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fully exemplified by the paper beiug so long unknown to, if not 

 ignored by, Messieurs Brongniart and Gris, who only allude to 

 it in the present year, after having in several cases hit upon 

 identical names for different genera, or published identical genera 

 or species under different names. 



Of the Annales de la Societe Linneenne de Lyon, four volumes, 

 octavo, Avith a fev^^ plates, a,t first very indifferent, formed a first 

 series from 1836 to 1852, containing several of Seringe's, and 

 afterwards of Jordan's botanical papers, with improved plates, 

 and a few entomological contributions. A second series, in im- 

 perial octavo, was begun in 1852, and carried on, in eight volumes, 

 to 1862. In these are numerous entomological papers, sometimes 

 occupying whole volumes, by E. Mulsant, A. Rey, and Gr. Levrat, 

 and also several of Jordan's descriptions of so-called new species 

 of French plants. 



The Agricultural Society of Lyons professes also to include 

 Natural History in its publications, which consist of three series, 

 large imperial octavo, with very few plates, entitled Annales des 

 Sciences Physiques et Naturelles, d' Agriculture et d'Industrie, 

 publiees par la Societe Hoyale d' Agriculture, etc. de Lyon. The 

 first series is in eleven volumes, 1837 to 1848, the word Rationale 

 being substituted for Royale in the eleventh ; the second series, 

 in eight volumes, carries it to 1856, the Rationale being again 

 changed to Imperiale in the third ; and the present series, the 

 third, commencing in 1857, has six volumes, the last received dated 

 1862. Here, as in other Lyons publications, are several long en- 

 tomological papers by E. Mulsant and his coadjutors ; and there 

 is also in the seventh and eighth volumes of the second series a 

 fauna of the Island of "Woodlark or Moiou, by the same Father 

 Montr ouzier who wrote the Flora of the island of Art. The insects 

 at least appear to have been worked up at Sydney, with the assist- 

 ance of the late Mr. "William MacLeay's collections ; but although 

 published in France, there appears to have been here no more 

 than in the case of the Flora any communication with European 

 naturalists. There are also in these Annales a few botanical 

 papers, physiological or even descriptive, but of little or no im- 

 portance, the great majority being geological or agricultural, and, 

 especially in the later volumes, sericicultural. 



The Academie des Sciences et Lettres de Moktpelliee, Section 

 des Sciences, published in 1847 and 1848 two thin quarto pam- 

 phlets of papers, including a very few zoological and botanical, 

 by Paul Gervais, F. Duval, and A. Delile. 



