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Bibliographical Notices Catalogue of British Bees, by F. Smith ; Proceedings of 

 the Yorkshire Philosophical Society, vol. i., York, 1855. Proceedings of Learned 

 Societies Zoological Society, February 28, 1854, Dr. Gray, V.P., in the Chair ; 

 March 14, Dr. Gray, V.P., in the Chair; March 28, Dr. Gray, V.P., in the 

 Chair. Botanical Society of Edinburgh, June 14, 1855, Professor Balfour, Pre- 

 sident, in the Chair. Miscellaneous On the Organization of the Pedicellate 

 Glands of the Leaf of Drosera rotundifolia, by M. A. Trecul ; On a New Organ 

 observed in Callitriche, by M. A. Chatin ; Description of a new Tanager, of the 

 genus Calliste, by P. Lutley Sclater, M.A. ; On the Spermatophora of the 

 Crickets, by C. Lespes. Meteorological Observations and Table for June, 1855. 



No. 93, September : (Professor Steenstrup) Observations on the Genera Pa- 

 chybdella (Deising} and Peltogaster (Rathhe), two animal forms parasitic upon 

 the abdomen of Crabs; (T. Eupert Jones, F.G.S.) Notes on Paleozoic Bivalved 

 Entomostraea, No. 11 ; Some British and Foreign Species of Berychia with a 

 plate ; (Dr. A. Krohn) On the Heart and Circulation in the Pycnogonidas with 

 a plate ; (M. Valenciennes) Abstract of a Monograph of the Family Gorgonidae ; 

 (Dr. J. E. Gray, F.R.S., V.P.Z.S.) On the Genus Assiminia ; (Alfred R. Wal- 

 lace, F.R.G.S.) On the Law which has regulated the introduction of New Species ; 

 (Thomas Wright, M.D., F.R.S.E.) On some new species of Hemipedina from the 

 Oolites ; A short Biographical Notice of the late Dr. Johnston, of Berwick-upon- 

 Tweed. Bibliographical Notices The British Flora, comprising the Flowering 

 Plants and the Ferns Seventh Edition. Proceedings of Learned Societies 

 Royal Society, April 26, 1855, Sir B. Brodie, Bart., V.P., in the Chair ; June 

 14, the Lord Wrottesley, President, in the Chair; June 21, the Lord Wrottesley, 

 President, in the Chair. Linnean Society, January 16, 1855, Thomas Bell, Presi- 

 dent, in the Chair. Botanical Society of Edinburgh, July 12, 1855, Professor 

 Balfour, President, in the Chair. Zoological Society, April 1.1, 1854, Dr. Gray, 

 Vice-President, in the Chair ; April 25, Dr. Gray, Vice-President, in the Chair. 

 Miscellaneous Monstrosity of Antirrhinum majus; Notice of the Horns and 

 Skull of the Arnee ; Meteorological Observations and Table for July, 1855. 



QUARTERLY JOURNAL OF MICROSCOPICAL SCIENCE. No. 12, April, 1855. 

 Price 4s. With Woodcuts and Lithographic Illustrations. London : S. Highley, 

 32, Fleet-street. 



No. 12, July : (Wm. Herbert Thomas) Observations on Cosmarium Margariti- 

 ferum and other Desmidiae ; Address of the President at the annual meeting of 

 the Microscopical Society, February 28, 1855; (R. J. Farrants, F.R.C.S.) An 

 Account of Mr. Peter's Machine for microscopic writing ; (John Frazer) On the 

 Illumination of Objects by polarized light on a dark field ; Report of the fifteenth 

 annual meeting of the Microscopical Society. Original Communications (George 

 Rainey,|M.R.C.S., &c., &c.) On the Structure of the Cutaneous Follicles of the 

 Toad, with some experiments and observations upon the nature and alleged 

 venomous properties of their secretion ; (F. Currey, M.A.) On the Reproductive 

 Organs of certain Fungi ; (Ferguson Branson, M.D.) On Ciliary Action as the 

 cause of the circulation in the Cells of Plants; (F. H. Wenham) Observations on 

 the circulation of the Sap in Leaf Cells of Anacharis alsinastrum. Translations 

 On the Cellulose (in animals) question, by R. Verchow; On the Action of Concen- 



