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Some Serials. 



With reference to the note on Science Gossip that appeared in our 

 February number, the editor has written to us as follows : — " I regret 

 to say that from unavoidable circumstances, which I am glad to tell 

 you were removed during the past week, Science Gossip has been late 

 in publication, but we shall immediately pick up our arrears. On 

 and after March 25 the magazine will appear as usual on the 25th 

 of each month." We are exceedingly glad to hear that this rightly 

 popular monthly is emerging from its retirement. The November 

 number, which reached us after our February number was published, 

 contains several interesting articles, among which we may mention 

 some notes by Wilfred Mark Webb on Protective Coloration in British 

 Clausilias, some of which resemble the bud-scales of the trees under 

 which they live. There is also a suggestive article by J. H. Barbour, 

 entitled " Unanswered Questions in Botany." 



We have received volume v. of the third series of the Journal of 

 Microscopy and Natural Science, which is the journal of the Postal 

 Microscopical Society. Among the more interesting articles in the 

 volume may be noticed a translation of Dr. F. Vicentini's memoir on 

 the "Bacteria of the Sputa and Cryptogamic Flora of the Mouth." 

 The editor states that this translation will shortly appear in book form, 

 with a preface by Professor W. D. Miller, of Berlin, and with a 

 bibliography and other additions by the author. The whole volume 

 is full of interesting articles and shorter notes, and contains many 

 original illustrations. 



Volume iv. of the Journal of Malacology has also been received. 

 Mr. Wilfred Mark Webb, who has been acting-editor during the 

 past year, is to be congratulated on the success of his efforts 

 in maintaining this useful little publication. He himself con- 

 tributes to the present volume a paper on British Testacella, and 

 some other notes. Among the contributors we notice the names 

 of the Rev. A. H. Cooke, Charles Hedley, Walter E. Collinge, 

 F. A. Bather, G. W. Chaster, and E. R. Sykes. The most important 

 section of the Journal appears to us to be the bibliography of current 

 malacological literature, which will in future be superintended entirely 

 by the last-named gentleman. We understand that, owing to pressure 

 of work, Mr. Collinge has now definitely retired from the editorship, 

 and for similar reasons can no longer undertake to identify collections 

 of slugs. 



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