194 Miscellanies. 



Chick, Acting Carpenter ; John Jones, Acting Sail Maker ; William H. 

 Morse, Purser's Clerk. 



Schooner Flying Fish. — Samuel R. Knox, Passed Midshipman ; 

 George W. Hammersley, do. ; Richard Ellis, Acting Master's Mate. 



Schooner Sea Gcll. — James W. E. Reid, Passed Midshipman ; F. 

 A. Bacon, Passed Midshipman ; Isaac Percival, Pilot. 



21. Annals of Natural History , or Magazine of Zoology, Botany, and 

 Geology. Conducted by Sir William Jardine, Bart., P. J. Selby, Esq., Dr. 

 Johnston, Sir W. J. Hooker, Regius Prof, of Botany, Glasgow, and Rich- 

 ard Taylor, F. L, S. — In Vol. 32 of this Journal we noticed, among other 

 new Journals, the Magazine of Zoology, Botany, and Geology, conducted 

 by the three first names in the above list ; and our readers have since then 

 been often reminded of it, by our frequent quotations from its pages. 

 The companion to the Botanical Magazine has also become somewhat 

 familiar to us, on this side the Atlantic, while the name of its conductor 

 is here, as in the whole scientific world, inseparably associated with mod- 

 ern botanical science. It was with regret that we learnt, that neither of 

 these valuable Journals could be sustained singly, from the want of suffi- 

 cient encouragement to meet the expenses of publication. It is, there- 

 fore, we presume, v/ith a view to mutual support, as well as concentration 

 of talent and effort, that their editors have seen fit to unite them under a 

 new name, and to alter the time of publication from six to twelve times a 

 year. They have, likewise, associated with themselves Richard Taylor, 

 Esq. under secretary of the Linnsean Society. We have not yet seen this 

 new form of our former acquaintances, but there can be no doubt that it 

 will sustain the same high position in its own departments, as each of the 

 Journals of which it is composed did, previous to their union ; and it 

 would seem strange if it should not rise above it. 



Presuming that our readers would be glad of early information on this 

 point, we copy the contents of the first number, which was issued in 

 March, from an advertisement which has reached us before the work 

 itself The price is 2s. Qd. per number. 



Contents. — I. On a new Oscillatoria, the coloring substance of Glas- 

 lough Lake, Ireland. By James L. Drummond, M. D. — II. On the ger- 

 mination of Limnanthemum lacunosum. By Dr. Grisebach.— III. 

 Contributions to the Natural History of Ireland, By William Thomp- 

 son, Esq. — IV. On some new species of Quadrupeds, and Shells. By 

 J. E. Gray, Esq. — V, On the Echinodermata. By L'Agassiz, — VI. 

 On the Scottish Mollusca Nudibranchia. By George Johnston, M. D. 

 — VTI. Letters from Botanical Travellers : Mr. Cuming, Manilla ; Dr. 

 Schomburgb, Berbice ; Gardner, Brazil. — Bibliographical notices : — 

 Agassiz, Poissons d'Eau douce d'Europe ; Plantes Cryptogames de France, 

 par H. J. Desmazieres ; Das System der Pilze von L. Nees von Esen- 



