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LXXIX. Notices respecting New Booh. 



'T'HE First Part of Volume XIV. of the Transactions of 

 the Linnaean Society of London has just appeared, and 

 tlie following are its contents : 



On the Malayan Species of Melastoma ; by William Jack, 

 M.D. — On Cyrtajidracea;, a new Natural Order of Plants; 

 by William Jack, M.D. — Remarks on the Identity of certain 

 general Laws which have been lately observed to regulate the 

 natural Distribution of Insects and Fungi ; by W. S. MacLeay, 

 Esq. M.A. — Some Particulars of the Natural History of Fishes 

 found in Cornwall ; by Mr. Jonathan Couch. — A Description 

 of some Insects whicli appear to exemplify Mr. Wm. S. Mac- 

 Leay's Doctrine of Affinity, and Analogy; by the Rev. William 

 Kirby, M.A. — Some Account of a new Species of Eulophus 

 Geoffroy; by the Rev. William Kirby, M.A. — Account of 

 the Lansium and some other Genera of Malayan Plants ; by 

 William Jack, M.D. — Description of the Cermatia longi- 

 cornis and of three new Insects from Nepaul; by Major- 

 General Thomas Hardwicke. — The Natural History of 

 Phasma cornutum, and the Description of a new Species of 

 Ascalaphus ; by the Rev. Lansdown Guilding, B.A. — On the 

 Generic and Specific Characters of the Chrysanthemum In- 

 dicum of Linnaeus, and of the Plants called Chinese Chry- 

 santhemums ; by Joseph Sabine, Esq. — Descriptions of 

 Seven new British Land and Fresh- water Shells, with Ob- 

 servations upon many other Species, including a List of such 

 as have been found in the County of Suffolk ; by the Rev. 

 Revett Sheppard. 



The Second Part of the Ninth Volume of the Transactions 

 of the Royal Society of Edinburgh has just ajipeared, contain- 

 ing the following papers: 



On the Mineralogy of Disko Island ; by Sir Charles Gie- 

 secke. — On the Nature and History of the Marsh Poison ; by 

 William Fergusson, M.D. — Description of some remarkable 

 Atmospheric Reflections and Refractions, observed in the 

 Greenland Sea; by William Scoresby, junior, Escj. — Ac- 

 count of the Erection of a Granite Obelisk, of a single Stone, 

 about seventy feet high, at Seringapatam ; by Alexander 

 Kennedy, M.D.— Account of a remarkable Structure in Ai)o- 

 phyllite, with Observations on the Optical Peculiarities of that 

 Mineral ; by David Brewster, LL.D.— On the Application of 

 Analysis to the Discovery of local Theorems and Porisms ; by 

 Charles Bubb:ige, Esq. — Observations on the Errors in the 

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