Literary Notices. 83 



not consistent with the data of comparative anatomy generally. And 

 this is followed by a more extended series of notes' supplementary to 

 the same author's paper, "The Primary Subdivision of the Mammalian 

 Cerebellum," \\\ Journal of Anatomy and Physiology for 1902, and illus- 

 trated by a large number of figures, including a useful diagrammatic 

 schema. c. j. H. 



Mendel and Jacobsohn's Jahresbericht.- 



The sixth issue of this admirable annual is similar in j)lan to its 

 predecessors and equally indis})ensable. It contains 1333 })ages, in- 

 cluding 61 pages of author's and subject indexes. c. j. 11. 



Allis on the Anatomy of the Mackerel.' 



Tliis splendid memoir (which has aj)peared as yet only as an au- 

 thor's separate) follows closely along the lines of the same au- 

 thor's well-known monograph on the cranial anatomy of Aiuia. In- 

 deed it dates from about the same period, liaving been finished and 

 submitted for puI)lication in July, 1899, and now published without 

 alteration. It is characterized by the same accuracy, thorougliuess 

 and beauty of illustration aud will doubtless prove a standard of refer" 

 ence for the teleost as the earlier work has done for the ganoid, though 

 oni^ cannot repress a shade of disappointment that it has not been 

 possible for the author to revise the work at the time of publication 

 so as to correlate the findings with the changed conceptions of cranial 

 nerve morphology which the last five years have brought about. For 

 instance, the full significance of the following criticism of Gorono- 

 wiTSCir (p. 249) conies out much more clearly now, I opine, than 

 when this was written in 1899 : "That a careful study of the course 

 and ultimate distribution of the cranial nerves of fishes can, in the 

 present state of the literature of the subject, have but little morpho- 

 logical importance, and that all important results are to be obtained 



' Smith, G. Elliot. Further Observations on the Natural Mode of Sub- 

 division of the Mammalian Cerebellum. Anat. Anz., XXIII, 14-15, 1903, pp. 

 368-384. 



''■ Jahresbericht iiber die l.eistungen und Fortschritte auf dem Gebiete der 

 Neurologie und Psycliiatrie. VI. Jahrgang. Bericht iiber das Jahr 1902. 

 Berlin, S. Kavi^er, 1903. 



^ Allis, Edward Phelps, Jr. The Skull and the Cranial and First Spinal 

 Muscles and Nerves in Scomber scomber. Reprint from the Journal of Mor- 

 pholoi^v, XVin, Nos. 1 and , April, 1903. 



