linne.\jN' society or lo>^i>o>'. Ixxiii 



The Memoires de la Societe d'Histoire Naturelle de Stbas- 

 BOFRG are iu five volumes, quarto, v^-ith. plates, 1830 to 1862, the 

 title being changed in the fifth volume (1858 to 1862) to Memoires 

 de la Societe des Sciences Naturelles de Strasbourg. They con- 

 tain, besides many geological papers and a few on the local fauna 

 and flora, a few contributions to animal physiology and anatomy 

 by Duvernoy and others, papers on the Giraffe by Joly and La- 

 vocat, on Madagascar zoology by Sganzin, on Algerine testacea 

 by Kuhn, on Cyprimis harhus by Buchner, and on a new crab 

 by Lereboullet — and in botany, Lee on Ferns, on the crypto- 

 gams of officinal barks, and various histological contributions ; 

 Steenheil on Individuality in A^egetables, and other speculative 

 subjects ; and "W. O. Schimper's anatomy and physiology of 

 mosses. Eacb paper has a separate paging throughout the series. 



I have also references to Bulletins, Memoires, or Annales of 

 Natural- History Societies at Atjxeeee (Tonne), Colmae, Gue- 

 EET (Creuze), Metz (Moselle), Peitas (Ardeche), Eennes (Ille- 

 et-Vilaine), La Eochelle, and Veesailles (Seine-et-Oise), all 

 of them otherwise unknov^n to me. 



Zoological or botanical papers may also occasionally be found 

 in the Transactions or Proceedings of the Scientific Academies or 

 Societies of Agek, Amieks, Angees, Bateux, Besan^on, Boe- 

 DEAUX, BoulogjSte-sue-Mee, Caen, Chambeet, Ceeemont-Fee- 



EAND, DiJOK, EpiNAIi, LlLLE, Le MASS'S, MeTZ, NaWOY, NaI^TES, 



OELiANS, Peoyiks, Eennes, Eouen, St. Quentik, Toulouse, 

 Teoyes, and Yalenciennes ; but as none of them profess to be 

 specially devoted to Natural History, it would have taken up 

 more time than I can bestow to look them over. 



XTII. Beitain and kindeed States. 



It had been my intention in a similar manner to have passed in 

 review the Transactions and Journals in the English Language 

 which profess to include Natural History among the papers ad- 

 mitted ; but time and space have failed me, and this is of the less 

 importance, as they are all so much better known to us than 

 foreign ones. I shall therefore merely enumerate the titles of a 

 few of the most important of them. 



In the East Indies the Calcutta Journal of Natural History, 

 octavo, was carried through eight volumes, from 1841 to 1848 ; 

 and a few papers on Zoology and Botany are dispersed through 

 the more or less voluminous series of the Journal of the Asiatic 

 Society of Bengal, octavo, and their Asiatic Eesearches, quarto ; 



