82 NOTICES OF SERIALS. 



about Alencon— p. 581. Drouet : Geographical distribution of the Mollusca of 

 the Aube — p. 578. Fischer : Conchyliological Miscellanies — p. 579. Godron : 

 Dreissena polymorpha naturalized in Lorraine — p. 580. Gassiez : Mollusca of 

 Algeria in the Museum of the Linnean Society of Bordeaux — p. 582. Villa : 

 On Helix frigida— p. 138. Same: On the genus Melania — p. 138. Strobel : 

 The Gastropoda "and Conchifera of the territory of Pavia — p. 577. Bulletin of 

 the Moscow Society of Naturalists, Vol. XXVI., XXVII.— p. 94-96, 191. 

 Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London, a.d. 1853, 1854— p. 291. 



Memoires de la. Societe Imperiale des Sciences Naturelles de Cher- 

 bourg. Memoirs of the Cherbourg Society of the Natural Sci- 

 ences. 8vo. Cherbourg et Paris. Vol. III. A.D. 1855. 

 Memoirs. — (Thuret) On Bornetia, a new genus of Algaj ; with two plates — 

 p. 155-160. (Nylander) Attempt at a new Classification of Lichenes ; Part 

 second — p. 161-202. (Le Jolis) Examination of the species confounded under 

 the name Laminaria digitata ; with^observations on the genus Laminaria — p. 

 241-312. Published first in the Transactions of the Bonn Academy of Natu- 

 ralists, Vol. XXV. Short Communications (Beaulieu) On the Pishes of 



the Department of La Manche— p. 375. (Bertrand Lachenee) Plants observed 

 in the neighbourhood of Cherbourg— p. 2L7-223, 387-389, 402. (Same) 

 Monstrosity in the flowers of Angelica sylvestris — p. 236. (Lesdos) On some 

 Silurian rocks in the North of the Department La Manche — p. 217. (Same 

 and Besnou) Analysis of the Limonites of Sauxmesnil — p. 387. 



ITALY. 

 Atti dell' I. R. Istituto Veneto di Scienze, etc. Transactions of the 



Venetian Imperial Institute of Sciences, Literature, and Arts. 



Third Series. 8vo. Venezia. Vol. I. 1856. 



(Molin) Anatomical and Physiological examination of the Heart and Circula- 

 tory system of the Boa constrictor ; with twelve plates— p. 377-391, 429-470, 

 517-533. (Same) Reply to Nardo's note on the same— p. 798-809. (Nardo) 

 On the works relating to the Heart and Circulation in Reptiles— p. 755-757, 809, 

 883-897. (Gera) On the contagious Atrophy of the Silk worms ; New observa- 

 tions— p. 76-81. (Miniscalchi) On the Sorgum saccharatum — p. 216. (Fapanni) 

 On the cultivation of flax in the Venetian territories, and on a method for get- 

 ting rid of the troublesome weed Silene linicola — p. 361-377. (Catullo) Remarks 

 on some late essays on Paleontology — p. 713-729. (Bizio) On the origin of the 

 Diamond— p. 421-428. 



Memorie di Matematica e di Fisica della Societa Italiana delle Scienze 

 in Modena. Memoirs of the Scientific Society of Modena. Mathe- 

 matical and Physical Sciences. Fo. Modena. 



Vol. XXV. Part II. A.D. 1855. 

 (Bertoloni, A.) Plants of Liguria, second selection; with six plates— p. 121- 

 127. The species figured are Vinca acutiflora Bert. ; Leucojum hyemale Bert. ; 

 Allium ampeloprasum L. ; A. acutiflorum Lois. ; A. oleraceum L. ; A. Ugusticum 

 Notaris. (Tenore) Notes on some species of Cupressus ; with two plates — p. 

 187-195. Distinguishing under the trivial name C. tournefortii the " Cupressus 

 lusitanica patula flore minori" of Tournefort, C. lusitanica Flore Portuguese, from 

 the C. glauca Lamarck, which usually goes by that name. (Same) Taxodium 

 mucronatum n. sp. ; with two plates — p. 196-204. 



Atti dell' Accademia Pontificia de' Nuovi Lincei. Transactions of 

 the Pontifical Academy of Rome. 4to. Roma. 

 Fifth year ; Sessions of 1852. A.D. 1854. 

 (Sanguinetti) Prodomus of the Flora of Rome, containing the plants that 

 grow spontaneously about Rome, in the Cisapennine Provinces of the Papal 



