224 Royal Society. 



Recently published. 



Dr. Forster has just published a work, entitled " The 

 Perennial Calendar," being a sort of compendium of the na- 

 tural history of each clay in the year, arranged according to 

 the days in the Calendar, and interspersed with numerous 

 notices of popular customs and superstitious ceremonies and 

 rites which belonged anciently to particular seasons, or to 

 festivals and days. The work was the amusement of his lei- 

 sure hours many years ago when a student, and having been 

 increased by the addition of numerous essays and observations 

 by his friends, has been arranged in a popular form and 

 published. It contains among other things, notices of the 

 particular days on which certain plants have been found to flower 

 in the climate of London; deduced from journals of twenty 

 or more years regular observation. The whole forms a very 

 thick octavo volume. 



In the Press. 



Mr. R. Phillips's Translation of the New Pharmacopoeia 

 Londinensis, with copious Notes and Illustrations, will appear 

 in a few days. 



ANALYSIS OF PERIODICAL WORKS ON NATURAL HISTORY. 



Curtis's British Entomology. 

 No. 3. contains the following subjects : 

 PI. 11. Molorchus minor, a curious insect, of which Linnaeus said, it had 

 the antennae of a Cerambyx, the legs of a Leptura, and the elytra of Forfi- 

 cula. — PI. 12. Lyccena dhpar (the large copper Butterfly), a most splendid 

 species which has been discovered, in some abundance, in Huntingdonshire. 

 — PI. 13. Eumenes atricornis, a new genus to this country, discovered in 

 Hampshire by the Rev. Wm. Kirby: this genus of Hymenoptera is found 

 as far east as China. — PI. 14. Hwmobora pallipes, a perfectly new genus of 

 the curious order Omaloptera of Leach, found by Mr. Samouelle in the New 

 Forest, Hants, where the forest fly abounds upon the horse to an astonish- 

 ing extent ; and this possibly may be attached to the deer, as those animals 

 are found in every part of that neighbourhood. 



XXXVII. Proceedings of Learned Societies. 



ROYAL SOCIETY. 



Feb. 26. — A SERIES of observations were presented " On 

 '^ nearly all the principal Fixed Stars between 

 the zenith of Cape Town, Cape of Good Hope, and the South 

 Pole;" by the Rev. Fearon Fallows, M.A. F.R.S., Astronomer 

 at the Cape of Good Hope. 



A paper was read " On the different Degrees of Intensity 

 of the local Magnetic Attraction of Vessels in their different 

 Parts;" by George Harvey, M.G.S. M.A.S. 



March 



