G8 REVIEW. 



one of three-eighths inch bore, which I found too slow, hut got one 

 baled out with a bucket, at the bottom of which was a cavity; in this 

 I found a stone with a specimen of Sagartia aurorce. — Isabel E. Wilkin- 

 son, December 9th., 1856. 



The Natural History Review. No. VIII. Published quarterly, price 

 2s. Gd. London: Highlev, Fleet Street. Edinburgh: Johnstone and 

 Hunter. Dublin: Hodges and Smith. 



I don't see very well how one is to write a Eeview of a Review, so I 

 shall not attempt it in the present instance. Let it suffice, then, to say, 

 that the "Natural History Review" is really a very valuable publication, 

 as suggestively indicated by the following table of contents in the present 

 part. Review 1. — "The Butterflies of Great Britain." By J. 0. West wood, 

 2. — "Popular British Conchology." By George Brettingham Sowerby, F.L.S. 

 3. — "Young Naturalist's Library, 'Beautiful Butterflies, British Species."' By 

 H. G. Adams. 4. — "Reading Lessons." By Edward Hughes. 6, — "A 

 Manual of Marine Zoology for the British Isles." By Henry Philip Gosse, 

 F.L.S. 6.— "Catalogue of the Bees of Great Britain." By Frederick 

 Smith, M. E. S. 7. — "Mollusca Testacea Marium Britannicoru m." By 

 William Clark. y^~ 



Obituary. 

 Death of George Johnston, M.D. 



Communications made to Various Societies. 



I. — "On the Advantage to Botany of Local Lists and Notes with refer- 

 ence to the Algas of the East coast of Ireland". By Gilbert Saunders. 



II. — "List of Marine Algae collected at Skerries, near the Northern 

 limit of the proposed Dublin district in the summer of 1854." By Gilbert 

 Saunders. 



III. — "On the effects of the Severe Frost on plants in the neighbourhood 

 of Sligo." By The Right Hon. John Wynne. 



Notices of Serials. 



I, — "The Annals and Magazine of Natural History" for July, August, 

 and September, 1855. 



II. — "Quarterly Journal of Microscopical Science" for April, 1855. 



III.— "The Zoologist" for July, August, and September, 1855. 



IV. — "Hooker's Journal of Botany and Kew Garden Miscellany" for 

 July, Aagust, and September, 1S55. 



V. — "The Naturalist" for April, May, June, July, August, and Sep- 

 tember, 1855. 



