Conway should doubt (p. 470.), his specimen being a cyathocrinite; but to prove that it is the Cyathocrinìtes tuberculatus (of Miller), I have sent you another copy of the engraving (fig. 73.), with the plates which form the body more strongly
marked than they appear to the naked eye, but yet as accurately as the specimen, which is rather a distorted one, will allow. The line of dots from a terminates at the alimentary canal; that from bupon one of the five plates surrounding it, which form the pelvis; c is placed upon the costals; d, upon the scapulæ; e, upon the first joint of the arm, which, in Miller's figure of this species, is placed upon the upper surface of the scapula, and not, as in Cyathocrinites plànus, upon a horseshoelike impression on the outside of it; f, upon the second joint of the arm; g, upon the wedge-formed joint of the arm, from which the hands, &c., arise. Aided by this explanation, you will, I think, be convinced, on comparing this engraving with the figure given of Mr. Conway's specimen, in p. 126., that they are of the same species. In that figure the whole of the pelvis, and nearly the whole of the costals, are hid by the column. Only one scapula, the plate which rests upon the column on the left, is in its natural situation. Joints of the arm, marked e, f, g, in the engraving (fig. 73.), occupy the place where another scapula ought to have stood, and have, in consequence, been mistaken by Mr. Conway for the costals of an Encrinus, upon which he has "reconstructed," or rather constructed, his specimen of a nondescript.
As I have not access to the Geological Transactions, I
cannot give an opinion on the specimen figured in them by Mr. Cumberland; but there is a figure of Cyathocrinìtes tuberculatus in a work on fossils, by Dr. Goldfuss, to which I am unable to refer more particularly; and the author of Crinoidea, to whom my specimen was sent a short time before his death, says, "I beg to acknowledge the receipt of your instructive specimen of cyathocrinite."
As I have, I trust, removed all doubt respecting the genus of Mr. Conway's specimen, I beg to assure him that a desire to check the progress of error has alone induced me to controvert his statement; and that, were I wishful to lay claim to the discovery of the genus Encrinus in mountain limestone, it would be founded on specimens that have a much greater claim to it than the one in question.—I am, Sir, yours, &c. -William Gilbertson. Preston, Lancashire, Sept. 21. 1833.
P. S. The sketch (fig. 74.) of the superior portion of a column, with the pelvis and scapula attached, and perfectly free from the matrix, will show, better than any description, that Mr. Conway is in error in supposing his column to be covered with extraneous matter; and there can be no doubt that the columnar joints described by R. B., in p. 475., belong to Cyathocrinites quinquangulàris, and not to Mr. Conway's specimen. - William Gilbertson.
Fig. 73. is copied from an engraving sent by Mr. Gilbertson, inscribed, "Cyathocrinites tuberculàtus, found near Whitewell, in Bowland, by W. Gilbertson, Preston, Lancashire. J. D. C. Sowerby fec."— J. D.
DIED, of cholera, in the afternoon of August 24. 1833, Adrian Hardy Haworth, Esq., author of Lepidoptera Britannica, various works in botany, and other contributions to the promotion of natural history; to the cultivation of which Mr. Haworth had, through his whole life, devoted himself. As we are led to expect that a biographical memoir of Mr. Haworth will be published in the Gentleman's Magazine, we confine ourselves to registering the fact of his death, and to the indication of this clew to the particulars of his biography. In the Gardener's Magazine, the Number for October, 1833, (vol. ix.) p. 635 to 640., are some notices which show the intensity of Mr. Haworth's passion for botany. — J. D.
INDEX TO BOOKS REVIEWED AND NOTICED.
GENERAL SUBJECT. AMPERE'S Classification des Connaissances Hu- maines, noticed, 433.
Arcana of Science and Art of 1833, not. 434. Arnott's Elements of Physics, announced, 138. Bakewell's, F. C., Philosophical Conversations, announced, 138.
