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

M

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,

188

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,

88

plate or other glittering sub-May, explanation of, i, 109-lines

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

243.248

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

O

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.—

lines on, iv, 1

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,

Intr.

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,

Intr.

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,

307

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

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-

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

129-June, 164-July, 188-4gatha, i, 30: ii, 44: iii, 40: