CONTENTS OF VOL. XV. 



[SECOND SERIES.] 



NUMBER LXXXV. 



I'age 



I. Notes of an Excursion to the South of France and the Auvergne 

 in search of Diatomacece. By the Rev. William Smith, F.L.S., 

 Professor of Natural History, Queen's College, Cork. (With a Plate.) 1 



II. Amended Characters of the singulai* Lymneadous Genus Cam- 

 ptoceras, and description of a new Ancylus, inhabitants of North- 

 western India, By W. H. Benson, Esq 9 



III. Characters of the Genus Opisthoporus, an Eastern form of the 

 Cyclostomacea, with Remai'ks on its Affinities and Notes on several 

 Opercula. By W. H. Benson, Esq 13 



IV. On Artificial Sea Water. By Philip H. Gosse, A.L.S 17 



V. Notes on Swiss Mollusca. By J. Gwyn Jeffreys, Esq., F.R.S. 20 



VI. Sketch of the Life of the late Professor Edward Forbes. By 



J. H. Balfour, M.D., Pi-ofessor of Botany, Edinburgh 35 



New Books .- — The Entomologist's Annual for 1855, Edited by H. T. 

 Stainton. — A Catalogue of British Fossils, by John Morris. Second 

 Edition. — Popular Conchology, by Agnes Catlow. Second Edi- 

 tion 53 — 6.3 



Proceedings of the Zoological Society 64 — 76 



Note on the Reproduction of Ligula, by M. Brulle; Description of 

 the Animal of Cyclina sinensis, by Dr. J. E. Gray; Observations 

 on the Development oi Actinia, by M. Lacaze-Duthiers ; Meteo- 

 rological Observations and Table 76 — 80 



NUMBER LXXXVI. 



VII. Some Account of the Actiniadce found upon the coast near- 

 Teignraouth, Devon. By Robert C. R. Jordan, M.B. Lond., Pro- 

 fessor of Comparative Anatomy, Queen's Coll. Birmingham Si 



