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from the collections of Eiippell. In 1854 the same Society began 

 anew series in a somewliat larger quarto, with improved plates, nnder 

 the title of Abhandlun gen herausgegeben von der Senckenbergischen 

 naturforschenden G-esellschaft. Of this we have four volumes, 

 and the first and second parts of the fifth for 1864. They contain 

 many mineralogical, meteorological, and especially palseontolo- 

 gical papers, and, in Zoology, chiefly anatomical or osteological 

 by Luc», Bruch, Ecker, H. Miiller, histological by Mettenheimer, 

 j^ . Schmidt, and H. Klos, and on insect-development by "Weiss- 

 mann ; in Botany, papers by Schacht on vegetable anatomy, Bu- 

 chenau on inflorescence, various cryptogamic and histological 

 communications by Fresenius, De Bary on Algse and Eungi, and 

 Mettenius on Ferns. 



The Botanical Society of Ratisbon, one of the oldest devoted to 

 one special branch of Natural History, established in 1790, appears 

 from the year 1802 to 1807 to have published six volumes of a 

 Botanische Zeitung, with which I am unacquainted ; nor do I 

 believe it to be in any of our Libraries. After that, a long period 

 of wars and political convulsions completely crippled the Society 

 until after the general pacification of 1814, when it was reor- 

 ganized, obtaining a fixed locale and income, and reverted to the 

 plans of publication it ha,d frequently contemplated. A first 

 volume of quarto Transactions, with a few plates, appeared in 1815, 

 under the title of Dentschriften der koniglich-baierischen bo- 

 tanischen G-esellschaft in Eegensburg, followed by a second in 

 1822, a third in 1841, and a fourth, in two parts with separate 

 pagings, in 1859 and 1861 respectively. Besides local subjects} 

 these volumes contain some illustrations of Brazilian plants by 

 Martins and others, a few of Fenzl's papers on exotic plants, a 

 review of the Arctic flora by Ed. Martens ; and the last part is 

 entirely taken up by the lichen flora of Bavaria, by A. Krempel- 

 huber. A first part of the fifth volume has been since published, but 

 not yet received in this country. The Society also resumed its 

 botanical Journal, entitled Flora oder Botanische Zeitung der 

 koniglich-baierischen botanischen Gesellschaft in Eegensburg, 

 in 1818, and has continued it uninterruptedly to the present 

 day, at first under the editorship of Hoppe, and afterwards, 

 dzring a long period, under that of Fiirnrohr. It appeared 

 in IN'umbers, usually of a single sheet at first, in small post octavo, 

 the first year three times a month, forming one volume, the 

 succeeding twenty-four years, to 1842, four times a month; form- 

 ing two voltimes in each year, but with a continuous paging for 



