Vlll CONTENTS. 



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XL. On some genera of the Icacinacece. By John Miers, Esq., 

 F.R.S., F.L.S 481 



XLI. Note upon the Male of the Argonaut and the Hectocotylus. 

 By Dr. Henry Muller of Wurzburg 492 



XLII. On the Ergot of Rye, Sderotium Clavus, D.C. By M. L. R. 

 TULASNE 494 



New Books .- — Class Book of Botany ; being an Introduction to the 

 Study of the Vegetable Kingdom, by J. H. Balfour, M.D. &c., and 

 Professor of Botany in the University of Edinburgh. Part I. Struc- 

 tural and Morphological Botany 497 



Proceedings of the Zoological Society; Botanical Society of Edin- 

 burgh; Royal Institution 498—509 



The Collared Snake, Coluber natrix ; Note on the most important 

 Result of the Sericicultural Experiments made with the assistance 

 of M. Eugene Robert at the Experimental Silkworm Establishment 

 at Sainte-TuUe, by M. Guerin-Meneville ; On the Petrifaction of 

 Organized Bodies (especially Shells) in the existing Seas, by M. 

 Marcel de Serres ; Additions and Corrections to Mr. Davidson's 

 paper on some Brachiopoda; Meteorological Observations and 

 Table 509—515 



Index 516 



PLATES IN VOL. IX. 



Plate 1. 1 'q^^:^^^ Diatomacese. 



^\±' 1 Cidaridae and Cassidulidae of the Oolites. 



V.I 



VI. V Osteology of the Gangetic Dolphin. 

 VII. J 



VIII. New Fungi from St. Domingo. 

 IX. 1 



^' I New British Fungi. 

 XILj 

 ^^ • I New Brachiopoda. 



XV. French Liasic Spirifers. 



XVI. Twin Mushroom. — Avenella Dalyellii. — Generation of an Hyme- 

 nopterous Insect. — Development and Anatomy of Infusoria. 

 XVII. Reproduction of the Higher Cryptogamia and the Phanerogamia. 



