Heads and tales - Unknown

INDEX.

Addison and Steele on the peculiarities of the natural history collectors, [5]-[8]
Albert's horse at Brussels, [256].
Ammonianus and his ass, [279].
Androcles and the lion, [167]-[169].
Ant-eater, the great, [225]-[229].
Arctic fox, [142]-[148].
Ass, Sydney Smith on sagacity of, [283].
Ass and zebra, [276].
Ass's foal, [278].
Asses with deers' antlers fastened on heads, [284];
duty free, [284].
Asylum for animals, [265], [266].
Austrian general and a bear, [58], [59].
Aye-aye, its singular structure and habits, [36]-[38].
Baboons, Lady Anne Barnard on, [24], [25].
Babylon, bas-relief of dog found at, [86], [87].
Babyrusa, [240].
Back, Sir George, anecdote of Arctic lemming, [196].
Badger, [71];
anecdotes of, [72]-[75].
Baird, origin of name, [241].
Barrentz on white or Polar bear, [64].
Barnard, Lady Anne, pleads for the baboons, [24], [25];
on some rabbits, [222].
Bats, fantastic faces of, [38], [39].
Bearable pun, [61].
Bears, [56], [57];
anecdotes of, [58]-[70].
Beechey, Captain, on Polar bear, [63];
on the walrus, [184]-[186], [187].
Bell, Professor, on cats, [149].
Bell, Sir Charles, on the head of a pig, [239].
Bell-Rock horse, [257].
Bentham, Jeremy, and his pet cat, [150]-[152];
and the mice, [205], [206].
Berwickshire, names of places in, derived from swine, [241].
Bess, a pet hare of the poet Cowper's, [216].
Bisset and his trained monkeys, [25], [26];
musical cats, [152], [153];
trained hares and turtle, [221], [222];
learned pig, [250].
Black Dwarf's cat, [157].
Blomfield, Bishop, bitten by a dog, [88].
Boar, wild, [239]-[245].
Border, cow getting across, [309].
Borneo, the home of the orang, [11].
Boswell imitates the lowing of a cow, [305].
Bradford, Earl of, on the number of legs of a sheep, [296].
Bristol, Bishop of, comparing Cambridge freshmen to puppies, [89].
Brock, or badger, [72].
Brown, Dr John, "Rab" and "Our Dogs," [78].
Browning, Mrs Elizabeth Barrett, lines on her dog Flush, [89]-[93].
Browning's, Robert, description of rats, [199].
Bull, an Irish, [304].
Bull, Rev. Wm., Newton, and Toplady, anecdote of, [312].
Bull-baiting at Olney, [313];
Windham on, [314].
Bull-ring, Philip IV. in, [310].
Bullock and Dr Adam Clarke, [305], [306].
Burke, Edmund, question when interrupted, [149];
anecdote of his humanity, [257], [258].
Burns' "Twa Dogs," [81], [82];
the field-mouse, [206]-[208].
Bush-pig, [148].
Bussapa, the tiger-slayer, [162]-[164].
Buxton, Sir Thomas Fowell, Bart., and his dog Speaker, [93], [94].
Byron on his dog, [79];
on Boatswain, a Newfoundland dog, [94], [95];
pets, [26], [27];
bear at Cambridge, [59].
"Calamity," a horse of Sydney Smith's, [272].
Calf, a great, [304].
Calves and kine, [304].
Camel, Captain Wm. Peel on, [287]-[289].
Campbell, Colonel, account of Bussapa and the tiger, [162]-[164].
Canova's sculptured lions and the child, [171]-[173].
Carnac and the she-goat, [299].
Cats, [149]-[161].
Cat's letter, by Montgomery, [156].
Cattle of Sydney Smith, and their universal scratcher, [311].
Chalmers, Dr, and the guinea-pig, [223], [224].
Cheiroptera, the order which contains the bats, [38], [39].
Children and horses cannot explain their complaints, [269].
Chimpanzee, Mr Mitchell on the habits of a young one, [22]-[42].
China, roasted pups eaten in, [78].
