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  Kingdom 
  ; 
  the 
  whole 
  profusely 
  illustrated 
  with 
  excellent 
  wood-cuts, 
  and 
  forming 
  one 
  

   of 
  the 
  most 
  complete 
  pocket 
  volumes 
  ever 
  published. 
  

  

  The 
  second 
  volume 
  of 
  Professor 
  T. 
  Rymer 
  Jones's 
  ' 
  Natural 
  History 
  of 
  Animals' 
  

   is 
  devoted 
  to 
  the 
  Annulosa, 
  and 
  contains 
  a 
  popular 
  introduction 
  to 
  the 
  Crustacea, 
  

   Arachnida, 
  and 
  Insecta, 
  illustrated 
  with 
  numerous 
  wood-cuts. 
  

  

  Anatomical 
  Works. 
  — 
  A 
  Memoir 
  on 
  the 
  Blood-proper 
  and 
  Chylo-aqueous 
  Fluid 
  

   of 
  the 
  Invertebrated 
  Animals, 
  by 
  Dr. 
  T. 
  Williams, 
  was 
  read 
  before 
  the 
  Royal 
  Society 
  

   on 
  the 
  18th 
  of 
  March, 
  1852, 
  (Proceedings, 
  p. 
  163). 
  

  

  A 
  memoir 
  by 
  M. 
  Leon 
  Dufour, 
  in 
  opposition 
  to 
  the 
  Peritrachean 
  System 
  of 
  Circu- 
  

   lation 
  proposed 
  by 
  M. 
  Blanchard, 
  was 
  communicated 
  to 
  the 
  Academic 
  des 
  Sciences 
  

   on 
  the 
  17th 
  of 
  November, 
  1851. 
  

  

  A 
  translation 
  of 
  Filippi's 
  treatise 
  on 
  the 
  Circulation 
  in 
  Insects 
  in 
  general, 
  and 
  in 
  

   the 
  Silk-worm 
  in 
  particular, 
  with 
  reference 
  to 
  the 
  peritrachean 
  system, 
  is 
  given 
  by 
  

   Herr 
  Dohrn 
  in 
  the 
  Stettin 
  Entomol. 
  Zeit. 
  for 
  August, 
  1852. 
  

  

  M. 
  Peligot's 
  memoir 
  on 
  silk-worms 
  chemically 
  and 
  physiologically 
  considered, 
  has 
  

   been 
  translated 
  in 
  the 
  ' 
  Gardener's 
  Chronicle,' 
  1852, 
  p. 
  484, 
  500 
  ; 
  and 
  see 
  pp. 
  165, 
  181, 
  

   197, 
  453, 
  and 
  520, 
  for 
  other 
  notices 
  on 
  silk-wonns. 
  

  

  M. 
  Emile 
  Blanchard's 
  work, 
  ' 
  I'Organisation 
  du 
  Regne 
  Animal 
  ' 
  (which 
  appears 
  pe- 
  

   riodically, 
  each 
  part 
  containing 
  two 
  highly 
  finished 
  plates 
  and 
  text), 
  comprises 
  in 
  the 
  

   parts 
  already 
  published, 
  the 
  nervous, 
  arterial, 
  and 
  tegumentary 
  systems 
  of 
  Scorpio 
  

   occitanus, 
  and 
  the 
  arterial 
  and 
  other 
  systems 
  of 
  Mygale 
  Blondii. 
  

  

  A 
  series 
  of 
  Notes 
  on 
  the 
  Internal 
  Anatomy 
  of 
  Insects 
  belonging 
  to 
  diflFerent 
  Or- 
  

   ders, 
  has 
  been 
  published 
  by 
  M. 
  Laboulbene, 
  Ann. 
  Soc. 
  Ent. 
  Fr. 
  1852, 
  2nd 
  ser. 
  

