Liverworts, i, 334 Lizard, magnified into a flying dragon, iv, xxxiv, Intr. note Lobsters and prawns, manner of taking, iii, 213-of pegging lobsters, iv, 221-lobsters cast their skins annually, xxiv, Intr.-lines on their attachment to particular spots, xxv London burnt, i, 224; ii, 255- particular account of, by an eye. witness, iii, 249-258; iv, 256 Longest day, i, 142
Lord mayor, power and offices of, iv, 311-residence and costume of on public occasions, 314- virtues of the Lord Mayors of London, and their connection with noble families, 315-Mat- thew Wood, Esq. twice elected Lord Mayor, ib.
Lord mayor's day, i, 283; ii, 301; iii, 312-ceremonies on, iv, 311 -celebration of in 1815, 313- number of persons at the dinner at Guildhall, ib.-expense of the entertainment, 314
Lottery, first in England, iii, 5 Louis XIV, bigotry of, iv, 256- protestants massacred by, ib. Louis XVI, beheaded, iv, 6 Louvre opened, iii, 220
Lovell, Robert, sonnet of, iv, 133 Low Sunday, i, 84; ii, 117; iii, 101; iv, 95
Lowth, Bp., epitaph on his daugh ter, iv, 309
Ludlow, curious custom at, on Shrove Tuesday, ii, 47
Macaronic verses, iv, 42 Mackerel described, i, 163, 164, note-quantities of taken, iv, 190-lines descriptive of the death of, 191 Madrepores described, iv, x Intr. Magdalen College, Oxon, antient custom at, on St. John's day, iv, 164
Magpie, propensity of, to pilfer
stances, iv, xliii, Intr. Malplaquet, battle of, iii, 259 Mammalia, character and orders of this class, iv, lix-lxii-pinnated lxxi-cetaceous, lxxii, Intr. Maple, account of, iii, 217 March, explanation of, i, 52; ii, 74; iii, 69; iv, 57 March, poetical naturalist's diary for, iii, 93, 94
Marengo, notice of the battle there, iv, 161
Marigold, lines on, iv, 272, note Marmot, lines on the economy of, iv, lxiv. Intr. Mars, i, 210; ii, xxv, Intr. Martilmasse. See MARTIN MAS Martilmasse day, old ballad on, i, 286
Martin (house and sand), i, 98, 99-lines on, iii, 116 Martinmas, celebration of on the continent, iv, 317-medal lately struck in honour of this festival, ib.-practice of eating goose on this day, ib.-ballad entitled Martilmasse Day,' 318, 319 Marvell, Andrew, lines by, iv, 226
Mary Magdalen, i, 173; ii, 222; iii, 190; iv, 199
Mary in Heaven, lines to, iv, 198 Mary, queen, her bloody acts, iii,
Mary, queen of Scots, her beha- viour at her execution, iv, 32- 36
Maskelyne, Dr., account of, ii, 265, 293
Mason, Rev. W., translation of an ode of Casimir, iv, 92 Massacre of protestants in France, ii, 239; iii, 221-by Louis XIV, iv, 256-in Piedmont, sonnet on, 310-particulars of, ib, note
Maundy Thursday, i, 81; iì, 86 -present celebration of at St. James's palace, 86-at Rome, 87 at Moscow, ib.; iii, 99; iv,
plate or other glittering sub-May, explanation of, i, 109-lines
on, 130; ii, 158-Corinna's going a maying, 161-lines on the month of, 143, 144-expla- | nation of, iv, 131-lines on a wet May, iv, 146 May-day ceremonies, i, 110; ii, 158; iii, 129-lines on the neglect of, iv, 131 Mercury, i, 65; ii, xxii, Intr. Meteorological remarks, i, 337 Michaelmas day, customs on, i, 231-strange one at Kiddermin- ster on, ii, 259-custom of eat- ing goose on, iv, 259. See MAR-
Microscope, lines on the wonders displayed by, iv, xxi, Intr. Midlent Sunday, i, 59; ii, iii, 73; iv, 60 Midsummer day, i, 142-ceremo- nies on the eve of, 143-extract from Romish calendar, 144 lines on the superstitions of, 145 -strange custom of burning cats alive on, ii, 173-antient cere- monies on, 202; ii, 168-cele- bration of the eve in Sweden, 169-account of, iv, 163-an- tient custom at Magdalen col- lege, Oxford, on, 164 lines on the superstitions of, 165 Migration of herrings, i, 246-of the swallow, 249-of wild pi- geons, 304-of birds, ii, 104, 272; iii, 274 Milky way, ii, xii Intr. Miriam, Jewish festival of, ii, 164 Mocking thrush of America, iii, 121; iv, 112 and note Mole-cricket, i, 107 Moles, account of, i, 49 of their subterraneous operations, ii,
Mollusca nuda, or soft bodied ani- mals, genera of, iv, xiii, xiv, Intr.
