NOTICES OF SERIALS. 
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magnifying power of short spaces, illustrated by the transmission of light through 
minute apertures. (F. H. Wenham) Notes and observations on the sap circulation 
of Plants. (F. Currey, A.M.), Hartig on the Phytozoa of Antheridia. (J. W. 
Bailey) On a Universal Indicator for the Microscope. Translations. On the Im¬ 
pregnation and germination of Algse ; by M. Pringsheim. On Sphserozoum Noc- 
tiluca and the Polycystinse ; by Professor Muller. On the development of the 
Spermatozoids in Torrea vitrea ; by M. A. de Quatrafages. On the influence of 
Dilute Sulphuric Acid on the deposit layers of the Cell-Wall in its earliest con¬ 
dition ; by Dr. T. Hartig. On the calcareous concretions in Urticaceae and other 
Plants ; by H. A. Weddel. Correspondence. The circulation in Aqueous Plants. 
Aperture of Object-Glasses ; On the Structure of the Frond of Polysiphonia Fasti- 
giata. Remarks on the Fly’s Foot. Microscopic Preparations. Proceedings of 
Societies.—Microscopical Society. Zoophytology. 
The Zoologist. No. 156, October ; No. 157, November ; No. 158, December, 
1855. 8vo. London : John Yan Yoorst. Price Is. each. 
No. 156, October:—(R. Knox, M.D., F.R.S.E.) Contributions to the Philo¬ 
sophy of Zoology. Part I.—On the Relation of Species or Race to Genus or 
Natural Family; a question of transcendental anatomy. (H. T. Stainton) 
Entomological Botany (with more especial reference to the plants frequented by 
the Tineina. (Hamlet Clark, A.M.) Synonymic List of the British Carnivo¬ 
rous Water Beetles, together with Critical Remarks and Notices of Foreign and 
Allied Species. We would heartily commend the remarks by the Rev. H. 
Clark, with which this paper opens. Sure we are that much remains to be 
done among the “ water beetles.’’ When our rivers and lakes, rivulets and pebbly 
brooks, when our marshes and ditches, and, in fact, every locality that contains 
water, no matter in what quantity, are investigated, we will be unable to 
arrive at anything like a just appreciation of the number of these insects. 
Proceedings of Society—Entomological Society, September, 3, 1855. (C. R. 
Bree) Birds killed by Cold. (John Dutton) Occurrence of the Bee-eater in 
the Isle of Wight, and disappearance of the Chough from the same locality. 
(Henry Doubleday) White Swallow. (T. J. Bold) Occurrence of Cross-bills in 
Northumberland and Durham. (C. R. Bree) On the double-broodedness of 
Gonepteryx rhamni. (Rev. Joseph Greene) Is Gonepteryx rhamni double- 
brooded? (J. Scott) Note on Argynnis lathonia. (W. Machin) Note on the 
breeding of Notodonta dictseoides. (T. J. Bold) Capture of Scolytus destructor 
in the North of England. (C. Fox) The vinegar Polype. Notices of New Books 
—Annals and Magazine of Natural History. 
No. 157, November :—Notices of New Books—Monograph of British Bees ; 
The Natural History Review, No. VII.; Quarterly Journal of Microscopical 
Science, No. XI. ; Manual of British Marine Zoology ; Annals and Magazine 
of Natural History. (H. T. Stainton) Entomological Botany, with more especial 
reference to the plants frequented by the Tineina. (J. F. Brockholes) Hedge¬ 
hog devouring its young; on the Cuckoo ; and on a valuable Hen. (T. Bramley) 
Hoopoe at Low Layton. (E. H. Rodd) Occurrence of the Rose-coloured Pastor ; 
and solitary Snipe, near Penzance. (W. S. M. D ’Urban) The Spotted Crake 
and Avocet on the Exe ; the Great American Snake caught. (Edward Newman) 
Notes on the Loach, the Gudgeon, food of Fishes ; on transparent Fishes; and 
on the supposed Male of the Argonaut. (J. C. Dale) Scorpion taken near Dor¬ 
chester. (J. J. Reading) Lepidoptera taken near Plymouth. (F. Sharpe) Occur¬ 
rence of Colias edusa and liyale near Brighton. Remarks on the double- 
broodedness of Gonepteryx rhamni, by E. Shepherd, C. W. Watkins, Henry 
Doubleday, and H. J. Hardings. In bringing this controversy to a conclusion, 
the originator of it, Mr. Newman says, “ I can now positively state, from my 
own observations, made during 1855, that Gonepteryx rhamni is only single- 
brooded. (C. W. Watkins) Unusual abundance of Vanessa Io. (W. H. Hay¬ 
ward) Capture of the larva of Deilephila galii and Stauropus fagi at Devonport. 
(J. C. Dale) Reputed British Butterflies. (J. N. Winter) Capture of Leucania 
musculosa and Phlogophora empyrea at Brighton. (J. F. Brockholes) Note on 
