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BOOKS RECEIVED. 



Natural History Journal for November. 1885. [J. E.Clark, Editor. 



Philadelphia Academy. — Proceedings, Part II., April-July 1885. [Academy. 

 On some recently discovered Insecta from Carboniferous and Silurian Rocks. — 



By Herbert Goss, F.L.S., 8vo, reprint, 21 pages. [Author. 

 Liverpool Science Students' Association. — Report, Session 1884-5. [Association. 

 Botanical Notes from Caithness and Sutherland, July 1885. — By Rev. H. E. Fox 



and F. J. Hanbury ; Reprint. [Authors. 

 Zeitschrift fiir die gesammte Ornithologie, 1885, Heft 3. [Dr. Madarasz, Editor. 

 Auk, a quarterly journal of Ornithology. — October 1885. [Editor. 

 Lord Lilford's Coloured Plates of British Birds. [Lord Lilford. 



Manx Note Book, October 1885. [A. W. Moore, Editor. 



British Zoophytes. — By A. S. Pennington, 8vo, pp. 363, and 24 plates. 



[Lovell Reeve & Co. 



Smithsonian Institution. — Report for 1883. [The Institution. 



Midland Naturalist for November 1885. [The Editors. 



The Young Naturalist for November 1885. Q. E. Robson, Editor. 



The Naturalist's World for November 1885. [P. Lund, Editor. 



Illustrated Science Monthly for November 1885. [Bogue, Publisher. 



Science Gossip for November 1885. [Cliatto and Windus, Publishers. 



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 Dried Plants. — Duplicates. London Catalogue, 7th Edition : Nos. 7, 11, 

 26, 40, 41, 131, 273, 273c, 274, 275, 305, 325, 350, 372, 374, 564, 568, 572, 574, 

 576, 577, 581, 587, 594, 595, 608, 813, 816, 821, 823, 831, 835, 838, 856, 858, 

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 1282, 1285, 1294, 1297, 1305, 1325, 1327, 1330, 1333. Desiderata. Nos. 89. 

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