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 NUMBER LXXIX. 



XLVI. General results of Microscopic Inquiries into the Minute 

 Structure of the Skeletons of Mollusca, Crustacea and Echinodermata. 

 By William B. Carpenteu, M.D. (With two Plates.) 377 



XLVI I. Description of some New Species of the Genus Pachyodon. 

 By Capt. Thomas Brown, M.W.S., M.R.P.S,, Curator of the Man- 

 chester Natural History Society's Museum, &c. (With three Plates.) 390 



XL VIII. A Century of new Genera and Species of Orchidaceous 

 Plants. Characterized by Professor Lindley 396 



XLIX. On a new species of Marmozette in the British Museum Col- 

 lection. By John Edward Gray, Esq., F.R.S 398 



L. Observations on the Classification of the Mammalia. By George 

 R. Waterhouse, Esq., Assistant Secretary and Curator to the Zoo- 

 logical Society,&c 399 



LI. Catalogue of the Birds found in Corfu and the other Ionian 

 Islands, also on the coast of Albania ; from Notes made during a sojourn 

 of four years. By H. M. Drummond, 42nd R.H. With Notes by 

 H. E. Strickland, M.A 412 



LII, List of the Birds of the Island of Crete, from observations made 

 during a stay of nearly two months, from 27th April to 18th June, 1843. 

 By H. M. Drummond, 42nd R.H. With Notes by H. E. Strickland, 

 M.A 423 



LIII. Excerpta Zoological or abridged extracts from Foreign 

 Journals. By Dr. Felix von B^erensprung 427 



New Books : — Annales des Sciences Naturelles, Feb. to Aug. 1843 ... 433 



Proceedings of the Zoological Society ; Botanical Society of London ; 



Botanical Society of Edinburgh 436 — 450 



Discovery of Clathrus cancellatus in Britain ; Lithic Acid in Lucanus 

 Cervus ; Alchemilla conjuncta and A. fssa ; Assumption of the 

 male plumage by a female Partridge ; Spiders discharged from the 

 Eye; Meteorological Observations and Table 451 — 456 



NUMBER LXXX. SUPPLEMENT. 



LIV. On the British species of Meridion and Gomphonema. By 

 John Ralfs, Esq., M.R.C.S., Penzance. (With a Plate.) 457 



Proceedings of the Geological Society; Zoological Society 467 — 481 



On the Microscope. Means of remedying the Defect of artificial Light. 



By J. W. Griffith, M.D., F.L.S 481 



Index 483 



