lilNNEAN SOCIETY OE LONDON. Ixiii 



lumes, foolscap octavo, of Annalen der allgemeinen schweizerisclieii 

 Gresellscliaft fiir die gesammten Naturwissenschaften, containing 

 in zoology and botany a few speculative and physiological papers, 

 and some on the local flora and fauna of very little importance. 



The Society of Naturalists of Beene, at first a cantonal section 

 of the Societe Helvetique des Sciences JSTaturelles, began publish- 

 ing in 1843, as an independent Society, Mittheilungen der natur- 

 forschenden Gresellschaft in Bern, in octavo, in separate numbers, 

 forming thin annual volumes, of which there are twenty-two from 

 1843 to 1864, with a very few plates in the latter ones and a gene- 

 ral index for the years 1848 to 1854. The papers are chiefly in 

 Physics ; the Zoology and Botany are entirely local, except a few 

 morphological contributions of Wydler's, and Shuttleworth's paper 

 on the MoUusca of the Canary Islands, &e. 



The Societe des Sciences Naturelles de Netjchatel was founded 

 in 1832, and have published four volumes of Transactions, large 

 quarto, with plates, 1835 to 1859, containing, besides Greology and 

 miscellaneous subjects, some zoological papers, especially on the 

 Anatomy of Salmones, by Agassiz and Yogt, and other papers of 

 Agassiz, a classification of Batrachia by Tschudi, &c., the few in 

 Botany relating to the mosses and other plants of Switzerland. 

 The Bulletin of the same Society, five volumes, octavo, 1844 to 

 1861, contains, amidst a great variety of matter, very little of 

 Zoology (chiefly short communications and extracts by the Pre- 

 sident, L. Coulon) and still less of Botany. 



L The ISTatural-History Society of Zttrich commenced in 1847 

 publishing monthly numbers, forming thin annual octavo volumes, 

 of Mittheilungen der naturforschenden Gresellschaft in Ziirich, 

 which continued till the tenth year (1856), and were followed by 

 quarterly parts, entitled Yierteljahresschrift der naturforschenden 

 Gresellschaft in Ziirich, edited by E. "Wolf, Notwithstanding the 

 title, the papers are chiefly mathematical, physical, or chemical, 

 with a few zoological, including physiological contributions from 

 Kolliker, and conchy liological by Mousson, &c. ; and scarcely any 

 botanical, and those of no importance. The last I have seen is the 

 eighth year (1863). 



I have met also with references to Jahresberichte of Natural- 

 History Societies at Chfe in the Grrisons and at St. Gtallen, nei- 

 ther of which have I seen. 



XII. FRAisrcE. 



The old Academie des Sciences of Paeis had, in the latter half 

 of the seventeenth century, and during the eighteenth century. 



