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Bibliographical Notices : — ' An Introduction to Entomology ; or, 

 Elements of the Natural History of Insects;' by William Kirby, 

 M.A., F.R.S., F.L.S., and William Spence, F.R.S., F.L.S. 'Ferny 

 Combes ; a Ramble after Ferns in the Glens and Valleys of Devon- 

 shire;' by Charlotte Chanter. 



Proceedings of Societies : — Zoological. 



Miscellaneous : — On the Vitality of the Anguillulae of Mildewed 

 Wheat; by C. Davaine [extracted from the Comptes Rendus for 

 July 21, 1856, p. 148]. Notice of a New Species of Nocturnal Lizard 

 from Mexico; by Dr. J. E. Gray, F.R.S. &c. On a new Genus and 

 Species of Trochilidae from Ecuador ; by John Gould, F.R.S. , &c. 



No. 106 contains : — 



'Monograph of the British Umbilicarise.' By the Rev. W. A. 

 Leighton, B.A., F.B.S.E. 



' On the Development of the Lampreys.' By August Miiller. 

 [Extracted from Muller's Archiv, 1856, No. IV. p. 323.] 



' Monograph of the Genus Catops.' By Andrew Murray. 



' Contributions to the Anatomy of the Infusoria.' By N. Lieber- 

 kuhn. [Extracted from Muller's Archiv, January, 1856. 



' New British Arthoniae.' By the Rev. W. A. Leighton, B.A., 

 F.B.S.E. 



Proceedings of Societies : — Royal ; Botanical of Edinburgh ; 

 Zoological. 



Miscellaneous : — Obituary Notice of William Yarrell. Amphioxus 

 lanceolatus ; by W. P. Cocks. Description of a newly-discovered 

 Tanager of the Genus Buarremon ; by Philip Lutley Sclater, M.A., 

 &c. 



The following extract from Mr. A. R. Wallace's note ' On the 

 Habits of the Orang-Utan of Borneo,' will be read with interest : — 



" It is a singular and most interesting sight to watch a mias 

 making his way leisurely through the forest. He walks deliberately 

 along the branches, in the semi-erect attitude which the great length 

 of his arms and the shortness of his legs give him : choosing a place 

 where the boughs of an adjacent tree intermingle, he seizes the 

 smaller twigs, pulls them towards him, grasps them, together with 

 those of the tree he is on, and thus, forming a kind of bridge, swings 

 himself onward, and, seizing hold of a thick branch with his long 

 arms, is in an instant walking along to the opposite side of the tree. 

 He never jumps or springs, or even appears to hurry himself, and yet 

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