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NOTICES OF SERIALS. 
Notices.—The Domestic Cat; Lateness of the Chimney Swallow; a Real Rara 
Avis; the Mealy Redpole; Green Sandpiper ; Oyster-catcher; Additional Note 
on the Starling in the “ Birds of Terrick ;” Short Sun Fish ; Music hath charms 
for the Butterfly ; Plantago lanceolata; Boletus squamosus ; Occurrence of Ache- 
rontia atropos at Southport; Yanessa Atalanta ; Relaxing of Insects; Winter 
Birds. Reviewing. Reviews.—The Flowering Plants and Ferns of Great 
Britain ; an attempt to classify them according to their Geognostic Relations. By 
John Gilbert Baker. London : W. and F. G. Cash. The Entomologist’s Annual 
for 1856. London: Van Yoorst. Proceedings of Societies.—Aberdeenshire 
Natural History Association. The Querist.—Extermination of Sparrows. 
No. 61, March:—(E. K. B.) The Common Squirrel. (J. M‘Intosh) Notes on 
the Cuckoo. (Rev. R. P. Alington) Odds and Ends. (Rev. F. O. Morris) A 
Chapter on Instinct. The proposed increase of the Size and Price of “ The 
Naturalist.” (J. H. Davies) Three Days in Caernarvonshire. (Rev F. O. 
Morris) Systema Naturae. Miscellaneous Notices.—To the Editor of u The 
Naturalist;” Occurrence of the Mealy Redpole at Hammersmith ; the Lime Tree. 
The Retrospect.—The Hawk. The Querist.—Breeding and Rearing of Foreign 
and English Birds in confinement; Spider and Fly ; Answer to F. G. Bonney’s 
Query in the December Number. 
Hooker’s Journal of Botany, and Kew Garden Miscellany. No. 84, 
January. No. 85, February. No. 86, March, 1856. 8vo. London: Lovell 
Reeve. With a Plate, price 2s. each. 
No. 84, January:—(Dr. Ferdinand Mueller) Definitions of Rare, or hitherto 
undescribed Australian Plants, chiefly collected within the boundaries of the 
Colony of Yictoria. Dr. Mueller and the North Australian Exploring Expedition. 
We have here some extracts of letters from this indefatigable botanist, written just 
as he was setting out on this expedition. We may hope great things from the 
investigation of such a man. Catalogue of Mr. Geyer’s Collection of Plants 
gathered in the Upper Missouri, the Oregon Territory, and the intervening portion 
of the Rocky Mountains; by Sir W. J. Hooker. On Chamselauciese ; by Dr. 
Meisner. Uses of Scirpus Lacustris (bullrush) in South America. Botanical 
Information.—Extracts of recent Letters from Dr. Harvey, dated Sydney, May 
and June, 1855. Vegetable Fibres—Botanical Garden, Peradenia, Ceylon. 
Note on Asplenium Fontanum ; by Mr. Thos. Moore. Dr. Asa Gray on the 
Development of the Seed-coats of Magnoliacese. Agave Americana in Devon¬ 
shire. Flora Indias Batavae. Ferns of Great Britain and Ireland. Nature 
Printing; Parts VIII. and IX. Botany of the Antarctic Voyage, III. Flora of 
Tasmania; Part I. Xenia Orchidacea. 
Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Societv. 8vo. London : 
Longman, Brown and Co., and Williams and Norgate. 
Vol. I. No. 1. March, 1856. 
Zoology.— (Ralph) On the Katepo, a supposed poisonous spider of New 
Zealand, extract of a letter—p. 1, 2. (Bell) On the habits of Argyroneta aquatica 
—p. 2-4. (Walker) Catalogue of the Diptera collected at Singapore and Ma¬ 
lacca by Mr. A. R. Wallace ; with descriptions of new species, and two plates— 
p. 4-39. Out of the total list of one hundred and twenty-three species, ninety 
are described as new, and eleven new genera. (Newman) On a supposed species 
of Pelopaeus—p. 39. (Newport) On the Natural History of the glow-worm, 
Lampyris noctiluca—p. 60. These observations of the eminent anatomist, whose 
decease science deplores, were left incomplete, but appeared too important to be 
lost. They have accordingly been prepared for publication by Professor Ellis, of 
University College, London. 
Botany. —(Bunbury) On the Botany of Madeira and Teneriffe—p. 1-35 
(Meisner) New species of Chamtelauciese—p. 35-48. (Kippist) Notice of two 
apparently undescribed species of Genetyllis from S. W. Australia—p. 48. 
Proceedings, etc. —pp. 16. 
This journal is intended to appear quarterly. The zoological and botanica 
portions have their several paging, and either can be had separately. 
