Chapter V: Talking in beetles—Identity of Egyptian

animals with those now existing: does this prove
fixity of species?—Examination of the celebrated
argument of species not having altered in four
thousand years—Impossibility of distinguishing
species from varieties—The affinities of animals—New
facts proving the fertility of Hybrids—The hare and
the rabbit contrasted—Doubts respecting the development
hypothesis—On hypothesis in Natural History—Pliny, and
his notion on the formation of pearls—Are pearls owing
to a disease of the oyster?—Formation of the shell;
origin of pearls—How the Chinese manufacture pearls._

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CONTENTS of No. 1.

JANUARY, 1860.

FRAMLEY PARSONAGE. Chaps. 1, 2 and 3.
THE CHINESE AND THE “OUTER BARBARIANS.”
LOVEL THE WIDOWER. Chapter 1. (With an Illustration.)
STUDIES IN ANIMAL LIFE. Chapter 1.
FATHER PROUT’S INAUGURATIVE ODE TO THE AUTHOR OF “VANITY FAIR.”
OUR VOLUNTEERS.
A MAN OF LETTERS OF THE LAST GENERATION.
THE SEARCH FOR SIR JOHN FRANKLIN (from the Private Journal of an
Officer of the _Fox_). (With an Illustration and Map.)
THE FIRST MORNING OF 1860.
ROUNDABOUT PAPERS.—NO. 1. _On a Lazy Idle Boy._

CONTENTS of No. 2.

FEBRUARY, 1860.

NIL NISI BONUM.
INVASION PANICS.
TO GOLDENHAIR (FROM HORACE). By THOMAS HOOD.
FRAMLEY PARSONAGE. Chaps. 4, 5 and 6.
TITHONUS. By ALFRED TENNYSON.
WILLIAM HOGARTH: PAINTER, ENGRAVER, AND PHILOSOPHER. Essays on the Man,
the Work, and the Time.—_I. Little Boy Hogarth._
UNSPOKEN DIALOGUE. By R. MONCKTON MILNES. (With an Illustration.)
STUDIES IN ANIMAL LIFE. Chapter 2.
CURIOUS IF TRUE. (Extract from a Letter from Richard Whittingham, Esq.)
LIFE AMONG THE LIGHTHOUSES.
LOVEL THE WIDOWER. Chapter 2. (With an Illustration.)
AN ESSAY WITHOUT END.

CONTENTS of No. 3.

MARCH, 1860.

A FEW WORDS ON JUNIUS AND MACAULAY.
WILLIAM HOGARTH: PAINTER, ENGRAVER, AND PHILOSOPHER. Essays on the Man,
the Work, and the Time.—_II. Mr. Gamble’s Apprentice._ (With an
Illustration.)
MABEL.
STUDIES IN ANIMAL LIFE. Chapter 3.
FRAMLEY PARSONAGE. Chapters 7, 8 and 9.
SIR JOSHUA AND HOLBEIN.
A CHANGELING.
LOVEL THE WIDOWER. Chapter 3. (With an Illustration.)
THE NATIONAL GALLERY DIFFICULTY SOLVED.
A WINTER WEDDING-PARTY IN THE WILDS.
STUDENT LIFE IN SCOTLAND.
ROUNDABOUT PAPERS.—NO. 2. _On Two Children in Black._

CONTENTS of No. 4.

APRIL, 1860.

LOVEL THE WIDOWER. Chapter 4. (With an Illustration.)
COLOUR BLINDNESS.
SPRING. By THOMAS HOOD.
INSIDE CANTON.
WILLIAM HOGARTH: PAINTER, ENGRAVER, AND PHILOSOPHER. Essays on the Man,
the Work, and the Time.—_III. A Long Ladder, and Hard to Climb._
STUDIES IN ANIMAL LIFE. Chapter 4.
STRANGERS YET! By R. MONCKTON MILNES.
FRAMLEY PARSONAGE. Chapters 10, 11, and 12. (With an Illustration.)
IDEAL HOUSES.
DANTE.
THE LAST SKETCH—EMMA (a fragment of a Story by the late Charlotte
Brontë.)
UNDER CHLOROFORM.
THE HOW AND WHY OF LONG SHOTS AND STRAIGHT SHOTS.

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