CONTENTS. Vll 



New Books : — The Honey-Bee : its Natural History, Physiology and 

 Management, by E. Bevan, M.D. ; Plantae Javanicse Rariores, 

 quas in Insula Java 1802 — 1818, legit et investigavit T. Horsfield, 

 M.D page 293, 294 



Proceedings of the Zoological Society 300 



On the New Holland Gerboa Rat; new anomalous Reptile; on the 

 Fur Seal of Commerce ; Habits of the Black Slug ; Regulus mo- 

 destus, Gould, a British Bird ; Meteorological Observations and 

 Table 307—312 



NUMBER XL 



XXXV. On the Writings of Goethe relative to Natural History. 



By F. G. Pictet 313 



XXXVI. Notes on some Shrews brought from Germany, including 

 the description of an apparently New Species. By the Rev. L. Jenyns, 

 M.A 323 



XXXVII. Descriptions of two New Orchideous Plants. By Sir W. 



J. Hooker, F.R.S. (With two Plates.) 329 



XXXVIII. Catalogue of the Slender-tongued Saurians, with Descrip- 

 tions of many New Genera and Species. By J. E. Gray, Esq., F.R.S. 331 



XXXIX. On the Breeding of the Woodcock in Ireland, By W. 

 Thompson, Esq., Vice-Pres. Nat. Hist. Soc. Belfast 337 



XL. On the Botany of the Channel Islands. By Chart es C. Ba- 

 ^bington, M.A < 348 



XLI. Descriptions of British Chalcidites. By F. Walker, Esq. ... 350 



XLII. Floras Insularum Novas Zelandiae Precursor; or a Specimen 

 of the Botany of the Islands of New Zealand. By Allan Cunning- 

 ham, Esq 356 



XLIII. Information respecting Botanical Travellers 360 



New Books ;— A Cornish Fauna, being a Compendium of the Natural 

 History of the County, by Jonathan Couch, F.L.S. ; British Ento- 

 mology, vol. xv., by John Curtis, F.L.S. ; Icones Plantarum, by 

 Sir W. J. Hooker, F.R.S. ; English Botany, by J. D. C.Sowerby ; 

 Tijdschrift voor Natuurlijke Geschiedenis en Physiologie ; Icones 

 Plantarum Indias Orientalis, by Dr. R. Wight ; A History of the 

 Fishes of Madeira, by the Rev. R. T. Lowe 365—369 



Proceedings of the Royal Society ; Linnasan Society ; Wernerian So- 

 ciety ; Zoological Society 370 — 380 



Occurrence of Jackson's Gull (Larus Jacksonii) ; Coronated Lump 

 Fish, new to the British Fauna ; French Expedition of Discovery 

 to the South Polar Seas ; Occurrence of Viola lactea ; Meteor- 

 ological Observations and Table 381 — 384 



NUMBER XII. 



XLIV. On two species of a new South African Genus of the Na- 

 tural Order Rhizanthece. By the Hon. W. H. Harvey. (With two 

 Plates.) , 385 



XLV. On the Synonymy of Passandra, with Descriptions of all the 

 old and of some new Species. By Edward Newman, F.L.S 388 



XLVI. On the Existence of a third Tunic ; together with certain 

 other peculiarities in the Structure of Pollen. By Herbert Giraud, 

 F.B.S.E. (With a Plate.) 399 



XLV II. Observations on several British Fishes, including the de- 

 scription of a New Species. By William Thompson, Esq., Vice- 

 President of the Natural History Society of Belfast. (With a Plate.) . 402 



