With Four Lithographic Plates.

Reviews.

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33. 1. Bericht über die Zusammenkunft einiger Anthropologen, in September 1861, in Göttingen. Leipzig, 1861.-2. Zur Morphologie der Rassen-Schädel. Von Dr. J. C. G. Lucæ. Frankfurt, 1861.-3. The Mensuration of the Human Skull. By J. Aitkin Meigs, M.D. Philadelphia, 1861.-4. Le Kephalographe. Nouvel Instrument destiné à déterminer la Figure et les Dimensions du Crane ou de la Tête Humaine. Par P. Harting. Utrecht, 1861.-5. Essai sur les Déformations Artificielles du Crane. Par L. A. Gosse. Paris, 1855.-6. Craniometrie of onderzoek van den Menschelijken Schedel bij verschillende Volken, in Vergelijking met dien van den Orang Oetan. Door J. A. Kool. Amsterdam, 1852.-7. Untersuchungen über Schädelformen. Von Dr. Joseph Engel. Prague, 1851.-8. Observations on the Human Crania contained in the Museum of the Army Medical Department, Fort Pitt, Chatham. Crania Britannica. By J. Thurnam and J. B. Davis, 1858-62, (with Plate VIII.) 34. Selecta Fungorum Carpologia, ea documenta et icones potissimum exhibens quæ varia fructuum et seminum genera in eodem fungo simul aut vicissim adesse demonstrent.-Junctis studiis ediderunt Ludovicus-Renatus Tulasne et Carolus Tulasne. Tomus primus. Erysiphei. Præmittuntur prolegomena de fungorum conditione naturali crescendi modo et propagatione. Parisiis, 1861. 4to. . 361 35. On the various Contrivances by which British and Foreign Or. chids are fertilized by Insects, and on the good effects of Intercrossing. By Charles Darwin, M.A., F.R.Š. With Illustrations 371

Original Articles.

36. A Report on recent Researches into the Minute Anatomy of the Spinal Cord. By W. B. Kesteven, F.R.C.S., (with Plates IX., X., XI.)

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37. On Distorted Human Skulls. By Professor Wyville Thomson. 397 38. On the Germination of Reticularia umbrina, Fr. By Frederick Currey, M.A., F.R.S. Sec. L.S.

39. Reply to the Remarks on the Translation of the First Chapter of Aristotle's History of Animals. By the Rev. W. Houghton, M.A., F.L.S.

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CONTENTS OF No. IX.-JANUARY, 1863.
With Two Lithographic Plates.

Reniems.

1. North American Archæology. By John Lubbock, Esq., F.R.S., L.S., and G.S.-1. Ancient Monuments of the Mississippi Valley, comprising the Results of extensive Original Surveys and Explorations. By E. G. Squier, A.M., and E. H. Davis, M.D.-2. Aboriginal Monuments of the State of New York, comprising the Results of Original Surveys and Explorations; with an illustrative Appendix. By E. G. Squier, A.M.-3. The Antiquities of Wisconsin, as surveyed and described by J. A. Lapham.-4. The Archæology of the United States; or Sketches, Historical and Bibliographical, of the Progress of Information and Opinion respecting Vestiges of Antiquity in the United States. By Samuel F. Haven.-5. Prehistoric Man: Researches into the Origin of Civilisation in the Old and New World. By Daniel Wilson, LL.D.

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2. Prehistoric Man: Researches into the Origin of Civilisation in the Old and New World. By Daniel Wilson, LL.D. . 26 3. Genera Plantarum ad Exemplaria imprimis in Herbariis Kewensibus servata definita; auctoribus G. Bentham et J. D. Hooker. Vol. I. pars 1. 1862.

. 31 4. The British Flora. Eighth Edition. 1860. By Sir W. J. Hooker, K.H. &c. and G. A. Walker Arnott, LL.D.Manual of British Botany. Fifth Edition. 1862. By C. C. Babington, M.A. &c.-Handbook of the British Flora. 1858. By George Bentham.

5. The Flora of Essex; or a List of the Flowering Plants and Ferns found in the County of Essex. By George S. Gibson, F.L.S. 1862. .

6.

Original Articles.

On the American Fossil Elephant of the Regions bordering
the Gulf of Mexico, (E. Columbi, Falc.); with General
Observations on the Living and Extinct Species. By H.
Falconer, M.D., F.R.S., &c. (with two Plates)

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7. On Cirripedes. By Charles Darwin, M.A., F.R.S. 8. On Ribs and Transverse Processes, with special relation to the Theory of the Vertebrate Skeleton. By John Cleland, M.D., Demonstrator of Anatomy, University of Glasgow. 116 9. Note on an Abnormality in the Ossification of the Parietal Bones in the Human Foetus. By Ramsay H. Traquair, M.D. 132

Bibliography.

10. Physiology and Human Anatomy, including Histology 11. Palæontology

12. Index to Phanerogamia

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