Birds, on the specific characters

of, 301.

Bisons, as good food as the ox,
57.

Blood, remarks on the state of,
288.

Bonaparte, Napoleon, and Miss
H.M. Williams, literary quar-
rel between, 21. His charac-
ter sketched by the Abbé de
Pradt, 76. Obs. on the cha-
racter of, 316. History of two
missions to, 317. His rapid dic-
tation of Memoirs, 338. His
early life, 340. His accounts
of battles, &c., 343-354. Re-
port by Count Dumas of his
battles and military measures
pin 1803-5, 483-497.
Bones, fossil, account of, 409.
Boulogne flotilla, in 1805, ac-
count of, 487.

Braid, Mr., on lead-spars, 300.
Brain, on the powers of the ab-

sorbent vessels of, 440.
Bretons, their manners, habits,
&c., 395,

Brinkley, Dr., on the parallax of
stars, 413.

Buffaloes, in the Crimea, ac-
count of, 42.
Buffon, Count de, his exertions
in support of the Royal Mu
seum of Natural History, 450.
Bull, Irish, 108...,

Buxton, Mr., objections to some
of his ideas on the emanci
pation of slaves, 52.

C

Caen, account of, 388.
Cesar, sketch of his life and
character, 505.
Campan, Madame de, account
of, 114.

Canzonet, of a Troubadour, 98.
Caracalla, circus of, visit to, 312.
Carnac, an antient monument,
described, 396.
Cary, Mr., his translation of
Dante discussed and com.
pared with others, 225-242,
Catacombs, visit to, 311...:
Catholic question, obs. on, 445.
SASALI

Cephalonia, description of, 145.
Cephrenes, pyramid of, danger-
ous ascent of, 361.
Chinese, on their astronomical
knowlege, and their conceal-
ment of European discoveries,
417.

Chipewyan Indians, account of,

12.

Christianity and Islamism, pa-
rallel between, by Bonaparte,
354.

Church, in France, before the
Revolution, its lucrative offi-
ces held only by nobles, 130.
Cid's Battle-Song, 178.
Circumcision, festival on occa
sion of, 359.

Clark, Mr., Chamberlain of Lon!
don, anecdote of, 83.
Clement IV., epigram on, 544.
Clift, Mr., on fossil-bones, 409.
Cod, the story of that fish's
habit of swallowing stones, to
give itself weight, before a
storm, rejected, 202.
Compass, magnetic, remarkably
affected on a rocky island, 6.
On the dip and variation

Hof,

Egypt, obs. on the French cam-
paigns there, $45.
Electricity and Magnetism, ex-
periments relative to, 479.
Elephant, on its Membrana
Tympani, and the effects of
music on it, 409.

Elephant and Castle, stage-coach
scenery at, 423.

England, on the power and re-
sources of, 497.
English, unfavorable view of
their character, 420.
Epigrams, 86. 544.
Erskine, Lord, sketch of his
character, 329.

Esquimaux, interview with, 4.
Europe, political geographical
division of, 74.

Eyes, on the right use of, 107.
F
Falco Chrysaëtes and fulvus,
observations on, 298.-
Fantees, a nation of Africa,
horrible custom of, 4015
Faraday, Mr., his electro-mag-
netic experiments, 480. **
Fate, remarks on, 265.
Felis, remarks on some of that
genus, 299.

Females, admitted priests in Da
homy, 402.

Ferdinand, king of Spain, letter
to him from George III., 221.
Figurative expression, remarks

on, 267.

!

Fish, frozen, and recovered by
warmth, 15.

Fishes, observed in Capt. Frank-
lin's expedition, notices of,
172.
Fleming, Dr., on the Sertularia
Cuscula, 299. On a species
of Fusus, 300. On Vermicula,
304.
Floating bodies, on the theory
of, 474.

Fly fungus, account of, 293.
Fonthill Abbey, description of,
87-93.

Fossil remains of quadrupeds,
memoir on, 290-409.
Nn 2 Fouché,

famous letter from Toulon, 341.
France, state of provision for
the poor there, 185.

See Louis, See Marie
Antoinette, See Bonaparte.
Franklin, Dr., anecdote of, 130.
Capt., extreme suffer-
ings of him and his party, in
returning from their polar ex-
pedition, 160-167.
Frederick William, and Freder
ick the Great, of Prussia, anec-
dotes of, 461-470.
racter of the latter, 471.
Fruit-trees, collection of, in the
Royal Museum at Paris, 456.
On acclimating them, 457.
Fungi, esculent, descript. of, 293.
Fusus retroversus, obs. on, 300.

G

Cha-

Greek drama, See Drama.
Greeks, particulars respecting
their present warfare with the
Turks, 222. Lord Erskine's
last Appeal in favor of, 381.
Greville, Mr., on esculent fungi,

293.

Guanaco, remarks on that ani-
mal, 300.

Gulls, notices of, 300, 301.
Guns, of ships of war, proposal
for altering, 511.
Gymnastics, obs. on, 446. A
J H

Hall, Mr., his sentiments re-
specting the Greeks, 85k
Hands, and fore-arms, expe-

dients of a boy who was born
without, 298.