Chiromys Madagascariensis, its habits, [36]-[38].
Choiropotamus Africanus, [140].
Choiseul, Madame de, and her pet monkey and parrot, [33], [34].
Chunie, the elephant, [230].
Clare's dog and Curran, [98].
Clarke, Dr Adam, on Shetland seals, [175], [176];
his bullock Pat, [305].
Clive's, Lord, handwriting misunderstood, [230].
Cockburn, Lord, and the sheep at Bonaly, [298].
Collie at Cultershaw, [82].
Collins, Wm., R.A., and Sir David Wilkie, [3];
the rat-catcher with the ferret, [76];
his dog Prinny, [96], [97];
paints Odell's old donkey, [277].
Collins, W. Wilkie, Sir David Wilkie's first remark on him, [3], [4].
Constant and his cat, [153].
Cook's sailor, who took a fox-bat for the devil, [40].
Cooke, Major-General, [189].
Coon, a gone, [71].
Couthon and the spaniel, [195].
Cowper's narrative of his pet hares, [213]-[219];
dog Beau and the water-lily, [79]-[81].
Cows, anecdotes of, [306]-[311].
Cross, Edward, of Exeter Change and Walworth, [33].
Cruelty to horses in Ireland, [275].
Cunningham, Major, on Ladak dog, [86].
Curran on Lord Clare's dog, [98].
Cuvier and the fossil, [236].
Cynocephali, or African baboons, [9], [24], [25].
Dalhousie, Earl of, and the ferocious red-deer, [291].
Dandie Dinmont educates his terriers, [122].
Davis, Sir George, and the lion, [170], [171].
Deer family, [290], [291];
their sensibility of smell, [300].
Dessin Island, rabbits on, blind of one eye, [222].
Dickens on sellers of bears' grease, [59], [60].
Dog and the French murderers, [104], [105].
Dog-cheap, [100].
Dog-matic, [113].
Dog-rose, [133].
Dogs, [77]-[87].
Douglas, General, and the rats, [201].
Dragon-fly exhibited at a show, [61].
Dresden, Battle of, General Moreau killed at, [113].
Drew on the instinct of dogs, [98]-[100].
Dromedary, Capt. Peel on its rate of motion, [289].
Dunbar, Rev. Rowland Hill at, [261].
Durian, an eastern fruit, [14].
Earl's Court, Hunter's menagerie at, [300]-[302].
Eastern dogs, [84], [85].
Echidna aculeata, [192].
Edentata, [228].
Edmonstone, Dr, on Shetland seals, [176]-[182].
Eglintoun, Countess of, her fondness for rats, [200], [201].
Elephant and his trunk, [232];
anecdotes of, [234]-[236].
Epomophorus, a genus of tropical bats alluded to by the poet-laureate, [39].
Erskine's sheep and the woolsack, [298].
Esquimaux dogs, [78], [86].
Ettrick Shepherd's monkey, [27], [28];
on fox-hunting, [139]-[141];
on whales, [316].
Fabricius on Arctic fox, [143].
Ferret, [75], [76].
Field mouse turned up by Robert Burns, [206]-[208].
Findhorn fisherman and monkey, [29], [30].
Flush, lines to her dog, by Mrs Browning, [89]-[93].
Foote, Samuel, makes cows pull bell at Oxford, [306].
Forster, Dr, on the fox-bats of the Friendly Islands, [42], [43].
Fournier on the squirrel, [196].
Fowler the tailor and Gainsborough the artist, [2], [3].
Fox, Charles James, on the poll-cat, [77].
Fox, [138].
Fox-hunting, from the "Noctes," [139]-[141].
Fox-bats, particulars of their history, [41]-[47].
Frederick the Great and his Italian greyhounds, [104].
French count at deer-stalking, [293], [294];
dogs, time of Louis XI., [110];
marquis and his monkey, [30], [31].
Fry, Mrs, on Irish pigs, [252].
Fuller, Thomas, on destructive fieldmice, [208], [209].
Fuller on Norfolk rabbits, [223].
Fuseli on Northcote's picture of Balaam and the Ass, [281].