Mollusca testacea, or soft bodied animals furnished with shells, their character and genera, iv, XV, Intr.
Monday, etymology of, i, xxx, Intr.
Monoculus, various species of, de-
scribed and examined by the mi- croscope, iv, 242 Montem at Eton, account of, ii, 168-lines on, iii, 165
Month, explained, i, xxviii, Intr. Moon, of the, i, 178, 203 Dr.
Herschel's celebrated table of prognostics from, 357-of the moon, ii, xxxvi, Intr.-harvest moon, xxxviii-of its phases and motions, 93, 127-on the orbits, motions, &c. of, iv, 203 Moore, Sir J. H. lines by, iv, 4 Moschus, lines from, on the fall of the leaf, iv, 335 Mosses, account of, i, 333-de- scription of, and lines on, iv, 358, 359
Moss rose, verses on, i, 145 Mowbray on Domestic Poultry, ez- tract from, iv, 125
Mullets, account of, iii,214-man- ner of taking, and poetical des scription of, iv, xxviii, Intr.
Murat, General, tribute to, by Lord Byron, iv, 285
Music, singular effect of upon the seal, iv, lxviii, Intr.-new ap- plication of its powers, 343
Name of Jesus, i, 198; i i, 238; iii, 219; iv, 225
Nativity of the Virgin Mary, i, 227; ii, 256; iii, 259; iv, 257
Natural history, principles of, iv, vii, Intr. NATURALIST'S DIARY for January, 1814, i, 18-February, 48- March, 69-April, 97-May, 130-June, 158-July, 185- August, 213-September, 243- October, 269-November, 300 -December, 330
NATURALIST'S DIARY for January, 1815, ii, 32-February, 66- March, 103-April, 137-May, 191-June, 214-July, 233- Angust, 251-September, 269 -October, 294-November,314 -December, 333
gone, 337-poetical bouquet of wild flowers in, 339, 340 Nutting, lines on, iv, 279
Oaks, planted by the squirrel, i, 270 description of the, iii,
NATURALIST'S DIARY for January, 1816, iii, 22-February, 55- March, 84-April, 114-May, 143-June, 178-July, 200- August, 234-September, 273 -October, 301-November, 325 -December, 346 NATURALIST'S DIARY for January, 1817, iv, 21-February, 50- March, 73-April, 106-May, 145-June, 174-July, 211– August, 236-September, 266 October, 296-November, 331-O December, 356
Nautilus, description of and lines on, iv, xvi, Intr. Navigation, greatly indebted to astronomy, iv, 14 Navy, British, tribute to, iii, 243 Nelson, lord, reflections on the death of, iii, 288-lines on the funeral of, iv, 2
Newton, Sir Isaac, lines on, iv, 61 New year's day, i, 3; ii, 1-cele- bration of, in France, 2-in the north of England, 3-lines on
October, explanation of, i, 253; ii, 279; iii, 281; iv, 284-Octo- ber, an elegy, 296-old, lines on beer so called, iv, 307 my eye Betty Martin, origin of the phrase of, iii, 313 Sapientia, i, 309; ii, 317; iii, 335; iv, 343
Estrus, or gad-fly, manner of laying its eggs, iv, xxiv, Intr. Osier, description of, iii, 328 Ostend, surrender of, iii, 260 Ostrich, beautiful description of from Job, iv, lvi, Intr.
Owl, amusement in watching, i, 162-lines to, 163-cunning of, iii, 182, 183-sonnet to, iv, 179-lines on, xli, Intr.
iii, 2-Jewish festival of, 281-Oysters described, iv, xvii, Intr.—
Ney, marshal, last words of, iv, 342
Nice, account of its climate, iii,
346-environs of, 348 Nicomede, i, 140; ii, 200; iii, 164; iv, 160 Nidification of birds, ii, 192 Nightingale, the, described, i, 99- 101-celebrated as a melancholy bird, ii, 139-absurdity of this idea, 140-Walton's praise of, 141-not once noticed by Homer or Horace, ib.-lines on, iii, 117-sonnet to, 118-descrip- tion of, by Coleridge, 119, 120 -sonnets to, iv, 110, 111, note Nile, victory of, iii, 219 Norway rat. See RAT November, explanation of, i, 277 -poetical description of in Scot- land, 300-explanation of, ii, 299-poetically described, 315 -explanation of, iii, 311; iv, 309-pleasures of the garden in,
breeding time, beds, and fishery, ib. xviii-cunning of the star fish in destroying, ib.
search after food, vernal and | Pianting trees, advantages of, poe-
autumnal flights, xlviii Passion Sunday, i, 60 Passover, Jewish festival of, ii, 125; iii, 103
Peas, parched, custom of eating on Carling Sunday, ii, 79 Penitents, ceremonies of on Ash Wednesday, i, 38
Perch, great fecundity of, iv, xxvii,
Peter's pence, lines on, ii, 281 Petrarch's mode of life at Vau- cluse, iv, 197
Pheasant shot, described, iii, 309 Philip, king of France, anecdote of, iii, 3
Piedmont, sonnet on the massacre
of the protestants in, iv, 310 particulars of, ib. note Pies, or picæ, general description of, iv, xli, Intr.-their food and economy, xlii-propensity to pilfering plate or other glitter- ing substances, ib. Pigeons, wild, migration of, i, 304 spring flight of, iv, 125- stock-dove, ib.-ring-dove, ib. -blue dovehouse pigeon, ib.- carrier, 126
Pike, lines on the voracity of, iv, xxix, Intr.
