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N. Zograf, on the origin of the lacustrine fauna of European Russia ; J. Biittikofer, 

 on the fauna of Borneo; E. Dubois, on Pithecanthropus ; W. Leche, on development 

 of the teeth ; N. Zograf, on the odontography of the chondrostoid Ganoids ; 

 R. Semon, on the embryology of the Vertebrata ; C. W. Stiles, on the Cestodes of 

 American rabbits ; R. Blanchard, on the Leeches of the Netherland Indies and 

 Indo-Malaya ; S. J. Hickson, on the classification of the Alcyonaria ; Selys- 

 Longchamps, on the geographical distribution of the Odonata ; E. Wasman, on the 

 Myrmecophilse ; A. Fritze, on the season-dimorphism of the butterflies of Japan and 

 the Liu-Kiu. Canestrini will discuss the Acari ; Korotnev, the development of the 

 Tunicates ; E. Perrier, the classification of the worms; J. W. Spengel, new 

 researches on Enteropneustes ; Herdman, the Tunicates; and Weismann will give an 

 opening address. Dr. Field's scheme for recording zoological literature will be fully 

 discussed on the first day. 



A SCHEME for a card catalogue of Scientific Literature has been described in 

 Science for July 19, by Mr. F. B. Weeks. Mr. A. G. S. Josephson, of the Lenno.x 

 Library, has a letter in the same publication advocating an International Congress of 

 Bibliography. 



We have received nos. 5 and 6 of the Revista de la Facultad de Agronomia y 

 Veteyinaria, of La Plata, which contains, among other matter, a paper on the 

 external form of the horse, by Dr. G. J. Bernier, Professor to the Faculty. There 

 is also an interesting paper on the agronomy of Parana by Professor Antonio Gil. 



The Zeitschrift fur angeivandte Mikroskopie is a new octavo monthly of thirty-two 

 pages, edited by G. Marpmann, published by R. Thost in Leipzig, Hospitalstrasse 10. 

 It deals chiefly with the technique of microscopy, and partly with its scientific 

 results. It contains original articles, reviews, notes and correspondence; and as a 

 supplement is given a dictionary of terms that should be useful to English readers of 

 German biological papers. The annual subscription is ten marks. 



The American Naturalist has started a new section, "Vegetable Physiology," 

 under the editorship of Dr. Edwin F. Smith. The Botanical Gazette pertinently 

 remarks that the first article is on nomenclature, and has nothing particular to 

 do with physiology. 



A valuable atlas has just appeared in Penck's Geogvaphische Ahhandlung. It 

 deals with the Austrian alpine lakes, and is the work of Penck and Richter. 

 Contours are given of the lake depths and the heights of the land surrounding them. 

 The work is similar in many respects to Geistbeck's " Seen der Deutschen Alpen," 

 published by the Vereins fiiv Eidkitnde in Leipzig in 18S5. Dr. Mill's work on the 

 lakes of our own country is, of course, well known to all our readers. 



In the Quayterly Journal of the Geological Society for August i will be found a full 

 description of the human remains from Galley Hill, referred to in Natural Science 

 for June last. There is also Dr. Gregory's paper on the Palaeontology and Physical 

 Geology of the West Indies, containing a detailed description of the corals of the 

 Barbados resfs with a remarkable and important synonymy. This is clearly the 

 most valuable portion of this section of the papar, and will help to clear up the 

 mysteries of coral nomenclature to a large e.xtent, and, although we cannot 

 agree with him in the rejection of Porites povites (Linn.), he is justified in adhering 

 to the British Association rule. Another papjr, the importance of which it is 

 hardly yet time to estimate, is Mr. Backman's " Bajocian of the Mid-Cotteswolds." 



Dr. Durfler, of the Hof Museum, Vienna, is compiling a directory of botanists. 

 He will be glad of information concerning names, addresses, and special subjects, as 

 well as of gardens and institutions whose employes ought to appear in such a work. 

 Address Burgring 7, Vienna, 1. 



