lii PROCEEDHiTGS OF THE 



The Archiv des Vereins der Freunde dev Naturgescliiclite in 

 Meckleubut-g, in animal parts, octavo, with a very few plates, edited 

 by E. Boll at NEUBUAis'DEisrBUBG, had come to its fifteenth year in 

 1861 ; and systematic and alphabetical indexes are given for the 

 first ten years. It contains numerous papers on the geology, 

 fauna, and flora of JSTorthern Grermany. 



The Jahresberichte der Pollichia eines naturwissenschaftlichen 

 Vereius der Eheinpfalz, published at Nehstadt an dee Haabbt, 

 in small octavo, with a very few indifferent plates, relate chiefly to 

 the flora, and occasionally to the insect fauna of the country ; 

 but they contain also some of Schultz-Bipontinus's papers on 

 Compositas. One rather thick part or volume is devoted to a de- 

 scription by P. J. Midler of "VVeissenburg of 232 Brambles from 

 the Palatinate and neighbouring districts. The last part received 

 is the nineteenth year for 1861. 



The Abhandluugen deruaturhistorischen Gresellschaft zuNtjrn- 

 BERG, of which the Royal Society has one volume octavo, 1852, 

 amidst a variety of matter, contain a very little local Zoology 

 and Botany, and an enumei'ation of Chilian Ferns by J. W. 

 Sturm. 



The Berichte des Offenbaeher Vereins fiir JSTaturkunde iiber 

 seine Thatigkeit nebst Abhange wissenschaftliches Inhaltes, Oe- 

 EEisTBACH, five thin parts, octavo, 1860 to 1864, contain a few short 

 contributions in Zoology and Botany, on the Cuckoo, on the local 

 flora, &c., with a few plates, of which six are devoted to the 

 Batrachian Banunculi. 



The Bohemian Society of Sciences, established at Prague in 

 1781, published four short series of quarto Transactions in the end 

 of the last and early part of the present century, to which there 

 appears no occasion to refer. A fifth series was commenced in 

 1837, and continued slowly to the thirteenth volume, which has 

 just appeared in quarto with a very few plates, under the title of 

 Abhandluugen der koniglichen bohmischen Gresellschaft der Wis- 

 senschaften. The changes in the internal arrangement have been 

 continual — at first the papers indiscriminately following each 

 other, each with a separate paging, but arranged in the Contents 

 in two classes, Physikalisch-mathematische, and Historisch-philo- 

 logische, then the papers following without order but with a con- 

 tinuous paging, and sorted in the index into five classes, then 

 again forming two or three separate parts in each volume. The 

 volume for some time contained a few Natural-History papers, 

 chiefly speculative, by Haidinger, entomological by Fieber and by 



