IT CONTENTS. 



ORIGINAL ARTICLES. 



PAGE 



15. On the Species and Genera of Plants, considered with reference to then- 



practical Application to Systematic Botany. By George Bentham . 133 



16. On the Serial Homologies of the Articular Surfaces of the Mammalian 



Axis, Atlas, and Occipital Bone. By J. Cleland, M.D., Demonstrator 



of Anatomy in the University of Edinburgh . . . .151 



17. On the Crania of the most Ancient Baces of Man. By Professor D. 



Schaaffhausen, of Bonn, &c. &c. (with Plates IV. V.) . .155 



18. The Sensory and Motor Functions of Nerves. By G. H. Lewes . 176 



19. General Results of the Study of Typical Forms of Foraminifera, in their 



relation to the Systematic Arrangement of that Group, and to the 

 Fundamental Principles of Natural History Classification. By Wm. B. 

 Carpenter, M.D., F.R.S., F.L.S., F.G.S. . . . .185 



20. On the Affinities of the Brain of the Orang Utang. By George Rolleston, 



M.D., F.L.S., Linacre Professor of Anatomy, (with Plate III.) . 201 



BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTICES. 



Classification . . . . . . .218 



21. Addition to List of existing Periodicals . . . .219 



22. Bibliography of Zoology, Geographical Distribution, &c. . .221 



23. Bibliography of Mammalia, including Anthropology . . 224 



24. Bibliography of Aves ...... 229 



25. Bibliography of Reptilia and Amphibia . . . .236 



26. Bibliography of Pisces . . . . . . .237 



27. Bibliography of Annulosa ...... 241 



lN T o. Ill— JULY, 1861. 



REVIEWS. 



28. Colonial Floras. — 1. Flora of the British West Indian Islands. By 



A. H. R, Grisebach, M.D., Professor of Botany in the University of 

 Gottingen. Part I. -III. — 2. Flora Capensis: being a Systematic descrip- 

 tion of the Plants of the Cape Colony, Caffraria, and Port Natal, by 

 W. H. Harvey, M D., F.R.S., Professor of Botany in the University of 

 Dublin, &c. and Otto Wilhelm Sonder, Ph. D. of Hamburgh. Vol. I. 

 —3. Enumeratio Plantarum Zeylanise: an Enumeration of Ceylon 

 Plants, with descriptions of the little known Genera and Species, obser- 

 vations on their habitats, uses, native names, &c. by G. H. K. Thwaites, 

 F.L.S , Director of the Royal Botanic Garden, Peradenia, Ceylon. 

 Parts I.-IIL— 4. Flora Hong-Kongensis: a description of the Flower- 

 ing Plants and Ferns of the Island of Hong-Kong, by George Bentham, 

 V.P.L.S., with a Map of the Island 255 



29. Course of Lectures on the Physiology and Pathology of the Central Ner- 



vous System. Delivered at the Royal College of Surgeons of England, 



in May, 1858, by C. E. Brown-Sequard, M.D., F.R.S., &c. &c . 267 



30. The Fauna of Equatorial Africa. Du Chaillu . . -288 



