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the Transactions of the Agricultural and Horticultural Society of 

 India, octavo ; the Madras Journal of Literature and Science, 

 octavo ; the Journal of the Indian Archipelago and Eastern Asia, 

 octavo ; and the Transactions of the E.oyal Society of Arts and 

 Sciences of the Mauritius, octavo. 



From Australia we have the Transactions of the Eoyal Society 

 of Van Diemen's Land, of the Philosophical Society, afterwards 

 Philosophical Institute, and now Eoyal Society of Yictoria, and 

 of the Entomological Society of Sydney, all in octavo. 



From British North America Ave receive the Transactions of the 

 Nova Scotian Institute of Natural Science, the annals of the Bo- 

 tanical Society of Canada, and the Canadian Naturalist and 

 G-eologist, aU in octavo .- 



From the United States my friend Dr. A. G-ray has kindly 

 transmitted to me a list of no less than sixty-eight Transactions 

 or Journals, in which more or less of zoology and botany has been 

 published ; and of these, thirty-six are still in progress. Yery few 

 are exclusively devoted to Natural History ; but the Transactions 

 of the principal Scientific Societies of Boston, New York, Phila- 

 delphia, and Washington contain numerous most valuable papers, 

 both on American and general Zoology and Botany, interspersed 

 with contributions to other sciences. The most important works of 

 the kind in the Libraries at Burlington House are, — the Memoirs of 

 the American Academy of Arts and Sciences at Boston, in quarto, 

 and their Proceedings, in octavo ; the Proceedings and Journal of 

 the Boston Society of Natural History, octavo ; the Annals of the 

 Lyceum of Natural History of New York, octavo ; the Journal of' 

 the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, at first in octavo, 

 and now in quarto ; the Transactions of the American Philoso- 

 phical Society at Philadelphia, quarto ; the Contributions to Know- 

 ledge of the Smithsonian Institution, "Washington, quarto ; and 

 Silliman's American Journal of Science, octavo. Dr. Gray's list 

 comprises also Transactions still being published by Societies for 

 general Science or for Natural History specially, at Albany, 

 Bloomington (Illinois), Buffalo, California, Charleston, Chicago, 

 New Orleans, Portland (Maine), St. Louis, and Salem (Massa- 

 chussets), besides numerous Agricultural Associations. 



At home our own Linnean Transactions and Journal, and those 

 of the Zoological and Entomological Societies of London, of the 

 Botanical Society of Edinburgh, and of the Natural History 

 Society of Dublin, are exclusively devoted to Zoology and Botany, 

 besides those of the "Wernerian Society of Edinburgh, now ex. 



