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[ commencing the Bibliographical Record, it has been thought advisable to begin with the year 1860. With respect to works dated prior to that period, the Bibliographia Zoologiæ et Geologiæ of the Ray Society, which comes down to 1847–54, and the very valuable Bibliographia Zoologiæ of Professor V. Cams and "W. Engelmann, of which the first volume has just appeared, which is brought down to the end of 1859, will, as regards Zoology at least, afford the required information.

In future, it is intended to supply the Bibliography of a single quarter only in each Number of the Review; but on the present occasion, as the greater part of a year is embraced, the quantity of materials has been found too large to admit of the insertion of the whole. A portion only, therefore, is now given, consisting of:—

1. A list of the Natural History periodical publications at present in existence, which will be amended and added to in future Numbers of the Review, as occasion may arise. In this list the publications are arranged according to the countries to which they belong; and under each of these heads they will be disposed in alphabetical order of the abbreviated titles placed in the left hand margin of the page, and by which titles, for the sake of brevity, it is intended to distinguish each periodical when cited in the Bibliography.

2. The Botanical Bibliography for the first nine months of 1860, so far as it has been collected.

In the April Number the entire Bibliography will, if possible, be brought down to the end of 1860. And at the end of the Annual Volume of the Review, it is proposed to give an alphabetical list of Authors' names, with references to the page or pages upon which his works appear in the classified catalogues of each quarter.

The readers of the Natural History Review will thus, at the end of each year, be furnished with a Classified list of Works or Papers in every department of Biological Science, as well as with an alphabetical list of Authors. Whilst, at the beginning of each year, any additions to, or removals from, the List of Periodical Publications, will be duly noted.]

Am. Phil. Soc. T.—Transactions of the American Philosophical Society. 4to. Philadelphia.

Bost. N. H. S.—Proceedings of the Boston Society of Natural History. 8vo. Boston.