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NOTICES OF SERIALS. 



Bltmdford ; (J. W. G. Spicer) Occurrence of the Little Bittern, and other rare 

 birds in Surrey ; (H. Stevenson) Occurrence of the Bee-eater, in Norfolk ; (P. 

 H. Gosse) A List of Marine animals obtained, at Weymouth. This is an account 

 of the rarer marine Animals that passed through Mr. Gosse's hands, in the course of 

 the summer of 1853. Among them were specimens, obtained on the 8th July, by 

 dredging of the very rare Motella glauca (mackerel midge), and a specimen of the 

 Rhombus punctatus (Bloch's top-knot), brought to him by a trawler, in August. 

 (J. H. Gurney) Note on the Dorsal Ciliary Fibres of the Five-bearded Rockling ; 

 (H. H. Crewe) List of Eupithecise, &c, reared from larva ; (F. W. Grant) List of 

 Syrphida3, taken near Putney ; (G. Guyon) Notes on a Marine Aquarium. These 

 notes show what a fund of amusement and instruction may be obtained from a vase 

 filled with salt water, and peopled with the inhabitants of the mighty deep. 

 Notices of New Books— The Zoology of the Voyage of H.M.S. Herald; The 

 Annals and Magazine of Natural History. Proceedings of Societies — Entomolo- 

 gical Society, June 5 ; Society of British Entomologists, June 5 ; Dublin Natural 

 History Society. 



No. 142, August : — Proceedings of Natural History Collectors in Foreign Parts. 

 Mr. A. B. Wallace announces his safe arrival at Singapore on the 20th April, where, 

 in about twelve days, he captured nearly eighty species of Diurnal Lepidoptera. 

 And among theColeoptera, fifty species of the Longicornes. Mr. H. W. Bates from 

 Santarem, January 18. Mr. J. Derby, Floyd Country, United States, March 7. 

 Notices of New Books — Annals and Magazine of Natural History ; Transac- 

 tions of the Entomological Society, vol. iii., part I. ; Transactions of the Tyneside 

 Naturalists' Field Club, vol. ii., part 3 ; Shells and their Inhabitants, parts 

 1 1 to 14 ; A Manual of Natural History, for the use of Travellers ; The 

 Microscope and its application to Clinical Medicine. (H. Stevenson) Oc- 

 currence of the Honey Buzzard in Norfolk and Suffolk; (W. Borrer, 

 jun.) Occurrence of Larus Sabinei, and of the Continental White Wag- 

 tail in Sussex ; (A. Hancock) Observations on the Nidification of Gas- 

 terostcus aculeatus and G. spinachia. This paper is extracted from the trans- 

 actions of the Tyneside Naturalists' Field Club, and is a very able resume 

 of all that is known concerning the nest-building of the three and fifteen-spined 

 sticklebacks. (J. W. Watson) A few Remarks on the Pulsation of some of the 

 Land Mollusks. The number of the pulsations in the first specimen of the common 

 slug (Limax maximus) examined, was from 50 to 55 per minute, at a temperature 

 of 60 degrees, or 65 degrees Fahrenheit. The pulsations of Zonites alliarius were 

 found to be from 65 to 70 degrees per minute. A small amount of heat has a sur- 

 prising effect on these seemingly -sluggish creatures ; for, on placing Z. alliarius 

 on the warm hand, the pulse beats as high as 110 per minute, whereas, on sub- 

 jecting it for a few seconds to a cool atmosphere, the pulse sinks as low as 30 per 

 minute, and these very weak — thus solving, in a satisfactory manner, the problem 

 of how these mollusks exist during their hybernation. It does not require any 

 very close investigation to make these researches ; as the beating of the pulse of Z. 

 alliarius is quite evident to the naked eye, at the under side of the shell, on account 

 of its transparency, and is very distinct with the aid of a small pocket lens. Pro- 

 ceeding of Societies — Entomological Society, July 3, in which part I., vol. iii., 

 and New Series of the " Transactions" were laid on the table. 



No. 143, September :— (Rev. G. Gordon) A List of the Mollusca, hitherto found 



