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NOTICES OF SERIALS. 
Zeitschrift fuer die gesammten Naturwissenschaften herausgegeben von 
dem Naturwissenschaftlichen Yereine fuer Sachsen und Thueringen in Halle. 
Journal of the Natural Sciences in general, published by the Natural 
History Association of Saxony and Thuringia. 8vo. Halle. Yol. V. 
1855. 
Original essays. (Andrse) The fossil plants of the Tertiary formation of Szaka- 
dal and Thalheim in Siebenburgen, and of the Lias of Steindorf in the Bannat—p. 
201-207. (Giebel) Crinoids in calcareous marl at Quedlinburg ; with a plate— 
p. 25-33. (Same) The osteology of the land-rail and some allied species—p. 
185-200. (Same) The question of Races, or Species, of Dogs—p. 349-362. 
(Koehler) On the chemical composition of the fluid out of a “ Spavin”—p. 437- 
442. (Luetken) Contributions to the history of the Ophiura 1. Preliminary 
synopsis of the Ophiura of the Greenland seas; communicated by Creplin—p. 97- 
107. (Martin) On the specific distinction of Anagallis phcenicea and A. ccerulea 
—p. 433-436. (Nitzch) Historical sketch of the study of Epizoic insects—p. 
269-287. (Schmidt) On the ribbon-worm, of the frog, Tania dispar, and the 
non-sexual propagation of its proglottis ; with two plates—p. 1-12. (Soechting) 
On Paragenesis of minerals—p. 288-298. (Steenstrup) A new tropical species 
of the genus Corymorpha, C. januarii —p. 108-110. (Thorell) On the male of 
Scytodes thoracicus —p. 363-365. 
Short Communications. (Albini) Nutritive value of the chesnut, Castanea 
vesca —p. 124-127. (Andrse) Two new species of fruits from the Carboniferous 
strata of Saarbruecken—p. 43-45. (Creplin) Reinhardt’s observations on phos¬ 
phoric light in a fish, and in an insect larva—p. 208-211. (Giebel) Critical notes 
on the Myophoria of the Muschel-kalk—p. 34-37. (Same) Osteological differ¬ 
ences of the Bullfinch, Greenfinch, and Crossbill—p. 37-43. (Same) New 
Byrrlius from Thuringia—p. 127. (Same) Osteology of the Porcupine—p. 306- 
316. (Same) On a hybrid of the swan and goose—p. 444. (List) Remarks on 
Ulrich’s essay on the Mysi from the Rammelsberg—p. 369. (Nitzch) The intes¬ 
tinal canal of Salmo lavaretus; with a plate—p. 316. (Soechting) Mineralogico- 
paleontological notes—p. 370. (Same) On a boring for rocksalt in the Johannis- 
feld near Erfurt—p. 443. 
Reviews and Literary Notices. These are so numerous that we have not space 
to give the headings of them. They extend to one hundred and twenty articles in 
Mineralogy, Geology, and Paleontology; as many in Zoology; and upwards of 
forty in Botany. 
Abhandlungen der Naturforschenden Gesellschaft in Halle. Trans¬ 
actions of the Natural History Society of Halle. 4to. Halle. 
Vol. II. Part 4. 1855. 
(Zuchold) Catalogue of Botanical works, omitted in Pritzel’s Thesaurus—p* 
66-74. Proceedings—p. 23-66. 
Vol. III. Parts 1 and 2. 1855. 
(Leichardt) Contribution to the Geology of Australia; with two plates—p. 
1-62. (Irmisch) Contributions to the comparative Morphology of plants, 
Y. ; the Germination, Growth, and Reproduction of a series of indigenous 
plants of the order Labiatse; with two plates—p. 60-106. Proceedings, 1st and 
2nd Quarter of 1855—p. 1-10, 11-30. 
BELGIUM. 
Memoires Couronnes del’Academie Royale des Sciences de Belgique, et 
Memoires des Savans Etrangers. Prize Essays of the Royal Belgian 
Academy of Science, etc. 4to. Brussels. Vol! XXVI. 1855. 
(Lieberkuhn) Development of the Gregarince; with eleven plates—pp. 46. 
(Udekem) Natural History of the Tubifex of the rivers; with four plates—pp. 38. 
