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ing" the parr to be the young of the salmon. Whatever, nevertheless, may be the 

 result of their continuation, they will be of importance either as additions to the 

 natural history of the young states of the salmon, or as elucidating the history of 

 the true parr. It is impossible to detail the author's experiments without tran- 

 scribing the whole paper; suffice it to say, that Mr Shaw considers that the young 

 of the salmon remain in the river two years before migrating to the sea ; that 

 they are during this period in the livery of the parr, and are known as such to 

 anglers ; that during the April of the second year they commence to perfect their 

 change to the livery of fry, the scales becoming silvery and easily deciduous, and 

 that they begin their migration downwards so soon as this is completed. The 



experiments do not proceed beyond this period of their growth Mr King's 



temperature of quadrupeds, birds, fishes, plants, trees, and earth, as ascertained 

 at different times and places in Ai'ctic America, during Captain Back's expedition, 

 p. 150, a simple table copied from the appendix of Captain Back's last Narra- 

 tive. 



I. Botany. 

 Dr Graham, " List of new or rare plants which have lately flowered in the 

 neighbourhood of Edinburgh, chiefly in the Royal Botanic Garden, p. 154." 

 "Acacia lineata, Cunning.; stipulis subnullis ; phyllodiislineari-spathulatis, sub- 

 falcatis, versus marginem superiorem uninervibus, oblique cartilagineo-mucro- 

 nulatis, ramuloque rotundato pubescentibus ; capitulis longe pedunculitis, sub- 

 geminis." — "Begonia Fischer i ; caulescens, foliis oblongis, acutis, inaequaliter 

 cordatis, dentato senatis, utrinque glabris, nitidis ; stipulis ovatis,^integerrimis ; 

 floribus masculis 4 -petalis, petalis exterioribus rotundis, concavis, marginibus 

 plano-revolutis ; floribus foemineis 6-petals, petalis ovato-lanceolatis, alis germi-- 

 nis insequaliter rotundatis •" — " Begonia sanguinea, Radd. in Spreng- Syst. Veget. 

 ii. 625, caule ramoso ; foliis insequaliter cordatis, acuminatis, coriaceo-carnosis 

 glaberrimis, subtus sanguineis, margine crenulato revoluto; germinis alis tribus 

 aequalibus." — " Bletia patula ; foliis radicalibus, lanceolatis, plicato-nervosis • 

 scapo elato, subramoso ; floribus patentissimis ; sepalis lanceolato-ellipticis, basi 

 attenuatis, subsequalibus, patulis ; labello cucullato, lobis lateralibus rotundatis, 

 intermedio emarginato transverse plicato, disco lamellis 6, subramosis, inaequali- 

 bus." — " Drosera filiformis ; introduced to the Edinburgh gardens in 1834, by 

 Mr James Macnab, from plants found by him in a swamp above Tuckerton New 

 Jersey, U. S. scapis lateralibus, foliis lineari-filiformibus glanduloso-pilosis, dorso 

 glabris canaliculatis, basi lanatis; staminibus5 ; stylis 8, in paribus coalitis basi." 

 — " Epacris microphylla ; Br. Prodr. Flor. Nov. Holl. calycis foliolis obtusius- 

 culis, tubum corollse sequantibus ; foliis cordatis, acutis, pedunculum superanti- 

 bus, lateribus erectis ; spica apiciflora ; ramulis pilosis. " — " Fritillaria ruthenica ■ 

 Wickstrom ? caule subunifloro ; foliis lineari-lanceolatis, imis superioribusque 

 subtematis, illis obtusis, his, intermediisque sparsis, cirrhosis ; floribus tessela- 

 tis cernuis. 



The Magazine of Natural History. Conducted by J. C. Loudon 

 Vol. ix. Nos. from May to August. (Continued from p. 101.) 

 I. Zoology. 

 Wood on the Propriety of altering established Scientific Names in Natural His- 

 tory should they be erroneous, p. 337-342 White on the Singing of Birds 



p. 281-290; and at p. 432, there is a review of thispaper by Mr Conway! ' 



