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teristic eloquence is successfully exemplified in his observations on Rules for 



Nomenclature For scientific intelligence, there are a note on the discovery 



of the allantois in the foetal kangaroo ; the lapse of one of the Royal Medals 

 for 1837; information concerning the apteryx; and a report of the Botanical 

 Society. As short communications, you find, a new locality for Polyomma- 

 tus arion ; a note on the crag-beds of Suffolk and Essex ; remarks on the 

 golden, sea, and bald eagles, and their nidification ; and strictures on the pro- 

 posed new name for Proteus the infusorian. 



XVI Phytological science has acquired a rich enlargement in Dr. Un- 



ger's essay on the influence of the nature of the soil upon the distribution of 

 vegetables. 2. Professor Owen's further illustrations of his discovery of the 

 allantois of the kangaroo, an additional fact in the history of marsupial de- 

 velopement, are rendered more usefully interesting by judicious introduction 

 of new and important physiological remarks. 3. and 4. Mr. Strickland and 

 Mr. Westwood evince their zeal for improvement in the philology of natural 

 history, by the remarks on Rules for Nomenclature. 5. Dr. Moore's obser- 

 vations on the occurrence of the Teredo navalis and Limnoria terebrans, in 

 Plymouth Harbour, are conclusive in proving the existence of these formi- 

 dable animals, and their depredations. 6. Remarks on the affinities of Ly- 

 thracece and Vochyacete, by Sir E. F. JBromhead, are well calculated to facili- 

 tate the writer's object, and to render it practical. 1. In his descriptive and 

 historical notes on the Cepola rubescens, the red band-fish, Mr. Thompson 

 characterizes a specimen, nineteen and a half inches long, which was found 

 on the coast of Ayrshire after a severe storm. 8. Dr. Mitchell describes cer- 

 tain deep and extensive beds, containing peculiar flints, in the neighbourhood 

 of London: with the exception of various snail-shaped or leech-shaped bo- 

 dies, fossil remains are rarely found in the flints of this locality. 9. For 

 reasons adduced by him, Mr. Thompson conceives that Hunter's Delphinus 

 bidenlalus, Baussard's Hyperoodon honfloriensh, and Dale's Bottle-headed 

 whale, are undoubtedly identical : the two former specimens were females, 

 the latter a male, in his opinion. 10. A letter from Mr. Clarke explains his 

 views with reference to the alleged occurrence of the bones of terrestrial 

 mammalia in the reel and coralline crags of Suffolk : he supposes these bones 

 to have been washed or drifted into fissures of the crag, and there apparently 

 stratified. 11. Dr. Weissenbsrn details the history of a Hydrophobia occur- 

 ring among the Foxes in the kingdom of Wurtemberg and the neighbouring 

 countries : this communication merits the best attention both of naturalists 

 and physicians. 1.'. In observations on the Long-tailed trogon, the Prince 

 C. L. Bonaparte describes this " lovely" bird, and registers it in the cata. 

 locues of science under the name of Trogon paradisens, the paradise curueni : 

 there is a single instance of this bird having been domesticated. As a short 

 communication, Mr. Cox notices a curious fact in the habits of the Viper ; 

 and the fact is, indeed, very curious. 



XVII Dr. Weissenborn produces an elaborate and remarkably interest- 

 ing essay on the Bos urus, the zubr or ure-ox, in an additional section of 

 his dissertation on the influence of man in modifying the zoological features 

 of the globe. 2. In his outlines of a new arrangement of Insessorial Birds, 

 including remarks on affinity and classification, Mr. Blyth treats his difficult 

 subject with great learning, ingenuity, and precision. He resolves the whole 

 class of Birds into three primary divisions — inaeafores, gressorcs, and natntores 



