XVI PBOCEEDINGS OF THE 



under the title of Kongliga Svenska Vetenskaps Akademiens Hand- 

 lingar, Ny Foljd (new series), of which the last received is a part of 

 the 4th volume, dated 1862. The typographical execution and illus- 

 trations in these volumes are good ; a separate paging is adopted 

 for each memoir, as in several of the most recent Transactions of 

 other countries. The Natural History is chiefly zoological : Sun- 

 devall on the development of Fish-spawn, on the birds of the 

 Carlson Museum, and of Vaillant's Oiseauxd'Afrique, on Aristotle's 

 Animals, on Insect Anatomy ; Holmgren on Swedish Tryphonidse, 

 Ophionidae, and Ichneumonidse ; Wallengren on Scandinavian Alu- 

 cita, and on Wahlberg's South African diurnal Lepidoptera; StS.1 on 

 Brazilian Hemiptera, Bruzelius on Scandinavian Amphipoda, 

 Thorell on Crustacea parasitic in Ascidia, and Grill's account of 

 Victorin's zoological discoveries in South Africa. The only botanical 

 paper is by the younger Agardh, on the position of the Ovule in 

 Phanerogams. 



The publication of octavo Proceedings by the same Society, in 

 thinner and more frequent parts, commenced for 1844, and the 

 last Numbers we have received are those for 1862. They are 

 entitled ffifversigt af Kongl. Yetenskaps Akademiens Porhand- 

 lingar ; they comprise minutes of meetings, abstracts of papers, 

 and entire short papers with occasional illustrations, the physical, 

 mathematical, and Natural-History subjects following each other 

 without order. In the first vokimes the papers were, in the table 

 of contents, classed according to subjects ; but after 1854 even 

 that help to consultation was given up. The Natural-History 

 papers relate chiefly to the Pauna and Plora of Sweden, with a 

 few new general ones on Entomology and the lower orders of 

 plants, besides those descriptive of the zoological results of 

 Wahlberg's South African Expedition, and the Zoology and Botany 

 of Malmgren's Spitzbergen collections. There is also an account, 

 of some interest to ourselves as the chief j)ossessors of Linnean 

 treasures, of a good set of specimens of Lapland plants, types of 

 the Plora Lapponica, named and laid down by Linnseus, and 

 presented to Burmann, in whose herbarinm, in Delessert's Museum 

 in Paris, it now remains in good condition. The Plates in these 

 Proceedings increase in number in the later volumes ; in that for 

 1862, for instance, there are eight, illustrating Widegren's Memoir 

 on Swedish Salmonidse. 



The detailed Annual Eeports on the Progress of Science, under- 

 taken by the officers of the Academy, were carried out with great 

 pains and perseverance for many years, and would have been 



