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INDEX.

Abbott's Hill Paper Mills, 332
Abele trees, wood-cut, 34

Abercorn Arms at Stanmore, 392

Abraxas explained, 164

a Centauri, its distance, 284

the best known star, 300

Acknal-way near Hartwell, 4

Act for inclosing land, 31

Acts for inclosing, 7

Adams, Mr. J. C. undertakes y Virginis, 340

Adams goes back to 1718, 341

Admiralty, Lords of the, 79

Orders in 1690, 358

Advowson presented to Royal Astronomical Society, 11

Elurus or cat, mummied, 215

Aerolite from the Cape, 141

Agathodemon, the serpent, 166

Agriculture described, 29

Agrippa, Admiral, 149

Airy, Rev. W., on Cold Harbours, 4

Akehurst, Mr., aided in the merid. line, 250

Akerman, Mr. J. Y., 6

Albania, birth-place of Mehemet, 187
Albemarle, Duke of, lent a ship, 359

Alcaire, old name of Cairo, 200

Alexander Hampden, 58

Alexandria, its longitude, 369
Alfieri quoted on truth, 79

Alignments by Bradley and Pound, 339

All nature is but art unknown, 355
Allowance of 20,000l., 391

Alwin held this manor, 46

Alwyn possessed Hartwell, 44

Amazonis, sive Heroinæ, 151

Ammon or Amun, god, 160
Ammonite, sign of the Bugle, 23
figured, 24

its growth, 27

Ammonites biplex, 29

type of Hartwell, 142

Amset with human head, 168

Amulet with lion's head, 167

Amun Ra, the good god, 220
Amunti, or four genii, 167
Anarchy of France, described, 389
Andropogon contortum, 18
Angles from Pompey's pillar, 197
Animal kingdom, specimens, 140
Anson, Lord, his prize, 74
Antoninus Pius, engraved, 152
Anubis with the dog's head, 168
Apartments of Hartwell House, 105
Apes, worshipped, 159
Apocatastatis, 210

APPENDIX, 357

Arable land at Hartwell, 52

Arago, on sidereal colours, 303

polarizing experiment, 347

Archbishop attending the Queen, 380

ARCHEOLOGY, 4

Architecture of Hartwell Church, 12

Ariston men udor, 222

Army, Egyptian, amount of, 191

Arrow-heads like those at Marathon, 212
Artist who tore up his sketches, 310

Ascent of Pompey's pillar, 196
Ashridge, its Cold Harbour, 5
Astacus crab, 29

Astarte Hartwelliana, 28

Astronomer Royal for Scotland, his illustrations, iii.
Astronomical Society presented with a living, 11
branch of the library, 124

means increased, 238

Society, 238

Astronomy connected with Religion, 185

"As You Like It" on adversity, 374
Aubrey's MS. quoted, 1

August has frequent gales, 17
Augusta, Princess of Wales, 71

Aulus Gellius, his Noctes Atticæ, 122

Autograph of the author, iv.

Autumn described, 17
Avenue, old and new, 40
Aylesbury, History of, 1

ancient British post, 6
men sharp, 32
Railway, 33

Infirmary, vignette, 91

a point of the Survey, 250
Observatory of Mr. Dell, 252
Azores or Western Islands, 76

Babylonian cylinders, 136

Baieux, Bishop of, had land at Stone, 46
Balsamo, Abbate, sent to England, 31
Banks, Sir Joseph, breakfasts, 84
Barancelli of Sardinia, 9

Barclay, his telescope examined, 245
Barge's crew of the Majestic, 384
Barker, C. F., gave a negro idol, 206
collection, 1833, 208
his sale, 1833, 217

Barometer by Barrow, 353
Barometric monthly range, 16
Barrington quotes Lord Bathurst, 39
Barton, his clock, 224
Bas-relief from Athens, 138

Base of Pompey's pillar, 373

Beachampton, Rectory of, 87

Bear, muzzled, crest of the Lees, 98

Beatrice de Luton, 53

Beauchamp's Life of Louis XVIII., 375, 388

Beaufoy, Colonel, his Cycle, 223
his journeyman, 247

Bedford, temperature compared, 18

Plesiosaurus, 143

revolving roof, 242

Cycle quoted, 286

Bedoweens become agriculturists, 188

Beechey admired Egyptian painting, 184
Beetle, the Sacred, 163

Belzoni accompanied Beechey, 184
quoted, 219

Benevolent Society of Stone, 8
Beresford, Marshal, 386

Berri, unfortunate Duke of, 387
Beryfield, valuable pasture, 2
Bevan of Leighton, 228
Bibliotheca Phillippica, 359
Billiard, now breakfast room, 106

Binbashee, a youth, 187

Biography of Mehemet Ali, 187

Birch, Mr., suggested hieroglyphics, 156

quoted, 219

Bishop, Mr., his telescope, 244
Bishopstone, hamlet of, 9

derived from Bishop Odo, 14
pit, 20

wells not deep, 22
Bitnam, derivation of, 102
Bittenham, Byght-ham, 4
Bivalves, numerous, 28

