SUPPLEMENTARY NUMBER. 



CONTENTS. 



Page. 

 LI I. Information respecting Botanical Travellers : — Mr. Schom- 



burgk's Narrative of his recent Expedition in Guiana 433 



BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTICES. 



Etudes de Micromammalogie. Revue des Musaraignes, des Rats et 

 des Campagnols, suivie d'un Index methodique des Mamraiferes 

 d'Europe. Par Edm. De Selys-Longchamps 434 



PROCEEDINGS OF LEARNED SOCIETIES. 

 Zoological Society : — On a new species of Corythaix, by Mr. Eraser ; 

 on the Natural History of the Argonaut, by Prof. Owen ; on a new 

 species of Hamster, {Cricetus auratus), by Mr. Waterhouse ; 

 on a female specimen of the Hamster {Cricetus vulgaris)^ by Dr. 

 Weissenborn ; on a species of Lark from China, by Mr. Water- 

 house ; observations upon a series of skulls of Rodents, by Mr. 

 Waterhouse ; Mr. Bucknell's Eccaleobion ; on a species of the 

 African Cat, by Mr. Ogilby; descriptions and anatomical notices 

 of Mr. Lempriere's collection of Eish formed at Port Arthur in 



Van Diemen's Land, by Dr. Richardson 442 — 457 



Geoiogiical Society : — On the relative ages of the tertiary and post- 

 tertiary deposits of the Basin of the Clyde, by Mr. J. Smith ; 

 on the fossil fishes of the Yorkshire and Lancashire Coal-fields, 



by Mr. Williamson . . .* 457—460 



Tweedside Physical and Antiquarian Society 461 



Royal Physical Society of Edinburgh ib. 



MISCELLANEOUS. 



Movement of the Style of Goldfussia anisophylla 462 



Echinospermum lappula 463 



Guiana Expedition ib. 



Grew " on the Principles of Bodies" ib. 



Notes on the Birth of the Girafi^e at the Zoological Society's Mena- 

 gerie, by Professor Owen 464 



Meteorological Observations and Table 465, 466 



AND FIVE PLATES 



To illustrate various Articles ia the Fourth Volume. 



