XXXIV PEOCBEDINGS OF THE 



Eoyale des Sciences et Belles-Lettres de Bruxelles, containing 

 little if anything now worth referring to in Natural History. In 

 1818 a new series was commenced as ISTouveaux Memoires de 

 I'Academie Eoyale des Sciences et Belles-Lettres de Bruxelles, 

 whicli, with the twentieth voltime, in 1847 was altered to Me- 

 moires de I'Academie Eoyale des Sciences, des Lettres et des Beaux- 

 Arts de Belgique, but without recommencing the series of volumes, 

 of which the last received is the thirty -fourth, dated 1864. 



In all these volumes, the papers on the very different subjects 

 coming within the scope of the Academy, scientific, literary, or 

 artistical, are mixed ; but, with a view to rendering them separable, 

 each paper has a separate paging. Natural-History papers do not 

 occupy a very large portion of the space, and among them many 

 are palgeontological, and a few on the local flora and insect fauna, a 

 considerable number by Van Beneden on Malacology and Zootomy, 

 some also by Udekem on Infusoria, by Cantraine on Mediterranean 

 Malacology and Ichthyology, by Poelman on the Anatomy of the 

 Tapir, on questions of Vegetable Physiology and Carpography by 

 Dumortier, on Vegetable Physiology and a few garden plants by 

 Morren, which, with Courtois's European Limes, Decaisne's Ana- 

 tomy of Mistletoe, Martens and G-aUeotti's Mexican Perns, and 

 Spring's Lycopodiacese, make up the botanical portion. 



During the same period the Academy published a separate quarto 

 series, with plates, of memoirs whose authors were not yet Aca- 

 demicians. Of these we have thirty-one volumes, ranging from 

 1818 to 1863, commenced under the title of Memoires couronnes 

 par I'Academie Eoyale des Sciences et Belles-Lettres de Bruxelles, 

 which, with the sixteenth volume (1843), was changed to Memoires 

 couronnes et Memoires des Savans Etrangers, publics par I'Aca- 

 demie Eoyale des Sciences et Belles-Lettres de Bruxelles, and 

 again, with the nineteenth volume (1847), further altered by 

 the substitution of Academic Eoyale des Sciences, Lettres et 

 Beaux- Arts de Belgique for the former name of the Academy. 

 These Memoires couronnes, like the other series, have no great 

 proportion of Natural-History papers, and those chiefly Geological 

 or Palseontological. The principal ones in Zoology and Botany 

 proper are Lambotte on the Anatomy of Batrachiaus, Verlooren 

 on Circulation in Insects, Udekem on an Earthworm, Poelman's 

 Anatomy of python, Schuermans on a Lemur, Decaisne on 

 Madder, and Coemans on Pilololus (Pungi). 



The Belgian Academy prides itself in being one of the first to 

 set the example of giving their Minutes of Proceedings (with abs- 