Hanover, object of Bonaparte's
invasion of, 484.
Harold, King of England, his
history represented in the
Bayeux tapestry, 393.
Hastings, battle of, See Harold.
Head-aches, medically consider-
ed, 103.

Heights of places, obs. on, 416.
Hemans, Mrs., her song on the

Green Fairy Islands, 105. On
the Sicilian Vesper Bell, 430.
Hibbert, Dr., on the expedients
of a boy without hands, 298.A
Hodgson, Mr., on free and on

slave labour, 45. note.
Home, Sir Ev., on the difference
between the human ear and
that of the elephant, 409. On
the organs of generation in the
lamprey, &c., 410.) vs. l
Hood, Mr., murdered on the Po-
lar land-expedition, 165 On
the variations of the com-
pass, 174.
Hudibras, well translated into
French by an Englishman, 80.

86.

Hussar, French, story of 279.1
Hyænas,

Jameson, Prof., on the

geognosy
of Galloway, 302. On the
formation of opal, &c., 303.
Indians of North America, par-
ticulars of various tribes of, 4

19.56-68. 166. 243-256.
304. 368-378. Quakers most
likely to be successful mis-
sionaries with them, 380.
Inflammation, obs. on, 284.
Instinct and reason, on the dif-,
ference between, 205.
Jomini, M., animadversions in
Napoleon's Memoirs on his
History of the Campaigns,
343, 344, &c.
Jordan, river, attack by banditti
on an excursion to, 365.
Joseph, Emperor of Germany,
two excellent letters from, 131.
Ithaca, now Thiaka, description
of, 144.

Loyson, Charles, a young French

poet, character of, 26. note.
Lungs, on the elasticity of, 93.
On the collapse of, by punc-
turing the pleura, 95.

M
Macgillivray, Mr., on the speci-
fic characters of birds, 301.
Machinery, in agriculture, on
the effects of, 437.
Mack, Gen., obs. on his appoint-
ment, 490. His surrender of
Ulm, 493. His mortification,
494.

Mackenzie's River, notices re
garding, 304.

Magnetism and electricity, ex-
periments relating to, 479.)
Malemba, a town on the Gold
coast, account of, 405.

Marengo,

Marengo, Bonapare's account

of the battle of, 351.
Marie Antoinette, Queen of
France, anecdotes and vindi-
cation of, 120-132.
Marine deposits at Loch Lo-
mond, notice of, 292.
Marine shells, notices of, 304.
Massaria, Mr., his missions to
Bonaparte, 317. His infamous
address to the French people,

319.

Medicine-man, among the Ame-
rican Indians, description of
his stores, 67.
Melastomacea, illust. of, 291.
Mergus, obs. on some species
of, 299.

Military events, in 1803-5, view
of, 482.

Miller, Mr., on the temperature

of mines, 299.
Mind, on the phænomena of, 203.
Minerva medica, obs. on the
temple of, 311.

Mines, on the temperature of,

299.

Mirage, seen in North America,
57

Moliere, anecdote of Louis XV.
respecting his burial, 108.
Moreau, General, his character
discussed, 349.

Moscow, description of, 259.
Murray, Mr., on a liquid from
Vulcano, 292.

Music, droll effect of, 108.
Musk-oxen, manners of, 17.
N

Napoleon, See Bonaparte.
Natural history, on modes of
preserving objects of, 208.
Progress of the Royal Mu-
seum of, in France, 449.
Needle, of the compass, remark-
ably affected on an islet of
magnetic iron ore, 6. On the
dip and variation of; 173.

Negroes, Bonaparte's plan for
graduating them into whites,

353.

Nelson, Lord, his visit to Font-

八

hill Abbey, and singular en-
tertainment there, 90.
Nerves, of morbid parts, obs.
respecting, 383.

Nervous system, obs. on, 192.
Neuchatel, description of, 313.
Nile, battle of, Bonaparte's ac-
count of, 347.

Normandy, its former and pre-
sent state, 390,
Northumberland, on the geog-
nosy of, 290.
North-West Passage, obs. on, at
the termination of Captain
Franklin's expedition, 158.,

Oersted, Prof., on his electro-

magnetical experiments, 477.
Opal, &c., on the formation of,
303.

Organized beings, on the origin
of, 198.

Orlando, obs. on his railing

against mankind, 266.
Osage Indians, account of, 249,

P

Palsy, remarks on, 195.
Parallax, of certain stars, obs.
on, 414.
Parry, Mr., his song on the

death of Llywellyn, 105, 106.
Pawnees, Indians, account of, 56.
Peace, of October 1801, curious

anecdote relative to, 319,
Perditus, verses to Perdita, 327.
Peter the Great, anecdote of, 459.
Petersburgh, description of, 260..
Phormium tenax, superior cord-

age made from its leaves, 453.
Piano-forte, its effects on the.
elephant and the lion, 409.
Plants, scarce, found in North
America, 173.

See Don.
Platte, river, in North America,
excursion to, 55.
Polignac, Duchess de, account
of, 127.

Pompey's Pillar described, 358.
Pond, Mr., on the changes in
fixed stars, 413.
Pontoons, note on, 343.

Poor-