NOTICES OF SERIALS. 
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FRANCE. 
Annales des Sciences Naturelles. Annals of Natural Science, etc. 
Fourth Series. 8vo. Paris. 
Zoology. Yol. IV.; with eleven Plates. 1855-1856. 
Physiology. —(Gibb) On the assimilation of sugar—p. 27-47. (Figuier) 
Saccharific function of the liver—p. 91-109. (Bernard) Mechanism of the for¬ 
mation of sugar in the liver—p. 109-119. (Lehmann) On the presence of sugar 
in the blood of the Yena-porta—p. 158-171. (Moleschott) On the influence of 
light on the production of carbonic acid in animals—p. 207-224. (Longet) The 
Sulphocyanide of potassium as one of the normal elements of saliva—p. 225-237. 
(Dareste) Partial application of a varnish to the shell of the egg ; its effects on the 
development of the chicken — p. 119-128. Vertebrata.— (Jacquart) Organs 
of circulation in the serpent Python ; with three plates—p. 321-364. (Thomas) 
On two European species of frogs, Rana agilis and R. oxyrrhina ; with a plate— 
p. 365-380. (Hollard) Monograph of the Balistidae, concluded; with a plate— 
p. 5-27. (De Serres) On a vomer furnished with five rows of teeth, from the 
Chlorite limestone ; referable, perhaps, to the Pycnodus rugulosus ; with a figure 
—-p. 264-266. Annulata. —(Fabre) On the habits of Cerceris , and the cause 
of the long preservation of the Coleopterous insects stored up for the food of their 
larvae—p. 129-150. (Bufour) Remarks on Cerceris —p. 261-263. (Same) On 
the absence of any perceptible nervous system in Nemoptera lusitanica —p. 153-158. 
(Same) Additions to the preceding note—p. 263, 264. (Beauvoye) On the habits 
of the hive-bee—p. 151-153. (Lespfes) Second note on the Spermatophora of 
Gryllus sylvestris; with figures—p. 244-249. (Faivre) Histology of the great 
Sympathetic in the medicinal Leech; with figures—p. 249-261. (Siebold) On 
the Nematoid and Yesicular worms of man and animals, Tania , Cysticercus , &c., 
and on the origin of worms in general; with two plates—p. 48-90, 172-208. 
(De Serres) On Stoa , a new boring genus of Annellida; with figures—p. 231-243. 
(Shuttleworth) Remarks on the preceding paper—p. 319, 320. Suggesting doubts 
as to the nature of the productions in question. Similar tubes have been described 
long since, but have been classed with the Mollusca. Mollusca. —(Lacaze 
Duthiers) On the organ of Bojanus in the Acephala Lamellibranchiata; with three 
plates—p, 287-319. (Same) On the Hermaphroditism of the Anodontes— p. 381, 
382. 
Botany. Yol. IV. ; with nineteen Plates. 1855-1856. 
Botany General and Physiological. —(Naudin) On the nature of the ten¬ 
drils, and the structure of the flower, in the Cucurbitacese ; with two plates—p. 5-19. 
(Boussingault) Effects of saltpetre on vegetation—p. 32-47. (Schacht) Develop¬ 
ment of the Embryo of Tropaolum majus ; with two plates—p. 47-58. (Deeche) 
New observations on the development of the Embryo of Pedicularis sylvatica; 
with two plates—p. 58-64. (Tulasne) New studies of vegetable embryogeny; 
with twelve plates—p. 65-122. (Fabre) Inquiry into the cause of the phospho- 
rence of the Agaric of the Olive—p. 179-197. (Jordan) On Aegilops triticoides , 
and the questions of Hybridity and specific variability connected with its history— 
p. 295-361. Special Botany. —(De Candolle) On the family Myristicacea —p. 
20-31. (Desmazieres) Twenty-third note on the Cryptogamous plants lately dis¬ 
covered in France—p. 123-132. (Planchon) On Hermodactyles, considered 
botanically and medicinally; with a plate—p. 133-175. (Asa Gray) Five new 
genera of plants from Polynesia ; Acicalyptus , Myrtacese; Spiraanthemum , Saxi- 
fragacese; Reynoldsia , Tetraplasandra , Plerandra , Araliaceae—p. 176-178. (Clos) 
Monograph of the family Flacourtianea — p. 362-387. Miscellaneous. — 
(Cosson) Botanical expedition in Algeria—p. 198-294. 
Annales de la Societe Entomologique de France. Annals of the 
Entomological Society of France. 8vo. Paris. Third series. 
Yol. III., with twenty-four Plates. 1855-1.856. 
(Macquart) Diptera of Europe ; Tachinarise concluded; with four plates— 
