N, AMERICA. 5 



.IBS, 189. (Smith, Laurence) Re-examination of American Minerals : Part V. 

 Minerals of the Wheatley mine, Pennsylvania — p. 190-204. Geology. (Whit- 

 ney) Remaiks on some points connected with the Geology of the North shore of 

 Lake Superior — p. 204-209. (Same) Occurrence of ores of Iron in the Azoic 

 System — p. 209-216. (Blake) On the Grooving and Polishing of hard rocks and 

 minerals by dry sand — p. 216-220. (Same) On the Characters and probable 

 Geological age of the Sandstone formation of San Francisco — p. 220 222. 

 (Same) On the Geology of California; from the U.S. surveys for a Railroad route 

 to the Pacific — p. 222-225. (Hitchcock) Description of several Sections lying 

 across the Sandstone and Trap of Connecticut river valley, in Massachusetts — 

 p. 225-228. (Same) Additional facts respecting the tracks of the Otozoum 

 mocdii, in the Liassic Sandstone of the Connecticut Valley — p. 228. (Same) 

 Account of the discovery of a Fossil jaw belonging to one of an extinct family of 

 Sharks from the Coal formation — p. 229. Botany. (Blake) On a peculiarity 

 of the Redwood, Sequioia — p. 230. (Same) On the grove of Mammoth trees in 

 Calaveras County, California — p. 231, 232. (Gray) On the Ammobroma sonorcs ; 

 in a letter to Dr. Torrey— p. 233-236. Physiology. (Brooks) Laws of Re- 

 production with reference to the intermarriage of First Cousins — p. 236-246. 

 (Kneeland) On the sterility of many varieties of the domestic fowl, and of Hy- 

 brid races generally — p. 246 250. (Hilgard) Contributions to the Physiology of 

 Sight— p. 251-271. 



RUSSIA. 



Archiv fuer Wissenschaftliche Kunde von Russland, herausgegeben von A. 

 Erman. Erman's Archives of Russian Science. 8vo. Berlin. 

 Vol. XIV. 1854, 1855. 

 (Erman) Besselia, anew genus of Zoophyta; with a plate — p. 129-143. Founded 

 on Gorgonia paradoxa Esper, from the South Seas, and remarkable for that 

 the usual deposit of calcareous earth in the polypary is here replaced by 

 silica, forming cells filled with an organic fluid. (Bode) Observations on the 

 time of arrival of migratory birds — p. 408-420. (Kessler) On the migration of 

 birds of passage — p. 515-556. (Official Report) On the fisheries of Russia, and 

 of Lake Baikal in particular — p. 588 626. (Baer) On the results of the Cas- 

 pian Expedition during 1853 — p. 312-332. (Same) Studies of the Caspian. I. 

 Analysis of the water of the Caspian, and its influence on the Molluscous animals 

 which inhabit it — p. 627-651. (Ruprecht) Report of a botanical journey in the 

 Government of St. Petersburg — p. 72-96. (Bogorodskji) Sketch of the pro- 

 vince Gijiga — p. 333-368- (Erman) Newly observed Tertiary rocks of Rio de 

 Janeiro — p. 144-161. (Wlangal) Geognostical travels in the Eastern part of 

 the Kirghis steppes ; continued — p. 43-53. (Abriuzkji) Eruption of the Mud 

 volcano of the Taman peninsula, in August, 1853 — p. 68-71. The Mineral 

 springs of Lenkoran — p. 162. Newly discovered beds of coal on the Western 

 declivity of the Ural Mountains — p. 164. Malachite beds of the Ural Mountains 

 -p. 309-311. (J. M.W.D.) The Mineral springs of Transbaikalia— p. 372-382. 

 (Stuckenberg) The localities of sulphur in Russia — p. 383-407. (Doening) 

 The Strata of the environs of Kischenew, the capital of Bessarabia ; with a 

 plate- p. 479-485. 



Nouveaux Memoires de la Societe Imperiale des Naturalistes de 

 Moscou. New Memoirs of the I. Society of Naturalists of Moscow. 

 4to, Moscou. Vol. X.; with ten Plates. 1855. 



(Fischer von Waldheim) Report of the Operations of the Society from the 

 commencement; on occasion of the celebration of the fiftieth Anniversary, on the 

 28th of December, 1855 — pp. 116. (Hermann) The Heteromerous Mineral 

 System — p 1-213. The object of this essay is to investigate more closely the 

 irregularities in the commixture of crystallized bodies of like form, and to discover 

 the laws which determine this phenomenon, which may be designated as hetero- 



