ANNUAL OF SCIENCE.

This Day is published, price 6s. ARCANA of SCIENCE, and ANNUAL REGISTER of the USEFUL ARTS for 1831.

Comprising POPULAR INVENTIONS, IMPROVEMENTS, and DISCOVERIES, in

Mechanics Agriculture Chemical Science Gardening Botany Domestic Economy Zoology Useful and Ornamental Art Geology Geographical Discovery Meteorology

Abridged from the Transactions of Public Societies and Scientific Journals of the past year. With several Engravings.

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Footnote 1: [(return)]

See Mirror, vol. xi. p. 2.

Footnote 2: [(return)]

Athenæum, No. 180—an opinion to which we beg to subscribe.

Footnote 3: [(return)]

A town of Hindoostan, in Travancore.

Footnote 4: [(return)]

Wilson, Amer. Ornith. v. 15.

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Oiseaux, p 189.

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19 Henry VII. c. 11.

Footnote 7: [(return)]

Ibid.

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I James, c. 27, s. 2.

Footnote 9: [(return)]

Pennant, Brit. Zool. ii. 341.

Footnote 10: [(return)]

Northumberland Household Book, p. 104.

Footnote 11: [(return)]

Jennings Ornithologia, p. 199, note.

Footnote 12: [(return)]

Ornith. Dict. Art. Heron.

Footnote 13: [(return)]

J.R.

Footnote 14: [(return)]

Belon, Oiseaux, p. 189

Footnote 15: [(return)]

This escritoire is said to be in the possession of Lady Clauwilliam, at Giltown, her father having married the sister and co-heiress of Lady Beresford; and a picture was lately existing, and may he now, at Catherine Grove (the seat of Richard Georges Meredith, Esq., her grandson on Capt. Georges’ side), exhibiting Lady B. with a broad black ribbon round the wrist, which the apparition of Sir Tristram is said to have scorched.

Footnote 16: [(return)]

Cleobulus.


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