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the year as to tlie isegular weekly sheets ; to each volume, how- 

 ever, was added a number of sheets of Beilage, Intelligenz-Blatter, 

 Litteratur-Berichte, &c., appearing at irregular intervals, with 

 separate pagings, so as to create some confusion in references, 

 remedied, it is true, in part by good classified indexes to each 

 volume ; and some years later a general index to the twenty -five 

 years was given by Hasskarl, the utility of which is not a little 

 marred by the wonderful typographical confusion and hiero- 

 glyphics. Erom 1843 the periodical issue has been continued, 

 but in a somewhat enlarged octavo form, and a greater economy of 

 supplemental sheets, the forty-eight numbers of each year forming 

 one annual Volume up to the death of Fiirnrohr in 1861. Since then 

 it has been taken up by Herrich-Schaffer, but with a consider- 

 able reduction of the number of sheets to each year, only thirty- 

 eight in 1862, but now increasing again to forty or more, and it is 

 announced that the former number of forty-eight will be shortly 

 resumed. In this long series,- now consisting of above seventy 

 volumes, there is a large proportion of botanical excursions, 

 reviews of books, personal and other intelligence,' and other matter 

 of merely local or temporary interest ; but there are also not only 

 original communications in systematic and descriptive Botany, 

 relating especially to the flora of Brazil, the Indian Archipelago, 

 South Africa, &c., by Martius, Blume, Hasskarl, Zollinger, 

 Drege, and others, but much might be gleaned from numerous 

 records of observations in vegetable biology by residents in Soutb 

 Grermany and Switzerland. It is announced that Cryptogamy, 

 especially Lichenology, is henceforth to be a prominent feature. 

 Some extra sheets have been given for the last two years, with a 

 separate paging, entitled Eepertorium der periodischen botanis- 

 chen Litteratur, an enumeration of the titles of botanical articles in 

 various transactions and journals, as received by the Eatisbon So- 

 ciety. 



Having isolated Botany, the Eatisbon naturalists aj)pear to have 

 considered it logical to associate Mineralogy with Zoology ; for 

 tbey announce nine volumes, or parts, of Abhandlungen der zoo- 

 logisch-mineralogischen Vereins in Eegensburg, which I have not 

 seen ; but, judging from their octavo journal, entitled Correspon- 

 denzblatt der zoologisch-mineralogischen Yereins in Eegensburg 

 of which the Eoyal Society has nine years, from 1847 to 1855, 

 forming about three volumes, the Zoology is almost limited to that 

 of South Grermany, the chief contents being geological. 



The Verhandlungen des botanischen Yereins fiir die Provinz 



