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history, especially zoology. In botany there is, however, but little 

 in the volumes on the table besides Asa Gray's monographic revisions 

 (Eriogoneae, Polemoniaceae, and Diapensiacete), always valuable, 

 and these especially so, as being the result of the study of European 

 herbaria during his last tour in the Old "World. 



There are on the table several numbers of the Journal of the Asiatic 

 Society of Bengal, containing several papers both on the zoology and 

 the botany of Southern Asia ; and from Australia, Transactions and 

 Proceedings of the lioyal SocietyofVictoria, the Entomological Society 

 of New South Wales, and the Adelaide Philosophical Society. Mr. 

 Brady, of Sydney, has sent us his tracts on Silk and on the Ailant 

 Silkworm, Mr. G. Bennett has presented his tract on the introduc- 

 tion of the Orange and others of the Citron tribe into New South 

 Wales, and Dr. Schomburgk his Catalogue of the Adelaide Botanic 

 Garden. 



At home the British Museum has made a valuable addition to our 

 Library in the shape of a complete series of their Catalogues, in- 

 cluding those which, like Dr. Giinther's Fishes, are so much more 

 important than the title would imply. From the Royal Society we 

 have the fifth volume of their great Catalogue of Scientific Papers, 

 and from other Societies a part of the Transactions and a volume of 

 the Proceedings of the Zoological, and Proceedings and Trans- 

 actions of several others less connected with our own pursuits, as 

 well as the usual continuations of the various Journals and regular 

 serials presented to us or purchased. The British Association have 

 sent the Liverpool volume of their Eeports ; and among local Societies 

 there are the publications of those of Northumberland and Durham, 

 of Liverpool, Plymouth, Cornwall, and of the Woolhope Field-Club. 



An important volume of the Ray Society's Publications con- 

 tains Dr. Allman's Monograph of the Gymnoblastic or Tubularian 

 Hydroids. 



Among separate works presented to us are the second voliime of 

 Oliver's ' Flora of Tropical Africa,' Cooke's ' Handbook of British 

 Fungi,' Moggridge's fourth part of his ' Flora of Mentone,' com- 

 pleting the volume, Mrs. LyeU's ' Geographical Handbook of Ferns,' 

 Mr. Newman's ' Illustrated Natural History of British Butterfiies,' 

 Dr. Aitchison's ' Catalogue of the Plants of the Punjab and Sindh,' 

 Dr. Brettschneider's ' Study and Yalue of Chinese Botanical Works,' 

 besides separate copies of a considerable number of Transaction- 

 papers sent in by their several authors. 



Two Zoological Numbers and one Botanical one of our own Journal 



