THE 



NATURAL HISTORY REVIEW. 



Itotias of Serial ^Mirations, $ 



AMERICA. 



Smithsonian Contributions to Knowledge. 4to. Washington, U. S. 

 Vol. VIII. 1856. 



(Jones, Joseph, M.D.) Researches, Chemical and Physiological, concerning 

 certain North American Vertebrata; with twenty-seven woodcuts — pp. 150. I. 

 Method employed in analysing the blood. II. Blood of Vertebrate animals in its 

 normal condition. III. Physical and Chemical changes of the solids and fluids 

 of Cold and Warm-blooded Animals, when deprived of Food and Drink. IV. 

 Effects of Starvation and Thirst, combined with a change of Diet, upon the Solids 

 and Fluids of Carnivorous Chelonians. V. Observations upon the Alimentary 

 Canal and Digestion of Albumen and Flesh. VI. Comparative Anatomy and 

 Physiology of the Pancreas. VII. Observations upon the Liver. VIII. Observa- 

 tions upon the Spleen. IX. Observations upon the Kidneys. X. Urine of Cold- 

 blooded Animals. 



Proceedings of the Boston Society of Natural History. 8vo. Boston, 

 U.S. Vol. V. Fo. 14-21. 1855, 1856. 

 (Kneeland) On a so-called Opate Indian Girl_p. 234-237. (Wyman) De- 

 scription of a black Chimpanzee, Troglodytes niger — p. 274. (Parker) Habits 

 of the bear — p. 212. (Brewer) On the specific distinction of the short-eared 

 Owl of N. America, Brachyotus cassinii name proposed — p. 321. ^Kneeland) 

 On the Sterility of many varieties of the domestic fowl, and of hybrid races in 

 general — p. 220-225. (Shaw) Collection of Birds from Philippine Isles and 

 Australia; distinctive character of the two species of Ani, Dasylophus — p. 257. 

 (Borland) Mode of feeding of a Boa Constrictor — p. 210. (Same) Anatomy 

 of the same — p. 309. (Durkey) Habits of the Bull-frog, Rana pipiens — p. 211. 

 (Durdee) Minute structure of the Guinea-worm, Filaria medinensis — p. 277. 

 (Gould) Descriptions of new shells ; Addenda to the list at p. 127 — p. 228. 

 (Lewis) Letter on the shells of Mohawk, N. Y.— p. 295-298. (Newcomb) New 

 species of Aohatinella, physa, undulata, nigra, tetrao, succincta, from the 

 Sandwich Isles — p. 218-221). Botany. (Andrews) Contributions to the Myco- 

 logy of Massachusetts ; including a list of thirty-six species common to Eng- 

 land and America — p. 322-324. (Sprague) Contributions to New England 

 Mycology — p. 325-331. A list of above four hundred Fungi collected during the 

 preceding summer, chiefly about Boston. Geology, &c. (Farwell) Native 

 copper from the Keweenaw Point, Lake Superior— p. 279-281. ^Hayes) On 



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