LIirNEAN SOCIETY OF LONDO]Sr. XI 



Latin and French, Italian and Spanish may be made out suffi- 

 ciently for our purpose. A general study even of Portuguese and 

 Dutch may, in some branches of our science, be repaid by the ma- 

 terials it would bring to our use. But we may surely be justified 

 in concluding that papers written in Danish, Swedish, Russian, 

 Bohemian, and Hungarian are intended for the sole use of the 

 inhabitants of those countries, and that the general naturalist need 

 to take no notice of them, unless the technical characters at least 

 are in Latin. We have none yet, I believe, in modern Greek or 

 in Turkish ; but the time may not be distant when projects of 

 learned Societies at Athens and Constantinople may be realized, 

 and we may have Transactions, even in those languages, ofiered in 

 exchange for our own. 



My attention having thus been called to this class of works, it 

 has appeared to me that a few notes on the subject might not be 

 unacceptable to such of our Fellows as have occasion to consult 

 our library, and might assist in that general survey of the progress 

 of our science to which I am always desirous that my annual ad- 

 dresses should contribute. For this purpose I shall endeavour to 

 pass in review the most important Natural-History Transactions 

 and Journals now publishing, taking the different nations rather 

 according to languages than in a strict geographical or political 

 order. Commencing, therefore, with the Scandinavian, i. e. the 

 Danish, Norwegian, and Swedish Academies and Societies, and 

 proceeding with the East European, i. e. the Hussian, Polish, Bo- 

 hemian, and Hungarian, I shall then take the Italian, the Spanish, 

 and those of the transmarine states or colonies, making use of 

 their language, the Portuguese and Brazilian, the Dutch, and 

 those of their colonies, the Grerman and the French, concluding 

 with our own and those of the transmarine countries once or still 

 our colonies, who have retained or adopted our language. In this 

 review, however, I have no pretension to giving any complete bi- 

 bliography, but have confined myself, with few exceptions, to our 

 own and the Boyal Society's libraries at Burlington House, and 

 to those works only where Zoological or Botanical papers would 

 naturally be sought for, without seeking even for any stray ones 

 which may have found their way into the Transactions of Medical, 

 Agricultural, or other allied institutions. 



1. Denmark. 



The early publications of the CoPEisrHAGEK Academy of Litera- 

 ture and Science contain but very few papers on Natural History ; 



