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of Apothecaries at their Botanical Garden at Chelsea, and F.E.S.," and of his 

 views on the circulation and nature of sap, as published in the second edition 

 of his "Gardener's Dictionary," 1733. 



The Society Carlos Ribeiro at Porto, Portugal, has changed the title of its 

 organ from Revista de Sciencias Naturaes e Sociaes to Portugalia: Materiaes para 

 o Estudo do Povo Portuguez. It will be devoted entirely to the anthropology and 

 ethnography of the Portuguese race. 



Vestnik slovanskych starozytnosti means " Review of Works on Slavonic Anti- 

 cpiities," and is a journal of which the first part has just been published at 

 Prague, under the editorship of Prof. L. Niederle ; most of the reviews are in 

 French and German. 



Mr. G. W. Bulman contributes to the December number of the Westminster 

 Review a criticism of the late Professor G. H. T. Eimer's theory of organic 

 evolution. 



The American Anthropologist is to be succeeded by a new Journal, in 

 quarterly numbers of about 200 octavo pages, published by G. P. Putnam's 

 Sons, and conducted by the following editorial board : — F. Baker, F. Boas, 

 D. G. Brinton, G. M. Dawson, G. A. Dorsey, W. H. Holmes, J. W. Powell, 

 F. W. Putnam, with F. W. Hodge as secretary and managing editor. The 

 first number is to appear in January. The annual subscription is $4. 



No. 137 of vol. xviii. of Johns Hopkins University Circulars is devoted to 

 "Notes from the Biological Laboratory," edited by Prof. W. K. Brooks, and 

 "Notes from the Geological Laboratory," edited by Prof. W. B. Clark. The 

 contents include the following papers : — " Some Ectosarcal Phenomena in the 

 Eggs of Hydra" by E. A. Andrews, dealing with filose and amoeboid activities. 

 "The Echinoids and Asteroids of Jamaica," a systematic list, with general 

 notes, by H. L. Clark ; no new species are described, but if we are to judge from 

 the mode of printing the names, all the species are referred to genera other than 

 those in which they were placed by the original describers. " Embryology of 

 Ophiocoma echi?iata, Agassiz," by C. Grave ; the abundance of apparently normal 

 larvae having two anterior coelomic sacs, each communicating with the exterior 

 by a dorsal pore-canal, is a point of much interest. "Notes on the 

 Ophiurids collected in Jamaica during June and July 1897," by C. Grave; 

 this resembles Dr. Clark's list, but all the species appear to be left in 

 their original genera. E. W. Berger abstracts the late " Dr. F. S. Conant's 

 [MS.] Notes on the Physiology of the Medusae." L. E. Griffin publishes 

 "Notes on the Tentacles of Nautilus pompilius" preliminary to a complete 

 account of the anatomy of the nautilus. The chief article in the geological 

 section is entitled "An Episode during the Terrace Cutting of the Potomac," 

 by Cleveland Abbe, jun. The price of this number is 10 cents, post free. 



A Catalogue and price-list of the papers of the late Professor Edward D. 

 Cope, arranged chronologically, also price-list of Plaster Casts, has been sent to 

 us by Mrs. E. D. Cope, Haverford, Pa., U.S.A. The papers are to be had for 

 very moderate prices, and the complete set costs seventy-five dollars. The casts 

 may be ordered white, or carefully coloured after the originals. 



The list of papers is a useful bibliography, but it is naturally far from 

 complete, and it is marred by an excessive number of reprints. A writer so 

 voluminous as Cope, making his important contributions to knowledge in a 

 multitude of small scattered papers and notes, deserves a special bibliography 

 prepared by an expert. We commend the suggestion to the notice of the 

 Smithsonian Institution, which has already issued several valuable bibliographies 

 of this kind. 



