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The Eendiconto delle Sessioni of tlie Bolognese Academy, a thin 

 octavo each year from 1839 to 1864, are Eeports of Proceedings of 

 the character now demanded from most scientific bodies, with 

 abstracts of papers read, and occasionally a short unimportant one 

 given entire. 



The Transactions of the Institute of Lombardy at Milak, in 

 two series, the first in five quarto volumes, from 1812 to 1838, en- 

 titled Memorie dell' I. E,. Istituto del Eegno Lombardo-Yeneto, the 

 second in nine volumes, from 1847 to 1856, as Giornale dell' I. E. 

 Istituto Lombardo di Scienze, Lettere et Arti e Biblioteca Italiana, 

 contain nothing worth special mention either iu Zoology or Botany. 

 In 1859 a Society was established especially for Natural History, 

 at first as a Geological Society, that being the branch which its 

 promoters specially followed ; but in the following year the name 

 was changed to that of Societa Italiana di Scienze JSTaturali, and 

 from that time they have published an annual volume iu octavo of 

 Atti. At first the papers were entirely geological ; to these were 

 gradually added a few on Italian insects, mollusca, and other lower 

 orders of animals, Cantani on the secondary membrane of the 

 vegetable cellule, niimerous communications on the silkworm dis- 

 ease which has committed such ravages in that country, tAvo 

 papers transmitted by Giglioli from England, on A])terijx, and on 

 the geographical distribution of birds, the latter founded in a great 

 measure on Dr. Sclater's communications to our Journal ; and the 

 last few Numbers of the Atti for 1864 contain Camel's Elorula 

 de Montecristo, and descriptions of a few Italian plants, and a 

 commencement of Calvadori's Enumeration of Sardinian birds. 



The Societa Italiana delle Scienze, originally founded at YEROisrA 

 by A. M. Lorgna, and afterwards transferred to Modena, com- 

 menced their quarto Transactions in 1782, each volume in two se- 

 parate parts, Matematica and Eisica, at first Avith a continuous 

 paging through the two ; but in the later volumes, the parts 

 having increased in bulk sufficiently to be separately bound, there 

 is a separate paging for each. The first series Avas closed Avith 

 the twenty-fifth volume, and contains scarcely as much Natural 

 History as OA^en the Bologna Memorie. In the later volumes I 

 only find a Paleeontological paper, and a few short botanical descrip- 

 tive ones by Savi, Tenore, and Bertoloni, the plates not exhibit- 

 ing any very high stage of art. In 1862 a first volume was pub- 

 lished of a second series, containing in our sciences only a paper 

 on some fossil plants of Italy by Massalongo, and descriptions of 

 some supposed new Brazilian plants by Brignoli, including a re- 



