186 KANSAS ACADEMY OF SCIENCE. 
S1enA.—Sigismondo Brogi, Direttore: 
Avicula. 
Bollettino del Naturalista, Anno XV, 1895, 152 pp.; 1 pl.; XVI, 1896, 152 pp. 
Revista Italiana di Scienze, Anno XV, 1895, 152 pp.; XVI, 1896, 152 pp. 
Turin.—R. Accademia delle Scienze di Torino: 
Atti, Vol. XXX, 1894-95, 1,046 pp.; 19 pll. XXXI, 1895-’96, 1,090 pp.; 3 pl. 
Osservazioni Meteorologiche, Anno 1893, 54 pp. ; 1894, 58 pp.; 1895, 54 pp. 
NORWAY (See Sweden ). 
RUSSIA. 
HELSINGFORS, FINL.—Fimska Vetenskaps Societeten (Scientific Society of Finland): 
Acta Societatis Scientiarum Fennicae, 28x29 cm., Tomus XVII, 1891, 550 pp.; 16 pll. On 
the electrical status of gases, by Theodor Homen (in German), pp. 15-90; pll. 1-x. Ob- 
servations on comets, by Anders Donner (in German), pp. 91-176; 3 pll. on black card- 
board. Contribution to the knowledge of a-dibromhydrin and chlorid of oxanylsyra, by 
Ossian Aschan (in Swedish), pp. 359-387. rm 
Tomus XVIII, 1891, 574 pp.; 12 pll. Applications of thermodynamics to the actions which 
are exercised between the electric currents and their magnets, by P. Duhem (in French), 
pp. 1-100; 2 pll. Hymenomycetes of Finland, by P. A. Karsten (descriptions of 20 species 
in Latin), pp. 101-110. Studies of the typhus bacillus, by Walter Cygnzeus (in Swedish), 
pp. 289-327. 
Tomus XX, 1893, 692 pp.; 10 pll. No.1. On the complete systems and the calculation of 
differential invariants of the continued finite groups, by Ernst Lindelof (in French), 62 
pp. No.3. On night frosts, and the means of preventing their ravages, by Selim Lem- 
strom (in English), 80 pp. A series of Assyrian inscriptions, copied from the originals in 
the British Museum, by Knut L. Tallquist, 284 pp., in German, containing 100 pages of 
Assyrian cuneiform inscriptions, with transliteration in italics and German translation on 
opposite pages; containing also 30 pages of Hebrew vocabulary, and 40 pages of compari- 
son of words with Arabic and other ancient languages. No. 8. Determination of the con- 
stants necessary for the reduction of the photografic plates taken at Helsingfors for the 
construction of a photografic catalogue of stars down to the eleventh magnitude, by An- 
dres Donner (in French), 68 pp. Studies on the dilatation of oxygen at various pressures, 
by G. Melander, 17 pp. 
Bidrag till kannedom af Finlands Natur och Folk (contribution to the knowledge of the 
nature and people of Finland), Vol. LIV, 1894, 451 pp.; 6 plates, maps, and charts. Critical 
examination of the hymenomycetes of Finland, by P. A. Karsten, pp. 155-186. Meteoro- 
logical observations on night-frost phenomena, by Th. Homen (in German), pp. 187-415. 
Vol. LY, 1894. Fenological observations in Finland, made between 1750 and 1845, by 
Adolf Moberg (in Swedish and Latin), xii + 165 pp. 
Vol. LYI, 1895. Finnish vocabulary, by Herman Vendell, 524 pp. 
Ofversigt af F. V. S. Forhandlingar, 14x22 em., Vol. XXXVI, 1893-94, xviii + 314 pp. 
Observations on night frosts, by S. Lemstrom (in Swedish), pp. 88-119. Reply to same, by 
Th. Homen (in Swedish), pp. 127-153. Climatological notes, by Ad. Moberg, pp. 199-229. 
Vol. XXXVII, 1894-’95, xxiv + 288 pp. On uroxansyra, by E. E. Sundwig (in Swedish), 
pp. 1-18. Action of equimolecular solutions on the mucus of the small intestine, 37 ex- 
periments, by Dr. Arthur Clopatt (in Swedish), pp. 93-126;31 litho. A similar article in 
French, 34 experiments, by the same author, pp. 127-148. Some new species of Australian 
mosses, described by V. F. Brotherus (English and Latin), pp. 149-172. The preparation 
of photografic star plates at the observatory at Helsingfors from June, 1893, to May, 1895, 
by Anders Donner (in Swedish), pp. 183-200. 
Societas pro Fauna et Flora Fennica: 
Acta, 15x23cm. Vol. IX, 1893-94, 474 pp.; 5 pll. No.1. Symbole ad mycologiam fenni- 
cam, by P. A. Karsten (Latin), 11 pp. No.2. Hymenoptera of the region around Lake 
Ladoga, by A. Westerlund (Finnish), 30 pp. No.4. Psocid# of Finland, by O. M. Reuter 
(in Swedish ), 50 pp.; 1 pl. No.5. Contribution to the knowledge of the species of Hier- 
acium of Finland, by Magnus Brenner (in Swedish ), 43 pp. No.7. Macrolepidoptera of 
Finland, by Enzio Reuter (in Swedish), 85 pp. Contribution to the knowledge of some 
Ciliata, by K. M. Levander (in German), 87 pp.; 3pll. No.8 Neuroptera of Finland, by 
O. M. Reuter (in Swedish ), 36 pp. 
Vol. X, 1894. Monographia Cladoniarum universalis, by Edw. Wainio, part II ( Latin), 
500 pp. 
Vol. XI, 1894, 315 pp.; 10 pl. No.2. Cladocera of the vicinity of Helsingfors, by K. E. 
Stenroos (in German), 45 pp.; 1 pl. No.3. Vegetation on the islands in the Bothnian 
