CONTENTS OF VOL. II. 



NUMBER VII. 



I. On some new forms oi Arachnida. By W. S. MacLeay, A.M., 

 F.L.S. (With Plates.) page 1 



II. Oil Fishes new to Ireland. By William Thompson, Esq., Vice- 

 President of the Natural History Society of Belfast 14 



III. Botanical Notes of a Tour in Ireland, with notices of new Bri- 

 tish Plants. By J. Ball, Esq 28 



IV. Some account of the genus Langsdorffia. By G. W. Aknott, 

 LL.D 36 



V. On a new species of British Fish. By R. Parnell, M.D., 

 F.R.S.E. (With a Plate.) 39 



VI. On the British Shrews. By the Rev. L. Jenyns, M.A., F.L.S. 43 



VII. Florae Insularum Novae Zelandiae Precursor ; or a Specimen of 



the Botany of the Island of New Zealand. By Allan Cunningham, Esq. 44 



VIII. An attempt to ascertain the Fauna of Shropshire and North 

 Wales. By T. C. Eyton, Esq., F.L.S 52 



IX. Information respecting Botanical Tx-avellers 57 



New Books : — Icones Fungorum hucusque cognitorum, auctore A. C. J. 

 Corda ; Commentationes de Leguminosarum Generibus, auctore 

 Georgio Bentham; Natural Arrangement and Relations of the Fa- 

 mily of Flycatchers, by W. Swainson 61 — 64 



Proceedings of the Geological Society ; Royal Society of Edinburgh ; 



Royal Irish Academy; Zoological Society 64 — 77 



Helminthology ; Nest and Eggs of the Water Rail ; Walking of the 



Seal; Hydrce; Meteorological Observations and Table 77 — 80 



NUMBER VIII. 



X. Observations on the Fur Seal of Commerce. By R. Hamilton, 

 Esq., F.R.S.E. (With a Plate.) 81 



XI. On Ono7iis antiqttornm. By Edward Forster, Esq., F.R.S., 

 Vice-President of the Linnsean Society 95 



XII. On \he Ge\m% Syngnathus. By Prof. B. Fries 96 



XIII. Enumeration of the Plants collected by Rob. Schomburgk, 

 Esq., in British Guiana. By George Bentham, Esq., F.L.S 105 



XIV. Illustrations of Indian Botany. By Drs. Wight and Arnott. 

 (With a Plate.) Ill 



XV. Descriptions of new British Insects. By A. H. Haliday, Esq. 112 



XVI. Communication respecting Fossil and Recent Infusoria. By 

 Prof. C. G. Ehrenberg 121 



XVII. Florae Insularum Novae Zelandise Precursor; or a Specimen of 

 the Botany of the Island of New Zealand. By Allan Cunningham, Esq. 125 



New Books : — Illustrations of the Zoology of South Africa, by A. 

 Smith, M.D.; Wiegmann's Archiv fiir Naturgeschichte ; Natural 

 History and Illustrations of Scottish Salmonidce, by Sir William 

 Jardine, Bart. ; Monographia Anoplurorum Britannia?, by K. 

 Denny, Esq 132—139 



Proceedings of the Botanical Society of Edinburgh ; Zoological Society; 



British Association 140 — 156 