Blewitt's Panorama of Torquay, noticed, 62. Brown's edition of White's Natural History of Selborne, noticed, 133.
Conolly's, Dr., Proposal to establish County Natural History Societies, for ascertaining the Circumstances, in all Localities, which are productive of Disease or conducive to Health, noticed, 428.
Crichton's History and Natural History of Arabia, noticed, 508.
De la Beche's Illustrations of the Natural His. tory of Jamaica, announced, 443. Featherstonehaugh's Monthly American Jour- nal of Geology and Natural Science, not. 60. Hodgson's Memoirs of the Life of Dr. William Turner and others, noticed, 132 Jameson's Edinburgh New Philosophical Jour- nal for April, 1833, noticed, 258. Jardine's Naturalist's Library, announced, 138. Library of Entertaining Knowledge, volumes in prospect on subjects of Natural History, 444. Macgillivray's edition of the Travels and Re- searches of Humboldt, noticed, 60. Mudie's Guide to the Observation of Nature, 63. Naturalist's Poetical Companion, ann. 509. Pasquier's, Baron, Eloge de M. le Baron Georges Cuvier, noticed, 131.
Rennie's Field Naturalist's Magazine, not. 135. Russell's, Dr., Nubia and Abyssinia, not. 363. Silliman's, Dr., American Journal, not. 433. Turner's Sacred History of the World, not. 131.
GENERAL ZOOLOGY. Cuvier's Règne Animal, a translation of it, not. 432; a translation by E. Newman, F.LS. 508. Dewhurst and Braddon's Veterinary Examiner, &c., noticed, 259.
Dewhurst's Natural History of the Oceanic In- habitants of the Arctic Regions, ann. 363. Fleming's British Animals, a query on, 192. Geoffroy St. Hilaire's Histoire Générale et Par- ticulière des Anomalies de l'Organisation chez l'Homme et les Animaux, noticed, 430. Jardine's History of Monkeys, noticed, 504. Jenyns's Manual of British Vertebrated Ani- mals, announced, 442.
Johnston's Zoophyta Britannica, ann. 267. Owen's Memoir on the pearly Nautilus, not. 64. Riley's, Dr., Lectures on Reptiles, not. 262. The Parent's Cabinet of Amusement and In- struction, noticed, 444.
The Transactions of the Zoological Society of London, announced, 443; noticed, 501. The Zoological Magazine, noticed, 259. Waterton's Wanderings in South America, noticed, 282, 282, 383. 552
ORNITHOLOGY. Audubon's Biography of Birds, noticed, 215.
Lesson's Trochilides, noticed, 260. Rennie's Habits of Birds, noticed, 436.
ENTOMOLOGY. Audouin's Recherches sur quelques Araignées Parasites des Genres Pteropte, Caris, Argas, et Ixode, noticed, 137. Curtis's Second Edition of his Guide to an Ar- rangement of British Insects, ann. 363. The Entomological Magazine, noticed, 261. 434. Gray's Entomology of Australia, ann. 267.
Latreille de l'Organisation extérieure et com- parée de l'Ordre des Thysanoures, rev. 354. Payne's Apiarian's Guide, noticed, 439. Rennie's Alphabet of Insects, noticed, 64. Rennie's Conspectus of Moths and Butterflies, noticed, 64.
Samouelle's Entomologist's Useful Compen- dium, a new edition, announced, 267. Stephens's Nomenclature of British Insects, announced, 267; noticed, 436. Wood's Index Entomologicus, announced, 267; reviewed, 351,
Brown's Conchologist's Text-book, not. 355.
Baxter's Figures and Descriptions of British Flowering Plants, noticed, 445. Castle's Synopsis of Systematic Botany, as ap- plied to the Plants used in Medicine, not. 506. Curtis's cheap edition of the Botanical Maga- zine, noticed, 267.
Daubeny's Specimen of a proposed Index to the Geological Elections of the Plants of Oxfordshire, noticed, 506.
