IV CONTENTS. 



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 NUMBER LXXXII. 



X. Notes on the Coleopterous genus of Insects, Rhynchites of Herbst. 



By John Walton, Esq ^1 



XI. An Account of some Seeds buried in a Sand-pit which germi- 

 nated. By Mr. William Kemp of Galashiels, in a Letter to Charles 

 Darwin, Esq 89 



XII. Remarks on the Habits of Birds which are Natives of the Bri- 

 tish Islands. By Thomas Austin, Esq 92 



XIII. A List of the species oi Myriapoda, Order Chilopoda, con- 

 tained in the Cabinets of the British Museum, with Synoptic descrip- 

 tions of forty-seven new Species. By George Newport, Fellow of the 

 Royal College of Surgeons, Pres. Ent. Soc. &c 94 



XIV. Catalogue of Irish Entozoa, with observations. By O'Bryen 

 Bellingham, M.D., Member of and Professor of Botany in the Royal 

 College of Surgeons in Ireland, &c 101 



XV. Abstract of a paper entitled " Account of a Botanical Tour in 

 North Wales, the South of England and Jersey." By R. Graham, M.D., 

 Professor of Botany in the University of Edinburgh 105 



XVI. On a Fossil Crustacean of the Order Isopoda, discovered by 

 the Rev. P. B. Brodie in the Wealden formation of Britain. By M. 

 Milne Edwards 110 



XVII. Notice of the Blind Fish, Cray-fish, and Insects from the 

 Mammoth Cave, Kentucky Ill 



XVIII. Further notice of the species of Birds occurring in the vici- 

 nity of Calcutta. By Edward Blyth, Curator to the Museum of the 

 Asiatic Society of Bengal 113 



XIX. Observations on Ehrenberg's De Mycetogenesi Epistola, &c. 



By Arthur Hill Hassall, Esq 117 



XX. Information respecting Scientific Travellers 121 



New Books : — Narrative of a Voyage round the World, by Capt. Sir E. 

 Belcher, R.N. — Eliae Fries Novitiarum Florae Suecicae Mantissa 

 tertia. — A Report on the Progress made in the Investigation of the 

 Flora of Hertfordshire, by the Rev. R. H.Webb, M. A., and the Rev. 

 W. H. Coleman, M.A. — Spicilegium Florae Rumelicae et Bithynicae, 

 auctore A. Grisebach. — Flora Dalmatica, sive Enumeratio Stir- 

 pium vascularium quas hactenus in Dalmatia lectas et sibi obser- 

 vatas descripsit, digessit, rarorumque iconibus illustravit Rob. de 

 Visiani. — Sertum Plantarum, or Drawings and Descriptions of 

 Rare or Undescribed Plants from the Author's Herbarium, by H. 

 B. Fielding, F.L.S., assisted by G. Gardner, F.L.S 126—128 



Proceedings of the Royal Society of Edinburgh ; Botanical Society of 



Edinburgh J Zoological Society ; Geological Society 128 — 154 



On the production of Animalcules in great numbers in the Stomach 



