48 NOTICES OF SERIALS. 



treated in the author's peculiar point of view are all Eaptorious birds. (Same) 

 Appendix on the plumage of the young Otogyps nubicus and pennatus — p. 347- 

 350. (Same) The Natural History of the birds observed about Renthendorf in 

 the summer and autumn of 1855— p. 257-263. (Same) A few words about 

 Cuckoos and Woodpeckers — p. 456-464. (Drechsler) On the order Gallina? ; the 

 general arrangement according to Bonaparte, the species after Reichenbach, Chenu, 

 Gray, &c. ; with two plates— p. 361-381, 425-434. (Olavarria-Lozano) List of 

 birds observed by Machado in some provinces of Andalusia — p. 241-256. (Otto) 

 An instance of pairing between Columba cenas and the house pigeon — p. 30-32 

 (HofTmannsegg) Limosa cinerea in its summer condition — p. 238-240. (Henke^ 

 Short account of an Oological excursion at Archangel- p. 236-238. (Jenzsch) 

 Note on nests of Anthophora retusa Latr. or pilipes Fabr. inTrachytic Tufa of the 

 Siebengebirge, and in the Paris basin — p. 73, 74. (Otto) Battles of animals — 

 p. 148-151. (Brehm, A.) A word on so-called climatical varieties— p. 321-347. 

 (Brehm, L.) A few words on the nature of "species" — p. 401-413. (Judeich) 

 Proceedings of the Zoological section of the Isis for 1855-1866 — p. 392-394 

 (Eschricht, &c.) Report on the competition for the Classen prize, the Embryology 

 of Cysticercus tenuicollis ; extract from the Proceedings of the Danish Royal 

 Society — p. 303-309. Botany. — (Rabenhorst) The true nature of the rt blood- 

 stains en bread, &c. — p. 418, 419. The author refers the cause of this pheno- 

 menon to the presence of an alga, Palmella prodigiosa Ehr. (Same) Another 

 prodigy — p. 418, 419. Palmella mirifica, n. sp., which produces similar stains on 

 dressed meat, &c. (Krause) Proceedings of the Botanical section of the Isis for 

 1855-1856. Geology, &c (Fischer) Remains of fishes from the Plainer for- 

 mation ; with a plate — p. 134-145. (Gutbier) The Basalt of Gorischstein— p. 413- 

 418. (Otto) On the Rudistes — p. 195-198. Including an account of the inge- 

 nious and laborious method by which Zekeli has examined the organization of 

 the Hippurites, Caprini, and Radiolites, extracted from the Proceedings of the 

 Imperial Geological Institute. His conclusions support the views of Blainville and 

 D'Orbigny, who have considered the Rudistes as constituting a separate class 

 among the Mollusca, Palliobranchiata. (Same) On the forms of Granite blocks 

 vulgarly called Giants'-forts and walls, Devils' dikes, &c. —p. 225-235. (Same) 

 On compressed casts and abnormal forms of Cephalopoda, in the Quader formation 

 of Saxony and Bohemia — p. 272-279. (Same) On an impression of a leaf in the slate 

 clay of the lower Quader of Paulsdorf.p. 293-296 (Same) The mines ofthe Austrian 

 empire— p. 69-72. (Zschau) The minerals in the Svenite of Plau near Dresden — 

 p. 81 -96. (Same) Anthracite in the Granite of the Gneiss of Arendal ; calcareous 

 spar and other minerals as Pseudomorphoses of Granite — p. 201-207. (Kluge) 

 Proceedings ofthe Mineralogical section of the Isis for 1855-1856 — p. 396, 397. 

 Miscellaneous. — (Koch) Natural History notes of a journey in the Southern 

 provinces of Russia— p. 297-302. (Schlenzig) Extracts from official documents 

 of the last century on a case of a troop of rats adhering together by the tails — p. 

 453-456. (Reichenbach) The merits of Gcethe as a naturalist— p. 281-292. 

 (Reinicke) On the microscope— p. 470-473. (Kluge) Communications respecting 

 the Earthquake of the 12th of October, 1856— p. 464-470. (Judeich) The impor- 

 tance of forests in the economy of nature — p. 96-113. (Roch) Observations on 

 the migration of birds, on the vegetation and temperature in the year 1855 — p. 

 193-195. (Drechsler) Report ofthe Meeting of German Naturalists and Physi- 

 cians at Vienna — p. 434-451. (Same) Scientific Proceedings of the General 

 meetings ofthe Isis for 1855-1856— p. 382-391. 



Short Communications and Extracts. Geological Institute of Vienna : 

 Remains of Plesiosaurus in the Lias of Bavaria — p. 32. Hollow pebbles in the 

 Leitha limestone — p. 34, 480. Lithographic stone of Bassaro — p. 77. New loca- 

 lities of fossil plants in Italy — p. 79. New discoveries of fossil fishes — p. 156. 

 Anthracites more ancient and more recent than, the Basalt — p. 310. The fossil 

 Flora of Budweis — p. 311. Method for giving durability to perishable fossils— p. 



312. Geological Survey of Missouri — p. 313. Geology of Ofen and Pesth— p. 



313. Ancient Elevation of the Continents of Europe, Asia, and Africa — p. 314. 

 Subaqueous protrusion of Basalt — p. 318. The cavern of Agtelek and the multitude 



