Transactions of the Linnean Society of London/Volume 4

TRANSACTIONS

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LINNEAN SOCIETY.

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VOLUME IV.

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M.DCC.XCVIII.

CONTENTS.

I. AVES Sussexienses; or, A Catalogue of Birds found in the County of Sussex, with Remarks, by William Markwick, Esq. F.L.S.	Page 1
II. Anecdotes of the late Dr. Patrick Browne, Author of the Natural History of Jamaica. By Aylmer Bourke Lambert, Esq. V.P.L.S.	p. 31
III. Descriptions of Three rare Species of British Birds. By G. Montagu, Esq. F.L.S.	p. 35
IV. Account of some Species of Fossil Anomiae found in Derbyshire. By Mr. William Martin, F.L.S.	p. 44
V. Essay on the Eye-like Spot in the Wings of the Locustae of Fabricius, as indicating the Male Sex. By Professor Anthony Augustus Henry Lichtenstein, F.M.L.S.	p. 51
VI. A New Arrangement of the Genus Polytrichum, with some Emendations. By Mr. Archibald Menzies, F.L.S.	p. 63
VII. Observations on the Spinning Limax. By John Latham, M.D. F.R.S. and L.S. Romsey	Page 85
VIII. An Essay on the Tracheae or Windpipes of various Kinds of Birds. By John Latham, M.D. F.R S. and L.S. Romsey.	90
IX. Observations on Bituminous Substances, with a Description of the Varieties of the Elastic Bitumen. By Charles Hatchett, Esq. F.R.S. Lond. and Edin. F.L.S. &c.	p. 129
X. An Account of the Jumping Mouse of Canada. Dipus Canadensis. By Major-General Thomas Davies, F.R.S. and L.S.	p. 155
XI. Observations on the Flowering of certain Plants. By the Rev. Thomas Martyn, B.D. F.R.S.V.P. L.S. Regius Professor of Botany in the University of Cambridge	p. 158
XII. Remarks on some Foreign Species of Orobanche. By James Edward Smith, M.D. F.R.S. P.L.S.	p. 164
XIII. A Description of Five British Species of Orobanche. By the Rev. Charles Sutton, B.D. A.L.S. late Fellow of St. Johns College, Cambridge	p. 173
XIV. Account, accompanied by a Figure, of a minute Ichneumon. By George Shaw, M.D. F.R.S. V.P.L.S.	p. 189
XV. Description of the Phasma dilatatum. By Mr. John Parkinson, F.L.S.	p. 190
XVI. Description of the Blight of Wheat, Uredo Frumenti. By A. B. Lambert, Esq. F.R.S. V.P.L.S.	p. 193
XVII. Ammophila, a New Genus of Insects in the Class Hymenoptera, including the Sphex sabulosa of Linnaeus. By the Rev. William Kirby, F.L.S.	Page 195
XVIII. The Characters of Twenty New Genera of Plants. By James Edward Smith, M.D. F.R.S. P.L.S.	p. 213
XIX. Further Observations on the Wheat lnsect, in a Letter to the Rev. Samuel Goodenough, LL.D. F.R.S. Tr.L.S. By Thomas Marsham, Esq. Sec. L.S.	p. 224
XX. History of Tipula Tritici, and Ichneumon Tipulae, with some Observations upon other Insects that attend the Wheats, in a Letter to Thomas Marsham, Esq. Sec. L.S. By the Rev. William Kirby, F.L.S.	p. 230
XXI. Account of a New Species of Muscicapa, from New South Wales. By Major-General Thomas Davies, F.R.S. and L.S.	p. 240
XXII. Observations on the Genus Pausus, and Description of a New Species. By Adam Afzelius, M.D. Demonstrator of Botany in the University of Upsala, F.R.S. and F.M.L.S.	p. 243
XXIII. Observations on the British Species of Bromus, with Introductory Remarks on the Composition of a Flora Britannica. By James Edward Smith, M.D. F.R.S. P.L.S.	p. 276
XXIV. Some Corrections of the general Description of Polytrichum rubellum, p. 79, with an Account of another New Species of the same Genus. By Mr. Archibald Menzies, F.L.S.	p. 303