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ture of the Seed in the Family of the Rhamnacea. By JOHN MIERS, 

 F.R.S., F.L.S. &c 370 



XLI. Characters of new Cingalese Land-Shells collected by F. 

 Layard, Esq., Ceylon Civil Service. By W. H. BENSON, Esq 381 



XLII. On the History of Echeneis. By Dr. ALBERT GUNTHER. 

 (With a Plate.) 386 



XLIII. Note concerning Statice Dodartii and S. occidentalis. By 

 C. C. BABINGTON, M.A., F.R.S. &c 402 



XLIV. On a Species of Ostrea taken from the copper sheathing 

 on the bottom of a vessel in the Liverpool Graving Docks. By T. C. 

 ARCHER, Professor of Botany in Queen's College, Liverpool 404 



XLV. On some new Genera and Species of Mollusca from Japan. 

 *Bv ARTHUR ADAMS, F.L.S. &c 405 



New Books : The Micrographic Dictionary ; a Guide to the Exami- 

 nation and Investigation of the Structure and Nature of Micro- 

 scopic Objects, by J. W. Griffith, M.D., F.L.S. &c., and Arthur 

 Henfrey, F.R.S., F.L.S. &c. The Ibis, a Magazine of general 

 Ornithology, edited by Philip Lutley Sclater, M.A. Vol. I. 413421 



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Notes on the Habits of Menura Alberti, by A. A. Leycester, Esq. ; 

 On Sertularia tricuspidata, and on the Genus Huxleya, by J. 

 . Reay Greene, Esq. ; On some young Hybrid Bears bred in the 

 Gardens of the Zoological Society, by A. D. Bartlett, Esq. 431, 432 



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XLVI. On Cyclostigma, a new Genus of Fossil Plants from the 

 Old Red Sandstone of Kiltorcan, co. Kilkenny ; and on the General 

 Law of Phyllotaxis in the Natural Orders Lycopodiacea, Equisetacece, 

 Filices, &c. By the Rev. SAMUEL HAUGHTON, F.R.S., Professor 

 of Geology in the University of Dublin 433 



XLVII. On the Occurrence of a Sucker-like Adhesive Apparatus 

 in the Daphniada and allied Crustacea. By RUDOLPH LEUCKART. 

 (With a Plate.) 445 



XL VIII. On Additions to the Madeiran Coleoptera. By T. VER- 

 NON WOLLASTON, M.A., F.L.S 448 



XLIX. On new Land-Shells from Darjiling, with a series of new 

 Indian Species of Achatina. Described by W. H. BENSON, Esq. ... 460 



