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Page 493 - TABULAR LIST OF ALL THE AUSTRALIAN BIRDS AT PRESENT KNOWN TO THE AUTHOR, showing the distribution of the species. By EP Ramsay, FLS , &c.
Page 380 - FREDERICK M°CoY, FGS One vol., Royal 410. Plates, /i. is. A CATALOGUE OF THE COLLECTION OF CAMBRIAN AND SILURIAN FOSSILS contained in the Geological Museum of the University of Cambridge, by JW SALTER, FGS With a Portrait of PROFESSOR SEDGWICK.
Page 464 - ... for the best publication, exploration, discovery, or research in the sciences of geology and paleontology, or in such particular branches thereof as may be designated. The award and all matters connected therewith are to be determined by a Committee, to be selected in an appropriate manner by the Academy. The recognition is not to be conSned to American naturalists.
Page 493 - Memoranda of the origin, plan and results of the field and other experiments conducted on the farm and in the laboratory of Sir John I.awes at Rothamsted, Herts.
Page 464 - Compilation of notes and memoranda bearing upon the use of human ordure and human urine in rites of a religious or semi-religious character among various nations.
Page 401 - Untersuchungen über die Struktur und Bildung der Schale der in der Kieler Bucht häufig vorkommenden Muscheln.
Page 478 - Ordnance to the Secretary of War for the fiscal year ended June 30, 1885.
Page 399 - Descriptive catalogue of a collection of the economic minerals of Canada, by the Geological Corps, Alfred RC Selwyn, Director.
Page 414 - An exposition of the principles of a rational system of oyster culture, together with an account of a new and practical method of obtaining oyster sprat on a scale of commercial importance.
Page 374 - On the Fishes of the Recent and Pliocene Lakes of the Western Part of the Great Basin and of the Idaho Pliocene Lake.

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