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neglectus, Pallasea cancelloides, Gammaracanthus loricatus, Pontoporeia 
, Asellus aquaticus); illustrated with ten highly finished plates; the 
Crinoids (Rhizocrinus), discovered by his son in the depths of the ocean 
at Lofoten; and from Mr. A. Boeck, a detailed description of the Nor- 
wegian and Arctic Amphipoda, with many plates. The magnificent Geolog- 
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quarto, in the text, and profiles, etc., G k pina of many years’ explo 
ons by the Geological Survey orway, conducted by Professor 
erulf, ees cya works, it no doubt occupies ’ it 
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eat gap in the knowledge of the geological constitution of 
Europe, eke Bei date to the history of the earliest TORE 
metam be, and must be reckoned among the highest 
scientific monuments hitherto erected in Scandinavia. astiak is 
now,” as said Professor Steenstrupt in his speech at the meeting of the 
_ Scandinavian naturalists, this summer in Christiania, ‘the classical soil, 
hot only of Zodlogy, but also of Geology.” 

NATURAL HISTORY MISCELLANY. 
BOTANY. 
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We pause a moment before passing to our Botanical Miscellany, to 
record the sudden death, by consumption, on November 11, 1868, at the 
anagem s magazin 
The country has lost a thoroughly disciplined and Gay mind, and 
meor its raping and most promising botanists, and the readers of the 
list a contributor, whose reviews of esse works, ea study 
= Mbsiitication of their specimens, and unwritten essays P mised for 
fa Pages, would have both quickened their zeal for the study pr cnet 
And secured for the botanical portion of the magazine a most eleva 
‘Character, 
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Tue CoLcnicum avrumNaE found growing wild in the wet ve 
the 3 ore regions of Italy and Switzerland has been seen in co 
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