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lectedby Dr. W. F. Daniell in Sierra Leone— p. 149-151. (Archer, T. C.) 

 Extract from a letter of his to Mr. Bell, on the gum of the Kobo tree — p. 151. 

 (Masters) Note on a Monstrosity of the flowers of Saponaria officinalis — p. 159- 

 162. (Lindley) Note on Spiranthes gemmipara — p. 168-170. Babington has 

 referred this to S. cernua, but it is here recognised again as a distinct species, 

 which is confined to a very limited district in Ireland. (Same) Contributions 

 to the Orchidology of India, No. I. — p. 170-190. Of the learned author's par- 

 ticular qualifications for the task it is needless to say anything. Concerning his 

 materials it is here stated that M there is little that has not been entrusted to me, 

 except the Malay plants of Horsfield in this country,, and those of Blume from 

 Java and other Dutch ^islands." One of the most remarkable results of the 

 comparison of the various collections, placed at the author's disposal, has been 

 to dissipate the common notion that the species of Orchidese generally have a 

 very limited range. This may probably be true of the Epiphytes, but certainly 

 is not so as to the terrestrial kinds* Of seventy- one species illustrated in this 

 present part, twenty-two are new. A new Analytical table is appended of the 

 genera of the Physurid Neottiese, from which the genera Plesaure, Ulantha, and 

 Galera are here excluded, and other corrections are introduced of the author's 

 general work on the Orchideae. (Seemann) On the Palm of Timbuctoo — p. 

 152-157. Here determined as Borassus oethiopum. (Berkeley) Note on the 

 use of the Rhizoma of Pteris aquilina as art article of food— p. 156. (Same) 

 On the recent discoveries in relation to the Microgonidia of Fresh- water Alga 

 — p. 145-147. (Hicks) Draparnaldia cruciata, a new species — p. 192. (Cur- 

 rey) On Peziza curreyana Berkeley, n. sp., being the perfect development of 

 Sclerotium roseum Kneiff—-p. 147-149. (Same) On a species of Pilobolus, P. 

 roridus? new to Britain ; with a plate — p. 162-167. (Berkeley) On some En- 

 tomogenous Sphaerige ; with a plate— p. 157-159. Five new species of Cordyceps 

 are described, all from South Carolina, U. S. This brings the total number 

 known of Entomogenous species of the genus up to nineteen. Of these Europe 

 possesses four, two of them in common with America, and one with Africa, 

 Index — pp. 11. 



Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society. 8vo. London. 

 Vol. XII. A.D. 1856. 

 (Poole, H.) Visit to Asia Minor in search of coal ; Abstract— p. 1-4. (God- 

 win-Austen, R.) On the Newer Tertiaries of Suffolk; Abstract — p. 4-6. (Prest- 

 wich, J.) On the Boring at Kentish Town— p. 6-14. (Murchison, R. I.) On the 

 uppermost Silurian Rocks at Lesmahago — p. 15-25. (Salter, J. W., and Huxley, 

 T. H.) On some new Crustaceans from the uppermost Silurian Rocks — p. 26-37. 

 Himantopterus n. g., allied to Eurypterus, six species, new. Perfect forms of the 

 genus Ceratiocaris M'Coy, figured. (Godwin- Austen) On the possible extension of 

 the Coal measures beneath the S. E. of England ; with a map— p. 38-73. (Banks, 

 R. W.) On the Tile stones of Kingston, and their contents ; with a plate— p. 93- 

 101. (Sharpe, D.) On the last Elevation of the Alps— p. 102-123. (Owen, R.) 

 Fossil Cranium of the Musk Buffalo from the Gravel at Maidenhead— p. 124-130. 

 (Prestwich, J.) On the Gravel at Maidenhead in which this cranium was found — 

 p. 131-133. (Martin, P. J.) Geological Features of the country between the 

 South Downs and the Sussex coast— p. 134-137. (Sorby, H. C.) Physical 

 Geography of the Tertiary Estuary of the Isle of Wight ; Abstract_p. 137. 

 (Binney, E. W.) On the Permian character of some of the Red Sandstones and 

 Breccias of the South of Scotland— p. 138-140. (Tayler, J. W.) On the Cryolite 

 of Evigtok, Greenland— p. 140-144. (Ansted, D. T.) On the Copperlode of 

 Cobre, Cuba— p. 144-153, (Bedford, J.) On the Raised Beaches of the Western 

 Isles— p. 167-169. (Moggridge, M.) On a Section exposed in the Excavation of 

 the Swansea Docks— p. 169-171. (Miller, T.) On the late Eruption of Mauna 

 Loa— p. 171-386. (Haughton, S.) On the Granites of Ireland— p. 171-202* 

 (Poole, H.) Visit to the Red Sea— p. 203. (Owen, R.) On Gastomis Parisi- 

 ensis ;. with a plate— p. 204-217. (Same) Mammalian remains from the Red 



