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Plantes. [Translated from the Arinales des Sciences Naturelles, 

 4th Series, vol. ii. p. 267.] 



Notes and Correspondence : — The Circulation in Aqueous Plants ; 

 by Mr. James Western. On the Starch Grain; by O. Maschke. 

 Aperture of Object-glasses ; by Mr. F. H. Wenham. On the Structure 

 of the Frond of Polysiphonia fastigiata. Further Remarks on the 

 Fly's Foot; by Mr. J. Hepworth. Microscopic Preparations. 



Proceedings of Societies : — Microscopical. 



Zoophytology. 



* Annals and Magazine of Natural History? No. 95, dated 

 November, 1855; price 2s. Qd. London: Taylor and Francis, 

 Red Lion Court, Fleet Street. 



The November number of this Journal contains the following 

 papers : — 



' Notes on some New or little-known Marine Animals.' By Philip 

 Henry Gosse, A.L.S. 



'On the Injurious Effect of Excess or Want of Heat in the 

 Aquarium.' By Robert Warington, Esq. 



' On the Mechanism of Aquatic Respiration, and on the Structure 

 of the Organs of Breathing in Invertebrate Animals.' By Thomas 

 Williams, M.D. Lond. 



' Notice and Description of a New Species of Spider.' By the 

 Rev. Hamlet Clark, M.A. 



1 Observations on the Habits of the Stickleback.' By Robert 

 Warington, Esq. 



• The Vegetable Individual in its relation to Species.' By. Dr. 

 Alexander Brauu. [Extracted from Silliman's Journal for Sep- 

 tember, 1855.] 



Bibliographical Notice : — ' Glaucus ; or, the Wonders of the Shore.' 

 By Charles Kingsley. 



Proceedings of Societies: — Linnean, Zoological. 



Miscellaneous : — Bohemian Forests and Peat Bogs ; by Dr. Hoch- 

 stetter [extracted from the Proceedings of the Imperial Geological 

 Institute of Vienna, January 23, 1855]. Occurrence of Diodonta 

 fragilis at Weymouth; by William Thompson, Esq. Description of 

 a Second Species of the Genus Procnias; by Philip Lutley Sclater, 

 M.A. [extracted from the Proceedings of the Zoological Society, 

 November 14, 1854]. Descriptions of some New Species of Birds; 

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