Don's General System of Gardening and Bo- tany, noticed, 65.
Esenbeck's Genera Plantarum Floræ Germani- cæ, noticed, 439.
General Observations on Vegetation by Mirbel, translated by a Lady, noticed, 440.
Henslow, Professor, on a Monstrosity of the Hooker's Botanical Miscellany, not. 264. common Mignonette, noticed, 441. Hooker's Journal of Botany, announced, 509. Hooker's volume descriptive of the Mosses, Hepática, Lichens, Charàceæ, and A ́lgæ of Britain, noticed, 264.
Lindley's Nixus Plantarum, noticed, 505. Main's Illustrations of Vegetable Physiology, noticed, 440.
Marshall's Contribution to a Natural and Eco- nomical History of the Coco. Nut Tree, 138. Rennie's Alphabet of Botany, noticed, 65. Royle's Illustrations of the Botany and other branches of the Natural History of the Hima- layan Mountains, and of the Flora of Cash. mere, announced, 445; noticed, 509. Salm Dyck's, the Prince of, Monographia Ge nerum Aloes et Mesembryanthemi, Iconibus illustrata, announced, 444.
Sowerby's small edition of English Botany, no- ticed, 445.
Watson's Outlines of the Distribution of British Cotyledonous Plants, not. 265. Williams's Vegetable World, noticed, 263. Wyatt's Dried Specimens of Marine Plants,
Agassiz's, Dr., Recherches sur les Poissons Fos- siles, announced, 509. Bakewell's Introduction to Geology, ann. 138; reviewed, 356.
Bulletin de la Société Géologique de France, Boubée's, Professor, Publications, noticed, 507. noticed, 445.
Fairholme's General View of the Geology of Scripture, reviewed, 255.
Fitton's, Dr., Geological Sketch of the Vicinity Hawkins's Memoir of the Ichthyosauri and of Hastings, noticed, 441. Plesiosaúri, announced, 267.
Lindley and Hutton's Fossil Flora, announced, 445; No. x. noticed, 509.
Mantell's Geology of the South-east of England, announced, 138., rev. 359; Introduction to Geology, announced, 66,
Memoirs of the Geological Society of France, noticed, 446.
Phillips's Essay on the Physico- Astronomical
Causes of Geological and Meteorological Changes on the Earth's Surface, not. 66, 361. Woodward's Outline of the Geology of Norfolk, noticed, 362.
A BERDEVINE or siskin, facts on the, 113. 151.
Acrida verrucívora, instruments in the oviposi- tor of, 288.
Actínia, some of the species met with on the coast of Berwickshire noticed, 17. Acrolites, notices of theories of the origin of, 458, 508.
'shna vària, an instance of sagacity displayed by, 271.
Albatross, the wandering, facts and speculations on, 372.
Allótria víctrix Westw. described, 494; is para- sitic on A`phis ròsæ, 492.
Anagallis arvensis L., and cærulea Schreber, the specific distinctness of, 178, 179.
Anas ægyptiaca, individuals of, observed in Britain, 12. 514. See also Duck, and Geese. Anemone nemordsa L., on the scent of the flowers of, 279.
Animals, remarks on the result to, of the changes which are produced in the colour of their co- vering, with the changes of the seasons, &c., 179; animals direct their actions by a species of reasoning, 81; the instinctive properties of animals never completely obliterated by do- mestication, 68; animals, marine, descriptions and figures of a few species of, 314; animals, molluscous, see Molluscous animals; animals, rayed, see Radiate animals.
Animal substances, modes in which the spirit in which they are preserved may be kept from evaporating, 92 284.
Annelides: Cirrátuius Medusa Johnston, de- scribed, 123; figured, 124; Carinélla trilineàta Johnston, figured and described, 252; Siphún- culus Dentalii Gray, figured and described, 234; Sigalion Bda figured and described, 322; Sabella amo`na Johnston, figured and de- scribed, 406; a query on the physiology of the earthworm, $84.
