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general demand in the present day for reports of their proceedings ; 

 but they have adoi)ted the inconvenient large quarto form, which 

 for this purpose is quite unnecessary. They publish a Bulletin 

 de I'Academie Imperiale des Sciences de St. Petersbourg, com- 

 mencing from 1859, and forming each year a volume of six to ten 

 Numbers. It contains the reports of proceedings, together -witli 

 short papers complete, and a few plates. All sciences are neces- 

 sarily mixed in this Bulletin, and several contributions are in the 

 Hussian language ; but the zoological and botanical are, as in the 

 Transactions, chiefly in Erench or German, with Latin technical 

 characters. The most important are, in Zoology, Baer's papers on 

 palaeontological subjects ; Entomology by Motchoulsky, Bremer, 

 and Morawitz, Grube on Araneids, Schenck on MoUusca, and 

 Strauch on two new Saurian Eeptiles ; and in Botany, Maximo- 

 witsch on Golowninia,'Eritzschie on the Seeds of Pey«?iWW,Euprecht 

 on Caucasian Primulas, and Bunge on EcMnops. 



The Entomological Society of St. Petersbfeg have published 

 two parts in large octavo with plates, forming together a thin 

 volume of a work entitled Horae Societatis Entomologicoe Eossicse, 

 the first part having appeared in 1861, the second in 1863. The 

 papers are of course exclusively entomological, and are drawn up 

 in Erench, German, Latin, and Euss. 



The Societe Imperiale des Naturalistes de Moscou was founded 

 in 1805, and soon after commenced publishing quarto memoirs with 

 plates, on Zoology, Botany, Mineralogy, and kindred sciences. 

 Eour volumes had been issued at the time of the catastrophe of 

 1812, which destroyed the whole unsold stock, including the, 

 greatest part of the impression of the fourth volume, and all that 

 was ready of the fifth ; the latter volume, however, was reprinted 

 after the peace, with funds contributed by two brothers, Chevaliei'S 

 Zosima, and a sixth volume appeared in 1823. In 1829 a new 

 series was commenced, entitled JSTouveaux M^moires, of which there 

 are thirteen volumes from that year to ].861. Besides a few 

 chemical, physical, and geological contributions, the papers are 

 chiefly on the fauna and flora of the Eussian dominions. The 

 most important on exotic subjects are on insects, or the lower 

 orders of animals — Eichwald on the Algerine and Atlas faunas, 

 Basilewitz on North Chinese fish, Buhse's Transcaucasian plants, 

 Kegel's Monograph of Betulacese, and Kornicke's of Marantiaceae. 

 Of these memoirs there is not quite a complete set at Burlington 

 House. The Eoyal Society have the first four volumes, the Lin- 

 nean have the fifth of the first set, and of the second set the third 



