LINNEAN SOCIETY OF LONDON. XV 



tatis Scientiarum was commenced in 4to, interrupted in 1751, 

 resumed inl773 under the titleof Nova Apta Eegiae Societatis Scien- 

 tiarum ; and a new series commenced in 1851 is still continued. The 

 early volumes were few and frequently interrupted, containing, 

 amidst a great number of physical, historical, and mathematical 

 papers, a few on Natural History by Linnaeuis, De G-eer, and 

 others ; and towards the close of last centurj'^, and in the first 

 years of the present one, there are numerous papers of Thunberg's, 

 and a few from Swartz, Sparmann, ffidmanu, J. E. Smith, Wahlen- 

 berg, and Eorsberg. After the death of Thunberg to the close of the 

 series in 1850, there are no more zoological papers, and very few 

 botanical ones, chiefly bryological by Angstrom, phycological by 

 Areschoug, and by Fries on Hieracium. The 11th volume, however 

 (1839), contains, under the name of Loca Parallela Plantarum, 

 an interesting review by Lestadius, a Lapland Pastor, of the va- 

 riations of species attributable in those northern regions to local 

 circumstances. The recent volumes forming the new series since 

 1851 comprise, in Zoology, papers by Liljeborg on Crustacea, 

 Thorell on Aranese, Smitt on the Ephippies des Daphnies, and Stal 

 on Chrysomelides ; and in Botany, Areschoug on Phycese, Pries 

 on Eungi, Lichens, and others, Anderson on Andropogonese, and 

 a Monograph of Eumarias by Hammer. These Transactions 

 have the advantage of being written entirely in Latin and French, 

 and the plates illustrating them are generally well executed. 



The long series of Transactions of the Stockholm Academy, 

 known by the Latin name of Acta Academise Holmensis, but to 

 which I only find the Swedish title of Kougliga Svenska Yeten- 

 skaps Akademiens Handlingar, are in 8vo, a thin volume having 

 appeared almost every year from 1744 to 1854, with a fair 

 proportion of Natural History, considering the great variety of 

 sciences admitted. Taking the volumes since 1 850, the zoological 

 papers are chiefly entomological by Dahlbom, Naumann, Boheman, 

 Zeller, Holmgren, C. Thomson, Stenhammer, &c., with some by 

 Liljeborg on Crustacea and on Norwegian Zoology generally ; the 

 botanical ones comprise Anderson's Gralapagos Flora and Indian 

 Salices, Wallmar on Characese, a little-known enumeration of the 

 plants of Portobello, in Panama, with descriptions of many new 

 species by Beurling, under the title of Primitive Florae Porto- 

 belieusis, and Hartmann's notes on the Scandinavian plants of 

 the Linnean Herbarium, made in our library, and which it would 

 be of importance for us to have in English. 



In 1855 the form was changed, and a new series commenced 



