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trated Solution of Urea upon the wood cells, by A. Kolliker; Notice respecting the 
occurrence of Lymph-corpuscles in the commencement of the Lymphatic vessels, 
by A. Kolliker; On the influence of Caustic Alkalies upon the Motions of the 
Spermatic Filaments, by A Kolliker; On the Restoration of the Motions of the 
Sphermatozoids of the Mammalia, by MM. Moleschott and J. C. Recchetti; On 
the Vitality and Development of the Spermatic Filaments, by A Kolliker. Notes 
and Correspondence—Reply to some Remarks, by E. H. Wenham; Aperture of 
Object-glasses in relation to objects in Canada Balsum; Microscopical Conver¬ 
saziones ; Cheap Microscopes; On Species of Diatomacese; On a New Locality 
for Microscopic Test Objects; Memoranda on Flies’ feet; On Finders ; Memo¬ 
randa on the Employment of Artificial Sea-water in Marine Aquaria. Proceed¬ 
ings of Societies—Royal Society ; Stowe Newington Natural History and Scientific 
Society, April 24, 1855 ; Zoophytology. Title-page and Index to the Volume for 
1855. 
The Zoologist. No. 153, July; No. 154, August; No. 155, September, 1855. 
8vo. London: J. Van Voorst. Is. each number. 
No. 153, July :—(George Guyon) Singular State of a Living Helops; (Job 
Johnson) Egg and Larva of Crymodes Templi. Proceedings of Societies— 
Society of British Entomologists, April 18, 1855, Mr. Harding, President, in the 
Chair; May 1, Mr. Harding, President, in the Chair. Entomological Society, 
May 7, 1855, J. Curtis, President, in the Chair; June 4, J. Curtis, President, in 
the Chair. Notices of New Books—The Annals and Magazine of Natural 
History, Nos. 89 and 90; The Natural History Review, No. 6; A History of the 
British Marine Testaceous Mollusca, by W. Clark. Remarkable Act in an Aged 
Cat; (A. Roberts) Occurrence of the Honey Buzzard near Scarborough; (Edward 
Newman) Occurrence of the Snowy Owl in Aberdeenshire; (H. Spurr) An Owl 
laying an Egg after twenty years’ confinement; (F. Woodroffe) Ornithology of 
the Diggings; (E. V. Harcourt) Hen’s Egg with Double Shell; (H. Stevenson) 
Extraordinary Hen’s Egg; (G. Grantham) Occurrence of the Little-winged 
Plover and Smew near Brighton ; (T. L. Powys) Occurrence of the Bittern and 
Goosander in Northamptonshire, of the Red-throated Diver in Plymouth Sound, 
and of Buonaparte’s Gull in Dublin Bay ; (E. W. H. Holdsworth) Supposed in¬ 
sensibility of Reptiles to Poison, and on a supposed unnoticed Character in the 
Fishing Frog; (James Wilson) Salmon and Salmon-fry; (R. H. Meade) Note 
regarding the Name of the Australian Trap-door Spiders; (W. H. Hawker) 
Gonepteryx Rhamni, double-brooded. This note is an answer to Mr. Newman’s 
doubt as to whether the Brimstone butterfly is double-brooded or not, and answers 
all his objections in an off-hand way. (T. J. Bold) Capture ofNomada borealis 
at Gosforth, Northumberland; (George Guyon) Tenacity of Life in a Bembidium; 
(W. Thompson) Marine Vivaria; (Rev. H. Clark,) Notes on Certain British 
Hydrocantharidse. We may here mention that it is the intention of the Rev. H. 
Clark to publish a Monograph of the British species of “ Hydradephaga and Phil- 
hydrida,” and that he will be most happy to receive for examination specimens of 
any doubtful species, more particularly specimens of Octhebius, Hydrsena, Lim- 
nebius, and Elmis; his address being Rev. H. Clark, Northampton. (H. T. 
Stainton) Entomological Botany, with more especial reference to the plants fre¬ 
quented by the Tineina. 
