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trans, sec. Hyaline Cartilage, Areolar Tissue, Types of Simple 

 Tissues, Prothallus of Fern, and Tendon of Lamb. 



The Medical Annual and Practitioners' Index, 1883-4. 

 {Henry Kimpton^ London.) 



This handy little volume is intended to be a Year-Book for 

 the study-table of the medical practitioner. For easy reference 

 the book is arranged in sections — e.g.^ The Year's Work, Journals, 

 Inventions, Health-Resorts, etc. etc., and under the various divi- 

 sions the articles are arranged alphabetically. 



Bolton's Portfolio of Drawings. No. 10. 



This Portfolio contains drawings of two representatives of the 

 vegetable kingdom, and seventeen of the animal kingdom. Of 

 the latter, we are informed that Chilovionas spiralis and 

 Asplanchna Ebbcsbornii are new to science. For a fuller descrip- 

 tion of this latter, we would refer our readers to an article in the 

 October part of " The Journal of the Royal Microscopical 

 Society," 1883. 



Popular Account of the Fish's Nest, Built by the Stickle- 

 back {Gastcrosteus tracJmi^ns). By Silvanus Wilkins and T. 

 Bolton. {Birmingham: Thos. Bolton.) 



This very interesting little pamphlet consists of — ist, a paper 

 by Mr. S. Wilkins read before the Birmingham Natural History and 

 Microscopical Society, and followed by " Notes in reference to 

 Sticklebacks' Nests," by Thos. Bolton, F.R.M.S. ; and " On the 

 Structure and Habits of the Stickleback," and "The Anatomy 

 of the Stickleback," by John Ernest Ady. It is illustrated with 

 four plates, and will be read with much pleasure by all naturalists. 



The American Naturalist. {McCalla and Staveley, Phila- 

 delphia. ) 



The January and February parts of this very capital Journal 

 have reached us ; their contents are well selected and interesting. 

 Some of the articles are, more than others, especially to our taste ; 

 of these, we would name, " Observations on the Pulsating Organs 

 in the Legs of certain Hemiptera," with plate ; and " Notes on 

 some Apparently Undescribed Infusoria from Putrid Waters," 

 illustrated. But we read the whole of each journal with much 

 pleasure. 



