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gist.' It is interesting to state that the water employed in this case is the artificial 

 compound prepared from the formula of Mr. Gosse, of the entire efficiency of which 

 no severer test can be found. I shall be happy to show my headless and bowel-less 

 friend to any one favouring me with a call. — W. Alford Lloyd ; 19 and 20, Portland 

 Road, Regent's Park, London, June 16, 1856. 



NOTICES OF NEW BOOKS. 



c Annals and Magazine of Natural History? Nos. 101 and 10*2, 

 dated May and June, 1856. Price 2s. 6d. each. London: 

 Taylor and Francis, Red Lion Court, Fleet Street. 



The contents of No. 101 are as follow : — 



c On the British Species of Arctium.' By Charles Cardale 

 Babington, M.A., F.R.S., &c. 



' List of the Mollusca observed between Drontheim and the North 

 Cape.' By R. M'Andrew, Esq., F.L.S., and L. Barrett, Esq., 

 F.G.S. 



* Some Account of the Infant Orang Utan.' By Alfred R. Wallace. 

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



rede. 



* Another Note on Scissurella.' By S. P. Woodward. 



' On the Occurrence of the Fossil Genus Conoteuthis, D'Orb., in 

 England.' By S. P. Woodward. 



' On the Development of the Fresh-water Sponges.' By N. Lieber- 

 kuhn. 



' On the Development of the Chiton.' By Professor S. Loven. 



' On the Cell Development in Plants.' By Professor Arthur 

 Henfrey. 



Bibliographical Notices: — * A Monograph of the British Hieracia;' 

 by James Backhouse, Jun. ' A List of British Coleoptera;' by J. F. 

 Dawson and Hamlet Clark. 



Proceedings of Societies : — Royal, Zoological, Linnean, Geological. 



Miscellaneous : — The British Museum, its Catalogues and Acces- 

 sions in Zoology. On the Development of the Lampreys ; by M. 

 Schultze. Note on Clausilia Mortilleti ; by Charles Prentice. On a 

 Supposed New Species of the Genus Equus ; by M. I. Geoffroy St. 

 Ililaire. 



