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* On the House-Ant of Madeira.' [Translated from the German of 

 Professor O. Heer, of Zurich]. 



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

 Q.C., Galway. 



'Remarks on the Genera Tanystoma, Nematura and Anaulus.' By 

 W. H. Benson, Esq. 



'New Researches in Vegetable Embryogeny.' By M. Tulasne. 

 [Translated from the Comptes Rendus, November 12, 1855, p. 790]. 



1 On the Tracheal System of Insects.' By Thomas Williams, M.D. 

 Lond., F.L.S., &c. 



Bibliographical Notice: — ' Insecta Maderensia;' by T. V. Wollas- 

 ton, M.A., F.L.S. 



Proceedings of Learned Societies : — Bombay Branch Royal Asiatic 

 — Zoological. 



Miscellaneous : — On the Mode in which Tachinae escape from their 

 Pupa-cases, and from closed Situations in which they often occur; by 

 Dr. Reissig. [Extracted from Weigmann's Archiv. xxi. p. 189]. On 

 the apparent absence of a Nervous System in Nemoptera lusitanica ; 

 by M. Leon Dufour. [Extracted from the Comptes Rendus, Decem- 

 ber 31, 1855, p. 1204]. 



1 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. XV., 

 dated April, 1856. Price 4s. 



The contents of No. XV. are as follow : — 



' A Simple Form of Portable Microscope, with Lever Adjustment, 

 which may be adapted to several different purposes.' By Lionel 

 Beale, M.B., Professor of Physiology and General Morbid Anatomy 

 in King's College, London. 



' Report of the Sixteenth Annual Meeting of the Microscopical 

 Society.' 



* Further Observations on the Structure of Appendicularia (labellum 

 (Chamisso).' By T. H. Huxley, F.R.S. 



' Note on the Reproductive Organs of the Cheilostome Polvzoa. 1 

 By T. H. Huxley, F.R.S. 



