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Reports on the Progress of Zoology and Botany, 1841, 1842

 By Ray Society, Heinrich Friedrich Link

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By Ray Society
, Heinrich Friedrich
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Translated by Hugh Edwin
Strickland, Macdonald
William Bell, Edwin
Lankester
Published 1845
Printed for the Ray
Society
Zoology
348 pages
Original from the University of Michigan
Digitized Jul 3, 2007
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De Haan - Page 265
Numerous species have been described, and partly figured by De Haan (lcs):—Hetrodes cervina, Kl., from the Cape. ...
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Pondicherry - Page 217
and which appears to be different from all the others, in having a fine white coat of hair, more or less thick: it was discovered at Pondicherry. ...
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Basel - Page 312
Gesellsch. in Basel vp 191) Miescher also communicated his observations upon it, which confirm, in general, those of Simon, and in individual cases ...
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Algiers - Page 31
Vincent, who is now at the head of a scientific expedition, exploring Algiers (whence we may expect a work of not less interest than the magnificent ...
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Tripoli - Page 91
mauritanicus from the western provinces of Algiers, and also the specimens from Constantine, are not distinguished from those of Tunis and Tripoli. ...
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Cayenne - Page 233
for A. senegalensis, Lap., owes its name to an error in its locality, which is Cayenne, so that Dejean's name of A. striatus should be employed. ...
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Surinam - Page 131
Its habitat is not Surinam, as asserted by Linnaeus, but Bengal. Nordmann has most exactly shown the difference between his Glareola melanoptera ...
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Turin - Page 4
On further considering the subject, I regretted not to have proposed it at Turin, as it would have been in favour of such a plan, that the many ...
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Berlin - Page 430
I found such letters in a lime tree near Berlin, on an estate belonging to the deceased minister, Count von Lottum; the letters on one side of the ...
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Warsaw - Page 306
It is found in the low grounds of the Forest of Bielany, on the bank of the Vistula, near Warsaw, in great abundance. ...
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Natividade - Page 477
During a dark night, at the commencement of the month of December, in the town da Natividade, in the province Goyazes, Gardner witnessed some boys ...
Anthia - Page 210
The presence of an Anthia, which, perhaps, is the same with the Indian, is remarkable. Some East Indian species have been described by Gue'rin in ...
Modena - Page 41
Modena, centre of the Italian Society, the birth place of an Amici, the abode of a Marianini, has beheld the publication of the first volume of the ...
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Doros - Page 297
830) has remarked, that the genus Doros has not as yet been distinguished from Syrphus by any character which is universally applicable. ...
Florence - Page 42
It would be carrying flowers to the garden, were I to speak diffusely of this city of Florence, which now receives us with so much affection, ...
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Zurich - Page 19
I will rest a moment at Zurich, where the Saxon, Oken, has his peaceful abode, and continues to edit the Isis, perhaps the most scientific journal of ...
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Paris - Page 13
We may here speak of a Russian work, though printed at Paris in the French language; the Travels in South Russia of Prince Demidoff, who after himself ...
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Karkaralinsk - Page 108
I spent some time on the mountains of Tschingis Taou in the Kir- guisian Steppes, to the east of the district Karkaralinsk, where I observed some very ...
Lucca - Page 41
Lucca offers some respectable collections in the royal palace of the Duke. The Zoological Museum of Pisa, in regard of the abundance and beauty of the ...
Barcelona - Page 34
and that the Academies are beginning to flourish again, two of which, that of Madrid and of Barcelona, we have the pleasure to see here represented. ...
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London - Page 7
London with men of this stamp, and aided especially by the two last named, I have remodelled the Catalogue which I have been for some years compiling, ...
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Freiburg - Page 53
Lucerne and Freiburg have shown a preference for other objects. The history of the Fauna of individual countries has made rapid advancement in the ...
Engis - Page 261
A new genus, Thallis, differing from Engis chiefly in the membranous lateral portions of the tongue being far protruded, is founded upon three new ...
Kabul - Page 55
The author, who is well known by his Journey to Buchara, and his melancholy death at Kabul, gives, in his description of that place, a short notice of ...
Caen - Page 27
Not to be unduly prolix, I confine myself to Normandy, in which not only the ancient capital Rouen, but the learned city of Caen, and even the little ...
Padua - Page 37
Even from Chioggia the learned city of Padua attracted to her library Professor Naccari, who, if he has not yet joined this institution, has certainly ...
Vienna - Page 96
The latter, which I myself had an opportunity of examining at Vienna, is quite black on the back; tail and feet foxy black. ...
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Naples - Page 38
Naples being the city in which the somewhat limited zoo-logical science of the continental part of the kingdom seems to be concentrated, ...
