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stratigraphie dans la classification Géologique,” was published in the 
August number of La Fewille des jewnes naturalistes, Evidently the 
discussion has cleared the ground, and though the compromise sug- 
gested by Mr Dollfus is not likely to be accepted by Mr Jukes-Browne, 
there are signs that an agreement may be arrived at eventually. 
In the Westminster Review for August, Mr J. F. Hewitt has an 
article on “The Smithsonian Institution: Its history and its later 
Ethnological publications.” 
No. 4. of vol. ui. of the Records of the Australian Musewm was 
published on June 13, and contained a description of new or little 
known Palaeozoic Gastropoda from Victoria, Tasmania, and N.S. 
Wales, referred to the genera Goniostropha, Mourlonia, Helicotoma, 
Trochonema, Holopea, and a new genus Gyrodoma allied to Mur- 
chisonia, by R. Etheridge, jun., who also founds a new species H. 
australis, for specimens of the Silurian chain-coral, Halysites, from N.S. 
Wales. In the same number W. J. Rainbow describes the larva of 
the geometrical moth Pseudoterpna percomptaria, and a new species of 
Araneid, Poltys multituberculatus. C. Hedley describes and figures 
Lima alata, a new bivalve from Santa Cruz, 8. Pacific. A. J. North 
furnishes a series of ornithological notes. 
Part 2. of vol. ii. of Annotationes Zoologicae Japonenses is to hand, 
and contains a paper by C. Sasaki on the wild and domestic silk- 
worms of Japan, in which he comes to the conclusion that the latter 
are derived from Theophila mandarina. Prof. Ijima contributes a 
preliminary synopsis of the genera and and species of the sponge 
family Rossellidae. Yet another preliminary notice we regret to see 
is that of new Japanese Echinoids by S. Yoshiwara; in this ten 
species are somewhat briefly described without any illustrations. 
Volume iii. of the Journal of the Essex Technical Laboratories fully 
carries out the promise of earlier volumes, and Mr Houston and his 
assistants are to be congratulated on the success that has attended their 
efforts in the teaching of science as applied to agriculture and dairy- 
farming. The lectures on dairy bacteriology are particularly valuable. 
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Barnes: Holt, New York. Classification of Vertebrata, Gadow: Black, London. 
The Periodical Cicada, Marlatt: Bull. U.S. Dept. Agriculture. Minnesota 
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