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The Scottish Naturalist. 



On the Fruits of the Genus Anemone, by Dr. Ed. Janczewski 

 (pp. 174-77). 



Facts regarding the Morphology and Affinities of certain 

 Genera of the Order Scrophulariaceae (pp. 97-104), and The Col- 

 ouring Matter of Leaves and Flowers (pp. 276-308), both by 

 Philip Sewell. 



Recent Researches in regard to the Vegetable Cellwall (pp. 

 40-47), and On the Movement of Water in Plants (pp. 90-97), 

 both by G. F. Scott-Elliott, M.A., B.Sc. 



Observations on the Wood of certain Resin-producing Trees 

 (pp. 381-388), and Note on a Sweet Substance called Manna from 

 a species of Astragalus growing in Persia, and on the Manna 

 of Alhagi maurorum (pp. 498-499), by A. Galletly. 



Dr. Craig, in his addresses as President, in 1887 (pp. 149-55), and in 1888 

 (pp. 367-72), selects as his subject the origin of the Society, and its progress 

 during the half century of its existence. 



Notes on some of the Rarer Plants found on the Dovrefjeld, 

 Norway, in July, 1888, by George Bird (pp. 410-15), and The Flora 

 of the Coasts of Lapland and of the Yugor Straits (N.W. 

 Siberia), as observed during the Voyage of the "Labrador" 

 in 1888, with Summarised List of all the Species known from 

 the Islands of Novaya Zemblya and Waigatz, and from the 

 North Coast of Western Siberia, by Philip Sewell (pp. 444-81, with 

 plate viii.). 



The last two papers are of interest to Scotch botantists from the relation 

 of our Alpine Flora to that of the Arctic Circle and of the mountains of 

 vScandinavia. 



PROCEEDINGS AND TRANSACTIONS OP THE NATURAL 

 HISTORY SOCIETY OP GLASGOW. 



[Vol. II., New Series, Part I., 18S6-87, with 2 Plates.] 



Mr. David Robertson supplies A Contribution towards a cata- 

 logue of the Amphipoda and Isopoda of the Firth of Clyde, 



(pp. 9-99), which is an exhaustive synonymic list of all the species known to 

 occur in the Firth, with very valuable notes upon the habits and localities of 

 these creatures, founded upon personal observations in the district. Obser- 

 vations On some West-coast Fishes, from the Lochbuie Marine 

 Institute, per W. Anderson Smith, (pp. 100-104), is a series of notes upon a 

 dozen species with legard to habits, development or structure. On tbe 

 Development of Syngnathus acus L., also by W. A. Smith, (pp. 

 105-109, with plate 1). On Carex spiralis, a species new to 

 Science, by Peter Ewing, (p. no), describes from "Alpine rills, near the 

 ridge between Forfarshire and Aberdeenshire," what Mr. Ewing regards and 



names as a new species of Carex. On some Scandinavian Forms 



