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Brooks, Charles "Wolcott. Early Discoveries of the Hawaiian Islands 

 in the North Pacific Ocean : Evidences of Visits by Spanish Navi- 

 gators during the Sixteenth Century. By Henry A. Price, Ex- 

 Minister Resident of the United States of America at Honolulu, 

 Hawaiian Islands, ethnologically considered, with Introductory 

 Kemarks, when read before the California Academy of Sciences, 

 June 7, 1880, by Charles Wolcott Brooks, San Francisco, 1880. — 

 From tlie Author. 



Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences at a Eecep- 



tion given to the Captain and Officers of the U.S. steamer " Thomas 

 Corwin" and Cajitains of the Pacific Wlialing Fleet, on their 

 return from the Arctic Eegions : including a Paper read before 

 the Academy, December 6, 1880. By Charles Wolcott Brooks. — 

 From the Author. 



Comes, Dott 0. Osservazioni su Alciine Specie di Funghi del Xapole- 

 tano e Descrizione di due Nuove Specie. XapoU, 1880. — From tlie 

 Author. 



Deaxs, Wii. List of Ferns and other Cryptogamese of Madagascar, show- 

 ing their relation to ilauritius and Boiu-bon. — FroTn the Author. 



De Caxdolle, M. C. Considerations sur I'etude de la Phyllotaxie. 

 Par. M. C. De Candolle. Geneva, 1881.— ^rom the Author. 



Delpino, Frederico, Prof. Contribuzione alia Storia Dello S\dllappo 

 Del Eegno Vegetale — I. Smilacoe. Genova, 1880.— From the Author. 



Causa Meccanica della FUlotassi Quincunciale. Xota PreUminaire 



di Frederico Delpino. — From the Author. 



FiCALHO, CoNDE De. Flora des Lusiadas. Lisbon, 1880. — From 



Academy of Sciences of Lisbon. 

 Geddes, Patrick. Observations sur le fluide Perivisceral des Oursins. 



Par Patrick Geddes, F.R.S.E. (Ex.— "Arch, de Zool. Exp. et Gen.," 



Vol. YIIl.).—From the Author. 

 Hart, Chichester Henry, B.A. The Botany of the British Polar 



Expedition of 1875-76. By Henry Chichester Hart, B.A., Naturalist 



to H.M.S. "Discovery." Reprinted from the Journal of Botany for 



1880.— From the Atithor. 

 Mason Science College, Birmingham. Calendar for Session 1880-81. — 



From George A. Panton. 

 Maw, George, F.S.A., G.S.L.S. Results of Experiments on the Potato 



Crop, with reference to the most profitable size of the sets, the 



influence of thick and thin planting, &c., carried out in the years 



1864 and 1865 at Benthall, near Brosely. Leeds, 1881. — From the 



Author. 

 Mueller, Ferdinand von. Baron. Plants of North Western Australia 



enumerated. — From the Author. 



Notes of a hitherto Undefined Species of Encephalartos. — From 



the Author. 



Ormerod, Eleanor A., F.M.S. Notes of Observations of Injurious 

 Insects. Report 1880. — From the Author. 