  

  A 
  notice 
  of 
  the 
  Memoir 
  by 
  M. 
  Quatrefages 
  on 
  the 
  general 
  Cavity 
  of 
  the 
  Body 
  of 
  

   Invertebrated 
  Animals, 
  published 
  in 
  the 
  Bibl. 
  Univ. 
  de 
  Geneve, 
  Sept. 
  1851, 
  is 
  given 
  

   in 
  the 
  Annals 
  of 
  Nat. 
  Hist. 
  Feb. 
  1852. 
  

  

  A 
  memoir 
  by 
  Giebel 
  on 
  the 
  minute 
  anatomy 
  of 
  the 
  antennae 
  of 
  insects, 
  is 
  given 
  

   in 
  the 
  ' 
  Annals 
  of 
  the 
  Natural 
  History 
  Society 
  of 
  Halle,' 
  3rd 
  year. 
  

  

  M. 
  Lacaze 
  Duthiers 
  has 
  continued 
  his 
  researches 
  on 
  the 
  "armure 
  genitale 
  femelle 
  

   des 
  insectes," 
  investigating 
  the 
  structure 
  of 
  the 
  ovipositor 
  of 
  the 
  Orthopterous 
  families. 
  

   The 
  views 
  of 
  Audouin 
  and 
  Milne-Edwards, 
  on 
  the 
  uniformity 
  of 
  composition 
  of 
  the 
  

   different 
  segments 
  of 
  the 
  body 
  of 
  an 
  insect, 
  are 
  adopted, 
  as 
  well 
  as 
  the 
  nomenclature 
  

   proposed 
  by 
  the 
  latter, 
  and 
  the 
  various 
  component 
  parts 
  of 
  the 
  ovipositor, 
  although 
  ve- 
  

   ry 
  varied 
  in 
  structure, 
  are 
  shown 
  to 
  be 
  formed 
  upon 
  one 
  general 
  plan. 
  

  

  Mr. 
  Gorham 
  has 
  published 
  an 
  elaborate 
  memoir, 
  entitled 
  ' 
  Remarks 
  on 
  the 
  Cornea 
  

   of 
  the 
  Eye 
  in 
  Insects,' 
  Quart. 
  Journ. 
  of 
  Microscop. 
  Science, 
  i. 
  pt. 
  2, 
  p. 
  76. 
  

  

  Geographical 
  Distribution. 
  — 
  Some 
  observations 
  on 
  the 
  extensive 
  geographical 
  

   range 
  of 
  certain 
  forms 
  and 
  species 
  of 
  Insects, 
  occasioned 
  by 
  the 
  exhibition 
  by 
  Mr. 
  A. 
  

   White, 
  of 
  various 
  species 
  sent 
  from 
  Labuan 
  for 
  the 
  Society 
  by 
  Mr. 
  Lowe, 
  appear 
  in 
  

   our 
  Proceedings, 
  January, 
  1852. 
  

  

  Mr. 
  A. 
  While 
  has 
  recorded 
  the 
  capture 
  of 
  Acheron 
  tia 
  Atropos 
  so 
  far 
  North 
  as 
  the 
  

   Shetland 
  Islands. 
  

  

  Some 
  instances 
  of 
  the 
  extent 
  of 
  the 
  geographical 
  range 
  of 
  Insects 
  have 
  been 
  no- 
  

   ticed 
  in 
  the 
  Ann. 
  Soc. 
  Ent. 
  Fr. 
  1852, 
  xxiii. 
  and 
  xxv. 
  : 
  — 
  Anisodactylus 
  Heros, 
  a 
  na- 
  

   tive 
  of 
  Portugal 
  and 
  Algeria, 
  having 
  been 
  also 
  found 
  at 
  Nice 
  ; 
  Heliothis 
  armigera, 
  a 
  

   native 
  of 
  France, 
  in 
  Algeria 
  ; 
  and 
  several 
  moths, 
  previously 
  only 
  found 
  in 
  the 
  East 
  of 
  

  

  