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jointly with Mr. Albany Hancock for the Eay Society. The 

 Monograph, when completed, will make us acquainted with a 

 branch of marine zoology which is at the present time wrapped 

 in much obscurity. 



Mr. Atthey continues his researches into the remains of the 

 fossil vertebrata of the Coal Strata ; and there is reason to hope 

 that the Transactions will before long be enriched by another 

 contribution by Mr. Kirkby and himself upon this subject. 



Mr. J. Gr. Baker has, we rejoice to say, been appointed "First 

 Assistant in the Kew Herbarium," a position highly congenial 

 to his tastes. During the past year he has published a Mono- 

 graph on the British species of Mentha, and sundry miscellanea, 

 in the "Manual of Botany;" and since he has been at Kew he 

 has commenced an examination of the Filices of the collection, 

 and as a first result has already contributed to tbe Linnean So- 

 ciety a memoir on certain new Hymenophyllacese. With un- 

 daunted vigour Mr. Baker and Mr. Tate have again set to work 

 at the preparation of the Flora of the Counties of Northumberland 

 and Durham to be published in our Transactions, the writing of 

 which was already far advanced when the MS. was consumed, 

 among Mr. Baker's other property, in the lamentable fire which 

 destroyed his house at Thirsk. The first part of the Flora is 

 promised us by the end of the present year. 



Mr. T. J. Bold has been busy making fresh discoveries in that 

 boundless study to which he devotes himself — the investigation 

 of the Insect Fauna of Northumberland. During the past season 

 he has found many species new to our local Fauna among the 

 Coleoptera, but has been more especially applying himself to 

 the examination of the Hemiptera, a class of insects of which 

 British naturalists knew but little until Messrs. Douglas and 

 Scott brought out, in 1864, the first volume of their able work 

 upon the subject, published by the Eay Society. 



Mr. Gr. S. Brady has been especially devoting himself to the 

 elucidation of the Entomostraca belonging to the order Ostracoda. 

 One paper, " On neiv or imperfectly known Species of Marine 

 Ostracoda" is being printed in the forthcoming part of the Zoo- 

 logical Society's Transactions; and another, " A Monograph of 



