GG8 SCIENTIFIC RECORD FOR 1884. 



Retzius (Gustav). Das Gebororgan der Wirbelthiere. Morpboloi;isc-b-liistolo<'i.scbo 



Stndien. II. Das Gebororgan der Reptilieu, der Viigel nud der Sangetbiei'o. 



Stockbolm : Samson & Wallin in Comm., 1884. (4to, viii, 368 pp., 37 pi., 37 1.) 

 Sacchi (Giuseppe). Nouvelles recberches sur la structure de la ncvrologic de la 



r6tine des Vert^br^s. Arcb. Ital. Biolog., v. 6, pp. 76-9(). 

 WiEDERSHEiM (R.). Grundriss der vergleicbenden Anatoniie der Wirbeltbiere fiir 



Studirende bearbeitet. Mit 225 Holzschn. Jena: 1884. (8vo, xii, 272 pp.) 



Fishes. 

 ( General. ) 



Claypole (E. W.). Preliminary Note on some Fossil Fisbes recently discovered in 



tbe Silurian Rocks of Nortb America. Am. Nat., v. 18, pp. 1222-1226. 

 Day (Francis). Tbe Fisbes of Great Britain and Ireland. Parts (^8. London: 



1884. (8vo,v. 2,pait 4.) 

 Fritsch (G.). Die elektriscben Fiscbe im Lictite der Descendenzlebre. Berlin, 



1884. (8vo.) 

 Klunzinger (C. B.). Die Fiscbe des Rotben Meeres. Eine kritiscbe Revision mit 



Bestimmungstabellen. l.Tbeil. Acantbopteri veri Owen. MitUnterstiitzung der 



Kon. Preuss.-Akad. d. AViss. berausgegeben. Stuttgart: 1884. (4to, ix, 133 pp., 



13 pi.) 

 Pennell (H. Cholmondely). a popular bistory of Britisb Fresbwater Fisb, 



adapted to tbe use of schools and colleges. Illnstr. by 150 wood engr. London : 



1884. (8vo,424pp. 38.6^.) 

 SuNDMAN (Gosta). Finlands Fiskar, malade after natures. Tbe Fisbes of Finland 



drawn and coloured from life, witb text (Swedish & English) by 0. M. Renter. 



I-II. Helsingfors: 1883-1884. (Fol.) 

 United States Commission of Fish and Fisheries. P. IX. Report of the Commissioner 



for 1884. A. Inquiry into the decrease of Food- Fishes. B. The Propagation of 



Food-Fishes in the Waters of the United States. Washington, 1884. (8vo, Ixxi, 



1146 pp.) 



MyzonU. 



Ahlborn (F.). Ueber den Ursprung und Austritt der Hirnnerven von Petromyzon. 



Zeitschrift f. wiss. Zool., v. 40, pp. 286-308, 1 pi. 

 Parker (W. K.). On the skeleton of the Marsipobranch Fishes. Part I. The My- 



xinoids (Myxine and Bdellostoma). Part II. Petromjzon. Phil. Trans. Roy. Soc, 



1883, pp. 373-457, pi. 8-26. 

 Weldon (W. F. R.). On tbe Head Kidney of Bdellostoma, witb a Suggestion as to 



the origin of tbe Suprarenal Bodies. <\Quart. Journ. Micr. Sc.,n. s.,v. 24, pp. 



171-182,1 pi. ' 



Selach iavs. 



Cope (E. D.). On the structure of the Skull in the Elasmobranch genus Didymodns. 



Proc. Amer. Phil. Soc, v. 21, pp. 572-590, 1 pi. 

 Garman (Samuel). An extraordinary Shark [Chlamydoselachus anguiueus]. 



Bull. Essex Inst., v. 16, 9 p. 

 Rosenberg (Emil). Uutersucbungen iiberdieOccipitalregion des Cranium und den 



proximalen Theil der Wirbelsaule einiger Selacbler. Eine Festschrift. [F. II. 



Bidder's Doctorjubiljium.] Dorpat (Karow), 1884. (4to, 26 pp., 2 pi.) 



Teleostomes. 

 {General.) 



Agassiz (Alexander) and C. O. Whitman. On the development of some pelagic 

 fisb eggs. Proc. Amer. Acad. Arts and Sc, v. 20, pp. 23-75, 1 pi. 



Gill (Theodore). Three new families of fishes added to the deep-sea Fauna in a 

 year. Am. Nat. , v. 18, p. 433. 



