4984 Fishes. 



the circumstance that the striae at the back of the cervix are rather 

 more distant from each other than the striae of the penultimate whorl. 



' Quarterly Journal of Microscopical Science, including the Trans- 

 actions of the Microscopical Society of London? Edited by 

 Edwin Lankester, M.D., F.R.S., F.L.S., and George Busk, 

 F.R.C.S.E., F.R.S., F.L.S. London: Churchill. No. XIV., 

 dated January, 1856. 102 pp. letter-press; 7 Plates: price 4s. 



This part contains the following papers : — 



1 On the Formation and Development of the Vegetable Cell.' By 

 F. H. Wenham. 



' On Certain Conditions of Dental Tissues.' By John Tomes, F.R.S., 

 Surgeon-Dentist to the Middlesex Hospital. 



1 On the Filamentous, Long-horned Diatomaceae, with a Description 

 of two new Species/ By Thomas Brightwell, Esq., F.L.S. 



* Observations on the Practical Application of the Microscope.' By 

 J. Hepworth, Esq. 



' On a case of Green-Pigment Degeneration of the Heart.' By 

 Dr. Thudichum. 



< On the Actinophrys Sol.' By J. Weston, Esq., H.E.I.C. 



'On the Impregnation and Germination of Algae.' By M. Prings- 

 heim. [Abridged from the Reports of the Berlin Academy.] 



' On the course of the Amyloid Degeneration.' By Rudolph Virchow. 

 [Abstracted from the Archiv f. Patholog. Anatomie und Physiologic 

 Bd. viii. p. 364.] 



Reviews : — ' Researches on the Structure and Formation of the 

 Vegetable Cell;' by Dr. Pringsheim [from the Bot. Zeitung for May, 

 1855]. 'A Manual of Marine Zoology for the British Isles;' by 

 Philip Henry Gosse. ' A Handbook to the Marine Aquarium;' by 

 Philip Henry Gosse. ' General Outline of the Organization of the 

 Animal Kingdom, and Manual of Comparative Anatomy ;' by Thomas 

 Rymer Jones. 



Notes and Correspondence : — Finders and Indicators. On Micro- 

 meters applied to Microscopes. Cilia in Unicellular Plants. Remarks 

 on Mr. Wenham's paper on Aperture of Object-glasses. Mohl on 

 Chlorophyll. On the Microscopical Structure of the Victoria Regia 

 [extracted from the Proceedings of the Botanical Society of Edin- 

 burgh]. The Stomachs of the Polygastrica. 



Proceedings of Societies: — Microscopical. [This report begins 

 with the meeting of March, 1855 : surely the Microscopical Society 

 would find its own account in using a little more dispatch and activity 



