RUSSIA. 61 



RUSSIA. 

 Archiv fuer wissenchaftliche Kunde von Russland, herausgegeben von 

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

 Vol. XV. A.D. 1856. 

 (Radde) Animal life in the Putrid Sea— p. 251-281. (Baer) Studies of the 

 Caspian Sea — p. 387-455. The depression of its level has been sudden ; the 

 question discussed whether the saline contents are Increasing ; the gulfs which 

 are becoming more charged with salt, and the salt lakes formed at the ex- 

 pense of the sea and of the adjoining land. (Erman) The Climate of Tobolsk ; 

 continued from Vol. XII.— p. 603-667. Subterranean channel of the river 

 Werkwa, in the Government of Wologda — p. 330, 331. State of the Forests 

 in the Government of Kowno — p. 593-596. 



Memoires de i/Academie Imperiale des Sciences de St. Petersbourg. 



Memoirs of the Imperial Academy of Science of St. Petersburg. 



Sixth Series. 4to. St Petersbourg. 



Vol. VII. Part 2, Natural Sciences. A.D. 1856. 



(Brandt) Contributions to the study of the Mammalia of Russia; with nine- 

 teen plates— pp. 369. (Meyer) Small contributions to the study of the Flora 

 of Russia — p. 1-24. (Ruprecht) On the Classification of the Rhodophycece ; 

 with a plate — p. 25-54. (Same) New or imperfectly known plants from the 

 Northern part of the Pacific Ocean ; with eight plates— p. 55-82. 



Verhandlungen der Russisch Kaiserlichen Mineralogischen Gesell- 

 schaft zu St. Petersburgh. Transactions of the Imperial Russian 

 Mineralogical Society, for the years 1855, i856. 8vo. St. Petersburgh. 

 1856. 



(Barbeaut de Marny) Mineralogical novelties from the Ural— p. 197-206. 

 (Fahrenkohl) A slight view of the Mountain limestone and the Jura in the neigh- 

 bourhood of Moscow; with two plates — p. 219-236. fGadolin) Observations on 

 some Minerals from Pitkaeranta in Finland ; with a plate — p. 173-196. (Holmberg) 

 Geognostical observations, Hydrographic and Orographic, in Northern Finland, as 

 the results of the searches for gold there in the years 1847, 1848, 1850 ; with a map — 

 p. 1-62. (Jeremejew) Geognostical observations on the banks of the river Wol- 

 chow — p. 63-84. (Kutorga) Note on certain positions of the rocks of Finland — 

 p. 211-216. (Same) Note on a Fucus in the Silurian limestone of the Govern- 

 ment of St. Petersburg — p. 217, 218. (Lawrow) Two new species of Asaphus 

 from the Silurian limestone of the Government of St. Petersburg; with two plates 

 — p. 237-240. (Meglitzky) Geognostical sketches of Eastern Siberia ; I., Lake 

 Baikal, and the country round it ; with a map — p. 109-171. (Mendelejew) On 

 Pyroxene from Ruskiala in Finland — p. 207-210. (Romanowsky) General 

 Geognostical view of the South part of the Government of Rjasan ; with a map — 

 p. 85-107. (Kutorga) Reports of the Progress of Mineralogical Science in 

 Russia; L, Report for 1854— p. 241-251. 



SWEDEN. 



FOERHANDLINGAR VID DE SkANDINAVISKE NATURFORSKARNES SJETTE MCETE, 



o.s.v. Report of the Sixth General Meeting of Scandinavian 

 Naturalists. Held at Stockholm, in July, 1851. 8vo. Stockholm. 1855. 



Zoology. — (Liljeborg) Comparison of the Fauna of Scandinavia and of 

 Northern Russia— p. 210 226. (Ibsen) Anatomy of the ear— p. 226-233. (Prosch) 

 On the spouting of the Whale — p. 245-249. (Sundevall) On the muscular struc- 

 ture of the extremities in Birds — p. 259-270. (Kjeerboelling) On the importance 

 of ohservations on the Migration of Birds, in order to a comparative estimate of the 

 direction and period of them — p. 249-254. (Same") Procellaria minor n. sp. from 

 Greenland— p. 254-256. (Malm) On the ventral fins of Phycis—-p. 234-238. 

 (Wahlberg) Sketches of Insect everyday life — p. 72. (Same) Observations on 

 the Humble Bees of the North— p. 233, 234. (Prosch) On the capture of living 



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