Notices of New Books. 4753 



' Short Characters of some New Genera and Species of Algae dis- 

 covered on the Coast of the Colony of Victoria, Australia.' By W. H. 

 Harvey, M.D., M.R.I. A., &c, Keeper of the Herbarium of the Uni- 

 versity of Dublin. 



' Some Remarks on Vegetable Placentation.' By John Cle- 

 land, Esq. 



' On the Attitudes and Figures of the Morse.' By Dr. J. E. Gray, 

 F.R.S., V.P.Z.S. 



* Descriptions of Eight New Species of Birds from South America.' 

 By John Gould, Esq., F.R.S. 



* On the Impregnation and Germination of the Algae.' By Dr. 

 Pringsheim. A copy of Dr. Pringsheim's researches on these obscure 

 but interesting subjects, lately laid before the Berlin Academy, having 

 been forwarded to Professor Henirey, together with a request that he 

 would make them known in England, that gentleman has prepared this 

 paper, which is a brief and very compressed abstract, for publication 

 in the * Annals/ 



Bibliographical Notices: — 'A History of the British Marine Testa- 

 ceous Mollusca, distributed in their Natural Order;' by William 

 Clark. ' The Ferns of Great Britain,' illustrated by John E. Sowerby : 

 the Descriptions, Synonyms, &c, by C. Johnson. ' First Steps in 

 Economic Botany, for the Use of Students;' by Thomas Croxen Archer. 

 'The Entomologist's Annual for 1855;' edited by H. T. Stainton. 



Proceedings of Learned Societies: — Royal — Linnean — Zoological — 

 Botanical of Edinburgh. 



Miscellaneous : — Origin of Wheat [extracted from the ' Gardener's 

 Chronicle' for March 10, 1855]. Mr. Busk's Anomalous Shell; by 

 Professor J. S. Henslow. On the Fructification of the Arachis 

 hypogaea; by Hugh M. Neisler [extracted from ' Silliman's Journal' 

 for March, 1855]. On the Structure of the Starch Granule ; by Mr. 

 Grundy [extracted from the 'Pharmaceutical Journal' for April, 1855]. 

 Description of a New Species of Aulacorhamphus ; by John Gould, 

 Esq., F.R.S. [extracted from the 'Proceedings of the Zoological 

 Society' for February 22, 1853]. 



No. 90 contains the following papers:— 



'Monograph on the British Species of Phalangiidae or Harvest 

 Men.' By R. H. Meade, F.R.C.S. 



' On the Structure of Chlorophyll.' By Hugo von Mohl. [Trans- 

 lated from the ' Botauische Zeitung' for February 9 and 16, 1853, by 

 Professor Henfrey. This paper is now concluded.] 



