296 TRANSACTIONS OF THE 



Atlantic Hurricanes from 1493 to 1855. By Senor Andres Poet_„ 

 of Havana^ with reference to all the authorities., communicated to 

 the British Association — 40 pages. 



Here is a list of four hundred gales and hurricanes with descrip- 

 tions of them, and also a catalogue of 450 authors, books and pe- 

 riodicals containing them. 



Mr. Poey gives the monthly distribution of 355 of them in the 

 Atlantic and West Indies. 



January, _ , 5 



February, _ 7 



March, 11 



April, _ 6 



May, 5 



June, _ „ 10 



July,.. 43 



August, 96 



September, _ SO 



October, 69 



November, _. 17 



December, _ 7 



Total, „ 355 



[Bulletin Mensuel De La Societe Imperiale Zoologique D' Acclimation, Paris, Sep- 

 tember 185G. 



In 1848, Mons. Geoflfroy Saint Hilaire, in his general report 

 made to the Minister, says : Out of one hundred and forty thou- 

 sand species of animals known to its, how many does man possess 

 in a domestic state % Forty-three. And of these 43 France lacks 

 ifen, and all Europe eighth 



The field of acclimation is immense — we must cultivate it. 

 The Lama, the Egyptian Goose, the Hemione of Hindostan — that 

 energetic horse, swift in the race — these are now naturalized in the 

 Jardin des plantes. They have all reproduced themselves as well 

 here as in their native countries. The Hemione now forms with 

 its descendants, a stud in the garden, born and brought up there. 

 Their bodies are larger and more developed than those in their 

 natural state. It is now hardly twenty years since their first im- 

 portation from the East, by Mr. Dussumier de Bordeaux, an lion- 



