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forscheuder Preunde zu Berlin Magaziu fur die neuesten Entdec- 

 kungen in der gesammten Naturkunde. Tliis series includes 

 also Greology, Mineralogy, Ckemistry, Physics, and Mathematics ; 

 but there are a considerable number of zoological papers by Lich- 

 tenstein, Klug, and others, and a few in Botany, at first hj Willde- 

 now and Swartz, afterwards by ISTees, Treviranus, Link, Sprengel, 

 and Lehmann. The parts soon got into arrear, and came to 

 an end with the eighth volume for 1814 published in 1818. 

 Several years afterwards a'further attempt was made ; but I only 

 know of one volume, dated 1829, under the name of Yerhand- 

 lungen der Gesellschaft natnrforschender Freunde zu Berlin. 



A Botanical Society at Berlin publishes a vokime of Journal 

 of about twenty sheets in each year, 8vo, which I have not seen. 



The Berliner eutomologische Zeitschrift herausgegeben von dem 

 entomologischen Yereine in Berlin, is an annual octavo volume, 

 usually in quarterly parts, with a few plates ; it extends to four 

 volumes, from 1857 to 1860, exclusively devoted to Entomology. 



Vienna, notwithstanding the eminent men it has produced, and 

 the richness of some of its collections, is not to be reckoned 

 amongst the old academic centres of Germany. In 1835 and 

 1836 the presence of a number of active young naturalists, more 

 or less connected with the Imperial Museum of Natural History 

 in the Burg palace, induced the directors to set on foot a publi- 

 cation in imitation of the Annales and Memoires of the Erench 

 Museum. It was published in quarto parts, with plates ; and 

 two volumes were nearly completed in the three years from 1835 

 to 1837, under the title of Annalen des "Wiener Museums der 

 Naturgeschichte. The last part, completing the second volume, 

 appeared many years later, after which the work wholly stopped. 

 These volumes were limited to Zoology and Botany, comprising 

 descriptions of Brazilian Eish and Eep tiles by Natterer, and 

 papers in Ornithology by Eitzinger and Heckel, in Ichthyology 

 by Heckel, in Entomology by Kollar and 0. Marshall, in Helmiu- 

 thology by Diesing, and in descriptive Botany by Endlicher, Eenzl, 

 and myself. 



At length (in 1847) an Imperial Academy of Sciences was 

 established, and divided into two classes, the Philosophic-historical 

 and the Mathematic and Natural-Science Classes. The poli- 

 tical disturbances, however, of the following year delayed their 

 operations, and the first volume of their Transactions did not 

 appear till 1850, since which they have been regudarly issued to 

 the present time under the title of Denkschriffcen der kaiser- 



