Proceedings of Societies. 375 



and are used medicinally in fevers and dysenteries, and other irritations 

 of the bowels. It deserved the attention of the Academy.* 



Dr H. Gibbons exhibited a head of bearded wheat, said to grow wild in 

 the mountains. It measured about seven inches and a half in length. The 

 grains are about half an inch long. 



Dr W. Ay res continued his observations on the fishes brought to the 

 market at San Francisco. Roch-fisk or rock-cod is abundantly offered 

 for sale. Five distinct species have been detected, although we were pre- 

 viously aware of the existence of only one, Sebastes norvegicus, Cuvier. 

 Three of these are very nearly allied — S. nebulosus, ruber, &nd parvus, 

 Ayres. 



S. nebulosus, Ayres, is in colour finely mottled with dusky yellow and 

 dark brown. 



D.13.13.; A.3.8.; V.1.5. ; P.7.10. ; C.ll. 



8. paucispinis, Ayres ; colour plain reddish brown above, lighter be- 

 neath. 



D.13.13.; A.3.7; V.1.6. ; P.5. ; C.12. 



PUBLICATIONS RECEIVED. 



L'Institut, from 25th October 1854 to 28th February 1855. 



Clark, William, History of the British Testaceous Marine Mollusca. 

 8vo. London, 1855. Van Voorst. 



Proceedings of the Literary and Philosophical Society of Liverpool. 

 1853-54. 



Quarterly Journal of Microscopical Science. Nos. 9 and 10. 



Proceedings of the Californian Natural History Society. 



Dublin Monthly Journal of Industrial Progress. January, February, 

 and March 1855. 



Les Cascades de Niagara et leur Marche Retrograde. Par E. Desor. 



Westminster Review. January 1855. 



Quarterly Journal of the Chemical Society. No. 28. 



The Phonetic Journal. Vol. XIV. No. 1. 



Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal. New series. Vol. XXIII. 

 Nos. 69 and 70. 



Davidson (Simpson), A New Theory of the Origin of Gold. 1854. 



Journal of the Indian Archipelago and Eastern Asia. Vol. VIII. Nos. 

 5 and 6. May- June 1854. 



Hooker, Journal of Botany and Kew Garden Miscellany. February 

 and March 1855. 



Journal of the Dublin Geological Society. Vol. IV. Part II. No. 2. 



* Professor Balfour will feel much obliged by seeds of this plant and of the next 

 being forwarded to the Edinburgh Botanic Garden. 