Bizitûn, interpreted by Rawlinson, 176
Black, Mr. W. H., arranging documents, 100
Blake, Mr. W., admirable Secretary, 109
aided in meridian line, 250

Bledlow ridge, 6

end of meridian line, 249

Board of Direction, 33

Bodleian Library, its MSS., 11

Bonnets, small English, 388

Bonomi quoted on hieroglyphics, 156

on head-dresses, 179

his drawings, 212
quoted, 214, 217

Books given to scholars, 10

Bottom-rock, or Portland, 21

Bourbons at Hartwell, 374

their improved prospects, 391

Bowling green, 42

Bowling greens great favourites, 103

B. P. contraction of Buonaparte, 378
Braciatrices fined, 51

Bradley's noted observation of 1718, 330
omitted for y Virginis, 333

Braided tresses of the Egyptians, 181
Branch Railway, 1839, 33

Brass of Perkin a Legh, 94

Breakfast, muffin toasting, 84

Bréan, Abbé, favourite of the Queen, 381

Brereton guilty of excess of ardour, 99

Brick from Babylon, 140
Brick-kiln near Hartwell, 22
Bridgewater Treatise, 26

Britain, its ancient type, 150
Britannia attired in trousers, 151

Bronze ichneumon, 204
Brouchos of the Septuagint, 164
Brown ferruginous sand, 23
Brown, Capability, 39

Brown, Robert, on fossil tree, 144
Browne, Sir Thomas, quoted, 209
Brudenell, old surveyors, 83
Brunonian guise of garden, 42

--style of garden, 82

Bubastis, colossal figures, 215

Buckingham, Duke of, received Louis XVIII., 378

Buckinghamshire Infirmary, 91

Buckland's Bridgewater Treatise, 27

on the Plesiosaurus, 143

Bugle Inn, at Hartwell, 22

Bunsen, Chev. his work on Egypt, 213

Burnet, Bishop, prejudiced, 357
Burrow, Sir James, 64

Butter, its produce per cow,
30
Bwch, buc, bucca, cervus, 3
Byron, description of nautilus, 26
on Louis le Désiré, 377

Cabandonga, Anson's prize, 74

Cadiz, Duc d'Orleans expelled from, 379

Cagliari Cathedral, crypt, 382

Cairo, called also Alcaire, 200

Calais, arrival of Louis XVIII., 393

Calignon, Dr. wrong in opinion, 380
Cambyses' invasion of Egypt, 173

took 2500 statues and pictures, 370

Camden quoted, 1

on Aylesburgh, 5

Cameos, collection of casts, 144

Campani of Rome, 226

Campden Hill Journal, 299

Canal, new, in Egypt, 189
Carbery, autograph of, 360
Carboniferous group, nautilus, 25
Card-board sectors of projection, 330
Cardiff dock materials, 144
Cardium striatulum, 28

Caroline, Queen of George II., 115
Carrington, Esq. Chairman, 33
Carucate of land, Norman, 47

Casts of gems, 144

Castes among the Egyptians, 157

Castor found to move by Herschel I., 285

Cats honoured in Egypt, 216

Cattieuchlani, British tribe, 4

Caylus on Egyptian head-dresses, 181

Celestial Cycle quoted, 231

Censura Literaria vainly searched, 120

Census disliked, 189

Cephrenes, Pyramid of, 185

Chalgrave's tenement in Hampden, 49

Chamberlain, held land in Herdewelle, 46
Champollion the younger, 156

▬▬▬ on Egyptian portraits, 183
Chandos, Duke of, satirized by Pope, 104
Chantrey admired No. 3073, 138

Chapel, now dismantled, 109
Character of Mehemet Ali, 188
Charities of Stone and Hartwell, 8

Charnock quoted, 358

Cheshire, source of the Leghs or Lees, 93
Chesney, Colonel, of Euphrates Expedition, 224
Chiaro-oscuro paintings, drawing-room, 107

Children, twenty-four, 59

Chiltern Hille, site of Hampden, 57

Hills, 1, 31

Hundreds, 2

Chilterns affect the atmosphere, 15
Chinese joncks have an eye, 209
Cholera, its ravages, 32

Choristers of Pharoah's daughter, 182
CHOROGRAPHY, 1

Christ Church, Oxford, 27
Christian era, its date, 213
Chronometers, their importance, 369
Church, original, described, 11

built by Sir T. Lee, 82
Church-Furlong, at Bishopstone, 20
Circles and other instruments, 225
Civilization, its effects on scenery, 38
of ancient Egypt, 177

