Notices of New Books. 4041 



Columns observed at Sandwiek Manse, Orkney ; by the Rev. C. 

 Clouston. Meteorological Observations. 



Professor Vrolik, of Amsterdam, states in the ' Comptes Rendus ' 

 for May 2, 1853, that the perforation of stones by the mechanical 

 action of the shells of Pholades, without the aid of an acid, was de- 

 scribed more than seventy years ago by Leendert Bomme, a Director 

 of the Commercial Company of Middlebourg, in a memoir published 

 in the ' Transactions of the Scientific Society of Flessingen.' 



The papers in No. 68 are intituled : — 



* On the Genus Cercyon, with a short Monographical Synopsis of 

 the British Sphaeridiidse.' By Andrew Murray, W.S. Edinburgh. 



' Characters of New Land Shells, collected by Edgar L. Layard, 

 Esq., in Ceylon.' By W. H. Benson, Esq. 



1 Notes on the Ornithology of Ceylon, collected during an Eight 

 Years 1 Residence in the Island.' By Edgar Leopold Layard, CCS. 



1 On the Rissoa rubra.' By William Clark, Esq. 



1 Description of several new Species of British Crustacea.' By Wil- 

 liam Thompson, Esq. 



' On two new Species of Calanidae, with Observations on the Sper- 

 matic Tubes of Pontella, Diaptomus, &c.' By John Lubbock, Esq., 

 F.Z.S. 



' Notes on some new or little-known Marine Animals.' By P. H. 

 Gosse, A.L.S. 



' On the Teeth of the Genus Mitra, Lamarck' By J. E. Gray, 

 Ph.D., F.R.S., V.P.Z.S., &c. 



Bibliographical Notices : — ' Systeme Silurien du Centre de la Bo- 

 heme. lere partie, Recherches Paleontologiques. Trilobites,' par J. 

 Barrande. ' Popular Physical Geology.' By J. B. Jukes, F.RS. 



Proceedings of Learned Societies: — Royal Institution — Zoological 

 Society. 



Miscellaneous : — Observations on the Breeding of the Nightingale 

 in Captivity; by H. Hanley. Eucratea chelata ; by William F. Tem- 

 pler. On a new Species of Bulimus; byLovell Reeve, F.L.S. John- 

 stonella Catharina, Gosse ; by J. E. Gray, F.R.S., &c. On a new 

 Genus of Anomiadae ; by J. E. Gray, F.R.S., &c. Meteorological 

 Observations. 



In his paper on the Rissoa, Mr. Clark proposes to constitute a new 

 genus — Barleea — for the reception of the R. rubra of authors, living 

 specimens of that animal, sent to him from Penzance by Mr. Bailee, 

 being found to differ greatly from the published descriptions. 

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