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NOTICES OF SERIALS. 
in the economy of the Leech ; with a plate—p. 27-33. (Couper) Coleoptera col¬ 
lected in Canada, additions to previous list; none of them new species—p. 33-39. 
RUSSIA. 
Bulletin de la Societe Imp. des Naturalistes de Moscow. Bulletin 
oe the Moscow Society of Naturalists. Yol. XXVIII. 8vo. Moscow. 
1855. 
No. 1. (Chaudoir) On the family Carahici—p. 1-110. (Radde) Animal 
life about the Putrid Sea—p. 150-184. (Kiprijanoff) A few words on the Ver- 
tebrata which are found in the inundated grounds of the basins of the Dnieper 
and Wolga, between Orel and Cbarkoff; with figures—p. 185-205. (Rorna- 
nowsky) Geognostical description of the banks of the river Nara; with a chart 
—p. 206-217. (Eichwald) On the genera Cryptonymus and Zethus —p. 218-240. 
No. II. (Hermann) Examination of Ilmenium, Niobium, and Tantalium 
—p. 241-290. (Turczaninow) Description of the plants that grow wild in the 
countries on this and the other side of Lake Baikal, and in Dahuria ; continued 
—p.291-353. (Kiprijanoff) Second notice of Hybodus Eichwaldii; with a 
plate—p. 392-400 (Lindenmayer) Euboea, a Natural History Sketch—p. 401- 
451. (Weiss) Results of a microscopical examination of the “ Black Earth,” 
Tscherno-Sjom—p. 452-459. (Becker) Some Natural History notices of the 
year 1854— p. 460-482. Proceedings of the Society, etc. 
Archiv fuer die Naturkunde Liv-, Esth-, und Kurlands. Archives 
of Natural Science for Livonia, Esthonia, and Courland ; published by 
the Dorpat Society of Naturalists. 8vo. Dorpat. 
First Series, Mineralogy, Chemistry, Physics, and Geography. Yol. I. 
No. 1. 1854. (Scbrenk) Sketch of the strata of the Upper Silurian system of 
Livonia and Esthonia, and of their insular groups in particular—p. 1-112. 
(Goebel) Medicinal sea mud of the coasts of the isle of Oesel—p. 113-238. 
(Same) On the determining causes of the colour of the gray and yellow Dolo¬ 
mites and Limestones of the Upper Silurian rocks of Livonia and Esthonia— 
p. 239-292. 
Second Series, Biology. Yol. II. No. 1. 1853. (Schmidt) Flora of 
the isle of Moon, with an orographical geognostical sketch of the soil—p. 1-62. 
No. 2. 1855. (Girgensohn) Synopsis of the Musci Frondosi and Hepatici of the 
Baltic provinces—p. 63-74. (Wahl) The freshwater Bivalves of Livonia— 
p. 75-148. 
GERMANY. 
Acta nova Academic C. L. C. Nature Curiosorum. Transactions 
(New) of the Imperial Academy of Naturalists. 4to. Bonn. 
Vol. XXIV., Supplement. 1854. 
(Wagener) The Development of the Cestodea, from original Observations. An 
anatomical Introduction, followed by details concerning one hundred and seventy- 
four species of this group ; with twenty-two plates—pp. 91. 
Vol. XXV. Part 1. 1855. 
(Gomp-Besanez) Chemical examination of the mineral Springs of Sleben in 
Langenau, Bavarian Vogtland—p. 1-40. (Goeppert) Contributions to the His¬ 
tory of the Dracaenese ; with three plates—p. 41-59. (Jessen) On the duration 
of the life of plants ; Prize essay— 61-248. (Itzigsohn) Biological sketches of 
Hapalosiphon braunii , fam. Nostochaceaa; with five plates—p. 249-297. (Cohn) 
Empusa muscce , and the malady of the house-fly. A contribution to the History 
of the Epidemics characterized by the presence of parasitic fungi; with three 
plates—p. 299-360. (Guembel) The Thallophysis in parallelism with the Pollen- 
granule ; with two plates—p. 361-448. Commencing with the examination of the 
“ stomata” in the capsules of mosses, the author investigates the nature of the so- 
called organs of plants in general—whether pores or cells; and decides for the 
latter view. In consequence, he proposes to substitute for Stoma the term Thallo¬ 
physis (Spreite-korn,) on account of their function as propagative centres to multi¬ 
ply the cells of the epidermis. The results may be thus summed up. The organs 
