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processes, which sink into the substance of the subjacent mucous mem- 

 brane. These are found to be composed of elongated scales. By im- 

 mersion in water or diluted spirits of wine, these fringes are much 

 enlarged, and their size, indeed, exceeds that of the dense epithelium 

 itself. 



Mr. Hodgson made some remarks on organization without any per- 

 ceptible vascular connexions, and referred to the ovum at an early peri- 

 od, and the crystalline lens, as examples. — Dr. Macartney brought for- 

 ward the circumstances under which loose cartilages existed in the knee 

 joint as instances of the same phenomena, which he said increased and 

 decreased, and changed their structure, existing at first as coagulable 

 lymph, and afterwards as cartilage and bone, without any vascular con- 

 nexions. — Prof. Partridge adduced as instances the loose bodies in the 

 sheaths of tendons, which he knew to enlarge, though they were 

 previously completely detached. 



Nouvemix Memoires de la Societe Imperiale des Naturalistes de 

 Moscow, Tom. iv. (with 13 plates, and forming the 10th vol. 

 of the Collection). Moscow, 1835, 4to. 



In noticing for the first time the Memoirs of a Society which is 

 likely to be little known to many of our readers, we may mention that 

 the Imperial Society of Naturalists at Moscow has existed for many 

 years, and has published numerous volumes of valuable transactions. 

 Its primary object is to investigate the natural history of Russia, and 

 for this purpose a museum is formed, and almost every year individu- 

 als are sent, at the expense of the Society, to examine the most remote 

 and least known portions of the empire. The whole expenses of the 

 Society are defrayed by the Emperor, who presents it with an annual 

 donation of 10,000 R. ass. In addition to this each member contributes 

 yearly 30 R. which forms a sum in reserve. Each member on admis- 

 sion must present to the Society a memoir, or a work known to scienti- 

 fic men. The meetings are held monthly. The memoirs are allowed to 

 be written in Latin, German, French, English, Italian, or Russian. 



The volume of Transactions referred to above is almost exclusively 

 devoted to Entomology. The first paper, which occupies 113 pages of 

 the volume, is entitled, " Additamenta Entomologica ad Faunam Russi- 

 cam," and contains the descriptions of no fewer than 283 new species of 

 Coleoptera. These were collected in remote provinces of the empire by 

 Szovitz, an individual employed principally to examine the botany ; 

 but who devoted his leisure hours to what has been called its sister 

 science. This person having been carried off by fever while prosecuting 

 his researches, M. Faldermann was employed to render his entomo- 

 logical discoveries available to the pubkc. While engaged in this 

 undertaking, another collector, named M6netri§s, returned from the 



