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From the Horticultural Society, Madras. Seeds Phceenix paludosa. 
To Mr. C. F. Creswell. Plants, chrysanthemums, and dahlias. 
Time of leafing, flowering, and fruiting of a few standard plants in 
the Royal Society’s Gardens during October, 1885 :— 
4th. Carpinusoctulus commencing to break leaf. 
Sth. Ailanthus glandulosus commencing to break. 
14th. Tilea europcea commencing to break leaf. 
14th. Morus niger commencing to break. 
1Sth. Ulmus campestris seeds commencing to fall. 
25th. Melia azederach commencing to break. 
Meteorological Returns. 
From the Government Observer, Captain Shortt, R.N., table of 
observations for October. 
Additions to the Library during the month of October :— 
Abhandlungen der Mathematish. Physikalischen Classe der Konig- 
lich Bayerischen Akademie der Wissenschaften. Munchen, 1883— 
From the Society. 
Almanach der Koeniglich Bayerischen, 1884. 
Annual Report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institu- 
tion, showing the Operations, Expenditures, and Condition of the 
Institution for the Year 1882.—From the Institution. 
Annual Report of the Chief Signal Officer U.S. Army to the Secretary 
of War, for the fiscal Year ending June 30th, 1882, Parts I. and II.—- 
From the Department. 
Do. do. for 1883. : 
Annual Report of the Department of Mines, New South Wales, for 
the year 1884.—From the Mines Department. 
Anales de la Oficina Meteorologica Argentine. TomeIV. By B. A. 
Gould.—From the Department. 
Annals and Magazine of Natural History, London, September, 1885. 
Archives du Musée Teyler, Série IJ. Quatrieme Partie.—From the 
Society. 
Atheneum, The. August. 
Australian Scientific Magazine, Vol. 1, No. 3; October, 1885, 
Melbourne.—From the Editor. 
Bericht des vereines fiir naturkunde Zu Cassel iiber das Vereingsaha 
rom. 18, April, 1883 bis dahim, 1884. From the Society. 
Bibliotheca hassiaca, by Dr. Karl Ackermann. From the Society. 
Bestimmung der erdmagnetischen Inklination von Kassel, Von Dr. 
Karl Ackermann. 
Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard College, 
Cambridge, Mass. No. 2. The Felsites and their associated rocks north 
of Boston, by J. 8. Diller. No. 3. On an occurrence of gold in Maine. 
No. 4. A microscopical study of the iron ore or Peridotite of Iron 
Mine Hill, Cumberland, Rhode Island, by M. E. Wadsworth. No. 5. 
Observations upon the physical geography and geology of Mount 
Ktaadn, and the adjacent district, by C. E. Hamlin. No. 6. Report on 
the recent additions of fossil plants to the Museum collection, by Léo 
Lesquereux. No. 7. The great dike at Hough’s Neck, Quincy, Mass., 
by J. Elliott Wolff, No. 8. On some specimens of Permain fossil plants 
from Colorado, by Léo Lesquereux. Vol. 11, pt. 1. The Azoic system 
and its proposed sub-divisions by J. D. Whitney and M. E. Wadsworth. 
From Alexander Agassiz. 
Bulletin of the Buffalo Society of Natural Sciences, Vol. 1V., No. 4.— 
From the Society. 
Bulletin of Internitional Meterology for 1882-3, Washington.—From 
the Department. 
