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series is exceedingly well got up as to typographical execution ; 

 and the plates, which are numerous, are fully equal to the best of 

 European illustrations in point of neatness and clearness of detail. 

 Unfortunately the majority of the papers are in Danish, at least 

 as to general matter, observations, and explanations ; and in some 

 cases that language is used even for generic and specific charac- 

 ters, rendering them useless to the majority of naturalists until 

 they shall be translated into Latin by Grerman compilers. There 

 is also some confusion in referring to the Transactions, owing to 

 the different series being distinguished only by slight alterations 

 in the wording of the titles — further increased by the frequent 

 custom in general systematic works of translating into Latin 

 the titles of the works quoted. 



These quarto Transactions appear now to be partially super- 

 seded by octavo Proceedings, commenced in 1842, as Oversigt 

 over det Kongelige Danske Yidenskabernes Selskabs Porhande- 

 lingar, and continued in a thin annual volume to 1863, the last 

 received. At first these Proceedings only contained the Eeports 

 of the Meetings, and very short communications on Antiquities, 

 Meteorology, Mathematics, &c., with a little Natural History : 

 latterly papers of this class have been rather more extended, and 

 a few plates given ; the last part, for instance, for 1863, contains 

 one plate illustrating ffirsted's paper on a Neea supplying tea in 

 Central America, one with Reinhardt's paper on Eachiodontidse, 

 and another, as well as several woodcuts, with Steenstrup's Pleu- 

 ronectides. 



An octavo Journal of Natural History had also been started in 

 Copenhagen by Kroyer, under the title of Naturhistorisk Tid- 

 skrift ; four volumes in 8vo, from 1837 to 1843, completed a first 

 series, and two volumes formed a second series from 1844 to 

 1849, with a satisfactory index to each series. The papers are 

 chiefly zoological, many of them Kroyer' s own, on Crustacea and 

 Pish, the others mostly on MoUusca, Insects, and other lower 

 orders, or relating to the Danish Fauna ; the botanical papers are 

 very few, and only on the Danish Plora. This Journal was 

 renewed in 1861 by Professor Schiodte under the title of Na- 

 turhistorisk Tidskrift stifel af Henrik Kroyer, adgivel af Prof. 

 S. C. Schiodte, and is now in its third volume. It is illustrated 

 with beautiful plates, and contains, amongst others, valuable ento- 

 mological papers by Schiodte and by Kroyer, on Serpulidffi by 

 0. Morch, and on the Anatomy of Nudi branchiate Mollusca by 

 Berg. 



