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travels in Portugal and Brazil, a.d. 1846-1847. 8vo. Stockholm, 1855—pp. 
235 and 88 _(Same) Botany for 1850, with two appendixes; (Fristedt) Notes 
of an excursion in Tornea Lappmark, in the summer or 1852; and (Laestadius) 
Swedish species of Sparganium. 8vo. Stockholm, 1855— pp. 428 and 50. 
GERMANY. 
Denkschriften der Kairerlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften. Memoirs 
of the Imperial Vienna Academy of Science. 4to. Vienna. Math. Natur. 
History Class. Vol. VI. 1854. 
(Briicke) On the Chyle-vessels and Resorption of Chyle, with 2 plates—p. 
99-136. (Heckel) Description of Gymnarchus niloticus Cuv., with 2 plates— 
p. 11-20. (Hyrtl) Essays of Comparative Angiology. Fifth Sequel—The 
Arterial Vascular System of the Edentata, with 8 plates—p. 21-64. (Kner) 
The Loricata ( Goniodontes Agassiz ) of the Imp. Museum of Nat. History at 
Vienna. Section I.—Loricarinae, with 8 plates—p. 65-98. Two new genera 
are here established, Acestra (type Loricaria cataphracta L.) and Hemiodon. It 
results from the analysis of the dermal shields of the Loricata, that their solid 
parts are nearly pure phosphate of lime. In this respect they bear an analogy 
to the Ganoid fishes. (Reuss) On Clytia leachii Risso, a macrurous Decapod of 
the chalk-formation, with 5 plates—p. 1-10. (Schabus) Monograph of Euclase 
(History and Crystallography), with 2 plates—pp. 32. (Hochstetter) Crystal¬ 
lography of Rhomboedric Calcareous Haloid (Kalk-spath), and comparative 
view of the development of the Tegseral System in Rhomboedric position, with 
2 plates—pp. 36. (Unger) A Fossil Form of the order Osmundaceae ( Osmun - 
dites schemnicensis ), with comparative sketches of the structure of the stem in 
ferns, with a plate—p. 137-151. 
Vol. VII. 1854. (Kner) On the Loricata—continued from Vol. VI., p. 98. 
Group 2, Hypostomidae, with 5 plates—p. 251-286. (Reuss) Sketches of the 
Calcareous Strata of the Eastern Alps, with 31 plates—p. 1-156. (Scmarda) 
On the Natural History of Egypt, with 7 plates—pp. 28. Contains Infusoria, 
Polygastrica, Bryozoa, Rotifera, Entomostraca, &c. (Suess) The Brachiopoda 
of the Kossen Strata (Lias formation of the Eastern Alps), with 4 plates—pp. 
37. (Unger) The Fossil Flora of Gleichenberg (in Styria), with 8 plates—p. 
157-184. (Same) Notes on the lowest forms of Algae and their origin, with a 
plate—p. 185-196. 
Sitzungsberichte der K. Ak. d. Wiss. Proceedings of the I. Vienna 
Academy. Math. Nat. Hist. Class 8vo. Vienna. Vol. XII. A.D. 1854. 
Zoology. —(Czermack) Physiological Studies—1st. The sense of sight; with 
3 plates—p. 322-366. (Diesing) Description of a new Echinorhynchus from 
a fish ( Naucrates ductor ), with a plate—p. 681, 682. (Engel) On the develop¬ 
ment of the bones of the Cranium and face, &c., with 3 plates—p. 558-588. 
(Heckel) Structure and Classification of the Pycnodont fishes, with brief de¬ 
scriptions of new Species—p. 433-464. (Hofstasdter) Examination of the fat 
of the head of Physeter macrocephalus—p. 765-771. (Hyrtl) Notice of a 
Chlamydophorus truncatus , acquired for the Museum of Comparative Anatomy— 
p. 77-99. (Same) On the connection between the genital and urinary organs 
in the Ganoid fishes—p. 179, 180. (Same) Anatomy of Herotis Ehrenbergii — 
p. 395-399. (Danger) Vascular system of the Anodontse — p. 648. Botany.— 
(Fenzl) On the comparative value of the distinctive characters in the genus 
Cyperus—p. 274, 275. (Pokorny) On the distribution of the Musci Frondosi of 
Lower Austria—p. 124-137. (Rochleder) On the formation of Carburetted 
Hydrogen in plants—p. 549-551. (Unger) Contributions to Phyto -physiology 
■ — p. 367-396. Paleontology. —(Ettinghausen) On the neuration of the 
leaves of the Euphorbiaceas, with reference especially to primeval forms, with 
8 plates—p. 138-663. The figures illustrating these two papers are exquisite 
specimens of “ nature-printing.” (Same) Supplement to the Eocene Flora of 
Mount Promina in Dalmatia—p. 180-182. (Von Hauer) On the Heterophyllous 
Ammonites of the Austrian Alps, with 4 plates—p. 861-910. (Reuss) On 