Clarence, Duke of, 393
Classification of comets, 347
Clay and stone, 21

Cleopatra's Baths attended to, 191

Needle valued, 195

Clifden, P. of Wales's letter, 67
CLIMATURE, 14

Clothes given to scholars, 10

Coats of the Lees, 98

Cobb, Mr. J. an accurate engraver, 137

Cobham, Lord, his letter, 81

Coffin of Smantennofre, 218

Coins, series of ancient, 145

Cold Aston, near Stone, 4

Comfort, near Hartwell, 4
Harbour, frequent name, 4
Colignon, Dr., died at Hartwell, 391
Colossal basalt statues, 215
Colours in Egyptian paintings, 183
of double stars, 291
their ratios, 300

of y Virginis, 321

Coluber, origin of Cold Harbour, 5
Columella quoted on agriculture, 31
Colworth, seat of Dr. Lee, 37
in Bedfordshire, 89

Colworth library, duplicates from, 123
Cometary conditions, 347

tails not suddenly formed, 350
Comètes sont des vents de l'espace, 345
Comets, very attenuated, 343

how to estimate their magnitude, 348
condense at perihelion, 349

Committee of Management of Infirmary, 91
Commodus Antoninus, 152

Comparison of Epps's transits, 254
Comptons succeeded by Lees, 61
Concluding lines on the French, 396
Concord, Temple of, 236

Condé, Prince and Princess of, 380

Conic sections required in sidereal orbits, 329
Contents, table of, v.

Cook, Lady Mary, 68

Coptic Dictionary, by Tattam, 206
Correspondence Astron. quoted, 369
Cossacks at Paris, 392

Coster, Mr. brings Thothmes, 213
Cottages, all comfortable, 8

Cotton cultivated in Egypt, 189
County Infirmary, at Aylesbury, 90
Court garden, Hartwell, 34
Covenant of the parishes, 9

Crab's claw in an ammonite, 26
Crayons a favourite style, 116
Crest, Hartwell within a paling, 4
Crestow, lordship of, 2

Crocodiles mummied, 205

Croke, Sir George, 62

Sir A. toasting muffins, 84
Cromwell died during a storm, 381
Crook, Rev. Alex. held Hartwell, 11
Crown hundreds, 2

"Crowne of Lawrell," 36

Crusade of Edward I., 10

Crypt of Hartwell Church, 13

Curley, the able Professor, Georgetown, 292
Custumars, and coterells, 53

Cutting through Eythorpe mound, 5
Cyane produces the papyrus, 201

Cycle quoted on disagreement of colours, 298

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observation of y Virginis in 1847, 328, 329

letter on y Virginis, 336

epoch of 1851 for y Virginis, 342

Dean of Westminster, 27

Dean and Chapter of Oxford, 58

DE HERTWELLES AND LUTONS, 47

De la Beche, Sir Henry, 24

on the ammonite, 25

De la Chapelle, Count, died, 391

De Lille, Countess, 385

Dell, Mr. T. of Walton, 227

his observatory at Aylesbury, 252

Della-Cella, Signor, 165

De Luton, Alice, held Hartwell, 48
Sir William, 52

D'Enghien, Duc, his murder, 376
Departure of Louis XVIII. 392

De Vernon held land in Hartwell, 46
De Vico on sidereal colours, 291
Demosthenes clypeo suo literis . . . 122
Denuding effect of water, 20
Descent of the Lee family, 93
Descriptive numismatic catalogue, 148
Despotism in Egypt, 190

Details of Equatorial Tower, 240

Devonian period ammonite, 25

Diamond, Dr. on pottery, 6

Diana of Mizraim, Bubastis, 215

Dickinson, Mr. J. excellent paper, 332

Dietary at the Infirmary, 92

Difficulties in sidereal colours, 308

Dillon, Lord, of Quarrendon, 61

Dining-room, its paintings, 107

Dinner invitation from Prince of Wales, 70
Dinton Church, 59

Diodorus Siculus on Egypt, 221

Diseases, prevalent, 14

Dispatch, coach so called, 33

Distribution of the Homestead, 33

Ditchley, residence of Lord Litchfield, 81

Division of time in Mizraim, 185

of labour for telescopes, 311

Documents in muniment-room, 100

Dodsley on honour and oblivion, 357

Dog, type of fidelity, 60

Dollond's objection to the object glass, 242
Domesday-book, 45

Don Quixote painted in fresco, 40

D'Orleans expelled from Cadiz, 379

DOUBLE STARS MEASURED BY CAPT. SMYTH, 284

Hartwell Catalogue, 287-290

Douglas, Admiral, received by Louis XVIII. 384
Douw, Gerard, 113

Drake, Margaret, wife of Sir W. Lee, 116
Drawing-room detailed, 107

Drawing of Encke's comet, 351

Drayton, Michael, 2

Panegyric, 30

Drovetti, Mons. French Consul, 157

Ducks of Aylesbury, 1

Dundas, Capt. deciphered Pompey's pillar, 370
Dunkirk, 386

Dunton, eight miles from Bishopstone, 21
rich in fossils, 22

Dutch taste of gardening, 39

Dyke, Philadelphia, by Reynolds, 116

Earth as seen from the Moon, 355
Eclipses of Jupiter's satellites, 372
Edward I. aided by Hartwell, 10
inquisition on Hartwell, 48

Edward III. 54

"Egalité était meilleur que son fils," 378
Egypt high in art, 221

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