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To Danisli Transactions must be referred also those of the 

 Norwegian Societies of Christiania and Dkontheim, all written 

 in Danish, and printed for the most part at Copenhagen. These are 

 the Trondjemiske Selskabs, afterwards Kongelige Norske Yiden- 

 skabers Selskabs Skrivter, 5 vols, from 1761 to 1774 ; the Nye 

 Sammling of the same, 7 vols., from 1784 to 1799, and two other 

 series from 1817 to 1832, and from 1832 to 1846, the earlier ones 

 with a few papers on Norwegian Zoology and Botany, very rare, or 

 none at all in the later ones ; the Magazin for Naturvidenskaberne, 

 edited at Christiania, at first by Gr. F. Lundh, C. Hansteen, and 

 H. H, Maschmann, afterwards by the Physiographiske Eorening 

 i Christiania, extends to ten thin volumes, octavo, 1823 to 1828, 

 with a second series of two volumes, 1831 to 1836; the Nyt Magazin 

 for Naturvidenskaberne udgives af den Physiographiske Forening i 

 Christiania, in 9 vols. 8vo, without plates, closing in 1856, a 

 work devoted to Natural History, but the papers relate almost 

 exclusively to that of Norway and chiefly to its Greology ; and 

 lastly, the Annual Eeports of the Norwegian University, entitled 

 Kongelige Norske Frederiks TJniversitets Aarsberetning from 

 1856 to 1859. Much information is contained in these collec- 

 tions which might be useful to us as relating to a country so 

 nearly connected in a physiological point of view with our own ; 

 but it is only those who are very familiar with the language who 

 could find it worth whUe to seek for it amongst the mass of 

 irrelevant matter with which it is mixed. 



The Tidskrift for Naturvidenskaberne, edited at Copenhagen 

 by H. C. Orstedt, J. "W. Hornemann, and J. Eeinhardt, in five 

 volumes octavo, from 1822 to 1828, contains but very little' 

 Zoology and Botany, and that chiefly local. 



The Yidenskabelige Meddelelser fra den Naturhistoriske 

 Porening i Kjobenhavn, or Scientific Contributions of the Na- 

 tural History Society of Copenhagen, published in parts in 8vo, 

 with a few plates, appears to form annual volumes devoted to 

 Zoology as well as to Botany. I have only seen a few Numbers, 

 in which are contaiued botanical papers chiefly on the Central 

 American Mora, by CErsted, and extending from 1849 to 1863, 

 There is no complete set in our libraries. 



II. Sweden, 



The Eoyal Society of Sciences of Hpsala appears to have been 

 established in 1710, but to have published very little until 1744, 

 when, chiefly under the iufluence of Linnaeus, the Acta Eegise Socie- 



