NOTICES OF SERIALS. 
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with a plate—p. 423-434. (Golawatskow) Larus columbinus , n, sp., from the 
shores of the Caspian; with a plate, p. 435-441. (Maslowsky) Defence of the 
specific claims of Aspius owsianka Czernay, p. 442-452. Botany. —(Hermann) 
Analysis of Salsola soda, p. 261-266. (Semenow) On the Moscow water lilies, 
p. 226-232. Only Nymphcea biradiata Somm. occurs. (Stschegleew) New Sup¬ 
plement to the Flora of Alatau and Songaria, p. 145-211. (Taratschkoff) On the 
vegetation of native plants about Orel, &c., p. 470-480. (Turczaninow) Descrip¬ 
tions of the plants growing wild about Lake Baikal, and in Dahuria (continued), 
p. 353-422. Geology. —(Buttner) Geognostic-geological views, derived from the 
stratification of Courland, p. 233-260. The author is disposed to attribute the 
disturbances of the earth’s crust to successive approaches of the moon, revolving 
as a comet; the latest approach, when she was drawn within the predominating in¬ 
fluence of the earth’s attraction, and became a satellite, having transferred the 
earth’s former poles to the equator, and occasioned the migrations of the nations, 
by which he supposes the earth to have been already peopled when this took place!! 
(Eichwald) The Grauwacke formations of Livonia and Esthonia; with 2 plates, p. 
3-111. (Herman) Analysis of semiealcareous Dialing, a new mineral from the 
Achmatowsk quarries, p. 273-274. (Platner) Discovery of a coal bed on the 
western slope of the Ural, p. 267-272. Miscellaneous. —(Becker) Brief account 
of his observations in 1853, p. 453-469. (Spassky) Meteorological Observations 
at Moscow, January to August, p. 489-506. Correspondence, p. 481-488. Pro¬ 
ceedings, p. 507. 
VeRHANDLUNCEN DER RuSSISCH-KaTSERLICIIEN Mineralogischen Gesell- 
schaft zu St. Petersburg. Transactions of the I. Russian Mineralo- 
gical Society. 8vo. St. Petersburg. 1854. 
(Grewingk) The Emerald Mines of the Ural, and the environs ; with a map 
—p. 206-233. (Yon Kokseharow) Materials for the Mineralogy of Russia; with 
9 plates—p. 1-66, 127-205. (Ivutorga) On some species of Sphaerexochus and 
Cheirurus. from the Silurian limestone beds of the Government of St. Peters¬ 
burg; with 3 plates—p. 105-126. (Same) Report on the Progress of Mine¬ 
ralogy, Geognosy, Paleontology, and Mineralogical Chemistry in Russia, for the 
year 1853—p. 240-249. (Mendelejew) Chemical analysis of Ortlnte from Fin¬ 
land—p.234-239. (Noescliel) The Goktscha Lake in the Caucasus, geognosti- 
cally, hydrograpliically, and meteorologically considered; with a map and 5 
plates—p. 67-104. Alphabetical index to the preceding volumes of the Society’s 
Transactions—p. 253-284. 
SWEDEN. 
Royal Academy of Sciences, &c. 
Kongl. Swenska Akademiens Handlingar, foer Aar 1852.— Transactions 
for the Year 1852. 8vo. Stockholm, 1854. 
(Zeller) The Microlepidoptera collected in Caffraria by Wahlberg—p. 1-120. 
Species described 110; all new but 12. New genera; ( Pyralides) Crocidolomia, 
Hymenoptychis,Ulopeza, Zinckenia, Pogonotropha; ( Tort-rices ) Eccopsis ; ( Tineoe ) 
Compsoctena, Setomorpha, Ceromitia, Eretmocera, Cryptolechia. (Wallman) 
Essay towards a systematic arrangement of the family Characeae—p. 229-331. 
Transactions for the Year 1853. 8vo. Stockholm, 1855. 
(Anderson) On the Botany of the Galapago Islands. Introduction, p. 61-120. 
List of plants, with remarks; and descriptions of the new species, p. 121-256. 
Oefwersigt af K. Sw. A. Forhandlingar foer Aar 1853.— Proceedings 
for the Year 1853. 8vo. Stockholm, 1854. 
Zoology. —(Hammargren) Birds of Wermland and Dalsland, shores of Lake 
Wener, p. 121,122. (Nilsson) Sciaena aquila taken off the Swedish coast, p. 70. 
(Stael) New Swedish Homoptera, p. 174-177. (Same) New Hemiptera from 
Caffraria, collected by Wahlberg, p. 209-227; 94 species. New genera ( Geoco■ 
rises) Elasmogaster, Petalocnemis, Neurodederrhis, Atractophora, Dermatinus, 
