\i CONTENTS. 



\l WBEH III. 



XVI. Observations on th( I font of Loch-Lomond. By Richard 



Pabnell, MI) . I'.H.S. (With a Plate.) ." page 161 



XVII. An account of ■ Journey to, and a Residence of nearly Six 

 Months in, the Organ Mountains, with Remarks on their Vegetation. 



By Georoi Gardner, Esq l»i.'> 



XVIII. Contribution! to the Natural History of Ireland. By W. 

 Thompson, Esq., Vice-Presidenl to the Belfast Natural History Society 181 



XIX. On a new English Species of Urtiea. By Charles C. Ba- 

 sinoton, M.A., F.L.S., ore 195 



XX. Notices <»t British Fungi. By the Kev. M. J. Bereeley, M.A., 

 F.L.S. (With two Plates.) .' 198 



XXI. On a new Species of EpUobiu JR. By W. H. WHITE 208 



XXII. l'lora- Insularum Novas Zelandise Precursor; or a Specimen 

 of the Botany of the Islands of New Zealand. By Allan Cunning- 

 ham, Esq 210 



XXIII. Observations upon some recent Communications of J. E. 

 Gray, Esq., to the Annals of Natural History, with Descriptions of 

 two new Kangaroos from Van Diemen's Land. By W. Ogilby, Esq., 

 M.A., F.L.S., F.Z.S., &c 210 



XXIV. Information respecting Botanical Travellers 221 



New Books : — A History of British Reptiles, by Thomas Bell, Prof. 

 Zool. in King's College, London ; The Birds of Australia and the 

 adjacent Islands, by John Goidd, F.L.S 222, 223 



Proceedings of the Zoological Society ; Botanical Society of Edinburgh ; 



Linnaean Society; Royal Academy of Berlin 225 — 230 



New British Zoophyte; Speaking Canary-bird ; Larus minutus; Syn- 



gnathus cpquoreus; Petromyzon Planeri; Meteorological Table 238 — 240 



NUMBER IV. 



XXV. On the Snowy Owl {Surnia nyclea). By William Thomp- 

 son, Esq 241 



XXVI. The Natural History of the British Entomostraca. By 

 William Baird, Esq. (With a Plate.) 245 



XXVII. Notices of British Fungi. By the Rev. M. J. Berkeley. 

 (With a Plate.) 257 



XXVIII. Remarks on the Ant Tree of Guiana (Triplaris Ameri- 

 cana). By Robert Schomburgk, Esq 204 



XXIX. On the Root of the Madder. By M. Decaisne 207 



XXX. A Catalogue of the Slender-tongued Saurians, with Descrip- 

 tions of many new Genera and Species. By J. E. Gray, Esq 274 



XXXI. Characters of nine new Species of Glumacece. By Dr. C. 



G. Nees v. Esenbeck ; communicated by Dr. Lindley 283 



XXXII. An Attempt to ascertain the Fauna of Shropshire and 

 North Wales. By T. C. Eyton, Esq 285 



XXXIII. Remarks respecting Phalanyista Cookii. By J. E. Gray, 

 Esq 293 



XXXIV. Prodromus of a Monograph of the Radiata and Echino- 

 dermata. By Louis Agassiz, M.D 297 



XXXV. Descriptions of British Chalcidites. By F. Walker, Esq. ... 307 



XXXVI. Description of a new Species of Tetrapturus from the 

 Cape of Good Hope. By J. E. Gray, Esq. (With a Plate.) 313 



New Books : — The Zoology of the Voyage of H.M.S. Beagle, super- 

 intended by Charles Darwin, Esq., F.G.S. Part I. No. 1. Fossil 

 Mammalia, by Richard Owen, Esq., F.R.S. ; A Geographical 

 and Comparative List of the Birds of Europe and North Ame- 



