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BOOKS RECEIVED. 



Midland Naturalist for June 1886. - [The Editors. 



The Young Naturalist for June 1886. [J. E. Robson, Editor. 



The Naturalist's World for June 1886. [P. Lund, Editor. 



Illustrated Science Monthly for June 1886. [Bogue, Publisher. 



Science Gossip for June 1886. [Chatto and Windus, Publishers. 



Natural History Journal for June 1886. [J. E. Clarke, Editor. 



New York Microscopical Society — Journal for March 1886. [From the Society. 

 Royal Dublin Society. — Scientific Proceedings, vol. 4, parts 7, 8, 9 ; vol. 5, parts 

 1 and 2. [Society. 

 Notes on the Aspect of the Planet Mars in 1884 — Otto Bceddicker. 



[Royal Dublin Society. 



Geological Age of North Atlantic Ocean — Edwd. Hull. [Royal Dublin Society. 

 Fossil Mammalia of Ireland — Valentine Ball. [Royal Dublin Society. 



Changes of Radiation of Heat from the Moon — Otto Bceddicker. 



[Royal Dublin Society. 



Revue Bryologique, 13c Annee, 1886, No. 3. [Mons. T. Husnot, Redacteur. 

 The late Mr. William Wilson. — James Cash. 8vo, 22 pages. 



[Warrington Field Club. 



Grevillea. a quarterlv record of Cryptogamic Botany — Vol. 14, No. 72, June 1886. 



[Dr. Cooke, Editor. 

 Nottingham Naturalists' Society — Transactions and 33rd Report, 1885. 



[The Society. 



Lord Lilford's Coloured Figures of British Birds — Part 2. [Lord Lilford. 



ACKWOETH SHELLS. — It is proposed to publish in the Natural 

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