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NOTICES OF SERIALS. 
Ovum. (Charles C. Babington, A.M., F.R.S.) On some species of Epilobium. 
(J. Gwyn Jeffreys, F.R.S.) Note on the Genus Scissurella. (Prof. O. Heer, of 
Zurich) On the House Ant of Madeira; translated from the original by R. T. 
Lowe, A.M.; with a plate. (William King, Professor of Mineralogy and 
Geology, Queen’s College, Galway) Notes on Permian Fossils ; Palliobranchiata. 
(W. H. Benson) Remarks on the Genera Tanystoma, Nematura, and Anaulus. 
(M. Tulasne) New researches in Vegetable Embryogeny. (Thos. Williams, 
M.D.,' F.L.S.) On the tracheal system of Insects. Bibliographical Notices. 
Proceedings of Learned Societies. Miscellaneous.—On the mode in which the 
Tachinae escape from their Pupa-cases, and from closed situations in which they 
often occur ; by Dr. Reissig. On the apparent absence of a nervous system in 
the Nemoptera Lusitanica; by M. Leon Dufour. Meteorological Observations 
and Table for February, 1856. 
No. 101, May:—(Charles C. Babington, A.M., F.R.S.) On the British species 
of Arctium. (R. M‘Andrew, F.L.S., and L. Barrett, F.G.S.) List of the Mol- 
lusca observed between Drontheim and the North Cape. (Alfred R. Wallace) 
Some account of an infant Ourang-utan. (E. Claparede) On the theory of 
the fecundation of the Ovum. (S. P. Woodward, F.G S.) Another note on 
Scissurella and on the Occurrence of the Fossil Genus Conoteuthes, D ’ Orb. in 
England. (N. Lieberkiihn) On the Development of the fresh-water Sponges. 
(Prof. S. Loven) On the Development of the Chitons. (Arthur Henfrey, 
F.R.S.) On cell-development in Plants. Bibliographical Notices. Proceedings 
of Learned Societies. Miscellaneous.—The British Museum ; its catalogue and 
accessions in Zoology. On the development of the Lampreys ; by M. Schultze. 
Note on Clausilia Mortilleti; by C. Prentice. On a supposed new species of the 
Genus Equus ; by M. I. Geoffrov Saint Hilaire. Meteorological Observations 
and Table for March, 1856. 
No. 102, June:—(C. Spence Bate, F.L.S.) On the British Diastylidse ; with 
three plates. This is a most important paper to the British carcinologist, and 
proves beyond all question that these animals are not the larva state of any 
Crustacean, but independent species in themselves. (J. E. Gray, F.R.S.) De¬ 
scription of a new species of Sphaerium found near London. (P. L. Sclater, A.M.) 
Descriptions of eight new species of Birds from South America. (J. Gwyn 
Jeffreys, F.R.S.) On Scissurella and Schismope. (Alfred R. Wallace) On the 
Ourang-utan, or Mias of Borneo. (H. Falconer, M.D., F.R.S.) On Prof. Hux¬ 
ley’s attempted refutation of Cuvier’s Laws of Correlation, in the re-construc¬ 
tion of extinct Vertebrate Forms. (W. H. Benson) Descriptions of three new 
species of Paludomus from Burmah, and of some forms of Stenothyra (Nema¬ 
tura) from Penang, Merqui, &c. (W. B. Carpenter, M.D., F.R.S.) On the 
minute structure of certain Branchiopod Shells, and on Vegetable Cell-forma¬ 
tion. Bibliographical Notices. Proceedings of Learned Societies. Miscel¬ 
laneous.—On the influence of the soil on the Distribution of Plants ; by M. 
Steer. Note on the Fresh-water Dolphins of South America; by M. Paul 
Gervais. Meteorological Observations and Table for April, 1856; with title- 
page, index, &c., to Vol. XVII. 
Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal; exhibiting a View of the Progres¬ 
sive 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. 6, 
April, 1856 : to be continued quarterly. 8vo. Price 6s., with eight Plates. 
(James D. Forbes, Professor of Natural Philosophy in the University of Edin¬ 
burgh) On the Geological relations of the Secondary and Primary Rocks of the 
Chain of Mont Blanc (with a map). (A. A. Hayes, M.D.) On a specimen of nati\e 
Iron from Liberia, Africa. (Professor William B. Rogers) On the Form of the 
curve resulting from the binocular union of a straight line with a circular arc, or of 
two equal circular arcs with one another. Astronomical Contradictions and Geo¬ 
logical Inferences respecting a Plurality of Worlds. (William Jardine, Bart.) 
Contributions to Onithology, No. III. Ornithology of Eastern Africa. Natal 
Collections. (Alexander Thomson) Remarks on Professor Baden Powell’s views 
respecting the Recent Origin of man upon the earth, and the skeleton found in 
