Liverpool sold to King John, 94 Localities for certain observations, 311 Log-book, advertised for, 80 Logos typified by serpents, 160 Lord Chief Justice of England, 116 at Hartwell, 40, 374 by Le Fevre in 1817, 117 distinguished, 149 Lowndes, Rev. C. his observatory, 252 Lutons and Hertwelles, 47 Luyton, dominus de Hertwelle, 49 Mab, the ocean fairy, 26 Maclean, Mr. presented several birds, 140 sent meteoric fragments, 142 Madras, Sir W. Lee died there, 87 Magna Grecia vases, 211 Mahon, Lord, addressed by Dr. Lee, 139 Mamluks destroyed by Mehemet, 187 Mamoudich granary, 190 Manetho, the Egyptian historian, 170 Manners of the Egyptians, 182 its proportions, 103 Manufactures of the ancient Egyptians, 178 Manuscripts on scientific subjects, 127 Many-chambered shells, 25 Marathon arrow-heads, 212 Marble tablet sent by Captain Graves, 137 Marcellus, Count, his verses, 387 Martin, J. drew the Phrygian head, 136 Masts most aimed at by English, 77 J. navy armourer, 230 Mayer omitted for y Virginis, 333 Melmoth, Mrs. Margaret, 66 Menandros commemorated, 137 Menes, 800 before Abraham, 171 Mennis, Sir J. Comptroller of the Navy, 120 Meridian marks, where, 234 Meridional observations, by Epps, 254-283 Merlin, the British, 66 Mertz made the heliometer, 245 Messier, Le Furet des Comètes, 348 on the laurel tree, 36 Miller, Mr. J. F. on y Virginis, 337 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 his letter on Pompey's pillar, 373 notices of Astronomical Society, 339 culminating stars, 237 culminators, recommended, 248 in Dinton, 59 Moses quoted on the Mizraimites, 158 Mound of Eythorpe, 5 Mountain chains and Hartwell, 38 Muniment-room, 49 documents, 100 Murray, Earl of Mansfield, 73 Musarum Delicia vainly searched, 120 British, good portrait, 183 Nacreous coating of fossils, 23 Narbonne, Mad. de, with the Queen, 381 Naval Chronicle quoted, 374 Netsonoff, with hawk's head, 168 - his chronology, 153 Newtonian doctrine of light, 302 Nicholas IV. Pope, taxed Hartwell, 10 Norman doorway at Dinton, 59 Northumberland, Duke of, present to Dr. Lee, 181 quoted, 213 Notes and Queries, on a disputed verse, 121 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 - 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 Omniscient fiat exhibited, 26 Onion, dangerous to eat an, 159 Oolitic, upper group, 22 Orbicular sienite from Corsica, 142 Orbit of 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, 344 Overflowing of the Nile, 206 Oxford temperature compared, 18 Oxford, Dean and Chapter, claim to land, 58 Paintings in the dining-room, 107 described in detail, 112 Panem et circenses, requisite to man, 10 Papyrus Nilotica, 200 Parc-au-Cerf stigmatized, 390 Park, its extent, 34 Parliament, Sir G. Lee, Knt. Member of, 66 Passalacqua on mummies, 184 Paupers at Hartwell, two or three, 8 Pawsey, Rev. F. a mutual old friend, 105 Pearls, British, much esteemed, 152 Pearly coat of clay fossils, 23 Pecten camellosus, 28 - orbicularis, 29 Peculiarity of certain eyes on colour, 311 Pelham, Henry, Chancellor, 65 Pendle or Purbeck limestone, 21 Pendulum of Vulliamy's clock, 232 Pensive strains on the Bourbons, 389 Percy's Collection, satire on Suckling, 120 Perkin a Legh beheaded, 93 Persian letters, 73 Pertenhall, residence of Martyn, 37 quoted on hieroglyphics, 219 -posterior to the pyramids, 170 Phillimore, Dr. ecclesiastical cases, 73 Phillippian library, 359 Phillips, Sir T. his MSS. 211 Phra, or Sun, 172 Phrygian head from Tyre, 137 Paluding in the clay, 22 Pit at Bishopstone, 20 Pitchcot, effect of its hills on atmosphere, 15 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 Present to the Society of Antiquaries, 139 Presentation to the Royal Astronomical Society, 11 Private observatories, 354 Privateers, capture of, contested by Sir G. Lee, 75 per acre, 30 Productiveness of soil, 30 Progress in astronomical facts, 344 Psalm 16th describes dress, 179 Ptolemaic coinage, 191 Ptolemies, their monuments, 160 Philadelphus sent the papyrus, 201 Purbeck, or jurassic formation, 20 Purbeck limestone, 21 Purpose of comets premature now, 344 --small, No. 1284, 209 Quarendon, its locality, 2 Lees of, 61, 99 Queen of France, Comtesse de Lille, 385 illness described, 380 remains at Cagliari, 382 Queen's champion, 62 Quevedo's picture of slander, 32 Railway to Aylesbury, 32 Rain, amount of in 1837, 19 gauge described, 354 Rameses, his great conquests, 174 Ratios of colours, 300 Ravdon of the Greeks, 214 Re Atmoo had chosen gifts, 219 observed at Stone, 252 Record Commission strangled, 100 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 Revolving roofs, by Charles May, 241 Rheims, Archbishop of, 396 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 of France, 110 at Hartwell, 374 suite of Louis XVIII. 391 Royal roads still seductive, 345 Royal Secretary of the Treasury at Thebes, 217 Ruppell, high opinion of, 369 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 Sea-fight, a wood-cut, 75 Seal, Hart and well within a paling, 4 Secretary's office, 109 Sections of the strata, 22 Sedgwick on the plesiosaurus, 143 Selden's MSS. in the Bodleian, 210 on vibrations of colours, 300 Sharpe's Egyptian inscriptions, 220 Ships firing, a wood-cut, 75 Shirreff, Admiral, his mother, 136 Shortland, Captain, on Pompey's pillar, 374 Shovell, Sir Clow. alluded to, 358 Sick and wounded, orders respecting, 359 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 Slaughter, Captain, 386 Smantennofre, an Egyptian lady, 218 Smith's geological map, 20 Smoff with a jackall's head, 168 |