Notices of New Books. 5089 



Cell-contents of the Characeae, and on the Circulation of the Mucus 

 Substance of the Cell/ By H. J. Carter, Esq., Assistant-Surgeon 

 H.C.S. Bombay. 



'Amended Description of the Genus Scaphula of Benson, a fresh- 

 water form of the Arcacea ; with Characters of a New Species from 

 Tenasserim.' By W. H. Benson, Esq. 



'Description of Tanystoma tubiferum, a Burmese form related to 

 the Genus Anostoma of Lamarck.' By W. H. Benson, Esq. 



' On Pleurodictyum problematicum.' By William King, Professor 

 of Mineralogy and Geology in Queen's College, Galway. 



'On the Mechanism of Aquatic Respiration and on the Structure 

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

 Williams, M.D. Lond. 



1 On the Marine Testacea of the Piedmontese Coast.' By J. Gwyn 

 Jeffreys, Esq., F.R.S. 



' Notes on the Review of G. R. Gray's Catalogue of the Genera 

 and Subgenera of Birds in the December Number of the Annals.' 

 By G. R. Gray, F.L.S., &c. 



Bibliographical Notices: — 'A Popular History of Palms and their 

 Allies ; ' by Berthold Seemann, Ph. D. ' Museum of Economic Botany, 

 or a Popular Guide to the Museum of the Royal Gardens of Kew ; ' 

 by Sir W. J. Hooker, Director. ' A Handbook to the Marine Aqua- 

 rium ; ' by P. H. Gosse. ' Popular Geography of Plants, or a Botani- 

 cal Excursion round the World ; ' by E. M. C, edited by C. Daubeny, 

 M.D., &c. 'The Flowering Plants and Ferns of Great Britain; an 

 attempt to classify them according to their Geognostic Relations ; ' by 

 J. G. Baker. 



Proceedings of Learned Societies : — Zoological — Botanical of 

 Edinburgh. 



Miscellaneous: — Memorandum on the Animal of Scissurella cris- 

 pata ; by Lucas Barrett. Notes on the Marine Fauna of Weymouth ; 

 by William Thompson. 



No. 99 contains the following papers : — 



' On the House-Ant of Madeira.' By Professor O. Heer, of Zurich. 

 Translated from the original by R. T. Lowe, M.A. 



' Characters of seventeen New Forms of the Cyclostomacea from 

 the British Provinces of Burmah, collected by W. Theobald, jun., 

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



' Descriptions of three newly-discovered Species of Araneidea.' 

 By John Blackwall, F.L.S. 



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