Notices of New Books. 5327 



' On the Habits of the Orang-Utan of Borneo.' By A. R. Wallace. 



' Polyzoa collected by Mr. M'Andrew on the Coasts of Norway and 

 Finmark in 1856.' By George Busk, F.R.S., F.L.S. 



' On the Evils of increasing Synonyms.' By S. P. Woodward, F.G.S. 



'Observations on the External Characters and Internal Anatomy of 

 a Bitentaculate Slug, found at the Island of Aneiteum, New Hebrides.' 

 By John Denis Macdonald, R.N. 



1 On Vegetable Cell-formation.' By Prof. Arthur Henfrey, F.R.S. 



' On the Method of Paleontology.' By Thomas H. Huxley, F.R.S. 



Bibliographical Notices : — ' The Ferns of Great Britain ;' illustrated 

 by J. E. Sowerby ; the descriptions by C. Johnson. ' The Ferns of 

 Great Britain and their Allies ;' by Anne Pratt. ' The Fern Allies ;' 

 illustrated by J. E. Sowerby; descriptions by C. Johnson. 'British 

 Poisonous Plants;' by C. Johnson. 



Proceedings of Learned Societies : — Zoological ; Royal Institution 

 of Great Britain ; Botanical of Edinburgh. 



Miscellaneous: — Note on Edwardsia vestita, Forbes; by P. H. 

 Gosse. On Cyclas lacustris, Draparnaud ; by J. Gwyn Jeffreys. 

 Occurrence of Clausilia Mortilleti in Kent ; by W. H. Benson. On the 

 Siliceous Sporangial Sheath of the Diatomaceae; by J. W. Griffith, M.D. 

 Travels in Central America; by MM. Scherzer and Wagner. On the 

 Non-existence of Polarizing Silica in the Organic Kingdoms; by 

 Prof. J. W. Bailey. 



The contents of No. 104 are as follow :-— 



' On the Development and Propagation of Sphaeroplea annulina.' 

 By Dr. Ferdinand Cohn. [Extracted from the Monatsberight of the 

 Berlin Academy for May, 1855.] 



' New Terrestrial Shells from Ceylon, with a General List of the 

 Species inhabiting that Island.' By W. H. Benson, Esq. 



' Notice of a curious Metamorphosis in a Polype-like Animal.' By 

 C. W. Peach. 



' Brief Outline of the Anatomy of the Genus Atlas, LesueurS By 

 John Denis Macdonald, R.N. 



' On the Development of Arenicola piscatorum, with Remarks upon 

 that of other Branchiferous Annelides.' By Dr. Max Schultze. [Ex- 

 tracted from the Abhandl. der Naturforsch. Gesellsch. in Halle, 

 vol. iv.] 



' Notes on the Fresh-water Infusoria of the Island of Bombay.' 

 No. 1. Organization. By H. J. Carter, Esq. 



1 Monograph of the Genus Catops {continued). By Andrew Murray. 



