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Hawaiian and Fanning Islands and Lower California {Bulle- 

 tin, No. 7, of the United States National Museum) contains 

 notes on the habits and distribution of the birds, reptiles, 

 fishes, crabs, etc., collected in the Pacific Ocean. 



The researches of Professor G. Brown Goode, carried on 

 for six months last winter in the Bermudas, are partly re- 

 ported in a preliminary catalogue of the Reptiles, Fishes, 

 and Leptocardians, in the American Journal of Science and 

 Arts for October. Four species of fishes thought to be new 

 to science are described. 



Among the many interesting discoveries made during the 

 past summer by the United States Fish Commission is the 

 discovery of a new species of Macrurus (31. bairdii, Goode 

 and Bean). It was trawled in 160 fathoms, 44 miles east of 

 Cape Ann. Another interesting form, described by Messrs. 

 Goode and Bean in the American Journal of Science and 

 Arts, is a new species of Ly 'codes (L. verrilli), trawled in 90 

 fathoms, near Halifax, Nova Scotia. 



Since the establishment of the famous zoological station, 

 founded by Dr. Dohrn, at Naples, nearly a hundred zoolo- 

 gists have worked in this seaside laboratory. The results of 

 their labors are in part to be published in octavo form under 

 the title of "Mittheilungen aus der zoologischen Station zu 

 Neapel," while the quarto series of more pretentious memoirs 

 will be issued under the title of" Fauna und Flora des Gulf- 

 es von Neapel," etc. In the first part of the " Mittheilun- 

 gen," there is, says Nature, an account of the habits of a large 

 number of the various animals living in the aquarium; also 

 of the periodic appearances of pelagic animals in the Bay of 

 Naples during the past two years; and the third is a list of 

 the breeding-times of the marine forms inhabiting the Nea- 

 politan seas. There is also a paper, by Dr. Eisig, on the Seg- 

 mental Organs of Annelids; one by Dr. Meyer, on Some 

 Points of Crustacean Anatomy; and two botanical papers. 

 Dr. Dohrn chives the results of his studies on certain marine 

 mite-like forms (Pycnogonidce). 



Besides its zoological laboratory in Vienna, the university 

 of that city has founded a zoological station on the Adriatic 

 Sea, at Trieste, the director of which is Professor Clans. Un- 

 der the title of "Work done at the Zoological Institute of 

 the Vienna University, and at the Zoological Station in Tri- 



