Liverpool sold to King John, 94 Localities for certain observations, 311 Lockhart, Rev. Mr. 388 Log-book, advertised for, 80 Logos typified by serpents, 160 Londesborough's, Lord, mummy, 184 London clay ammonite, 25 Longitude of Alexandria, 369, 372
of Hartwell, 248 Lord Chief Justice of England, 116 Lords of the Admiralty, order, 360 Lotus, much controverted, 182 Lotus-lily, held sacred, 207 Louis the Vain censured, 390 Louis XVIII. his bequest, 8
Musarum Deliciæ vainly searched, 120 Museum in the gallery, 135
British, good portrait, 183 Music borrowed from Egypt, 193 Mytilus, found near Dunton, 22
Hartwell fossil, 28
Messier, Le Furet des Comètes, 348 Meteoric stone from Launton, 141 METEOROLOGICAL DEPARTMENT, 351 Meteorology of Hartwell, 15 Mexico's resemblance to Egypt, 181 Mezentius, his coin found, 5 Miller, edited by Martyn, 35
on the laurel tree, 36 Miller, Mr. J. F. on y Virginis, 337 Milton on the ancient British, 6 Mind exhibited in the ammonite, 27 Mineral cabinets well stored, 141 Miscellaneous
papers
of 13th century, 101 Mississippi earthworks, 212 Mizraim, land of, 154 Mizraimites rigorous masters, 158 Modern medals, 153 Money well spent on the rail, 32 Monk, still on the rent roll, 97 Moniteur, a mouthpiece of Napoleon, 378 Monsieur met Louis XVIII. 384 Montague, Wortley, his hoax, 370
his letter on Pompey's pillar, 373 Montesquieu quoted, 73 Montbarey, P. de, Mémoires de, 376 Months seriatim, 16-18 Monthly temperature, 15
notices of Astronomical Society, 339 Moon nodes in meteorology, 19
culminating stars, 237
culminators, recommended, 248 Morice, Judith, married Sir G. Lee, 74 Mortaigne obtained Peverel's land, 47 Mortimer, J. II. of Aylesbury, 85 Morton, lordship, 14
in Dinton, 59 Moses quoted on the Mizraimites, 158 Motte, died in a storm, 1769, 381 Motto, Verum atque decens, 98 Mound of Eythorpe, 5 Mountain chains and Hartwell, 38 Muniment-room, 49 --- documents, 100 Murray, Earl of Mansfield, 73
Nacreous coating of fossils, 23 Napoleon black-balled, 392 Narbonne, Mad. de, with the Queen, 381 Natica, found near Dunton, 22 Nautilus compared to ammonite, 25
described by Byron, 26 Naval Chronicle quoted, 374 Navy Board to fit out ships, 358 Nebuchadruchar, King of Babylon, 140 Needle of Cleopatra, by Symonds, 195
--- another given to France, 195 Nelson, descendant of Suckling, 63 Neoptolemus of the present day, 31 Neph or Knouphis, 161 Netsonoff, with hawk's head, 168 Newcastle, Marquess of, his portrait, 113 Newton, his bust, 123
his chronology, 153 Newtonian doctrine of light, 302 Neyrnuyt, Sir John, 54 Nicholas IV. Pope, taxed IIart well, 10 Niebuhr required more study, 178 Nilometers of porcelain, 205 Norman doorway at Dinton, 59 Northumberland, Duke of, present to Dr. Lee, 181
- quoted, 213 Notes and Queries, on a disputed verse, 121 Nottingham frame workers, 32 Nubian head-dresses, 180
oblation stone, 216 Nucleus of comets no sensible magnitude, 346 Numbering the people disliked, 189 NUMISMATA, 144 Numismatic ante-room to museum, 135 Nuneham Courteney, manor of, 85 Nupe produced the gods, 220
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Oake, Lieutenant, on board the Adventure, 187 Obelisk, allusion to eternity, 169
presented to France, 195 Object glass, by Tulley, 243 Observations by Rev. C. Lowndes, 252 OBSERVATORY, ITS ORIGIN, 223
