Bibliographical Notices, 4iSf 



BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTICES. 



Annales des Sciences Naturelles. Third Series. 



January 1844. — This is the first number of a new series of the 

 * Annales,' and a most admirable commencement it is. The first paper 

 in the zoological department is a report made to the Academy of 

 Sciences, by M. Milne-Edwards, on the memoirs of M. de Quatre- 

 fages, relating to the organization of the invertebrate animals of the 

 western coast of France. The introductory observations of the re- 

 porter on the state and true aims of zoology should be read and 

 borne in mind by every British naturalist ; they are conceived in 

 the highest spirit of natural-history philosophy, and do great honour 

 to Milne -Edwards. The account of M. de Quatrefages* researches 

 which follows is most interesting, and shows how much may be done 

 by looking at home for work, and doing that work well. There is 

 a most gratifying announcement at the end, — ^that the Institute have 

 resolved to send M. de Quatrefages to pursue his inquiries on the 

 Mediterranean coast of France. Our museums at home should take 

 a lesson from this, and have their missionaries at work among the 

 treasures which abound on our own shores ; observing as well as 

 collecting. — Researches on the parts of the skeleton of Man and 

 the Vertebrata (2nd memoir), by M. Breschet. This part treats of 

 the anomalies of the malar bone, and is illustrated by two plates. — 

 On the jaw of a fossil Giraffe discovered at Issoudun, in France, 

 by M. Duvernoy. The jaw described was found in December 1842, 

 and is the type of a new species which was about a sixth less than 

 the existing giraffe. The author names it Camelopardalis Biturigum. 

 A tooth of a giraffe has also occurred in the molasse of Switzerland ; 

 and the existence in India of no less than three species of this re- 

 markable genus during the tertiary period has been shown by Cap- 

 tain Cautley and Dr. Falconer, the specimens of which are in the 

 great collection those naturalists presented to the British Museum, 

 the greatest contribution to our knowledge of fossil Vertebrata found 

 during the tertiary epoch ever made. — An extract from Mr. New- 

 port's memoir on the nervous and circulatory system of Myriapoda, 

 from the * Philosophical Transactions ;' a paper on which the editor 

 of the 'Annales' remarks, '* that it is crowded with precious obser- 

 vations." 



Botany. — The first paper in this department is a translation of 

 Prof. Mohl's researches on the Latex and its movements. An abstract 

 of this most interesting memoir is given at page 441 of the present 

 Number .---On two new genera of fluviatile Algee, by M. Brebisson. 

 These are Hormospora, belonging to the Nostocinece, and Coleochcete, 

 belonging to the Chcetophoroidecc (with plates). — Fragmenta Phy- 

 tographica, by M. Miquel. Ficus^ Cussonia, Jussicea, Marcgravia, 

 Casearia and Macrolohium are commented on in this paper. — Com- 

 mencement of a paper on the organization and mode of fructification 

 of Mushrooms of the tribe of Nidularice, by MM. L.-R. and Ch. 

 Tulasne (with plates). 



