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in 1859 are more than two-thirds zoological, chiefly by Brandt, 

 Menetries, Parrot, and Middendorf, including Baer's Illustrations 

 of Human Craniology, — the botanical portion consisting chiefly of 

 well-known papers by Trinius, Bongard, B-uprecht, and C. A. 

 Meyer. The nine volumes of the Memoires des Savans Etrangers, 

 from 1830 to 1859, with a good proportion of mathematical and 

 physical sciences, comprise estensive contributions on insects by 

 Coimt Mannerheim, Nordman, Motchoulsky, and Faldermann ; on 

 Crustacea and Mollusca by Seb. Fischer and Gerstfeld ; on Fish 

 by Grirgensohn, and on Chilian Birds by Kittlitz ; besides anato- 

 mical and others connected with zoology by W. Gruber and Baer. 

 In Botany they contain Meyer on Cyperacese, Burige on Chinese 

 Plants, Pritsche on Pollen, Besser's Artemisias, Basiner's Hedy- 

 sarum, Schleiden's Anatomy of Cacti, and Maximovitsch's Flora 

 of the Amur. 



From 1859 a new plan has been adopted. The memoirs have 

 each a separate paging and title, and are separately sold, and for 

 those who prefer keeping the whole together, they are arranged 

 in volumes in the order of publication, without reference to 

 subjects, each volume having its title-page and table of contents. 

 Up to the present time the Natural-History papers have been 

 chiefly geological or on human physiology ; those on zoology 

 and botany make up two or three volumes, and consist of the follow- 

 ing : — in Botany, Eegel on Parthenogenesis, and on the Flora of the 

 Ussuri; Borszczow (orBorshtshoff") on Calligone8e,and on the Aralo- 

 Caspian Pharmaceutical Ferulacese ; and Bunge's Eevision of Ana- 

 basese; in Zoology, Paulsen on theAnatomy oi Diplozoon paradoxwn, 

 Strauch on Algerian Erpetology, Weiss on the Oology of Eotatoria, 

 Volborth on some Eussian Trilobites, Morawitz's Contributions to 

 the Coleopteral Fauna of the Island of Jesso, Ossiannikof on the 

 structure of the cerebral ganglions in Crustacea, Knoch on the 

 Tapeworm, and Strauch on the Tortoises of the Academy's 

 Museum. 



These Transactions are generally well got up ; the plates are 

 good, but sometimes, compared to the Danish and Parisian ones, 

 rather coarse, or on too large a scale. The languages allowed are 

 Eussian, Latin, French, and German. Fortunately the Eussian 

 papers are confined to national, ethnological, or historical subjects, 

 or that language is at most allowed to intrude into the habitats 

 and stations in the descriptive papers. The great majority are 

 in German or French, with Latin technical characters. 



The Imperial Academy has, like many others, responded to the 



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