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Serials. — America : — ' Smithsonian Contributions to Knowledge,' 

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 actions of the Berlin Academy ' for 1854. ' Journal of Scientific Zoo- 

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 and; 1855. 'Transactions of the Imperial Geological Institute.' 

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 of German Geological Society,' Vol. VI. Part 4, and Vol. VII. Part 1. 

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 Vol. XIV. 'Bulletin of Vandois Society of Natural Science,' Vol. 

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 Science,' No. XV. 'Zoologist,' No. CLX1L— CLX1V. 'Transactions 

 of the Entomological Society of London,' New Series, Vol. III. 

 ' Note on Mr. Newman's Memorandum on the Wing-rays of Insects.' 

 Hooker's 'Journal of Botany,' &c. No. LXXXVII.— LXXXIX, 

 ' Phytologist,' New Series, No. XII.— XIV. 



In the notice of my ' Memorandum on the Wing-rays of Insects ' 

 Mr. Haliday has some very amusing remarks. Although the paper 

 is anonymous, I fix at once on Mr. Haliday as the author, be- 

 cause the necessary erudition and the power of writing such good 

 English are not combined in any other living entomologist. I should 

 perhaps attempt a reply in the same good-natured strain, but that 

 neither my views nor Mr. Haliday's strictures thereon appear in the 

 pages of the ' Zoologist.' One point, however, admits of a comment : 

 Mr. Haliday tells us he rubbed his eyes because I suggest the name 

 of "ray" for a part which I conceive to be the analogue of "bone." 

 I may inform Mr. Haliday that it is a dangerous experiment to trans- 

 fer the name of parts from an endosteate to an exosteate structure. 

 Thus, when the late popular Professor of Zoology in King's College 

 called the antennae of insects "ears," there were very disagreeable 



