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BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTICE. 



Naturhistorisk Tidsskrift (Journal of Natural History), edited by 

 Prof. T. C. Schjodte at Copenhagen. Third Series, 1861-1864, 

 vols. i. & ii. [O. Rink, On Watercourses under the Inland Ice in 

 Greenland ; Kroyer, Contributions to Northern Ichthyology and 

 Contributions to the History of the Parasitic Entomostraca ; 

 O. Morch, Revisio critica Serpulidarum ; R. Bergh, Campaspe 

 pusilla, n. g. (fain. Dotidce, trib. Dendronotidce), and Anatomy 

 o/Sancara quadrilateralis, n.g.(fam. Pleurophyllidice); Meinert, 

 The Danish Species o/Forficula ; J. Fisher, Observations on Danish 

 Birds ; Schjodte, The Danish Cerambyces, Larvce of Coleoptera, 

 &c] 



Since our first notice of this periodical, after its revival by Professor 

 Schjodte (Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. ser. 3. vol. x. p. 370), the editor 

 has succeeded in completing two large volumes, of 558 and 579 pages 

 of text, accompanied respectively with fourteen and twenty engraved 

 plates — a result which is not only a proof of the editor's zeal and 

 enterprise, but, consisting as these volumes do exclusively of original 

 treatises by Danish authors, also affords a most gratifying testi- 

 mony to the existence of a vigorous spirit of independent research 

 in the small scientific world of Denmark. Our former notice had 

 reference only to the contents of the first part of the first volume ; 

 the contents of the following parts are indicated above. Of Prof. 

 Schjodte' s treatise on the Danish Cerambyces, which, perhaps, on 

 account of the truly philosophical handling of the subject, occupies 

 the foremost place, the main part has been translated in the March 

 Number of this Journal, to which we therefore refer, still postponing 

 our notice of the treatise on the larvse of Coleoptera till the continu- 

 ation has appeared, which is promised in the first part of the third 

 volume. 



The two papers heading the list given above have reference to 

 Greenland, which ever since the days of Otto Fabricius has proved 

 an inexhaustible mine to Danish naturalists. The terra firma of 

 Greenland certainly offers but little reward for the explorations of 

 zoologists or botanists ; but the geographical and geological aspect 

 of the country has many points of interest, whilst the sea literally 

 teems with fishes and other marine animals. 



Mr. Rink, the author of the first-mentioned paper (vol. i. part 2, 

 1862), is well known to English arctic explorers, and has had great 

 opportunities of study during his long stay in Greenland as a govern- 

 ment inspector. The question he proposes to solve is this : — What 

 becomes of the great quantity of water generated by the melting, 

 during the summer, of ice and snow in the interior of Greenland 1 

 The numberless rivers or " elv"s in the islands and peninsulas along 

 the shore drain merely these outlying parts ; and although some of 

 these small rivers, rising in the peninsulas, may to some extent be 

 fed from the ice of the interior, yet by far the greater part of the 

 water there accumulated must find some other outlet. It is obvious 

 that the icebergs carry off a part in the shape of ice, but it is easy to 



