78 NOTICES OF SERIALS. 



this genus are also copied into the p'ate, and an error rectified in the references he 

 has given, the figures 186 and 187 of Plate VIII. having been designated as D. 

 verneuillii, instead of D. bouchardiana, in the original. 



FRANCE. 



Memoires del'Academie Imperiale des Sciences de lTnstittjt de France. 



Memoirs of the French Academy of Science. 4to. Paris. 



Vol. XXVII. Parti. 1856. 

 (Dumeril) Analytic Ichthyology, or Classification of Fishes according to the 

 Natural method, by means of Synoptical Tables — pp. 511. This work is like a 

 parting gift of the veteran author, wbo resigned, in the course of the last year, the 

 .chair of comparative Anatomy he had filled so long and wortbily. The weight of 

 eighty-four summers, lightly as they sat upon his honoured brow, could not be 

 unfelt, and the task of maintaining the scientific reputation of a name so widely 

 celebrated has devolved upon his son and successor. The first chapter of the 

 volume before us, extending to sixty pages, comprises a sketch of the Natural 

 History and Physiology of the class ; the second treats of the general principles of 

 the classification, in the compass of twenty-two pages ; the rest of the volume being 

 given to the details. In comparing the arrangement with that expounded in the 

 ** Analytical Zoology" of the author fifty years since, we are struck by the almost 

 total change of the nomenclature employed for the higher and intermediate groups, 

 not by adopting the received names, but by the introduction of another set of 

 compounds, which it is to be presumed the author considered as recommended by 

 euphony and expressiveness. A change that meets us in the classification at the 

 outset, is the separation of the Cartilaginous fishes into two sub-classes, equivalent, 

 under other names, to the orders Cyclostomi and Plagiostomi ; while all the 

 Osseous fishes constitute the remaining sub-class, divided again into four orders 

 corresponding to the ancient divisions of Apodes, Jugulares, Thoracici, and 

 Abdominales, but disguised under the double aliases of Apodes or Acatopes, 

 Propodes or Anteropes, Hemisopodcs or Mediopes, Opisthopodes or Posterope3. 



Annales des Sciences Naturelles. Annals of the Natural Sciences, 

 etc. Fourth Series. 8vo. Paris. 

 Zoology. By Milne Edwards. Vol.V., A.D. 1856. (Marfels) Investigation 

 of the mode in which minute solid particles pass from the intestine into the 

 interior of the chyle and blood vessels — p. 134-164. (Schroeder van der Kolk 

 and Vrolik) Examination of the Vascular plexus in different animals ; with a 

 plate — p. 111-133. (Milne Edwards) Note on the dimensions of the blood 

 globules in certain cold blooded Vertebrata — p. 165-167. (Jacquart) On the 

 measurement of the Facial angle, with a description of a new Goniometer — p. 283- 

 294. (Gervais) Materials for a Monograph of the Chiroptera of South America 

 —p. 204-223. (Vulpian and Philipeaux) Notes on the Heart, Liver, and Lungs 

 of an Elephant— p. 183-204. (Dareste) Note on the Brain of Apteryx— p. 48- 

 50. (Dufosse) Hermaphroditism the normal condition in the genus S err anus ; 

 with figures — p. 295-332. The author considers that he has established this fact 

 in respect to the three species S. scriba, cabrilla, hepatus. (Mueller) On the 

 development of the Lamprey ; translated from Mueller's Archives of Anatomy, 

 &c— p. 375-388. (Nylander) Synopsis of the Formicidae of France and Algeria ; 

 ■with a plate— p. 51-109. Sixty-eight species are admitted, viz., Formica 35, 

 Polyergus 1, Ponera 1, Typhlopona 1, Myrmica 29, Strongylognathus 1. Of 

 these the Typhlopona, with two species of Formica, and as many of Myrmica, are 

 found in Algeria, but not in France ; while six of Formica and three of Myrmica 

 are natives of Algeria and Southern France in common. Further investigation 

 will doubtless detect many more species in the Southern provinces. The number 

 of species diminishes in going northwards. The neighbourhood of Paris produces 

 31 species ; nineteen of which, at least, extend into the Southern provinces, while 

 twenty-one of them are natives of Northern Europe. The entire number of species 

 found in the British islands is only twenty-seven. (Schicedte) Observations on 