Future state of animals, Toplady on, [312].
Gainsborough and Fowler the tailor, [2], [3];
his wife and their dogs, [100], [101];
pigs, countryman on, [252];
kept an ass, [277].
Garrick and the horse, [259].
Gell, Sir William, his dog, [101].
General's cow at Plymouth, [308].
George III. at Winchester, meets Garrick, [259].
George IV. visited at Windsor by "Happy Jerry," [32].
Gilpin's, Bernard, horses stolen and recovered, [260].
Gilpin's, Rev. Mr, love of the picturesque, [308].
Gimcrack, the widow, her letter to Mr Bickerstaff on her husband's peculiarities, [6]-[8].
Giraffe, anecdotes of, [291]-[295].
Glirine animals, [195], [212].
Goats, anecdotes of, [299], [300].
Goethe on stag-trench at Frankfort, [294];
on Roos's etchings of sheep, [296].
Good enough for a pig, [251].
Gordon, Duchess of, and the wolf-dog, [102], [103].
Gorilla and its story, [9]-[22].
Graham, Rev. W., on dogs in the East, [85].
Grange, the, near Edinburgh, [30].
Gray compares poet-laureate to a rat-catcher, [204], [205].
Gray. Dr, gets large specimen of gorilla, [17].
Greenland seal, [181].
Grotta del Cane, the poor dog at, [111], [112].
Guilford, Lord Keeper, and the rhinoceros, [230].
Guinea pig, Dr Chalmers, [223], [224].
Gunn, Mr, on tiger-wolf, [192], [193].
Haff-fish, the Shetland name for seal, [179].
Hairs or hares, [220].
Hall, Robert, and the dog, [106].
Hamilton, Sir Wm., his definition of man, [1], [2].
Hanover rats, [202], [203].
Happy Jerry, the rib-nosed mandrill, [31], [32].
Hardwicke's lady, sow, [253].
Hares, Mrs Browning on Cowper's, [212];
petted by Cowper the poet, [213]-[219].
Hastings and the refractory donkey, [279].
Heard, the herald, on the horse of George III., [261]
Hedgehogs, [48].
Hill, Rev. Rowland, prayed for his horse, [261], [262].
Holcroft on race-horses, [263]-[265].
Hood's dog Dash, [110].
Hook and the litter of pigs, [253].
Hooker's sea-bear in Regent's Park, [175].
Hospital for old cows and horses, [309].
Horse, [256];
that carried stones to build Bell-Rock lighthouse, [257].
Horse exercises, a saying of Rowland Hill's, [263].
Horsemanship of Johnson the Irishman, [257], [258].
Horsfield, Dr, on the Javanese fox-bat, [45], [46].
Hunter, John, and the dead tiger, [165];
his menagerie at Earl's Court, [300], [302].
Hunters of Polmood, dog that belonged to, [107].
Impey, Warren Hastings, and the ass, [279], [280].
India shawls, [301].
Inglefield, Capt., on the affection of a Polar bear and her two cubs, [65].
Irish clergyman and the dogs, [108].
Irishman on rat-shooting, [203].
Irving, Washington, and the dog, [108], [109].
Ivory dust, [233].
Jackal, [148], [149].
Jeffrey on a donkey; Sydney Smith's lines on [281], [282].
Jekyll treading on a small pig, [251];
on a squirrel, [195].
Jerrold, Douglas, and his dog, [109].
Kangaroo Cooke, [189].
Kangaroos, Charles Lamb on, [188], [189].
Keppel, Commodore, and the Dey of Algiers, [303].
King James, on a cow getting over the Border, [309].
Laird of Balnamoon and the brock, [75].
Lamb, Charles, and the dog, [110];
on Kangaroos, [188], [189];
on the hare, [212].
Landseer's "Monkeyana," [10];
stags, [293].
Lap-dogs before the House of Commons, [124].
Lauder, Sir Thomas Dick, adventures of a monkey in Morayshire, [29], [30].
Laurillard, Cuvier's assistant, [237].
Lawyer's horse, [268].
