292 Bil//i<)_(jraj)/tical Xuiicfis. 



BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTICES. 



IconograpMa familiarum naturaUum regni vegetabilis. (Abbildimgen 

 aller naturlichen Fam. 8;c.) Von Adalbert Schnizlein, Ph. D. 

 Heft 1. 4to. Bonn, 1843. 



This work will supply what has long been a desideratum to the bo- 

 tanical student in this country, viz. a complete set of illustrations of 

 the essential cliaracters of the natural orders. 



The ' Genera Plantarum ' of Endlicher is taken as the authority, 

 but additional plates will be given of those orders, not adopted in that 

 work, pro])osed by DeCandolle, Lindley and others. Each plate will 

 contain a complete figure (where practicable) of one or more species, 

 with dissections of all the most important forms in one Order ; by this 

 means the purchaser will be enabled to arrange them as he pleases. 

 The text will include a definition of the orders in Latin and German, 

 scientific and j^iactical observations in German, and a list of tlie 

 genera. 



The first part contains twenty carefully executed plates, partly 

 coloured, half of which are devoted to the Cryptogamic orders, so as 

 to give a general idea of the work ; the figures are mostly original, 

 and when this is not the case, they are copied, after careful revision, 

 from the best authorities. 



This will add another to the many obligations we owe to the Ger- 

 mans, by whose enterprise alone can we obtain such works as the 

 present, Nees von Esenbeck's ' Genera,' &c., at a price within a stu- 

 dent's means, and we cordially recommend our botanical friends to 

 avail themselves of the assistance tlie wider diffusion of tlie science 

 enables their continental brethren to offer. 



The parts are to appear three or four times a year, and will extend 

 to about 360 plates. 



Annales des Scictices Naturelles. 



September 1843. — Zoology. — M. Marcel de Serres on the large 

 Fossil Oysters of the tertiary formations bordering the Mediterranean. 

 Twenty-five species are described, but several of these are probably 

 only varieties. One of them is no less than eighteen inches in length. 

 • — Bouchardat and Sandras on Digestion. — Dumas and Milne Ed- 

 wards on the production of Bees- wax*. — Experimental researches 

 on Inanition, by Dr. Chossat. A record of barbarous experiments on 

 the starving of animals, by a follower in the cruel path of Majendie. 



Botany. — Tulasne on new genera of Leguminosce. The new genera 

 are Ancylocalyx and Neuroscapha (Dalbe)'gl(e), Dibrachion (^Sopho- 

 reee), Diptychandra, Cenostigma, Trischidimn and Phyllocarpiis, Riedel 

 (Ccesa/pin'up). They are all founded on South American plants. — 

 Dr. Duchartre on the Lathrceu clandestina. The anatomy of the or- 

 gans of vegetation. — M. Braun on the Silenece (from the ' Flora '). — 

 Fischer on the genera Angelica and Archangellca. 



Oct. — Zoology. — Dr. Hirtl on the vascular apparatus of Fishes 

 * See p. 2.33 of the present volume. 



