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C. Montague, D.M. Proceedings of Learned Societies. —Zoological Society, 
March 13, 1855 ; Botanical Society of Edinburgh, January 10, 1856. Miscel¬ 
laneous. —On the Earliest Stages in the Development of Pelagia Noctiluca; by 
Dr. A. Krohn. Description of a New Species of Swift. Meteorological Observa¬ 
tions, and Table for January, 1856. 
Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal ; exhibiting a View of the Progressive 
Discoveries and Improvements in the Sciences and Arts. Edited by Thomas 
Anderson, M.D., Sir W. Jardine, Bart., and T. H. Balfour, M.D. No. 5. 
January, 1856 : to be continued quarterly. 8vo. Price 6s., with eight Plates. 
(J. W. Dawson, E. G. S.) Notice of the species of Meriones and Arvicola found in Nova 
Scotia (plate 1). (Sir Thomas Tancred, Bart.) Notes on the Natural History of 
the province of Canterbury, in the middle island of New Zealand. Astronomical 
contradictions and geological inferences respecting a plurality of Worlds. (David 
Forbes, F.G.S.) On the chemical composition of some Norwegian minerals. (G. 
J. Allman, M.D., F.R.S.) Introductory Lecture delivered to the Students of the 
Natural History class, in the University of Edinburgh, at the opening of the Winter 
Session of 1855. It is a hard task to have to write an introductory lecture, dealing 
as it does with generalities already grown old; yet it is expected ^to contain perhaps 
more of novelty than any other of the course. In the present instance, Professor 
Allman, departing from the ways of old routine, points out to the students of Edin - 
burgh the nature and bearings of the subjects with which his course was to be 
occupied, and instructs them in the plan which it was his intention to pursue. 
This, in our unprejudiced opinion, he has succeeded in doing in a manner becoming 
the Professor of the first chair of Natural History, perhaps, in the world. In a style 
peculiarly his own, we are led to see the connected links of Zoology with Compara¬ 
tive Anatomy, and of the early mornings of creation, with those of yesterday. 
With but one exception, the English is vigorous, and yet sparkles with the poetic 
fancies that are so characteristic of our countrymen ; and we confess that on our 
perusal of this lecture, we felt somewhat of a pang of sorrow that we should never 
more hear our old Professor lecturing in our classic walls. (David Forbes, F.G.S.) 
On the relations of the Silurian and metamorphic rocks of the south of Norway 
(plates 2 and 3). (Sir W. Jardine, Bart.) Contributions to ornithology. No. 
2 (plate 4). (J. S. Cobbold, M.D.) On a remarkable pouched condition of the 
Glandulee Peyerianse, in the Giraffe (plate 5). (Andrew Murray, W.S.) Notice of 
the Leaf-insect (Phyllium Scythe) lately bred in the Royal Botanic Gardens of 
Edinburgh, with remarks on its growth and metamorphoses (plates 6, 7, and 8). 
(Henry C. Sorty, F.G.S.) On the Physical Geography of the Old Red Sandstone 
Sea of the central district of Scotland. (G. Dickie, M.D., Prof. Nat. Hist., 
Queen’s College, Belfast) Traces of Unity of form in the individual bones of the 
Skeleton. (John Fleming, M.D.) On the different branches of Natural History, 
the chairs which have been instituted for their illustration, and the manner in which 
they should be subordinated. (W. J. Henwood, F.R.S.) On the metalliferous 
deposits of Kumaon and Gurhwal in North Western India. Reviews. Correspon¬ 
dence. Proceedings of Societies. Scientific Intelligence. 
Quarterly Journal of Microscopical Science. No. 14, January, 1856. 
8vo. Price 4s. With Woodcuts and Lithographic Illustrations. London: John 
Churchill. 
No. 14, January, 1856:—Transactions of the Microscopical Society of London. 
(F. H. Wenham) On the Formation and Development of the Vegetable Cell; with 
a plate. Original communications on Certain Conditions of the Dental Tissues ; 
by John Tomes, F.R.S. ; with a plate. On the Filamentous, Long-horned Dia- 
tomacese, with a description of two new species ; by Thomas Brightwell, F.L.S.; 
with a plate. Observations on the Practical Application of the Microscope; by 
J. Hepworth ; with a plate on the Mandibles of the Acarus Scabiei. On a case of 
green pigment degeneration of the Heart; by Dr. Thiedman ; with a plate. On 
the Actinophrys Sol. ; by T. Weston, H.E.T.C. Translations.—On the Impreg¬ 
nation and Germination of Algse ; by M. Pringsheim. On the Course of Amyloid 
