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of papers on the zoology of the same district or of the Canton "de 

 Vaud, inserted in the Bulletin of the Societe Vaudoise of Natural 

 History, and of others on the zoology of other districts, from various 

 other Swiss Transactions, all of which are noticed iia our ' Zoological 

 Record/ vols. v. and vi. To these must be added J. Saratz's " Birds 

 of the Upper Engadin," from the 2nd volume of the Bulletin of the 

 Swiss Ornithological Society, 1870. "The valley of the Upper 

 Engadin commences at 1860 metres above the level of the sea, and 

 ends at 1650 metres, where commences the Lower Engadin. The 

 list, therefore, given by M, Saratz includes no point situate below 

 that elevation. He classes the birds of this valley and of the moun- 

 tains which enclose it into ; — 1, sedentary birds; 2, birds which breed 

 in the Upper Engadine, but do not spend the winter there ; and 

 3, birds purely of passage. He enumerates 144 species, and gives 

 upon every one notes of its station, times of passage, abundance or 

 rarity, &c." 



Meyer-Diir has a short note in the ' MittheUungen ' of the Swiss 

 Entomological Society (iii. 1870) on certain relations observed be- 

 tween the insect-faunas of Central Europe and Buenos Ayres — a 

 question worthy perhaps of some consideration in connexion with 

 the above-mentioned coincidence of a Chilian and East-Mediterranean 

 Oeum, and a very few other curious instances of identical or closely 

 representative species of plants in the hot dry districts of the East 

 Mediterranean, the central Australian, and the extratropical South- 

 American regions. 



Swiss naturalists continue their activity in various branches of 

 biology. E. Claparede's very valuable memoirs on Annelida Chaeto- 

 poda and on Acarina have been fully reported on in the ' Zoological 

 Record,' as well as Henri de Saussure's entomological papers, which 

 have been continued in the more recently pubKshed volumes of the 

 Memoirs of the Societe de Physique of Geneva and of the Swiss 

 Entomological Society. In Botany, since I last noticed De Candolle's 

 ' Prodromxis,' the 16th volume has been completed by the appear- 

 ance of the first part, containing two important monographs — that 

 of Urticaceae, by WeddeU, and of Piperaceae by Casimir de CandoUe, 

 together with some small families by A. de Caudolle and J. Miiller. 

 The social disturbances of the last twelvemonth have much delayed 

 the preparation of the 17th volume, which is to close this great 

 work ; but it is hoped that it will now be shortly proceeded with. 

 Of Boissier s ' Flora Orientalis,' mentioned in my Address of 1868, 

 the second volume is now in the printer's hands. Dr. G. Bernouilli, 

 who had resided some time in Central America, has published, in the 