Lemming, and Arctic voyager, [196];
habits of the Arctic, [197], [198].
Leifchild, Dr, at Hoxton, [127].
Leopard, its ferocity when wounded, [161].
Letter from the gorilla, now in British Museum, [13]-[17].
Lightfoot, name for Sir Edwin Landseer, [293].
Lion and tiger, [166].
Lion, hunts on Assyrian monuments, [162].
Lions on monument of Clement XII., [171]-[173].
Liston the surgeon and his cat, [153], [154].
Livingston, Dr, on paralysing effect of lion's bite, [162].
Luther observes a dog at Lintz, [111].
Lyon, Capt., on Arctic fox, [144], [145].
Lytton, Sir Edward Bulwer, on the pets of some of the Revolutionary butchers, [195], [196].
Macaulay, Lord, on the last days of King William III., [50]-[56].
M'Clintock on Arctic fox, [144].
M'Dougall on habits of Arctic lemming, [197].
Macgillivray, John, on a fox-bat from Fitzroy Island, [45].
Mackenzie, Mrs Colin, on the habits of the apes at Simla, [35], [36];
on the tiger being worshipped, [166].
Man, Professor Owen on his position, [1];
definition of, by Linnæus, [12];
defined in the Linnæan manner, [4].
Mandrill and George IV., [31], [32].
Mansfield's, Lord, joke about a horse, [267].
Marat, the citizen, and his doves, [196].
Markham, Mr Clement, on the Polar bear, [69].
Marsupialia, [188]-[191].
Mastiff and the soldier, [97].
Matthews, Henry, on the Grotta del Cane, [112].
Mayerne, Dr, and his balsam of bats, [47].
Metcalfe, when a boy, on camel, [290].
Miller, Hugh, on badger-baiting in the Canongate, [72]-[74].
Miscellaneous eating about a pig, [238].
Mitchell, D. W., on the habits of a young chimpanzee, [22]-[24].
Mitchell's antipathy to cats, [155].
Model dog of the artist Collins, [96], [97].
Mole, its habits, [49].
Monkey revered by Hindoos, [35].
Monkeys, [9];
liable to lung disease in British islands, [22];
Rev. Sydney Smith on, [34], [35];
poor relations, [34].
Montagu, Duke of, and his hospital for old cows, &c., [309].
Montgomery, James, his translation of a definition of man, [4];
and his cats, [155], [156].
Moore, General, and his horse at Corunna, [268].
Moore on Gilpin and Boatswain, two dogs, [95], [96].
Moore, Dr John, sketch of a French marquis and his monkey, [30], [31].
More, Hannah, on dog of Garrick's, [105].
Moreau and his greyhound, [113].
Moses, a dog of Mrs Schimmelpenninck's, [122].
Moth larvæ eating at night, [37].
Mounsey, anecdote of, [269].
Mouse that amused Baron von Trenck, [209], [210].
Mules should have their own way, [286].
Museum of John Hunter, [164], [165].
Musical cats, [152], [153].
Musk rat, [200].
Myrmecophaga jubata, [225]-[229].
Names given to horses, [270]-[274].
Napier, Charles, and the lion in the Tower, [173].
Natural history collectors of the days of Addison and Steele, [5], [8].
Neill, Dr Patrick, [5].
Nelson and the Polar bear, [67]-[69];
in Arctic seas, [186].
Newfoundland dog, [126].
N'Geena, or gorilla, [18].
Nicol, George, the bookseller and hunter, [165].
Norfolk, Duke of, and his spaniels, [114].
North, Sir Dudley, visits the rhinoceros, [231].
North, Lord, and the dog, [115].
Northcote's Balaam and the Ass, [281].
Norton, Hon. Mrs, address to a dog, [83].
Odell and his old donkey, [277].
Old Jack, a horse that drew stones for building Waterloo Bridge, [270].
Old lady and the beasts on the mound, [173].
Ommaney, Capt., and the Polar bear, [70].
Opossum, [190].
Ornithorhynchus, the duck-bill, [192].
Owen, Professor, on the gorilla, [18];
on the aye-aye, [36].
