LrrarEAN society or londOjS". xliii 



Mathematics, Physics, &c. Of the former, two volumes a year 

 are made up, of two, three, or four parts each. They contain the 

 usual reports of meetings, abstracts of papers, and short papers 

 in extenso with a few plates : amongst the latter, in Natural 

 History, Palssontology always takes a large share ; there are also 

 several on animal and vegetable anatomy and physiology, and 

 a very few systematic, chiefly ichthyological, by Steindachner or 

 Kner. 



In 1847 also a kind of JSTatural-History publishing Society ap- 

 pears to have been formed at Vienna by W. Haidinger ; or, at any 

 rate, the friends and subscribers to his publications had occasional 

 meetings at his house ; and, under his editorship, a series of 

 Transactions and Proceedings like those of regular Academies and 

 Societies was commenced. Of the former, in large quarto, with 

 plates, four volumes were published from 1847 to 1851, under the 

 title of Naturwissenschaftliche Abhandlungen gesammelt und 

 durch Subscription herausgegeben von Wilhelm Haidinger. The 

 first volume is continuous, the second and third each in two parts, 

 and the fourth in four parts, each with its separate paging and series 

 of plates, thus complicating references by the necessity of quoting 

 the part as well as the volume. The majority of the papers are 

 physical, chemical, geological, or palaeontological. In recent 

 Zoology and Botany there is one by Rossi on Arachnides, by 

 Hammerschmidt on Entozoa and on Mexican Butterflies, by Lo- 

 barzewski on some new Mosses, by Eeissek on Endophytes of 

 Plant-cells, and two or three on local plants and insects. During 

 the same period of 1847 to 1851 Haidinger published seven volumes 

 of octavo Proceeding^, under the title of Berichte iiber die Mitthei- 

 lungen von Ereunden der Naturwissenschaffcen in Wien, gesam- 

 melt und herausgegeben von Wilhelm Haidinger. They contain 

 nothing worth referring to in Zoology or Botany. 



In 1851, when Haidinger's work ceased, a regular Zoological- 

 botanical Society was established, and commenced publishing for 

 each year an octavo volume entitled Yerhandlungen des zoologisch- 

 botanischen Yereius in Wien, divided into two parts : Sitzungs- 

 berichte or Proceedings, and Abhandlungen or Papers read ; each 

 with its separate paging, and accompanied by a few plates. The 

 thirteen volumes we have up to 1863 include fossil as well as 

 recent Zoology and Botany; the entomological papers are nu- 

 merous ; there are also several ichthyological by SteindacLner and 

 others, on Batrachia by Eitziuger, on Red Sea Crustacea by Heller, 

 a few notices of the Novara Expedition, and of some birds of the 



