IV CONTENTS. 



Page 

 ralist's Library, vol. xxxv : — Mammalia, vol. xiii. Introduction, 

 by Lieut. -Col. C. Hamilton Smith. — Nomenclator Zoologicus, 

 auctore L. Agassiz. — The Birds of Australia, by J. Gould, F.L.S., 

 &c. Parts VIIL IX. — Icones Piscium ; or, Plates of Rare Fishes, 

 by Dr. Richardson 47—58 



Proceedings of the Entomological Society ; Wernerian Natural History 

 Society ; Royal Society of Edinburgh ; Botanical Society of Edin- 

 burgh 58—74 



Meeting of the British Association for 1843 ; Epihb'mm virgatum, Fries ; 

 Habits of Tarsipes Spenser ce : New British Plant; Note on Ho-' 

 maeocladia anglica, Ag. ; J uncus t/iffusus, Hoppe, and Diosera 

 ohovata, M. and K. ; White's Thrush ; Fossil Mammalia ; Curator- 

 ship of the Geological Society ; Meteorological Observations and 

 Table 75—80 



NUMBER LXVIIL 



XV. The Natural History of the British Entomostraca. By W. 

 Baird, M.D. (With two Plates.) (Conti?med.) 81 



XVI. Observations on the Formation of the Pitted Tissue of Plants, 

 with one or two remarks on the Analogy between the Blood-discs in 

 Animals and the Starch Particles in Vegetables. By John Wm. Grif- 

 fith, M.D., F.L.S., &c. (With a Plate.) 95 



XVI I. The Crustacea of Ireland. By Wm. Thompson, Esq., Vice- 

 Pres. Nat. Hist. Society of Belfast. (Continued.) 102 



► XVIII. Remarkson three species of Marine Zoophytes. By Arthur 

 Hill Hassall, Esq Ill 



XIX. On certain species of Siberian Birds described by Latham, but 

 which have hitherto been insufficiently determined. By Prof J. F. 

 Brandt of St. Petersburgh. (Communicated by H. E. Strickland, Esq., 

 M.A.) 113 



XX. Descriptions of Chalcidites found near Lima by C. Darwin, 

 E?q. By Francis Walker, Esq., F.L.S 115 



XXI. Descriptions of some new genera and species of Mammalia in 

 the British Musevun Collection. By J. E. Gray, Esq., F.R.S., Keeper 



of the Zoological Collection in the British Museum 117 



XXII. History and Observations on the Pearly Nautilus, involving 

 a new Theory to account for the camerated construction of its Shell by 



the aid of the Siphonic Membrane. By Lovkll Reeve, Esq., A.L.S. 119 



XXIII. History of a Case in which a Fluid periodically ejected from 

 the Stomach contained Vegetable Organisms of an uudescribed form. 

 By John Goodsir, Esq., Conservator of the Royal College of Surgeons 



in Edinburgh 125 



XXIV. On the Parasitic Vegetable Structures foiuul growing in 

 Living Animals. By J, H. Bennett, M.l) 12G 



