CONTEXTS. 



Keviews — continued. 



PAGS 



British and Garden Botany 168 



' Consisting of Descriptions of the Flowering Plants, Ferns, and Trees 

 indigenous to Great Britain, &c, &c.' Illustrated. By Leo. H. 

 Grindon, Lecturer on Botany in tlie Royal School of Medicine, Man- 

 chester. London: Routledge. 



South African Butterflies 169 



' Rhopalocera Africae Australis : a Catalogue of South African Butter- 

 flies, comprising Descriptions of all the known Species, with Notices 

 of their Larvae, Pupae, Localities, Habits, Seasons of Appearance, and 

 Geographical Distribution.' By Roland Trimen, Member of the 

 Entomological Society of London. Part I. Papilionidae, Pieridae, 

 Danaidae, Acraeidee, and Nymphalidae. Cape Town: W. F. Matthew. 

 Steam Printing Office, St. George Street. 1862. 



Chemical Analysis 171 



' A Manual of Chemical Analysis : Quantitative and Qualitative. For 

 the use of Students. Part I. Qualitative. Part II. Quantitative.' By 

 Henry M. Noad, Ph.D., F.R.S., &c, London. Lovell Reeve & Co. 



The Astronomical Observer 172 



' A Handbook to the Observatory and the Common Telescope.' By W. A. 

 Darby, F.R.A.S. London : R. Hardwicke. 1864. 



PAMPHLET. 

 Sericulture in Oudh 173 



By Dr. E. Bonavia, Hon. Sec. to the Agri-horticultural Society of Oudh. 

 Lucknow : R. Craven. 1864. 



THE BRITISH ASSOCIATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT 



OF SCIENCE (1864). 



(Meeting at Bath, concluded from Vol. I. p. 746.) 



Physical Science (Section A) 175 



Chemistry (Section B) 176 



Zoology and Botany (Section D) 177 



Physiology (Sub-section D) 178 



NOTES AND CORRESPONDENCE. 



On the Probable Existence of the Repetition of Octaves in the Solar 

 Spectrum. By C. Hilton Fagge, M.D., Lecturer on Experimental 

 Philosophy at Guy's Hospital Medical School . . . 182 



On the Vast Antiquity of the Lunar Surface. By James Nasmyth 183 



Books, Pamphlets, &c, Received for Beview .... 185 



Proceedings of Societies Keceived ... .... 186 



