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the bile is not indispensable or even adjuvant to the act of digestion. This 
point being granted, we may conceive that it is of little consequence whether 
the urino -biliary- vessels open behind the stomach, in some parts of the intesti- 
nal tube, or even immediately at the anus, as we find is the case. In a note ap- 
pended to this letter, Audouin gives a succinct history of the opinions of previous 
anatomists relative to the functions of the vessels in question A continua- 
tion of the translation of BRANDT'S Remarques sur les nerfs stomato-gastriques 
ou intestinaux, dans les animaux inverttbres Description d'empreintes de 
piedes d 1 Oiseaux dans le Gres rouge du Massachusets, par E. HITCHCOCK. A 
translation from Silfiman's American Journal of Science, of a peculiarly inte- 
resting paper to all geologists and zoologists BRANDT, Conspectus sectionum, 
generum, sub-generum et specierum novorum, quce in fasciculo primo Prodromi 
descriptionum animalium a Mertensio in orbis terrarum circumnavigatione obser- 
vatorum reperiuntur ANALYSE des travaux Anatomiques, Physiologiques et 
Zoologiques presentes a V Academic des Sciences pendant le mois de Mars 1836. 
There is nothing in these notices of sufficient importance to call for an extract 
of them. At their conclusion there is announced a new edition of the " Regne 
Animal," preparing for publication, to be illustrated wi^i numerous plates en- 
graved with every care, and containing a figure of the typical animal of every 
genus ; as well as plans of the anatomy of the ordinal and classical sections. In 
what material respects the work is to differ from the " Iconographie du Regne 
Animal" of M. Guerin does not appear very evident. 
II Botany. 
Anatomie d'une branche de Pinus Strobus, par M. LINK. A paper worthy 
of the distinguished reputation of its author, and which will enable the geologist 
to determine, with comparative facility, the true nature of those fossil woods, 
which have been supposed to be the remains of the Coniferae of a former world. 
Bougueria, novum Plantaginearum genus, auct. J. DECAISNE. A genus be- 
tween Plantago and Littorella, allied to the former in habit, to the latter in the 
structure of the capsule. The only known species (B. nubicolaj was discover- 
ed by d'Orbigny in Bolivia, growing in fissures of porphyritic rocks on the snow 
mountains, called las lagunas, far overtopping the city Potosi Recherches 
sur I' elevation de la temperature du spadice du Colocasia odora ( Caladium odo- 
n\m,)faites dans lejardinbotaniqued' Amsterdam, par. G. VROLIK, et W. H. IE 
VRIESE. KOCK'S Description des Orobanchesdt la Flored'Allemagneisconclud- 
ed in this number SPACH, Hypericacearum monographic Fragmenta. Native 
Hypericum elodes is found to have, as its peculiar habit might have led one to 
anticipate, sufficient differential characters to become the type of a new genus. 
It is the Elodes palustris of Spach, and no other species is known Notice 
sur I 1 Ambrosia maritima Linne, par. M. LEON DEFOUR Bryologie d*Europe 
pultliee en monographies, par MM. BRUCH et SCHIMPER. A review of the first 
part of the French edition. The book is very highly lauded. The part pub- 
lished contains the Buxbaumiacees and the Phascacees. MM. Bruch and 
Schimper remark, that in the Muscologia Britannica the description of the Phas- 
cum alternifolium applies in part to the Archidium phascoides, a species very dif- 
ferent, although it has been often 'confounded with the former. It is easy to 
avoid this error by comparing the sporules of these two mosses : they are very 