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Tunis - Page 91
mauritanicus from the western provinces of Algiers, and also the specimens from Constantine, are not distinguished from those of Tunis and Tripoli. ...
Bologna - Page 41
Parma, in whose praise it is sufficient to mention that second Esculapius, Professor Tommasini, an honour of which she has deprived our own Bologna ...
Bogota - Page 311
It is found at Bogota, and is distinguished from the other Coi- metidce by the rough spinous hind legs. ACARI. OUR acquaintance with this order has ...
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Rouen - Page 27
Not to be unduly prolix, I confine myself to Normandy, in which not only the ancient capital Rouen, but the learned city of Caen, and even the little ...
Bonn - Page 15
The Ada Naturce Curiosorum speak for themselves, as do the writings of the various professors of Bonn, and those of the celebrated Prince Maximilian ...
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Mainz - Page 205
According to his statement, both are present at Mainz ; and, according to Schmidt, C. violaceus is constantly found on hilly stony ground, ...
Catania - Page 38
You all know, gentlemen, the name and the activity of the Accademia Gio- cnia of Catania. Messina is distinguished among the Sicilian cities by Luigi ...
Lausanne - Page 133
He saw a male at Baillon; and examined two other males in the museum at Lausanne, perfectly alike, which had been killed on the Lake of Geneva. ...
Orenburg - Page 304
797) has given a notice on the dropping willows of Orenburg. The cause of the drops was the larvae of an Aphrophora, which very much resembled the A. ...
Brasilia - Page 477
Hab. in Brasilia, ad folia Palmarum, quae ab incolis dicuntur Pindoba. During a dark night, at the commencement of the month of December, ...
Brussels - Page 157
of Coregonus oxyrhynchus on the Belgian coast; he found ten individuals among Osmerus eperla/nus in the market at Brussels; they came from Antwerp. ...
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Perugia - Page 41
Besides her public col-lections, Perugia shows, with pride, the ornithological one of the Marchese Orazio Antinori. Ascoli deserves to be recorded ...
Stuttgart - Page 283
Koch, of Stuttgart, spoke at the meeting of Natural Historians at Mainz, on the sexual relations of bees, in which a new view was given of the ...
Boston - Page 117
Audubon has obtained 395 new subscribers, the half of whom are from the city of Boston alone, so that his work now numbers almost a thousand; ...
Madrid - Page 34
and that the Academies are beginning to flourish again, two of which, that of Madrid and of Barcelona, we have the pleasure to see here represented. ...
New York - Page 78
He is convinced, that M. fusca does not become white, at least in the latitude of New York, which is not the case with the Weasel (M. vulgaris), ...
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Ferrara - Page 41
The Universities of Macerata, of tlrbino, and of Ferrara, have also cause for boasting in regard to natural science. The ...
Ragusa - Page 221
and six new species, tceniatus from Ragusa, thoraci- cus from Macedonia./rontoZis from Constantinople, tropicus from Sennaar, cinctus from Senegal, ...
Tabatinga - Page 67
Lastly, a third species could be made, N. vociferans, Spix, dwelling in the woods of Tabatinga, on the coast of Peru, if the irregular colouring be ...
Palermo - Page 365
The only species, named by Grube Anopl. utriculus, was got at Palermo, and is unarticulated throughout, and of a pale flesh colour. ...
Austin - Page 132
large flock of Sterna arctica was seen in the interior of England last May, about which a slight dis-cussion has arisen between Strickland and Austin. ...
Athens - Page 38
Athens, and the Ionian Islands, also nobly strive to cul-tivate the natural sciences in those countries. Malta has seen the publication of a good ...
Plymouth - Page 293
(Report of the Eleventh Meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science, held at Plymouth in July, 1841. ...
Gouda - Page 464
The author found this hitherto but little known or neglected species upon waters in the south of Holland, near Gouda. ...
Darmstadt - Page 52
A work upon European Birds, besides the great one at Darmstadt, he proceeds to mention, as published by Susemilh (i. e. ...
Munich - Page 16
Rohatzsch, published at Munich. The celebrated Tiedemann, by studying daily the brains of animals, and by weighing, measuring, and analysing them in ...
Regensburg - Page 69
of 54r-58° in Russia, on the plains, and next it in the upper Harz and the Swedish mountains; I may also add to these the hills at Regensburg. ...
Braunschweig - Page 53
Versammlung deutscher Naturforscher und Arzte zu Braunschweig im September, 1841. Von FK v Strombeck u. Dr. Mansfield. Braunschw. 1842. ...
Edinburgh - Page 49
Nicholson, reduced from a series of portraits from life, executed for the Agricultural Museum of the Uni-versity of Edinburgh by Mr. ...
Exeter - Page 313
307), that an Entomologist in Exeter (not named) had proved the Acarus of Crosse to be a well-known species widely distributed in houses, and added, ...
