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INDEX TO VOL. XL 



ACICULINA, new species of, 417. 

 Actinia, on the anatomy of, 121. 

 Adams, A., on some new species of 



Emarginula, 146; on new species 



of Nassa, 320, 411. 

 Agrimonia odorata, observations on, 



363. 

 Alveolina, new species of, 170. 

 Alycseus, on the shell of, 283. 

 AnaiThichas Lupus, on the structure 



and mechanism of, 463. 

 Anderson, Dr. T., on the characters of 



the order Solanaceaj, 478. 

 Animals and plants, identity of the 



structure of, 408. 

 Anodonta cygnea, on the occurrence 



of large quantities of the shells of, 



on the sea-coast near Sandgate, 



420. 

 Anodontse of the Aube, remarks on 



the, 408. 

 Anthocercis, new species of, 368. 

 Anthotroche, remarks on the genus, 



435. 

 Arachnoides, new species of, 476. 

 Araneidea, new species of, 14. 

 Arum italicum, on the relations be- 

 tween the oxygen consumed by the 



spadix of, and the heat produced 



by it, 158. 

 Asplenium germanicum, occurrence 



of, 327. 

 Assilina, new species of, 168. 

 Auricula, new species of, 69. 

 ^Babington, C. C., remarks on British 



plants, 265, 360, 427- 

 Badhamia, description of the genus, 



137. 

 Balfour, Dr., on Polypodium rhaeti- 



cum, Polypodium alpestre, and 



PseudathjTium alpestre, 74. 

 Bambus, occurrence of, at consider- 



able elevations in the Himalaya, 

 345. 



Benson, W. H., on some HeUces from 

 West Australia and the Mauritius, 

 with notes on some species of Cy- 

 clostoma from Borneo, 29 ; on some 

 new species of Pterocyclos and Cy- 

 clostoma, 105; on the shell of the 

 genus Alycffius of Gray, vrith de- 

 scriptions of its animal inhabitant, 

 and of other new Indian Cyclo- 

 stomata, also remarks on Diplom- 

 matina, 283 ; on the animal of Di- 

 plommatina, 433. 



Berkeley, Rev. M. J., on two new ge- 

 nera of Fungi, 135; on the-struc- 

 tui-e of the cells of plants, 261. 



Bifrontia, on the genus, 260. 



Birds, descriptions of new, 59; of Bri- 

 tish Guiana, 1 38 ; MacGillivray's 

 History of British, reviewed, 236 ; 

 on two hybrid, 244. 



Blackwall, J., on some newly disco- 

 vered species of Araneidea, 14 ; on 

 British spiders, 113. 



Bonyan, Dr. G. R., on the raptorial 

 birds of British Guiana, 138. 



Books, new : — Landsborough's Popu- 

 lar History of British Zoophytes, 

 58 ; Wai-d on the Growth of Plants 

 in Closely Glazed Cases, 134; Mac- 

 Gillivray's History of British Birds, 

 Indigenous and Migratory, 236 ; 

 Mohl's Principles of the Anatomy 

 and Physiology of the Vegetable 

 Cell, 314 ; Philippi's Handbuch der 

 Conchy liologie vmd Malacozoologie, 

 316; Guerin-Meneville's Revue et 

 Magasin de Zoologie, 402. 



Botanical Society of Edinburgh, pro- 

 ceedings of the, 71, 325, 478. 



Brent, F., on the occurrence of lai'ge 

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