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Page 

 Proceedings of the Cambridge Philosophical Society ; Botanical So- 

 ciety of Edinburgh ; Royal Society of Edinburgh ; Tweedside Phy- 

 sical and Antiquarian Society ; Dublin Natural History Society ; 

 Leeds Philosophical and Literary Society ; Geological Society ; 

 Royal Botanic Society and Garden 379 — 394 



* New species of the Australian genus Alcyone ; Freshwater Shells col- 

 lected in Wexford ; Capture of some rare Birds on the Cotswold 

 Hills ; Remarkable Habit in a Fish ; Aquilegia vulgaris ; Mr. 

 Gutch on rare species taken near Swansea ; The former existence 

 of Glaciers in Scotland ; New species of Hygrocrocis ; Anthus 

 Richardi, Richard's Pipit ; Facility of Water Communication in 

 the Northern Parts of South America ; Meteorological Observa- 

 tions and Table 394 — 400 



NUMBER XXXIX. 



XLV. On Saxifraga umbrosa and the Kerry Saxifrages. By the 

 Rev. W. T. Bree 401 



XLVI. — On some new or rare Fish occurring on the Coast of Ire- 

 land. By Frederick M'Coy, Esq., M.G.S., &c 402 



XLV 1 1. Some further particulars of the Coco de Mer (Lodoicea 

 sechellarum). By George Clakke, Esq 408 



XLVIII. Commentary on Mr. G. R. Gray's ' Genera of Birds.' 8vo. 

 London, 1840. By H. E. Strickland, Esq., M.A., F.G.S., &c 410 



XLIX. Report of the Results of Researches in Physiological Botany 

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

 in the University of Berlin 424 



L. Notices of British Fungi. By the Rev. M. J. Berkeley, M.A., 

 F.L.S. (With Five Plates.) 430 



LI. Notes on British Char, Salmo Umbla, Linn., S. Salvelinus, Don. 

 By Wm. Thompson, Vice-Pres. Nat. Hist. Society of Belfast 439 



LII. A List of Mammalia and Birds collected in Assam by John 

 McClelland, Esq., Assistant Surgeon in the service of the East India 

 Company, Bengal Establishment : revised by T. Horsfield, M.D., 

 V.P.L.S., &c. (Concluded.) 450 



LIII. Observations on the Great Seal of the Farn Islands, showing 

 it to be the Halichcerus griseus, Nilss., and not the Phoca barbata. By 

 P. J. Selby, Esq., F.L.S., &c, &c 462 



LI V. On the natural affinities of the Lepidosiren ; and on the dif- 

 fering opinions of Mr. Owen and M. Bischoff with regard to them. By 

 M. Milne Edwards 466 



LV. Information respecting Zoological and Botanical Travellers ... 468 



New Books : — Crania Americana, or a comparative view of the Skulls 

 of various Aboriginal Nations of North and South America, to 

 which is prefixed an Essay on the varieties of the Human Species, 

 by S. G. Morton, M.D. — The Birds of Australia, by John Gould, 



