4686 Notices of New Books. 



by Dr. D. F. Weinland [from Muller's Archiv for December, 1854, 

 p. 449]. Descriptions of Two New Species of Ptilonopus ; by George 

 Robert Gray, F.L.S., F.Z.S. [from 'Proceedings Zool. Soc.,' Mar. 22, 

 1853]. 



No. 87 contains the following papers: — 



' A Monograph of the Indian Species of Phylloscopus and its 

 immediate Affines.' By Edward Blythe, Esq. [From the 'Journal 

 of the Asiatic Society of Bengal,' No. 5, 1854]. 



' On Fossil Echinoderms from the Island of Malta ; with Notes on 

 the Stratigraphical Distribution of the Fossil Organisms in the Maltese 

 Beds.' By Thomas Wright, M.D. 



'On the Genera Pionandra, Cliocarpus and Pcecilochroma.' By 

 John Miers, Esq., F.R.S., F.L.S., &c. 



' On the Discovery of Viviparous Fish in Louisiana.' By B. 

 Dovvier, M.D. [From ' Silliman's Journal' for January, 1855]. 



'On the Anomalous Oyster-shell described in the 'Annals' for 

 February.' By Dr. J. E. Gray. 



' On Actinophrvs Sol.' By E. Claparede [Abridged from Muller's 

 Archiv for December, 1854.] 



Proceediags of Societies : — Zoological — Royal — Botanical of Edin- 

 burgh. 



Miscellaneous: — On the Movements and Reproduction of the 

 Navicular ; by M. Focke [from the ' Comptes Rendus' for Jan. 22, 

 1855, p. 167]. On Lottia zebrina and L. Scurra ; by Dr. J. E. Gray. 

 Description of a New Species of Sorex from India; by R. Templeton 

 [from Proc. Zool. Soc, July 26, 1853]. 



Dr. Dowler's paper on Viviparous Fish is extremely interesting : 

 the following is an extract: — 



"In the month of October, 1854, through the politeness of J. C. B. 

 Harvey, M.D., of Tchoupitoulas Street, I received a small osseous 

 fish, caught in the New Orleans Canal, which connects the city with 

 Lake Ponchartrain. This fish had been placed in a basket containing 

 crabs, one of which wounded it slightly in the abdomen, near the 

 cloaca, thereby exposing several fcetal fish enveloped in a delicate 

 membrane. The parent fish, which had been rudely thrust into a 

 narrow-mouthed phial of spirits, retains, after immersion for two weeks, 

 the original rigor mortis, and the same remark applies to the foetuses, 

 though they have been soaked in water some of them have been 

 forcibly straightened. On the 17th of October, in the presence of, 

 and assisted by, Drs. J. Hale and M. M. Dowler, I enlarged the 



