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character of coast at any part of the British Islands suggests to us its 

 productions, Yet are there some species so far influenced by latitude, 

 as not to be found further south than our more northern shores, and 

 others again not further north than our more southern coasts : in such 

 cases our shores are the extreme limits of the species in the respective 

 directions. Further we need not here enter into this subject, but 

 instead, call upon our author to give us all the information in his 

 power. 



The 'History of British Sea- weeds' we can most faithfully re- 

 commend for its scientific, its pictorial, and its popular value. The 

 professed botanist will find it a work of the highest character. Per- 

 sons who have not commenced the study, or who desire merely to 

 know the names and history of the lovely plants which they gather 

 on the margin of the sea, will find in it when complete the faithful 

 portraiture of every one of them. Those who have not that happy 

 privilege, but in " close cities pent," or confined to the inland coun- 

 try, will have before them pictorial representations only less fresh 

 and glowing than the beautiful originals ; and those who merely 

 desire what the French call a work of luxury for the drawing-room 

 table, will, owing to the extreme variety and delicacy of form of the 

 objects, combined with the most glowing colours, find that no work 

 at the same cost is more attractive, or should be preferred before it. 



PROCEEDINGS OF LEARNED SOCIETIES. 



ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY. 

 November 25, 1845.— William Horton Lloyd, Esq., in the Chair. 

 A paper was read containing ** Descriptions of fourteen new spe- 

 cies of Helix, belonging to the collection of H. Cuming, Esq.," by 

 Dr. L. Pfeiffer:— 



1. Helix albocincta, Pfr. Hel. testd umbilicatd^ orbieulato-cori' 

 vexdt tenuiusculd, superne regulariter et confertim striatd, sericind, 

 fulvo-corned, carinatd; spird depresso-conicd, apice obtuso; ati' 

 fractihus ^\ convexis, carind albd cinctis, ultimo basi sublcevigato, 



lineis subtilibus, concentricis notato ; umbilico mediocri, pervio ; 



aperturd obliqud, angulato-lunari ; peristomate simplice, acuto, 

 Diam. 11, alt. 5 mill. 

 Collected by Mr. Cuming at Himamaylan, island of Negros. 



2. Helix boholensis, Pfr, Hel. testd imper/oratd, depressd, len- 

 ticulari, acute carinatd, tenui, corneo-albidd ; spird convexiusculd ; 

 anfractibus 7 planulatis, regulariter confertim striatis, jiixta ca- 

 rinam lineis 2 acute elevatis approximatis cinctis, ultimo basi con- 

 vexiusculo, striatulo, medio vix impresso, antice non descendente ; 

 aperturd verticali, depressissimd, late angulato-lunari ; periston 

 mate simplice, acuto, margine supero brevissimo. 



Diam. 14, alt. 6 mill. 



Var. minor, anfractibus 6J. Diam. 10, alt. 4 mill. 



Collected by Mr. Cuming at Loboc, island of Bohol, 



