NOTICES OF SERIALS. 
21 
Appendix to the Bulletins for 1853 and 1854. 8vo. Brussels. 1854. 
(Dewalque) On the different stages of the Lower Lias of the Luxemburg—p. 
145-171 ; (De Selys Longchamps) Synopsis of the Calopterygini—p. 1-73 ; (\Ves- 
mael) Ichneumones Amblypygi Europaei, with 2 plates—p. 75-142. 
FRANCE. 
Memoires de l’Academie Imperiale des Sciences, de l’Institut de France. 
Memoirs of the Paris Academy. 4to. Paris. Yol. XXIY. 1854. 
(Duvernoy) Memoir on a New Classification of the Mollusca Acephala Lamel- 
libranchia, or Bivalves ; with 13 plates—p. 3-210. Comprises 30 monographs, 
presented to the Academy between 1841 and 1852, and here published 
collectively. 
Memoires presentes par divers Savans. Communications not by Mem- 
bers. 4to. Paris. Yol. XII. 1854. 
(Bourguignon) Essay, entomological and pathological, on Scabies in the 
Human subject; with 10 plates—p. 1-168. The anatomical investigation of the 
male Acarus scabiei, which does not make a furrow in the skin like the other sex, 
has confirmed the notion of Eichstedt, who had observed this circumstance in 
1846. (Durand and Mauvary) On the increase in girth of Dicotyledonous 
plants ; with 4 plates—p. 169-203. 
Archives du Museum d’Histoire Naturelle. Archives of the Museum 
of Natural History. 4to. Paris. Yol. VII. 1854-1855. 
(Duvernoy) New Studies of the Fossil Rhinoceros ; with 8 plates—p. 1-144. 
(Milne Edwards) On some New Crustacea of the Museum ; with 8 plates— 
p. 145-192. (Dumeril) Historical notes on the Menagery of Reptiles of the 
Museum—p. 193-319. (Pucheran) On imperfectly known types of Passeres 
Dentirostres, of the Collection of the Museum; with 7 plates—p. 321-380. 
(Nicolet) Natural History of the Acarina occurring in the environs of Paris; 
with 10 plates—p. 381-482. An important contribution to the history of the 
tribe, both in a physiological and systematical point of view. There are de¬ 
scribed in the present part, of Pelops, 5 species ; Oribates, 15 ; Leiosoma, n. g., 
6; Cepheus, 3; Notaspis, 3 ; Eremaeus, 3; Nothrus, 6; Damaeus, 5; Tegeo- 
cranus, n. g., 3 ; Hermannia, n. g., 3 ; Hoplophora, 3. 
Yol. YIII. Parts 1 and 2. 1855.—(Duvernoy) Memoirs on the Anato¬ 
mical characters of the large Anthropomorphous Apes ; in particular the 
Gorilla, and the Tschego, a new species from Western Africa; with 16 plates 
—p. 1-248. (Same) Course of Comparative Anatomy—p. 249-272. 
Annales des Sciences Naturelles, etc. Annals of Natural Science, 
etc. Fourth Series. 8vo. Masson, Paris. 
Zoology. By Milne Edwards. Yol. i., 1854. Phvsiology —(Bernard) 
On the Grand Sympathetic, and the effects of the Neurotomy on Animal 
heat—p. 176-199. (Lereboullet) Comparative Embryology of the Pike, the 
Perch, and the Crayfish, part i.—p. 237-289. (Morren) Experiments on the 
absorption of Azote by Animalcules and Algse—p. 239. Vertebrata.— 
(Aubry) On the Habits of the Gorilla and the Chimpanzee—p. 104. (Bonaparte, 
Prince C. L.) Synopsis of his System of Ornithology—p. 105-152. (Dareste) 
Second Memoir on the Convolutions of the Brain in Mammalia—p. 73-103. 
(Hollard) Monograph of the Balistidae, part ii., the genera and species; with 
three plates—p. 41-72, 303-339. (Thomas) On the Generation of Pelodytes punc- 
tatus , and the Batrachia Anura in general—p. 290-293. Annulata —(Van 
Beneden) Notice of Experiments on the development of the Cysticerci—p. 104. 
(Dufour) Anatomy of Hymenopterous insects of the Family Urocerata; with a 
plate—p. 201-236. (Lacaze-Duthiers) On Bucephalus haimeanus 1 a parasite found 
