Vlll CONTENTS. 



Page 

 — Enchiridion Botanicum exhibens Classes et Ordines Plantarum ; 

 accedit Nomenclator Generum, auctore S. Endlicber, M.D. 445 — 447 



Proceedings of the Linnsean Society ; Entomological Society ; Geolo- 

 gical Society ; Zoological Society ; Royal Irish Academy ; Impe- 

 rial Academy of St. Petersburgh 447 — 471 



Mr, Dale on the Fauna of Dorsetshire ; Mr. C. C. Babington on Ribes 

 petraum ; Cream-coloured Courser ; Rev. D. Landsborough on 

 the Longevity of Geese ; M. Petit on the questionable authenti- 

 city of names given to undescribed Genera and Species ; Nests of 

 the Hirundo riparia ; Some Notices of the late Professor Don, and 

 of his Father, Mr. George Don, formerly Curator of the Edinburgh 

 Botanic Garden ; Meteorological Observations and Table... 472 — 480 



NUMBER LIV. SUPPLEMENT. 

 LVI. On a new genus of Fossil Bivalve Shells. By Mr. Samuel 

 Stutchbury, F.G.S., A.L.S., &c, Curator of the Bristol Institution. 



(With two Plates.) 481 



LVII. The Birds of Ireland (Family Corvidce, Picidce, and Cer- 

 thiadce). By Wm. Thompson, Esq., Vice-Pres. Nat. Hist. Society of 



Belfast. {Continued.) 486 



Proceedings of the Royal Society ; Geological Society ; Zoological 



Society ; Botanical Society of Edinburgh 502 — 543 



New Books ; — A History of Infusoria, living and fossil, arranged ac- 

 cording to ' Die Infusionsthierchen ' of C. G. Ehrenberg ; con- 

 taining coloured engravings illustrative of all the Genera, and De- 

 scriptions of all the Species in that work, with several new ones, 

 by Andrew Pritchard. — Supplementary remarks on Mr. G. R. 



Gray's ■ Genera of Birds,' by H. E. Strickland 543—545 



Dr. Martin Barry on Fibre 545 



Index 547 



PLATES IN VOL. VIII. 



Plate I. Structure of Annular Vessels Seepage 26 



II. Skulls, &c. of Rodentia 84 



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v ' V Ammonites from the Oxford Clay 165 



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VII. Antechinus Stuartii, from New South Wales 242 



VIII. New Marine Animals described by Mr. E. Forbes 243 



IX 1 



x * V Pachyodon, a new genus of Fossil Bivalves 482 



XI. Saxifrages of Ireland 322 



XII. Infusorial Animalcules 543 



Erratum, p. 278, 1. 10, for " Switzerland, to the height of 11,000 feet," read, " Switzerland, and 



to the." &c 



