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publishing Memoirea, iu octavo, with occasionally a few plates. 

 In the tenth, for 1864, the last received, is a general classified 

 index. Physics, geology, medical and industrial sciences occupy 

 a large space. In zoology and botany, besides the local fauna 

 and flora, there are several papers on the fauna of JSTew Cale- 

 donia by Jouan, and of the Marquesas by Jardin, entomological 

 communications by Mulsant, Eey, Bertrand-Lachenee and others, 

 in botanical physiology and teratology by Le Jolis, Bertrand-La- 

 chenee and others, algological by Le Jolis, Thuret, and Brebis- 

 son ; and valuable lichenological papers by ISTylander, besides a 

 few unimportant ones on the botany of the Pacific islands. 



Lyons publishes three contemporaneous series of scientific 

 Transactions, to all of which their entomologists, at least, contri- 

 bute Natural-History papers. The scientific branch of the prin- 

 cipal Academy (Royal, National, or Imperial, according to the ruler 

 of the day) began in 1845 their Memoires de I'Academie Eoyale 

 des Sciences, Belles-Lettres, et Arts de Lyon, Section des Sciences 

 (in the title-page ; Classe des Sciences on the cover), in octavo. 

 The first series comprises two meagre volumes, dated 1845 and 

 1847, but including papers read in 1849. The only Natural-His- 

 tory papers are three short entomological ones in the second 

 volume, with one small plate, the only one in the series. In 1851 

 a new series was commenced, of an enlarged size (imperial octavo), 

 with the same title, except that the Academie Hoyale had become 

 Nationale, and the words NouveUe Serie were added. In the 

 second volume (1852) the word Nationale was exchanged for Im- 

 periale, and in the third the size was reduced to an intermediate 

 one between the two previous ones. This form still continues 

 np to the last volume received, the twelfth, dated 1862. In the 

 first ten volumes of this series are numerous entomological papers 

 of E. Mulsant and his collaborators, and in the earlier ones seve- 

 ral of Jordan's contributions, both specTilative as to his peculiar 

 view of species, and descriptive of some of the innumerable forms 

 he adds to the French Flora. In the tenth volume, also, 1860, 

 the Missionary Pather Montrousier (or Montrouzier) gives a 

 Plora of the Island of Art, ofi" the north coast of New Caledonia, 

 with descriptions of numerous new genera and species. It does 

 not appear what means the author had for determining and com- 

 paring his species, nor what were his reasons for publishing in 

 these little-known Transactions, without communication with the 

 Parisian botanists, who were occupied at the same time with New 

 Caledonian plants ; but the inconvenience of the proceeding is 



