Book contents
- Frontmatter
- ADVERTISEMENT
- THE NATURALIST'S CALENDAR
- OBSERVATIONS ON VARIOUS PARTS OF NATURE
- OBSERVATIONS ON BIRDS: Birds in general
- ROOKS
- Thrushes
- Poultry
- Hen Partridge
- Hybrid Pheafant (with a coloured figur)
- Land Rail
- Food of the Ring Dove
- Hen Harrier
- Great fpeckled Diver, or Loon
- Stone Curlew
- Smallest Willow Wren
- Fern Owl, or Goat Sucker
- Sand Martins
- Swallows, congregating, and disappearance of
- Wagtails
- Wryneck
- Grosbeak
- OBSERVATIONS ON QUADRUPEDS: Sheep
- Rabbits
- Cat and Squirrels
- Horse
- Hounds
- OBSERVATIONS ON INSECTS AND VERME: Insects in general
- Humming in the Air
- Chaffers
- Ptinus Pectinicornis
- Blatta Orientalis.—Cockroach
- Gryllus Domest.—House Cricket
- Cimex Linearis
- Phalæna Quercus
- Ephemera Cauda Biseta—May Fly
- Sphynx Ocellata
- Wild Bee
- Wasps
- Oestrus Curvicauda
- Nose Fly
- Bombylius Medius
- Muscæ.—Flies
- Tipulæ, or Empedes
- Ants
- Glow Worms
- Earth Worms
- Snails and Slugs
- Snakes Slough
- OBSERVATIONS ON VEGETABLES: Trees, Order of losing their Leaves
- Size and Growth
- Flowing of Sap
- Ash Trees
- Sycamore
- Galls of Lombardy Poplar
- Chestnut Timber
- Lime Blossoms
- Black Thorn
- Ivy Berries
- Hops
- Seed lying dormant
- Beans Sown by Birds
- Cucumbers Set by Bees
- Wheat
- Truffles
- Tremella Nostoc
- Fairy Rings
- METEOROLOGICAL OBSERVATIONS: Barometer
- Partial Frost
- Thaw
- Frozen Sleet
- Mist, called London Smoke
- Reflection of Fog
- Honey Dew
- Morning Clouds
- Dripping Weather after Drought
- Aurora Borealis
- Black Spring, 1771
- On the dark, Still, dry warm weather occasionally happening in the winter months (a Poem)
- Measure of Rain in Inches and Hundreds
- SUMMARY OF THE WEATHER
- Contents
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Book contents
- Frontmatter
- ADVERTISEMENT
- THE NATURALIST'S CALENDAR
- OBSERVATIONS ON VARIOUS PARTS OF NATURE
- OBSERVATIONS ON BIRDS: Birds in general
- ROOKS
- Thrushes
- Poultry
- Hen Partridge
- Hybrid Pheafant (with a coloured figur)
- Land Rail
- Food of the Ring Dove
- Hen Harrier
- Great fpeckled Diver, or Loon
- Stone Curlew
- Smallest Willow Wren
- Fern Owl, or Goat Sucker
- Sand Martins
- Swallows, congregating, and disappearance of
- Wagtails
- Wryneck
- Grosbeak
- OBSERVATIONS ON QUADRUPEDS: Sheep
- Rabbits
- Cat and Squirrels
- Horse
- Hounds
- OBSERVATIONS ON INSECTS AND VERME: Insects in general
- Humming in the Air
- Chaffers
- Ptinus Pectinicornis
- Blatta Orientalis.—Cockroach
- Gryllus Domest.—House Cricket
- Cimex Linearis
- Phalæna Quercus
- Ephemera Cauda Biseta—May Fly
- Sphynx Ocellata
- Wild Bee
- Wasps
- Oestrus Curvicauda
- Nose Fly
- Bombylius Medius
- Muscæ.—Flies
- Tipulæ, or Empedes
- Ants
- Glow Worms
- Earth Worms
- Snails and Slugs
- Snakes Slough
- OBSERVATIONS ON VEGETABLES: Trees, Order of losing their Leaves
- Size and Growth
- Flowing of Sap
- Ash Trees
- Sycamore
- Galls of Lombardy Poplar
- Chestnut Timber
- Lime Blossoms
- Black Thorn
- Ivy Berries
- Hops
- Seed lying dormant
- Beans Sown by Birds
- Cucumbers Set by Bees
- Wheat
- Truffles
- Tremella Nostoc
- Fairy Rings
- METEOROLOGICAL OBSERVATIONS: Barometer
- Partial Frost
- Thaw
- Frozen Sleet
- Mist, called London Smoke
- Reflection of Fog
- Honey Dew
- Morning Clouds
- Dripping Weather after Drought
- Aurora Borealis
- Black Spring, 1771
- On the dark, Still, dry warm weather occasionally happening in the winter months (a Poem)
- Measure of Rain in Inches and Hundreds
- SUMMARY OF THE WEATHER
- Contents
- Published by the Same Author
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- A Naturalist's CalendarWith Observations in Various Branches of Natural History, pp. 101Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2014