CONTENTS. Vll 



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 NUMBER XLVI. 



XLIV. On Gloionema paradoxum. By the Rev. M. J. Berkeley, 

 M.A., F.L.S 449 



XLV. Supplement to descriptions of Exotic Fungi in * Annals of 

 Nat. Hist.,' vol. iii. pp. 322 and 375. By the Rev. M. J. Berkeley, 

 M.A., F.L.S 451 



XLVI. A List of Plants collected by Charles Fellows, Esq., during 

 his Tour in Lycia and Caria ; with descriptions of the New Species. 

 By David Don, Esq., Prof. Bot. King's College 454 



XLVI I. Report of the Results of Researches in Physiological Botany 

 made in the year 1839. By the late F. J. Meyen, M.D., Professor of 

 Botany in the University of Berlin 460 



XLVIII. Descriptions of new or little known Arachnida. By Mr. 

 Adam White, Assistant in the Zoological Department of the British 

 Museum , 471 



XLIX. Additions to the Fauna of Ireland. By Wm. Thompson, 

 Esq., Vice-Pres. Natural History Society of Belfast 477 



L. Description of two new Genera of Irish Zoophytes. By Arthur 

 Hill H ass all, Esq., Corresponding Member of the Natural History 

 Society of Dublin 483 



LL Notes on Birds. By T. C. Eyton, Esq., F.L.S 486 



LII. A Catalogue of Fossil Fish in the Collections of the Earl of 

 Enniskillen, F.G.S., &c., and Sir Philip Grey Egerton, Bart., 

 F.R.S., &c 487 



LI II. Information respecting Zoological and Botanical Travellers : — 

 Mr. Forbes and Mr. Thompson. — Mr. Schomburgk. — Mr. W. S. Mac- 

 Leay 520 



New Boohs : — Natural History as a Branch of General Education, 



by Robert Patterson, Esq 498 



Proceedings of the Zoological Society ; Geological Society 503 — 519 



New Genus of Mexican Glirine Mammalia ; On a new European Ge- 

 nus of Freshwater Fish, by F. Heckel ; Forbes's Starfishes, Echi- 

 nus lividus; Speaking Canary Bird; Birds of Kent; Emberiza 

 Hortulana; Diluvial [Glacial}^ Scratches on Rocks in America; 

 Mr. Shuckard on the Proceedings of the Entomological Society ; 

 Obituary — C. S. Rafinesque; Meteorological Observations and 

 Table 521—528 



NUMBER XLVII, SUPPLEMENT. 

 Proceedings of the Royal Society ; Linnaean Society ; Entomological 



Society; Zoological Society 529 — 578 



Index , 579 



