16 
NOTICES OF SERIALS. 
which come the Cirripedia. The affinities of these orders may be best shown by a 
circular arrangement, thus:— 
1. Malacostraca. 
2. Trilobita. 7. Ostracodea. 
3. Pcecilopoda. 5. Entomostraca. 6. Cirripedia. 
4. Aspidostraca. 
a. Argulina. b. Branchiopoda. 
(Schlagentweit) Conditions of Vegetation above the mean snow line of the Alps; 
extract—p. 139-148. (Agassiz) On a new family of viviparous Fishes, Holco- 
noti; translated from the English—p. 149-162. (Reinhardt) On the Swimming 
bladder of the Gymnotini; translated from the Danish scientific communications 
of the Nat. Hist. Association of Copenhagen, 1853—p. 169-184. (Gerstaecker) 
Two new genera of Siphonostomata, Lonchidium and Gangliopus—p. 185-195. 
These, with other parasites, were found on a shark taken off the west coast of 
Africa. (Troschel) Contributions to the Natural History of the Pteropoda ; with 
three plates—p. 196-241. Several new species characterised very particularly. 
(Grubel On the oral organs of the Haustellated Insects ; inferences from Gerst- 
feld’s observations—p. 242-246. (Same) Addenda to his Observations onPhyllo- 
poda, p. 247, 248. (Leuckhart) On the Siphonophora of Nice ; with three plates 
—p. 249-377. 
Part II., 1854-1855, contains the Annual Reports on the Progress of Natural 
History, viz., Mammalogy—p. 1-40, by Wagner; Ornithology—p. 31-71, by 
Hartlaub ; Herpetology—p. 109-121 ; Ichthyology—p. 122-144 ; and Malaco¬ 
logy—p. 145-188, by Troschel; Crustacea, Arachnida, Myriapoda—p. 72-108, 
and Insects—p. 189-288, by Gerstaecker; Botany, by Grisebach—p. 289. 
Berichte ueber die Verhandlungen der Kcenigl. Sachsischen Gesell- 
SCHAFT DER WlSSENSCHAFTEN, ZU LEIPZIG. PROCEEDINGS OF THE R. SAXON 
Society of Science. Math. Phys. Class. 8vo. Leipzig, 1854. 
Part 1. (Hoffmeister) On the Fecundation of Ferns—p. 54-56. 
Part 2. (Weber) Microscopical Observations on very regular movements, 
accompanying the formation of resinous precipitates from Alcoholic solu¬ 
tions—p. 57-67. The further prosecution of such observations may throw- 
light on some of the unexplained motions in the cavities of plants and animals. 
The author designates in particular the circulation of sap in the cells of Chara, 
etc., and the phenomenon in the vitellus of animals, known as the process of 
furcation. (Same) A simple and easy method of distinguishing real from ap¬ 
parent death, at an early period—p. 69-81. The test consists in prolonged 
friction of a small portion of the skin, with a moist woollen cloth or a brush. If 
life be not actually extinct the skin does not dry up, but reddens, becomes moist 
and is covered with a thin film. (Same) Comparison of some of the reproductive 
organs of Phanerogamous plants with those of Vertebrate animals—p. 81-87. 
(Hofmeister) Contributions to the Morphology of Mosses ; with four plates— 
p. 92-106. 
Zeitschrift der Deutschen Geologischen Gesellschaft. Journal of 
the German Geological Society. 8vo. Berlin. Vol. VI. Parts 1—3. 
1854. 
(Beyrich) Shells of the tertiary mountain system of Northern Germany.. Part 2 : 
Mitra, Columbella, Terebra, Buccinum, Purpura, Cassidaria, Rostellaria, Apor- 
rhais; with 6 plates—p. 408-500. (Bornemann) On Semionotus in the upper 
Keuper-sandstone; with a plate—p. 613-615. (Casseday) Description of a.new 
genus of Crinoids from the carboniferous limestone of North America; with a 
plate—p. 237-242. (Erman) Some observations on the chalk-formation of the 
northern coast of Spain; with 2 plates—p. 596-612. (Jentzsch) On localities of 
heart-shaped binary crystals of Quartz—p. 245-247. (Karsten) The Plaener- 
formation upper greensand and chalk marl) of Mecklenburgh; with a plate— 
