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BOOKS RECEIVED. 



Notes on the Structure and Evolution of the Florideae, by Geo. Massee, F.R.M.S., 

 8vo reprint, 13 pages and 2 plates, 1886. [The Author. 



Grevillea, a quarterly record of Cryptogamic Botany, No. 73, September 1886. 



[Dr. Cooke, Editor. 



On Kew Gardens and some of the Botanical Statistics of the British Possessions — 

 By' J. G. Baker, F.R.S., 8vo reprint, 28 pages. [The Author. 



Statuts de la Societe Royale Malacologique de Belgique, deuxieme edition, 1886, 

 16 pp. [La Societe. 



Proces-verbaux de Seances de la Societe Royal Malacologique de Belgique, 1886, 

 Janvier a Juillet, pp. 96. [La Societe. 



Philadelphia Academy of Natural Sciences — Proceedings, January — March, 1886. 



[The Academy. 



Botanical Exchange Club of the British Isles — Report for 1885. [The Club. 



Mineralogical Magazine, July 1886. [The Mineral ogical Society. 



British Association — Address by Sir J. William Dawson, President, 8vo, 34 pp. 



[Mr. S. A. Adamson. 



Bristol Naturalists' Society — Annual Report, etc., April 1886. [The Society. 

 Bristol Naturalists' Society— Proceedings, Vol. V, part i, 1885-6. [The Society. 

 Mineralogical Society — List of Members, February 1886. [The Society. 



Natural History Journal, September 15th, 1886. [Mr. J. Edward Clark, Editor. 

 Midland Naturalist for September 1886. [The Editors. 



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



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



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



Scottish Naturalist for Jan., April, and July 1886. [Prof. J. W. H. Trail, Editor. 

 Revue Bryologique, 13c Annee, No. 5, 1886. [Mons. T. Husnot, Redacteur. 

 New York Microscopical Society — Journal for June 1886. [The Society. 



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