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NOTICES OF SERIALS. 
New species of Californian fishes—p. 94-103. (Same) On American Hydra—p. 
103-104. (Bacon) On Cochituate water—p. 144, 145, 163, 164, 169-175. 
(Barry) On the Ornithological Fauna of Wisconsin—p. 1-14. (Bigelow) On the 
height (supposed 500 feet) of one of the giant trees of California—p. 75. (Bur¬ 
nett) On the poison apparatus of the rattlesnake—p. 31-34. (Same) On the 
orange insect—p. 108-110. (Cabot) Notes on the wild hybrid duck—p. 118-120. 
(Same) On the distribution of the species of Tetrao in the New England States— 
p. 154. (Girard) New species of fishes from Massachusets—p. 40-42. (Same) 
Remarks on the Embiotocidse—p. 81, 82. (Same) On Arenicola natalis —p. 88, 
90. (Gould) On the Society’s collection of Argonauts—p. 35, 36. (Same) Brief 
notes of some deep dredgings off the coast of Georgia and Florida, by the Coast 
Survey—p. 126, 127. (Same) New species (8) of land and freshwater shells 
from Western North America—p. 127-130. (Greenleaf) On the flight of the 
American passenger-pigeon at Madison, Indiana—p. 180-182. (Hayes) On the 
saline incrustations of the Mauvaises terres of Nebraska—p. 150-153. (Same) 
Fossilized eggs from the Guano Islands of Peru—p. 165, 166. (Jackson) On a 
new mine of gold, silver, and copper, in Vermont—p. 62. (Same) Note on the 
chemical composition of the scales of the Gar pike—p. 92-94. (Same) Analysis 
of Allophane from Tennessee—p. 120. (Same) On the Cochituate water—p. 161- 
163, 175, 176. (Same) Allanite at Manchester, New Hampshire—p. 189. (Kine- 
land) On the Welliugtonia gigantea—p. 49-51. (Same) On skulls of American 
Indians—p. 76-78. (Lapham) On the number of teeth in Mastodon giyanteus —■ 
p. 133-136. (Lewis) Cyclas crocea n. sp.—p. 25, 26. (Same) On the variation 
of Lymnea catascopium —p. 27-29. (Same) On Paludina decisa Say—p. 52, 53. 
(Same) On the effects, of locality, temperature, &c., on the form of shells—p. 120- 
122. (Same) Remarks on the Cyclas and Lymnea —p. 120-124. (Richardson) 
On some points in the osteology of the Mastodon and fossil elephant—p. 82-84, 
107. (Rogers) On fossils from the middle secondary beds of North Carolina, 
Virginia, Pennsylvania, and Massachusets—p. 14-18. (Same) On the epoch of 
the Mammoth—p. 22, 23. (Same) On natural coke of Richmond, Virginia, and 
the influence of the trap beds—p. 53-56. (Same) On impressions, footprints, &c., 
in the red shale, under the coalmeasures of Pennsylvania—p. 182-188. (Same) 
On fossil raindrops—p. 188, 189. (Same) On Lignite of Virginia and new red 
sandstone of North Carolina—p. 189-201. (Same) On a new locality for “ Posi- 
donomya” of the mesozoic rocks of Virginia, and on the effect of Trappean rocks 
on the same beds—p. 201. (Sprague) On Ranunculus micranthus—p. 155-156. 
(Stimpson) On some marine Invertebrata inhabiting the shores of South Carolina. 
Ancystropus n. g. of fam. Gephyrea, and several new species, fully described—p. 
110-118. (Storer) Sebastes fasciatus n. sp.—p. 31. (Warren, &c.) On the 
number of the teeth of Mastodon giganteus —p. 147-150, 188-160. (Wyman) 
Notes on Pipa Americana —p. 13, 14. (Same) On Amblyopsis spelaeus —p. 18, 
19. (Same) On the electrical laminae in Torpedo occidentaiis--p. 21-22. (Same) 
On the heart and respiration of Menobranchus and the Batrachians—p. 51. 
(Same) Notice of the life and writings of Dr. Waldo Burnett—p. 64-74. (Same) 
On the development of Anableps gronovii , a viviparous fish from Surinam—p. 80, 
81. (Same) Remarks on Batrachian footsteps—p. 74-88. (Same) On parasitic 
cryptogamous plants, destructive to the house fly—p. 90-92. (Same) On the 
manner in which birds retain their position in roosting—p. 125, 126. (Same) 
Notes on hybernating insects—p. 157. 
RUSSIA. 
Bulletin de la Societe Imp. des Naturalistes de Moscow.—Bulletin of 
the Moscow Society of Naturalists. Vol. 27, No. 1, 2. 8vo. Moscow, 
1854. 
Zoology. —(Chaudoir) On the family Carabici, 4th part, p. 112-144, 279-352. 
(Czernay) List of the Lepidoptera of the Governments of Charkow and Poltawa, 
p. 212-225. Too incomplete to draw any conclusion from; only 110 of the Noc- 
turna being enumerated, while there are 1,128 species of the same recorded for the 
Volga-Ural district. (Fischer) On some new species of Daphnida and Lynceida; 
