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(vol. V. 1861, p. 184), that the Transylvanian Transactions contain 

 some good papers, especially one by Lazar on Transylvanian birds, 

 but my own total inability to make out the language must be my ex- 

 cuse for entering into no further details as to the Transactions 

 we possess in pure Hungarian. There is, however, a work entitled 

 Verhandlungen und Mittheilungen des Siebenbiirgischen Vereins 

 fiir Naturwissenschaften zuHEEMAN3S"STADT,in monthly numbers, 

 8vo, forming annual volumes, in Grerman, I have only seen the 

 eleventh volume for 1860, which, with a good deal of Q-eology, 

 includes a series of papers by E. A. Bielz on Transylvanian Mol- 

 lusca. Some Presburg publications will be mentioned presently 

 amongst Grerman ones. 



V. Italy. 

 Very few of the Scientific Academies of Italy have in modern 

 days contributed extensively to general Zoology or Botany, the 

 most important in this respect being that of Tukin. After having 

 completed a first series of Memoirs in forty volumes, quarto, a new 

 one was commenced in 1839, entitled Memorie della Eeale Acca- 

 demia delle Scienze di Torino, in two classes — ^the Physical and 

 Mathematical Sciences, including Natural History, being sepa- 

 rated from Moral, Historical, and Philological Sciences. Twenty 

 volumes of the former have appeared up to 1863, the last received, 

 the papers being iu Italian, French, or Latin, and fairly illustrated 

 by plates. The greater proportion of them relate to the fauna 

 and flora of the late kingdom of Sardinia : Insects by Grene and 

 GrhUiani ; Mollusca, Crustacea, and the lower order of animals by 

 Yerani, Porro, Filippi, Strobel, Cornalia, and Pancari ; Eeptiles by 

 Grene and De Natale; Mediterranean Fish by Filippi and Verani; 

 Cryptogamous Plants by De Notaris, Meneghini, and Baglietto ; 

 and in Phaenogamous Plants, Moris and de Notaris on the Flora of 

 the island of Capraria, and de Notaris and Grennaris on the Ligurian 

 flora. The fossil fauna of the country is illustrated by long papers 

 of Bellardi, Michelotti and Sismonda, and the fossil flora by Visi- 

 ani. On exotic and general subjects these volumes contain C. Bo- 

 naparte's Monograph of European Amphibia, Solier's Monograph 

 of the tribe Molurides of Coleoptera, Traqui on Cypriote and Syrian 

 Anthicini, Bellardi on Mexican Diptera, Zanardiai's Adriatic 

 Alg^, Vittadini's Monograph of Lycoperdinese, De Notaris's Ameri- 

 can Jungermanniese and Columbian Mosses, Figari and De 'No- 

 taris'sKedSea Algology and Egyptian Agrostography, dementi's 

 G-recian and Eastern plants, a few miscellaneous exotic plants, 

 chiefly Brazilian or from the Turin Gardens, described and figured 