Pilchards, account of taking, i, 196-lines on, iv, 253 Piper-fish described, iii, 214 Pitt, Mr., tribute to, iv, 7 Plane, occidental, described, iii, 278
tically described, iv, 155-di- rections to, the planter, 308 Plants, sensation of ii, 149-sleep of, 151-odoriferos, danger of sleeping in the same room with, iv, 190
Platypus, description of, iv, lxii,
Plough Monday, i, 5; ii, 7; iii, 3; iv, 3 Plumptree, Rev. James, his sermon on cruelty to animals recommend. ed, iv, 215, note Pluviometer described, i, 353 Poesy, defense of, iv, 286 Polype, description of, iv, ix, Intr. Poplar, description of, iii, 278 Poppy, lines to, iii, 180 Porcupine, lines descriptive of, iv, lxv, Intr.
Potatoes, principal harvest of, iv,
Poultry kind, character, and ge-
nera of, iv, liv, Intr.-rural group of domestic fowl, lv-Mr. Mowbray's treatise on quoted, 125
Powder plot, i, 280; ii, 300; iii, 312; iv, 310
Prawns, description of, iv, 221 Precession of the equinoxes, ii, 259 Primrose, lines to, i, 74; ii, 109 Proclamation of K. George III, i, 258
Proverbs relative to the weather, i, 358
Prognostics for predicting changes in the weather from the at- mosphere, wind, &c., i, 343 from animals, 346 from vegetables, 348-from philo- sophical instruments, 350-Lord Bacon's prognostics, 355-Dr. Herschel's, with his celebrat- ed table, 357-select proverbs relating to the weather, 358 -the shepherd of Banbury's rules, 360
Planets, origin of the four newly discovered, i, 259-of the pla- nets, ii, xxi, Intr.-secondary, xxxv-of the inferior, 21-of the superior, 54-of the quantity of matter and density of, 284-Puffin, described, i, 215 of the gravity, &c. of, 322
Ptolemaic system, ii, viii, Intr.
Purification of the Blessed Virgin
Refraction, nature and effects of, iv, 66
REMARKABLE DAYS in January
1814, i, 2-February, 28- March, 52-April, 78-May, 110-June, 140-July, 166- August, 198-September, 224 -October, 254-November,278 -December, 360 REMARKABLE DAYS in January 1815, ii, 1-February, 42- March, 74-April, 117-May, 159-June, 200-July, 218 August, 237-September, 255 -October, 279-November,299 -December, 316 REMARKABLE
DAYS in January
1816, iii, 1-February, 39-
-October, 281-November,311 -December, 334 REMARKABLE DAYS in January 1817, iv, 1-February, 30- March, 57-April, 88-May, 131-June, 160-July, 194 August, 224-September, 256 -October, 284-November,309 -December, 341
Reptilia, various genera of, iv, xxxiv, Intr.
Republican calendar, i, xxv, Intr. Resurrection, grand ceremony of the, at Moscow, ii, 90
Reynolds, Sir Joshua, lines on, iv,
Richard I, character of, iv, 195 Richard III, character of, iv, 162 Richard, Bishop, i, 80; ii, 121 ; iii, 98; iv, 88
Roberts, W. I. lines by, iv, 346 Rogation Sunday, i, 114; ii, 127; iii, 133; iv, 133
Roman Poets, citations from, rela- tive to the weather, i, 345 Rooks, benefit of, i, 70; iii, 86,
Rose, lines to the, i, 273, note- funeral of the, ii, 197, note-last rose of summer,297,note stanzas to, iii, 153, note; 182-sonnet to a half blown rose, iv, 151, 152-sonnet-to the rose, 182 Anacreon's ode to, 183-lines on, by Lord Byron, 184-by Charles James Fox, ib. note- by Waller, 241-by Beaumont and Fletcher, ib. note-descrip- tion of, by Bp. Taylor, 302- lines to, by Sappho, ib. note Rosemary, description of, i, 23- lines to, ib. note Rose-moss, verses on the, i, 145 Rose Sunday, i, 59 Rules for predicting changes in the weather, i, 343-the shepherd of Banbury's, 360
August, 219-September, 248
129-June, 164-July, 188-4gatha, i, 30: ii, 44: iii, 40:
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