Magazine of Zoology and Botany

1862.

MAGAZINE

ZOOLOGY AND BOTANY.

CONDUCTED BY

SIR W. JARDINE, BART.-P. J. SELBY, Esq.

AND

DR JOHNSTON.

"Rerum naturalium sagax Indagator."

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CONTENTS.

ORIGINAL COMMUNICATIONS.

No. VII.

Page 1

I. Account of a Botanical Excursion in the Alps of the Canton of Valais,

Switzerland, in August 1835; and Catalogue of the Plants collected,

with occasional Remarks. By R. J. SHUTTLEWORTH, Esq.

II. On the Dentition and other Characters of the British Shrews, with re-

ference to M. Duvernoy's recent researches into the structure of this

genus of Animals. By the Rev. LEONARD JENYNS, M. A. F. L. S.,

F. Z. S., &c.

III. Contributions to the Natural History of Ireland. By WILLIAM

THOMPSON, Esq. Vice-President of the Belfast Natural History

Society,

IV. Cheloniorum Tabula Analytica. Auctore CAROLO L. BONAPARTE,

Muxiniani Princip.

V. Miscellanea Zoologica. By GEORGE JOHNSTON, M. D., Fellow of

the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh,

No. VIII.

I. Notes on the Land and Fresh Water Mollusca of Great Britain, with a

revised list of Species. By JOSHUA ALDER, Member of the Natu-

ral History Society of Newcastle-upon-Tyne,

II. On the Botany of Erris, County Mayo, and a notice of several addi-

tions to the Flora Hibernica. By CHARLES C. BABINGTON, M. A.

F. L. S., &c.

119

III. Notes upon Subaquatic Insects, with the description of a New Genus of

British Staphylinidæ. By J. O. WESTWOOD, F. L. S., &c.

IV. The Natural History of the British Entomostraca. By WILLIAM

BAIRD, Surgeon, H. C. S. Continued,

124

132

V. Directions for the preservation of Sea Plants, with Miscellaneous Re-

marks on a number of species collected at Cairnlough Bay, on the

Coast of Antrim, in the months of May and June 1836. By JAMES

S. DRUMMOND, M. D. President of the Belfast Natural History

Society, &c.

144

VI. Observations on the Caprimulgus Europæus (Night-Jar.) By Dr W.

B. CLARKE, Ipswich,

158

VII. On the advancement of Local Botany in the environs of London, with

remarks relative to the Dispersion of Plants in that vicinity, and the

formation of plans exhibiting the Distribution of Species over locali-

ties. By DANIEL COOPER, Curator to the Botanical Society of

London, &c.

163

VIII. Contributions to the Natural History of Ireland. By WILLIAM

THOMPSON, Esq. Vice-President of the Belfast Natural History So-

ciety. Continued,

Page 170

IX. Account of a Botanical Excursion in the Alps of the Canton of Valais,

Switzerland, in August 1835; and Catalogue of the Plants collected,

with occasional Remarks. By R. J. SHUTTLEWORTH, Esq. Con-

tinued,

No. IX.

I. On the British Species of the Genus Cerastium, being an attempt to

elucidate their distinctive characters. By CHARLES C. BABING-

TON, M. A., F. L. S., &c.

180

197

II. Characters and Descriptions of the Dipterous Insects indigenous to

Britain. By JAMES DUNCAN, M. W. S., &c. &c. Continued, 205

III. On the existence of a second membrane in the Asci of Fungi. By the

Rev. M. J. BERKELEY, M. A., F. L. S.,

222

IV. Observations on the Gemmæ of Bryum androgynum. By GEORGE

DICKIE, Esq. Surgeon, Aberdeen,

226

228

V. On a peculiar structure in Shells; with some observations on the Shell

of Sphærulites. By JOHN EDWARD GRAY, F. R. S., &c.

VI. Localities of Scottish Coleoptera. By the Rev. WILLIAM LITTLE, 232

No. X.

I. Historical Notice of Antoine Laurent de Jussieu. By M. AD.

BRONGNIART,

II. Notes on the Ornithology of Norway. By W. C. HEWITSON, Esq.

III. The British Cerastia: a Supplement to a former Essay. By C. C.

BABINGTON, F. L. S., &c. Plate IX. Continued,

IV. The Natural History of British Zoophytes. By GEORGE JOHNSTON,

M. D. Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh. (Con.

tinued from Vol. i. p. 447,)

V. On a Confervoid State of Mucor Clavatus, Lk. By the Rev. M. J.

BERKELEY, M. A., F. L. S.,

340

No. XI.

I. The Fauna of Twizell. By P. J. SELBY, Esq. (Continued,)

II. A Notice, with the results, of a Botanical Expedition to Guernsey and

Jersey, in July and August 1837. By CHARLES C. BABINGTON,

M. A., F. L. S., &c.

III. The Natural History of the British Entomostraca. No. IV. By

WILLIAM BAIRD, Surgeon H. C. S., &c.

400

IV. Remarks on the Mosses found in the neighbourhood of Aberdeen. By

G. DICKIE, Esq.

412

V. Observations on some New or Obscure Species of Plants.

G. A. WALKER ARNOTT, LL. D., F. L. S., &c.

VI. Contributions to the Natural History of Ireland. By WILLIAM

THOMPSON, Esq. Vice-President of the Belfast Natural History

Society.

VII. Dr Robert H. Schomburgh's description of Victoria Regina, Gray.

VIII. Contribution towards a knowledge of the Crenilabri (Cuv.) of Ireland,
including Descriptions of Species apparently new to Science. By
WILLIAM THOMPSON, Esq. Vice-President of the Natural History
Society of Belfast. Plates XIII. and XIV.

No. XII.

Page 442

I. A Revision of the Genera of Bats (Vespertilionidae), and the Description

of some new Genera and Species. By JOHN EDWARD GRAY,

F. R. S., President of the Botanical Society of London, &c. &c.

II. Account of a Botanical Excursion in the Alps of the Canton of Valais,

Switzerland, in August 1835; and Catalogue of the Plants collected,

with occasional Remarks. By R. J. SHUTTLEWORTH, Esq. (Con-

tinued from p. 196,)

III. An attempt to ascertain the Fauna of Shropshire and North Wales. By
THOMAS C. EYTON, F. Z. S.

IV. Observations on some New or Obscure Species of Plants. No. II.
By G. A. WALKER ARNOTT, LL. D., F. L. S., &c.
from page 247,)

REVIEWS AND CRITICAL ANALYSIS.