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columns were ninnbered as pages ; from the sixteentli (1858), it 

 is tlie pages only of two columns that are numbered. The 

 Journal still appears regularly, and is now in its twenty-third 

 year. Besides i*eviews, bibliographical notices, and botanical 

 intelligence, there are original articles, occupying perhaps on an 

 average the half of each number. These are mbre generally physi- 

 ological than systematic or descriptive ; but there are frequently 

 also short articles of the latter class, and for the last two years 

 papers too long to be broken up into the weekly numbers are 

 given in extra sheets with separate pagings. To meet the extra 

 expense of tliese additions, as well as of the increased number of 

 plates now given, the subscription price has been lately raised. 



Wiegmann's Archiv fiir Naturgeschichte, octavo, Avith good 

 plates, was commenced in 1835 at Beelik, in parts, forming two 

 volumes for each year. In the first year, the reports on the pro- 

 gress of Zoology and Botany were mixed up with the original 

 papers in each volume, but from the second year the first 

 volume of each year is devoted to original papers, and the second 

 to the reports. This important Journal was edited by Wiegmann 

 until his death in 1841, its seventh year. It was then continued 

 by Erichson, and, on his death in 1848, by Troschel, who still 

 carries it on, and who has given also general indexes of names of 

 authors and of subjects of the original papers of the first twenty- 

 five years. The last part received is the fourth of the thirtieth 

 year (1864). The original papers of the series are chiefly zoolo- 

 gical, descriptive as well as physiological ; the few botanical ones 

 are generally physiological ; the annual reports on the progress of 

 the different branches of science during the preceding year are 

 most valuable, and, I believe, well kept up in all the different 

 branches of Zoology. In Botany, although so well commenced 

 by Meyen and others, they have unfortunately not been con- 

 tinued, probably owing to Beilschmied's translations of the Swe- 

 dish ones above mentioned. But these have long since ceased, 

 and it were much to be desired that they might be again taken 

 up by some German compilers, who have great facilities for carry- 

 ing out works of the kind at a moderate cost. Still more satis- 

 factory would it be to us, if, now that zoological reports of the 

 kind have been undertaken in this country under the direction 

 of Dr. Glinther, some of our own botanists would render the 

 same service to Botany. 



Siebold and Kolliker's Zeitschrift fiir Avissenchaftliche Zoo- 

 logie, Leipzi&j octavo, in parts, of which four make a volume for 



