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AMERICAN NATURAL HISTORY. 
Journal of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia — Continued. 
Article 
the Genera Spirifer, Bellerophon, Pleurotomari®, Macrocheilus, Natica, and Lox- 
onema, with Descriptions of eight New Characteristic Species, by Joseph G. 
Norwood and H. Pratten. : 
9. Plant® Prattenian® Californic®. An Enumeration of a Collection of California 
Plants made in the vicinity of Nevada, by Henry Pratten, Esq., of,New Harmony ; 
with'critical Notices and Descriptions of such of them as are new or yet unpublished 
in America. 
10. Relation of Atomic Heat to Crystalline Form, by S. S. Meigs, M.D. 
11. Contributions towards a Knowledge of the Marine Invertebrate Fauna of the Coasts 
of Rhode Island and New Jersey, by Joseph Leidy, M.D. 
12. Descriptions of New Species of Psittacid® in the Collection of the Academy of 
Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, by John Cassin. 
Part III. May, 1856. 
13. Descriptions of some Remains of Fishes from the Carboniferous and Devonian 
Formations of the United States, by Joseph Leidy, M.D. 
14. Descriptions of some Remains of extinct Mammalia, by Joseph Leid/, M.D. 
15. On the Sandstone Fossil of Connecticut River, by James Deane, M.D. 
16. Plant® Kanean® Greenland®®. Enumeration of Plants collected by Dr. E. K. 
Kane, U.S.N., in his first and second Expeditions to the Polar Regions; with De¬ 
scriptions and Remarks, by Elias Durand. 
17- A Commentary on the Synopsis Fungorum in America Boreali media degentium, 
by L. D. de Schweinitz, by the Rev. M. S. Berkeley, M.A.,F.L.S., and the Rev. 
Mi A. Curtis, F.A.A.A S. 
18. Synopsis of the Melolonthid® of the United States, by John L. Le Conte. 
Leidy. —Flora and Fauna within Living Animals, by Joseph Leidy, M.D. 10 
Plates. 4to, pp. 68. Washington, 1853. sewed. 7s. 6d. 
M'Murtrie.—Lexicon Sehtentiarum; a Dictionary of Terms used in the 
Yarious Branches of the ^Natural Sciences, by Henry M'Murtrie. 12mo. 
Philadelphia, sheep. 4s. 6d. 
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Collections and Publications of Learned Societies i 
Natural History of New York State. 19 vols. 4to. Coloured. Albany. 
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