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Serials 



The ]\Iarch number of the American Naturalist is almost entirely 

 devoted to an account of Louis Agassiz, who, in March 1848, began 

 his course of zoological instruction at Harvard University. Articles 

 are contributed on various aspects of the work of the great naturalist, 

 as follows : — " The Philosophical Views of Agassiz," by A. S. Packard; 

 " Agassiz and the Ice Age," by G. F. Wright ; " Agassiz on Piecent 

 Fishes," by David Starr Jordan ; " Agassiz's Work on Fossil Fishes," 

 by C. Pt. Eastman ; "Agassiz's Work on the Embryology of the Turtle," 

 by Gertrude C. Davenport ; " Agassiz at Penikese," by Burt G. 

 Wilder. The American Naturalist was started by pupils of Louis 

 Agassiz, and indeed most of the eminent zoologists of the LTnited 

 States were his pupils, so that it is only fitting that it should 

 commemorate in this manner so important a jubilee. An excellent 

 photograph of Louis Agassiz is reproduced as the frontispiece. 



Nature for IMay 5 contains, as the thirty-first instalment of its 

 well-known series, " Scientific Worthies," an account of Prof. Albert 

 von Kolliker, by JNIr W. F. Pi. Weldou, illustrated by an admirable 

 portrait. 



Further Literature Received 



Students' Text-Look of Zoology, Sedgwick : Sonnenschein. History of Fowling, 

 ^lacpherson : Douglas, Edinburgh. Flora of Perthshire, "White : Blackwood, Edin- 

 burgh. Garden-Making, Bailey : Macmillan, New York. De Danske Barkbiller, 

 Lovendal : Schuboth, Copenhagen. 



Contents-Subject Index, 7, 8, 9, 10, Cotgreave. Problems of Plant-Physiology, 

 JlacDougal : Science. Summer School of Biology on Illinois River, Forbes. Bulletin 

 U.S. Dept. Agiiculture, Entomology, N.S., Nos. 10, 12, and 13. Report Museums 

 Assoc, 1897. Contribution to Theory of Warning Colours, Nos. 3 and 4, Finn: Joiirn. 

 Asiai. Soc. Bengal. Notes on Introduction of Brown Hare into Ireland, Barrett 

 Hamilton : Irish Nat. Ninth Ann. Rep. Missouri Botanic Garden. Catalogue of 

 Land-Shells of America, N. of Mexico, Pilsbry & Johnson : Nautilus. Wing and 

 Larval Characters of Emperor Moths, A. R. Grote : Proc. S. London Entom. Soc. 

 Maryland Geol. Survey, vol. i. Second Ann. Rep. New York Zool. Soc. Reports on 

 Water-Supply of Goldfields in Western Australia, Govt. Geologist. Trans. Oxford 

 Univ. Jun. Sci. Club, N.S., Nos. 3 and 4. Report Rugby School Nat. Hist. Soc, 

 1897. Rep. Cheltenham Coll. Nat. Hist. Soc, 1897. Case of Protective Coloration 

 in House Mouse, Jameson : Linn. Soc. Journ. Zool. Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, vol. 

 xii., pp. 85-129. Metric Equivalents of Imperial Weights and Measures: Pharmaceut, 

 Journ. ^lem. Soc. Cient. Antonio Alzate, vol. xi., Nos. 1-4. Habits and Economy of 

 Birds, Finn ; Proc. Asiat. Soc. Bengal. 



Amer. Monthly Micr. Journ., April; Scot. Geogr. Mag., May; Scot. Med. and Surg. 

 Journ., May; Amer. Journ. Sci., May; Amer. Nat., Mar.; Victorian Nat., Mar.; 

 Annot. Zool. Japan, vol. ii., pt. i. ; Botan. Gazette, April; Irish Nat., May; West- 

 minster Rev., May; Journ. Essex Tech. Lab., vol. iii., Aug.-Dec, 1897; Journ. Marine 

 Biol. Assoc, v.. No. 2 ; Journ. School Geogr., April, May; Knowledge, May; Literary 

 Digest, April 9, 16, 23, 30, May 7 ; Naturae Novit., Mar., Nos. 5, 6, April, No. 7 ; 

 Naturalist, May ; Nature, April 14, 21, 28, May 5, 12 ; Nature Notes, May ; Naturen, 

 Mar., April ; New Age, Feb. ; Plant World, Mar., April ; Psychol. Rev., May ; Review 

 of Reviews, April ; Ri vista Quindicinale di Psichologia, April 1, 15, May 1 ; Revue 

 Scient., April 16, 23, 30, May 7, 14; Science, April 8, 15, 22, 29, May 6 ; Scientific 

 Amer., April 9, 16, 23, 30, May 7. 



