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and remarks on this phaenomenon in reference to the human kind. 

 By A. Numan. — Geological and mineralogical notices on the Island 

 of Borneo. By L. Horner. — On the covering of the stigma in the Scce- 

 volacecE and Goodeniacete. By P. W. Korthals. — Remarks on the gi- 

 gantic Salamander of Japan. By J. Van der Hoeven. [Noticed at 

 p. 413.] — The biforines of Turpin, a new discovery in the crystallo- 

 graphy of the vegetable kingdom. By W. H. De Vries. — On Lepi- 

 dosiren paradoxa. By J. Van der Hoeven. [A notice of this reptile 

 was inserted in our last number at p. 309.] — Novae species Cycade- 

 arum Africse Australis, quas descriptionibus et figuris illustravit W. 

 H. De Vries. 



Works in the Press. 

 Dr. Robert Wight, Surgeon H. E. I. C. service, is preparing for 

 publication an ' Icones Plantarum Indiae Orientalis,' or Figures of 

 Indian Plants described in Wight and Arnott's ' Prodromus Florae 

 Peninsulae Ind. Or.,' and in Wight's ' Illustrations of Indian Botany,' 

 now in the course of publication in India. This is to appear at 

 Madras in monthly numbers, each containing ten lithographed un- 

 coloured quarto plates, for one rupee or about one shilling and nine- 

 pence sterling. The grand object of this work may be summed up 

 in a few words : — To give to India (so far as the limited resources 

 of a private individual will permit) that which England has so long 

 enjoyed in Smith's English Botany, a standard botanical work of re- 

 ference, by the publication of correct figures of as many Indian 

 plants as the author can accomplish, and in the shortest possible 

 time. To reduce the price and increase the rapidity of publication, 

 there will be no letter-press descriptions, but a simple reference to 

 the ' Prodromus ' by numbering the plates uniform with the run- 

 ning numbers of that work, except when new plants are introduced ; 

 and for the descriptions then necessary no additional charge will be 

 made. The first number was expected to appear on the 1st of July. 



A History of the Fishes of Madeira. By the Rev. R. T. Lowe. 



With original figures from nature of all the species, by the Hon. 



C. E. C. Norton and Miss Young. 



The materials for this undertaking are the result of several years' 

 patient investigation and continued revisal on the spot. Several of 

 the genera, and of the species more than one fourth part, are either 

 new or have been hitherto imperfectly described. The figures will 

 be all engraved and coloured by the same hands which, in co-ope- 

 ration with the author, have originally drawn them, a combination 

 much in favour of their accuracy and correctness. 



