NOTICES OF SERIALS. 
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the principal mining district of Westphalia, to investigate the Fossil Flora of its 
coal formations; with a plate—p. 225-264. (Same) On Stigmaria ficoides — 
p. 220-222. Goppert having obtained entire specimens from the u President Pit” 
at Bochum, accedes to Steinhauer’s opinion that the Stigmaria was a gigantic 
water plant (Victoria Regia ?) with horizontal floating arms, attaining a length of 
thirty feet. Paleontology. —(Troschel) On the Fossil Fishes in the Lignite 
of the Siebengebirge; with two plates—p. 1 -28. The fishes described are 
nearly all of the family Cyprinidce. An Esox has occurred, unequivocally dis¬ 
tinct from the existing E. Indus, The ray formula D. 3 14 ; P. 13?; V. 10?; 
A. 15, C. 6, I. 9, 9,1. 7. The species is provisionally named E. papyraceus , but 
may be identical with the Esox from Waltsch, both differing from the living species 
by the diminished number of vertebrae (48-50). Zoology.— (Foerster) New 
Tenthredinetce ; with four plates—p. 265-350, 421-436. The new species are, of 
Hylotoma one from the South of France; the rest found about Aix-la-Chapelle, 
viz., Leptopus , one species; Nematus , sixty-four; Epitactus (new genus), one; 
nearly all illustrated with figures of the characteristic portion of the upper wing. 
(Fuhlrott) Additions to the list of Birds of the Wupperthal—p. 358. (Stollwerk) 
Catalogue of the Lepidoptera (Papiliones—Geometrae) found in the District of 
Crefeld—p. 393-420. Scientific Communications in the General Meeting of the 
Association at Hagen—p. 449-457. Proceedings of the Society of Natural and 
Medical Science, for the Lower Rhine, at Bonn : Appendix, p. i.—xxiv. Alpha¬ 
betical index to the ten volumes of the first series—pp. 6. 
Acta Nova Academic C. L. C. Nature Curiosorum. Transactions (New) 
of the Imperial Academy of Naturalists. 4to. Bonn. Vol. 24. 1854. 
Zoology. —(Bleeker) Some new species of Notopterus from the Indian Archi¬ 
pelago ; with five plates—p. 49-62. (Mayer) Anatomy of Rhinoceros indicus; 
with four plates—p. 1-14 (Neugebaer) Iieteradelphy in a young hare; with a 
plate — p. 15-48. Botany.— (Cohn) On the Embryology of the Microscopic 
Algae and Fungi; with six plates—p. 101-256. The author concludes that the 
Mycophyceae, if admitted as an order, must remain among the Fungi, with which 
they agree in their mode of growth, and consequent want of colour; but that the 
order is not a natural one, embracing representatives of the most various forms of 
Algae. In fact, there are no morphological or embryological characters to divide 
the Algae, Fungi, and Lichens. The genus Sterconema should be expunged from 
the cryptogams, being the peduncles of an infusory animalcule, Anthophysa muelleri 
Bonj. The Vibriones in general belong to the vegetable kingdom, and by their 
mode of growth and want of colour, to the Mycophyceae. The long straight forms 
( bacillus , Sfc .) are allied to the delicate Oscillariae ; the short ones are of more 
doubtful place. Spirochcete plicatilis is referable to the g. Spirulina. Bacterium 
termo Duj. (for which, as the type of the Vibriones, Pertyhas established the sub¬ 
kingdom, Phytozoidia,) consists of the liberated and spontaneously moving cells 
of a plant (g. Zoogloea Cohn) allied to Sphaerotilus, and morphologically resem¬ 
bling Palmella and Tetraspora. (Gumbel) Embryology of the mosses; with two 
plates—p. 575-669. (Kasten) On the structure of Cecropia peltata L. ; with two 
plates—p. 79-100. (Milde) New Supplement to the Natural History and Embryology 
of the Equisetaceae ; with two plates—p. 63-78. Paleontology and Geology. —• 
(Ackner). Geognostical and Paleontological relations of the South-Eastern Sie¬ 
bengebirge and the Hermannstadt basin in particular—p. 897-936. (Glocker) On 
the Northern diluvium of the plateau of the Oder, about Breslau—p. 409-492. 
(Same) On Lauka stones ; with two plates—p. 723-750. Sphseroidal and cylin- 
dric calcareous and marly concretions from Lauka in Moravia; analogous to the 
Russian Imatra stones, the Markkor of Sweden, the Morpholites of Egypt, 
&c. (Hensel) On the fossil remains of the genus Arctomys; with two plates— 
p. 295-306. (Mayer) On diseased bones of primeval animals; with a plate—p. 
671-689. Ursus spelaeus the subject. (Stenzel) On the stare-stones (Psarolites) 
of Chemistry; with seven plates—p. 751-896. These fossils, named from the resem- 
