338 NATURAL SCIENCE. November, 1896. 



Western Field and Stveam (St. Paul, Minn., U.S.A.) is another new 

 journal that has been sent to us. It is copiously illustrated, and 

 though devoted chiefly to sport, contains one or two articles of interest 

 to naturalists. The subscription is one dollar a year. 



A new quarterly, Revista Trimestvial Microgvafica, is announced, 

 under the editorship of Dr. Ramon y Cajal, Professor of Histology 

 and Anatomy in Madrid University. 



From October i Science Progress changed into a quarterly review 

 of current scientific investigation, at an increase in price to 3s., and in 

 size to an average of no pages. The solid value of its contents un- 

 doubtedly adapts them for the dignity of a quarterly. 



The Nordoberfrankischer Verein fiir Natur- Geschichts- und 

 Landeskunde, which was founded at Hof, Bavaria, in 1891, has now 

 begun to publish a Bericht. No. I., which is an octavo of xiv. and iiO' 

 pages, with two folding plates, is said to have been delivered in July^ 

 but we saw no copy in this country before the end of September. One 

 of the plates represents a section along the railway at Neuhof station 

 near Hof, where fossiliferous beds of Tremadoc age have lately been 

 exposed. The fossils are described by Dr. J. F. Pompeckj, who 

 records the occurrence of eleven species already described by 

 Barronde in his " Faune silurienne des environs de Hof," 1868, and of 

 three new but still unnamed species belonging to Lingida, Acrotreta, 

 and Bellerophon. To this number also Dr. Ernst Zimmermann 

 contributes an article, " Ueber Wesen und Ziele der geologischen 

 Landesaufnahmen," and another entitled " Einiges ueber die- 

 Loessfrage." 



Varia. 



Two parts of the eight large volumes to be issued by Gustav Fischer,, 

 under the title, Handbuch der Anatomie des Menschen, have appeared, 

 edited by Professor von Bardeleben. The first part, by Professor J. 

 Disse, deals mainly with the spinal column. 



Science for September 4 contains an interesting article on Botanical 

 Gardens, their origin and development, by N. L. Britton, with notes 

 on the chief Gardens in Europe and in the United States. An appre- 

 ciation of Dr. P. L. Sclater, by the late Dr. Brown Goode, is also to 

 be found in this number. 



The National Museum at Washington has been benefiting for 

 some eight years by the addition of collections made in different parts 

 of the world by Dr. W. L. Abbott. This explorer has sent material 

 from East Africa, the Seychelles, Cashmere, Turkestan, and Ladak, 

 which is being worked out by the staff of the Museum ; two reports 

 on birds have already been issued. 



Further Literature Received. 



Biology Lectures, Wood's Holl Lab.: Ginn & Co. How to study wild Flowers, G. Henslow: 

 Religious Tract Sor. Handbook of Physiology, W. D. Halliburton: Murray. Testimony of Science 

 to the Deluge, W. B. Galloway : Sampson Low. Die Morpholcgie und Physiologic der Pflanzlichen 

 Zellkernes, A. Zimmermann; Die Bedingungen der Fortpflanzung bei einigen Algen und Pilzen, G. 

 Klebs: Fisclier. Certain Problems of Vertebrate Embryology, J. Beard: Fischer. The Priceless 

 Gem, Balmokand : Mitra Vilasa Press, Lahore. 



Voles and Lemmings, G. S. Miller: U.S. Dept. Agric. On Structure and Reproduction of 

 Cystopus candidus. Lev., H. Wager: Ann. Bot. Reptilian Order Cotylosauria, On Pleistocene 

 Mammalia from Petite Anse, 4th Contribution Marine Fauna of Miocene Period of U.S., 2nd Con- 

 tribution to History of Cotylosauria, 6th Contribution to Marine Miocene Fauna of U.S. ; E. D. Cope : 

 Trans. Amer. Phil. Soc. Report, Jamaica Inst. Guide, Bristol Museum. The Yolk-Sac, etc., in 

 Scyllium and Lepidosteus, J. Beard, Aiiat. Anz. Trans. Norfolk and Norwich Soc. vi., 2. 



Nature, September 17, 24, October i, 8, 15. Literary Digest, September 12, 19, 26, October 3, 10. 

 Revue scientitique, September ig, 26, October 3, 10, 17. Irish Naturalist, October. Feuille des 

 jeunes Naturalistes, October. Naturen, October. Nature Notes, Octob)er. Amer. Journ. Sci.,. 

 October. Naturae Novitates, 17 and 18. Science, September n, 18, 25, October 2, 9. Scott. Geogr. 

 Mag., October. Science Gossip, October. The Naturalist, October. Westminster Review,. 

 October. Botanical Gazette, September. Review of Reviews, October. Knowledge, October. 

 Photogram, October. L'Anthropologie, September. Amer. Natural., October. Vict. Natural., August, 



