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 tanique — Cryptogamie, par Camille Montagne. — The London 

 Journal of Botany, by Sir W. J. Hooker, K.H., &c.— The Phyto- 

 logist : a Botanical Journal. — Novitiarum Florae Suecicae Mantissa 

 altera, additis plantis in Norvegi^ recentius detectis. Scripsit Elias 

 Fries 417—422 



Proceedings of the Entomological Society ; Microscopical Society ; 



Dublin Natural History Society 422—432 



Note on Puffinus major, Faber, by W. Thompson, Esq.; Sterna arctica; 

 On the Progress of Silk-culture in the West Indies, and on the 

 employment of Cold in the preservation of the Eggs of the Silk- 

 worm ; Fossil Infusoria from the Chalk of Salisbury Plain ; Te- 

 trao tetrix ; Soci^te G^ologique de France ; Investigation of the 

 Anoplura, or Insects of the genus Pediculus of Linnaeus ; Fossil 

 Crinoidea; Meteorological Observations and Table 433 — 440 



NUMBER LX. 



XLVI. On the rediscovery of Halcyon smyrnensis (Linn.) in Asia 

 Minor. By H. E. Strickland, M.A., F.G.S., &c. 441 



XL VII. Notice of some Fungi collected by C. Darwin, Esq., in South 

 America and the Islands of the Pacific. By the Rev. M. J. Berkeley, 

 M.A., F.L.S. (With three Plates.) 443 



XL VIII. Remarks on some points of Vegetable Structure. By W. 

 Hughes Willshire, M.D., M.B.S. (With a Plate.) 448 



XLIX. A Catalogue of Shells from the Crag. By S. V. Wood, Esq., 

 F.G.S. (With a Plate.) {Continued.) 455 



L. Catalogue of the Marine Zoophytes of the neighbourhood of Aber- 

 deen. By John Macgillivray, Esq 462 



LI. The Physical Agents of Temperature, Humidity, Light, and 

 Soil, considered as developing Climate, and in connexion with Geogra- 

 phic Botany. By R. Brinsley Hinds, Esq. {Continued.) 469 



LI I. Excerpta Botanica, or abridged Extracts translated from the 

 Foreign Journals, illustrative of, or connected with, the Botany of Great 

 Britain. By W. A. Leighton, Esq., B.A., F.B.S.E., &c. 



Spach — Revisio Tiliarum 475 



LIII. General Features of Chusan, with remarks on the Flora and 

 Fauna of that Island. By Theodore Cantor, M.D. {Concluded,),,, 481 



LIV. On some new Insects from Western Africa. By the Rev. F. 

 W^. Hope; with remarks on the Goliath Beetles, by Mr. Savage 494 



New Books : — A History of British Sponges and Lithophytes, by 

 George Johnston, M.D. — Plantae Novae vel minus notae, opusculis 

 diversis olim descriptae, generibus quibusdam speciebusque novis 

 adjectis iterum recognitae, auctore Philippo Parlatore, M.D. — 

 Journals of two Expeditions of Discovery in North-west and 

 Western Australia, by George Grey, Esq.— Wiegmann's Archiv 

 fur Naturgeschichte 496—502 



