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NOTICES OF NEW BOOKS. 



' The Annals and Magazine of Natural History] Nos. 66 — 68, 

 dated June, July, and August, 1853. 



No. 66 contains the following papers : — 



* Description of Orbitolites Malabarica (H. J. C), illustrative of the 

 Spiral and not Concentric Arrangement of Chambers in D'Orbigny's 

 Order Cyclostegues.' By H.J. Carter, Esq., Assistant Surgeon, Bom- 

 bay Establishment. 



' Remarks upon British Plants.' By Charles C. Babington, M.A., 

 F.R.S., F.L.S., &c. 



1 Further Observations on the Animal of Diplommatina, (including 

 a Note by Capt. T. Hutton).' By W. H. Benson, Esq. 



4 On the Genera of the Tribe Duboisieae.' By John Miers, Esq., 

 F.R.S., F.L.S. 



'Notes on some British Zoophytes.' By Wyville Thomson, F.R.P.S. 

 &c, Lecturer on Botany, Univ. and Marischal College, Aberdeen. 



' Observations on Relative Position ; including a new Arrangement 

 of Phanerogamous Plants.' By B. Clarke, F.L.S. &c. 



■ On some points relating to the Structure and Mechanism of the 

 Wolf-fish, (Anarrhichas Lupus)? By Edwards Crisp, M.D. 



Proceedings of Learned Societies : — Zoological Society — Botani- 

 cal Society of Edinburgh —Entomological Society. 



Miscellaneous : — On the Reproduction of Frogs and Toads with- 

 out the intermediate stage of Tadpole ; by the Rev. L. Jenyns. Re- 

 searches on the Fecundation and Formation of the Embryo in the 

 Hepaticae and Ferns; by H. Philibert. Mode of determining the Op- 

 tical Power of a Microscope ; by Prof. Harting, of Utrecht. Marine 

 Vivaria; by William Thompson. Labidocera magna; by J. Lubbock. 

 Observations on the Anatomy of the Antennae in a small Species of 

 Crustacean ; by John D. M'Donald, M.D., Assistant Surgeon to 

 H.M.S.V. Torch. Meteorological Observations. 



Mr. Wyville Thomson describes Reticularia immersa, a new genus 

 and species of British zoophytes allied to the Sertulariadae, which 

 " differs from Coppinia and approaches the other Sertularians in hav- 

 ing its polyp-cells springing from a common horny tube." Found at 

 Newhaven ("usually investing Sertularia abietina") and Aberdeen. 



In the letter ' On the Reproduction of Frogs and Toads without 

 the intermediate stage of Tadpole,' the Rev. L. Jenyns refers to his 



