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XXXVI. The Physical Agents of Temperature, Humidity, Light, 

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

 graphic Botany. By Richard Brinsley Hinds, Esq., Surgeon R.N. 

 (Continued.) 311 



XXXVII. On the Conferva which vegetates on the skin of the Gold- 

 fish. By John Goodsir, Conservator of the Museum of the Royal Col- 

 lege of Surgeons in Edinburgh 333 



New Books: — Gould's Birds of Australia. — Florigraphia Britannica ; or 

 Engraving and Descriptions of the Flowering Plants and Ferns 

 of Britain, by R. Deakin, M.D. — Transactions of the Botanical 

 Society at Edinburgh. — Linnsea, ein Journal fiir die Botanik, 

 &c.... 337—344 



Proceedings of the Zoological Society ; Royal Irish Academy ; Bota- 

 nical Society of Edinburgh ; Geological Society 344 — 351 



Sterna arctica — remarkable flight of Arctic Terns ; J. H. Gurney, Esq. 

 on Norfolk Birds ; Mr. Hassall on Showers of Pollen ; Craterium 

 pyriforme ; Application of Photography to the delineation of Fos- 

 sils; Biographical notice of Blumenbach ; Meteorological Obser- 

 vations and Table 351—360 



NUMBER LIX. 



XXXVIII. General Features of Chusan, with remarks on the Flora 

 and Fauna of that Island. By Theodore Cantor, M.D., Bengal Me- 

 dical Service, &c. {Continued.) 361 



XXXIX. Observations on a specimen of the Black or Leading 

 Whale, Phocoina melas, taken on the coast of Cornwall. By Jonathan 

 Couch, F.L.S., &c. (With a Plate.) 371 



XL. The Birds of Ireland. By Wm. Thompson, Esq., Vice-Pres. 

 Nat. Hist. Society of Belfast. (Continued.) 373 



XLI. On a new species oi Raffiesia from Manilla. By J. E. Tesche- 

 macher, Esq. (With a Plate.) 381 



XLII. Contributions to the Ichthyology of Australia. By John 

 Richardson, M.D., F.R.S., &c. (Continued.) 384 



XLIII. Some Remarks on the Structure of Dotted Vessels. By 

 Professor Hugo Mohl. Translated by the Rev. M. J. Berkeley, 

 M.A., F.L.S. (With two Plates.) 393 



XLIV. Remarks on the genus Lepralia of Dr. Johnston, with De- 

 scriptions of Six undescribed species, and notices of two other Zoo- 

 phytes. By Arthur Hill Hassall, Esq., M.R.C.S.L., Correspond- 

 ing Member of the Dublin Natural History Society , 407 



XLV. Table of the Distribution of the Species described in the first 

 four volumes of DeCandoUe's * Prodromus Regni Vegetabilis.' By 

 Richard Brinsley Hinds, Esq 415 



New Books: — Voyage dans I'Amerique Meridionale ex6cute dans le 

 coursdesAnnees 1826— -1833. Par M. Alcide D. DOrbigny. Bo- 



