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gical and malacological, some in zoological Anatomy and Physi- 

 ology, by Milne-Edwards, &c., and several botanical monographs 

 and other descriptive papers, in the Actes by the elder Richard, 

 in the single quarto by De Candolle and others, and in the five 

 volumes by several modern botanists, including De Candolle, 

 Walker-Arnott, Achille Eichard, Choisy, Laharpe, J. Gray, &c. 



During this intermittent career of the Societe d'Histoire Na- 

 tureUe another one was started in 1820 under the name of Societe 

 Linneenne de Paris, and claimed to be the original one, which it 

 is stated was established in 1788 under that name, and only 

 changed it in 1790 to Societe d'Histoire Naturelle in deference 

 to some anti-Linnseans, who were then amongst its leading mem- 

 bers. However that may be, this new or old Linnean Society 

 commenced in 1822 annual volumes in octavo, with plates in quarto, 

 of Memoires de la Societe Linneenne de Paris, and carried them 

 on through five volumes, and a portion of the sixth, to 1827. With 

 the original papers were also reports of Proceedings, Programmes, 

 Biographical notices, . &c., with separate pagings ; and the two 

 together bore on the temporary covers the title of Annales de la 

 Societe Linneenne de Paris, under which the work is som'etimes 

 quoted, but it is more ^generally known as Memoires. It contains 

 a few entomological and other zoological papers ; but the priiacipal 

 ones are botanical, including Dumont d'Urville's Oriental Plants, 

 several of Desvaux's Monographs, Eapin's Plantaginese, &c. I 

 have not seen the second volume, which is deficient in both the 

 copies I have consulted. 



The Entomological Society founded at Paris in 1832 immedi- 

 ately commenced publishing Transactions, in parts, forming 

 annual volumes, in octavo, with plates, which, rather indifferent 

 at first, have gradually improved and are now very good. This 

 work, entitled Annales de la Societe Entomologique de France, 

 still continues, and has been broken up into several series. After 

 the eleventh volume (1842) a change was made in the editorship, 

 and a second series commenced, extending, in ten volumes, to 

 1852 ; the third series has eight volumes to 1860 ; and the fourth 

 series, now in its fourth volume, commenced in 1861, in a new, more 

 compact type and on improved paper, so as to reduce the thick- 

 ness of the volume, which had become unwieldy. The papers are 

 exclusively entomological, and chiefly systematic and descrip- 

 tive. 



The Societe Imperiale Zoologique d'Acclimatation, established 

 in the Bois de Boulogne at Paris in 1854, publishes a Bulletin in 



