XXVI PEOCEBDINGS OF THE 



vised limitation of the genus Cinchona, reducing to it Exostemma, 

 Buena, and several others, evidently founded on sucli compilations 

 as Walpers and Dietrich., without Laving examined specimens of 

 one tithe of the species so arbitrarily transposed, and totally, 

 ignorant even of Weddell's monograph of 1819. 



The Proceedings of the Society are prefixed to each volume 

 of the Memoirs. The later volumes contain, an amusing discus- 

 sion between the President Marianini and the Minister Matteucci 

 (one of the forty members) with regard to a remodelling of the 

 Academy, proposed by himself and some other members, and 

 resisted by the majority, including the President, who at last" is 

 told that he had better resign than continue to be an obstacle to 

 the Society's progress. 



The Eoyal Society receives also a Zoological Journal published 

 at Modena, and edited at first by Canestrini and others, and now 

 by Canestrini alone, entitled Archivio per la Zoologia, I'Anatomia 

 6 la Fisiologia. It appears in half volumes, at first at intervals 

 of half a year, now of above a year, there being as yet only two 

 volumes and a half from 1861 to 1864. . The papers it contains are 

 chiefly entomological and ichthyological. 



In Venice, the Imperiale lieale Istituto Yeneto di Scienze, 

 Lettere ed Arti commenced their Atti in 1840, in large quarto. Of 

 the first portion, previous to the disturbances of 1848, there are 

 two thin volumes, including, with a variety of other subjects, a 

 very few botanical papers of no great importance, by Visiani, 

 Zanardini and others, and some zoological ones on the lower 

 orders of animals, or anatomical, by Contarini, Nardo, Meneghini, 

 &c. After 1848 the Atti was renewed with greater activity ; and up 

 to the end of 1862 we have ten volumes in very large quarto with 

 many plates often on an unnecessary and inconveniently large 

 scale, and eight thick octavo volumes with the proceedings and 

 shorter papers. Erom the digest of these volumes given by the 

 President Bellaviti, vol. ix. p. 30 of the Atti, we find that they 

 contain fourteen papers more or less botanical by Visiani, Mas- 

 salongo, and Zanardini, including Visiani' s enumeration of the 

 plants of the Venetian territory, and seventeen zoological, either 

 physiological or relating to the lower orders of animals, all in the 

 Italian language. The most recent parts comprise : Diptera dis- 

 tributed according to a new method by Livry ; Betta on Venetian 

 MoUusca, Serpents, and Amphibia; Saccard on the Elora of 

 Treviso ; Zanardini on Adriatic Algee ; and papers on fossil plants, 

 by Visiani, Barone, and Zigno. 



