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 discovered on the coast of the Colony of Victoria, Austraha. By 

 W. II. Harvey, M.D., M.R.I.A. &c.. Keeper of the Herbarium of 

 the University of Dubhn. (With a Plate.) 332 



XXXI. Some Remarks on Vegetable Placentation. By John 

 Cleland, Esq 336 



XXXII. On the Attitudes and Figures of the Morse. By Dr. J. E. 

 Gray, F.R.S., V.P.Z.S 339 



XXXIII. Descriptions of Eight New Species of Birds from South 

 America. By John Gould, Esq., F.R.S 343 



XXXIV. On the Impregnation and Germination of the Algse. By 



Dr. Pringsheim 346 



New Books : — A History of the British Marine Testaceous Mollusca, 

 distributed in their Natural Order, by William Clark. — The 

 Ferns of Great Britain. Illustrated by John E. Sowerby. The 

 Descriptions, Synonyms, &c. by C. Johnson. — First Steps in 

 Economic Botany, for the use of Students, by Thomas Croxen 

 Archer. — The Entomologist's Annual for 1855, edited by H. T. 

 Stainton 349-357 



Proceedings of the Royal Society; Linnsean Society; Zoological 



Society ; Botanical Society of Edinburgh ...... 357—383 



Origin of Wheat; Mr. Busk's Anomalous Shell, by Prof. J. S. Hens- 

 low; On the Fructification of the Arachis hypogcea, by Hugh 

 M. Neisler; On the Structure of the Starch Granule, by Mr. 

 Grundy; Description of a New Species of Aulacorhamphus, 

 by John Gould, F.R.S. ; Meteorological Observations and 

 Table 383—392 



NUMBER XC. 



XXXV. Monograph on the British species of PhalangiidtB or 

 Harvest-men. By R. H. Meade, F.R.C.S. (With two Plates.) 393 



XXXVI. On the Structure of Chlorophyll. By Hugo von Mohl. 416 



XXXVII. On Perna quadrat a, Sow. By John Lycett, Esq. ... 427 



XXXVIII. Notes on the Ornithology of Madeira. By Edward 

 Vernon Harcourt, Esq 430 



XXXIX. On the Characters which distinguish the Vegetation of a 

 Country. By M. Alphonse DeCandolle 438 



