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 XXVII. Supplementary Notices regarding the Dodo and its Kin- 

 dred. No. 9. By H. E. Strickland, M.A., F.G.S 290 



Proceedings of the Zoological Society ; Botanical Society of Edin- 



burgh 291-303 



Capture of Centrolophus Pompilus, by W, P. Cock ; Notices of Aca- 

 lephce found at Lowestoft, by T. Brightwell, F.L.S. ; On the genus 

 Hyalonema, by J. E. Gray, Esq. ; Notice of a Hybrid-Crowned 

 Pigeon, by D. W. Mitchell, Sec. Z.S. ; Sphceronema deformans; 

 On the Names of the Victoria Water Lily, by J. De C. Sowerby, 

 F.L.S. ; Capture of Tetrodon Petinantii; Meteorological Observa- 

 tions and Table » 304—312 



NUMBER XXXV. 



XXYIU. On the Pkoladidte. By William Clark, Esq 313 



XXIX. Descriptions of some newly discovered species and Charac- 

 ters of a new genus of y^raneitZea. By John Blackwall, F.L.S. ... 336 



XXX. Descriptions of a new genus and six new species of Saurian 

 Reptiles. By P. H. Gosse, A.L.S 344 



XXXI. Chronological Exposition of the Periods of Vegetation and 

 the different Floras which have successively occupied the surface of the 

 Earth. By M. Adolphe BrongnjIart 348 



XXXII. On the Eeciprocal Relation of the Vital and Physical 

 Forces. By George Newport, F.R.S., F.L.S 370 



XXXIII. Descriptions of three new Devonian Zoophytes. By Fre- 

 derick M'CoY, Professor of Geology and Mineralogy in Queen's Col- 

 lege, Belfast 377 



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