Parasols, how ladies used them at Cross's menagerie, [33].
Parrot and monkey, anecdote of two pets, [33], [34].
Parry, Capt., on flesh of Polar bear, [66].
Paton, Sir J. Noel, has studied physiognomies of bats, &c., [38].
Peale, Titian, on a tame fox-bat, [44].
Peccaries of South America, [240].
Peel, Capt. Wm., on camel, [287]-[289].
Peracyon, [19].
Perchance, a lap-dog, [96].
Perthes derives hints from his dog, [115].
Peter the Great and his dog Lisette, [161], [117].
Phascolomys vombatus, [193].
Philip IV. in bull-ring, [310].
Phillips, Sir Richard, eats jelly of ivory dust, [233].
Phoca barbata, [180];
vitulena, [177].
Pied Piper of Hamelin, extract from, [199].
Pig, monument to, [239].
Pigs and silver spoons, [254].
Plants liked by hares, [218].
Polar bear, its history, [61]-[70].
Poll-cat, Fox and the, [77].
Polkemmet, Lord, a dinner on veal, [305].
Polson and the last Scottish wolf, [135]-[137].
Ponsonby and the poodle, [118].
Porpoise in Zoological Gardens, [315].
Pope on dogs, [95].
Porcupine ant-eater, [192].
Postman and carrier dog at Moffat, [113].
Postmen, Capt. Osborn, on Arctic foxes as, [146].
Potamochœrus, [240], [245].
Prinny, a pet dog of Collins the artist, [96], [97].
Prison mouse, [209], [210].
Pteropus conspicillatus, [44];
medius, [45].
Puss, a pet hare of the poet Cowper's [214], [215].
Quadrumana, [9]-[38].
Queen of Charles I. and the lap-dog [107].
Quixote Bowles fond of pigs, [251].
Rabbits, a family all blind of one eye, [222].
Raccoon, [71].
Race-horses, Holcroft's anecdotes of, [263]-[265].
Ramsgate donkeys, Irishman on, [278].
Rats and mice, [198].
Rats' whiskers good for artists' brushes, [204].
Ravages of rats, [203].
Raven, pet of Wood the surgeon, [299].
Red-deer at Taymouth, [291], [292].
"Relais," a dog belonging to Louis XII., [111].
Revolutionary butchers and their pets, [195], [196].
Rhinoceros and elephant, [229].
Richardson, Sir J., on Arctic fox, [143].
River pig, [245].
Rodent animals, [195], [212].
Rodney, Lord, and his dog Loup, [119].
Rogue elephant, skull of one, [230].
Roos's etchings of sheep, Goethe on, [296], [297].
Ross, Sir James, on Arctic fox, [142], [145].
Rowan berries, dog that fetched, [128].
Ruddiman and his dog Rascal, [119].
Sand liked by hares, [218].
Schimmelpenninck, Mrs, her fondness for dogs, [121].
Scott, Sir Walter, when a boy, saw Burns, [84];
his fondness for his dogs, [122];
on a fox, [138];
visit to the Black Dwarf, [157].
"Scratcher" of Sydney Smith, [311].
Scriptures, dogs mentioned in the, [84], [103], [106].
Seals, their intelligence, [174]-[182].
Semnopithecus Entellus, an Indian monkey, [35].
Sergent and his spaniel, [196].
Shaved bear at Bristol, [61].
Shawl-goat at John Hunter's menagerie, [301].
Sheep, anecdotes of, [295]-[298];
and goats, [295];
pet, of Alex. Wood the surgeon, [299].
Shepherd dogs, [82].
Sheridan and the dog, [109];
on the dog-tax, [123].
Shetland seals, [174]-[182].
Sidmouth, Lord, educated by the Rev. Mr Gilpin, [308].
Skins of rabbits, [223].
Sloth, Sydney Smith on, [224].
Smith, Rev. Sydney, on the differences between man and monkeys, [34], [35];
his answer to Landseer, [78];
remark on a dog, [88];
his dislike of dogs, [124], [125];
on pigs, [254];
and his horses, [271]-[274].
