5090 Notices of New Books. 



'On some Species of Epilobium.' By Charles C. Babington, M.A., 

 F.R.S., &c. 



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

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

 Williams, M.D. Lond. 



' Notes on Permian Fossils : Palliobranchiata.' By William King, 

 Professor of Mineralogy and Geology in Queen's University, Ireland. 



' On Scissurella crispata.' By William Clark, Esq. 



' Further Notice of Piedmontese Mollusca.' By J. Gvvyn Jeffreys, 

 Esq , F.R.S. 



Bibliographical Notices: — 'The Natural History of the Tineina;' 

 by H. T. Stainton, assisted by Professor Zeller and J. W. Douglas. 

 ' Sylloge Generum Specierumque Cryptogamicarum quas in variis 

 operibus descriptas iconibusque illustratas, nunc ad diagnosim redac- 

 tas, nonnullasque novas interjectas ordine systematico disposuit 

 C. Montagne, D.M., &c.' 



Proceedings of Learned Societies: — Zoological — Botanical of 

 Edinburgh. 



Miscellaneous : — On the Earliest Stages in the Development of 

 Pelagia noctiluca ; by Dr. A. Krohn. [Extracted from Midler's Archiv.] 

 Description of a New Species of Swift. 



The three spiders described by Mr. Blackwall belong to the tribe 

 Octonoculina, and to the family Linyphiidae : they are Neriene corni- 

 gera, discovered among moss growing under trees in a wood on the 

 northern slope of Gallt y Rhyg, in the autumn of 1854: Neriene mon- 

 tana, found on Ingleborough, in Yorkshire, in September, 1855; it 

 was received from Mr. Meade: Walckenaera vafra, discovered under 

 stones about Hen die House, near Llanrwst, in October, 1855. The 

 new swift is the Cypselus galilaeensis of Antinori, described in the 

 Naumannia for 1855, and discovered by Antinori in Palestine, near 

 the Sea of Galilee : it much resembles a previously-described South 

 African species, the Cypselus leucorrhous of Stephens. 



The contents of No. 100 are as follow: — 



'On the Theory of the Fecundation of the Ovum.' By E. Clapa- 

 rede. [Translated from the Bibliotheque Universelle de Geneve, for 

 August, 1855, p. 284]. 



1 On some Species of Epilobium.' By Charles C. Babington, M.A V , 

 F.R.S., &c. [Transactions of the Botanical Society of Edin- 

 burgh]. 



' Note on the Genus Scissurella.' By J. Gwyn Jeffreys, Esq., F.R.S. 





