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Histoiyare A. Wagner's in Palaeozoology and on Tropical- Ameri- 

 can Mammalia. There are also papers in animal Anatomy and 

 Osteology by Erdl, E. Wagner, and H. Eathke, on Entomostraca 

 by Seb. Eiscber, and a monograpb of Parrots by Wagler. In 

 Botany the chief contributions are Zuccarini's American Oxalides, 

 his enumeration of Japanese Plants, bis Plantas nov» et minus co- 

 gnifcse, and some sbort morphological papers, Martius's monograpb 

 of ErytbroxylonSjLedebour on Pugionium, Treviranus on the Ger- 

 mination of Nymplicsa, and a muscological paper of Brucb's. The 

 papers are in Grerman or Latin, and illustrated with well-executed 

 plates. 



The Proceedings of the Academy were for many years published 

 in separate sbeets in quarto, in two columns, upon very indifferent 

 paper, making up semiannual volumes, under the title of Gelehrte 

 Anzeigen der kdniglichen bayeriscben Akademie der Wissen- 

 scbaften, each volume at first with separate pagings for the three 

 classes and for the Bulletin der drei Classen, but latterly with a 

 continuous paging for the wbole volume. The fifty volumes (very 

 tbin from 1842 to 1850) from 1832 to 1860 contain little in 

 Natural History beyond proceedings, abstracts, and sbort com- 

 munications of temporary interest, except an occasional short bo- 

 tanical paper by Martins, and very rarely any Zoology. In 1860 

 tbe Gelehrte Anzeigen were replaced by an octavo publication, 

 entitled Sitzungsberichte der konigiicben bayeriscben Akademie 

 der Wissenscbaften zu Miinchen, published in parts forming half- 

 yearly volumes, the three classes mixed ; altbougb occasionally 

 sbort papers are given in extenso, and sometimes with plates. 

 We have thus some diagnoses of Central- American Eish by Kner, 

 Martins on the cbaracters of Gincliona, Nageli on tbe structure of 

 Cell-membranes, and others, so buried in the mass of Physics, 

 Mathematics, Philology, History, &c., that few will care to hunt 

 them out. 



Museum Senckenbergianum is the sbort name adopted for three 

 quarto volumes, published at Erankpoet in the years 1834, 1837, 

 and 1845, under the full title of Abhandlungen aus dem Gebiete 

 der bescbreibendenlSraturgescbicbte, vonMitgiiedern derSencken- 

 bergiscben naturforschenden Gesellscbaft in Erankfurt am Main. 

 A few of these papers are palteontological ; but the greater number 

 are descriptive in recent Zoology and Botany ; the former chiefly 

 by Eilppell, Eeuss, Kittlitz, von Heyden, and Kaup, the Botani- 

 cal by Eresenius, J. G. Agardh, and Schultz-Bipontinus ; and 

 almost all relate to the Arabian and Abyssinian fauna and flora 



