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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

at Hartwell, 40, 374

by Le Fevre in 1817, 117
Louis-Philippe's character, 378
Lower Empire coin, 5

distinguished, 149

Lowndes, Rev. C. his observatory, 252
Lowther, F. his autograph, 360
Lucan describes a temple, 159
Lucien, his quarrel with Napoleon, 377
Lunar cycle, connected with weather, 19
Lunarian, by Dr. Pearson, 123
Lunatic Asylum, near Stone, 6
Luton family, 56

Lutons and Hertwelles, 47

Luyton, dominus de Hertwelle, 49
Lynch Lane, its direction, 4

Mab, the ocean fairy, 26
Macclesfield Church brasses, 93

Maclean, Mr. presented several birds, 140

sent meteoric fragments, 142
quoted, 238

Madras, Sir W. Lee died there, 87
Magellan, wood from Straits, 147

Magna Grecia vases, 211

Mahon, Lord, addressed by Dr. Lee, 139
Maladies, local, simple, 14
Majestic barge's crew, letter, 384

Mamluks destroyed by Mehemet, 187

Mamoudich granary, 190

Manetho, the Egyptian historian, 170
Manicheism, 164

Manners of the Egyptians, 182
Mansfield, Earl of, 73
Mansion, vignette of the, 83
of Hartwell, 102

its proportions, 103
Mantell, Dr. fossil researches, 28
on endogenites, 144

Manufactures of the ancient Egyptians, 178
Manure, proportions of, 31

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
Margery, wife of J. de Luton, 54
Marle once the only manure, 31

Martin, J. drew the Phrygian head, 136
Martyn, Professor, his edition of Miller, 35
praises of Abeles, 35

Masts most aimed at by English, 77
Mathematical portion of library, 124
Maxims, Odi memorem compotatorem, 86
May, C. made revolving roof, 239

J. navy armourer, 230

Mayer omitted for y Virginis, 333
Mechanics' Institution, Aylesbury, 203
Mechanics in ancient Egypt, 183
Medal of Branch Railway, 33
Medals, large Roman brass, 145
Medallic ante-room to museum, 135
Mehemet Ali, a Pharaoh, 186

Melmoth, Mrs. Margaret, 66

Menandros commemorated, 137

Menes, 800 before Abraham, 171

Mennis, Sir J. Comptroller of the Navy, 120
Mercia included Aylesbury, 6

Meridian marks, where, 234

Meridional observations, by Epps, 254-283
line observed for Hartwell, 249

Merlin, the British, 66

Mertz made the heliometer, 245

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. H. 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

Musarum Delicia 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

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 Hartwell, 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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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 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
Pegge, Dr. quoted, 59

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
Peru, bodies dried there, 210
Peters, his telescope examined, 245
Pettigrew, on mummifying 169

quoted on hieroglyphics, 219
Peverel, W. shared Hartwell, 44
Pevrel held land in Herdewelle, 46
Pharaohs, their monuments, 160

-posterior to the pyramids, 170
Pharos of Alexandria, 369

Phillimore, Dr. ecclesiastical cases, 73

Phillippian library, 359

Phillips, Sir T. his MSS. 211

Phra, or Sun, 172

Phrygian head from Tyre, 137

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Paluding in the clay, 22

Pit at Bishopstone, 20

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

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

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
Reade, Rev. J. B. cutting, recorded, 5
on fossils, 29

observed at Stone, 252

Record Commission strangled, 100
Rectory of Hartwell, 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, by 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

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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

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