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Bulletin de la Société des Naturalistes de Moscou, 1887, No. 1.—The Scaphirhynchus, being an elaborate comparative anatomical description (in German) of the genus and its species, by N. Iwanzow (with two plates).—On the great comet (43) of 1886, by Th. Bredichin (with a plate).—Enumeration of the vascular plants of the Caucasus, by M. Smirnoff (in French). In this third paper the author discusses the relative moistness of the air in the Caucasus; he gives most valuable tables from twenty-three Caucasian stations, and shows the dependency of moisture upon the prevailing winds; he then gives tables as to the amount and frequency of rain in different parts of Caucasia, and discusses this climatic factor in comparison with the distribution of rains upon the Mediterranean region generally. This most valuable paper is to be continued.—On calorimetric methods for determining minimal quantities of iron in mineral waters, by E. Kislakovsky.—Comparative discussion of the data collected in Russia as to the epochs of the blooming of plants which are freely growing or cultivated between the 44th and 6oth degrees of latitude, by A. Dœngingk, being a most valuable paper (in German), containing a list of the times of blooming of 270 different species at Pyatigorsk, Kishineff, Sarepta, Orel, Moscow, and St. Petersburg. This is followed by a note on the blooming of 225 plants at Pyatigorsk and Elizabethpol in the Caucasus, as also on trees and bushes, endemic and exotic, in the Caucasus, showing the origin of the exotic plants.—On the parasitical pteromalines of the Hessian fly, by Prof. Lindeman. Five parasites, all new species, are described (in German) and figured.—Entomological notes, by the same, on the Haltica vittula of Russia, the Scotylus amygdali of Transcaucasia, and the Cleigastra flavipes from Moscow.—On the tooth-plates of the Gulnariœ, by Dr. W. Dybowski (in German).—On remains of the Ursus spelœus in Transcaucasia, by N. Anutschin (in German).—On the species of Taraxacum and Glycyrhiza, and Alhagi camelorum, by A. Becker.
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Scientific Serials . Nature 36, 311 (1887). https://doi.org/10.1038/036311a0
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