NOTICES OF SERIALS. 
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by nature-printing: Trent: 1854:—p. 85. Schmidt, Figures of more than thirty 
thousand species of plants, &c.; new and cheaper issue, edited by Dietrich : Jena: 
1855—p. 83, 84. Miquel, Flora of Dutch Iftdia ; with fifty plates: Leipzig—p. 
85,86, 97. Steudel, Synopsis of the Cyperacese, Restiacese, Eriocaulonese, Xyrideas, 
Desvauxiese, Junceas: Stuttgart: 1855—p. 97. Rabenhorst, Course of studies of 
Cryptogamia: Dresden: 1855—p. 33, 34. Same, Collection of European He- 
paticge—p. 98. European Lichenes—p. 99. Algas of. Saxony: Dresden: 1855— 
p. 99. Doll, The vascular Cryptogamia of Baden: Carlsruhe: 1855—p. 69. 
Courtin, Culture of native and foreign Ferns and Lycopodia : Stuttgart: 1855— 
p. 68, 69. Buchner and Kirsch, Fungi, in coloured models: Hildburghausen: 
1854,1855—p. 100, 101. Becker and Hartinger, Diagrams for schools; Fungi, 
six plates : Olmutz—p. 11, 12. Goldenberg, Fossil Flora of the coal-formation of 
Saarbriick; part 1, with six plates: Saarbriick: 1855—p. 41-43. Goeppert, Ter¬ 
tiary Flora of Schossnitz in Silesia ; with twenty-six plates : Gorlitz : 1855—p. 25- 
29. Ettinghausen, the Eocene Flora of Mount Promina ; with fourteen plates : 
Vienna: 1855—p. 59-61. Fallou, The arable soils of Saxony, investigated and 
classified, &c.; 2nd edition: Leipzig: 1855—p. 34-37. 
New Works— p. 21-24, 30-32, 39, 40, 46-48, 55, 56, 63, 64, 72-88, 96-104. 
The critical portion of this journal, in particular, appears to be conducted with 
a genial and candid scientific temper; and it affords a fair view of the present 
direction of the philosophizing spirit of natural history in Germany. 
Verhandlungen des Natur-historischen Vereine der Preussischen 
Rheinlande und Westphalens. Transactions of the Natural His¬ 
tory Association of Prussian Rhineland and Westphalia. New Series. 
Vol. II. 8vo. Bonn, 1855. 
Geology _(Dechen) Geognostic view of the district of Arnsberg—p. 117-225. 
(Marck) Media of petrifaction of the Polythalamia—p. 259-262. Iron pyrites and 
silica are here added to the media previously determined, viz., carbonate of lime and 
glauconite. (Same) Chemical examination of rocks of the Upper cretaceous for¬ 
mation of Westphalia—p. 263-282. (Same) Protocarbonate of iron occurring in 
sedimentary deposits—p. 283-290. (Same) The Quartz crystals of Hussley, their 
matrix and origin—p. 291, 292. (Zeiler and Wertgen) Observations on the petri¬ 
factions of the old Devonian system of the Rhine, in particular the species occur¬ 
ring about Coblentz.—The Echinoderms of the environs of Coblentz, and of the 
calcareous rock of Eifel; with thirteen plates—p. 1-28, 79-85. New species, Asterias 
rhenana , Rhodocrinus gonatodes , Platycrinus nodosus , fritillus, Poteriocrinus 
rhenanus , curtus , Actinocrinus prumiensis , Ceramocrinus (n.g.) eifeliensis , Epacto- 
crinus (n.g.) irregularis. Coccocrinus Muller, n.g., type Platycrinus rnsaceus 
Roemer. Botany.— (Beckhaus) Contributions to the Cryptogamous Flora of 
Westphalia—p. 64-78. (Bonninghausen) Tillcea muscosa L. a Westphalian 
plant—p. 292-297. (Schaffner) Observations on Spongilla fluviatilis—p. 29-32. 
(Same) On the Natural History of the self-moving spores of Algae—p. 32-39. 
Zoology.— (Bartels) On Gammarus pulex in the human stomach — p. 113-115. 
In a note appended (p. 115, 116), Troschel questions the evidence of this Crusta¬ 
cean having lived in that situation. (Forster) Second century of new Hymenop- 
tera—p. 226-258. Twenty of the hundred are given in the present part. They 
are of various families, and mostly Hungarian, from the collection of Friwaldsky. 
Two new genera of Ichneumonidte are characterised, Ctenochira and Xenodocon , 
and one of Vespidae (?) Aclastocera. , which, among other singularities, combines 
the short mandibles and two-spurred posterior tibiae of the social wasps, with the 
toothed ungues of the solitary (Eumenidae). Miscellaneous _Classified cata¬ 
logue of Natural History articles in the Transactions of Societies for the years 1852 
and 1853—p. 86-108. Proceedings of the Association—p. 70. Proceedings of the 
Society of Physical and Medical science of the Lower Rhine, meeting at Bonn—pp.80. 
Entomologische Zeitung herausg. v. d. Entom. Vereine zu Stettin. En¬ 
tomological Journal (monthly) of the Entomological Association of 
Stettin. 8vo. Vol. XV.; with portrait of Klug, and three Plates. Stettin, 1855. 
Coleoptera. —(Bremi-Wolff) New Swiss species ; Polydrosus penninus, 
Cassida alpina, Rhytirrhinus alpinus, Teretrius hispidulus, Ebseus perspicillatus, 
