LINNEAJSr SOCIETY OP LONDON. ll 



in Hamburg, quarto, with indiiferent plates, tliere sliotild be, I 

 believe, four volumes. I have only seen the first and third, for 

 1846 and 1856. They include papers on the Anatomy and Phy- 

 siology of the lower animals by Stannius, Steinheim, and Was- 

 mann, on MoUuscology by Jonas, on Reptiles by E. Schmidt and 

 J. Gr. Fischer, on "Wasps by Mobius, and Sender's Monograph of 

 SeliopTiila. 



The Mittheilungen des Yereins nordUch der Elbe zur Yer- 

 breitung naturwissenschaftliche Kenntnisse at "Kiel, in thin parts, 

 commenced in 1857, in quarto, in two columns, and has been con- 

 tinued in octavo. It extends to the fourth part, in 1860, and is 

 chiefly geological, with very rarely a zoological paper of little 

 interest. 



The Eoyal Saxon Society of Sciences, divided into classes, pub- 

 lishes Transactions, but with very little of Natural History. The 

 Physical section, entitled Abhandlungen der mathematisch-physi- 

 kalischen Classe der koniglich-sachsischen Gesellschaft der Wis- 

 senschaften, Leipzig, six volumes, long quarto, 1852 to 1864, con- 

 tains only a few papers in physiological and cryptogamic Botany 

 by Hofmeister and by Mettenius. There appears also to have 

 been at Leipzig a special Society for Natural History. We have 

 at least a first volume, quarto, with very indifferent plates, dated 

 1822, under the double title of Acta Societatis Naturae Scruta- 

 torum Lipsiensis and Schriften der naturforschenden Gesellschaft 

 in Leipzig. It contains in Zoology and Botany a Monograph of 

 Scydmcenus by P. W. Miiller, Schweinitz on North Carolina 

 Fungi, and a few descriptions of plants from botanical gardens. 

 I have not heard of any further publication of the Society. 



The Jahresbericht des naturwissenschaftlichen Yereins fur das 

 Piirstenthum Liineburg zu LuisrEBUEG, octavo, thirteen years to 

 1864, contains nothing but local Natural History, and very little 

 of that. 



The Jahresberichte des Mannheimer Yereins fur Naturkunde, 

 nebst wissenschaftlichen Beitriigen, published at Maiswheim, ia 

 very thin annual parts, octavo, of which the thirtieth is for 1864, 

 contains local Zoology and Botany, mixed in with Astronomy and 

 other physical sciences. 



The Schriften der Gesellschaft zur Beforderung der gesammten 

 Naturwissenschaffcen zu Maebiteg, four volumes, octavo, with a 

 very few plates, 1823 to 1839, contain some long speculative 

 papers by E-itgen and others, on garden plants by Wenderoth, 

 and a variety of others of very little iaterest. 



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