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NOTICES OF SEIIIALS. 
GREAT BRITAIN. 
The Annals and Magazine of Natural History ; including Zoology, 
Botany, and Geology. No. 97, January ; No. 98, February; No. 99, March, 
1856. 8vo. With Plates. London: Taylor & Francis. Price, 2s. 6d. each. 
No. 97, January (H. T. Carter, Assistant-Surgeon, H.C.S., Bombay) On the 
conjugation of Cocconeis, Cymbella, and Amphora, together with some remarks 
on Amphiphora alata; with a plate. (A. Schmidt) Description of a new species of 
Clausilia, from the neighbourhood of Cheltenham. ( Edward Blyth) Memoir on 
the Indian species of Shrews, with notes, by Robert F. Tomes. (Thomas Williams, 
M.D.) On the Mechanism of Aquatic Respiration and on the Structure of the 
Organs of Breathing in Invertebrate Animals. (James D. Dana) On the Origin of 
the Geographical distribution of Crustacea. (W. King, Professor Geology, Queen’s 
College, Galway) On Anthracosia, a fossil genus of the family Unionidas. (W. 
Clark) On the genus Assiminia. Bibliographical Notices. —Recherches sur les 
Crinoides du Terrain Carbonifere de la Belgique, par L. de Koninck, et H. le Hon. 
A Lecture on the Geological History of Newbury, Berks, by T. Rupert Jones, 
F.G.S. Proceedings of Learned Societies. —Zoological Society, November 28, 
1854. Botanical Society of Edinburgh, November 8, 1855. Miscellaneous.— Ob¬ 
servations on the Blistering Beetles of Montevideo; by M. A. Courbon. Unusual 
Dearth of Algae in 1855 ; by Dr. Cocks. Observations on Echini Perforating the 
Granite of Brittany; by M. Valenciennes. New species of Mammals and Birds ; 
Description of a new Bird from Guatemala, forming the Type of a new Genus ; by 
Jolm Gould, F.R.S. The late Mr. Newport. Meteorological Observations and Table 
for November, 1855. 
No. 98, February :—(T. Rupert Jones, F.G.S.) Notes on the Palaeozoic bivalved 
Entomostraca; with ten plates. (H. J. Carter, Assistant-Surgeon, H.C.S., Bombay) 
Further Observations on the Development of Gonidia (?) from the Cell-contents 
of the Characeae, and on the Circulation of the Mucus substance of the cell; with 
two plates. (W. H. Benson) Amended description of the genus Scaphula. 
(Same) A fresh-water form of the Arcacea, with characters of a new species from 
Tenasserim, and a Description of Tanystoma tubiferum, a Burmese form, related 
to the genus Anostoma, of Lamarck. (William King, Professor of Geology, 
Queen’s College, Galway) On Pleurodictyum problematicum; with a plate. 
(Thomas Williams, M.D., Lond.) On the Mechanism of Aquatic Respiration, and 
on the Structure of the Organs of Breathing in Invertebrate Animals. (J. Gwyn 
Jeffreys, F.R.S.) On the Marine Testacea of the Piedmontese Coast; with a plate. 
(G. R. Gray, F.L.S.) Notes on the Review of G. R. Gray’s “Catalogue of the 
Genera and Sub-genera of Birds,” in the December number of the “ Annals.” 
Bibliographical Notices. —Popular History of Palms and their Allies; by B. 
Seemann. Museum of Economic Botany; by Sir W. J. Hooker. Handbook to the 
Marine Aquarium ; by P. H. Gosse. Popular Geography of Plants ; by E. M. C., 
edited by Dr. Daubeny. The Flowering Plants and Ferns of Great Britain, &c., 
by J. G. Baker. Proceedings of Learned Societies. —Zoological Society, 
February 27, 1855 ; Botanical Society of Edinburgh, December 13, 1855. Mis¬ 
cellaneous. —Memorandum of the Animal of Scissurella crispata ; by L. Barrett, 
F.G.S. Notes on the Marine Fauna of Weymouth; by William Thompson. Me¬ 
teorological Observations and Table for December, 1855. 
No. 99, March:—(Professor O. Heer) On the House Ant of Madeira; trans¬ 
lated from the original by R. T. Lowe, A.M. (W. H. Benson) Characters of 
Seventeen New Forms of the Cyclostomacea from the British provinces of Burmah, 
collected by W. Theobald, jun. (John Blackwall, F.L.S.) Descriptions of Three 
newly discovered Species of Araneidea. (C. C. Babington, A.M., F.R.S.) On 
some Species of Epilobium. (Thos. Williams, M.D., London) On the Mechanism 
of Aquatic Respiration ; and on the structure of the Organs of Breathing in inver¬ 
tebrate animals ; with two plates. (William King, Professor of Geology, Queen’s 
College, Galway) Notes on Permian Fossils ; Palliobranchiata. (William Clark) 
On Scissurella Crispata. (J. Gwyn Jeffreys, F.R.S.) Further Notices of Pied¬ 
montese Mollusca. Bibliographical Notices. —Natural History of the Tineina; 
by H. T. Stainton, Sylloge Generum Specierumque Cryptogamicarum, &c., &c.; by 
