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blance to the speckled breast of the starling, are the remains of Psaronii (Polypo- 
diacese). Eighteen species of the genus are characterized, and four more noticed, 
which are imperfectly known. (Vorfcisch) On geological configuration ; with a 
map—p. 691-722. Biography. —(Dechen) L. Von Buch, his influence on the 
progress of Geognosy—p. 25. 
Neues Jahrbuch euer Mineralogie, Geognosie, Geologie und Petrefak- 
TENKUNDE. New ANNUAL OF MINERALOGY, GEOGNOSY, GEOLOGY, AND 
Paleontology. Part 1-4. 8vo. Stuttgart, 1855. 
Original Communications.— (Barrande) Ascoceras the prototype of Nauti¬ 
lus ; with a plate—p. 257-285. (Same) On the Organic repletion of the siphon 
of some fossil Cephalopoda; with a plate—p. 865-410. (Cotta) Geological 
communications, from the Bukowina—p. 25-32. (DiefFenbach) On the Mineral 
riches of the United States of North America—p. 533-539. (Gutberiet) On 
Sphserosiderite and Pea-ore in Basalt—p. 166-169. (Same) On the Chronologi¬ 
cal order of the higher oxydation of the Protoxyde of Manganese and Iron, 
and the Geological Import of it—p. 430-434. (Kockscharow) On Klinochlorium 
from Achmatowsk ; with a plate—p. 9-24. (Leonard) On Crystallization of Slag 
—p. 129-151. (Martens) On the Formation of calcareous Tufa, and the influx of 
Gypsum springs, in the Valley between Elm and Asse—p. 33-41. (Muller) 
Some Examples of Pseudomorphism, from Teufelsgrund, Breisgau—p. 411-420. 
(Philippi) On the occurrence of Meteoric iron in the Desert of Atacama—p. 1- 
8. (Quenstedt) The Gavials and Ichthyosauri of the Jurassic system in Swabia 
—p. 421-429. (Roemer) Graptolites, from the Harz; with a plate—p. 240-542. 
(Zschau) Occurrence of Phosphate of Yttrium in the Granite vein stuff of Norit, 
in Hitter Island, Norway—p. 513-532. (Strombeck) On the Hils-conglomerate, 
and the Speeton Clay of Brunswick'— p. 159-165. (Volger) The Hemiedry of 
the Cube and Garnet-hedron —p. 286-287. (Weiss) Elementary Laws of Mecha¬ 
nical Geology ; with two plates —p. 288-313. Correspondence— p. 42-54 ; 
170-188; 314-337; 435-437; 543-549. Extracts and Literary Notices— 
p. 194-256; 347-384; 444-502; 550-636. (Bosquet) Fossil Crustacea of the 
Calcareous formation of Limburg (from Transactions of Netherland Commiss., 
1854) —p. 60-128. (D’Alton and Burmeister) The Fossil Gavial of Boll, in 
Wurtemburg ( Mystr/osaurus bollensis ) ; twelve plates — 82 pp. Halle, 1854. 
(Berendt) Primeval remains in Amber. Vol. I.; Part 2. Crustacea—Aptera 
—128 pp. ; with seventeen plates; folio. Berlin, 1854. (Ehrenberg) New 
Proofs of the more perfect organization of the Polythalamia, from the fossil 
remains (from the Berlin Monthly Reports, 1855). (Fraas) Notes on the 
upper white Jura limestone in Swabia (from Wurtemberg Annual Tracts, 1855). 
(Geinitz) The Petrifactions of the Coal Formation, in Saxony ; with thirty-six 
plates —pp. 67; folio. Leipzig, 1855. (Same) Picture of the fossil Flora of the 
Coal-basin of Hainich Ebersdorf and Floeha — 88 pp. ; with fourteen plates; 
folio; Leipsic ; 1854. (Gervais) Zoology and Paleontology of France : Verte- 
brata. 2 vols, 4to ; 80 plates folio. Paris; 1848-1852. (Haime) Description 
of the fossil Bryozoa of the Jurassic formation (from Memoirs of the Geological 
Society of France. 1855). (Hall) Paleontology of New York ; 4to. Albany. 
Vol 2. (Heer) The tertiary flora of Switzerland. Vol. 1. Nos. 1-3 ; with 50 
lithochrome plates. Folio; Winterthur, 1855. (Junghuhn) Neptunian Moun¬ 
tains of Java (from Hasskarl’s Java). (Meyer) Of the primeval Fauna; section 
2—The Saurians of the Muschelkalk. Nos. 5 and 6 ; with 21 plates; folio. 
Frankfort, 1854. (Pomel) Systematic and descriptive list of the fossil Verte- 
brata found in the upper hydrographic basin of the Loire; 8vo. Paris, 1854. 
(Rosthorn and Canaval) Geognosy of Carynthia, from Annual of the Natural 
History Museum of Carynthia. Klagenfurt, 1853. (Scheerer) On the pre¬ 
tended Pseudormorphose of Serpentine to Amphibole, Augite and Olivine, 
from the Intelligence of the R. Gottingen Society of Science ; 1854. (De Serres) 
On the original distribution of plants and animals over the surface of the globe, 
(from the Memoirs of the Strasburg Museum, 1853). 
