320 REPORT ON NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



Stewart, T. E., M. D., Ph. G.— The Relation of pharmacy to Therapeu- 

 tics. A lecture delivered before the Alumni Association of the 

 Philadelphia College of Pharmacy. 



(Druggists Journal, Dec, 1883; also separate, uu paged, 5 pages.) 

 Suggests the plan of founding at Washington, in connection with the 

 Smithsonian Institution, a laboratory of experimental pharmacology, with 

 new apparatus and means for doing scientific work on drugs. After discuss- 

 ing this paper it was voted by the meeting " that it is the sense of this meet- 

 ing that this suggestion be adopted, and the founding of such a laboratory 

 at Washington, in connection with the Smithsonian, bo recommended." 



Swain, Joseph. — Description of a new species of Bqdropterm (Ha- 

 dropterus scierus) from Southern Indiana. 



(Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., Nov. 27, 1883, vol. vi, p. 252. ) 

 (See also under Jordan & Swain.) 



Swain, Joseph, and George B. Kalb.— A review of the genus Xo- 

 turus, with a description of one new species. 



(Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., V, May 23, 1883, pp. 638-644). 



Seven species are mentioned, Xoturtis elassochir, u. s , Illinois R., 639. 



Swan, James G. — Report of investigations at ]N~eah Bay, Wash., re- 

 specting the habits of fur seals of that vicinity, and to arrange 

 for procuring specimens of skeletons of cetacea. 

 (Bull. U. S. Fish Com., in, pp. 201-207.) 



Tarr, R. S. — Life at the bottom of the sea. 



(Forest and Stream, New York, Nov. 29, 1883, vol. xxi, pp. 344,345.) 

 A popular account of the deep-sea explorations of the U. S. Fish Commis- 

 sion. 



Thomas, Cyrus. — Note on certain Maya and Mexican manuscripts. 



(Science, vol. i, No. 20, pp. 585,586.) 

 Verrill, A. E. — Reports on the results of dredging, under the super- 

 vision of Alexander Agassiz, on the east coast of the United States. 

 during the summer of 1880, by the U. S. Coast Survey steamer 

 " Blake," Commander J. R.Bartlett,U. S. N., comma ndiug. (XXI.—) 

 Report on the Anthozoa, and on some additional species dredged by 

 the "Blake" in 1877-'79, and by the U. S. Fish Commission steamer 

 "Fish Hawk," in 1880-'82. By A. E. Verrill. 



(Bull. Mus. Comp. Zoology, at Harvard College, No. 1, July, 1883, xi, pp. 

 1-72, pi. i-viii.) 



Enumerates 59 species, of which 23 are new. One new family and 5 new 

 genera are also defined. A large number of the old species are also described 

 and figured, and the remainder are accompanied by more or less full notes 

 and tables of synonymy. The plates are well-executed photo-lithographs 

 from drawings by J. H. Emerton. 

 The following are newly described : 



Families. — Ceratoisida' Gray (emended), p. 9; Chrynogorgidoc, nov., p. 21 



Prlmnoidce (emended), p. 28. 

 Genera. — Acavclla Gray (emended), p. 13; Lepidisin, nov., p. 18; Irido- 

 f/orgia, nov., p. 26; Stenogorgia, uov., p. 29; Aclinauge, nov., p. 5 

 4ctinostola, nov., p. 56. 



