VI CONTENTS. 



ZOOLOGY AND BOTANY. 



Page 

 Mr. John Hogg's Catalogue of Birds observed in South-Eastern Durham and 



in North-Western Cleveland 59 



Mr. T. Allis's Report on the Birds of Yorkshire, prepared at the request of the 



Yorkshire Philosophical Society CO 



Mr. John Blackwall on Periodical Birds observed in the Years 1843 and 1844 



near Llanrwst, Denbighshire, North Wales 01 



Mr. J. Gould's Monograph of the Sub-family Odontophorinae, or Partridges of 



America >..... Cl 



Mr. T. Meynell on the Fishes of Yorkshire 62 



Report of the Dredging Committee for 1844 63 



Professor E. Forbes on some Animals new to the British Seas, discovered by 



Mr. M'Andrew , 64 



Mr. Charles William Peach on Marine Zoology 64 



Professor Allman on a New Genus of Nudibranchiate Mollusca 65 



on a New Genus of Parasitic Arachnideans 65 



on the Anatomy of Acteon viridis 65 



on a New Genus of Helianthoid Zoophytes 66 



• on the Structure of the Lucernariffi 66 



Mr. Harry D. S. Goodsir on the Structure and Development of the Cystic 



Entozoa 67 



on the Reproduction of Lost Parts in the Crustacea 68 



Professor E. Forbes on the Morphology of the Reproductive System of Sertula- 



rian Zoophytes, and its Analogy with that of Flowering Plants 08 



Mr. Harry D. S. Goodsir on the Organs of Generation in the Decapodous 



Crustacea 69 



Mr. A. GoADBY on the Conservation of Substances , 69 



Dr. Thomas Laycock's Suggestions for the Observation of Periodic Changes 



in Animals 70 



Mr. O. A. Moore on the Flora of Yorkshire 70 



Chevalier Schombuiigk's Description of Alexandria Imperatricis, q. new Genus 



of Papilionacese , 71 



. • on a new Species of Barbacenia 71 



on the Ophiocaryon Paradoxa, the Snake-nut Tree... 71 



■ on the Calycophyllum Stanley anum 71 



• ■ Description of Lightia lemniscata, a new Genus of 



the Family Buttneriaceee 71 



on two New Species of the Family Laurineae, from 



the Forests of Guiana 72 



Mr. Thomas Allis on some Peculiarities in the Flight of Birds, especially as 



that is influenced in some Species by the power they possess of decreasing and 



adjusting their own specific gravity , 72 



Mrs. Whitby on the Cultivation of the Silk Worm 73 



Mr. T. Allis on the Cultivation of Ferns .....,....,, 73 



Madame Jeanette Power's Further Experiments and Observations on the 



Argonauta Argo 74 



Rev. Francis Orpen Morris on Zoological Nomenclature 78 



Dr. R. G. Latham on the Southern Limits of the Esquimaux Race in America 78 



• on the Ethnography of Africa as determined by its Languages 79 



on the Eastern Limits of the Australian Race and Language 80 



on the Ethnographical Position of certain Tribes of the Gar- 

 row Hills 80 



Dr. HoDGKiN on the Dog as the Associate of Man , 81 • 



on the Stature of the Guanches, the extinct Inhabitants of the 



Canary Islands 81' 



Mr. W. B. Brent on the Stature and relative Proportions of Man at different 



Epochs and in different Countries , 82 



Rev. W. Richards on the Natives of the Hawaiian Islands 82 



General Miller on the Sandwich Islanders 83. 



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