CONTENTS OF VOL. V. 



No. XVII.-JANUAEY, 1865. 



REVIEWS. 



1. The Zoology of British India 



2. Nordmann on Steller's Manatee 



3. Giinther's Catalogue of Fishes 



4.. Siebold's European Freshwater-Fishes 



5. Huxley and Hawkins' Osteological Atlas 



6. Peters, Cants and Gerstaecker's Handbook of Zoology 



7. Phipson's Phosphorescence 



8. New Colonial Floras .... 



9. Report on Sexuality in the Lower Cryptogams 



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ORIGINAL ARTICLES. 



10. On the Dentition of Hyena Spelsea and its varieties, with Notes on the 

 recent Species. By W. Boyd Dawkins, B.A. Oxon. F.G.S. 



11. Sketch of the primary Groups of Batrachia salientia. By Edward D. 

 Cope, of the Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia, U S. A. 



12. On Cranial Deformities. — Trigonocephalus. By Dr. W. Turner 



1 3. Proceedings of the Scientific Societies of London : — 1 . Ethnological Society. 

 2. Geological Society. 3. Linnean Society. 4. Zoological Society 



Miscellanea:— 1. Dimorphism in the Genus Cynips. 2. Return of 

 Dr. R. Spruce, the Botanical Traveller. 3. Natural History in Natal. 

 4. Progressive Extinction of the Native Fauna in New Zealand. 5. Notice 

 of a Mule Breeding. 6, The Dentition of the Aye-Aye. 7. Calluna 

 vulgaris in Cape Breton, N. America. 8. Discovery of Asplenimn viride, 

 in New Brunswick. 9. The Tartaiian Antelope alive in England. 10. 

 List of Publications received ...... 



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No. XVIII.— APEIL, 1865. 



REVIEWS. 



15. The Zoology of British India ...... 153 



16. The Bats of North America . . . . , .170 



17. The Fauna of Spitsbergen . . . . . .172 



18. Hall's Esquimaux . . . . . . .176 



19. The Linnean Society's Transactions . . . . .189 



20. The Ancient and Modern Floras of Montpellier .... 202 



21. Species and Subspecies , . . . . . . 226 



ORIGINAL ARTICLES. 



22. On Synostosis of the Cranial Bones, especially the Parietals, regarded as 

 a Race-character in one class of ancient British and in African Skulls. 



By John Thurnam, M.D. •....] 242 



23. Description of an Ovo- viviparous Moth, belonging to the Genus Tinea' 



By A. W. Scott, Esq., M.A, . . . . . .268 



24. Proceedings of the Scientific Societies of London: — 1. Ethnological Society. 



2. Geological Society. 3. Linnean Society. 4. Zoological Society . 272 



25. Miscellanea: — 1. Eozoon canadense in this country. 2. New Species 

 of Fclis. 3. The White Whale. 4. Dr. W. Peters on Cholcepus HofF- 

 manni. 5. Macrauchenia Patachonica. 6. Proceedings of Collectors in 

 Foreign Countries. 7. List of Publications received . . . 297 



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