CONTENTS. 



BOTANY. 



16. Observations on Manna. By J. Stettner, . 387 



MISCELLANBOUa. 



16. Port Natal, 388 



XXIV. List of Patents granted for Scotland from 22d De- 

 cember 1848 to 22d March 1849, . . 389 



Index, 393 



New Publications received — To he noticed in our next Number. 



1. Explication de la Carte Geologique de la France, redigee par MM. Du- 

 fr^noy et Elie de Beaumont. Tome deuxieme, 4to. Paris, 1848. 



2. Humboldt's Cosmos. Translated, with the Author's sanction and co-ope- 

 ration, under the superintendence of Lieut.-Colonel E. Sabine, R.A., For. Sec. 

 R.S. Vols. I. and II. Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, Paternoster 

 Row ; and John Murray, Albemarle Street, London, 1849. 



3. Wilson's Jussieu's Elements of Botany. John Van Voorst, Paternoster 

 Row, London, 1848. 



4. A Monograph of the British Naked-eyed Medusae, with figures. By Ed- 

 ward Forbes, F.R.S., «&c., &c. Printed for the Ray Society. London, 1848. 



5. An Introduction to the Birds of Australia. By John Gould, F.R.S. 1848. 



6. The Gold-seeker's Manual, By David T. Ansted, M.A., F.R.S. John 

 Van Voorst, London, 1849. 



7. On the Nature of Limbs ; a Discourse delivered at the Meeting of the 

 Royal Institution of Great Britain. By Richard Owen, F.R.S. John Van 

 Voorst, London, 1849. 



8. A Tour in Sutherlandshire, with extracts from the Field-books of a Sports- 

 man and Naturalist. By Charles St John, Esq. In two volumes, with wood- 

 cuts. John Murray, Albemarle Street, London, 1849. 



9. Professor Scheerer upon Polymeric Isomorphism. 



10. The Journal of the Indian Archipelago and Eastern Asia. Nos. 9, 10, 

 11, 12. Singapore: Printed at the Mission Press. 



11. Transactions of the China Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society. Hong- 

 Kong : Printed at the office of the China Mail, 1847. 



12. The Ethnological Journal. Several numbers received. 



13. Essai sur la V%6tation de I'Archipel des Feroe, comparee a celle des 

 Shetland et de 1 'Islands Meridionale. Par Ch. Martins. 



14. Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal, up to August 1848 inclusive. 

 16. Bibliotheque Universelle de Geneve, up to August 1848 inclusive. 



16. Lectures on the Study of Chemistry. By John Davy, M.D., F.R.S., &c. 

 291 pages, 12mo. Longman, London, 1849. 



17. Address to the Members of the Berwickshire Naturalists' Club for 1848. 



ERRATA in No. LXXXVII.— Jan. 1848. 



Page 44, line 18, /or partly, read pretty— P. 45, 1. 28, /or firmness, read fineness— P. 47, 1. 23, 

 for waters, read ureters— P. 47, 1. 2 (note), /or semiluna, read semilunar— P. 47, 1. 3 (note), 

 insert the before epiglottis- P. 47, 1. 7, 12, 13 (note), for watt-r, read ureters and ureter— 

 P. 49, 1. 7,/or "inhalation, rtad exhalation— P. 49, 1. 20,/or vegetable, read notable 