Ant, the great black, facts on, 287, 288; on other species of, 476.
Antelope, the M'horr, mentioned, 501. Aphelochelrus Westwood, a genus connecting the land and water bug tribes, defined and de- scribed, 229.
A`phis rosa is subject to destruction from the parasitical habits, 492, of Allútria víctrix Westwood, described, 494.
Apteryx austràlis Shaw, information on, 503. A'rgulus foliaceus Jurine fils, information on,
Ash tree, remarks relating to the fall of an aged, 327.
Astrantia major wild in Berkshire, 379. Atmosphere, dense, magnifying power of, 183. Audubon, J. J., and his Biography of Birds, con- troversial remarks upon, 215. 369. 464, 465. 550. Bat, a, found within the timber of a tree, 459. Baya bird, the Indian (Lóxia philippina L.), its characters, pendulous nest, and some of its habits, described, 219.
Bears in Switzerland, dates of the spring appear- ance of, 510.
Beaver, facts on the habits of, in Canada, 511. Bees, their perforation of the corollas of flowers,
Berberry, the harmlessness of, to crops of wheat, 367.
Béroe pileus Lam., a locality for, 501. Berwickshire Naturalists' Club, Dr. Johnston's address to the members of the, 11; species of animals and plants observed by the members, 12-21.
Bewick, an enquiry respecting the literary re- mains of the celebrated xylographer, 283, Birds: something about sea birds, 25; more about birds, land ones, 111; characteristic man- ners of the birds of the moors and of those of the sea side, 12; manners of some birds on a winter's morning, 158; manners of certain
birds, as observed by Mr. Dovaston, S; his experiments on the migration of birds, 5; the alarm note of one species of bird is understood by all other species, 70; on the question of birds dressing their feathers with oil from a gland, 159-162. 274-277; nests and nidifica. tion of birds, see Nests; remarks on the ap pointed principles which actuate the changes in the colour of the plumage of birds, ac- cording to season and climate, 79, to changes in the constitution of birds, 502; philosophical remarks on systematic classification of birds, 484; utility of preserving birds on farms and in orchards, 143. 518; a plan proposed for in. troducing from abroad new breeds of birds, 525; the bird whose nightly note foretells ap proaching weather, 93, is the action of the atmosphere on the auditory nerve diseased, 185; dates of the appearance of some spring birds in the neighbourhood of Clitheroe, Lan cashire, 72; a list of the birds seen in twelve months in the neighbourhood of Southminster Vicarage, Essex, 452; the rarer kinds of, met with in Berwickshire, 11; on preserving the colour of the legs and bills of stuffed birds, 92. 183; short communications on birds of various species, 68-75. 139–154. 268–270. 447–456. 513 526.
Bittern, facts on the habits of, 114; in the his- tory of, 9.
Blackbird, the, destroys the cockchafer in its grub state, 518.
Blackcap, the, its song described, 113. Blood, a newt's tail well exhibits the circulation of, within it, 549.
Bórbus, a, probably B. lapidarius L., facts on, 173.
Bombýlius major L., some of the habits of, 73; remarks relative to the, 173.
Bombyx menthrástri, and six Ophion vinulæ, all hatched from a cocoon of Bombyx vinulus, 378.
Bombyces, familiarities effected with, 902. Bópyrus squillàrum Lat., history and habits of,
Bristol Philosophical Institution, remarks rela- tive to the, 126 note, 262. 273. 474 note. Bug tribes, land and water, on the genus Aphe. loche.rus Westwood, a connecting link be tween the, 229.
Bustard, the great, facts on, 150. 513; an indi- vidual of the little bustard, shot in Cornwall, technically described, 141; one shot in Cam- bridgeshire, 513.
