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New Books .• — The Land and Freshwater Mollusks indigenous to, or 

 naturalized in, the British Isles, by Lovell Reeve, F.L.S. — Geo- 

 logical Observations in South Australia ; principally in the Dis- 

 trict south-east of Adelaide, by the Rev. Julian Edmund Woods, 

 F.G.S. &c. — Transactions of the Linnean Society of London, 

 vol.xxiv. Part. 1. 1863 291—296 



Proceedings of the Royal Society j Zoological Society 297 — 308 



On Chlamyphorus, by Dr. Burmeister; On the Action of Magenta 

 upon Vegetable Tissue, by J. G. Lynde, F.G.S., M. Inst. C.E. ; 

 Capture of the Ringed Seal (Phoca faztida), by Dr. J. E. Gray; 

 On the Nature of the Gas produced from the Decomposition of 

 Carbonic Acid by Leaves exposed to the Light, by M. Boussin- 

 gault ; On a new Species of Ophiura (0. Normani) found on the 

 Coast of Northumberland and Durham, by George Hodge 308 — 312 



NUMBER LXV. 



XXXIV. A Novel Instance of the Production of Fermentation by 

 the Presence of Infusoria capable of existing without free Oxygen and 

 deprived of all Access of Atmospheric Air. By M. L. Pasteur 313 



XXXV. Characters of new Land-Shells from the Andaman Islands, 

 Burmah, and Ceylon ; and of the Animal of Sophina. By W. H. 

 Benson, Esq 318 



XXXVI. On Natural and Artificial Section in some Chsetopod 

 Annelids. By W. C. Minor 323 



XXXVII. On the Geographical Distribution and Varieties of the 

 Honey-Bee, with Remarks upon the Exotic Honey-Bees of the Old 

 World. By Dr. A. Gerstacker 333 



XXXVIII. On Microstelma and Onoba, two Forms of Rissoid 

 Gasteropods ; with Notices of new Species of the latter from Japan. 



By Arthur Adams, F.L.S. &c 347 



XXXIX. On the Genera and Species of Lacunida found in Japan. 



By Arthur 'Adams, F.L.S. &c 350 



XL. On the Structure of the Valves of Pleurosiyma and other 

 Diatoms. By G. C. Wallich, M.D., F.L.S., F.G.S. &c 351 



XLI. Further Observations on an undescribed indigenous Amoeba, 

 with Notices on remarkable forms of Actinophrys and Difflugia. By 

 G. C. Wallich, M.D., F.L.S., F.G.S. &c. (Plate IX.) 365 



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