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animals and very well arranged under the direction of Steenstrup, 

 and the insects in the Storm-Gade Museum were very numerous ; 

 whilst at the University was deposited the typical collection of 

 Fabricius. The Herbarium at the Botanic Garden, valuable for the 

 types of Yahl and other early botanists, has been in modern times 

 enriched by the extensive Mexican collections of Liebmann, the 

 Brazilian ones of Lund and others ; whilst (Ersted's Central- Ame- 

 rican and Warming's Brazilian plants are also at Copenhagen, but 

 whether public or private property I know not. The botanical and 

 zoological gardens are of no great importance ; but the biological 

 publications are kept up with some spirit, especially the Transac- 

 tions of the Eoyal Society of Science, Schiodte's continuation of Kro- 

 yer's 'Tidsskrift,'andthe 'VidenskabeligeMeddelelser' of the Natural- 

 History Society ; and some of the authors have adopted a practice 

 strongly recommended to those who write in languages not under- 

 stood by the great mass of modern naturalists, that of giving short 

 resumes of their papers in Erench. On the most important contribu- 

 tions to systematic zoology since those mentioned in my Address of 

 1868, I have received the following memoranda : — Prof. Eeinhardt, 

 in publishing in the Transactions of the Eoyal Danish Academy 

 (1869) nine posthumous plates, executed under the direction of the 

 late Prof. Eschricht, illustrating the structure of various Cetacea, 

 has accompanied them with short explanations. Prof. Eeinhardt has 

 further published, in the ' Yidenskabelige Meddelelser ' for 1870, 

 a list of the Birds inhabiting the Campos districts of Central 

 Brazil ; " notes on the distribution, habits, and synonymy are 

 copioxisly added ; and the introductory remarks on the geogra- 

 phical distribution &c. are very suggestive, and ought to be trans- 

 lated for the benefit of the friends of ornithology in England and 

 elsewhere." The same ' Yidenskabelige Meddelelser' contains an 

 essay by Dr. Liitkeu on the limits and classification of Ganoid Pishes, 

 chiefly firom a palseontological point of view, accompanied by a 

 synopsis of the present condition, in sytematical and geological re- 

 spects, of that important branch of Palseichthyology. In MoUusca, 

 Dr. Bergh has published, in Kroyer's ' Tidsskrift ' for 1869, one of his 

 elaborate ianatomical and systematic monographs of the tribe Phyl- 

 lidese, with many plates, of which a detailed notice is given in the 

 ' Zoological Eecord,' vol. vi. p. 559. In Insects, Prof. Schiodte, in 

 the same journal for 1869, has given an elaborate essay containing 

 new facts and views on the morphology and system of the Ehynchota, 

 analyzed in the ' Zoological Eecord,' vol. vi. p. 475. " To Dr. Krabbe 

 we owe the description of 123 species of tapeworms found in Birds, 



