoirs of, 214, 215.
Warington, Dr., on the nest-building in-

stincts and parental care of stickle-
backs, 194-197.

Waterton, Mr., on the habits of the chim-
panzee in its native state, 25; account
by, of one exhibited at Scarborough, 28,

29.

Watts, Mrs. Alaric, The Birthday Council,
216.

Watts, Dr., his devotional poetry, 158.

White, Mr., Popular History of Birds, 70.
Wilson, Alexander, on the flocks and feed-
ing-grounds of the passenger pigeon, 298,

299.

Witches' dance on the Brocken, 18-22;
origin of the legend, 19-22.

Wood-pigeon or ring-dove, 293, 294; the
smaller, erroneously considered as the
stock-dove, 296.

Wyld, Dr. George, Health and Comfort,
i44.

Young, Dr. John, The Mystery; or, Evil
and God, 421.

Zoological Gardens, variety of animals in,
256, 257.

Zoology: The chimpanzee, 23; The dog,
205; The river pig, 253.