. The Annals and magazine of natural history; zoology, botany, and geology . s semper inimica fuit.— LlNNiEUS. Quel que soit le principe de la vie animale, il ne faut quouvrir les yeux pour voirquelle est le chef-dceuvre de la Toute-puissance, et le but auquel se rapportenttoutes ses operations.—Bruckner, Theorie du Systeme Animal, Leyden, 1767. The sylvan powers Obey our summons ; from their deepest dells The Dryads come, and throw their garlands wild And odorous branches at our feet ; the Nymphs That press with nimble step the mountain thyme And purple heath-flower come not empty-handed, But
. The Annals and magazine of natural history; zoology, botany, and geology . s semper inimica fuit.— LlNNiEUS. Quel que soit le principe de la vie animale, il ne faut quouvrir les yeux pour voirquelle est le chef-dceuvre de la Toute-puissance, et le but auquel se rapportenttoutes ses operations.—Bruckner, Theorie du Systeme Animal, Leyden, 1767. The sylvan powers Obey our summons ; from their deepest dells The Dryads come, and throw their garlands wild And odorous branches at our feet ; the Nymphs That press with nimble step the mountain thyme And purple heath-flower come not empty-handed, But scatter round ten thousand forms minute Of velvet moss or lichen, torn from rock Or rifted oak or cavern deep: the Naiads too Quit their loved native stream, from whose smooth face They crop the lily, and each sedge and rush That drinks the rippling tide : the frozen poles, Where peril waits the bold adventurers tread, The burning sands of Borneo and Cayenne, All, all to us unlock their secret stores And pay their cheerful tribute. J. Taylor, Norwich, 1818. ft* CONTENTS OF VOL. XV. [THIRD SERIES.] NUMBER LXXXV. p I. On the British Arctia. By Charles C. Babington, ,, Professor of Botany in the University of Cambridge 1 II. New Land-Shells from Travancore, Western and NorthernIndia. Described by W. H. Benson, Esq., Retired List, BengalCivil Service 11 III. On the Circulation of the Blood in the Spiders of the GenusLycosa. By Edouard Claparede 16 IV. Diagnoses of new Forms of Mollusca from the VancouverDistrict. By Philip P. Carpenter, , 28 V. Descriptions of New Genera and Species of Phytophaga. By J. S. Baly 33 VI. Observations on Raphides and other Crystals in Plants. ByGeorge Gulliver, 38 VII. On the Affinities of some doubtful British Fishes. ByTheodore Gill 40 VIII. Description of a new Species of Leptocephalus. By 48 IX. On Plesiosaurus macropterus, a new Species from the Lias ofWhitby. By Harry Seeley, , Woodwardia
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