LINNEAIS" SOCIETY OF LONDON. XXxix 



schaffceu zu Grottingen, commenced in 1843, and the last volume 

 received, the 11th, for 1863. 



In the first four series historical, physical, and mathematical 

 sciences are mixed ; in the Abhandlungen, the papers are divided 

 into three classes, with separate pagings and titles, the Physi- 

 kalische, the Mathematische, and the Historisch-philologische. 



The Ifachrichten von den koniglichen Gresellschaft der Wis- 

 senschaften und der Greorg-Augusts Universitat zu Gottingen, 

 published in Numbers, forming anntial volumes, foolscap 8vo, 

 amidst short papers on aU branches of science, contain a few 

 zoological and botanical ones, as, for instance, in the volume for 

 1864, we find Grrisebach's Eeview of Venezuela Bromeliacese, 

 with descriptions of new genera and species, and Keferstein on 

 the geographical distribution of Prosobranchia. 



The E/oyal Academy of Sciences of Berlin, established early in 

 the eighteenth century, published at first an occasional quarto vo- 

 lume in Latin, under the title of Miscellanea Berolinensia, of which 

 eight volumes appeared up to 1744. These were followed by French 

 Memoires de I'Academie Eoyale des Sciences de Berhn, iu fifty- 

 four volumes in three series : the first, of twenty-five volumes 

 from 1745 to 1769 ; the second, as Nouveaux Memoires, in sixteen 

 volumes, from 1770 to 1785 ; and the third, as Memoires again, in 

 thirteen «volumes, from 1786 to 1804. They then began the 

 present Grerman series, entitled Abhandlimgen der koniglichen 

 Akademie der "Wissenschaften zu Berlin. Of this there are now 

 forty- six thick volumes, the first comprising the Transactions 

 from 1804 to 1811, the four following ones from 1814 to 1823, 

 since which there is a volume for the Transactions of each year, 

 although generally the date of publication is one or two years 

 in arrear ; and there is occasionally a supplemental volume, the 

 last received being the volume for 1863, with the publication- 

 date for 1864. The volumes not being numbered, this double 

 date on the title-page occasions some confusion in references. 

 Each volume of the present German series is divided into three 

 sections, each with a separate paging : 1. Physikalische ; 2. Ma- 

 thematische ; 3. Philologische and historische Abhandlungen. 

 There are often many plates, and those of the later volumes are 

 very good. The zoological and botanical papers are not nume- 

 rous, but some of them important : the principal ones contained in 

 the last twenty volumes are Lichtenstein and Peters's zoological 

 papers, chiefly on Mammifera of the Berlia Musemn, or on Mos- 

 sambique Mammalia and Brazilian Lizards ; only one short 