at Bedford, 223 of the Rev. J. B. Reade, 252
of Mr. Thomas Dell, Aylesbury, 252 Observed facts are most wanted, 346 October is a fine month, 17 Odo had four hides of land, 44 Offices of Hartwell House, 110 Old Testament mentions the horn, 160 Omnipotent fiat, 234 Omniscient fiat exhibited, 26 Onion, dangerous to eat an,
159 Oolitic, upper group, 22 Orbicular sienite from Corsica, 142 Orbit of y Virginis, 316–320
by various persons, 328
founded on Bedford measures, 332 Ordnance, Master of the, order to the, 358
survey map, iv. Orford, Lord, on Sir G. Lee, 73 Oriental manuscripts, 128 Orion, fifth star in its nebula, 337 Orleans, Duke of, distrusted by Louis XVIII, 378 Orrery in the museum, 136 Oseney Abbey, reserved by the King, 57 Osiris or Pluto, 162
son of Seb, 220 Ostade of the Flemish school, 113 Ostrea expansa, 23 Ostrich feather of truth, 218 Osymandyas, tomb of King, 173 Outlines of Astronomy quoted, 341 Overflowing of the Nile, 206 Oxford temperature compared, 18 Oxford, Dean and Chapter, claim to land, 58
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Purbeck limestone, 21 Purpose of comets premature now, 344 Pyramid alludes to eternity, 169
small, No. 1284, 209 Pyramids, supposed gnomons, 186
Quarendon, its locality, 2
Lees of, 61, 99 Queen of France, Comtesse de Lille, 385
objected to the staircase, 111 illness described, 380
remains at Cagliari, 382 Queen's champion, 62 Quevedo's picture of slander, 32
Pitchcot, effect of its hills on atmosphere, 15 Plagiostoma, Hartwell fossil, 28 Plan of home-stead referred to, 34 Plancus, correspondent of Horace, 106 Planets and comets not similar, 343 Platypus from New South Wales, 141 Plesiosaurian paddle, Beds. 143 Pleurotomaria, rare specimens, 29 Pliny on the papyrus, 202 Plott or old survey, 83 Polar axis, the first in 1620, 244 Police for mutual safety, 9 Polyolbion quoted, 2 Pompey derived from Omphi, 370 Pompey's pillar, airing upon, 191
ascended, 196
measurements of, 371 Pope's invective on the Duke of Chandos, 104 Population increasing, 8 Portland or Bottom rock, 21 Portrait, good, on a mummy, 183 Portraits, numerous and good, 113 Portuguese laurel, very fine, 36 Potatoes, immense crop, 31 Powell, Rev. Professor Baden, iv. Prayers, family, read by Dr. Lee, 109 Precious metals in Mexico also, 184 Preistman, H. his autograph, 360 Present to the Society of Antiquaries, 139 Presentation to the Royal Astronomical Society, 11 Prie-Dieu left behind, 396 Private observatories, 354 Privateers, capture of, contested by Sir G. Lee, 75 PRODUCE, 29
per acre, 30 Productiveness of soil, 30 Progress in astronomical facts, 344 Psalm 16th describes dress, 179
45th, its title quoted, 182 Ptolemaic coinage, 191 Ptolemies, their monuments, 160 Ptolemy Evergetes, his temple, 192
Philadelphus sent the papyrus, 201 Purbeck, or jurassic formation, 20
Railway to Aylesbury, 32 Rain, amount of in 1837, 19
gauge described, 354 Rameses, his great conquests, 174 Ramsay, Allan, portrait painter, 115 Ratios of colours, 300 Ravdon of the Greeks, 214 Rawlinson, Major, his talent, 176 Re Atmoo had chosen gifts, 219 Reale, Rev. J. B. cutting, recorded, 5
on fossils, 29
