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sociate editors, and among the other writers 

 are Olive Thome Miller, Catherine Owen, 

 Lucy C. Lillie, Margaret E. Sangster, and 

 Rose Terry Cooke. The paper and printing 

 of the magazine are of excellent quality, 

 and the illustrations are numerous and have 

 a very pleasing effect. 



Garden and Forest : a Journal of Horti- 

 culture, Landscape Art, and Forestry. 

 Conducted by Prof. Charles S. Sargent. 

 Published weekly. New York : The Gar- 

 den and Forest Publishing Company. 

 Price, 10 cents a number; $4 a year. 

 With its last number for 1888, "Gar- 

 den and Forest" closes its first volume, 

 which began with the issue for February 

 29th. This journal, at its first appearance, 

 took rank as a thoroughly competent and pro- 

 gressive representative of the arts to which 

 it is devoted, and this character has been 

 ably maintained. A glance at the index of 

 Volume I shows that an immense variety of 

 plants has been described, and a large num- 

 ber of other subjects has been treated in the 

 forty-four numbers that have already ap- 

 peared. " Garden and Forest " is not a flo- 

 rists' and nurserymen's trade-journal, but, 

 while giving the dealers in flowers and trees, 

 and also the fruit-growers, much scientific 

 information of value to them, it has an in- 

 terest also for the botanist, and for hira who 

 has the arrangement of public or private 

 grounds. The departments represented in 

 each issue are : editorials, English corre- 

 spondence, new or little-known plants (illus- 

 trated), cultural department, the forest, cor- 

 respondence, recent publications, and notes. 

 Other subjects which have been given a place 

 from time to time are : horticultural exhibi- 

 tions and conventions, entomology, and the 

 management of public parks. Each num- 

 ber contains three or four illustrations, one 

 being always a portrait of some unfamiliar 

 but valuable plant. Among the writers for 

 this journal besides the editor, who is Di- 

 rector of the Arnold Arboretum and Pro- 

 fessor of Arboriculture in Harvard College, 

 are W. G. Farlow, Sereno Watson, B. E. 

 Fernow, C. G. Pringle, C. C. Abbott, and 

 William Falconer in this country, and W. 

 Watson, George Nicholson, and W. Goldring 

 in England. It is seldom that a periodical 

 appears which is so well deserving of a long 

 and prosperous life as " Garden and Forest." 

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The most extended paper in No. 2, Vol. 

 II, of the Journal of Morpholoc/y^ is " On the 

 Development of Manicina Arcolata^'' by 

 Henry V. Wilson, Fellow of the Johns Hop- 

 kins University. It is the result of study of 

 these corals in the spring of 1887 at the ma- 

 rine laboratory of the university, which was 

 then stationed on the island of New Provi- 

 dence, Bahamas, supplemented by investiga- 

 tions made at the biological laboratory in 

 Baltimore. The text is illustrated with seven 

 plates. R. W. Shufeldt, M. D., contributes 

 two monographs: the first being "Further 

 Studies on Grammicolcpis Brackiusculus, 

 Poey," a fish of which only one specimen is 

 known to naturahsts; and the other being 

 " On the Aflinities of Aphriza Vir^ata," the 

 popular name of which is the surf -bird. 

 Both these papers deal with the osteology of 

 the subjects. The former is accompanied 

 by fourteen woodcuts and the latter by a 

 plate. " The Structure and Development of 

 the Visual Area in the Trilobite, Phacops 

 Rana, Green," is described by John M. 

 Clarke, with a plate ; and Prof. E. D. Cope 

 has a paper in this number entitled " On the 

 Relations of the Hyoid and Otic Elements 

 of the Skeleton in the Batrachia," with three 

 plates. 



In Tlie Journal of Physiology, Vol. IX, 

 No. 4 (Cambridge, England, Scientific In- 

 strument Company), J. S. Haldane, M. A., 

 M. B., presents a brief account of investiga- 

 tions on " The Elimination of Aromatic 

 Bodies in Fever." There is another brief 

 paper by Vincent D. Harris, M. D., and 

 Howard H. Tooth, M. D., " On the Relations 

 of Micro-organisms to Pancreatic (Proteo- 

 lytic) Digestion " ; and a " Note on the Elas- 

 ticity Curve of Animal Tissues," by Charles 

 S. Roy, M. D., F. R. S., with a plate. The 

 most extended paper in this number is " On 

 the Nature of Fibrin-Ferment," by Prof. W. 

 D. Halliburton, M. D., who states, as the 

 principal result of his researches in this di- 

 rection, that " the fibrin-ferment, whether it 

 be prepared by Schmidt's or Gamgee's meth- 

 od, is a globulin derived from the disintegra- 

 tion of the white blood-corpuscles and iden- 

 tical with a proteid I have previously named 

 cell-globulin, which is the principal proteid 

 contained in the cells of lymphatic glands." 

 This number contains also a communication 

 on " Some Points in the Physiology of Gland 



