NOTICES OF SERIALS. 
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(Bureau) On the Classification of organized beings, and on Cetacea in particular 
—p. 3-12. (Guitton) Answer to Bureau—p. 264-270. 
Proceedings of Societies. —Entomological Society of France—p. 602, 603. 
Zoological Society of Acclimatisation—p. 112. Paris Academy—p. 34-41, 108- 
111, 141-145, 189-192, 248-252, 301-303, 344-347, 375-383, 427-440, 472-488, 
524-534, 579-594. Extracts.—(Gaudry) Fossiliferous beds of Pikermi in Attica 
—p. 528. (Firmas) New species of fossil shells—p. 591. (Duvernoy) Age of 
the remains of Crocodilini found at Lecce, kingdom of Naples—p. 37. (Prevost) 
Gastornis , n. g., gigantic bird from the clay of Meudon, basin of Paris—p. 144* 
(Nodot) Schistopleurum, n. g., allied to Glyptodon —p. 427-431. (Focke) Struc¬ 
ture of Naviculse—p. 38-40. (Valenciennes) Boring Echinoderms—p. 524. 
(Davaine) Wheat-disease produced by Anguillula —p. 472-474. (De Serres) 
On g. Dreyssena —p. 144. (Lacaze-Duthiers) Reproductive organs of the oyster 
—p. 141. (Beneden) On the same—p. 142-144. (Moquin-Tandon) Sperma- 
tophora of terrestrial androgynous Gastropods—p. 527. (Hesse) Praniza a 
transitory stage of Ancceus —p. 534. (Lespes) Spermatophora of Grylli —p. 346. 
(Quatrefages) Report on the same—p. 434-436. (Courbon) Blistering beetles of 
Montevideo—p.584-591. (Thenard) Method of destroying Eumolpus vitis — 
p. 35-37. (Guerin-M.) On the introduction of the Tussah silkworm—p. 376- 
378, 475-477. (Hardy) On the economic value of Bomhyx cynthia —p. 345. 
(Cicconi) On muscardine—p. 529. (Bonaparte) Notice of Gray’s genera of birds 
— p. 482-485; On the swallows that make edible nests—p. 579-584; Orni¬ 
thological notes—p. 379, 485. (Lienard, Vinson) On the habits of the Aye-aye 
—p. 436-440, 478-481. (St. Hilaire) Equus hemippus , n. sp. in the menagerie 
of Natural History, Paris—p.593. (Gratiolet) Brain of the elephant—p.249. 
(Dareste) Brain of aquatic Mammalia—p. 432. (Pucheran) Brain and skeleton 
of aquatic Mammalia—p. 381; Relation between the nervous and muscular 
systems in man—p. 375 ; Fauna of Madagascar—p. 40. (De la Malle) Return 
of domesticated animals to a wild state—p. 436-438. (Dumas) Report of 
Commission on several memoirs concerning the functions of the liver—p. 302. 
(Figuier) Production of sugar in the animal economy—p. 476. (Poey) Electro¬ 
chemical agency for elimination of metals introduced medicinally into the human 
frame—p. 109. 
Obituary. —Charpentier—p. 488-496. 
Reviews. —Stanbury, Exploration and survey of the valley of the great salt lake 
of Utah: Philadelphia: 1852—p. 597. Perris, Excursion in the Landes; ex¬ 
tract, Mem. Soc. Linn. Lyon : 1852—p. 303, 304. Stabile, Fossils of the triassie 
strata of the environs of the lake of Lugano ; extract, Mem. N. Soc. Helv. : St. 
Gall: 1854—p. 536, 537. Nardo, Marine Fauna of the lagunes of Venice : 1847 
—p. 385. Jay, Catalogue of shells arranged according to the Lamarckian system ; 
4th ed. : New York: 1852—p. 147. Rossmassler, Iconography of land and fresh 
water Mollusca—p. 153, 154. Albers, Mollusca of Madera and Porto Santo: 
Berlin : 1854—p. 388. Cotteau, Notes on land and fresh water Mollusca—p. 148. 
Drouet, List of land and fresh water Mollusca of Continental France—p. 391, 392. 
Millet, Mollusca of the dep. of Marne and Loire—p. 149-151. Cessac, Land 
and fresh water Mollusca of dep. of Creuse—p. 149. Panescorse, Mollusca of 
the dep. of Var—p. 148. Lea, Synopsis of Najades ; 3rd ed.: Philadelphia : 
1852—p. 386. Prime, Monograph of the spp. of Pisidium of U. S.: Cambridge, 
U. S. : 1852—p. 387. Gassiez, Species of Pisidium of Aquitaine—p. 389, 390. 
Cessac, Two new spp. of Pisidium, of dep. of Creuse, 1855—p. 390. Prime, 
Species of Cyclas of U. S.—p. 146, 147. Bourguignat, Monograph of French 
species of Sphaerium—p. 151-153. Sacc, Sketch of the history of the Purpura 
of the ancients; extract, Bull. Soc. Industr. Mulhouse : 1855—p. 537. De 
Saulcy, Note on Purpura: Metz: 1855—p. 537, 538. Toussenel, The world of 
birds; sentimental Ornithology: Paris: 1859—p. 41-47, 193-199. Cabanis, 
Journal of Ornithology: Cassel—p. 200. Machado, Theory of resemblances ; 
extract—p. 541-543. Bulletin of the Phy sico - Mathematical class of the St. 
Petersburg Academy—p. 383-385. Bulletin of the Moscow Society of Naturalists— 
p. 440-442. Memoirs of the Society of Natural Science, Agriculture, and the 
Arts : Lille—p. 535, 536. Monthly Journal of the National Agricultural Society 
Paris : 1854—p. 145, 146. 
