XXVIU PEOCEEDIKGS OE THE 



Academia Eeal de Ciencias exactas fisicas y naturales, and thence- 

 fortli the Memorias de la Eeal Academia de Ciencias de Madrid 

 were ptiblished in three divisions, called series. Of tlie tliird, or 

 Ciencias Naturales, we have five quarto volumes from 1850 to 1861, 

 comprising a good deal of G-eology, papers by Vidal on the birds 

 of Albufera, by Gruirao on those of Murcia, and De los Eios 

 Naceyro on those of Galicia, Machado's Erpetologia hispalensis, 

 Grraells on the larvse of Agapantia, and on new insects of central 

 Spain, and Mendoza on the organs of generation in animals, — and 

 in Botany, Graells's Eamilletes de Plantas Espaiioles, Llano's 

 Appendix to the Philippine Plora, and Mariano del Amo on the geo- 

 graphical distribution of some families of plants in the Peninsula. 



Towards the close of the last century Cavanilles conducted a 

 periodical, entitled Anales de Ciencias Naturales, which few per- 

 sons appear to have seen, and the characters of new genera and 

 species there described have been carelessly and sometimes incor- 

 rectly abstracted by Sprengel and others. The only copy I know 

 of in this country is in the British Museum. 



In the South American States formerly Spanish colonies, there 

 have been articles on NaDural History in the Mercurio Chileke ; 

 and at Bogota a Boletin de la Sociedad de Naturalistas Neo- 

 G-ranadinos, in octavo, had attained a tenth part in 1860 ; but I 

 have not seen either work. 



VII. POETTJGAL. 



"We have on our shelves the Historia e Memorias da Academia 

 Eeal das Sciencias de LiSBOA,iu three series, full-sized quarto, — the 

 first in tAvelve volumes, from 1797 to 1839 ; the second in five, 

 from 1843 to 1856; the third in three volumes, down to 1863. 

 Although they have professedly a class of Natural Sciences, I 

 can find in the whole twenty volumes nothing in Zoology or 

 Botany, except an account of two or three Portuguese fish, and 

 some French speculations on Organogeny. 



In Brazil, a Yellosian Society of Natural History, established in 

 1850 at Eio Janeiro, commenced some qiiarto Transactions, with 

 rather rude lithographic plates, under the double title of Tra- 

 balhos da Sociedade Yelloziana, and of Bibliotheca Gruanabarense 

 — divided into two sections for Zoology and Botany, but the papers 

 following each other in one continuous paging. Some of them, 

 especially on Brazilian timber-trees, by AUemao, are interesting, 

 but the work appears to have come to an end the following year, 

 1851, forming altogether one very thin part. 