Butterflies, a list of, and remarks on, the various species of, met with around Pontnewydd Works, Monmouthshire, 224 541; notes on butterflies, &c., made in a part of Cumber- land, in May, 1832, 198; familiarities effected with butterflies, Bombyces and Sphinx stel. latarum, 222. 374; an identification by the late Mr. Haworth of some of the varieties of Papilionidae or butterflies figured and de- scribed in the fifth volume, 175; criticismps and notices by Mr. Bree in relation to various species of butterfly, 374; by Mr. Dale, $77. 579. Argynnis Lathonia, date of capture of, $79. Cynthia cardui, date of the vernal appear. ance of, 88. 379.
Gonépteryx rhámni, dates of the appearance of, 88. 228. 379; remarks on the habits and colour of, 224. 575.
Lyca na Phla as, a date of its appearing,
Mazarine blue, and other blue species, que- ries and facts on, 96. 190. 201.
Melita a Selène, date of the appearance of, $79; M. A'rtemis, two extraordinary va rieties of, figured, $78.
Polyómmatus Argiolus, a date and place of its appearance, 544.
Póntia cardámines seen May 17. 1832, 199; P. Chariclea seen Feb. 10. 1831, 88. 176; P. brássica, rapæ, napi, dates of the ap. pearance of, and facts on, 379. Thecla quercus acquires its pupa state in the earth, 189; information on T. bétulæ and quercus, 227. 376. 544; T. rùbi, 544. Vanessa Atalanta, dates of the appearance of, 88. 379; V. Io, dates of the appear- ance of, 176. 379; V. urticæ, dates of the appearance of, 88. 228; V. urticæ and polychlorus, a correction of an application of the names of, 5:0. Buzzard, the honey, facts on the habits of, 447 Calf, monstrosity in a, 67; calves, three pro duced at one birth, each fertile, 78. Canary bird, a, which sang by gas-light, 523. Cane Hy of Grenada, see Délphax. Caprella acuminifera, figured and described, 41. Carex heleonastes, a Swiss habitat of, 469; C. speirostachya, a Welch habitat of, 367. Carinella trilineàta Johnston, figured and de. scribed, 252.
Catchweed beetle, see Timárcha.
Dórcus parallelipipedus, a figure, and facts on the habits, of, 332, 333. Drába vérna L., facts on, 193. Drosera rotundifolia L., the leaves and glandu- lated hairs of, do possess irritability, 177; they do not, 178; the flowers of, observed ex- panded, 178; the D. rotundifolia L. and án. glica Huds., in Switzerland, 469; the glandular hairs on the leaves of these species not ob. served to be irritable, 469.
Ducks, ferruginous (Anas rutila L.), descrip tion of a pair of, 141; a duck that had strayed from Denmark (?), shot in Sussex, 450. Eagles, a pair in Norfolk, facts on, 448.
Chalcididæ, the characteristics of some groups Eggs: what relation do the colour of, and marks
and species of, 121. 418. 495.
Chalk, see Geology.
Chara, circulation of the sap in, 549. Chiffchaff, see Sylvia.
Chinchillida, reference to a monograph on the,
Chorela nigro-anea Westwood, 122. 279. 380. 419.
Cicádidæ, information on the structure and habits of the, 409.
Cicindela campestris, facts on, 201; a picture and a description of each of the British spe- cies of Cicindela, 533; synonyms of them, 554.
Cimicidæ, see Bug tribes.
Cirl bunting, the (Emberiza Círlus L.), indivi- duals taken and seen, 151.
Cirrátulus Medusa Johnston, described, 123; figured, 124.
Classification, see Genera.
Colour of the coverings of animals, changes, to- wards winter, in the, 79.
Corncrake, landrail, or daker, facts on the habits of, 114. 199. 279.
