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Quarterly Journal of Microscopical Science. No. 10, January, 1855. 
Price 4s. With Woodcuts and Lithographic Illustrations. London: S. Highley, 
32, Fleet-street. 
No. 10, January:—Transactions of the Microscopical Society of London ; 
(F. H. Wenham) Some Remarks on Obtaining Photographs of Microscopic 
Objects, and on the coincidence of the chemical and visual foci of the object-glasses; 
(C. B. Rose) On the Discovery of Parasitic Borings on Fossil Fish Scales; (W. 
Gregory, M.D.) On a Remarkable Group of Diatomaceous Forms, with remarks 
on shape or outline as a specific character in the Diatomacem. Original Commu¬ 
nications—(C. Johnson, M.D.) Auditory Apparatus of the Culex Mosquito. 
Many and long have been the papers written to prove the presence of an auditory 
apparatus in that portion of the articulata to which the common term “insect” is 
applied. In some of the articulata—for example, in the crustaceans—we find this 
apparatus present, though in a very rudimentary state, consisting of a simple ves¬ 
tibule. We might, therefore, by analogy, infer its presence in others of the same 
class; besides, the majority of the insect tribe are noted for giving utterance to 
sounds of various sorts, and these, vibrating through the air, produce an evident 
effect upon other insects, and are even, in some cases, responded to, as in the bee. 
Now, one is naturally led to conclude, that an insect which can appreciate a certain 
sound or vibration must possess organs for their reception, which organs would be 
analogous to the ear in man. The aim of this paper is to prove the presence of 
these organs in the Culex Mosquito; and this, we think, has been done very satisfac¬ 
torily ; and we have little doubt, if this subject were followed up, that the majority 
of the articulata would be found possessing an auditory apparatus—rudimentary, it 
might be, but still present. (W. Webb, M.D.) On the Noctiluca Miliaris ; (P. 
Redfern, M.D.) On the Nature of the Torbane-hill and other Varieties of Coal; 
(T. H. Huxley) On the Enamel and Dentine of the Teeth; (Rev. W. Smith) On 
the Determination of Species in the Diatomacese. We would recommend these 
remarks to every student who studies the Diatomacese. Translations—On the 
Structure and Systematic Position of theRotifera; Reviews; Notes and Corre¬ 
spondence ; Proceedings of Societies. 
The Zoologist. No. 147, January; No. 148, February; and No. 149, March, 
1855. 8vo. London: J. Van Voorst. Is. each number. 
No. 147, January:—(Robert Warrington) Memoranda of Observations made in 
small Aquaria, in which the balance between the animal and vegetable organisms 
was permanently maintained. These memoranda were read at the Liverpool meeting 
of the British Association. In memorandum No. 3, we are recommended to be 
careful to exclude the common polype, or Hydra fusca, from our fresh-water 
aquaria, particularly when the minnow is kept, as the Hydra, insignificant though 
they appear, after a short time, cause their death. In No. 3 of the marine 
memoranda, we have the following form of aquaria (after five years’ experience 
on this subject) recommended by Mr. Warrington:—It consists of a four-sided ves¬ 
sel, having the back gradually sloping upwards from the bottom, at an angle of 45 
to 50 degrees, and the consequently extended top sloping slightly downwards, and 
resting on the upper part of the back ; the bottom, therefore, becomes necessarily 
