4 NOTICES OF SERIALS. 



lions in this respect plainly showing the impropriety of deriving generic distinc- 

 tions from this consideration, as Dana here has done, &c. (Eights) Descrip- 

 tion of an Isopod Crustacean, Glyptonotus antarctica, from the Antarctic seas; 

 with two plates — p. 391-394. Extracted from the Transactions of the Albany In- 

 stitute. Dana remarks on this that the n.g. is perhaps not sufficiently distinct 

 from Idotea ; but the species is remarkable as the largest known Isopod, being 

 3£ inches in length. (Bailey) Microscopic forms found in the soundings of the 

 Sea of Kamschatka ; with a plate — p. 1-6. Chiefly Diatomaceee, but a consi- 

 derable number of Infusoria and Zoolitharia. Many new species, especially of 

 Poly cystine se, are here described. Cadium new genus of Rhizopoda. 

 Botany. (Gladstone) Influence of Solar radiation on the Vital powers of Plants 

 growing under different atmospheric conditions — p. 49-66. Extracted from the 

 Report of the Twenty-fourth Meeting of British Association, a.d. 1854. (John~ 

 ston) Examination of Panache and Pine sugars from California — p. 6-8. (Gray) 

 Statistics of the Flora of the Northern United States— p. 204-232. In an Ap- 

 pendix some conclusions are drawn as to the comparative Geographical distribu- 

 tion of the species included in the Flora of the Northern States. Of the Phaeno- 

 gamous section about fifteen per cent, are common to them with Europe, un- 

 equally divided between the Monocotyledones, of which nearly one-fourth, and 

 of the Dicotyledones, of which not an eighth, enter into this category ; while of 

 the Cryptogama not much less than two-thirds are common to both regions ; " in 

 accordance with the general fact that the lower the class the wider the geogra- 

 phical area occupied by the species." Paleontology. (Redfield) Relation of 

 the Fossil Fishes of the Sandstone of Connecticut, and other Atlantic States, to 

 the Liassic and Oolitic periods — p. 357-363. (Hitchcock) A new Fossil Shell, 

 Sphaerulites ? in the Connecticut River Sandstone — p. 239. (Stafford) On the 

 g. Tetradium, and the species found in Middle Tenessee — p. 236-238. (Em- 

 mons) New Fossil corals from N. Carolina — p. 389-390. Geology, Mine- 

 ralogy, &c. (Dana) Geological History of America — p. 306 334. (Same) On 

 the plan of development in the Geological History of N. America ; with a map 

 — p. 335-349. (Same) Supplement, third, to his Mineralogy — p. 246-263. 

 (Blake) Review of Marcou's Geological map of the United States and British 

 Provinces of N. America — p. 383-388. (Murchison) Letter on the Museum 

 of Practical Geology of Great Britain — p. 232-236. (Whitney) Occurrence of 

 ores of Iron in the Azoic system — p. 38-48. (Shephard) New Mineral species, 

 five — p. 96 98. (Mallet) On a Zoolitic mineral, allied to Stilbite, from the 

 Isle oi Skye, Scotland — p. 179. (Hitchcock) Description of a large Boulder 

 in the Drift of Amherst, Mass., with parallel striae on four sides — p. 397-400. 

 (Taylor) Examination of Meteoric Iron from Xiquipulco, Mexico ; Extract, 

 Philad. Acad. Trans. — p. 374-376. Miscellaneous. Reports of Surveys for 

 the route of a Railroad from the Mississippi to the Pacific — p. 67-95. (Em- 

 mons) On the New South Shetlands — p. 394-397. (Coan) Eruption of 

 Hawaii ; Letter to Dana — p. 240-243. Obituary ; Zadok Thompson, Prof. 

 Nat. Hist, in the Vermont University — p. 44-49. Intelligence — p. 105 178, 

 270-305, 401-434. (Bentham) On Arachis hypogaa — p. 435. Retracting his 

 previous published views as to the sterile flowers of Arachis. Review of Grab's 

 Manual of Botany of Northern U. S. — p. 437. (Agassiz) Remarks on the Gar- 

 pikes of N.America — p. 440. (Trask) On Earthquakes in California; from 

 Proc. Calif. Acad. Nat. Sc. — p. 110. (Wartz) Examination of the water of 

 the Delaware river — p. 124. Review : Safford's Geological Reconnoissance of 

 Tenessee — p. 129. (Rogers) Discovery of Paleozoic Fossils in Eastern Mas- 

 sachusetts — p. 296. And copious extracts from the Proc. Acad. Philadelphia, 

 Report of British Association, Annales du Mines, <fcc. Correspondence of 

 Mr. J. Nickles— p. 99 104, 264-269. 



Proceedings of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. 

 Ninth Meeting, held at Providence: August, 1855. 8vo. Cambridge. 1856. 

 Mineralogy. (Smith. Sanderson) On some new localities of minerals— p. 



