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ANNALES DES SCIENCES NATURELLES. Comprenant la Zoologie, la Botanique, 

 1'Anatomie et la Physiologic comparee des deux regnes, et 1'Histoire des Corps 

 Organises Eossilles, redigees pour la Zoologie, par M. Milne Edwards pour la 

 Botanique, par M.M. Ad. Brongniart et J. Decaisne. Tome II. No. 1. 

 Paris : Victor Masson. 



Zoologie Memoire sur 1'Organisation de I'Anomie, par le Docteur Lacaze- 

 Duthiers. This is a most valuable and interesting paper on the anatomy of the 

 Anomia. The species which Dr. Duthiers has selected is ephippium, which is 

 common to our shores. The memoir is accompanied with two beautiful plates, 

 one of them coloured. Note sur la multiplication des Nematoides, par le Docteur 

 Gros (de Moscow) ; Resume d'un travail d'embryologie comparee sur le developpe- 

 ment du Brochet, de la Perche et de 1'Ecrevisse, par M. Lereboullet (suite). 

 Botanique Memoire sur les glandes nectariferes de 1'ovaire dans diverses families de 

 plantes monocotyledones, par M. Ad. Brongniart, with four plates illustrative of 

 the ovarian glands in the Liliaceae, Amaryllidacece, Bromeliaceae, Cannacese, and 

 the Musaceas ; De la necessite de faire disparaitre de la nomenclature botanique 

 les mots de torus et de nectaire, par le Dr. D. Clos, Professeur et Directeur du Jardin 

 des Plantes, a Toulouse ; Tentamen methodicas divisionis generis Aristolochia, 

 additis descriptionibus complurium novarum specierum novique generis Holostylis, 

 auctore P. Ducharte, with two plates. 



THE ANNALS AND MAGAZINE OF NATURAL HISTORY. No. 82, October ; No. 83, 

 November ; and No. 84-, December, 1854. 8vo. With plates. London : Taylor 

 and Francis. Price 2s. 6d. each. 



No. 82, October : (Thomas Williams, M.D.) On the Mechanism of Aquatic 

 Respiration, and on the Structure of the Organs of Breathing in Invertebrate Ani- 

 mals, with three plates continued from page 57 ; (J. S. Bowerbank, F.R.S.) On 

 the Remains of a Gigantic Bird (Lithornis Emuinus), from the London clay of 

 Sheppey ; (E. L. Layard) Notes on the Ornithology of Ceylon ; collected during 

 an eight years' residence in the Island concluded from page 115. This is the con- 

 clusion of a valuable and interesting series of notes on the ornithology of Ceylon ; 

 315 species are recorded. We trust we may soon see these notes presented to the 

 natural history world in a more permanent form ; we think they would equal in 

 beauty Mr. Gosse's "Birds of Jamaica." (W. Hofmeister) On the Fertilization of 

 Ferns ; (W. V. Guise) On a new species of Alpheus ; (P. H. Gosse) Descriptions 

 of three new species of British Actinia;. We have here the descriptions of three new 

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