"Legitimæ inquisitionis vera norma est, ut nihil veniat in practicam, cujus non fit etiam doctrina aliqua et theoria."-BACON, De Augm, Scien.
"Those who have not thoroughly examined to the bottom all their own tenets, must con- fess they are unfit to prescribe to others; and are unreasonable in imposing that as truth on other men's belief which they themselves have not searched into, nor weighed the arguments of probability on which they should receive or reject it."-LOCKE, Essay on Human Understanding.
HENRY HOOPER, 13 PALLMALL EAST.
PRINTED BY CHARLES REYNELL,
THIRTY-FIFTH VOLUME OF THE
Nos. LXVIII, LXIX, JANUARY-APRIL, 1841.
Birds, Gould's, 271; England a century behind France in the science of natu- ral history in 1820, now claims prece- dence, ib.; Zoological Society of Lon- don commenced under the auspices of Sir J. Stamford Raffles, Sir H. Davy, Mr Vigors and others, 272; Mr Gould one of the officers of the Mu- seum for many years, ib.; the folio work, entitled A Century of Birds from the Himalaya Mountains,' com- menced in 1831, 273; vegetation and ornithology of the Himalaya de scribed, ib. 274'; group of forms pecu. liar to those mountains, ib. 275; the Birds of Europe,' commenced in 1832, completed in 1837, 276; mi- gration of different birds, 277; con. tents of the five volumes, 278; 'Mo- nograph of the Toucans,' group of birds confined to the tropical portions of America, 279; of this genus species described by Mr Gould, 280; habits and appearance of the Aru- çaris, 281; resemble the Toucans, ib.; habits of Toucans in confinement, ib.; plate, 282; monograph of the Trogons, 283; twelve new species added by Mr Gould, ib.; habits, 284; male, female, and young differ in ap- pearance at different ages, 285; plate, Trogon resplendens, ib.; habits of
the Cuba Trogon different, 286; first and second part of the 'Icones Avium' described, ib. 287; departure of Mr and Mrs Gould for Australia in 1838, ar- rival at Van Dieman's Land, 290; explored the scrub, 291; proceeded to New South Wales and first directed attention to the mouth of the River Hunter, 292; discovered the Wattled Talegalla, ib.; started in December to visit the interior by way of the Li- verpool hills and plains, ib.; descend the River Namoi, 293; hospitably received at a small hut occupied by Lieut. Lowe and his nephew, ib. ; me- lancholy death of Mr Lowe, 294; Mr Gould returned to England in August 1840, 295; published in December first part of the Birds of Australia,' ib.; plate of the Wattled Talegalla, 296; inhabits various parts of New South Wales, 299; singular method of hatching its eggs, 298; habits of the Ocellated Leipoa described, 300; plate of the Porphory Crowned Lori- keet, 302; abundant in South Aus- tralia, ib.; its habits, ib. Biography, 500; Life of Adm. Viscount Exmouth; works of Benjamin Frank- lin, 501; life and remains of the Rev. R. Housman, 502; life of Mr Hutton, ib.
Bowring, Dr, evidence of, 397. C.
Canada, 145, 46, 47, 48, 49, 50, 51. Counsel, licence of; Mr Charles Phil- lips's defence of Courvoisier in accord- ance with his duty as an advocate, 1; answer of the Attorney-General to Mr Hawes's petition, ib.; cause of continued depredations reluctance to prosecute, ib.; dislike of respectable witnesses to expose themselves to the attacks of prisoners' counsel, 2; ex- ample of, ib.; reasons for slight pu-
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