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the new act of the conjugation again of the sexes. In this way, the dignity of the 
ovum as the primordium of all true individuality is maintained ; and the axiom of 
Harvey, omne vivum ex ouo, stands as golden in physiology. The buds may put on 
the dress and the forms of the ovum, but these resemblances are extrinsic, and, in 
fact, only an inheritance from their great predecessor.” We make no apology for 
the length of these extracts, fully assured that such of our readers as may not have 
seen the original, will be glad to have a summary of it laid before them. (H. 
J. Carter) On the true position of the Canaliferous structure in the shell of fossil 
Alveolina; (J. Alder and A. Hancock) Notices of some new species of British 
Nudibranchiata; (E. L. Layard) Notes on the Ornithology of Ceylon (continued 
from p. 64); (F. M. Coy) On some New Cretaceous Crustacea; (W. Clark) On 
the Aclis unica; (J. Lubbock) On some Artie species of Calanidae ; (T. V. Wol¬ 
laston) Description of a new genus and species of British Curculionidae; (J. Miers) 
On the Genus Lycium ; (J. S. B. Sanderson, M.D.) Note on the supposed Anthe- 
ridia, of Bhamnus. Proceedings of Learned Societies—Zoological Society, May 25, 
J. Gould, Vice-president, in the chair ; Botanical Society of Edinburgh, May 11, 
Professor Balfour, President, in the chair. Miscellaneous—On the Embryogeny and 
Propagation of Intestinal Worms, by M.M. Ercolani and Vella; On two new 
species of South American Birds, by P. L. Sclater; Description of a new species 
of Hyrax, from Fernando Po, by L. Fraser. Meteorological Table. 
No. 81, September :—(G. Lawson) On the occurrence of Cinchonaceous Glands 
in Galiaceae, and on the relations of that order to Cinchonaceae; (Capt. B. C. Tytler) 
Miscellaneous Notes on the Fauna of Dacca ; (J. Alder) A reply to some state¬ 
ments of Dr. Williams, on the controversy respecting the Branchial currents in the 
Lamellibranchiata. In his paper on the mechanism of respiration in invertebrate 
animals, Dr. Williams, while giving Mr. Hancock due credit for most of his in¬ 
vestigations into the mechanism of respiration in the bivalves, sets off against 
them certain errors which he alleges Mr. Hancock to have committed; those 
supposed errors Mr. Alder shows that his friend and brother naturalist has not 
fallen into, and most satisfactorily clears him from all the charges brought against 
him. (J. Miers) On the Genus Lycium (continued from p. 141); (Professor 
Sedgwick) Bejoinder to Professor Milne Edwards, and Mr. Bowerbank. This is, 
on Professor Sedgwick’s part, the close of this disagreeable controversy ; and we 
really have no inclination to sit in judgment as to which party has come off victo¬ 
rious. (B. K. Grenville) Notice of a new species of Caulerpa. This alga, for 
which the specific name of superba is selected, was found by Mr. J. E. Cox in 
Bass’s Straits, Australia. Bibliographical Notices—Geodephaga Britannica ; The 
Medals of Creation; General Plantarum Floras Germanicae; Beale, on the 
Microscope ; Hogg on the Microscope. Proceedings of Learned Societies—Boyal 
Society, April 6, March 30, May 11; Zoological Society, February 10 ; Botanical 
Society of Edinburgh, June 8 ; Linnean Society, December 20. Miscellaneous— 
On the Development on Ccenurus cerebralis, by Prof. Van. Beneden; On the Capture 
of Thecacera pennigera, by W. Thompson; Note on Athyrium rhceticum, by S. 
O. Gray; On the Occurrence of the Larvae of Sarcophaga in the human eye and nose, 
by Dr. Grubb. Meteorological Observations. 
