LINNEAlSr SOCIETY OF LOjS'DOJT. 



VIII. Dutch Netheiilaji^ds. 



The noUandsch. Institaiit, at Amsteedam, wliicli after the 

 pacification of 1814 became the Koninklijk Nederlandsch Insti- 

 tuut van Wetenschappen, Letterkunde en Schoone Kunsten, is 

 divided into four classes, after the model of the Erench Institute, 

 the first class being also sometimes called Koninklijke Akademie 

 van "Wetenschappen. The first series of its quarto Transactions, 

 entitled Yerhandelingen der Erste Klasse van het Koninklijk IsTe- 

 derlandsch Instituut, was in seven volumes, from 1812 to 1825, 

 and contained no Natural History. The second series, or Nieuwe 

 Yerhandelingen der Erste Klasse, &c., in thirteen volumes, from 

 1827 to 1848, and the third, or Verhandelingen &c., derde Eeeks, in 

 five thin volumes, 1849 to 1852, has a few scattered papers by 

 Vrolik, Sandifort, Numann, and Schroeder van der Kolk on ques- 

 tions of animal physiology and comparative anatomy, monstrosities, 

 &c., by Eremery and Eeinwardt on fossil animals, and isolated 

 notices on a stranded whale by Schlegel, and on the Potto by Yan 

 der Hoeven. In Botany we have Miquel's Eevision of Casuarinfe, 

 African figs, American Cycadese, and Analecta Botanices ludica, 

 Yan Halle on a new Polypodium, and a whole volume in Grerman, 

 occupied by Schacht on the development of the embryo. In 1854 

 the present series was commenced under the altered title of Yer- 

 handelingen der Koninlflijke Akademie van Wetenschappen, with 

 a separate paging for each article, it having hitherto been con- 

 tinuous through each volume. Of this series we have nine volumes 

 down to 1862. It contains, like the former series, several papers 

 on Animal Physiology, Comparative Anatomy, and Paleontology 

 by Yrolik, Schroeder van der K oik, Yan der Hoeven, and Bosquet, 

 one by Harting on two Cephalopods, and Bleeker's Ichthyological 

 Eauna of Japan. In Botany, besides observations on the Ana- 

 tomy of 8phagnum,\)j Dozy, and of aerial roots of Orchideae by 

 Oudemans, we have only Yan der Sande Lacoste's Javan Hepa- 

 ticae, and Yan den Bosch's Javan Hymenophylleae. 



The Academy commenced a separate publication of their Pro- 

 ceedings, in large octavo,'with short papers and a few plates, in 1841, 

 forming six volumes to 1846, under the title of Het Instituut, 

 or, Yerslagen en Mededeelingen uitgegeven door de ^vier Klassen 

 van het Koninklijk Nederlandseh Instituut van "Wetenschappen, 

 Letterkunde en Schoone Kunsten, in three volumes. Amidst a 

 great variety of matter, scientific and literary, there are short 

 communications in palaeontology by Eremery and Yan der Hoeven, 



