276 Magazine of Natural History, 8fc. 



acea, by Thomas Pridgin Teale. On Alcyonella stagnorwm 



by the same author — both good papers. Of the latter we have alrea- 

 dy had occasion to speak in a former Number of this Journal. Four 



plates are devoted to the illustrations of these papers. On the 



Yorkshire Coal-field, by Mr Edward S. George, F. L. S., read No- 

 vember 1836. 



London s Magazine of Natural History. New Series. May and 



June 1837. 



I. Zoology. 



Shuckard on Generic Nomenclature, p. 248. Westwood's 



Observations in Reply to Mr Shuckard, p. 316 Blyth on the 



Reconciliation of certain apparent Discrepancies observable in the 

 Mode in which the seasonable and progressive Changes of Colour are 

 effected in the Fur of Mammalians and Feathers of Birds ; with va- 

 rious Observations on Moulting, p. 259 and 300. Br Moore on 



the Climbing and Gallinaceous Birds of Devonshire, p. 227 



Moore on the Wading Birds of Devonshire, p. 319. Charles- 

 worth's Notice of the Teeth of Carcharias megalodon in the Red 



Crag of Suffolk, p. 225. On the Structure of the Fossil Saurians, 



p. 284. Westwood's Description of a new Genus of British pa- 

 rasitic Hymenopterous Insect, p. 257. J. E. Gray on the en- 

 largement of the Eggs of some marine Molluscans during- the period 

 of their hatching, p. 247. 



II. Botany. 



Bird on the Existence of electric Currents in Vegetable Struc- 

 tures, p. 240, and p. 293. Brown on the Preservation of Bota- 

 nical Specimens from the attacks of Insects, p. 311. 



Companion to Botanical Magazine. By Sir W. J. Hooker, Pro- 

 fessor of Botany in the University of Glasgow. 

 The continuation of this work from our last notice, p. 87, contains, 

 first, A sequel to the illustrations of Indian Botany by Wright and 



Arnot, with a plate of Acalypha Alnifolia. New Ceylonese Me- 



lastomacese, by G. A. W. Arnot. The species described were collect- 

 ed by Colonel Walker, and transmitted to Drs Hooker and Graham. 

 Seven species of Sonerila, and the same number of the Genus Osheckia. 



Characters of new species of Indian xlcanthacese, by Professor Ch. 



Gottfr. Nees Von Esenbeck. Synopsis of the East Indian 



species of Drosera andParnassia,by G. A. Walker Arnot. Notes 



on a collection of plants made in the Province of Asturias, in the year 



