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Journal op Morphology. Edited by C. O. Whitman, with the cooperation 

 of Edward Phelps Allis, Jr. Milwaukee, Vol. 1, No. 1; Grim & Co. 

 Boston, 1878. 



The initial number of this long aunouuced and expected journal 

 has at last made its appearance, and a glance at its table of contents 

 will immediately satisfy the most pessimistic as to its importance 

 and value as an addition to current zoological literature. Heretofore 

 the want of such a publication in the United States has forced writers 

 on strictly technical subjects to find a medium for bringing out their 

 writings in foreign countries — a condition which can now no longer 

 obtain. The publication of this new journal marks an era in Ameri- 

 can zoology, for not since the contributions of the elder Agassiz has 

 such a venture been undertaken. The time has come, however, when 

 the zoologists of this country — men who stand shoulder to shoulder 

 with the savants of the old world — demand that their work be 

 recognized at home, as it now is abroad, and that a journal for the 

 dissemination of their work and views be sustained, not only by 

 themselves as a class, but by all who are interested in time progress. 

 There is a wide Held of usefulness now unoccupied which such a 

 journal may till, and we predict the most kindly reception and 

 liberal support of the publication under consideration. 



The contents of the present number consists of seven papers on 

 the following subjects: Sphyranura Osleri, a contribution to Ameri- 

 can Helminthology, by Prof. R. Ramsay Wright and A. B. Macallum ; 

 the development of the compound eyes of Crangon, by Dr. J. S. 

 Kingsley; eyes of Molluscs and Anthropods, by Dr. William Patten; 

 on the Phylogenetic arrangement of the Saui'opsida, by Dr. G. Baur; 

 a contribution to the history of the Germ-layers in Clepsine, by Dr. 

 C. O. W^hitman; the Germ-bauds of luubricus, by Prof. E. B. Wilson; 

 studies on the eyes of Anthropods, by Dr. William Patten. The 

 plates accompanying these articles are, with one exception, well 

 executed lithographs, some of them colored. 



We welcome 2'fie Journal of Morphology, and strongly urge 

 that all who are interested in embryology, anatomy and histology 

 will enroll themselves among its subscribers. 



Lindsay & Blakistom's Puysician's Visiting-List for 1888. P. Blakiston, 

 Son & Co.: Phila. 



This little classic (for it can now be called such, being in its 

 thirty- seventh year of publication), is so well known that we need 

 only say that its high character for convenience and compactness 

 seems to grow with its increasing years. 



