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mollusca, insects, and fungi, and several in vegetable physiology, 

 diversified by geology, statistics, poetry, heraldry, &c. 



The Linnean Society of Boedeatts, commencing in 1826, has 

 published twenty-four volumes, octavo, to 1863, of Proceedings 

 and Transactions, of v^hich the !Royal Society has eighteen to 1852. 

 The first three are under the title of Bulletin d'Histoire Natu- 

 relle de la Societe Linneenne de Bordeaux, the remainder as Actes 

 de la Societe Linneenne de Bordeaux. There are a very few 

 plates, chiefly in the latter volumes. There is in the series much 

 of geology and palaeontology, the zoology and botany relating 

 almost entirely to the fauna and flora of the country. There are 

 also a few papers on the anatomy .and physiology of insects, by 

 Leon Dufour, and in physiological and general botany of little im- 

 portance by Charles des Moulins and others ; and in the sixth 

 volume is one of those short communications in which Eafinesque 

 sought to encumber botanical science with a long batch of useless 

 generic names. 



A Linnean Society established at Caen, commenced publishing 

 Memoirs in octavo in 1824, under the title of Memoires de la So- 

 ciete Linneenne dn Calvados. "With the third volume (in 1826-27) 

 it had changed to Memoires de la Societe Linneenne deNormandie ; 

 and with the sixth volume the octavo form was exchanged for the 

 quarto, and the Memoirs have now, I believe, been brought down to 

 the thirteenth. I have only seen, however, the five octavo volumes, 

 which contain papers on the local geology, malacology, entomology, 

 and botany, with a general monograph of some genera of lichens, by 

 Delise. In 1856 the Society commenced also a Bulletin de la 

 Societe Linneenne de Normandie, in octavo, with a few plates, of 

 which we have only the last two volumes, the eighth and the 

 ninth, containing, besides reports of Proceedings, original papers, 

 often of considerable length, in which geology and palaeontology 

 occupy a great space. There are also entomological papers, Euro- 

 pean and exotic, by E. Eudes-Deslongchamps and A, Fauvel; 

 descriptions of a supposed new Californian genus of Liliaceee 

 (jRupellaga, Moriere, probably the same as Streptolirion, Torr.), 

 and of several new genera and species of New Caledonian plants, 

 by Yieillard, being, with the Annales des Sciences Naturelles of 

 Paris and the Lyons Memoires above mentioned, the third recep- 

 tacle for the simultaneous publication of these plants, to the great 

 confusion of their synonymy. 



The Societe des Sciences ISTaturelles de Cheeboueg was esta- 

 blished in 1852, and very soon became Societe Imperiale, and began 



