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Brandenburg und die angrenzenden Lander, Berlin, in octavo, 

 formed thin annual octavo volumes v^ith. a few indifferent plates. 

 They have now been somewhat enlarged, and appear in four parts 

 to the volume. The last received is the sixth volume, for 1864, 

 but the greater portion published in the present year. The papers 

 relate chiefly to the local flora ; but some noteworthy observa- 

 tions in physiological Botany might be gleaned from them. 



The Verhandelungen des naturhistorischen Yereins des preuss- 

 ischen Eheinlandes, to which was afterwards added (from the 

 seventh volume, 1850) und "Westphalens, published at Bonn, six- 

 teen volumes, octavo, from 1841 to 1859, relate to local Natural 

 History, recent and fossil, G-eology, Mineralogy, with a few 

 more general papers in animal and vegetable Physiology, chiefly 

 by Mayer. 



The Verhandelungen des naturforschenden Vereins in Brunn 

 (Moravia), two thin octavo volumes or parts, for 1862 and 1863, 

 include Mathematics, Physics, Geology, &c., the Zoology and 

 Botany relating almost exclusively to the insect fauna and to the 

 flora of the countrj^, with a monograph, by Leonhardi, of Characeae 

 " considered from a morphogenetic point of view." 



The Natural-History Society of Danzig, founded in 1745, pub- 

 lished, in the middle of the last century, three quarto volumes, and 

 again another in 1778, which it is now not necessary to refer to. 

 In 1820 was commenced a new seines, entitled Neue Schriften der 

 naturforschenden Gresellschafc in Danzig, of which the Eoyal So- 

 ciety has fi.ve volumes in quarto, with plates, up to 1856, but of 

 which at least one more has been published. The papers have all 

 separate pagiugs, and were published either separately or two or 

 three at a time iu parts. Some are meteorological, physical, or 

 geological; many are zoological, especially in Comparative Anatomy 

 and Physiology, by Eathke and C. T. von Siebold, with some by 

 Meuge on Arachnida and on the fauna of the loAver orders of 

 the country, with two or three short botanical ones of no import- 

 ance. 



Natural- History Societies appear to have been established in 

 several of the smaller towns in Germany, under the name of Isis ; 

 but the only one whose publications I have seen is or was at Dees- 

 den, where a periodical was published in numbers of one or two 

 sheets, forming two annual volumes, large octavo, with a few plates, 

 for 1846 and 1847, entitled Allgemeine deutsche naturhistorisehe 

 Zeitung im Auftrage der Gesellschaft Isis in Dresden. Besides 

 reviews and miscellaneoiis notices, it contains original papers ia 