observed at Stone, 252 Record Commission strangled, 100 Rectory of Ilartwell, 10, 87 Reduction of Epps's observations, 253 Rees's Cyclopedia questioned, 30 Refreshing fees, list of, 79 Registry of weather improved, 19 Rembrandt deserves the first place, 112 Remission of sins by prayer, 95 Removal to Cardiff of Capt. W. H. Smyth, 243 Renouard, Rev. G. C. learned orientalist, 128 Repton, a horticultural plotter, 39 Retrograde motion of y Virginis, 340 Revenue of Egypt forced, 191 Revolving roofs, hy Charles May, 241 Reynolds's portrait of Prince of Wales, 71
portraits, 116
Rheims, Archbishop of, 396 Rider's popular almanac, 66 Rivers, Earl, chapel, 95 Robert de Luton, 55 Roberts a good cabinet maker, 147 Robinson, mathematical instrument maker, 332 Roma, a seated figure, 151 Roman large brass, 148
ancient coins, 235 Rood gardens, at Hartwell, 23 Rooks, their habits, 36 Rosetta stone brought to England, 155 Rosière de Hartwell, 394 Rosse, Lord, promised to observe y Virginis, 335 Rossoni, Signor, at Benghazi, 165 Roy, General, his data for Aylesbury, 251
Royal Family,” privateers, 76 Royal family of France, 110
at Hartwell, 374
suite of Louis XVIII. 391 Royal roads still seductive, 345 Royal Secretary of the Treasury at Thebes, 217 Royal Sovereign yacht, 392 Ruppell, high opinion of, 369 Rural economy, 30 Russell, Admiral, received Louis XVIII. 384
Sceptre, its origin, 214 Scholars, their number, 9 School-house, its site, 9 Science occupies the middle window, 136 Screw for equalizing roof balls, 242 Sculpture of a traveller, 193 Sea-fight, a wood-cut, 75 Seal, Hart and well within a paling, 4
of Alice de Luton, 49 Secretary's office, 109 Sections of the strata, 22 Sedgwick on the plesiosaurus, 143 Sedrup, hamlet of, 8 Selden's MSS. in the Bodleian, 210 Serpentine Green, near Yaxley, 5 Sessions held at Newport Paynel, 50 Sestini on sidereal colours, 291-298 Sestini's letter to Capt. Smyth, 292
on vibrations of colours, 300 Shakespeare on Suckling's portrait, 118
quoted on adversity, 374 Sharpe's Egyptian inscriptions, 220 Sheepshanks, his equatorial clock, 247 Shekels of early history, 146 Shepherd's bower, 42 Ships firing, a wood-cut, 75 Shirreff, Admiral, his mother, 136 Shortland, Captain, on Pompey's pillar, 374 Shoshannim, musician upon, 182 Shovell, Sir Clow. alluded to, 358 Shrewsbury, field of battle, 83 Sick and wounded, orders respecting, 359 Silver vase presented to Sir G. Lee, 75 Silver and gold captured, 78 Sisson's equatorial sector, 244 Site for Infirmary bought by Dr. Lee, 91: Six's thermometer, 18 Skeletons presented by Dr. Witt, 141 Skelton alludes to evergreens, 36 Slaughter, Captain, 386 Smantennofre, an Egyptian lady, 218 Smith, Rev. Richard, 7 Smith's geological map, 20 Smoff with a jackall's head, 168
Sabacotph, elaborate dress, 210 Sage of lartwell, Louis XVIII. 380, 391 St. Leonard's Hill, poem on, 85 St. Paul's Epistles, 164 Salt, Consul-General in Egypt, 183
his collection, 218
sale of his museum, 200 Samaritan characters, 146 Sand, ferruginous, 23
white, near Stone, 23 Sandstone, 21 Sandys, Elizabeth, wife of Sir T. Lee, 81 Savage, Archbishop, and his family, 95 Savary first gave orbit of double star, 285 Saxby, this name has passed away, 85 Scarabei, very numerous, 163 Scenery, romantic, 38
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