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trated Solution of Urea upon the wood cells, by A. Kolliker ; Notice respecting the 

 occurrence of Lymph-corpuscles in the commencement of the Lymphatic vessels, 

 by A. Kolliker ; On the influence of Caustic Alkalies upon the Motions of the 

 Spermatic Filaments, by A Kolliker ; On the Kestoration of the Motions of the 

 Sphermatozoids of the Mammalia, by MM. Moleschott and J. C. Kecchetti ; On 

 the Vitality and Development of the Spermatic Filaments, by A Kolliker. Notes 

 and Correspondence Reply to some Remarks, by E. H. Wenham ; Aperture of 

 Object-glasses in relation to objects in Canada Balsum ; Microscopical Conver- 

 saziones ; Cheap Microscopes ; On Species of Diatomaceae ; On a New Locality 

 for Microscopic Test Objects ; Memoranda on Flies' feet ; On Finders ; Memo- 

 randa on the Employment of Artificial Sea- water in Marine Aquaria. Proceed- 

 ings of Societies Royal Society ; Stowe Newington Natural History and Scientific 

 Society, April 24, 1855 ; Zoophytology. Title-page and Index to the Volume for 

 1855. 



THE ZOOLOGIST. No. 153, July ; No. 154, August ; No. 155, September, 1855. 

 8vo. London : J. Van Voorst. Is. each number. 



No. 153, July : (George Guyon) Singular State of a Living Helops ; (Job 

 Johnson) Egg and Larva of Crymodes Templi. Proceedings of Societies 

 Society of British Entomologists, April 18, 1855, Mr. Harding, President, in the 

 Chair ; May 1 , Mr. Harding, President, in the Chair. Entomological Society, 

 May 7, 1855, J. Curtis, President, in the Chair; June 4, J. Curtis, President, in 

 the Chair. Notices of New Books The Annals and Magazine of Natural 

 History, Nos. 89 and 90 ; The Natural History Review, No. 6 ; A History of the 

 British Marine Testaceous Mollusca, by W. Clark. Remarkable Act in an Aged 

 Cat ; (A. Roberts) Occurrence of the Honey Buzzard near Scarborough ; (Edward 

 Newman) Occurrence of the Snowy Owl in Aberdeenshire ; (H. Spurr) An Owl 

 laying an Egg after twenty years' confinement ; (F. Woodroffe) Ornithology of 

 the Diggings; (E. V. Harcourt) Hen's Egg with Double Shell; (H. Stevenson) 

 Extraordinary Hen's Egg ; (G. Grantham) Occurrence of the Little-winged 

 Plover and Smew near Brighton ; (T. L. Powys) Occurrence of the Bittern and 

 Goosander in Northamptonshire, of the Red-throated Diver in Plymouth Sound, 

 and of Buonaparte's Gull in Dublin Bay ; (E. W. H. Holdsworth) Supposed in- 

 sensibility of Reptiles to Poison, and on a supposed unnoticed Character in the 

 Fishing Frog ; (James Wilson) Salmon and Salmon-fry ; (R. H. Meade) Note 

 regarding the Name of the Australian Trap-door Spiders ; (W. H. Hawker) 

 Gonepteryx Rhamni, double-brooded. This note is an answer to Mr. Newman's 

 doubt as to whether the Brimstone butterfly is double-brooded or not, and answers 

 all his objections in an off-hand way. (T. J. Bold) Capture of Nomada borealis 

 at Gosforth, Northumberland ; (George Guyon) Tenacity of Life in a Bembidium ; 

 (W. Thompson) Marine Vivaria; (Rev. H. Clark,) Notes on Certain British 

 Hydrocantharidae. We may here mention that it is the intention of the Rev. H. 

 Clark to publish a Monograph of the British species of " Hydradephaga and Phil- 

 hydrida," and that he will be most happy to receive for examination specimens of 

 any doubtful species, more particularly specimens of Octhebius, Hydraena, Lim- 

 nebius, and Elmis; his address being Rev. H. Clark, Northampton. (^H. T. 

 Stainton) Entomological Botany, with more especial reference to the plants fre- 

 quented by the Tineina. 



