Notices of New Books. 4343 



Note on Uraster hispida. — Being in the way of supplementing deficiencies, allow 

 me to correct an error in my notice of the little cross-fish (Zool. 3305), where, 

 referring to the number of rays, /our is printed in place of Jive.— Id. 



NOTICES OF NEW BOOKS. 



1 The Annals and Magazine of Natural History. y No. 76, dated 

 April, 1854; price 5s. : and No. 77, dated May, 1854; price 

 2s. 6d. London : Taylor & Francis, Red Lion Court, Fleet 

 Street. 



The contents of the April number are as follows : — 



' On the Structure of the Echinoderms.' By Joannes Muller. 



' Description of a new Species of Closterium, {Closterium Grif- 

 ffithsii): By the Rev. M. J. Berkeley, M.A., F.L.S. 



' Notes on the Ornithology of Ceylon, collected during an Eight 

 Years' Residence in the Island.' By Edgar Leopold Layard, F.Z.S., 

 C.M.E.S., &c. 



1 Monograph of the British Graphideae.' By the Rev. W. A. Leigh- 

 ton, B.A., F.B.S.E. 



1 A Reply to two Statements published by the Palaeontographical 

 Society, in their volume for 1853 ; one appearing to accuse the 

 University of Cambridge of illiberality in the administration of its 

 Museum ; the other reflecting on Professor M'Coy.' By the Rev. 

 Professor Sedgwick, M.A., F.R.S., &c. 



' Notice of the Discovery of Desmarestia Dresnayi on the Coast of 

 Ireland.' By R. K. Greville, LL.D., &c. 



1 On the Mechanism of Aquatic Respirat'on, and on the Structure 

 of the Organs of Breathing in Invertebrate Animals.' By Thomas 

 Williams, M.D. Lond. 



' Contributions to the Palaeontology of Gloucestershire : — A De- 

 scription, with Figures, of some new Species of Echinodermata from 

 the Lias and Oolites.' By Thomas Wright, M.D., &c. 



Bibliographical Notices : — i Botanical Letters to a Friend.' By 

 Dr. F. Unger. Translated by Dr. Paul. ' Synopsis des Caloptery- 

 gines.' Par M. E. de Selys-Longchamps. 



Proceedings of Learned Societies : — Royal Institution of Great 

 Britain — Zoological — Botanical of Edinburgh. 



Miscellaneous : — Note on the Vegetation of Mount Argaeus in 

 Cappadocia ; by M. P. de Tchihatcheff. On certain Statements con- 

 tained in Dr. T. Williams's paper on the Respiratory Organs of the 



