NOTICES OF SERIALS. 
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founded some other plant with the true Oidium tucker'd. (Cornalia) Zoological 
notes on Pachypleura edwardsii , a new Saurian (Acrodont) from the Triassic strata 
of Lombardy; with two plates—p. 45-58. Report on the competition for the 
prize for an essay on the anatomy of the silkworm. Prize awarded to an essay by 
Cornalia—p. 108-123. 
ENGLISH. 
The Annals and Magazine of Natural History; including Zoology, 
Botany, and Geology. No. 94, October; No. 95, November ; No. 96, De¬ 
cember, 1855. 8vo. With Plates. London : Taylor & Francis. Price, 2s. 6d. 
each. 
No. 94, October.—(Dr. Alexander Braun, Professor of Botany in the Uni¬ 
versity of Berlin) The Vegetable Individual, in its relation to Species. (John 
Lycett) Note on the Sub genus, Lirnea, Bronn. (Lucas Barrett, F.G.S.) Notes 
on the Brachiopoda observed in a dredging tour with Mr. M‘Andrew, on the coast 
of Norway, in the summer of the present year. We find the following observations, 
in reference to the Terebratula caput-serpentis. Individuals remaining attached to 
any object, manifested a remarkable power and disposition to move on their 
pedicles ; detached specimens could be moved about, without causing the animal to 
close its valves. If any of the protruded cirri were touched, the cirri were re¬ 
tracted and the valves closed with a snap, but soon after opened. Only on one 
occasion was a current observed to set in on one side, between the rows of cirri. 
(R. Leuckart) On the young states of some Annelides ; with a plate. William 
Clark) Observations on the Genus Assiminia. (M. E. Germain de Saint-Pierre) 
On the Morphology of the organs called Lenticels. Bibliographical notices. 
A Manual of British Marine Zoology. Proceedings of learned Societies: Zoolo¬ 
gical Society, May 9, ; June 13,1854. Linnean Society, February 6; March 20. 
Description of the Peachia Hastata, a new genus and species of the class Zoophyta ; 
by P. H. Gosse. April 3. T. Bell, President, in the chair. Miscellaneous: 
Sibbald’s Drawings of Scottish Animals, by the late Dr. George Johnston. 
Clausilia Rolphii: Helix aspersa : Descriptions of some new species of Birds, by 
the Viscount Du Bus de Gisignies : On the Operculum of Diplommatina, by Capt. 
Thomas Hutton: Note on the Aphyllanthes Monspeliensis, by M. Parlatore: 
Meteorological Obssrvations and Table for August, 1855. 
No. 95, November.—(P. H. Gosse, A.S.S.) Notes on some new or little 
known British Animals. We have here descriptions of a new animal belonging to 
the class Arachnida, and two belonging to the Annelida. (Robert Warrington) 
On the iujurious effects of an excess or want of heat and light on the Aquarium. 
Mr. Warrington warns us never to allow the temperature in our aquaria to fall 
below 50o F. or to rise above 70° F. (T. Williams, M.D., London, F.L.S.) On 
the Mechanism of Aquatic Respiration, and on the Structure of the Organs of 
Breathing iu Invertebrate Animals. After an absence of some seven months, the 
author once more appears in the arena of natural science, and concludes a some¬ 
what lengthy paper by saying that u he will explain, on another occasion, how 
much that is old and how much that is new is contained in these observations. In 
succeeding papers they will be supported by a large mass of anatomical details 
of great interest, and hitherto, he believes, unknown to naturalists. (Rev. Hamlet 
Clark, A.M.) Notice and Description of a new species of Spider. The spider 
in question is named Salticus Blackwallii, after that well known arachnologist, 
Mr. Blackwall. (Robert Warington) Observations on the Habits of the Stickle¬ 
back. (Dr. A. Braun) The Vegetable Individual, in its relation to Species. 
Bibliograpical notices: Glaucus, or the Wonders of the Shore. Proceedings of 
Learned Societies: Linnean Society, May 1, 1855 ; June 5. Read the first of a 
series of Memoirs, by the President, entitled, “Horse Carcinologicse,” or Notices 
of Crustacea. Part I. The Leucosiadse. Zoological Society, June 27, 1854; 
July 25. Read a paper on the Anatomy of the Great Ant-Eater, by Professor 
Owen. Miscellaneous*—Bohemian Forests and Peat Bogs, by Dr. Hochstetter : 
