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CURRENT LITERATURE. 



The Titles and Purport of Papers and Notes relating to Scottish Natural His- 

 tory which have appeared during the Quarter October-December 1894. 



[The Editors desire assistance to enable them to make this Section as complete as 

 possible. Contributions on the lines indicated will be most acceptable and 

 will bear the initials of the Contributor. The Editors will have access to the 

 sources of information undermentioned.] 



ZOOLOGY. 



WHITE-BEAKED DOLPHIN IN KILBRANNAN SOUND, ARRAN. John 

 M. Campbell. Zoologist (3), vol. xviii. p. 424 (November 1894). 

 An account of a female captured on ist September, off Dongarie, 

 and measuring 9 ft. 8 in. in length. 



THE BIRD COLLECTION IN THE SMITH INSTITUTE. By James 

 Sword. Trans. Stirling Nat. Hist, and Arch. Soc. (1893-94), pp. 

 139-204. Gives a chatty account of the birds of the Stirling district, 

 and a list, with localities, of 1 2 1 species represented by local examples 

 in the Institute collection. 



CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE LIFE-HISTORIES AND DEVELOPMENT OF 

 THE FOOD AND OTHER FISHES. By Professor M'Intosh, M.D., F.R.S., 

 etc. Rep. Fish. Board Scot. (1893), part iii. pp. 218-229, Plates 

 II. -IV. Deals with additional observations on the eggs of the 

 "Saithe," the ova and larva of the Turbot, Lumpenus lampetri- 

 formis (figured), and the Norwegian Topknot (figured). 



LIST OF SOME OF THE PELAGIC OVA, LARV^, AND YOUNG FlSHES 



OBTAINED IN 1894. By H. C. Williamson, M.A., B.Sc. Rep. Fish. 

 Board Scot. (1893), part iii. pp. 298-301. 



A MONOGRAPH OF THE FISHES OF THE OLD RED SANDSTONE OF 

 BRITAIN. PART II. No. i. THE ASTEROLEPID^:. By R. H. Tra- 

 quair, M.D., LL.D., F.R.S. Palceontographical Society, 1894. This 

 is a continuation of the monograph on British Old Red Sandstone 

 Fishes commenced many years ago by Powrie and Lankester, and of 

 which only one part, that on the Cephalaspidae, written by Professor 

 Lankester, has hitherto been published. The present contribution 

 is almost entirely occupied with the description and illustration of 

 Asterolepis maxima (Ag.), a large Pterichthy3fo& fish from the Upper 

 Old Red of Nairn, the true generic position of which the author was 

 the first to point out, and of which only the anterior median dorsal 

 plate had previously been figured. The series of specimens here 

 depicted in the four plates drawn by Mr. F. H. Michael give at 

 last a very complete idea of the exoskeleton of the creature, and the 

 arrangement of its various parts is rendered still more clear by 

 restored outline-figures printed in the text. It is to be noted, as the 

 author remarks, that this creature has nothing to do with Hugh 

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