Stockholm - Page 99
He laid before me, at the same date, a notice from Sundevall, who had kept for a while, in Stockholm, a live adult male of Myopotamus, and on which, ...
Madras - Page 81
Ellioti, is from Madras; the fourth, L. Horsfieldii, from Bhotan. Neither their dimensions are given, nor a comparison with known species; ...
Perpignan - Page 244
He has described and partly figured fourteen species, found at a single spot at Perpignan : A. guttatus, Hoffg., Dej. ...
Erfurt - Page 257
There is, however, only one individual (from Erfurt) at present known. Leptomorpha filiformis, Dej., from Sicily, has been described and figured by ...
Cagliari - Page 252
The Berlin collection was enriched by Schuppel with a beautiful specimen of this rare insect, which was caught at Cagliari in Sardinia. ...
Toulouse - Page 288
115) has given a notice of a plague of caterpillars of the Liparis dispar, in the oak woods in the neighbour-hood of Toulouse, in the years 1837, 38, ...
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Marseilles - Page 232
prothorax fringed with short bristles on the sides, the back transversely furrowed; A. porcatus, F.; verru- cosus, new species, from Marseilles. ...
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Berkeley - Page 477
It belongs to the tribes of pileo-eccentrica, and Berkeley states, that it might be classified in the sub- genus Panus of Fries. ...
Radoboj - Page 307
21-23), " Uber einige fossile Insecten aus Radoboj in Croatien," in which are represented the remains of (Edipoda melanosticta, Myrmeleon brevipennis ...
Accra - Page 64
petamrigta is to be found, and Colobu s leucomeros; skins of the latter, as well as of Cercopithecii s Diana, were extremely plentiful at Accra. ...
Tarragona - Page 308
partly on its habits, and partly on its poisonous qualities; the Malmignatte is found principally in the district of Tarragona, in Catalonia, where, ...
Copenhagen - Page 301
279) illustrated the Fabrician species of Tetyra, contained in the royal collection at Copenhagen, by copious and exact Latin descriptions. ...
Hanover - Page 287
132) has characterized a new species, S. serratiformis, from Hanover, which seems to me to be identical, according to the incomplete figure, ...
Rome - Page 39
In Rome, we have collections of natural history, not indeed despicable, but far from being proportionate to a city, which centuries ago boasted of the ...
New Orleans - Page 208
with an obtuse rounded tooth on'the mentum, and the first joint of the antennas very long; founded on five species from New Orleans, which, however, ...
Newport - Page 174
fusiformis, Niagara; rustica, Ohio; plica, Tennessee ; coarctata, Newport; casta, parva, curta, strigosa, kirtlandiana, from Ohio; rubella from Oahu. ...
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Baltimore - Page 257
Galeruca calmariensis has been introduced from Europe, and increased so much, that the elm trees were eaten bare by their larvae, at Baltimore, ...
Haarlem - Page 113
Maatschappii der Wetenschappen te Haarlem. 2 Deel. Haarl., 1842. It occupies the whole volume. M. de Serres properly took up the general question, ...
Lima - Page 305
11, 12), which is very closely allied to Lima, and differs chiefly by the second antennal joint, which is much smaller (about one-fourth the length of ...
Philadelphia - Page 174
32, viz., L.philadelphioa, from Philadelphia; griffithiana, from Lake Charlotte, New York; nuttalliana and bulimoides, from Oregon; exigua, ...
Calcutta - Page 190
30, there are eight species: U. sapotalensia and tecomatensis, from Mexico; rajahensis, from Calcutta; bigbyensis, Big., Bigby Creek; crocatus, ...
Savannah - Page 190
rajahensis, from Calcutta; bigbyensis, Big., Bigby Creek; crocatus, Savannah River; callosufi, Ohio; dut- tonianus, Savannah; georgianus, Stump Creek. ...
Nashville - Page 173
Ph. hildrethiana, from Illinois; inflata, from Virginia; troostensis, from Nashville. ...
Corrientes - Page 226
Str. nigritus, Lap., from Monte Video (appears identical with my Campt. melemarius); Str. humeralis, Brull., from Corrientes (a better defined ...
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Port Lincoln - Page 280
the pupae of which were found at Port Lincoln; each pupa was in a cell; several of these cells were attached together, and seemed formed of a ...
Adelaide - Page 274
The species, Ps. mimica, from Adelaide, in South Australia, is certainly very distinctly represented on the title-page, yet not so that the generic ...
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Singapore - Page 168
shell sub-discoidal, slightly striated in a radiating manner above, and marked below with distant smooth striae: habitat Singapore ; scarce at Chusan ...
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Sydney - Page 256
414), is from Sydney. Zygocera canosa and Illcena exilis of the reporter (l . cp 223, 225) are from Van Diemen's Land. ...