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trated, and succeeding numbers will complete the histology 
of the animal kingdom, giving observers something like a 
starting-point from which to commence their labours, and a 
standard round which to range themselves when entering on 
this field. 
Wiegmann’s Archiv for 1865 contains, amongst other papers 
of interest to microscopists, a valuable essay by Dr. Khron, 
on the male generative organs of Phalangium. Some inter- 
esting facts bearing upon the homologies of male and female 
reproductive glands are brought forward. 
FRANCE.—Comptes Rendus.—This publication appears to 
have been particularly destitute during the past quarter of 
any papers of special interest to microscopists; as also does 
the— 
Annales des Sciences Naturelles—M. Hesse, however, con- 
tributes some accounts of his “ Investigations on New or Rare 
Crustacea of the French Coasts,’ one of which, Notoptero- 
phorus Bombyz, is found parasitic in the interior of Phallusia 
intestinalis. 
ENGLAND.—Annals of Natural History—We cannot but 
regret that we are not able to place some record of the work 
of those leaders of zoological inquiries, the Scandinavian 
naturalists, in the pages of our chronicle. But it seems that 
no journals are published by them, excepting the annual pro- 
ceedings of their scientific academies. We may, however, 
draw attention to two papers by Dr. Otto Morch, of Copen- 
hagen, which appeared in the August number of the ‘ Annals.’ 
The first is on the “ Homology of the Buccal Parts of the 
Mollusca,” the second on the “ Operculum and its Mantle.” 
Though not strictly microscopical in their nature, these papers 
are of such interest and value that we cannot lose the oppor- 
tunity of drawing the attention of the reader to them. 
In the same number Professor Gulliver has a paper on the 
raphides of Vitacee, an order which stands, lineally, in the 
centre of Professor Lindley’s Berberal Alliance of seven 
orders, and with the affinities thus indicated in the ‘ Vege- 
table Kingdom :” 
Araliacee. 
Berberidaceze.— Vitacex%.—Pittosporacez. 
Rhamnacee. 
Professor Gulliver arrives at remarkable results. After 
having examined numerous specimens of all the allies and 
relations of the central order, he finds them devoid of raphides; 
while in every instance of the many species which he has ex- 
amined of that central order—Vitacezee—he has always found 
