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and Poetry, witli local Zoology and Botany and short isolated no- 

 tices in the Natural History of South Africa, North America, &c., 

 but apparently nothing worth referring to. Since 1855 there have 

 been five volumes in large octavo ; two of a similar character to 

 the others, the three others each with single papers on Greology, 

 Agriculture, and Meteorology. 



The Naturforschende Gesellschaft in Halle was originally esta- 

 blished, under the influence of J. C. C. Lowe, in 1779, and pub- 

 lished an octavo volume of Abhandlungen in 1783, and again two 

 volumes and a part of a third, also in octavo, 1811 to 1817, con- 

 taining, amongst other matters, a few entomological papers, 

 Nitsche on Cercarias and Bacillarias, Sprengel's Umbelliferge, 

 and Lehmann on some Boraginefe. In 1853 they commenced 

 Transactions in quarto, to be issued in quarterly parts, forming 

 annual volumes, with much improved typography and plates. The 

 periodical publication, however, was soon abandoned, and the 

 volumes appear irregularly with continuous pagings. The last 

 received is the sixth, dated 1862. Amidst Geology, Mineralogy, 

 Climatology, &c., there are several papers in zoological Physiology 

 and Anatomy, the botanical ones being limited to Irmisch's mor- 

 phological papers and some long-winded descriptive ones by 

 Schlechtendal. 



The Naturwissenschaftliche Yerein at Halle began publishing, 

 at Berlin, in 1848 a Jahresbericht in octavo, in annual volumes, 

 which in 1853 became a monthly Zeitschriffc fur die gesammten 

 JSTaturwissenschaften herausgegeben von dem naturwissenschaft- 

 lichen Vereine fUr Sachsen und Thiiriugen in Halle, edited by G. Or. 

 Giebel and W. Heintz, and formed two volumes octavo for each 

 year, the last received being the tenth, for the second half of 

 1857. The subjects of the papers are chiefly local, with a few 

 more general ones of little importance. In the year 1860 the So- 

 ciety commenced, under the same editorship. Transactions in large 

 quarto, well got up as to typography and plates, under the title of 

 Abhandlungen des naturwissenschaftlichen Yereins fiir Sachsen 

 und Thiiringen in Halle, Of this we have two volumes, dated 

 1860 and 1861. The papers are doubly paged, for each paper and 

 for the volume, and include several on Palaeontology, a long ac- 

 count of South African Diptera by Low, Giebel on the Osteology 

 of Eodentia, some of Irmisch's papers in botanical Morphology, 

 and some Mathematics. 



Of the Abhandlungen aus dem Gebiete der Naturwissen- 

 schaften herausgegeben von dem naturwissenschaftlichen Yereine 



