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to occupy a prominent place, on tliis occasion almost entirely zoolo- 

 gical. From the * Memoirs of the Imperial Academy ' we may spe- 

 cially mention J. F. Brandt's elaborate Contributions to the natural 

 history of the Elk, its morphological and palseontological relations 

 and geographical distribution, A. Strauch's Revision of the Sala- 

 mandridse, "with detailed geographical considerations, and -various 

 anatomical and physiological papers by A. Brandt, Spiro, E. Brandt, 

 Metschnikoff, and others, the latter in the ' Bulletin.' There are 

 also two parts of the ' Horse ' of the Russian Entomological Society. 



The University of Lund, which has of late years, in imitation of 

 Academies, undertaken the regular publication of scientific memoirs, 

 has sent us its volume for 1870, with interesting papers by C. A. 

 Bergh on animal life in the Cattegat, and by Areschoug and Berg- 

 gren on vegetable physiology. In separate publications, C. A. "Wester- 

 lund has presented his ' Fauna of the Terrestrial MoUusca of Scandi- 

 navia ' (in Swedish in 8vo, and in French in 4to), and Dr. Thorell an 

 additional number of his ' Synonymy of European Spiders.' From 

 Copenhagen we have two parts of the ' Botanisk Tidsskrift,' and 

 one of the ' Proceedings of the Eoyal Danish Society.' 



The German and French contributions in general furnish lament- 

 able evidence of the disastrous effects of the war. Their publications 

 are few, and chiefly worked up, and even printed, before the events 

 of last July twelvemonth. The Academy Naturae Curiosorum, 

 now at Dresden, is, however, an exception ; the volume before us 

 contains several valuable papers, amongst which, besides Boettcher's 

 elaborate anatomical memoir on the organs of hearing in Mammals, 

 we may particularly notice Hildebrand's detailed elucidation of the 

 sexiial relations in Compositse, and more especially of the functions 

 of the collecting -hairs of the style and the tardy exposure of the stig- 

 matic surface, alluded to in the notes on the styles of Proteaceae 

 printed in the last number of your Journal. There is also a con- 

 tribution of one of our own active botanical FeUows, Mr. Moggridge's 

 paper on OpTirys insectifera. The only other German biological 

 papers on the table of any importance are the anatomical and phy- 

 siological contributions to Kolliker's and to Wiegmann's zoological 

 and Pringsheim's botanical journals. The Berlin Academy's annual 

 volume is reduced to very small dimensions, being limited to Ehren- 

 berg's paper on Californian Bacillariae. The ' Monatsbericht ' has 

 been kept up, including, as usual, a few zoological contributions of 

 our Foreign Member Dr. Peters. The Munich Academy's annual 

 volume has nothing which concerns us, except a palseontological 



