Annales des Sciences Naturelles. Comprenant la Zoologie, la Botanique, 
1’Anatomie et la Physiologie comparee des deux regnes, et l’Histoire des Corps 
Organises Fossilles, redigees pour la Zoologie, par M. Milne Edwards—pour la 
Botanique, par M.M. Ad. Brongniart et J. Decaisne. Tome II. No. 1. 
Paris: Victor Masson. 
Zoologie —Memoire sur 1’Organisation de 1’Anomie, par le Docteur Lacaze- 
Duthiers. This is a most valuable and interesting paper on the anatomy of the 
Anomia. The species which Dr. Duthiers has selected is ephippium, which is 
common to our shores. The memoir is accompanied with two beautiful plates, 
one of them coloured. Note sur la multiplication des Nematoides, par le Docteur 
Gros (de Moscow) ; Resume d’un travail d’embryologie comparee sur le developpe- 
ment du Brochet, de la Perche et de l’Ecrevisse, par M. Lereboullet (suite). 
Botanique —Memoire sur les glandes nectariferes de l’ovaire dans diverses families de 
plantes monocotyledones, par M. Ad. Brongniart, with four plates illustrative of 
the ovarian glands in the Liliacese, Amaryllidacese, Bromeliacese, Cannaceae, and 
the Musaceae; De la necessite de faire disparaitre de la nomenclature botanique 
les mots de torus et de nectaire, par le Dr. D. Clos, Professeur et Directeur du Jardin 
des Plantes, a Toulouse; Tentamen methodicae divisionis generis Aristolochia, 
additis descriptionibus complurium novarum specierum novique generis Holostylis, 
auctore P. Ducharte, with two plates. 
The Annals and Magazine of Natural History. No. 82, October ; No. 83, 
November ; and No. 84, December, 1854. 8vo. With plates. London : Taylor 
and Francis. Price 2s. 6d. each. 
No. 82, October(Thomas Williams, M.D.) On the Mechanism of Aquatic 
Respiration, and on the Structure of the Organs of Breathing in Invertebrate Ani¬ 
mals, with three plates—continued from page 57; (J. S. Bowerbank, F.R.S.) On 
the Remains of a Gigantic Bird (Lithornis Emuinus), from the London clay of 
Sheppey ; (E. L. Layard) Notes on the Ornithology of Ceylon; collected during 
an eight years’ residence in the Island—concluded from page 115. This is the con¬ 
clusion of a valuable and interesting series of notes on the ornithology of Ceylon ; 
315 species are recorded. We trust we may soon see these notes presented to the 
natural history world in a more permanent form ; we think they would equal in 
beauty Mr. Gosse’s “Birds of Jamaica.” (W. Hofmeister) On the Fertilization of 
Ferns ; (W. V. Guise) On a new species of Alpheus ; (P. H. Gosse) Descriptions 
of three new species of British Actiniae. We have here the descriptions of three new 
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