NOTES AND MEMORANDA. 



New Record of Zoological Literature. — We would call the 

 attention of naturalists to the following notice. ''The Zoolo- 

 gical Station at Naples has undertaken the publication of a 

 new ' Zoological Record/ in which equal attention will be 

 paid to all departments of zoology. A large staff of zoologists 

 of various nationalities will act as recorders under the editor- 

 ship of Professor J. V. Carus, of Leipzig; and the first 

 volume, dealing with the literature of the current year, will 

 appear in 1880. All those engaged in zoological work on 

 any group of the animal kingdom, are invited to send copies 

 of their papers to Professor J. V. Carus, Leipzig, Querstrasse 

 30, and to write on the address " For the Jahresbericht.''^ 

 Papers so sent will be distributed by Professor Carus amongst 

 the recorders, and after being abstracted for the ' Record,' will 

 be deposited in the Library of the Zoological Station at 

 Naples. — Anton Dohrn." 



Mr. Bolton's Agency for the Supply of Microscopic Or- 

 ganisms. — Mr. Bolton, of 17, Ann Street, Birmingham, has 

 supplied to me once a week by post, during the past year, a 

 tube containing in a living state new or interesting forms of 

 Protozoa, Entomostraca, Rotifera, &c. Every naturalist 

 within a day's post of Birmingham should subscribe a 

 guinea to Mr. Bolton's agency, and ensure the weekly 

 receipt of one of his most interesting tubes. Mr. Bolton 

 has sent out during the past year most of the more impor- 

 tant forms of Rotifera, such as Hydatina senta, Lacinularia 

 socialis, Conochilus tohox, Melicerta and CEcistes, Stepha- 

 noceras and Floscularia^ &c. One form sent by him, viz. the 

 Rhinops vitrea, of Dr. Hudson, is especially worthy of 

 mention. Large Amoebae and the commoner Ciliate Infusoria 

 have been supplied by Mr. Bolton in abundance. Amongst 

 rarer Ciliata supplied by him we may mention Trachelius 

 ovum and Zoothamnium arbuscula. The work which Mr. 

 Bolton is doing is not, however, limited to the distribution 

 of forms already known ; he has made some important addi- 



