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INDEX TO VOL. XL 



Abretia, new species of, 270. 



Acorethra, description of the now 

 genus, 126. 



Acyplioderes, new species of, 117. 



Agardh, Prof T. G., on a new Britisli 

 Alga, 156. 



Agaricus, new Britisli species of, 340. 



Agenia, new species of, 445. 



Agestra, on the new genus, 183. 



Airy, Dr, H., on leaf-arrangement, 

 386. 



Alga, on a new British, 150. 



Ammonites, on a new classification 

 of, 3G2, 451. 



Animals, on fabulous Australian, 

 315 ; on the classification of, 321. 



Antilocapra, on the horns of, 80. 



Antyllis, on the new genus, 193. 



Aplysia, on the development of, 85. 



Apostropha, description of the new 

 genus, 130. 



Appendicularia f urcata, on the young 

 of, 87. 



Argyrosomus, new species of, 319. 



Articulata, physico-chemical investi- 



• gations upon the aquatic, 70. 



Azema Smithii, on, 465. 



Bacteria, on the origin of, 383 ; on 

 the heat necessary to kill, 454. 



Bastian, Dr. II. C, on the origiu of 

 Bacteria and their relation to the 

 process of putrefaction, 383 ; on the 

 temperature necessary to kill Bac- 

 teria, Vibriones, and their germs, 

 454. 



Bates, H. W., on the Longicorn Co- 

 leoptera of Tropical America, 21, 

 117. 



Berardius, observations on, 17, 111. 



Berkeley, Rev. M. J., on British 

 Fungi, 339. 



Bipalium, on the anatomv and his- 

 tology of, 310. 



Birds, new, 15, 21, 133, 221 ; fossil, 

 on new and remarkable, 80, 233. 



Books, new : — Symonds's Record of 

 the Rocks, 149 ; Nicholson's Man- 

 ual of PaljEontology, 151 ; Ehren- 

 berg's Microgeological Studies, 

 224 ; Cordeaux's Birds of the 

 Humber District, 377; Colquhoun's 

 Ferae Naturae of the British Islands, 

 381. 



Borlasia Kefersteinii, on the struc- 

 ture of the proboscis of, .398. 



Brexius, new species of, 196. 



Broome, C.E., on British Fungi, 339. 



Butler, A. G., on Crinodes Sommeri, 

 78 ; on new species of Gonvleptes, 

 112. 



Calcispongiae, on the position of the, 

 in the animal kingdom, 241, 421. 



Callichelys, new species of, 148. 



Carbonnier, M., on the reproduction 

 and development of the telescope- 

 fish of China, 76. 



Carter, H. J., on the transformation 

 of an entire shell into chitinous 

 structure by the polype Ilydrac- 

 tinia, with descriptions of the poly- 

 pidoms of five other species, 1 ; 

 on whales in the Indian Ocean, 

 231 ; on Labaria hemisphferica arid 

 the Sarcohexactinellid Sponges, 

 275 ; on the points of distinction 

 between the Spongiadae and the 

 Foraminifera, 351. 



Cephalopoda, on the parasite of the 

 renal organ of, 95. 



Ceratella, new species of, 10. 



Ceratophrys, new species of, 417. 



Cervus chilensis and C. antisiensis, 

 remarks on, 213. 



Cetacea of the N.W. coast of Ame- 

 rica, on the parasites of the, 157, 

 238 ; new species of, 316. 



Chaetomium, new British species of, 

 348. 



Charis, new species of, 123. 



Cheloiiiaus, notes on, 143 ; new 

 genera and species of, 156, 289 ; 

 on the original form, development, 

 and cohesion of the bones of the 

 sternum of, 161 ; on some extinct, 

 from the islands of Rodriguez and 

 Mauritius, 397. 



Chiroleptes, new species of, 350, 



Chitina, new species of, 13. 



Chrysemys, new species of, 147. 



Cistoclemmys, new species of, 294. 



Clonograpsus, on the genus, 138. 



CodiophyUum, observations on, 77. 



Coleoptera, on the Longicorn, of 

 Tropical America, 21, 117. 



Comatula rosacea, on the anatomy 

 of, 466. 



