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Yienna Museum ; and scarcely anything in Botany, except Mas- 

 salongo on some Brazilian Lichens, Eeissek on the wild Vines of 

 Austria, and BoUe on the Canary-Island ScrojoJmlarias. 



In all the above Vienna publications the memoirs are generally 

 in Grerman, with more or less of Latin for technical characters ; 

 in a few instances only, the text is in Italian. 



The Academy of Sciences of Mukich published in the last cen- 

 tury ten volumes of quarto Transactions, entitled Abhandlungen der 

 chur-baierischeu Akademie der "Wissenschaften, with very little of 

 Natural History in them. In 1807 it was reorganized as a Eoyal 

 Academy in three classes, the Philologic-philosophical, Mathe- 

 matico-physical, and Historical, and published nine volumes quarto, 

 from 1808 to 1824, entitled Denkschriften der konigliehen Aka- 

 demie der "Wissenschaften zu Miinchen. The papers are distributed 

 in each volume into the three classes ; in the first volume with a 

 continuous paging, but in the subsequent ones with a separate 

 paging for each class. The Natural-History papers in the Mathe- 

 matico-physical class are not numerous, and many of those pa- 

 Iseontological. There are also papers by Tilesius on Brazilian and 

 Japanese Fish and Mollusca, Oppel on Tanypus, Schneider on 

 GecJco, Spix on Apes, and on the Anatomy of Leeches, and a few 

 of little importance in systematic Botany, by Willdenow in the 

 first volume, and latterly by Schranck, Martins, and Zuccarini, in- 

 cluding the first portion of a monograph of American Oxalides by 

 the latter. In 1827 the Academy Avas again reorganized, and it 

 was determined that each class should in its turn make, up the 

 yearly volume, thus forming three separate series of Transactions, - 

 of each of which a volume should appear every three years. The 

 Mathematico-physical class began; and we have now nine volumes, 

 dated from 1832 to 1863, of the Abhandlungen der mathematisch- 

 physikalischen Classe der konigliehen bayerischen Akademie der 

 "Wissenschaften ; the first three volumes published each at one 

 time, the fourth in two separate parts with separate pagings. 

 Since then, some of the volumes have also been issued at intervals 

 in parts, and latterly separate title-pages are given for each 

 paper, but the paging of each volume is continuous. The volumes 

 of each series have their own numbexnng ; but there is also a con- 

 tinuous numbering for the whole three, reckoned from the com- 

 mencement of the Denkschriften in 1808. Thus the last or ninth 

 volume of the " Abhandlungen" of the Mathematico-physical Class 

 is also numbered thirty -fourth " in der Eeihe der Denkschriften." 

 In the nine volumes, the most numerous papers in Natural 



