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INDEX TO VOL. XV. 



AcHNANTHiDiUM, new British spe- 

 cies of, 8. 



Actinia, on the development of, 78; 

 new species of, 85. 



Actiniadae, description of some, found 

 on the coast of Devon, 81. 



Actinophrys Sol, remarks on the de- 

 velopment of, 211, 285. 



Adam, Dr. W., on the osteological 

 relations observable among a few 

 species of the bovine family, 309. 



.^gosoma, new species of, 137. 



Agassiz, L., on a viviparons fish from 

 Louisiana, 20.9. 



Algse, new genera and species of, 332; 

 on the impregnation and germina- 

 tion of the, 346. 



Alpine plants, on the geological rela- 

 tions of some rare, 313. 



Ambyostoma, new species of, 134. 



Ancistrocladus, note onthe genus, 149. 



Ancylus, new species of, 12; on the 

 British species of, 278. 



Anteater, on the size of the red cor- 

 puscles of the blood of the, 381. 



Apjohnia, on the new genus, 335. 



Arachis hvpogEea, on the fructifica- 

 tion of, "385. 



Archer's, T. C, First Steps in Eco- 

 nomic Botany, reviewed, 355. 



Ascaris, new species of, 69. 



Aulacorhamphus, new species of, 390. 



Babington, C. C, on Hypericum an- 

 glicum, 92. 



Baird, Dr. W., on some new species 

 of Eutozoa, 69 ; on a new species 

 of Cypris, 380. 



Balfour, Prof. J. II., sketch of the 

 late Prof. E. Forbes, 35. 



Ballia, new species of, 335. 



Barlow, the late W. F., on the respi- 

 ratory movements of insects, 153. 



Bates, II. W., on the natural history 

 and habits of Termites, 310. 



Battka, M., on the characters and sy- 

 nonyms of the genus Senna, 147. 



Beania mirabiUs, on the polype of, 

 129. 



Bellotia, characters of the new genus, 

 332. 



Belvisiacere, note on, 371. 



Benson, W. II., on the genus Cam- 

 ptoceras, and on a new Ancylus, 

 9 ; on the genus Opisthoporus, 

 13 ; on the presence of an oper- 

 culum in the genus Diplommatina, 

 and on a new species, 329. 



Binney, E., on the structure of some 

 limestone nodules, 154. 



Birds of Malacca, 95 ; on the habits 

 of Indian, 375 ; of Madeira, on the 

 430. 



Bivalve shells, on the animals of cer- 

 tain genera of, 99. 



Blytli, E., on the Indian species of 

 Phylloscopus, 161. 



Books, new : — Stainton's Entomolo- 

 gist's Annual for 1 S55, 53, 356 ; 

 Morris's Catalogue of British Fos- 

 sils, 54 ; Catlow's Popular Concho- 

 logy, 63 ; Clark's History of the 

 British Marine Testaceous Mol- 

 lusca, 349 ; Sowerby's Feras of 

 Great Britain, 354 ; Archer's First 

 Steps in Economic Botany, 355. 



Botanical Society of Edinburgli, pro- 

 ceedings of the, 155, 236, 312, 382. 



Bothriocephalus, new species of, 7G. 



Braciiiopoda, on the anatomy of the, 

 456. 



Brissopsis, new species of, 185. 



Brissus, new species of, 181. 



Broderip, W. J., on an original paint- 

 ing of the Dodo, 143. 



BruUe, M., on the reproduction of 

 Ligula, 76. 



Bubo, new species of, 136. 



Bucconidae, new species of, 292. 



Buceros, new species of, 1 36. 



Buist, Dr. G., on the nest of a species 

 of mason wasp, 310. 



Burgess, Lieut., on the habits of In- 

 dian birds, 375. 



Busk, G., on a monstrous oyster-shell, 

 91. 



Cabei-ea Boryi, notice respecting, 129. 



