IV CONTENTS. 



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IX. Palaeontological Notes. By John Morris, F.G.S. (With a 

 Plate.) 85 



X. Notice of some new Footsteps in the Bunter Sandstone of Dum- 

 fries-shire. By Robert Harkness, Esq 90 



XI. A Catalogue of British Spiders, including remarks on their 

 Structure, Functions, (Economy, and Systematic Arrangement. By 

 John Blackwall, F.L.S 95 



XII. Contributions to the Botany of South America. By John 

 Miers, Esq., F.R.S., F.L.S 103 



XIII. Further Observations on the Chemnitzice. By William 

 Clark, Esq 108 



XIV. On the Reproductive Organs of the Lichens and Fungi. By 



M. L. R. Tulasne 114 



New Books : — Manual of British Botany, 3rd Edit., by Charles Cardale 

 Babington, M.A., F.L.S., F.G.S. &c. — Hymenopterologische 

 Studien, by Arnold Foerster 121—129 



Proceedings of the Zoological Society ; Linnaean Society ; Royal Irish 



Academy 129—152 



On Wolves Suckling Children, by the Honourable F. Egerton ; Car- 

 charias Vulpes, by William Thompson, Esq. ; Preservation of 

 Preparations for the Microscope ; Notice of a Sea-Beach during 

 the Silurian Epoch, by R. Harkness ; On the Cell-membrane of 

 Diatomaceous Shells, by J. W. Bailey ; A Comparative Exami- 

 nation of the Objective Glasses of Microscopes from Mr. Ross of 

 England, Mr. Spencer of America, and M. Nachez of Paris, by 

 J. Lawrence Smith, M.D. ; Note on Antiope costata, by J. G. 

 Jeffreys ; Meteorological Observations and Table 1 53 — 1 60 



NUMBER XLV. 



XV. Observations on the Affinities of the Olacacece. By John 

 Miers, Esq., F.R.S., F.L.S 161 



XVI. Geographical Notices, and Characters of fourteen new species 



of Cyclostoma, from the East Indies. By W. H. Benson, Esq 184 



XVII. Descriptive Characters of two species of the Genus Ptero- 

 cyclos, discovered by Dr. Bland. By W. H. Benson, Esq. (With 



a Plate.) , 195 



XVIII. A Catalogue of Rotifer a found in Britain ; with descriptions 

 of five new Genera and thirty-two new Species. By Philip Henry 

 Gosse, A.L.S 197 



