OWN JOURNAL; FOR INTER-COMMUNICATIONS ON NATURAL HISTORY, POPULAR SCIENCE, AND THINGS IN GENERAL.. PUBLISHED FOR WILLIAM KIDD, BY WILLIAM SPOONER, 379, STRAND; AND PROCURABLE, BY ORDER, OF ALL BOOKSELLERS. M. DCCC. LII. THE TIME has again come round, for us to submit to the Public eye our Collected Sayings and Doings of the last six months. In our former Preface, we intimated a hope, -a belief, that our CHRISTMAS VOLUME would be even more interesting than that of MIDSUMMER. We trust our prophecy will be recognised as " fulfilled." Our heart has been in our work. It is not therefore a matter for surprise if we should succeed in pleasing. Let us again predict that, when our next Volume appears, we shall excel even more than we do now. Perfection is worth striving after; and as we are supported by a powerful body of Choice Spirits, we shall pursue it with untiring and unceasing energy. WILLIAM KIDD. NEW ROAD, HAMMERSMITH, January 1st, 1853. INDEX TO VOLUME II. Aberdevine, The, 61 Abstinence from Food in Animals, 122 Affection for Animals, 126 Agitation of Birds, 54 Air and Atmosphere, 322 "All is not Gold that glitters," 158 American Aloe, 316 Cress, 379 Animals, Cruelty to, 235, 283, 297, 376 Absurd Anecdotes of, 11 and their Prejudices, 93 in their proper Places, Dogs, 206 Birds, &c., Art of Taming, 47, 170, 177 Animalcules and their Instincts, 1 Ants, 50, 58, 65, 203 and Fairy Rings, 333 Ant Flies, 188 Ardent Spirits, 32, 60 Artificial State of Society, 104, 200 Ass, Revenge in the, 362 Atheism, a Blow to, 157 Atrophy in Birds, 61 Australian Gold Fields, Panorama of the, 176 Autumn Wild Flowers, 147 AVIARY, THE, AND ITS OCCUPANTS, 277, 308, 340, 371, 403 Birds, 77 Avidavats, 58, 91 Babillard, The, 243 Bamboo, and its Applications, 346 Bees, 41, 69, 155, 172 in Canada, S31 in New South Wales, 378 BIRDS OF SONG-reprinted with additions, from the Gardeners' Chronicle, 3, 20, 45, 53, 93, 99, 115, 132, 146, 161, 179, 193, 211, 227, 243, 261, 277, 308, 340, 371 Is it cruel to confine them? 111 their Affection for their Young, 172. Nests of, perforated; and the eggs re moved, 11, 41, 142 Bird-Cages with Painted Wires, 125 Bird-sellers, Tricks of, 395 Blackbird, The, 26 A White, 91 Black-Cap, The, 26, 115, 132, 146, 161, 179, 193, 283 Affection, 375; Angling, 291; Appearances often Deceitful, 97; Ardent Spirits, England's Curse, 386; August and its Insects, 213; Australia, 234; Auto-biography of a Dog, 279, 290, 325, 341, 354, 374, 389, 405 ; Beauties of Autumn, 319; Boarding-houses, 169; Character Reading, 280, 312; Childhood, 55; Christmas, 392, 409; Christmas-Tree, The, 306; Confirmation-Day, 358; Dawn of Day, 181; Days without Nights, 271; December, 1852, 360, 414; Delights of the Tea-table, 264; Departing Year, The, 328; Destruction of Birds, 90; Dream, a Remarkable, 250; Every-day Life in India, 87; Field Paths and Country Stiles, 29; First Feeling of Winter, 373; Fish-ponds and Tittle-bats, 390; Floods, 323, 412; Gold, 234; Hanwell Asylum, 257; Happiness, 120; Holly, The, 401; Human Pulse, 94; Human Sorrow transient, 414; Humanising Influences of Summer, 73; Human |