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paper of Gumbel's. From the smaller towns we have publications 

 of the Eoyal Society of Gottiiigen, of the Brandenburg Botanical 

 Society, of the Natural-History Society of Prussian Ehineland, and 

 of the Physico-Medical Society of "Wiirzburg, and some sheets of the 

 ' Malakozoologische Blatter.' 



The Austrian Empire has naturally been less influenced by the 

 European disturbance. From Vienna, besides several volumes re- 

 ceived early in the year and noticed in our last reports, we have 

 Transactions or Proceedings of the Imperial Academy and of the 

 Geological Society, the former including Fitzingers detailed review 

 of the Chiroptera and various anatomical and physiological papers, 

 botanical as well as zoological, both series comprising, as usual, 

 numerous paleeontological contributions. A new publishing JSTatural 

 History and Medical Society has started at Innspruck a series of 8vo 

 Proceedings, which it is to be presumed will be chiefly devoted to 

 local biology. It is therefore with some regret that we observe that 

 one of the two numbers before us is selected by Prof. Kerner for the 

 publication of new species of Himalayan plants, as these Proceedings 

 are so little likely to come under the notice of Indian botanists. 

 The Transactions of the Natural-History Society of Bremen, now on 

 the table, contain nothing of general interest. 



Dr. Eichler, the editor of j^lartius's ' Flora Brasiliensis,' now settled 

 at Gratz, in the professorship of the late Dr. linger, there continues 

 that important work, much encouraged by a flattering reception from 

 the Emperor of Brazil. We purchase the work ; and amongst the 

 parts now received are two contributions from our own Fellows — 

 Mr. Baker's Connaraceae and Ampelideas, and Mr. A. W. Bennett's 

 Hydroleaceae and Pedalinese. With these parts have also been sent 

 a number of titlepages and indexes, which will enable us to place 

 several volumes of this great work in the binder's hands. 



We have received Transactions, Memoirs, and Bulletins from 

 various French Societies ; but all that are of any importance are dated 

 in or before the early part of 1870. Amongst them we are parti- 

 cularly obliged to the Museum of the Jardin des Plantes for several 

 volumes of their valuable ' Nouvelles Archives,' which we have now 

 complete as far as published ; and we have also to make our acknow- 

 ledgment to the Academies of Lyons, Cherbourg, and Bordeaux. A 

 few publishiug societies and journals at Paris contrived to struggle 

 through the sieges, and we have already received new numbers of 

 the ' Annales des Sciences Naturelles,' of the * Bulletin de la Societe 

 Botanique de France,' the ' Annales de la Societe Entomologique,' 



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