5328 Notices of New Books. 



6 On a new British Species of Skenea.' By W. Webster, Esq. 



' Description of a new Species of Dolphin, from the upper parts of 

 the River Amazon.' By Dr. J. E. Gray, F.R.S., &c. 



Bibliographical Notices: — * Manual of Geology, Practical and 

 Theoretical ;' by John Phillips, M.A., F.R.S., &c. ' Tenby : a Sea- 

 side Holiday;' by P. H. Gosse. 'Manual of British Botany; con- 

 taining the Flowering Plants and Ferns, arranged according to the 

 Natural Orders;' by Charles Cardale Babington, M.A., F.R.S., 

 F.L.S., &c. (fourth edition). \ Trees and their Nature ; or the Bud 

 and its Attributes;' by Alex. Harvey, A.M., M.D., &c. 



Proceedings of Societies : — Zoological ; Botanical of Edinburgh. 



Miscellaneous : — On the probable Origin of the Organized Beings 

 now living in the Azores, Madeira and the Canaries ; by M. Oswald 

 Heer [extracted from the Bibliotheque Universelle de Geneve, 

 April, 1856, p. 327]. Note on Clausilia plicatula and C. Mortilleti; 

 by J. Gwyn Jeffreys, Esq., F.R.S. Note on Lernaea branchialis; by 

 W. P. Cocks. On two new Species of Birds from Santa Fe di 

 Bogota; by Philip Lutley Sclater, M.A., F.L.S. On the British 

 Diastylidae ; by C. Spence Bate, F.L.S. Note on Helix cantiana, 

 Mont. ; by W. Lonsdale, F.G.S. Description of a Fossil Cranium of 

 the Musk Buffalo from the Gravel at Maidenhead, Berks; by Prof. 

 Owen, F.R.S. A Last Word on Scissurella; by J. Gwyn Jeffreys, 

 Esq. F.R.S. New Mode of cleaning Diatomaceous Deposits; by 

 Prof. J. W. Bailey. New Method of disintegrating Masses of Fossil 

 Diatomaceae ; by Prof. J. W. Bailey. 



The contents of No. 105 are as under: — 



1 Attempt at a Natural Arrangement of Birds.' By Alfred R. 

 Wallace, Esq. 



' Recent Discoveries in Vegetable Embryogeny.' By Arthur 

 Henfrey, Esq., F.R.S. 



1 On Edwardsia carnea, a new British Zoophyte.' By Philip H. 

 Gosse, F.R.S. 



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

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



1 Descriptions of one Indian and nine Burmese Helices ; and Notes 

 on two Burmese Cyclostomacea.' By W. H. Benson, Esq. 



' On an Abnormality in the Flowers of Salix Andersoniana.' By 

 John Lowe, Esq. 



' Cardium exiguum : its Siphons and its Byssus.' By Philip II. 

 Gosse, F.R.S. 