Corvorant, facts on the habits of the, 29. Crinoideal remains discovered by Mr. Conway in mountain limestone from Ireland, 125; the relations of these remains to the Encrinites and Cyathocrinites contested, 281,282. 470. 560. Cross bill, facts on the habits of the, 112. Crow, the carrion, its habits described, 208; the hooded crow, remarks on the, 200. Crustaceous animals: Caprélla acuminífera (Montagu ?), described, 41; Nýmphum coc. cineum Johnston, described, 42; Squilla Des- maréstii Risso, 230; the soldier crab, Pagurus, mentions of, 30. 200; some of the animals pa. rasitic on crustaceous animals noticed, 94. Cuckoo, a captured and caged young one adopted and fostered by a pair of wrens, 83; the cuckoo sings at night, 199, 200. 374. Cuckoo-spit insect (Aphróphora spumària), the economy of, 410.
Curculionidæ, certain, devour the acorns of oaks in America, 95.
Curtis, Mr., his remarks on the conduct of Mr. Stephens, 437; these rebutted, 487; renewed by Mr. Curtis, 553; by Mr. Dale, 554. Cyathocrinite, see Crinoidcal remains. Cygnus Bewicki, see Swan.
Cynictis Ogilby, a reference to the genus, 502. Cynipideous insects, their general habits, 491; one species of, is parasitic on Aphis ròsæ, 492. Dabchick, see Grebe.
Délphax saccharivora Westw., its characters and affinities, 413; its habits, 407. Dendrocitta Gould, a reference to the descrip- tion of the genus, and species of, 504. Dentition, remarks in relation to the physiology of, 21. 390.
on, an egg bear to the bird hatched from it? 184; eggs of the common fowl remarkably spotted, 184; the number of the eggs of the domestic fowl annually imported from France into the ports of London and Bristol, 141; eggs and nest of a bird found within the wood of a tree, 460.
Egg-shells for cabinets, on preserving, 171. Elephant, notice of the dentition of, 392. Elks, skeletons of, found near Killaloe, Ireland, and in the Isle of Man, 462. Encrinite, see Crinoideal remains. Falcons, the Iceland and Ger, probably of di- stinct species, although not usually deemed so, 107; the ash-coloured falcon, a notice of, 139; the harrier hawk and moor buzzard breed in a fen in Norfolk, 150; systematic associations in the falcon family suggested,487. Feathers, see Plumage.
Festaca ovina var., probably F. hirsuta Hort., a habitat of, 368.
Finch, the mountain, occasionally visits the neighbourhood of Godalming, 113; a canary bird which sings by gas-light, 523; greenfinch of Pennsylvania, of what species? 384; haw- tinch, see Haw finch.
Fishes possess an audible voice, 527; facts on the habits of gold and silver fishes, 527; the rarer of the kinds of fish met with on the coast of Berwickshire, 14; some kinds caught in the Trent, 326; notices on the grayling, 189; minnow, 201; loach, 201; the tunny, 529; the bonito, 529; the toothed gilthead, 529; the piper, 529; the streaked gurnard, 530; the opah, 530; Solea variegata, 530; enor mous sturgeon, 530; Leptocéphalus Morrisii, 530; some of the animals parasitic on fishes noticed, 94, 95.
Flamingoes, facts on, 285. 384. Florence, Mr. Spence on the weather at, 252. Flycatcher, the pied, shot, 151. Fossils, the kinds of, met with in a short tour in Derbyshire, 129; skeletons of the elk in Ireland and the Isle of Man, 462; trilobites, 476; new species of enormous fossil reptile, 75; fossil stag's horn found near Lower Meu- don, near Paris, 180. See also Crinoideal re. mains.
Foxes, their usual prey, 207.
Frogs, facts on, 141. 456, 457; a frog found in- carcerated in the wood of a tree, 459. Gastrocha na Pholàdia, facts on the habits and economy of, 401.
Geese from the Netherlands, shot on the Trent, 450. See also Anas, and Duck.
Genera and subgenera, the principles on which they should be established: Mr. Jenyns, 385; Mr. Newman, 481; Mr. Blyth, 486. Geological Society of France, information on, 416.
Geology of Berwickshire, 19; general consider-
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