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thinks, find the sea-urchins only, and as they generally fall to 

 pieces like chitons, we should be obliged to determine the 

 species from fragments. This however we do not find to be 

 the case with fossil species, which are generally very com- 

 plete with the exception of the spines. Mr. Forbes is right 

 in regarding such observations as calculated to promote 

 equally the interests of both geology and zoology. 



The next papers are, — a continuation of Dr. Johnston's 

 remarks on the British Nereides, in which several new 

 species, and three new genera of these interesting annulose 

 animals are described with much taste and ability. A continua- 

 tion of Mr. F. Walker's description of British Chalcidites. 

 An excellent paper on the Anatomical Structure and Or- 

 ganization of the Stems of Plants, by Dr. M. J. Schleiden, 

 translated from Wiegmann's Archiv. part 3, 1839. On the 

 Fungi of the neighbourhood of Bristol, byH. O. Stephens. On 

 the Arctium Lappa and Bardana, of Sir J. E. Smith, by C. 

 C. Babington. A continuation of the late lamented Mr. Cun- 

 ningham's account of the Botany of New Zealand. Informa- 

 tion respecting Botanical Travellers, &c, with Bibliographical 

 Notices and Proceedings of Societies. From the latter we ex- 

 tract an account of Mr. Griffith's collection of Insects of the 

 Khasiah mountains, by the Rev. F. W. Hope, President of 

 the Entomological Society ;* also a notice of the remarkable 

 diffusion of Corraline Animalcules from the use of Chalk in 

 the arts of life, by Professor Ehrenberg. 



The January number contains a short paper on the distinc- 

 tions of two species of Allium, by C. Babington, Esq. A notice 

 of some Fungi collected by C. Darwin, Esq. during the- ex- 

 pedition of the Beagle, by the Rev. M. J. Berkeley, M.A., 

 F.L.S. Zoological notices by Dr. A. Philippi. Remarks 

 on Dr. Philippi's paper, by J. E. Gray, Esq. Notices of 



* These we believe formed no part of the collection made by the Assam De- 

 putation, as Mr. Hope supposed, but were found by Mr. Griffith's private collectors 

 in the Khasia mountains when he himself was employed in Boutan. The Entomo- 

 logical collection made by the Assam Deputation is still, for ought we know, in 

 possession of Dr. Wallich. 



