310 . Bib liograjkhy. 



lish (Irish?) standard, which is chiefly its basis on these points. It is 

 beyond our province to discourse upon lexicography, but our attention 

 was called to this work by the arrival at a late hour of a copy from 

 the author. It is certainly singular that Englishmen should again be 

 indebted to a stranger for another dictionary of the English language. 

 Thus in succession has an Irishman, an American, and a Scotchman, 

 presented England with lexicons of their own language, compared 

 with which their own works have been imperfect and unpopular. 



Proceedings of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. — First 

 Meeting, held at Philadelphia, Sept., 1848. 156 pp. 8vo. Philadelphia, 1849. 



Report of the Eighteenth Meeting of the British Association for the Advance- 

 ment of Science, held at Swansea in August, 1848. xl, 98 and 138 pp. 8vo. Lon- 

 don, 1849. John Murray. 



J. M. Gilliss : On the Longitude of Washington. From the Proceedings of the 

 American Philosophical Society. Philadelphia, 1849. 



J. Curtis, F.L.S. British Entomology, being Illustrations and Descriptions of the 

 Genera of Insects found in Great Britain and Ireland. 16 vols. Roy. 8vo. 770 cop- 

 per plates. — This work is about to be re-issued by Reeve, Benham & Reeve, at 

 about half its original cost — £21 for complete copies to subscribers. 



T. Moore : A Handbook of British Ferns. London. 5s. 



Proceedings Bost. Soc. Nat. Hist. FEBRUARY, 1849. Epoch of the Masto- 

 dons; H. D. Rogers, Mr. Foster, Desor. p. 118. New shells of the Exploring Expe- 

 dition under Capt. Wilkes, (Genera Trochus, Planaxis, Cerithium,) A. A. Gould. 

 —MARCH, p. 122. Telluret of lead and gold from Virginia; C. T. Jackson.— \). 

 122. Structure of Glaciers, illustrating laminated structure of rocks ; H. D. Rogers. 

 — p. 125, same subject; Desor.—- APRIL, p. 131. On the angles of Arkansite ; /. E. 

 Teschemacher. p. 132, on the inhalation of nitrous oxyd, chloroform and sulphuric 

 ether; C. T Jackson. — p. 133. Development of Syncoryne; Desor. — p. 137. De- 

 velopment of Aurelia aurita ; Desor. — p. 140. New shells of the Exploring Expe- 

 dition under Capt. Wilkes. (Genera Pleurotoma, Mangelia, Fusus, Triton, Phos 

 Murex.) 



Bulletin de la Soc. Imp. des Naturalistes de Moscow, 1848 ; No. II. Insects of 

 Southwest Liberia; F. Gebler. Elements for a history of Russian Maiacozoology ; 

 Th. v. Middendorf. — On Spermatophora ; G. Gros. — Fossil Crustacea of the Jura of 

 Moscow; A. Vosinsky. — European species of the genus Corwa; Fieber. — On the 

 Glycia virgata and the genus Blechrus ; Motschoulsky. — Critical Remarks on Erichson's 

 Naturgeschiehte der Insekten Deutschland, <fec.; Motschoulsky. — Decades quarta et 

 quinta generum plantarum adhuc non descriptorum ; Turczaninow. — On some fossil 

 bones of the government of Orel ; Borissjak. No. III. Insects of Southwest Li- 

 beria ; F. Gebler. — Flora of Dahura ; Turczaninow. — Fossil cephalopoda of Kalouga 

 and Moscow ; Fischer de WaWteim. — On the Saurians of the Zechstein of Russia ; 

 E. Eichwald. — New Russian Lepidoptera ; E. Eversinann. — Decomposition of spa- 

 thic iron by heat ; E. Glasson. — On Saussurea Karelinii ; S. Stchegleew. Pelopceus 

 destillatoriu3 ; E. Eversmann. — Botanic notices ; Steven. No. IV. Anatomical in- 

 vestigation of the Galeodes aronoides and G. intrepida ; M. Kittary, — Geological re- 

 lations of the Governments of Orenburg and West Ural ; Wangenheim v. Qual<n, — 

 New Ceeindelae and other insects of Russia; Chaudoir. — Fossils of Orel ; Fischer de 

 Waldh im. — Flora of Dahuria ; Turczaninow. — Mines of Bieloussowsk ; Syranowzk. 

 — On the beaver; G. C. Eigntbrodt. — Analyse of Glaucolite; Giwartowsky. — 1^9, 

 No. 1. Geology of Moscow; C. RouWcr.—" Staphy linen Fauna" of the Cauca- 

 sus and the region beyond; /. H. Hochhuth. — On the Crioceras Voronzovii ; Ei9- 

 cher de Waldhehn. — Xew Siberian Coleoptera ; Mannerheim. — Comet of August, 

 1847; G. I. Scl> zer. — Two venomous spiders of Southern Russia; Motschoul sk y . 

 — On a Russian Daphne ; J. Kaleniczenko. — Examination of several minerals; R- 

 Hermann. 



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