Smith and the elephant, [234].
Sorrel, the horse of William III., [51].
Southey and his critics, [48];
on dogs, [126];
loved cats, [158]-[160].
Sow and swine, [238]-[255].
Spencer, Lord, and Rev. Sydney Smith, [124], [125].
Spermophilus Parryi, [197].
Sportsmen, exaggeration of some, [221].
Squirrel, [195].
Stags, anecdotes of, [291]-[293].
Stag-trench at Frankfort, [294].
Stanhope, Earl, on Jacobites calling adherents of Court "Hanover rats," [202], [203];
on the poet Cowper's tastes, [220].
Stapelia, a plant at the Cape, [25].
Stirling Castle, "Lion's den" at, [162].
Stokes, Capt. Lort, on the red-necked fox-bat, [43].
Story, Judge, names he gave his horses, [274].
Sturge and the pigs, [255].
Surgeon, an enthusiastic fox-hunting, [138].
Swinton, origin of name, [241].
Sykes, Colonel, on the flesh of a fox-bat, [45].
Syria, wild boar in, [244].
Tail, short-tailed and long-tailed horses, [275].
Tailor and the elephant, [235].
Tamandua, or ant-eater, [226].
Tennyson, lines on man, and modern systems, [10];
lines describing tropical bats, [39].
Thackeray on the Egyptian donkey, [285].
Thalassarctos maritimus—the polar bear, [61]-[70].
Thylacinus Harrisii, [191].
Tibetan mastiff, [86], [87].
Tiger and lion, [161].
Tigers' claws and whiskers regarded as charms, [165].
Tiger-wolf of Tasmania, [190]-[194].
Tiney, a pet hare of Cowper's, [216].
Toplady on future state of animals, [312].
Tonton, Walpole's pet dog, [129], [130].
Trained monkeys, [26].
Trenck and the tame mouse in prison, [209].
Trichechus rosmarus, [183].
True, on dog being a good judge of eloquence, [127].
Ulysses and his dog, [133].
Ursus lotor, why raccoon was so called, [71].
Veal ad nauseam, [304]
Venison fat, [294].
Vulpes lagopus, [142].
Walker, Dr David, on Polar bear, [62].
Wallace, Alfred, on orang-utan, [11];
on great ant-eater, [227].
Walpole, Horace, the young lady's pet monkey and her parrot, [33], [34];
pet dog Rosette, lines on, [129].
Walrus, history of, [182]-[188].
Waterton, Charles, letter from, on young gorilla, [18]-[20];
letter to Mrs Wombwell on her young gorilla, [21];
"Hanover rats," [202].
Watt, James, on rats' whiskers, [204].
Wellington's story of musk rat, [200].
Whalebone, [315].
Whales, [315], [317].
Whateley, Archbishop, and his dogs, [131], [132];
on a cat that rung the bell, [160].
Wild boar, [239]-[245].
Wilkie, Sir David, and the baby, [3], [4];
and the puppy, [133].
William III., his death, as related by Lord Macaulay, [49]-[56].
Wilson, the American ornithologist, and the mouse, [211].
Windham, Right Hon. William, on Capt. Phipps's Arctic expedition, [67], [68];
on the feelings of a baited bull, [313].
Wolf, [135].
Wolf-dog, Hungarian, anecdote of, [102], [103].
Wombat, [193].
Wood, Sandy, and his pets, [298], [299].
Wordsworth on cruelty to horses in Ireland, [275].
Zebra, Lattin's joke, [287].
Zoological Gardens, [249].

THE END.

FOOTNOTES:

[1] There are many anecdotes in this book not included in this list, which gives however, the principal.

[2] Life of Thomas Gainsborough, R.A. By the late George Williams Fulcher. Edited by his Son. P. 157.

[3] Memoir of the Life of William Collins, R.A. By W. Wilkie Collins. I., p. 235.

[4] The future author of "The Woman in White" and "The Dead Secret," and many other works of celebrity.

[5] Memoirs of James Montgomery. By Holland and Everett. I., p. 283.