Notices of New Books. 4243 



- 'On Blood Rain, (Palmella prodigiosa, Mont.)' By H. 0. Ste- 

 phens, Esq. 



' Descriptions of two new Genera (Pfeifferia and Janella) of Land 

 Mollusca.' By J. E. Gray, Ph.D., F.R.S., V.P.Z.S. 



< Notes on the Habits of Bivalve Shell Fish.' By S. P. Woodward. 



1 Centuries of North American Fungi.' By the Rev. M. J. Berke- 

 ley, M.A., F.L.S., and the Rev. M. A. Curtis, D.D. 



' Note on the Transverse Processes of the Two-toothed Dolphin, 

 (Hyperoodon bidens). By Professor Owen, F.R.S., &c. 



' Remarks on Libellula Brodiei, Buckman, a Fossil Insect from the 

 Upper Lias of Dumbleton, Gloucestershire.' By Professor Buckman, 

 F.G.S., F.L.S. 



' On Gallionella ferruginea, Ehr.' By J. W. Griffith, M.D., F.L.S. 



Bibliographical Notices : — ' The Botany of the Eastern Borders, 

 with the Popular Names and Uses of the Plants.' By G. Johnstone, 

 M.D. < The Handbook of British Ferns.' By T. Moore, F.L.S., &c. 

 * Beitrage zur Mycologie.' Von G. Fresenius, M.D. ' A Monograph 

 of the Subclass Cirripedia.' By Charles Darwin, F.R.S., F.G.S. 



Proceedings of Societies : — Zoological — Linnean. 



Miscellaneous: — On the Mode of Reproduction and Development 

 in the various Groups of Zoophytes and Mollusca ; by M. Gegenbaur : 

 extracted from the 'Comptes Rendus' for September 26, 1853, p. 493. 

 On the Teeth of Testacellus and Glandina; by J. E. Gray, Ph.D., &c. 

 On the Structure of the Retina in Man ; by Professors Kolliker and 

 H. Miiller : extracted from the ' Comptes Rendus ' for Sept. 26, 

 1853, p. 488. Discovery in the Human Body of a Substance giving 

 the same Chemical Reactions as Cellulose; by M. Virchow: extracted 

 from the ' Comptes Rendus,' /. c. 492. 



Mr. Higginbottom's paper on the British Tritons is one which will 

 be studied with pleasure and profit by every herpetologist. The re- 

 duction of our British species to three, will meet with general accep- 

 tation : the renaming of these three species will, we think and hope, 

 be as generally rejected. The new names proposed by Mr. Hig- 

 ginbottom, with their equivalents in Bell's ' Reptiles,' and in authors 

 which have the claim of priority, may be expressed as under : — 



Mr. Higginbottom's Names employed in the 2nd Names which have the claim 

 proposed Names. edition of BelVs 'Reptiles.' of priority. 



Triton asper, H. = (™™ -status, ) = ^^ pa]ustriS) £ 



Triton laevis, H. = Lissotriton punctatus= [Triton] aquaticus, L. 

 Triton minor, H. = Lissotriton palmipes= [Triton] palmipes, Dd. 



